Buzz - Free Software
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eMargin: A Collaborative Textual Annotation Tool
Andrew Kehoe and Matt Gee describe their Jisc-funded eMargin collaborative textual annotation tool, showing how it has widened its focus through integration with Virtual Learning Environments.
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Adapting VuFind as a Front-end to a Commercial Discovery System
Graham Seaman describes the adaptation of an open source discovery tool, VuFind, to local needs, discusses the decisions which needed to be made in the process, and considers the implications of this process for future library discovery systems.
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Image 'Quotation' Using the C.I.T.E. Architecture
Christopher Blackwell and Amy Hackney Blackwell describe with examples a digital library infrastructure that affords canonical citation for 'quoting' images, useful for creating commentaries, arguments, and teaching tools. -
Get Tooled Up: Xerxes at Royal Holloway, University of London
Anna Grigson, Peter Kiely, Graham Seaman and Tim Wales describe the implementation of an open source front end to the MetaLib federated search tool. -
Access to Scientific Knowledge for Sustainable Development: Options for Developing Countries
Barbara Kirsop, Leslie Chan and Subbiah Arunachalam consider the impact of donor access and open access to research publications on the sustainable development of science in developing countries. -
Towards Virtualisation: A New Approach in Server Management
Eddie Young provides an account of trials and implementations carried out here after Matt Thrower gives us the background and benefits of employing virtualisation. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Building Open Source Communities: 4th OSS Watch Conference
Sebastian Rahtz and Randy Metcalfe report on a one-day conference on open source software development communities organised by OSS Watch held in Edinburgh on 4 July 2005. -
Book Review: Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing
Mike Fraser asks whether a recent book on open source software licences will help him answer a few questions. -
Software Choice: Decision-making in a Mixed Economy
Randy Metcalfe considers the role of free and open source software in UK Further and Higher Education. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
OSS Inaugural Conference: Open Source Deployment and Development
Sebastian Rahtz and Randy Metcalfe give an overview of the first conference of the Open Source Advisory Service. -
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. -
EEVL: Search Me!
Roddy MacLeod supplies guidance on the large range of available EEVL search options. -
Open Archiving Opportunities for Developing Countries: Towards Equitable Distribution of Global Knowledge
Leslie Chan and Barbara Kirsop explore some of the implications of using the OAI Protocol. -
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. -
Building on BUILDER
Ian Upton explores the achievements of this Windows NT server based project. -
Web Focus: The Use of Third-Party Web Services
Brian Kelly discusses the use of third-party web services. -
Launching an Electronic Magazine: An Overview of Value-added Features and Services
Bernadette Daly looks at a variety of electronic publications as part of the research phase in the delivery of a new Web magazine. -
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. -
Reaching the OPAC: Java Telnet
Bill Drew writes about accessing his library's OPAC within a web page using Java Telnet. He looks at the need, implementation, problems, and opportunities. -
WoPEc: Electronic Working Papers in Economics Services
Thomas Krichel describes WoPEc, a working papers project. -
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. -
Putting the UK on the Map
Peter Burden of the University of Wolverhampton's School of Computing and Information Technology describes the history behind his clickable maps of the UK, an essential and well established (though unfunded) resource for quickly locating academic and research Web sites. -
AC/DC
Dave Beckett and Neil Smith explain a search engine that only indexes sites in the .ac.uk domain.