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The 'Tooled Up' section in Ariadne explains technologies of interest to information professionals.
- Total number of 'tooled up' items in all Ariadne issues: 105
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Netskills Corner |
Netskills corner - Brian Kelly, Senior Trainer at Netskills, reviews Internet Explorer, Microsoft's Browser for Windows 95. |
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From the Trenches: HTML, Which Version? |
In From the Trenches, a regular column which delves into the more technical aspects of networking and the World Wide Web, Jon Knight, programmer and a member of the ROADS team, takes a look at the causes of good and bad HTML and explains what tags we should be marking up Web pages with. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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'?). |
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From the Trenches: Networking (Notworking?) CD-ROMS |
Jon Knight on the perils and problems of networking CD ROMs. |
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URL Monitoring Software and Services |
Paul Hollands describes and compares tools to help you notice when a Web-based resource has been updated. |
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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. |
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Netskills Corner: Redesigning Your Web Pages? |
Brian Kelly gives some sensible advice on designing (or, as is more likely, redesigning) Web pages. |
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Netskills Kit 1 |
Walter Scales describes the rationale behind, and development of, the first Netskills Training Kit. |
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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. |
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Netskills Corner: Beneath the Surface of Your Web Pages |
Brian Kelly looks beneath the surface of HTML pages and provides advice on the design of the underlying directory structure. |
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Metadata for the Masses |
Paul Miller describes Dublin Core and several ideas for how it can be implemented. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Controlling Access in the Electronic Library |
Andy Powell and Mark Gillet discuss methods of electronic authentication. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Making a MARC With Dublin Core |
Jon Knight revisits his Perl module for processing MARC records that was introduced in the last issue and adds UNIMARC, USMARC and a script that converts Dublin Core metadata into USMARC records. |
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Introducing Web Focus |
UK Web Focus - a strange job title. What is it? What does it do? In this article Brian Kelly describes his role as UK Web Focus, his previous involvement with the Web and his work as the JISC representative on the World Wide Web Consortium. |
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From MERCI to DESIRE: European Digital Library Projects |
Dave Hartland writes the Netskills Corner column for this edition. In it, he provides a brief overview of some of the EU-funded Telematics for Research projects. |
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Performance and Security: Notes for System Administrators |
Performance and Security - Notes for System Administrators: Andy Powell offers some hints and tips on the performance and security aspects of running electronic library services on UNIX based machines. |
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Metadata, PICS and Quality |
Chris Armstrong looks at the possibility of a PICS application acting as a quality filter. |
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Extending Metadata for Digital Preservation |
Michael Day suggests how the concept of metadata could be extended to provide information in the specific field of digital preservation. |
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Internationalisation and the Web |
Jon Knight looks at how the Web is currently undergoing the sometimes painful internationalization process required if it is to live up to its name of the World Wide Web. |
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Web Focus: Report on the WWW 6 Conference |
Brian Kelly describes the sixth International World Wide Web conference which took place in California from 7 – 11 April 1997. |
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Netskills Corner: The Evolution of HTML - Netscape Gold |
Niall Mackenzie looks at using Netscape Gold for a more automated manner of Web page production. |
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Showing Robots the Door |
Ian Peacock explains how web robot access to your site can be controlled. |
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What Is XML? |
Brian Kelly elucidates another infuriating three letter acronym: XML. |
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What Are XLink and Xpointer? |
Brian Kelly explains XLink and XPointer. |
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What Is Apache? |
Eddie Young gives the essentials of "Apache", the widely used Unix-based web server software. |
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Windows NT Explorer |
Brett Burridge introduces his regular column on Windows NT with a description of Site Server's search facility. |
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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. |
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Web Focus: Extending Your Browser |
Brian Kelly on techniques for extending the capabilities of your browser. |
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WebWatch: Conclusions from the WebWatch Project |
Brian Kelly sums up conclusions from the WebWatch Project. |
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Windows NT Explorer |
Brett Burridge discusses Active Server Pages (ASP) - one of the most useful facilities provided by Windows NT server. |
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The Unix Column: 'Sandboxes Using Chroot' |
Ian Peacock explains how the proliferation of network software brings increasing concerns about security, which can be countered by 'restricted perspectives'. |
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Web Focus: Report on the WWW 8 Conference |
Brian Kelly discusses WWW8 in Toronto, which took place in May 1999. |
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Web Mirror: The National Mirror Service |
Sally Hadland on the New National Mirror Service. |
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Web Watch: 404s, What's Missing? |
Brian Kelly discusses 404 'not found' messages, and why you don't always get the same one. |
