Olympic Games - Weird and wonderful equestrian titles

This is the second in our series of blog posts dedicated to London 2012 Olympic Games events. Today we have some weird and wonderful equestrian titles. Team GB has just won silver in the eventing. Our congratulations go to the team!

• E Q : Equestrian quarterly : the magazine for discerning horse owners.
• The Equestrian image.
• The Equestrian shopper.
• Hoofprint. Your equestrian monthly. no. 1, etc. [March] 1969, etc.
• Hoosier equestrian.
• Equitation. A news sheet of horsemanship and dressage.
• Just dressage.
• The light horse.
• Eventing : the specialist magazine for the sport of horse trials.
• The Hippodrome: an illustrated English, American and Continental equestrian and vaudeville magazine. vol. 1. no. 2, etc.
• Badminton life.

For more sporting serials and other weird and wonderful titles take a look in SUNCAT. Watch out for the next instalment of the SUNCAT Olympics blog posts.

Olympic Games - Weird and wonderful cycling titles

This is the first of a series of blog posts dedicated to London 2012 Olympic Games events. Today it is the turn of weird and wonderful cycling titles. Congratulations to Lizzie Armitstead for winning silver, and good luck to the Team GB track cyclists.

• Awheel : journal of the Solihull Cycling Club.
• The bicycling times & tricycling record.
• Birmingham cyclist : the newsletter of Push Bikes.
• The Birmingham News Illustrated Local Cycling Runs.
• Britain on two wheels
• Chain mail.
• The Cycling Budget.
• Cycling Cuba.
• Cycling’s grand "all-rounder" concert and prize distribution : to the trophy, medallion and team race winners in Cycling’s "best all-rounder" road race competition.
• The fabulous world of cycling : season ... / Eddy Merckx, Leon Michaux.
• Cycling weakly : news, views and scuttlebutt from & for the Whirlow Wheelers.
• Get cycling! : a practical guide to pedal-power.
• The pinkun - The Fellowship of Cycling Old-Timers.
• Pothole : the newsletter of the Greater Manchester Cycling Campaign.                
• Share the road.
• The Spokesman : journal of the Oldbury and District Cycling Club.
• “Cycling” Year Book, 1906(-08) A vade mecum for every cyclist, with advice on every phase of cycling. Written and illustrated by the Staff of “Cycling.”.

For more sporting serials and other weird and wonderful titles take a look in SUNCAT. Watch out for the next instalment of the SUNCAT Olympic Games blog posts.

SUNCAT updated

SUNCAT has been updated.  Updates from the following libraries were loaded into the catalogue in the last week.  The dates displayed indicate when the files were received by SUNCAT.

• Birmingham University (22 Jul 12)
• CONSER (25 Jul 12)
• Cranfield University (20 Jul 12)
• Durham University (25 Jul 12)
• ISSN (26 Jun 12)
• Liverpool University (20 Jul 12)
• Newcastle University (19 Jul 12)
• Royal College of Music (19 Jul 12)
• School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London (18 Jul 12)
• Sheffield University (14 Jul 12)
• Southampton University (22 Jul 12)
• Swansea University (15 Jul 12)
• University of East Anglia (19 Jul 12)

To check on the currency of other libraries on SUNCAT please check the updates page for further details.

SUNCAT updated

SUNCAT has been updated.  Updates from the following libraries were loaded into the catalogue in the last week.  The dates displayed indicate when the files were received by SUNCAT.

• Aberdeen University (03 Jul 12)
• Aberystwyth University (18 Jun 12)
• CONSER (18 Jul 12)
• Directory of Open Access Journals (10 Jul 12)
• Exeter University (12 Jul 12)
• Glasgow University (10 Jul 12)
• Hull University (22 Jun 12)
• London School of Economics and Political Science (09 Jul 12)
• Manchester Metropolitan University (10 Jul 12)
• Open University (03 Jul 12)
• Royal Society of Medicine (12 Jul 12)
• St Andrews University (03 Jul 12)
• Southampton University (15 Jul 12)
• University College London (09 Jul 12)
• Wellcome Library (16 Jul 12)

To check on the currency of other libraries on SUNCAT please check the updates page for further details.

Weird and wonderful golf titles

Today is the first day of the Open Championship at Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club, Lancashire. To mark this here are some weird and wonderful golf titles.

• 50 miles of golf round London
• 101 best campsites for golf.
• 2006-2011 World Outlook for Golf Bags, Handcarts for Carrying Golf Bags, Golf Club Shafts Sold Separately, Tees & Training Devices for Putting..
• Bet golf ...
• The British golf greenkeeper
• Bunkered.
• Desert golf magaine.
• Disc golfer : All the disc golf news that’s fit to fly.
• Executive golf : for the members of Britain’s finest golf clubs.
• Golf : a weekly record of "ye royal and auncient" game
• Going for golf.
• Golf addicts : a golf world calendar.
• Golf albatros.
• Golf course consumables.
• Golf punk.
• Golf Xtreme.
• Golfdom.
• The Pelz report : a scientific look at golf.
• Strictly golfballs, the golf ball handbook.
• Swing image : golf & lifestyle magazine.
• Tee to green.

 For more sporting serials and other weird and wonderful titles take a look in SUNCAT.

SUNCAT: resource discovery and making contributed data open

The Discovery programme takes forward the Vision of the earlier JISC and RLUK Resource Discovery Taskforce (RDTF) which has been working with partners from the libraries, archives and museums since 2010. EDINA, as a JISC designated National Data Centre, has significant existing operating capacity and experience in delivering key aspects of the Digital Infrastructure, including shared services, which provide cost-effective delivery of national services to a broad UK HE/FE constituency.   EDINA fully supports the Resource Discovery Task Force vision and is a signatory to the Discovery Open Metadata Principles.  SUNCAT is a key part of the UK Digital Infrastructure and has been involved in initiatives under the Discovery banner

SUNCAT: exploring open metadata ran from February 2011 to July 2011.  This project sought to determine what must be done to extend access to the catalogue, including holdings’ information, and explored what may be done within the project timescales. It looked at:

• exploration of licensing issues
• establishing or validating existing use cases
• mechanisms for providing open access

A XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation) was developed and the code is here.

This work included developing a mapping of holdings’ information and this document describes the work which was carried out. 

Further funding was supplied for a follow up project entitled, DiscoverEDINA, to run from 1^st December 2011 to 31^st July 2012 .  One of the three components of this project is further enhancement of the SUNCAT work carried out in the first project. 

An overview of the licensing issues is provided in the DiscoverEDINA Blog and can be updated with the information that a licence has just been signed by Glasgow University.  Work is currently underway to transform the data for the libraries which have signed the licence using the XSLT transformation developed in the SUNCAT: exploring open metadata project.

SUNCAT updated

SUNCAT has been updated.  Updates from the following libraries were loaded into the catalogue in the last week.  The dates displayed indicate when the files were received by SUNCAT.

• Bristol University (06 Jul 12)
• British Library (29 Jun 12)
• Courtauld Institute of Art (04 Jul 12)
• Edinburgh University (21 Jun 12)
• Leeds University (15 Jun 12)
• London School of Economics and Political Science (11 Jun 12)
• Loughborough University (04 Jul 12)
• Manchester University (25 Jun 12)
• Nottingham University (02 Jul 12)
• Queen Mary, University of London (15 May 12)
• Robert Gordon University (03 Jul 12)
• Southampton University (08 Jul 12)
• Swansea University (15 Jun 12)

To check on the currency of other libraries on SUNCAT please check the updates page for further details.

SUNCAT updated

SUNCAT has been updated. Updates from the following libraries were loaded into the catalogue in the last week. The dates displayed indicate when the files were received by SUNCAT.

• Birmingham University (22 Jun 12)
• Cambridge University (02 Jul 12)
• CONSER (04 Jul 12)
• Cranfield University (20 Jun 12)
• Dundee University (02 Jul 12)
• Glasgow University (11 Jun 12)
• Imperial College, London (01 Jun 12)
• Kent University (01 Jul 12)
• King's College London (01 Jul 12)
• Liverpool University (15 Jun 12)
• London Business School (01 Jul 12)
• National Library of Scotland (02 Jul 12)
• Newcastle University (21 Jun 12)
• Reading University (06 Jun 12)
• Sheffield University (14 Jun 12)
• Southampton University (01 Jul 12)
• University College London (11 Jun 12)
• University of the West of England (UWE) (23 Jun 12)
• Warwick University (03 Jul 12)

To check on the currency of other libraries on SUNCAT please check the updates page for further details.

Weird and Wonderful Tennis titles

Wimbledon 2012 is in full-swing! To mark the occasion we thought we’d give you a few weird and wonderful titles with a tennis and Wimbledon theme.

• 2006-2011 World Outlook for Women’s & Girls’ Shorts & Tennis Skirts Made from Purchased Fabrics
• Ace!
• Annals of gaming; or Complete directions for whist, quadrille, piquet, billiards, hazard, tennis, loo, backgammon, &c. In which is contained, the method of playing and betting at those games ... With cautions and directions, by which the public may be guarded against any impositions. The second edition.
• Coach to coach : giving tennis coaches the advantage.
• Dunlop lawn tennis almanac.
• The Lawn-Tennis Annual, ... being a record of matches, played during 1881, including the rules as approved by the All England Lawn-Tennis Club and the M.C.C., and general information ... by L. S. F. Winslow.
• The ’our gang’ tennis players.
• Smart tennis times : the official magazine of the Winner’s Court.
• Tennis & fashion.
• Tennis cybertip4theday
• TENNIS SHOE SURVEY.
• Wild card : Britain’s best selling tennis fanzine.
• Wimbledon ... : the lawn tennis championships upon the lawns of the All England Club.
• John McEnroe’s Wimbledon.
• This is Wimbledon : facts and figures about the Championships, Wimbledon.
• The wombles holiday special.

(Of course, we couldn’t mention Wimbledon without the Wombles!)

For more sporting serials and other weird and wonderful titles take a look in SUNCAT.