REVEAL

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REVEAL

• Developing a New Resource for Visually Impaired
  People

Have the same information needs as sighted people.
Instead of standard text, use accessible formats
- Braille, Moon, audio, large print and
electronic texts.
100,000 new UK titles published each year, but
only 3 also available in accessible formats.
Visually Impaired Community
Mostly produced by more than 230 voluntary sector
agencies and schools. Most individuals know about
only a few of these.
Some commercial production of large print and
audio. Focus on mainstream fiction and leisure
interests.
UKOLN is funded by Resource The Council for
Museums, Archives and Libraries, the Joint
Information Systems Committee (JISC) of the
Higher and Further Education Funding Councils, as
well as by project funding from the JISC and the
European Union. UKOLN also receives support from
the University of Bath where it is based.
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• A National Union Catalogue

nowNational Union Catalogue of Alternative
Formats (NUCAF)

• Accessible only via intermediaries
• c. 86,000 records on file
• c. 86,000 items without records

• 1999 Review of NUCAF
• 2000 Feasibility study
• 2001 Commissioning of system to support Reveal
• 2002 Launch of Reveal

• Accessible as a web OPAC
• Work in progress to capture details of missing
  items
• Web based data entry facility for producers

the futureRevealThe National Database
ofResources in AccessibleFormats
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The Planned Reveal Web Site
Users can locate range of collections
Producers can update their entries via web
Collectionsregister
Reveal web site
Users can find materials in a range of collections
RevealWebSite
Union catalogue
Producers can add new records via web

• Louis databaseNLS BPHPCNIB VisucatMiracle
• Public library union catalogues

Links to other resources
Develop Z39.50 search facility
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• Reveal Will Provide
• A web-based union catalogue of materials in
  accessible formats held in the UK
• A register of collections of accessible format
  materials in the UK
• Web-based data entry facilities for producers
• Web site designed using WAI Content Accessibility
  Guidelines
• Fiction and non-fiction indexing to assist users
• Support for interlibrary lending
• Links to similar collections outside the UK
• Links to catalogues of commercially produced
  items in print and collections held in public
  libraries
• The Reveal union catalogue will also be
  available as a CD product

Reveal is part of the UK initiative to improve
library and information services for visually
impaired people being co-ordinated by Resource
the Council for Archives, Museums and Libraries
and Share the Vision and funded by the Department
of Culture, Media and Sport. Reveal project
partners are Royal National Institute for the
Blind, National Library for the Blind, UKOLN and
Juliet Leeves, an independent library automation
consultant.