Buzz - Subject Gateway
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RDN Timeline
Debra Hiom provides a timeline of the RDN's development, which accompanies her main article. -
Retrospective on the RDN
Debra Hiom, in the first of a two-part series on the Resource Discovery Network, looks back at the development of the RDN and its activities to date. -
News from BIOME
Jenny Hall reports on recent news from BIOME, the Health and Life Sciences hub of the Resource Discovery Network . -
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. -
Delivering OAI Records As RSS: An IMesh Toolkit Module for Facilitating Resource Sharing
Monica Duke provides an overview of a means of providing records in RSS through the use of an IMesh Toolkit module that supports resource sharing. The content of this article was presented at the 4th Open Archives Forum Workshop -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 37: Monocultures Threaten More Than Species
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue issue 37. -
Experiences of Harvesting Web Resources in Engineering Using Automatic Classification
Kjell Jansson, Jessica Lindholm and Tomas Schoenthal describe the work in setting up a Web index that uses automatic classification as a means for the selection of resources. -
Planet SOSIG
Anne Dimond and Angela Joyce send further news from the planet of social sciences. -
Functionality in Digital Annotation: Imitating and Supporting Real-world Annotation
Richard Waller looks at both pre-digital and digital concepts of annotation, with a view to how annotation tools might be used in the subject-gateway environment. -
Building ResourceFinder
Pete Cliff looks at how the RDN has utilised the OAI Metadata Harvesting Protocol. -
Establishing a Digital Library Centre
John Kirriemuir outlines some of the issues for the establishment of digital library centres in UK Higher Education institutions. -
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. -
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. -
EEVL
Roddy MacLeod and Lesa Ng with some useful tips on Shoestring Marketing for projects. -
BIOME
Paula Manning reports on recent developments within BIOME, the health and life sciences hub of the Resource Discovery Network. -
Aerade
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RDN: Resource Discovery Network
Alistair Dunning reviews the launch of the RDN (Resource Discovery Network) -
Scientific, Industrial, and Cultural Heritage: A Shared Approach
Lorcan Dempsey presents a research framework for libraries, archives and museums prepared for the European Commission. -
An Overview of Subject Gateway Activities in Australia
Debbie Campbell looks at how the original criteria proposed for an IMesh map against these Australian initiatives. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 21: Ariadne's Thread
Introduction to Ariadne issue 21 by Philip Hunter. -
Web Focus: Report on the WWW 8 Conference
Brian Kelly discusses WWW8 in Toronto, which took place in May 1999. -
Editorial introduction to Issue 19: Ariadne's Thread
Philip Hunter and Bernadette Daly introduce the articles for Ariadne issue 19. -
Information Ecologies: Report of the eLib Conference
Philip Hunter reports on the eLib conference in York in December 1998, which explored a number of hybrid library, subject Gateway and copyright control issues. -
OMNI Corner: Information or Hysteria, "Talking sensibly" in the Biomedical Field
John Kirriemuir outlines current areas of concern in: Information or Hysteria? "Talking sensibly" in the biomedical field. -
Metadata: Cataloguing Theory and Internet Subject-based Information Gateways
Ann Chapman, Michael Day, and Debra Hiom compare library cataloguing concepts and ROADS Template creation. -
Subject-Based Information Gateways
Linda Kerr and Roddy MacLeod attended the recent CEI meeting at the Policy Studies Institute, London. -
The Good, the Bad and the Useless
Judith Edwards evaluates Internet resources. -
Metadata Corner: Naming Names - Metadata Registries
Rachel Heery examines metadata issues. -
Changing the Lightbulb – Er, the Culture: How Many eLib Projects Does It Take to Change the Higher Education Culture?
Clare Davies, Alison Scammell and Matthew Hall discuss what it takes to change Higher Education culture. -
Interface: Dennis Nicholson
Chris Bailey finds a crusader at Strathclyde: Dennis Nicholson. -
Metadata, PICS and Quality
Chris Armstrong looks at the possibility of a PICS application acting as a quality filter. -
Planet SOSIG: A New Internet Role for Europe's Librarians
Emma Worsfold describes the role and purpose of SOSIG, and launches a scheme where European Librarians can participate in adding relevant, quality content to this Social Science Gateway. -
Around the Table: Health and Medicine - What Can Medics Get Out of the Internet?
Sue Welsh of the eLib OMNI project visits some of the medical sites. -
OMNI Corner
In her regular appearance in Ariadne, Sue Welsh, introduces a new experiment in network indexing underway at OMNI. -
British Library Corner: Setting Priorities for Digital Library Research, The Beginnings of a Process?
Graham Jefcoate describes the background behind the recently announced British Library Research and Innovation Centre call for proposals in the field of digital library research. -
Wire: Interview with Jasper Tredgold
Jasper Tredgold is put under the virtual spotlight to answer a few questions via email.