Overview of content related to 'data'

The University of Bath concluded an agreement to sign over the ownership of BIDS to a new organisation known as ingenta ltd, while still retaining a substantial share. Terry Morrow looks at the implications of the change, and reviews the latest developments in the services offered.

Linda Kerr and Roddy MacLeod attended the recent CEI meeting at the Policy Studies Institute, London.

Ariadne visits the University of Abertay Dundee's new library.

Brian Kelly asks, does 'web editor' mean Unix guru or an HTML coder?

Michael Day on a Biodiversity conference in the States interested in Metadata.

Panayiotis Periorellis and Walter Scales writes about the VERITY European Telematics Project.

Planet SOSIG: Exploring Planet SOSIG: Law, Statistics and Demography: Janette Cochrane, Sue Pettit and Wendy White. Planet SOSIG continues its review of the main SOSIG subject sections, highlighting the resources that the Internet can offer to those working in the different fields of the social sciences.

Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

Alan MacDougall on cost effective ways of widening access.

Lyndon Pugh and Chris Rusbridge on the National Library of Australia's ILL utility.

Phil Cross presents the first of an occasional series of articles looking at individual subsections within SOSIG. Phil has been the section editor for Environmental Sciences for the past year and gives a description of the types of resources users can expect to find in this rapidly expanding field.

Brian Kelly discusses Intermediaries: Ways Of Exploiting New Technologies.

Michael Day reports from Kew on the Public Record Office view of the Brave New World of online archives.

Elizabeth Lyon and Jon Maslin describe this JISC eLib Programme project (Performing Arts Teaching Resources Online).

Lyndon Pugh interviews Anne Mumford, head of JISC ASSIST.

Matthew Dovey reports on the RDF seminar held in the Stakis Hotel, Bath.

Christine Baldwin describes work so far on the Superjournal project which set out to study factors which make e-journals successful and useful to academia.

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

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.