2. Themes Architecture Content Metadata Interoperability Standards Knowledge Organisation Systems Use and Users Legal and Economic Issues The Future

3. Architecture Open Systems Novel search engines Intelligent filtering systems Interfaces Harvesting

4. Content Strategies for sustainable and scalable collections Encouraging digitisation of collections Making accessible the inaccessible Publishing commercial and otherwise New genres and media

5. Metadata Harvesting Pedagogical extensions Cross format

6. Interoperability Protocols to assemble materials across repositories Interoperability standards – OAI, Z39.50

7. Standards Collection development Archiving and archives Indexing Metadata Publishing Content identification

8. Knowledge Organisation Systems Thesauri Classification Semantic Web Ontologies Taxonomies

9. Use and Users Empirical studies Usability testing Links to VLEs Different communities Library as place

10. Legal and economic IPR Copying and access Business models and pricing models Sustainability

11. The Future Distributed collections and links to VLEs New forms of publishing Subject not collection based libraries Advanced search tools Differentiation of communities Retrospective digitisation Knowledge organisation Collaboration Semantic web