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Augmented Reality in Education: The SCARLET+ Experience
Laura Skilton, Matt Ramirez, Guyda Armstrong, Rose Lock, Jean Vacher and Marie-Therese Gramstadt describe augmented reality in education case studies from the University of Sussex and the University for the Creative Arts.
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Developing a Prototype Library WebApp for Mobile Devices
Jason Cooper and Gary Brewerton describe the development of a prototype WebApp to improve access to Library systems at Loughborough University for mobile devices.
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The Wellcome Library, Digital
Christy Henshaw and Robert Kiley describe how the Wellcome Library has transformed its information systems to support mass digitisation of historic collections.
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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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Redeveloping the Loughborough Online Reading List System
Jon Knight, Jason Cooper and Gary Brewerton describe the redevelopment of Loughborough University’s open source reading list system.
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Walk-in Access to e-Resources at the University of Bath
Kate Robinson, Lizz Jennings and Laurence Lockton outline a low-cost solution to walk-in (visitor) access to licensed e-journals, drawing on their practice at the University of Bath with a wiki ERM and OPAC terminals.
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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. -
MyMobileBristol
Mike Jones, Simon Price, Nikki Rogers and Damian Steer describe the rationale, aims and progress of MyMobileBristol, highlighting some of the challenges and opportunities that have arisen during the project. -
Piloting Web Conferencing Software: Experiences and Challenges
Julian Prior and Marie Salter report on their experiences piloting Elluminate Live! at the University of Bath. -
Internet Librarian International Conference 2010
Claire Tylee, Katrin Flemming and Elly Cope report on the two-day Internet Librarian International Conference focusing on innovation and technology in the information profession, held in London on 14-15 October 2010. -
Intute Reflections at the End of an Era
Angela Joyce, Linda Kerr, Tim Machin, Paul Meehan and Caroline Williams look back at the history and achievements of Intute, and reflect on lessons learned as the service enters its final year. -
Volcanic Eruptions Fail to Thwart Digital Preservation - the Planets Way
Matthew Barr, Amir Bernstein, Clive Billenness and Manfred Thaller report on the final Planets training event Digital Preservation - The Planets Way held in Rome over 19 - 21 April 2010. -
Abstract Modelling of Digital Identifiers
Nick Nicholas, Nigel Ward and Kerry Blinco present an information model of digital identifiers, to help bring clarity to the vocabulary debates from which this field has suffered. -
Intranet Management: Divine Comedy or Strategic Imperative?
Martin White suggests that a failure to recognise the value of intranets is a symptom of a failure to recognise information as a strategic asset. -
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. -
Missing Links: The Enduring Web
Alexandra Eveleigh reports on a workshop on Web archiving, organised by the DPC, JISC and UKWAC at the British Library on 21 July 2009. -
OAI-ORE, PRESERV2 and Digital Preservation
Sally Rumsey and Ben O'Steen describe OAI-ORE and how it can contribute to digital preservation activities. -
The Second Life of UK Academics
John Kirriemuir introduces a series of studies investigating how the Second Life environment is being used in UK Higher and Further Education. -
Capacity Building: Spoken Word at Glasgow Caledonian University
Iain Wallace, Graeme West and David Donald give an account of the origins, nature and establishment of Spoken Word Services at Glasgow Caledonian University. -
Citeulike: A Researcher's Social Bookmarking Service
Kevin Emamy and Richard Cameron describe a tool that helps researchers gather, collect and share papers. -
The JISC Annual Conference 2007
Philip Pothen and colleagues provide an overview of the proceedings of this Spring's JISC Annual Conference. -
Limits to Information Transfer: The Boundary Problem
Jon E. Lervik, Mark Easterby-Smith, Kathryn Fahy and Carole Elliott discuss the challenges in integrating knowledge across boundaries between specialised knowledge communities within an organisation. -
Introducing UnAPI
Dan Chudnov and a team of colleagues describe unAPI, a tiny HTTP API for serving information objects in next-generation Web applications. -
Digitising an Archive: The Factory Approach
Duncan Burbidge describes a new approach to digitising an archive both as a future-proof substitute and for Web delivery. -
QMSearch: A Quality Metrics-aware Search Framework
Aaron Krowne and Urvashi Gadi present a framework which improves searching in the context of scholarly digital libraries by taking a 'quality metrics-aware' approach. -
Accessibility Testing and Reporting With TAW3
Patrick Lauke gives a run-down of the free TAW3 tool to aid in accessibility testing of Web pages. -
Excuse Me... Some Digital Preservation Fallacies?
Chris Rusbridge argues with himself about some of the assumptions behind digital preservation thinking. -
Web 2.0: Building the New Library
Paul Miller explores some of the recent buzz around the concept of 'Web 2.0' and asks what it means for libraries and related organisations. -
Opening Up OpenURLs with Autodiscovery
Daniel Chudnov, Richard Cameron, Jeremy Frumkin, Ross Singer and Raymond Yee demonstrate a 'gather locally, share globally' approach to OpenURLs and metadata autodiscovery in scholarly and non-scholarly environments. -
Web Focus: Using Collaborative Technologies When on the Road
Brian Kelly argues that since conference delegates now expect to be able to read email on the road, there are additional technologies which might enhance our effectiveness when away from the office. -
Advanced Collaboration With the Access Grid
Michael Daw describes the Access Grid system and its claim to be an Advanced Collaboration Environment. -
Mozilla Firefox for Rapid Web Development and Testing
Patrick Lauke takes a quick look at Firefox, the new browser released by the Mozilla Foundation, and points out useful features and extensions for Web developers. -
Cornucopia: An Open Collection Description Service
Chris Turner describes the latest phase of Cornucopia development and the opportunities this is opening up for the future. -
Web Focus: The Web on Your TV
Brian Kelly takes a look at a digital TV box which provides Web and email access in your living room. -
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. -
The European Library: Integrated Access to the National Libraries of Europe
Britta Woldering describes the findings of the recently completed EU Project The European Library, focusing on technical solutions and metadata development. -
Web Focus: Improving the Quality of Your HTML
Brian Kelly outlines a strategy for fixing the most important HTML resources on a Web site. -
ECDL-2003 Web Archiving
Michael Day reports on the 3rd ECDL Workshop on Web Archives held in Trondheim, August 2003. -
EEVL News
Roddy MacLeod describes how EEVL is putting RSS to work. -
Towards a Typology for Portals
Paul Miller looks at some of the services we call portals, and argues for better words to describe them. -
Mapping the JISC IE Service Landscape
Andy Powell provides a graphical representation of how some well-known services, projects and software applications fit within the JISC Information Environment technical architecture. -
Web Focus: WWW 2003 Trip Report
Brian Kelly writes on the recent WWW 2003 conference and outlines some of the latest Web developments. -
Access Management: The Key to a Portal - The Experience of the Subject Portals Project
Francisco Pinto and Michael Fraser report on the experience of the Subject Portals Project. -
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. -
What Features in a Portal?
Geoff Butters analyses the features found in various types of portal, and includes a comparison with the planned features for the JISC Subject Portals. -
Book Review: The Library and Information Professional's Guide to Plug-ins and Other Web Browser Tools
Book review by Ruth Martin. -
The Personalisation of the Digital Library
Michelle Perrott and Anne Ramsden report on the Joint Open University - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya Seminar on Personalisation and Digital Libraries hosted at the Open University, October 2002. -
Web Focus: Interfaces to Web Testing Tools
Brian Kelly looks at interfaces to Web testing tools, and in particular at Bookmarklets - simple extensions to browsers which enhance functionality. -
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. -
Utilizing E-books to Enhance Digital Library Offerings
Shirley Hyatt and Lynn Silipigni Connaway, describe the rationale and background of OCLC's acquisition of netLibrary, the information environment that is being pursued, and the resulting benefits that libraries may experience. -
Web Focus: Let's Get Serious about HTML Standards
Brian Kelly encourages authors to treat compliance with HTML standards seriously. -
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. -
Internet 2 Spring Member Meeting
John Paschoud reports on an Internet2 meeting, Arlington, Virginia, 6th – 8th May 2002, which discussed Networks, Applications and Middleware. -
Search Engines
Phil Bradley's regular column on search engine technology. -
The JISC Information Environment and Web Services
Andy Powell and Liz Lyon look at possible relationships between the Web Services idea and earlier ideas about seamless access to information. -
Web Focus: Guidelines for URI Naming Policies
Brian Kelly with some guidelines For URI naming policies in his regular column. -
Web Focus: Mobile E-Book Readers
Brian Kelly, UK Web Focus, writes about Mobile E-Book Readers in his regular column. -
Web Watch: Carrying Out Your Own Web Watch Survey
Brian Kelly describes how you can carry out your own WebWatch benchmarking survey across your own community. -
Information Skills and the DNER: The INHALE Project
Margaret Weaver describes the work of the Information for Nursing and Health in a Learning Environment (INHALE) Project team. -
OpenResolver: A Simple OpenURL Resolver
Andy Powell describes UKOLN's OpenResolver, a freely available demonstration OpenURL resolver. -
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. -
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG): Vector Graphics for the Web
David Duce discusses the World Wide Web Consortium's Scalable Vector Graphics markup language for 2 dimensional graphics. -
Hylife: Ten Steps to Success
Peter Wynne, Catherine Edwards and Maureen Jackson, on some important aspects of running a Hybrid Library Project. -
Metadata (1): Encoding OpenURLs in DC Metadata
Andy Powell and Ann Apps propose a mechanism for embedding machine parsable citations into Dublin Core (DC) metadata records. -
The Future Is Hybrid: Edinburgh
John MacColl and Philip Hunter report on 'The Future is Hybrid' project day in Edinburgh. -
Web Watch: What's Related to My Web Site?
What's Related To My Web Site? Brian Kelly looks at Netscape's 'What's Related?' facility and reports on the service's findings for institutional Web servers. -
Clumps Come Up Trumps
Helena Gillis, Verity Brack, John Gilby and Marian Hogg review the four eLib CLUMP projects now at the end of their funding periods. -
Web Focus: The Web On Your Phone and TV
Brian Kelly looks at the Web Beyond the PC. -
The Klearinghouse: An Inventory of Knowledge Technologies
George Brett discusses part of a model of distributed user support, The Klearinghouse. The National Laboratory for Applied Network Research (NLANR) has been actively supporting high performance applications and networking for the past five years. The Klearinghouse is a next generation effort of the Advanced Applications Clearinghouse which is in the Distributed Applications Support Team of the NLANR. -
Web Focus: Institutional Web Management Workshop - The Joined Up Web
Brian Kelly reports on the "Institutional Web Management Workshop: The Joined-Up Web" event, held in Bath. -
ZOPE: Swiss Army Knife for the Web?
Paul Browning looks at this multiple authoring environment. -
How the Oxford English Dictionary Went Online
Laura Elliot explains the use of SGML in the management of the OED text. -
Library Resource Sharing and Discovery: Catalogues for the 21st Century
Ariadne reports on the highlights of the recent Glasgow CLUMPS one day conference -
Metadata: I Am a Name and a Number
Paul Miller on Digital Object Identifiers. -
Convergence of Electronic Entertainment and Information Systems
John Kirriemuir explores the technology and impact of expanding internet access. -
EPRESS
Stuart Peters on EPRESS text management software tools, currently in development. -
A Free ISP from the British Library
Brian Kefford outlines the services available from the British Library. -
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. -
Planet SOSIG: Asking Questions - The CASS Social Survey Question Bank
Adam Guy writes about the Question Bank service. -
Unix: What Is mod_perl?
Ian Peacock explains mod_perl technology for supercharging the Apache Server. -
Web Cache: Clashing with Caching?
Ruth Jenkins explores some cache related issues for Library and Information Services -
Web Focus: Report on "Institutional Web Management Next Steps" Workshop
Brian Kelly reports on the latest "Institutional Web Management Workshop," this year called: "The Next Steps." -
Windows NT Explorer
Brett Burridge on Internet Information Server (IIS 4.0) -
Windows NT Explorer
Brett Burridge discusses Active Server Pages (ASP) - one of the most useful facilities provided by Windows NT server. -
Editorial introduction to Issue 19: Ariadne's Thread
Philip Hunter and Bernadette Daly introduce the articles for Ariadne issue 19. -
Minotaur: From Mac to Linux and Back?
Tony Grant on why a former Macintosh fan has fallen for Linux. -
Unix and the Web: Providing Web Access to Your Email
Brian Kelly introduces a regular column on Unix and Web issues by describing how a combination of Apache, PHP and IMP can make email folders available using a web browser. -
Web Focus: Extending Your Browser
Brian Kelly on techniques for extending the capabilities of your browser. -
What Is Apache?
Eddie Young gives the essentials of "Apache", the widely used Unix-based web server software. -
Internet Detective: BA Students Get on the Case
Emma Worsfold and Debra Hiom introduce their "Internet Detective" online tutorial, and BA students from the final year Information Management BA at Queen Margaret College, Edinburgh, review the site. -
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. -
SGML, XML and Databases
Stephen Emmott reports on a one day meeting in London -
Metadata: BIBLINK.Checksum
Ian Peacock and Andy Powell describe a proposed algorithm for calculating a checksum for Web pages. -
VERITY
Panayiotis Periorellis and Walter Scales writes about the VERITY European Telematics Project. -
What Are Document Management Systems?
Brian Kelly explains the concept of document management systems. -
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. -
The Good, the Bad and the Useless
Judith Edwards evaluates Internet resources. -
Web Focus: Ways of Exploiting New Technologies
Brian Kelly discusses Intermediaries: Ways Of Exploiting New Technologies. -
Project Patron
Elizabeth Lyon and Jon Maslin describe this JISC eLib Programme project (Performing Arts Teaching Resources Online). -
The Access Catalogue Gateway to Resources
Terry Hanson explores how libraries might develop effective ways of indicating their access arrangements to their users. -
What Is XML?
Brian Kelly elucidates another infuriating three letter acronym: XML. -
Electronic Resource Creation and Management at Scottish Universities
Dennis Nicholson and Martin Smith describe the Catriona II project. -
Planet SOSIG: Regard
Sue Timmis introduces REGARD, a new research database now available on the World Wide Web. -
Search Engines Corner: Meta-search Engines
Tracey Stanley discusses the next level up from conventional search engines in the 'information food chain', which provide a sophisticated approach to searching across a number of databases. -
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. -
What Is RDF?
Rachel Heery explains RDF (Resource Description Framework) -
What Is an Intranet?
Glen Monks explains the buzz word: intranet. -
Down Your Way: The Radcliffe Science Library
Sarah Ashton meets the Deputy Keeper of the Scientific Book, Dave Price. -
Search Engines Corner: Moving Up the Ranks
Tracey Stanley looks at how search engines rank their results. -
Knight's Tale: The Hybrid Library - Books and Bytes
Jon Knight gives his personal view on the fashionable concept of a 'hybrid library'. -
ACORN Implemented
Jon Knight and Richard Goodman describe the technical implementation of the ACORN system. -
Beyond the Web: The Potential Uses of HTML in Library Disaster Control Planning
During a lifelong library career, 2 out of 5 librarians will face a major disaster in their library. Emma Blagg describes the design and evaluation of a HTML-based disaster control plan, used to provide the counter measures taken to minimise the effects of such a disaster. -
Clifford Lynch in Interview
Clifford Lynch, the Executive Director of CNI, was interviewed by John Kirriemuir at the Metadata: What Is It? workshop on 18 June 1997. Clifford shares some views on mirroring, caching, metadata, Z39.50 and how he sees his role in CNI. -
Copyright Management Technologies: The Key to Unlocking Digital Works?
Anne Ramsden brings us up to date with current developments in copyright management technology -
Dublin Core Management
Andy Powell presents three models for the way in which metadata can be managed across a Web site and describes some of the tools that are beginning to be used at UKOLN to embed Dublin Core metadata into Web pages. -
Education-Line
Sam Saunders reports on a pre-print project for education professionals. -
REDD: Regional Electronic Document Delivery Service
Chris Taylor provides details on an Australian electronic document delivery service that is based on standard Internet protocols. -
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. -
The Librarian of Babel: The Key to the Stacks
The Librarian, ably assisted by Mike Holderness, considers one of the obstacles to the unhindered dissemination of human knowledge, and makes a modest proposal. -
Wire: Interview Via Email With Jon Knight and Martin Hamilton
In this interview we question Knight and Martin Hamilton and present their replies. -
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. -
Search Engine Corner
Tracey Stanley looks at 'Push', where a network-based service 'pushes' information to your machine, rather than you 'pulling' information from the service. -
Wire: Interview with Icarus Sparry
In his own words, Icarus Sparry tells us how what he is doing at the University of Bath, as well as revealing his own opinions on various aspects of networking, such as firewalls and network charging. -
Acrobat a High Flyer: John MacColl Discusses the Success of Adobe Acrobat and PDF
Acrobat a High Flyer: John MacColl discusses the success of Adobe Acrobat and PDF. -
Intelligent Searching Agents on the Web
Tracey Stanley describes Web-based Intelligent Searching Agents, and takes a closer look at a few examples you may wish to play with. -
Interface: Les Carr Interview
Steve Hitchcock and Les Carr of the Open Journal Project link up with Ian Budden. -
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. -
MIDAS: Manchester Information, Datasets and Associated Services
Anne McCombe describes a service that provides a wide range of datasets to the wider communities. -
Minotaur
In Minotaur, the collective voice of Internet enthusiasts is countered by words of scepticism or caution. In this issue, Mike Holderness gives a few worrying examples of how much people outside the western hemisphere are behind us in terms of on-line resources. -
Wire: Interview with Nick Gibbins
Nick Gibbins is put under the virtual spotlight to answer a few questions via email. -
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. -
EDINA: WWW, Z39.50 and All That!
Peter Burnhill gives a briefing note on what EDINA and the Data Library are doing about the World Wide Web (W) and the Z39.50 Protocol (Z). -
Elib Technical Issues Concertation Day
Clare McClean describes a day given over to the more technical issues arising from the Electronic Libraries Programme. -
How to Grow Gossamer and Keep It Untangled
George Munroe describes the experiences in establishing a large institutional web site. -
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. -
Open Journal Trip Report
Open Journal trip report: Jon Knight visits the Open Journals eLib project to investigate what research they are undertaking into electronic journal architecture and navigation. -
British Library Corner: Text and the Internet
Graham Jefcoate, a Research Analyst from the British Library Research and Innovation Centre will be writing this regular column for the remaining issues of Ariadne. In this issue, Graham gives us the text of his Libtech talk: Text and the Internet. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 5
The editor introduces Ariadne issue 5. -
Lotus Eaters On-Line: Forming an Alliance Between Groupware and the Web in a Pre-Prints System
Dan Fleming, co-director of the eLib 'Formations' project and lecturer in media studies at the University of Ulster, looks at some of the issues involved in adding value to a pre-prints system by using groupware such as Lotus Notes. -
Metadata for the Masses
Paul Miller describes Dublin Core and several ideas for how it can be implemented. -
Open Journals
Steve Hitchcock describes the Open Journals project. This involves the use of an innovative approach to handling the hyperlinks between Web-based resources, which could have significant implications for on-line journals and publishing. -
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. -
Web4Lib: The Library Web Manager's Electronic Discussion List
Roy Tennant, Project Manager of the Digital Library Research & Development at the University of California, Berkeley, describes the Web4Lib mailing list, an electronic discussion forum for library Web managers. -
Wire: Interview with Jasper Tredgold
Jasper Tredgold is put under the virtual spotlight to answer a few questions via email. -
Cashing in on Caching
Jon Knight and Martin Hamilton describe Caching, possibly the most crucial tool available to frequent Web users, and point out why libraries should be aware of it. -
Centre for Database Access Research (CEDAR): The Huddersfield Connection
Steve Pollitt describes the history and research behind CEDAR, the Centre for Database Access Research, which specialises in work on the design of interfaces for information retrieval systems. -
Wire: Brian Kelly
Brian Kelly is put under the virtual spotlight to answer a few questions via email on his past, present, and thoughts on matters networking. -
ADAM: Information Gateway to Resources on the Internet in Art, Design, Architecture and Media
Nearly half a year after the project’s official start date, ADAM has a fledgling information gateway to information on the Internet in art, design, architecture and media. Tony Gill, ADAM Project Leader, outlines what has been achieved so far, and some of the challenges that lie directly ahead. -
Mailbase Reviewed
Terry Hanson reviews the mother of academic mailing list systems in the UK. -
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'?). -
URL Monitoring Software and Services
Paul Hollands describes and compares tools to help you notice when a Web-based resource has been updated. -
From the Trenches: Network Services on a Shoestring
Jon Knight describes how Linux is a cheap and useful operating system for library systems units and the like. -
Netskills: A Major Training Programme
The Netskills Team explain how the need for training has never been greater. -
Spotlight on BIDS
BIDS is put under the spotlight by Isobel Stark, a BIDS trainer amongst other things, who gives us her thoughts on one of the UK's most well-known networking services. Linked from this article are responses from BIDS people. -
Wire: Email Interview with Chris Lilley
Chris Lilley submits to an interview by email. -
Wire: Email Interview with Traugott Koch
Traugott Koch submits to an interview by email.