Authors - Tracey Stanley
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Developing a Virtual Research Environment in a Portal Framework: The EVIE Project
Tracey Stanley provides an overview of the EVIE Project at the University of Leeds which was funded under the JISC Virtual Research Environments Programme. -
The Institutional Web Management Workshop 2004
Tracey Stanley reports on the 8th Institutional Web Management Workshop at the University of Birmingham over 27-29 July. The theme of this year's workshop was Transforming the Organisation. -
The Portole Project: Supporting E-learning
Tracey Stanley, Mina Sotiriou and Matthew Dovey provide an overview of a project to produce tools to discover information resources and deploy them within a university VLE. -
Search Engines
Tracey Stanley writes about "Ask Jeeves", a search engine which processes natural language enquiries. -
Search Engines Corner
Tracey Stanley reviews 'Northern Light', which offers features not available elsewhere. -
Search Engines Corner: Meta-search Engines
Tracey Stanley discusses the next level up from conventional search engines in the 'information food chain', which provide a sophisticated approach to searching across a number of databases. -
Search Engines Corner: Moving Up the Ranks
Tracey Stanley looks at how search engines rank their results. -
Search Engines Corner: Finding UK and European Resources on the Web
Tracey Stanley looks at how to keep your search results coming from within particular geographic areas and thus save on bandwidth. -
Search Engines Corner: Keyword Spamming - Cheat Your Way to the Top
Tracey Stanley shows how metadata can be abused to enhance the search engine ranking of Web pages. -
Search Engines Corner: Alta Vista LiveTopics
Tracey Stanley looks at Live Topics, a more flexible and user-controlled way of searching the Alta Vista Web Page index. -
Search Engine Corner
Tracey Stanley looks at 'Push', where a network-based service 'pushes' information to your machine, rather than you 'pulling' information from the service. -
Intelligent Searching Agents on the Web
Tracey Stanley describes Web-based Intelligent Searching Agents, and takes a closer look at a few examples you may wish to play with. -
Yahoo: UK and Ireland
Tracey Stanley takes a good look at a new version of an old index, Yahoo, which is aimed at the UK and Ireland. -
InfoSeek Ultra: (Yet Another) Web Search Engine
Tracey Stanley looks at InfoSeek Ultra, a new search engine which claims to allow searching on a index of 50 million Web pages. -
Alta Vista Vs. Lycos
Tracey Stanley presents the results of a detailed comparison of the two main search engines of today, Lycos and Alta Vista.