Buzz - Programming Language
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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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CURATEcamp iPres 2012
Mark Jordan, Courtney Mumma, Nick Ruest and the participants of CURATEcamp iPres 2012 report on this unconference for digital curation practitioners and researchers, held on 2 October 2012 in Toronto.
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 67: Changes Afoot
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 67. -
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. -
Mobilising the Internet Detective
Diana Massam, Andrew Priest and Caroline Williams describe a recent project to adapt the online Internet Detective tutorial, to deliver a user-friendly mobile site which reflects their market research into user preferences for mobile content. -
How to Publish Data Using Overlay Journals: The OJIMS Project
Sarah Callaghan, Sam Pepler, Fiona Hewer, Paul Hardaker and Alan Gadian describe the implementation details that can be used to create overlay journals for data publishing in the meteorological sciences. -
dev8D: JISC Developer Happiness Days
Julian Cheal reports on the 5-day JISC's Developer Happiness Days event held at Birckbeck College, London over 16 - 21 February 2009. -
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: Mastering Regular Expressions, 3rd Edition
Emma Tonkin and Greg Tourte take a look at the new edition of an O'Reilly classic. -
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. -
Building OAI-PMH Harvesters With Net::OAI::Harvester
Ed Summers describes Net::OAI::Harvester, the Perl package for easily interacting with OAI-PMH repositories as a metadata harvester. Ed provides examples of how to use Net::OAI::Harvester to write short programs which execute each of the 6 OAI-PMH verbs. -
DSpace Vs. ETD-db: Choosing Software to Manage Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Richard Jones examines the similarities and differences between DSpace and ETD-db to determine their applicability in a modern E-theses service. -
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. -
An IMS Generator for the Masses
Kelvin Hai, David Palmer and Chris Dunlop of the MARTINI Project describe the architecture and operation of the Project-developed IMS Generator and show how its flexibility allows it to handle the diverse nature of data held by institutions. -
Domesday Redux: The Rescue of the BBC Domesday Project Videodiscs
Jeffrey Darlington, Andy Finney and Adrian Pearce describe the groundbreaking BBC Domesday Project of 1986, and explain how its unique multimedia collection has been preserved. -
Portals, Portals Everywhere
Ian Dolphin, Paul Miller and Robert Sherratt report on two conferences over the summer which explored the progress being made in deploying institutional portals of various forms. -
WWW2002 Here
Libby Miller sends notes from the WW2002 conference in Hawaii. -
Windows NT Explorer: Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
Brett Burridge investigates the use of the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), the XML-based protocol that is taking a leading role in the emerging area of Web Services. -
The LEODIS Database
Jonathan Kendal on the creation of LEODIS, a Public Libraries sector digitization and database project. -
Unix: What Is mod_perl?
Ian Peacock explains mod_perl technology for supercharging the Apache Server. -
Windows NT Explorer
Brett Burridge discusses Active Server Pages (ASP) - one of the most useful facilities provided by Windows NT server. -
Web Focus: Animate Your Pages
Brian Kelly gives an introduction to Dynamic HTML, explaining recent developments that enable dynamic web pages to be produced using simple scripting languages such as Javascript. -
ACORN Implemented
Jon Knight and Richard Goodman describe the technical implementation of the ACORN system. -
Formats for the Electronic Library
Judith Wusteman describes the document formats used in electronic serials. -
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. -
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.