Humbul's mission statement

"To provide an online environment in which the UK humanities community can access and use evaluated digital resources for teaching, research and learning purposes"

Humbul has two main activities

Catalogue of Internet resources

Development of portal services

Shallow end >> deep end

Catalogue provides a metadata descripion/header of the resource or service

Portal will enable remote querying and use of data within the described service

This model may be applied to the description of archives, archival networks, the collections and items held within