Authors - Jon Knight
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Editorial: Makerspaces, Agile, Reading Lists and Migrations
In issue 78 we move Ariadne to a new delivery platform, have articles about makerspaces and digital scholarship centres, agile website usability testing, embedding reading list materials into a virtual learning environment, and include some event information and reports. -
Editorial: Open Access, organising workshops and different perspectives.
In Issue 76 we have articles looking at how Open Access could be used by large funding bodies to make academics' lives easier, experience driven ideas for organising library workshops and conferences, and a different perspective on library customer services from New Zealand. Plus our usual event and book reviews, and some sad news from Bath. -
Editorial: Happy 20th Birthday Ariadne!
Ariadne hits its 20th birthday, and its 75th issue. -
FIGIT, eLib, Ariadne and the Future.
Marieke Guy, Philip Hunter, John Kirriemuir, Jon Knight and Richard Waller look back at how Ariadne began 20 years ago as part of the UK Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib), how some of the other eLib projects influenced the web we have today and what changes have come, and may yet come, to affect how digital libraries work. -
Editorial: Ariadne: the neverending story.
Jon Knight, the latest in the long line of Ariadne editors, explains some of the changes that the journal has undergone this year, and introduces the articles in issue 74. -
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.
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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. -
Knight's Tale: The Hybrid Library - Books and Bytes
Jon Knight gives his personal view on the fashionable concept of a 'hybrid library'. -
ACORN Implemented
Jon Knight and Richard Goodman describe the technical implementation of the ACORN system. -
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. -
Wire: Interview Via Email With Jon Knight and Martin Hamilton
In this interview we question Knight and Martin Hamilton and present their replies. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
From the Trenches: Networking (Notworking?) CD-ROMS
Jon Knight on the perils and problems of networking CD ROMs. -
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. -
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.