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A database is a system intended to organize, store, and retrieve large amounts of data easily. It consists of an organized collection of data for one or more uses, typically in digital form. One way of classifying databases involves the type of their contents, for example: bibliographic, document-text, statistical. Digital databases are managed using database management systems, which store database contents, allowing data creation and maintenance, and search and other access. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Database)
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Research Elsewhere |
John Kirriemuir gives calls attention to articles describing research of interest elsewhere. |
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Croatian Libraries: The War Is Behind Us, What Brings the Future? |
Croatian Libraries: "The war is behind us, what brings the future?": Jadranka Stojanovski, the head of the Rudjer Boskovic Institute Library, describes the post-war progress made in implementing IT and networks in Croatian Libraries. |
September 1996, issue5, feature article |
Net Gains for Digital Researchers |
Amy Friedlander, the editor of D-Lib, looks at, and towards, some of the benefits of the Web and digital technology towards how we do and present research. |
September 1996, issue5, feature article |
PICK: Library and Information Science Resources on the Internet |
In 1995, the Thomas Parry Library, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, won funding for PICK, a project to build a gateway to quality resources in the LIS field. Here, Andrew Cox describes this gateway, and reviews the project's achievements at the end of the first year. |
September 1996, issue5, project update |
BIDS Hits the Web |
Isobel Stark takes a look at the soon to be released trial BIDS web interface. |
September 1996, issue5, project update |
Putting the UK on the Map |
Peter Burden of the University of Wolverhampton's School of Computing and Information Technology describes the history behind his clickable maps of the UK, an essential and well established (though unfunded) resource for quickly locating academic and research Web sites. |
September 1996, issue5, project update |
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. |
September 1996, issue5, project update |
HELIX |
Ruth Glynn outlines the HELIX project, one of the new Images projects from the eLib programme. |
September 1996, issue5, project update |
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. |
September 1996, issue5, project update |
The International Institute for Electronic Library Research: A New Kid on the Block |
Marilyn Deegan describes the International Institute for Electronic Library Research, a significant new centre of research based at De Montfort University. |
September 1996, issue5, project update |
FDTL: The Fund for the Development of Teaching and Learning |
Gerry Taggart gives a brief outline of this HEFCE funded programme of projects geared towards teaching and learning using IT. |
September 1996, issue5, project update |
The SURF Foundation |
Jaqueline Pieters describes the evolution of the SURF Foundation, a major IT co-ordination service for the Dutch academic sector. |
September 1996, issue5, project update |
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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CAUSE / EFFECT |
Julia A. Rudy, Cause/Effect Editor and Director of Publications at CAUSE, an international, nonprofit professional association for managers and users of information resources on college and university campuses, describes CAUSE/EFFECT. |
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Wire: Interview with Jasper Tredgold |
Jasper Tredgold is put under the virtual spotlight to answer a few questions via email. |
September 1996, issue5, regular column |
InfoSeek Ultra: (Yet Another) Web Search Engine |
Tracey Stanley looks at InfoSeek Ultra, a new search engine which claims to allow searching on a index of 50 million Web pages. |
September 1996, issue5, regular column |
OMNI-corner: Patient Information on the Web – Doctor on Your Desktop? |
Sue Welsh, the OMNI maintainer, examines the perils of using the Internet as a substitute for your local family practitioner. |
September 1996, issue5, regular column |
Around the Table |
Around the Table: Sheona Farquhar looks at sites in science and engineering. |
September 1996, issue5, regular column |
Review: The Student's Guide to the Internet by Ian Winship and Alison McNab |
Ian Winship and Alison McNab publish cut-price guide, aimed at all students, to the Internet. |
September 1996, issue5, news and events |
How to Grow Gossamer and Keep It Untangled |
George Munroe describes the experiences in establishing a large institutional web site. |
November 1996, issue6, feature article |
Infopolecon |
John Lindsay comments on the evolution of the UK network infrastructure, and the problems arguably generated along the way. |
November 1996, issue6, feature article |
ACORN |
Paula Kingston outlines the ACORN project, which aims to develop a transferable model for the whole process of providing electronic access to short loan journal articles. |
November 1996, issue6, project update |
MIDRIB |
Julian Cook describes a major database of medical images. |
November 1996, issue6, project update |
ADAM: Bits and Pieces |
Tony Gill presents a few bits and pieces of news regarding the ADAM project which was featured in issue 3 of Ariadne. |
November 1996, issue6, project update |
Lessons Learned from Developing and Delivering the BORGES Information Filtering Tool |
Alan Smeaton discusses the development and implementation of BORGES, an information filtering service for WWW pages and USENET news. |
November 1996, issue6, project update |
The BNBMARC Currency Survey |
Ann Chapman describes the BNBMARC Currency Survey, a performance measurement survey on the supply of bibliographic records. |
November 1996, issue6, project update |
ILRT: The Institute for Learning and Research Technology |
Gillian Austen, External Relations Manager at the recently founded Institute for Learning and Research Technology at the University of Bristol, gives an overview of its structure and objectives. |
November 1996, issue6, project update |
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). |
November 1996, issue6, project update |
Access V Holdings, Cranfield |
Sarah Ashton reports on an event of interest to the Document Delivery community. |
November 1996, issue6, event report |
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. |
November 1996, issue6, event report |
Elib Technical Issues Concertation Day |
Clare McClean describes a day given over to the more technical issues arising from the Electronic Libraries Programme. |
November 1996, issue6, event report |
Ticer Summer School on the Digital Library at Tilburg University, The Netherlands |
Robert van der Zwan describes a two week summer school in digital library developments at one of Europe's main research centres in this field. |
November 1996, issue6, event report |
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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Copyright Battles: The Shetland News |
Charles Oppenheim takes a look at the Shetland Times versus Shetland News copyright case, and its implications for users of the World Wide Web. |
November 1996, issue6, regular column |
Yahoo: UK and Ireland |
Tracey Stanley takes a good look at a new version of an old index, Yahoo, which is aimed at the UK and Ireland. |
November 1996, issue6, regular column |
OMNI-Corner: Meeting the Visible Human |
Sue Welsh reports from the Visible Human Project Conference of October 1996, an event that brought together many of the people involved with one of the most high profile Internet-based medical resources. |
November 1996, issue6, regular column |
Interface Miriam Drake: A Rainy Night in Georgia? |
The Library is still busy, as Miriam Drake explains to Alison Kilgour. |
November 1996, issue6, regular column |