Folks, I just booked a single room at the Eastgate Hotel in central Oxford online at a rate of £75 per night: http://www.world-stay.com/hotels/en/dist1/126206/Eastgate-Hotel-(MacDonald)-Oxford.html
Cheers, T. =========================================================================== Tony Gill ARTstor Director of Metadata & Cataloguing, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 140 East 62nd Street, New York, NY, 10021, USA t1 (direct): +1 (646) 274-2265, t2: +1 (212) 838-8400 w: http://www.artstor.org, f: +1 (212) 223-2778 > -----Original Message----- > From: Stiff, Matthew [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday 17 September 2003 11:29 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [crm-sig] RE: [crm-adhoc] 8th Joint CIDOC CRM SIG and > ISO/TC46/SC4/WG9 meet ing, Oxford > > > Correction: > > Please allow 1.5 hours from Gatwick airport, and the buses > run every hour, > not every half hour. Details of bus timetables can be found > on the Oxford > Bus Company web site: www.oxfordbus.co.uk. Trains from Birmingham > International are hourley. Train times can be found on > www.railtrack.co.uk. > Oxford is served by Thames Trains, First Great Western and > Virgin Cross > Country. > > Best wishes, > > Matthew > > -----Original Message----- > From: Stiff, Matthew [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 17 September 2003 12:57 > To: crm-adhoc; [email protected] > Subject: [crm-adhoc] 8th Joint CIDOC CRM SIG and ISO/TC46/SC4/WG9 > meeting, Oxford > > > The 8th joint meeting of the will take place in Oxford, UK, > from October > 6-9, 2003. Work will be carried out in the Cartoon Room of > the Randolph > Hotel. Contact details are as follows: > > THE RANDOLPH > Beaumont St., Oxford OX1 2LN, England > Phone: 01865/247481 > Fax: 01865/791678, > > Preliminary agenda: > > Monday, October 6: > > 10:00 - 17:30 > CIDOC CRM tutorial for newcomers > Presentation of the version submitted to ISO as DIS > Presentations from participants on CRM-related applications > Discussion > > 18:00-20:00 > CHIOS Management meeting > > Tuesday, Wednesday October 7-8: > 9:00 - 17:30 > Working meeting: > Last editorial refinements and Final Agreement on: > 1) The introduction after paragraph "compatibility" > 2) Scope notes of class E8 - E40 > Discussion on any further documentation needs. > > Thursday, October 9: > 9:00 - 17:00 > Working meeting: > Discussion and decision taking on the future activities of > the CRM-SIG > - technical needs, such as mapping tools, reference > architectures, > ontological formalizations, reification, reasoning on > possible duplicates, methodology of URI creation. > - extended subject areas such as libraries, archives, > archaeological > inferences > - collaborations, funding and operation of the CRM-SIG > in the next future. > > Travel: > Oxford is situated on the M40 motorway, with direct buses > every half hour > from Heathrow Airport and Gatwick Airport. There are also direct train > services from Birmingham International Airport and Central > London. Journey > times for all of these are approximately 1 hour. Please note > that there is > no ca parking available in the Hotel, but there are good Park > and Ride bus > services from the edge of Oxford. > > Accommodation: > The Randolph is less than generous with its corporate room > rate: £140 per > night. > > Other hotels include: > > The Royal Oxford Hotel (fairly central) > The Eastgate Hotel (ditto) > The Cotswold Lodge Hotel (North Oxford - 15 minutes walk) > Linton Lodge Hotel (North Oxford - 15 minutes walk) > > The Holiday Inn is a new building on the edge of Oxford near > the Park and > Ride, with all the charisma of multiplex cinema. > > There are numerous up-market B&Bs in Oxford, and small > hotels. One cheap one > that I have heard reasonable things of is the Riverside > Hotel. I will try to > get phone numbers and prices of these to you, but this may be > enough for you > to make a start with. > > Socials: > I have suggested to Martin that we have dinner on the > Thursday evening at > the Cherwell Boathouse restaurant (near the Linton and Cotswold Lodge > hotels). If the weather is good we could precede this with an > hour on the > river in punts (part of the Oxford experience). Let me know > if this appeals > so that I can book a table. I will be able to make > suggestions for pubs for > other evenings. > > Looking forward to seeing you in Oxford. > > Best wishes, > > Matthew > > Dr Matthew Stiff > Data Services Manager > National Monuments Record Centre > Kemble Drive > Swindon > SN2 2GZ > > (t): 01793 414727 > (f): 01793 414770 > (m): 07939 151510 > (e): [email protected] > > > > >
