Gordon Dunsire

Head of CDLR

e: g.dunsire@strath.ac.uk
t: +44 (0) 141 548 4680

Current projects and initiatives

Cairns, ERIS, Infokit, Oaisis, Oats, SCONE, Scurl, Slainte

Completed projects

CCInterop, Hairst, IRIScotland, IRISToolkit, Joli, Mandate, NHSEdscon, RCO, Speir1, UKRR

Education and qualifications

BSc (Hons) in Mathematical Physics, University of Edinburgh
Scottish Certificate in Information Science
HNC in Computer Data Processing
MCLIP via Library Association external examinations

Awards

Library Association Charter Centenary Gold Medal (1998)
Joint Steering Group for Revision of Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Certificate of Acknowledgement (2006)
Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in Scotland Honorary Membership (2008)
Alan Jeffreys Award (2008)

Research and other interests

Digital libraries; metadata; collection-level description; databases for information retrieval.

Memberships and affiliations

Member of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals
Member, IFLA Classification and Indexing Section
Member of the British Library/Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals Committee on the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules
Member, Resource Description and Access (RDA) Outreach Group
Co-Chair, DCMI RDA Task Group
Member, DCMI Advisory Board
Member, Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals Committee on the Dewey Decimal Classification (with particular responsibility for class 0 covering computing and library science, and the application of DDC to digital information)
Chair, Cataloguing and Indexing Group in Scotland (CIGS)
Member, Confederation of Scottish Mini Co-operatives (CoSMiC) Task Group
Member, CISAG Culture Technology Group

Links with communities of practice

Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in Scotland (CILIPS): Database Officer.
National Burns Collection (NBC): Database R&D consultant. Liaison with Scottish Common Information Environment.
Open Access Team for Scotland (OATS): Member.
Scottish Health Information Network (SHINE): Database R&D consultant. Liaison with Scottish Common Information Environment.
Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC): R&D consultant.
Scottish Poetry Library: Database R&D consultant. Liaison with Scottish Common Information Environment.
Scottish Visual Arts Group (SVAG): R&D consultant on the Union Catalogue of Art Books in Libraries in Scotland (UCABLIS).
Scottish Working Group on Official Publications (SWOP): Liaison with Scottish Common Information Environment.

Publications

Publications - Gordon Dunsire

Links to my openly accessible online publications can be found in the SLAINTE database

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Glasgow, G1 1XH :: United Kingdom

The CDLR receives project and service development funding from a variety of sources.

The CDLR is part of the Information Resources Directorate and closely associated with the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Strathclyde.

The University of Strathclyde is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, number SCO15263.