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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.

• 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.

• Book Review: From Lending to Learning

  Tim Davies reviews a spirited defence of public libraries, which tries to define their core purpose and which argues for a re-positioning of their place in society.

• Towards Interoperabilty of European Language Resources

  Sophia Ananiadou and colleagues describe an ambitious new initiative to accelerate Europe-wide language technology research, helped by their work on promoting interoperability of language resources.

• 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.

• eBooks: Tipping or Vanishing Point?

  Emma Tonkin investigates ebooks and takes a look at recent technological and business developments in this area.

• Intute Integration

  Angela Joyce, Jackie Wickham, Phil Cross and Chris Stephens describe Intute's ongoing Integration Project, which is promoting and developing integration of Intute content in the UK academic library community.

• 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.

• Introducing UnAPI

  Dan Chudnov and a team of colleagues describe unAPI, a tiny HTTP API for serving information objects in next-generation Web applications.

• Joint Workshop on Future-proofing Institutional Websites

  Maureen Pennock reports on a two-day workshop on Future-Proofing Web Sites, organised by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) and the Wellcome Library at the Wellcome Library, London, over 19-20 January 2006.

• Web Accessibility Revealed: The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council Audit

  Marcus Weisen, Helen Petrie, Neil King and Fraser Hamilton describe a comprehensive Web accessibility audit involving extensive user testing as well as automatic testing of Web sites.

• 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.

• 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.

• Through the Web Authoring Tools

  Paul Browning offers a technical review of new approaches to Web publishing.

• WebWatch: How Accessible Are Australian University Web Sites?

  Dey Alexander reports on a recent study of the accessibility of Australian university Web sites.

• Unicode and Historic Scripts

  Deborah Anderson provides us an overview of the progress made in bringing historic scripts to the Unicode Standard.

• The Intellectual Property Rights Workshop

  William J. Nixon and Jessie Hey co-report on the JISC IPR workshop held in London, May 2003.

• Windows Explorer: The Index Server Companion

  Brett Burridge describes the Index Server Companion, an application he has created that allows Microsoft Index Server to index content from remote websites and ODBC databases.

• Content Management Systems: Who Needs Them?

  Paul Browning and Mike Lowndes explore the CMS concept and look at the available tools.

• It's the End of the World As We Know It (and I Feel Fine), Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the E-Book

  Sarah Ormes explores the e-book from a Public Libraries perspective.

• 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.

• SEAMLESS: Introduction to the Project

  Mary Rowlatt describes SEAMLESS, the Essex-based project.

• Metadata Corner: CrossROADS and Interoperability

  Michael Day, Rachel Heery and Andy Powell report on work in progress on enhancements to the ROADS software.

• 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.

• 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.

• Formats for the Electronic Library

  Judith Wusteman describes the document formats used in electronic serials.

• Open Peer Review & Argumentation: Loosening the Paper Chains on Journals

  Tamara Sumner and Simon Buckingham Shum of the Knowledge Media Institute of the Open University, describe the design and implementation of the Journal of Interactive Media in Education, and some of the issues behind the approach that this journal takes to the process of scholarly review.

• Securing HTML FORMs

  Jon Knight discusses some of the options available to the designers and implementors of HTML FORMs for providing authentication of users in a library environment.

• JILT: Journal of Information, Law and Technology

  Nicola Clare presents the case for an electronic journal in law.

• Netskills Corner: NCSA Mosaic Web Browser

  In this Netskills Corner, Brian Kelly describes a UK-Wide collaborative (combined directional Web and IRC chat-like system) meeting.