Overview of content related to 'database'

John MacColl provides us with a report of EDINA's first general information event for the HE and FE communities held at the National E-Science Centre.

Stuart Hannabuss examines an interesting collection of essays and, with reservations, likes the second edition a lot more.

Andy Powell and Phil Barker explore the technical collaboration currently underway between the RDN and the LTSN and describe the RDN/LTSN LOM Application Profile and its use to support resource discovery.

Liz Pearce and Neil Smith introduce the IT for Me Project which aims to provide personalised access to online resources in South Yorkshire's public libraries.

This month Neil Jacobs reports on updates to the Regard service, Martin Poulter introduces a new Economics Assessment Bank and Emma Place highlights the programme of training and outreach conducted by SOSIG this spring.

Phil Bradley reviews and analyses recent criticisms of the giant and takes an objective view from a broader perspective.

Phil Cross, Debra Hiom and Emma Place report on this workshop which was held at the University of Bath in February 2004.

Michael Day gives us a detailed report on the ERPANET / CODATA Workshop held at the Biblioteca Nacional, Lisbon, 15-17 December 2003.

Alastair Dunning describes the changes afoot at the AHDS and how it intends to adapt to the changes in both technology and the needs of its stakeholders.

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.

Britta Woldering describes the findings of the recently completed EU Project The European Library, focusing on technical solutions and metadata development.

Phil Bradley takes us through the major trends and highlights in the world of search engines over the course of the past year.

Ken Eason reports on the five themes in the Digilib Conference, Espoo, Finland.

Lina Coelho looks at the work and lives of independent information professionals prepared to share their secrets for starting and running a research business.

John Blunden-Ellis provides a view of the material available to FE from GEsource, the RDN subject service for geography and environment.

Emma Place gives an insight into the pitfalls that await new users of the Internet in their search for relevant and quality materials and explains how SOSIG has catered for the needs of both FE students and practitioners.

Penny Garrod brings us up to date on developments in ebooks.

William Nixon provides an overview of the DAEDALUS initial experience with the GNU EPrints and DSpace software and the decision to employ both.

Phil Bradley gives us an overview of emerging, new and newly discovered search engines that we might want to keep an eye on as they develop.