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• Preserving Electronic Scholarly Journals: Portico

  Eileen Fenton outlines issues relating to the long-term preservation of digital resources and the characteristics of an archival entity responding to this need.

• An Introduction to the Search/Retrieve URL Service (SRU)

  Eric Lease Morgan describes sibling Web Service protocols designed to define a standard form for Internet search queries as well as the structure of the responses.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Web Focus: WWW 2003 Trip Report

  Brian Kelly writes on the recent WWW 2003 conference and outlines some of the latest Web developments.

• Web Focus: Let's Get Serious about HTML Standards

  Brian Kelly encourages authors to treat compliance with HTML standards seriously.

• Web Watch: An Accessibility Analysis of UK University Entry Points

  Brian Kelly reports on the accessibility of entry points of UK University Web sites.

• 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.

• Access to Archives: England’s Contribution to the National Archive Network

  Caroline Thibeaud discusses the Archive 2 Archive project.

• Reference Books on the Web

  Adam Hodgkin explores the range of electronic reference tools.

• Collective Convergence: The Work of the Collection Description Focus

  Pete Johnston and Bridget Robinson outline the work of the Collection Description Focus.

• AGORA: The Hybrid Library from a User's Perspective

  Bridget Robinson and David Palmer look at the Agora user studies.

• Web Watch: WebWatching eLib Project Web Sites

  Brian Kelly is WebWatching the eLib Project Sites.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 25: Beyond the Web Site

  Philip Hunter on the contents of Ariadne issue 25 and recent developments in the world of Digital Library initiatives.

• Knowledge Management in the Perseus Digital Library

  Jeffrey Rydberg-Cox on the Perseus Project's new knowledge management and digital delivery tools.

• Metadata: Towards the Intelligent Museum

  Paul Miller and Alice Grant explore CIMI: the collections standards organization which JISC has just joined.

• XML 2000: New Tools, New Vendors

  Dianne Kennedy reports on the latest XML conference in Paris.

• How the Oxford English Dictionary Went Online

  Laura Elliot explains the use of SGML in the management of the OED text.

• Text Encoding for Interchange: A New Consortium

  Lou Burnard on the creation of the TEI Consortium which has been created to take the TEI Guidelines into the XML world.

• Web Focus: Reflections On WWW9

  Brian Kelly reports on the WWW9 conference, held in Amsterdam, in May 2000.

• Electronic Publication of Ancient Near Eastern Texts

  Charles E. Jones and David Schloen report on a Chicago conference which explored XML tagging for Ancient Near Eastern Texts on the Web.

• Digitizing Wilfrid

  Philip Hunter talks to Stuart Lee about the prizewinning 'Wilfrid Owen Multimedia Digital Archive' and the JTAP 'Virtual Seminars on WW1'.

• SGML, XML and Databases

  Stephen Emmott reports on a one day meeting in London

• Electronic Access: Archives in the New Millennium

  Michael Day reports from Kew on the Public Record Office view of the Brave New World of online archives.

• Theses Unbound

  Alason Roberts looks at the use of theses in academic libraries.

• 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.

• Web Focus: Report on the WWW 6 Conference

  Brian Kelly describes the sixth International World Wide Web conference which took place in California from 7 – 11 April 1997.

• Down Under With the Dublin Core

  Paul Miller and Tony Gill offer a view of the recent Dublin Core metadata workshop in the Australian capital, Canberra.

• Formats for the Electronic Library

  Judith Wusteman describes the document formats used in electronic serials.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Metadata for the Masses

  Paul Miller describes Dublin Core and several ideas for how it can be implemented.

• Netskills Corner: Fifth WWW Conference, Paris

  Brian Kelly undertakes the arduous task of attending the 5th WWW Conference in Paris (is there a 'smiley' for 'green with envy'?).

• Wire: Email Interview with Chris Lilley

  Chris Lilley submits to an interview by email.

• 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.

• Wire: Email Interview with Traugott Koch

  Traugott Koch submits to an interview by email.