[1] UKOLN traces its roots back to 1977, when Maurice Line initiated the Bath University Programme of Catalogue Research with funding from the British Library.
[4] Although UKOLN continued after 31 July 2013 it was significantly reduced in size and was no longer working in many of the areas which were responsible for its visibility in national and international arenas.
It was involved in a range of national and international projects including the DELOS Network of Excellence in Digital Libraries,[8] the Development of a European Service for Information on Research and Education (DESIRE),[9] the Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research (DRIVER, a precursor to OpenAIRE),[10] the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative,[11] the Knowledge and Information Management (KIM) Grand Challenge Project,[12] and the development of the SWORD interoperability standard and the Bath Profile of the Z39.50 standard.
UKOLN published the Ariadne (Web magazine), targeted principally at information science professionals in academia, archives, libraries and museums, and the International Journal of Digital Curation.
[13] UKOLN also organised many events, including the annual Institutional Web Management Workshop and the International Digital Curation Conference.