Buzz - Bibliographic Data
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Developing Adaptable, Efficient Mobile Library Services: Librarians as Enablers
Lizzie Caperon describes how library resources can be targeted towards effective mobile services as mobile devices become increasingly prevalent in Higher Education.
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Mining the Archives: Metadata Development and Implementation
Martin White looks through the Ariadne archive to track the development and implementation of metadata in a variety of settings.
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SUNCAT: Ten Years and Beyond
Celia Jenkins charts the beginnings of SUNCAT, its development over the last ten years and what the future holds for the service.
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The Value of Open Access Publishing to Health and Social Care Professionals in Ireland
Aoife Lawton and Eimear Flynn discuss the value of open access publishing for allied health professions and their work in the health services with particular reference to Ireland.
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Hita-Hita: Open Access and Institutional Repositories in Japan Ten Years On
Ikuko Tsuchide, Yui Nishizono, Masako Suzuki, Shigeki Sugita, Kazuo Yamamoto and Hideki Uchijima introduce a number of ideas and projects that have enhanced the progress of the Open Access movement and institutional repositories in Japan over the last ten years.
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Book Review: Information Consulting - Guide to good practice
Martin White reviews a book written by three experienced consultants that seeks to support information professionals in setting themselves up as consultants.
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ECLAP 2013: Information Technologies for Performing Arts, Media Access and Entertainment
Marieke Guy reports on the second international conference held by ECLAP, the e-library for performing arts.
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JABES 2013
Marlène Delhaye reports on the two-day annual conference organised by the French Agence Bibliographique de l’Enseignement Supérieur (ABES) held in Montpellier, France over 14-15 May 2013.
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The Performance-based Funding Model: Creating New Research Databases in Sweden and Norway
Leif Eriksson describes how the introduction of Performance-based Research Funding Systems (PRFS) has created new forms of research databases in Sweden and Norway.
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The Wellcome Library, Digital
Christy Henshaw and Robert Kiley describe how the Wellcome Library has transformed its information systems to support mass digitisation of historic collections.
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23rd International CODATA Conference
Alex Ball reports on a conference on ‘Open Data and Information for a Changing Planet’ held by the International Council for Science’s Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan on 28–31 October 2012.
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Book Review: The E-copyright Handbook
Charles Oppenheim takes a look at the latest of Paul Pedley’s copyright guidance books, and, in some respects, finds it wanting.
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Book Review: Understanding Information and Computation
Martin White reviews a very individual perspective on the extent to which the growth and structure of the World Wide Web is governed by the fundamental laws of physics and mathematics.
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Book Review: User Studies for Digital Library Development
Selenay Aytac reviews a collection of essays on user studies and digital library development that provides a concise overview of a variety of digital library projects and examines major research trends relating to digital libraries.
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Book Review: Using Mobile Technology to Deliver Library Services
Fiona MacLellan reviews a practical guide to mobile technology and its use in delivering library services.
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EMTACL12 (Emerging Technologies in Academic Libraries)
Sarah Rayner and Olivia Walsby report on a three-day conference on Emerging Technologies in Academic Libraries, hosted by NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) in Trondheim, Norway over 1 - 3 October 2012.
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Online Information 2012
Marieke Guy reports on the largest gathering of information professionals in Europe.
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Upskilling Liaison Librarians for Research Data Management
Andrew Cox, Eddy Verbaan and Barbara Sen explore the design of a curriculum to train academic librarians in the competencies to support Research Data Management.
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Book Review: I, Digital – A History Devoid of the Personal?
Chris Rusbridge reviews an edited volume that aims to fill a gap in ‘literature designed specifically to guide archivists’ thinking about personal digital materials’.
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Enhancing Collaboration and Interaction in a Post-graduate Research Programme
Tertia Coetsee describes a community of practice for post-graduate students where RefShare is deployed for digital storage and retrieval, alongside Blackboard for the purposes of communication. She also describes the role of the information specialist in the programme.
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Moving Ariadne: Migrating and Enriching Content with Drupal
Thom Bunting explains some of the technology behind the migration of Ariadne (including more than 1600 articles from its back issues archive) onto a Drupal content management platform. -
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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Book Review: Envisioning Future Academic Library Services
John Azzolini reviews a timely collection of essays that highlights the values of institutional leadership and resourcefulness in academic librarianship's engagements with Web 2.0. -
Connecting Researchers at the University of Bath
Jez Cope and Geraldine Jones describe a recent series of events introducing social media to research students at the University of Bath. -
DataCite UK User Group Meeting
Alex Ball reports on the 2nd UK User Group meeting for DataCite, held at the British Library in London, in April 2011. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 67: Changes Afoot
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 67. -
From Link Rot to Web Sanctuary: Creating the Digital Educational Resource Archive (DERA)
Bernard M Scaife describes how an innovative use of the EPrints repository software is helping to preserve official documents from the Web. -
Retooling Special Collections Digitisation in the Age of Mass Scanning
Constance Rinaldo, Judith Warnement, Tom Baione, Martin R. Kalfatovic and Susan Fraser describe results from a study to identify and develop a cost-effective and efficient large-scale digitisation workflow for special collections library materials. -
UK Reading Experience Database
Bethan Ruddock reports from the launch event for the UK Reading Experience Database, held at the Betty Boothroyd Library, the Open University, Milton Keynes, on 24 February 2011. -
10 Years of Zetoc
Jane Ronson looks at how Zetoc has developed and what the future holds for the service. -
Book Review: Introducing RDA
Katrina Clifford reviews a work covering the long-heralded change in the cataloguing rule set - RDA (Resource Description and Access). -
Book Review: The Myths of Innovation
Lina Coelho takes a look at Scott Berkun's challenging view of what innovation and creativity really mean. -
Characterising and Preserving Digital Repositories: File Format Profiles
Steve Hitchcock and David Tarrant show how file format profiles, the starting point for preservation plans and actions, can also be used to reveal the fingerprints of emerging types of institutional repositories. -
Reading Van Gogh Online?
Peter Boot shows how log analysis can be employed to assess a site's usability, usage, and users, using the Van Gogh letter edition as an example. -
RefShare: A Community of Practice to Enhance Research Collaboration
Tertia Coetsee describes a community of practice for postgraduate students in phytomedicine using RefShare, to enhance collaborative research. -
Academic Liaison Librarianship: Curatorial Pedagogy or Pedagogical Curation?
Allan Parsons presents a strategic view of the need to develop the academic liaison librarianship role. -
CIG Conference 2010: Changes in Cataloguing in 'Interesting Times'
Rhiannon McLoughlin reports on a three-day conference on cataloguing in a time of financial stringency, held by the CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group at Exeter University, from 13-15 September 2010. -
Developing Infrastructure for Research Data Management at the University of Oxford
James A. J. Wilson, Michael A. Fraser, Luis Martinez-Uribe, Paul Jeffreys, Meriel Patrick, Asif Akram and Tahir Mansoori describe the approaches taken, findings, and issues encountered while developing research data management services and infrastructure at the University of Oxford. -
Internet Librarian International Conference 2010
Claire Tylee, Katrin Flemming and Elly Cope report on the two-day Internet Librarian International Conference focusing on innovation and technology in the information profession, held in London on 14-15 October 2010. -
Repository Fringe 2010
Martin Donnelly (and friends) report on the Repository Fringe "unconference" held at the National e-Science Centre in Edinburgh, Scotland, over 2-3 September 2010. -
Book Review: Access, Delivery, Performance - The Future of Libraries Without Walls
Michael Day reviews a Festschrift celebrating the work of Professor Peter Brophy, founder of the Centre for Research in Library and Information Management. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 64: Supporting the Power of Research Data
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 64. -
FRBR in Practice
Wendy Taylor and Kathy Teague describe what they learnt about how FRBR is used at the Celia Library for the Visually Impaired in Helsinki, during their Ulverscroft/IFLA-funded visit. -
Learning How to Play Nicely: Repositories and CRIS
Nick Sheppard reports on the event examining integrated, systemic approaches to research information management organised by the Welsh Repository Network and supported by JISC and ARMA at Leeds Metropolitan University, in May 2010. -
Retooling Libraries for the Data Challenge
Dorothea Salo examines how library systems and procedures need to change to accommodate research data. -
Trove: Innovation in Access to Information in Australia
Rose Holley describes a major development in the Australian national digital information infrastructure. -
Book Review: Information Science in Transition
Michael Day reviews an edited volume published to commemorate the founding of the Institute of Information Scientists in 1958. -
Book Review: Supporting Research Students
Brian Whalley reviews a work which helps Library and Information Science Staff at Higher Education Institutions to support their research students. -
RDA: Resource Description and Access
Wendy Taylor and Helen Williams report on CILIP's Executive Briefings on RDA : Resource Description and Access held at CILIP on 23 March 2010 and repeated at the Bloomsbury Hotel on 30 March 2010. -
Volcanic Eruptions Fail to Thwart Digital Preservation - the Planets Way
Matthew Barr, Amir Bernstein, Clive Billenness and Manfred Thaller report on the final Planets training event Digital Preservation - The Planets Way held in Rome over 19 - 21 April 2010. -
Book Review: My Word! Plagiarism and College Culture
Brian Whalley reviews a look at this problem from an American anthropologist and finds there is more in it than just a consideration of plagiarism. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Subject Repositories: European Collaboration in the International Context
Dave Puplett reports on the conference Subject Repositories: European Collaboration in the International Context held at the British Library in January 2010. The conference launched Economists Online (EO), an innovative economics subject repository. -
UK Institutional Repository Search: Innovation and Discovery
Vic Lyte, Sophia Jones, Sophia Ananiadou and Linda Kerr describe an innovative tool to showcase UK research output through advanced discovery and retrieval facilities. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Open Repositories 2009
Adrian Stevenson reports on the four-day annual Open Repositories conference held at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, GA, USA over 18 - 21 May 2009. -
The Norwegian National Digital Library
Marianne Takle describes the National Library of Norway's digitisation strategy and how the National Library is taking on a key role in the country's digital library service. -
From Cultural Heritage to Digital Knowledge: Building Infrastructures for a Global Knowledge Society
Astrid Recker reports on the 3rd IFLA Presidential Meeting, held by the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) in Berlin over 19-20 February 2009. -
Assessing FRBR in Dublin Core Application Profiles
Talat Chaudhri makes a detailed assessment of the FRBR structure of the Dublin Core Application Profiles funded by JISC. -
Book Review: Integrating Geographic Information Systems Into Library Services
Sylvie Lafortune reviews a much needed work on offering GIS services in libraries. -
Book Review: Making Sense With Metadata
Emma Tonkin takes a look at an impressive new book on the topic of metadata design, implementation and evaluation in theory and practice. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 58: People Still Matter
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 58. -
A Bug's Life?: How Metaphors from Ecology Can Articulate the Messy Details of Repository Interactions
R. John Robertson, Mahendra Mahey and Phil Barker introduce work investigating an alternative model of repository and service interaction. -
Book Review: Against the Machine
Mahendra Mahey reviews a book which examines popular Internet culture and how it may be having negative effects on many of us. -
Book Review: Patent Failure - How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk
Stuart Hannabuss reviews a work which debunks some key assumptions about IPR and contends that current patent arrangements are ineffective. -
CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group Annual Conference
Christina Claridge reports on the conference, held 3-5 September 2008, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. -
Get Tooled Up: SeeAlso: A Simple Linkserver Protocol
Jakob Voss combines OpenSearch and unAPI to enrich catalogues. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
What Happens If I Click on This?': Experiences of the Archives Hub
Jane Stevenson describes the results of usability testing for the Archives Hub Web site. -
eResearch Australasia 2008
Tobias Blanke, Ann Borda, Gaby Bright and Bridget Soulsby report on the annual eResearch Australasia Conference, held in Melbourne, Australia, 29 September - 3 October, 2008. -
Book Review: Visualizing Data
Pete Cliff considers a new book on data visualisation and hopes one day to implement some of the interesting ideas presented in this work. -
Book Review: Web Accessibility
Martin White reviews a book that provides advice for managers on how to ensure that Web sites, intranets and library services are fully compliant with guidelines and legislation on accessibility. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Open Repositories 2008
Mahendra Mahey reports on the third international Open Repositories 2008 Conference, held at the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton in April 2008. -
Persistent Identifiers: Considering the Options
Emma Tonkin looks at the current landscape of persistent identifiers, describes several current services, and examines the theoretical background behind their structure and use. -
The Networked Library Service Layer: Sharing Data for More Effective Management and Cooperation
Janifer Gatenby identifies criteria for determining which data in various library systems could be more beneficially shared and managed at a network level. -
Versioning in Repositories: Implementing Best Practice
Jenny Brace explains why giving time to versioning within a repository is worthwhile and outlines the best practice to implement. -
Book Review: Digital Information Culture
Stuart Hannabuss analyses a very useful addition to the realm of information, knowledge and library studies. -
Future-Proofing the Past: LAI Joint Conference 2008
Siobhan Fitzpatrick reports on the Annual Joint Conference of the Library Association of Ireland and Cilip IRELAND. -
Implementing Ex Libris's PRIMO at the University of East Anglia
Nick Lewis outlines the University of East Anglia's experience of implementing Ex Libris's Primo, a new search and retrieval interface for presenting the library catalogue and institutional databases and e-resources. -
Research Libraries and the Power of the Co-operative
John MacColl considers the 'co-operative imperative' upon research libraries, and describes the work which the former Research Libraries Group is undertaking as part of OCLC. -
South African Repositories: Bridging Knowledge Divides
Martie van Deventer and Heila Pienaar provide us with background to recent South African repository initiatives and detail an example of knowledge transfer from one institution to another. -
Towards an Application Profile for Images
Mick Eadie describes the development of the Dublin Core Images Application Profile project recently funded through the JISC. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Version Identification: A Growing Problem
Dave Puplett outlines the issues associated with versions in institutional repositories, and discusses the solutions being developed by the Version Identification Framework (VIF) Project. -
Book Review: The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland
Lorcan Dempsey reviews Volume III of a landmark collection on the history of libraries in 'Britain and Ireland' from 1850 to 2000. -
DRIVER: Building the Network for Accessing Digital Repositories Across Europe
Martin Feijen, Wolfram Horstmann, Paolo Manghi, Mary Robinson and Rosemary Russell present an outline of the DRIVER Project and its achievements so far in supporting and enhancing digital repository development in Europe. -
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. -
Newsline
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
V&A Core Systems Integration Project
In conjunction with his main article on The KIDMM Community's 'MetaKnowledge Mash-up, Conrad Taylor provides more information on V&A Core Systems Integration Project. -
Capacity Building: Spoken Word at Glasgow Caledonian University
Iain Wallace, Graeme West and David Donald give an account of the origins, nature and establishment of Spoken Word Services at Glasgow Caledonian University. -
Change Management in Information Services
Ian Lovecy examines change theories and strategies, and their application to creating a change culture in an information service. -
The SPP Alerting Portlet: Delivering Personalised Updates
Virginia Knight describes the open-source alerting portlet which has been developed as part of the SPP Subject Portals Project (SPP) and the results of user feedback. -
Book Review: Teaching Web Search Skills
Verity Brack takes a look at this book for Web trainers, teachers and instructors. -
Citeulike: A Researcher's Social Bookmarking Service
Kevin Emamy and Richard Cameron describe a tool that helps researchers gather, collect and share papers. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 51: Democratising Cultural Heritage
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne 51. -
Using Blogs for Formative Assessment and Interactive Teaching
Lisa Foggo provides a case-study of using a blog for formative assessment. Its interactivity engaged participants and permitted measurement of student expectations and satisfaction with library sessions. -
2nd International DCC Conference 2006: Digital Data Curation in Practice
Alexander Ball and Manjula Patel provide an overview of the second annual conference of the Digital Curation Centre. -
A Dublin Core Application Profile for Scholarly Works
Julie Allinson, Pete Johnston and Andy Powell describe a Dublin Core application profile for describing scholarly works that makes use of FRBR and the DCMI Abstract Model. -
Book Review: Digital Preservation
Maureen Pennock reviews a release in Facet's Digital Futures series. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Take a Peek Beneath the EPrints V3 Wrappers
With v3 officially launched at the Open Repositories Conference in San Antonio last week, William Nixon and Peter Millington report on the EPrints 3 pre-launch briefing in London, 8 December 2006. -
What Happens When We Mash the Library?
Paul Miller looks at recent attempts to make library resources more appealing, including the Talis competition to build library 'mashups'. -
Book Review: Ambient Findability
Emma Tonkin reviews a book with interesting content despite a few rough edges. -
DC 2006: Metadata for Knowledge and Learning
Julie Allinson, Rachel Heery, Pete Johnston and Rosemary Russell report on DC 2006, the sixth international conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, held 3 - 6 October 2006. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 49: Technology Is Only Part of the Story
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 49. -
Immaculate Catalogues, Indexes and Monsters Too...
David E. Bennett reports on the three day residential CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group Annual Conference, University of East Anglia, during September 2006. -
RDA: A New International Standard
Ann Chapman describes work on the new cataloguing code, Resource Description and Access (RDA), based on the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR). -
e-Books for the Future: Here but Hiding?
Brian Whalley outlines some developments in e-book technologies and links them to existing ways of presenting textbook information. -
A Foundation for Automatic Digital Preservation
Miguel Ferreira, Ana Alice Baptista and Jose Carlos Ramalho propose a Service-Oriented Architecture to help cultural heritage institutions to accomplish automatic digital preservation. -
CRIS2006: Enabling Interaction and Quality: Beyond the Hanseatic League
Derek Sergeant and Jessie Hey report on this 3-day conference in Bergen, Norway, 11-13 May 2006. -
Introducing UnAPI
Dan Chudnov and a team of colleagues describe unAPI, a tiny HTTP API for serving information objects in next-generation Web applications. -
The Library Catalogue in the New Discovery Environment: Some Thoughts
Lorcan Dempsey explores how the library catalogue will develop alongside evolving network discovery systems. -
Book Review: The Successful Academic Librarian
Stephen Town finds this US multi-author work may not meet the needs of readers in the UK, and offers some ideas which a UK version might incorporate. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Serving Services in Web 2.0
Theo van Veen shows with the help of an example, how standardised descriptions of services can help users control the integration of services from different providers. -
Google Challenges for Academic Libraries
John MacColl analyses the reactions many academic libraries may be having to the range of tools Google is currently rolling out and outlines a strategy for institutions in the face of such potentially radical developments. -
Projects Into Services: The UK Experience
Peter Brophy reviews the experience of the UK academic sector in turning digital library projects into sustainable services. -
The (Digital) Library Environment: Ten Years After
Lorcan Dempsey considers how the digital library environment has changed in the ten years since Ariadne was first published. -
Book Review: Cataloging and Organizing Digital Resources
Sarah Higgins learns how to incorporate online resources into a library catalogue using AACR2 and MARC, but wonders why the wider issue of organising and describing a full range of digital resources is not addressed. -
Building the Info Grid
Wolfram Horstmann, Liv Fugl and Jessica Lindholm report on the two-day conference Building the Info Grid on trends and perspectives in digital library technology and services held in Copenhagen in September. -
DAEDALUS: Delivering the Glasgow EPrints Service
Morag Greig and William Nixon describe the key aims and findings of the DAEDALUS Project and the Glasgow ePrints Service. -
DC 2005
Robina Clayphan reports on the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications: Vocabularies in Practice held at the University of Carlos III, Madrid in September 2005. -
Book Review: Disaster Management for Libraries and Archives
Ian Lovecy looks at a useful consolidation of approaches to disaster management. -
Book Review: Managing Suppliers and Partners for the Academic Library
Tony Kidd examines this study's view of the importance of partnerships in their widest context for the modern academic library. -
EEVL Xtra: The Hidden Web at Your Fingertips
Roddy MacLeod looks at the latest service from EEVL. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Revealing All
Ann Chapman describes Revealweb, a Web site that brings together information about accessible resources for visually impaired people. -
Supporting Local Data Users in the UK Academic Community
Luis Martinez and Stuart Macdonald discuss the differing areas of expertise within the UK data libraries with particular reference to their relationship with National Data Centres, the role of the Data Information Specialists Committee - UK (DISC-UK) and other information specialists. -
Book Review: Building an Electronic Resource Collection
Sarah Pearson considers whether the 2nd edition of this practical guide for building an electronic resource collection can satisfy the needs of both new and experienced practitioners. -
Book Review: Metadata for Information Management and Retrieval
Marieke Guy takes a look at a recent introduction to metadata for the information professional. -
E-Archiving: An Overview of Some Repository Management Software Tools
Marion Prudlo discusses LOCKSS, EPrints, and DSpace in terms of who uses them, their cost, underlying technology, the required know-how, and functionalities. -
EEVL: New Hot Topic In-depth Reports Now Available
Roddy MacLeod looks at some recent developments to the EEVL service. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Opening Up OpenURLs with Autodiscovery
Daniel Chudnov, Richard Cameron, Jeremy Frumkin, Ross Singer and Raymond Yee demonstrate a 'gather locally, share globally' approach to OpenURLs and metadata autodiscovery in scholarly and non-scholarly environments. -
Book Review: Digital Libraries - Policy, Planning and Practice
Bruce Royan considers the ironies of communicating the state of the art of digital libraries by means of a print publication. -
Book Review: How to Find Information
Verity Brack reviews a new practical guide for researchers wanting to improve their information skills and finds it a very useful addition. -
Fast-Forward on the Green Road to Open Access: The Case Against Mixing Up Green and Gold
Stevan Harnad provides a summary of his critique of Jean-Claude Guédon's views on the green and gold roads to Open Access.
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Hyper Clumps, Mini Clumps and National Catalogues: Resource Discovery for the 21st Century
John Gilby reports on a one-day conference about resource discovery, held at the British Library Conference Centre, London in November. -
Planet-SOSIG
Humphrey Southall looks at a new Web site's Vision of Britain while Emma Place examines new changes to the RDN Virtual Training Suite. -
Recasting the Past: Digital Histories
Vanessa Carr reports on a one day conference about digitising historical records, held jointly by the Association for History and Computing UK and the Royal Historical Society. -
Tap Into Bath Takes Off
Stephanie Round covers the launch of a small but promising collaborative effort. -
The National Centre for Text Mining: Aims and Objectives
Sophia Ananiadou, Julia Chruszcz, John Keane, John McNaught and Paul Watry describe NaCTeM's plans to provide text mining services for UK academics. -
Book Review: Knowledge Management Lessons Learned
Martin White praises the work of the editors on the 32 essays covering how KM initiatives can deliver tangible outcomes and takes a practical and balanced view of their overall value. -
Developing Portal Services and Evaluating How Users Want to Use Them: The CREE Project
Chris Awre, Matthew J Dovey, Jon Hunter, William Kilbride and Ian Dolphin describe the JISC-funded Contextual Resource Evaluation Environment (CREE) Project and its user and technical investigations to examine how users wish to use library search services. -
How the Use of Standards Is Transforming Australian Digital Libraries
Debbie Campbell explains how the exploitation of recent standards has allowed the National Library of Australia to digitise its collections and host federated search services and provide an improved service. -
ISBN-13: New Number on the Block
Ann Chapman outlines the planned changes to the ISBN standard and its impact on the information community and the book trade. -
What Do Application Profiles Reveal about the Learning Object Metadata Standard?
Jean Godby assesses the customised subsets of metadata elements that have been defined by 35 projects using the LOM standard to describe e-learning resources. -
Adding Value to the National Information Infrastructure: The EDINA Exchange Day, Edinburgh
John MacColl provides us with a report of EDINA's first general information event for the HE and FE communities held at the National E-Science Centre. -
ERPANET Seminar on Persistent Identifiers
Monica Duke reports on a two-day training seminar on persistent identifiers held by ERPANET in Cork, Ireland over 17-18 June 2004. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 40: Horses for Courses
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 40. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Tap Into Bath
Alison Baud and Ann Chapman describe the development of a database of archive, library and museum collections in Bath. -
Targeting Academic Research With Southampton's Institutional Repository
Jessie Hey describes how user needs have influenced the evolutionary development of 'e-Prints Soton' as the University of Southampton Research Repository. -
The Future of Cataloguing: Cataloguing and Indexing Group Conference
Paola Stillone reports on a three-day annual conference of the CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group (CIG), held at the University of Bath, 30 June - 2 July. -
The Information Environment Service Registry: Promoting the Use of Electronic Resources
Amanda Hill outlines progress on the Information Environment Service Registry Project and explains what it will mean for service providers and portal developers. -
Towards Library Groupware With Personalised Link Routing
Daniel Chudnov, Jeremy Frumkin, Jennifer Weintraub, Matthew Wilcox and Raymond Yee describe a potential groupware framework for integrating access to diverse information resources and distributed personal collection development. -
At the Event: The EPrints UK Workshop
Phil Cross, Debra Hiom and Emma Place report on this workshop which was held at the University of Bath in February 2004. -
Book Review: Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval
Charles Oppenheim sees improvements in this second edition but has reservations about one of the few UK-based texts on this subject. -
Book Review: The Accidental Webmaster
Andy Prue examines a guide aimed at inexperienced Webmasters. While the book covers some interesting and salient points, Andy raises questions as to the ideal audience. -
ERPANET / CODATA Workshop, Lisbon
Michael Day gives us a detailed report on the ERPANET / CODATA Workshop held at the Biblioteca Nacional, Lisbon, 15-17 December 2003. -
Filling Institutional Repositories: Practical Strategies from the DAEDALUS Project
Morag Mackie describes some strategies that can be used to help populate an institutional repository. -
JISC Terminology Services Workshop
Sarah Shreeves reports on a one-day workshop on current developments and future directions for JISC terminology services held in London, February 2004. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Planet-SOSIG: A Variety of Reports
This month Neil Jacobs reports on updates to the Regard service, Martin Poulter introduces a new Economics Assessment Bank and Emma Place highlights the programme of training and outreach conducted by SOSIG this spring. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Public Libraries: 2003, 2004: A Backward Glance and Thoughts on the Future
Penny Garrod looks at some of the broader issues affecting public libraries and information professionals. -
The European Library: Integrated Access to the National Libraries of Europe
Britta Woldering describes the findings of the recently completed EU Project The European Library, focusing on technical solutions and metadata development. -
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. -
Towards a User-Centred Approach to Digital Libraries
Ken Eason reports on the five themes in the Digilib Conference, Espoo, Finland. -
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. -
ECDL-2003 Web Archiving
Michael Day reports on the 3rd ECDL Workshop on Web Archives held in Trondheim, August 2003. -
Ebooks in UK Libraries: Where Are We Now?
Penny Garrod brings us up to date on developments in ebooks. -
Newsline: News You Can Use
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
OpenURL Meeting
Linda Humphreys Frances Boyle and Andy Powell give us a description of the OpenURL Meeting held in London, September 2003. -
Updated JISC Guides Are Now Available
Emma Beer describes the new JISC Resource Guides. -
News from BIOME
Donald Mackay, Rod Ward and Jenny Hall provide us with the first of a series of bulletins on developments within the BIOME area of activity. -
The Bath Profile Four Years On: What's Being Done in the UK?
Fraser Nicolaides gives us his take on the conference to review the implementation of the Bath Profile in the UK, July 2003. -
What Features in a Portal?
Geoff Butters analyses the features found in various types of portal, and includes a comparison with the planned features for the JISC Subject Portals. -
EEVL: Search Me!
Roddy MacLeod supplies guidance on the large range of available EEVL search options. -
Exposing Information Resources for E-learning
Steve Richardson and Andy Powell on Harvesting and searching IMS metadata using both the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, and the Z39.50 Protocol. -
Public Libraries: Creating Websites for E-citizens -The Public Library Web Managers Workshop 2002
Penny Garrod reports on the Public Library Web Managers workshop, November 2002, held in Bath. -
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. -
A Speaking Electronic Librarian
Markos Dendrinos with a proposal for an interface system, based on speech recognition and synthesis technologies, for automatic library services. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 33: Exploring the Information Environment
Philip Hunter with the editorial for Ariadne 33. -
OCLC-SCURL: Collaboration, Integration and Recombinant Potential
Pete Johnston reports on the New Directions in Metadata conference, 15-16 August, in Edinburgh -
Utilizing E-books to Enhance Digital Library Offerings
Shirley Hyatt and Lynn Silipigni Connaway, describe the rationale and background of OCLC's acquisition of netLibrary, the information environment that is being pursued, and the resulting benefits that libraries may experience. -
Electronic Theses and Dissertations: A Strategy for the UK
by John MacColl considers a strategy for electronic theses and dissertations in the United Kingdom. -
First Impressions of Ex Libris's Metalib: Talking about a Revolution?
Nick Lewis outlines key issues in the implementation of a cross-searching portal using Metalib. -
NetLab's Digital Library Gâteau
Jessica Lindholm reports from the conference "NetLab and friends: Tribute and outlook after 10 years of digital library development". The conference was held in Lund, Sweden 10-12 April 2002. -
Planet SOSIG
Debra Hiom with a report which covers: the launch of Citizenship Past; a new VTS Tutorial for European Studies; and an update on the SOSIG Portals Project. -
The Evolution of an Institutional E-prints Archive at the University of Glasgow
William Nixon with some practical advice based on the Glasgow experience. -
Book Review: Building an Electronic Resource Collection
Penny Garrod reviews a practical guide to electronic resource collection. -
EEVL-ution to a Portal
Roddy Macleod on the hub's 'EEVL-ution' to a portal. -
The Distributed National Collection Access, and Cross-sectoral Collaboration: The Research Support Libraries Programme
Ronald Milne, Director of the programme, with an overview of the objectives for the Research Support Libraries Programme. -
The JISC Information Environment and Web Services
Andy Powell and Liz Lyon look at possible relationships between the Web Services idea and earlier ideas about seamless access to information. -
The Open Archives Forum
Susanne Dobratz, Friederike Schimmelpfennig and Peter Schirmbacher introduce the new Open Archives Forum project to promote the ideas of the OAI in Europe. -
Digitization: Do We Have a Strategy?
David Pearson suggests that the library sector should find a mechanism to put digitisation high on the agenda. -
EEVL: Brand new EEVL service
Roddy Macleod introduces a new service. -
Managed Learning?
Nicole Harris on current developments towards Managed Learning Environments in the ANGEL project. -
Reference Books on the Web
Adam Hodgkin explores the range of electronic reference tools. -
Managing Electronic Library Services: Current Issues in UK Higher Education Institutions
Stephen Pinfield surveys some of the key issues associated with delivering electronic library services. -
Subject Portals
Judith Clark describes a three-year project to develop a set of subject portals as part of the Distributed National Electronic Resource (DNER) development programme. -
Accessibility: CHI 2001 and Beyond
Leona Carpenter reports on the key issue of accessibility as covered at the Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) Conference held in Seattle, and also provides a round-up of sources of further information. -
BIOME: Progressing through Partnerships
Paula Manning reports on recent collaborations. -
OpenResolver: A Simple OpenURL Resolver
Andy Powell describes UKOLN's OpenResolver, a freely available demonstration OpenURL resolver. -
Personalization of Web Services: Opportunities and Challenges
Monica Bonett gives an overview of personalization on the World Wide Web and discusses ideas for development within resource discovery systems. -
Supporting Material for Database Training, or 'Here’s One I Prepared Earlier'
Alison McNab looks at the wealth of resources available for trainers provided by the information service and content providers within JISC-supported services. -
The JOIN-UP Programme: Seminar on Linking Technologies
Sandy Shaw reports on a seminar bringing together experts in the field of linking technology for JISC's JOIN-UP Programme. -
The Secondary Homepages in Mathematics Initiative
Greig Fratus, MathGate Manager, supplies information about the Secondary Homepages in Mathematics initiative set up by Math-Net. -
Using the Web for Academic Research: The Reading Experience Database Project
Alexis Weedon gives us some insight into a new web-based project designed to collate evidence for changing reading habits through history. -
After the Big Bang: The Forces of Change and E-Learning
Pete Johnston examines what recent developments in the area of "e-learning" might mean for the custodians of the information resources required to support teaching and learning. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 27: The Digital Library Jigsaw
Philip Hunter opens the box and looks at some of the choicest pieces of Ariadne issue 27. -
Metadata (1): Encoding OpenURLs in DC Metadata
Andy Powell and Ann Apps propose a mechanism for embedding machine parsable citations into Dublin Core (DC) metadata records. -
Review: From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure
Michael Day reviews the book by Christine Borgman: From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure. -
The Filling in the PIE: HeadLine's Resource Data Model
John Paschoud explains the concepts of representation and use of metadata in the Resource Data Model (RDM) that has been developed by the HeadLine project. -
AGORA: The Hybrid Library from a User's Perspective
Bridget Robinson and David Palmer look at the Agora user studies. -
Clumps Come Up Trumps
Helena Gillis, Verity Brack, John Gilby and Marian Hogg review the four eLib CLUMP projects now at the end of their funding periods. -
Continuity and Collaboration: The Online Bach Bibliography
Yo Tomita introduces the single most important online resource for the study of the composer J.S. Bach. -
EEVL
Roddy Macleod manager of the EEVL project explains the new profile, new office: and coming soon: a new service. -
The Distributed National Electronic Resource and the Hybrid Library
Stephen Pinfield and Lorcan Dempsey with an overview of the DNER. -
A Policy Context: eLib and the Emergence of the Subject Gateways
Derek Law and Lorcan Dempsey outline some of the features of the policy environment which led to the setting up of the influential 'subject gateways' as part of the UK Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib). -
EEVL Backs a Winner
Roddy MacLeod and the team celebrate their 5th birthday with a day at the races, and supply some EEVL News Nuggets. -
Review: The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization
Maurice Line reviews Elaine Svenonius' 'The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization', published by MIT Press. -
Agora: From Information Maze to Market
Bridget Robinson, David Palmer and Rosemary Russell outline the Agora cross-searching software project, and its technical background. -
EEVL News Nuggets
Roddy MacLeod and Linda Kerr with news relating to the EMC Hubs. -
In Vision: The Internet As a Resource for Visually Impaired People
Ann Chapman on the Internet as a resource for visually impaired people: a survey of accessible sites, resources, current research and software. -
Library Resource Sharing and Discovery: Catalogues for the 21st Century
Ariadne reports on the highlights of the recent Glasgow CLUMPS one day conference -
Metadata: I Am a Name and a Number
Paul Miller on Digital Object Identifiers. -
Newsline: News You Can Use
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Review: Building Community Information Networks
Pete Cliff reviews 'Building community information networks: strategies and experiences,' edited by Sheila Pantry. -
Catalogues for the 21st Century
Ariadne reports on a one-day Workshop presented by the eLib Clump Projects at Goldsmiths College in London on the 3rd of March -
Convergence of Electronic Entertainment and Information Systems
John Kirriemuir explores the technology and impact of expanding internet access. -
EEVL News Nuggets
Brian Kelly reports on the use of third-party web services. -
EPRESS
Stuart Peters on EPRESS text management software tools, currently in development. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 23: Ariadne's Thread
Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne issue 23. -
So You Want to Build a Union Catalogue?
Matthew Dovey looks at various models of virtual union catalogues in addition to those adopted by the clump projects, and other models of physical catalogues. -
What Have the CLUMPs Ever Done for Us?
Peter Stubley puts the CLUMPs in perspective. -
A Free ISP from the British Library
Brian Kefford outlines the services available from the British Library. -
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Clumps As Catalogues
Peter Stubley asks whether CLUMPS as catalogues are 'virtual success or failure?' -
Planet SOSIG: Asking Questions - The CASS Social Survey Question Bank
Adam Guy writes about the Question Bank service. -
Web Focus: Using the Web to Promote Your Web Site
Brian Kelly expalins how to promote your web site. -
Biz/ed Bulletin on Business and Economics
Libby Miller looks at recent changes to Biz/ed and describes some new sites. -
Developing the Bath Profile
Paul Miller with details of the "Bath Profile" - a Z39.50 specification for Library Applications and Resource Discovery. -
Digitizing Wilfrid
Philip Hunter talks to Stuart Lee about the prizewinning 'Wilfrid Owen Multimedia Digital Archive' and the JTAP 'Virtual Seminars on WW1'. -
EEVL: 'Not a Success'
Roddy Macleod embarks on a tendentious argument. -
Planet SOSIG: Welfare Reform Digest
Jennie Grimshaw gives a personal account of the creation of the Welfare reform digest. -
Z39.50 for All
Paul Miller looks at the Z39.50 standard and attempts to extract some meaning from the mass of associated literature. -
CLUMPS in the Real World
Juliet Dye and Jane Harrington look into evaluation procedures for the CLUMPS projects. -
Metadata: Workshop in Luxembourg
Michael Day and Andy Stone report on the Third Metadata Workshop in Luxembourg. -
Planet SOSIG
Karen Ford examines The Resource Guide, which aims to provide staff and students in HE with an overview of electronic services. -
Practical Clumping: Mick Ridley on the BOPAC System
Mick Ridley discusses the BOPAC system. -
Web Mirror: The National Mirror Service
Sally Hadland on the New National Mirror Service. -
EEVL Eye on Engineering
The EEVL Team explore Internet Resources in Petroleum Engineering and Electronics, take a glance at engineering resources in Australia and South East Asia and give the latest news from the EEVL service. -
Instructional Management Systems
John MacColl explores the IMS concept in the context of the SELLIC project. -
Planet SOSIG: Internet Resources for Social Scientists
Pete Maggs discusses finding high-quality Internet resources for social science and methodology, based on his experience as a SOSIG Section Editor. -
SEAMLESS: Introduction to the Project
Mary Rowlatt describes SEAMLESS, the Essex-based project. -
BIDS Begets Ingenta
The University of Bath concluded an agreement to sign over the ownership of BIDS to a new organisation known as ingenta ltd, while still retaining a substantial share. Terry Morrow looks at the implications of the change, and reviews the latest developments in the services offered. -
Hybrid Libraries
Stephen Pinfield describes the role of Hybrid Libraries and Clumps -
Metadata: Cataloguing Theory and Internet Subject-based Information Gateways
Ann Chapman, Michael Day, and Debra Hiom compare library cataloguing concepts and ROADS Template creation. -
Metadiversity
Michael Day on a Biodiversity conference in the States interested in Metadata. -
Newsline: News You Can Use
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
ALA '98
Ian Winship reports on electronic library related activity at this year's American Library Association Conference in Washington D.C. -
Exploring Planet SOSIG: Law, Statistics and Demography
Planet SOSIG: Exploring Planet SOSIG: Law, Statistics and Demography: Janette Cochrane, Sue Pettit and Wendy White. Planet SOSIG continues its review of the main SOSIG subject sections, highlighting the resources that the Internet can offer to those working in the different fields of the social sciences. -
Metadata: BIBLINK.Checksum
Ian Peacock and Andy Powell describe a proposed algorithm for calculating a checksum for Web pages. -
VERITY
Panayiotis Periorellis and Walter Scales writes about the VERITY European Telematics Project. -
Web Editorial: Introduction to Issue 17
The web editors, Philip Hunter and Bernadette Daly, introduce Ariadne issue 17. -
ILL: Interlibrary Loan Protocol
Lyndon Pugh and Chris Rusbridge on the National Library of Australia's ILL utility. -
The Good, the Bad and the Useless
Judith Edwards evaluates Internet resources. -
Project Patron
Elizabeth Lyon and Jon Maslin describe this JISC eLib Programme project (Performing Arts Teaching Resources Online). -
RDF Seminar
Matthew Dovey reports on the RDF seminar held in the Stakis Hotel, Bath. -
The Access Catalogue Gateway to Resources
Terry Hanson explores how libraries might develop effective ways of indicating their access arrangements to their users. -
An End User's View
Oliver de Peyer with his personal view of what it is like being on the other side of the the metaphorical electronic issue desk. -
Metadata Corner: CrossROADS and Interoperability
Michael Day, Rachel Heery and Andy Powell report on work in progress on enhancements to the ROADS software. -
Planet SOSIG: Regard
Sue Timmis introduces REGARD, a new research database now available on the World Wide Web. -
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). -
Music Libraries Online
Celia Duffy describes a virtual music catalogue. -
The Online Exhibition: The OMNI Perspective
Lisa Gray investigates the Online 1997 exhibtion for medical information. -
What Do National Libraries Do in the Age of the Internet?
Maurice Line, previously a Director General of the British library, ponders upon the questions faced by national libraries. -
Consortium and Site Licensing
Jim Huntingford reports from the Consortium and Site Licensing Seminar organised by the United Kingdom Serials Group. -
Copyright Corner
Charles Oppenheim answers copyright queries. -
Down Your Way: The Radcliffe Science Library
Sarah Ashton meets the Deputy Keeper of the Scientific Book, Dave Price. -
Metadata Corner: DC5 - the Search for Santa
Tony Gill and Paul Miller's report from the 5th Dublin Core metdata conference in Helsinki. -
Newsline: News You Can Use
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
The History of History
Stephen Smith explains the background to the relaunch of IHR-Info as HISTORY. -
The Lesser of Two EEVLs?
Roddy MacLeod, EEVL Project Manager (Information), describes plans for EEVL. -
Cataloguing E-Journals: Where Are We Now?
Valerie Wilkins reviews the results of a survey, showing a variety of current practices in cataloguing e-journals. -
Cataloguing Electronic Sources
Jackie Hwang, Team Leader, Bibliographic Services, surveys progress so far at Information Services, University of Birmingham. -
Digital Libraries '97
David Nichols reports on the important international conference: Digital Libraries '97. -
Knight's Tale: The Hybrid Library - Books and Bytes
Jon Knight gives his personal view on the fashionable concept of a 'hybrid library'. -
Planet SOSIG: ALISS and IRISS
Debra Hiom on recent developments and happenings with ALISS, IRISS, and SOSIG. -
Public Libraries Corner: A Public Library Metadata Initiative
Sally Criddle introduces an initiative to extend current developments in the use of metadata to the public library community. -
Theses Unbound
Alason Roberts looks at the use of theses in academic libraries. -
York Information Connections: An Attempt to Catalogue the Internet
Christine Ellwood and Sarah Thompson outline the rationale behind the approach of the University of York Library to cataloguing Internet resources. -
A Digital Library Showcase and Support Service - the Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE
Roy Tennant describes a resource used to create digital libraries and services, and to help others do the same. -
BUBL : How BUBL Benefits Academic Librarians
Alan Dawson and Jan Simpson take us through BUBL, an old service recently transformed from being Gopher-based to Web-based. -
Clifford Lynch in Interview
Clifford Lynch, the Executive Director of CNI, was interviewed by John Kirriemuir at the Metadata: What Is It? workshop on 18 June 1997. Clifford shares some views on mirroring, caching, metadata, Z39.50 and how he sees his role in CNI. -
Dublin Core Management
Andy Powell presents three models for the way in which metadata can be managed across a Web site and describes some of the tools that are beginning to be used at UKOLN to embed Dublin Core metadata into Web pages. -
Education-Line
Sam Saunders reports on a pre-print project for education professionals. -
Electronic Document Delivery: A Trial in an Academic Library
In the first of a two-part article, Fiona Williams describes the trials of various electronic document delivery systems in University of Bath Library and Learning Centre over the last few years. A review of the latest trial, between BL Urgent Action Service and TU DELFT, as well as an overall comparison with the Blackwell's Uncover Service will be given in the next issue of Ariadne. -
Electronic Journals: Problem Or Panacea?
Judith Edwards outlines some of the problems faced by academia in the acquisition and provision of electronic journals. -
NISS: National Information Services and Systems
Annette Lafford and Oren Stone talk us through NISS, one of the major sources of on-line information for academics and librarians -
Print Editorial: Introduction to Issue 10
John MacColl with the editorial from issue 10 of the print version. -
The Librarian of Babel: The Self-Citation Machine
The Librarian, talking to Mike Holderness, uncovers the true purpose of the World-Wide Web. -
Around the Table: Social Sciences
Debra Hiom from SOSIG takes us on a guided tour of major Internet-based Social Science resources. -
EEVL
Linda Kerr introduces a project from the Access to Network Resources section of the eLib programme which takes a holistic approach to providing access to high quality on-line engineering resources. -
Eurotext
In these days of European integration, Freda Carroll, Eurotext project co- ordinator, describes a project that will make European Union documents accessible online. -
Extending Metadata for Digital Preservation
Michael Day suggests how the concept of metadata could be extended to provide information in the specific field of digital preservation. -
From Aberystwyth to ADAM: Using the Skills Acquired on a Library School Course in the Real World
Rebecca Bradshaw reflects on how the skills and knowledge she acquired when a library school student are relevant (or not) to her current role, developing a network-based subject gateway. -
Metadata, PICS and Quality
Chris Armstrong looks at the possibility of a PICS application acting as a quality filter. -
Monash University Library Electronic Resources Directory
Lisa Smith describes a system which can be used to help people locate the electronic resources of Monash University Library -
Public Libraries Corner: MODELS 5 Workshop Report and Futures
Sarah Ormes gives a report on the recent MODELS 5 workshop and its outcomes. -
The Future of Digitising at the State Library of Victoria, Australia
Catherine Herman and Indra Kurzeme discuss the multimedia source project, set within the context of the pro-multimedia State of Victora, Australia. -
A Glimpse at EEVLs' Evaluation
A Glimpse at EEVLs' Evaluation: Malcolm Moffat, Database Officer for the Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library (EEVL) project, describes some findings from an initial evaluative study. -
Australian Co-operative Digitisation Project, 1840-45
Ross Coleman describes a project which will create a unique research infrastructure in Australian studies through the digital conversion of Australian serials and fiction of the seminal period 1840-45. -
CEI Looks for Bold Response
John MacColl describes the new call for proposals for further eLib programme work. -
COPAC: The New Nationally Accessible Union Catalogue
Shirley Cousins introduces COPAC and discusses some of the issues involved in the ongoing development of a consolidated union OPAC. -
Formats for the Electronic Library
Judith Wusteman describes the document formats used in electronic serials. -
Interface: Jane Core
Chris Bailey discusses librarians and learning with Jane Core of EduLib. -
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. -
Public Libraries Corner
In the Public Libraries Corner for this issue, a guest writer, Catherine Wrathall, writes about the current provision of Internet-based community information in public libraries. -
SETIS: Electronic Texts at the University of Sydney Library
Creagh Cole describes a project dedicated to providing in-house access to a large number of electronic texts on CD-ROM. -
Unique Identifiers in a Digital World
Andy Powell reports on a seminar organised jointly by Book Industry Communication and the UKOLN on the use of unique identifiers in electronic publishing. -
WoPEc: Electronic Working Papers in Economics Services
Thomas Krichel describes WoPEc, a working papers project. -
Data Archive at the University of Essex
Denise Lievesley and Bridget Winstanley describe this national resource centre for computer-readable data in the social sciences and humanities. -
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. -
10th Annual Anglo-Nordic Seminar
Kelly Russell from the eLib programme describes this seminar, which heavily featured speakers and current issues relevant to the UK digital libraries movement. -
Around the Table
Many legal resources are ideal for searching online. Noel Whitty highlights some sites for lawyers. -
Displaying SGML Documents on the World Wide Web
David Houghton discusses a method by which documents marked up using Standard Generalised Markup Language (SGML) can be used to generate a database for use in conjunction with the World Wide Web. -
EDINA: WWW, Z39.50 and All That!
Peter Burnhill gives a briefing note on what EDINA and the Data Library are doing about the World Wide Web (W) and the Z39.50 Protocol (Z). -
OMNI-Corner: Meeting the Visible Human
Sue Welsh reports from the Visible Human Project Conference of October 1996, an event that brought together many of the people involved with one of the most high profile Internet-based medical resources. -
The BNBMARC Currency Survey
Ann Chapman describes the BNBMARC Currency Survey, a performance measurement survey on the supply of bibliographic records. -
BIDS Hits the Web
Isobel Stark takes a look at the soon to be released trial BIDS web interface. -
CAUSE / EFFECT
Julia A. Rudy, Cause/Effect Editor and Director of Publications at CAUSE, an international, nonprofit professional association for managers and users of information resources on college and university campuses, describes CAUSE/EFFECT. -
JISC Projects Ahead
John MacColl outlines some of the key points in JISCÆs five year strategy document. -
Metadata for the Masses
Paul Miller describes Dublin Core and several ideas for how it can be implemented. -
PICK: Library and Information Science Resources on the Internet
In 1995, the Thomas Parry Library, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, won funding for PICK, a project to build a gateway to quality resources in the LIS field. Here, Andrew Cox describes this gateway, and reviews the project's achievements at the end of the first year. -
Review: The Student's Guide to the Internet by Ian Winship and Alison McNab
Ian Winship and Alison McNab publish cut-price guide, aimed at all students, to the Internet. -
Are They Being Served?
Lynne Brindley, Chair of JISC's new committee on electronic information, writes on the fundamental issue of networked information user's needs. -
Centre for Database Access Research (CEDAR): The Huddersfield Connection
Steve Pollitt describes the history and research behind CEDAR, the Centre for Database Access Research, which specialises in work on the design of interfaces for information retrieval systems. -
NHS Libraries: At Home on the Web
Ben Toth describes the establishment and maintenance of a regional Health Web site. -
Serving the Arts and Humanities
Dan Greenstein gives an extensive description of AHDS, the Arts and Humanities Data Service: its objectives, organisation, and how the data will be collected, preserved and described.. -
CURL OPAC launch
Andrew Cooper describes the CURL OPAC launch in Manchester. -
Meta Detectors
Lorcan Dempsey talks about metadata and the development of resource discovery services in the UK. -
ROADS: Resource Organisation and Discovery in Subject-Based Services
Rachel Heery, the ROADS Research Officer, describes this project from the Access to Network Resources area of the Electronic Libraries Programme. The deliverables of this project will constitute a large portion of the underlying software for most of the other projects in the same programme area, as well as other eLib and non-eLib projects, and therefore is one of the more crucial facets of the overall programme. -
Copyright Corner
Charles Oppenheim details some of the legal issues associated with electronic copyright management systems. -
Spotlight on BIDS
BIDS is put under the spotlight by Isobel Stark, a BIDS trainer amongst other things, who gives us her thoughts on one of the UK's most well-known networking services. Linked from this article are responses from BIDS people. -
Bernard Naylor: At the Eye of the Internet Storm
Bernard Naylor, the University Librarian at the University of Southampton, describes the information hurricane that is battering the world of Libraries. -
Interface
Interview with Paul Evan Peters, director of the US Coalition for Networked Information. -
What's Good and Bad about BUBL
Traugott Koch reviews the Bulletin Board for Libraries (BUBL).