Buzz - Access Control
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Visualising Building Access Data
Gary Brewerton and Jason Cooper describe how the imposition of visitor access control for safety purposes was developed into a useful management tool to measure library building usage.
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Motivations for the Development of a Web Resource Synchronisation Framework
Stuart Lewis, Richard Jones and Simeon Warner explain some of the motivations behind the development of the ResourceSync Framework.
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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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Walk-in Access to e-Resources at the University of Bath
Kate Robinson, Lizz Jennings and Laurence Lockton outline a low-cost solution to walk-in (visitor) access to licensed e-journals, drawing on their practice at the University of Bath with a wiki ERM and OPAC terminals.
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Repository Software Comparison: Building Digital Library Infrastructure at LSE
Ed Fay presents a comparison of repository software that was carried out at LSE in support of digital library infrastructure development. -
Don't You Know Who I Am?
John Paschoud looks into identity and access management in the pre-digital and digital age, and describes how the JISC Identity Management Toolkit can help us manage identities better. -
eBooks: Tipping or Vanishing Point?
Emma Tonkin investigates ebooks and takes a look at recent technological and business developments in this area. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 61: The Double-edged Web
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 61. -
Learning to YODL: Building York's Digital Library
Peri Stracchino and Yankui Feng describe a year's progress in building the digital library infrastructure outlined by Julie Allinson and Elizabeth Harbord in their article last issue. -
Eduserv Symposium 2009: Evolution Or Revolution: The Future of Identity and Access Management for Research
Shirley Williams reports on the Eduserv Foundation Symposium which took as its theme investigate the intersection between identity management, access management and scholarly research collaboration across institutional and geographic boundaries. -
Research Data Preservation and Access: The Views of Researchers
Neil Beagrie, Robert Beagrie and Ian Rowlands present findings from a UKRDS survey of researchers' views on and practices for preservation and dissemination of research data in four UK universities. -
SHERPA to YODL-ING: Digital Mountaineering at York
Julie Allinson and Elizabeth Harbord describe the development of digital repositories for the University of York. -
Googlepository and the University Library
Sue Manuel and Charles Oppenheim discuss the concept of Google as a repository within the wider context of resource management and provision in Further and Higher Education. -
The DARE Chronicle: Open Access to Research Results and Teaching Material in the Netherlands
Leo Waaijers reflects on four years of progress and also looks ahead. -
ARROW and the RQF: Meeting the Needs of the Research Quality Framework Using an Institutional Research Repository
David Groenewegen and Andrew Treloar describe the role of repositories in the forthcoming Australian Research Quality Framework (RQF) and the responses of the ARROW Project to the needs of the RQF. -
Fedora Users Conference
Chris Awre and Richard Green report from the Fedora Users Conference, a two-day meeting for users of the open source Fedora repository system held at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, over 19-20 June 2006. -
Folksonomies: The Fall and Rise of Plain-text Tagging
Emma Tonkin suggests that rising new ideas are often on their second circuit - and none the worse for that. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Distributed Services Registry Workshop
John Gilby reports on the UKOLN/IESR two-day workshop at Scarman House, University of Warwick on 14-15 July 2005. -
Mobile Blogs, Personal Reflections and Learning Environments: The RAMBLE Project
Paul Trafford describes how mobile blogs for personal reflection may be related to institutional learning environments, drawing on experiences from the RAMBLE Project. -
EuroCAMP 2005
Masha Garibyan and Ann Borda report on the first Campus Architecture Middleware Planning workshop in Europe hosted by the Politecnico di Torino. -
Installing Shibboleth
Simon McLeish describes the experience of Shibboleth installation in a Higher Education environment, and suggests ways to make this experience more user-friendly. -
Making the Case for a Wiki
Emma Tonkin examines wikis and considers the feasibility of their deployment - and the danger of the 'tumbleweed' syndrome. -
Shibboleth Installation Workshop
James Sankar and Masha Garibyan report on the first ever Shibboleth Installation Workshop in the UK. -
Rights Management and Digital Library Requirements
Karen Coyle describes some aspects of rights expression languages favoured by the commercial content industries and how these may differ from the rights needs of digital libraries. -
DAEDALUS: Initial Experiences With EPrints and DSpace at the University of Glasgow
William Nixon provides an overview of the DAEDALUS initial experience with the GNU EPrints and DSpace software and the decision to employ both. -
Access Management: The Key to a Portal - The Experience of the Subject Portals Project
Francisco Pinto and Michael Fraser report on the experience of the Subject Portals Project. -
5 Step Guide to Becoming a Content Provider in the JISC Information Environment
Andy Powell describes steps which content providers can take to integrate their resources into the JISC IE. -
UM.Sitemaker: Flexible Web Publishing for Academic Users
Jonathan Maybaum explains how UM.SiteMaker was designed to fill an important gap in the array of tools to suit academic publishing. -
ZOPE: Swiss Army Knife for the Web?
Paul Browning looks at this multiple authoring environment. -
Unix: What Is mod_perl?
Ian Peacock explains mod_perl technology for supercharging the Apache Server. -
Web Cache: Clashing with Caching?
Ruth Jenkins explores some cache related issues for Library and Information Services -
Windows NT Explorer
Brett Burridge on Internet Information Server (IIS 4.0) -
Z39.50 for All
Paul Miller looks at the Z39.50 standard and attempts to extract some meaning from the mass of associated literature. -
ECMS: Electronic Copyright Management Systems
Pedro Isaias considers Electronic Copyright Management Systems (ECMS). -
JISC Content: NESLI Implications Outside the HE Community
Alicia Wise discusses NESLI. -
Tolimac: 'Smart Card People Are Happy People'
Sally Rumsey explains a pilot electronic document delivery service at the University of Surrey Library. -
CATRIONA II Management Survey
Dennis Nicholson and Martin Smith provide a summary report of selected results from the CATRIONA II survey on the University Management of Electronic Resources. -
HEADLINE (HYBRID Electronic Access and Delivery in the Library Networked Environment)
Maureen Wade introduces HEADLINE (HYBRID Electronic Access and Delivery in the Library Networked Environment). -
Newsline: News You Can Use
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Performance and Security: Notes for System Administrators
Performance and Security - Notes for System Administrators: Andy Powell offers some hints and tips on the performance and security aspects of running electronic library services on UNIX based machines. -
Controlling Access in the Electronic Library
Andy Powell and Mark Gillet discuss methods of electronic authentication. -
Minotaur
In Minotaur, the collective voice of Internet enthusiasts is countered by words of scepticism or caution. In this issue, Mike Holderness gives a few worrying examples of how much people outside the western hemisphere are behind us in terms of on-line resources. -
DESIRE: Development of a European Service for Information on Research and Education
Klaas Wierenga, the director of DESIRE, describes this pan-European project in which the academic network services of the UK have a large stake. -
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. -
Internet Archaeology
Alan Vince, the managing editor of Internet Archaeology, describes an electronic journal that will apply the multimedia aspects of the Web to the field of archaeological research.