Redeveloping the Loughborough Online Reading List System |
Jon Knight, Jason Cooper and Gary Brewerton describe the redevelopment of Loughborough University’s open source reading list system.
issue69 July 2012 |
access control, ajax, api, archives, authentication, bibliographic data, blog, cache, chrome, cookie, data, database, digital library, e-learning, framework, gnu, google, google books, gpl, harvard university, html, javascript, jquery, json, library management systems, licence, loughborough university, metadata, microsoft, moodle, mysql, open source, perl, refworks, restful, schema, shibboleth, soap, software, sql, standards, web browser, xml, z39.50, zip |
A Knight's Tale: Networked CD-ROM Redirectors |
Jon Knight describes how MSCDEX.EXE and networked CD-ROM redirectors can introduce difficulties when using Windows 95 and NT to provide access to library CD-ROMs.
issue14 March 1998 |
cd-rom, linux, microsoft, operating system, samba, software, standards, url, windows |
Knight's Tale: The Hybrid Library - Books and Bytes |
Jon Knight gives his personal view on the fashionable concept of a 'hybrid library'.
issue11 September 1997 |
bibliographic data, cataloguing, cd-rom, database, digital library, elib, infrastructure, marc, multimedia, opac, search technology, standards, web browser, z39.50 |
ACORN Implemented |
Jon Knight and Richard Goodman describe the technical implementation of the ACORN system.
issue10 July 1997 |
acorn, adobe, ansi, authentication, browser, copyright, data, database, elib, html, identifier, infrastructure, linux, loughborough university, microsoft, ocr, opac, operating system, passwords, perl, programming language, samba, software, solaris, sql, standards, talis, telnet, web browser, windows |
Internationalisation and the Web |
Jon Knight looks at how the Web is currently undergoing the sometimes painful internationalization process required if it is to live up to its name of the World Wide Web.
issue9 May 1997 |
ansi, ascii, browser, character encoding, css, doc, dtd, ftp, graphics, html, hypertext, i18n, ietf, interoperability, iso, rfc, software, standardisation, standards, unicode, url, utf-16, utf-8, w3c |
Wire: Interview Via Email With Jon Knight and Martin Hamilton |
In this interview we question Knight and Martin Hamilton and present their replies.
issue9 May 1997 |
acorn, archives, browser, cache, cataloguing, cd-rom, data, database, elib, ftp, gopher, graphics, html, internet explorer, java, javascript, latex, linux, loughborough university, metadata, ncsa, oclc, opac, perl, research, resource discovery, search technology, sgml, software, sosig, standards, talis, url, web browser, windows |
Making a MARC With Dublin Core |
Jon Knight revisits his Perl module for processing MARC records that was introduced in the last issue and adds UNIMARC, USMARC and a script that converts Dublin Core metadata into USMARC records.
issue8 March 1997 |
bibliographic data, british library, cataloguing, data, dublin core, elib, ftp, html, hypertext, identifier, ietf, ifla, internet explorer, library of congress, marc, metadata, perl, schema, sgml, simple dublin core, software, standards, talis |
MCF: Will Dublin Form the Apple Core |
Jon Knight looks at how Dublin Core and Apple's new MCF metadata file format might make useful and interesting bed fellows.
issue7 January 1997 |
apple, browser, cataloguing, data, database, dtd, dublin core, eevl, elib, file format, ftp, html, ietf, jisc information environment, metadata, research, schema, search technology, sgml, sosig, url, vocabularies, web browser |
Handling MARC With PERL |
Jon Knight investigates the inner workings of the MARC record's binary distribution format and presents the first cut at a Perl module to read and write MARC records.
issue7 January 1997 |
aacr2, api, apple, bibliographic data, cataloguing, data, dublin core, elib, ftp, graphics, isbd, library of congress, loughborough university, marc, metadata, multimedia, opac, perl, programming language, research, search technology, software, standards, video, z39.50 |
Open Journal Trip Report |
Open Journal trip report: Jon Knight visits the Open Journals eLib project to investigate what research they are undertaking into electronic journal architecture and navigation.
issue6 November 1996 |
browser, cache, copyright, database, elib, html, hypertext, mac os, metadata, operating system, perl, software, sosig, url, web browser, windows |
Intranets |
Jon Knight investigates what is meant by the current buzzword intranet and looks at how it may be applied in a library environment. A suggestion for a low cost entry level intranet solution is also given.
issue6 November 1996 |
apache, archives, browser, cd-rom, copyright, data, database, dissemination, free software, html, intranet, licence, linux, loughborough university, opac, operating system, passwords, perl, scripting language, software, web browser |
Securing HTML FORMs |
Jon Knight discusses some of the options available to the designers and implementors of HTML FORMs for providing authentication of users in a library environment.
issue5 September 1996 |
algorithm, apache, authentication, browser, data, database, html, passwords, plain text, rfc, standards, web browser |
Cashing in on Caching |
Jon Knight and Martin Hamilton describe Caching, possibly the most crucial tool available to frequent Web users, and point out why libraries should be aware of it.
issue4 July 1996 |
access control, browser, cache, cd-rom, copyright, data, database, ftp, gopher, html, hypertext, infrastructure, intellectual property, jisc, loughborough university, mailbase, ncsa, research, search technology, software, url, web browser |
From the Trenches: Networking (Notworking?) CD-ROMS |
Jon Knight on the perils and problems of networking CD ROMs.
issue3 May 1996 |
authentication, cd-rom, data, database, licence, loughborough university, passwords, search technology, software, standards, windows |
From the Trenches: Network Services on a Shoestring |
Jon Knight describes how Linux is a cheap and useful operating system for library systems units and the like.
issue2 March 1996 |
apache, apache software foundation, ascii, authentication, browser, cd-rom, database, graphics, html, hypertext, ibm, linux, loughborough university, mac os, microsoft, ncsa, opac, operating system, search technology, software, sql, standards, telnet, video, vt100, web browser, windows |
From the Trenches: HTML, Which Version? |
In From the Trenches, a regular column which delves into the more technical aspects of networking and the World Wide Web, Jon Knight, programmer and a member of the ROADS team, takes a look at the causes of good and bad HTML and explains what tags we should be marking up Web pages with.
issue1 January 1996 |
ascii, browser, data, dtd, html, hypertext, ibm, ietf, latex, loughborough university, microsoft, multimedia, sgml, software, standards, tei, url, usability |
