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Metadata can be defined literally as "data about data," but the term is normally understood to mean structured data about digital (and non-digital) resources that can be used to help support a wide range of operations. These might include, for example, resource description and discovery, the management of information resources (including rights management) and their long-term preservation. In the context of digital resources, there exists a wide variety of metadata formats. Viewed on a continuum of increasing complexity, these range from the basic records used by robot-based Internet search services, through relatively simple formats like the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set (DCMES) and the more detailed Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) header and MARC formats, to highly specific formats like the FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata, the Encoded Archival Description (EAD) and the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) Codebook. (Excerpt from this source)
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The 4th WWW Conference in Boston |
Debra Hiom and John Kirriemuir provide an informal report from the "cutting edge" of Web development. |
January 1996, issue1, feature article |
What's Good and Bad about BUBL |
Traugott Koch reviews the Bulletin Board for Libraries (BUBL). |
January 1996, issue1, feature article |
Report on the 'Networked Information in an International Context' Conference |
Chris Bailey at the "Networked Information in an International Context" conference. |
March 1996, issue2, event report |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 3 |
John Kirriemuir, Editor, introduces the Web version of Ariadne. |
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Meta Detectors |
Lorcan Dempsey talks about metadata and the development of resource discovery services in the UK. |
May 1996, issue3, feature article |
ROADS: Resource Organisation and Discovery in Subject-Based Services |
Rachel Heery, the ROADS Research Officer, describes this project from the Access to Network Resources area of the Electronic Libraries Programme. The deliverables of this project will constitute a large portion of the underlying software for most of the other projects in the same programme area, as well as other eLib and non-eLib projects, and therefore is one of the more crucial facets of the overall programme. |
May 1996, issue3, project update |
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. |
May 1996, issue3, project update |
Wire: Dave Beckett, Interviewed |
Dave Beckett is subjected to an interview via email. |
May 1996, issue3, regular column |
Copyright Corner |
Charles Oppenheim on the copyright issues that all eLib (and many other projects) should be aware of. |
May 1996, issue3, regular column |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 4: Changes to Ariadne and How to Read the Web Version |
The editor explains changes in Ariadne format. |
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Serving the Arts and Humanities |
Dan Greenstein gives an extensive description of AHDS, the Arts and Humanities Data Service: its objectives, organisation, and how the data will be collected, preserved and described.. |
July 1996, issue4, feature article |
ResIDe: Electronic Reserve for UK Universities |
Tessa Bruce describes an electronic reserve system at the University of the West of England. |
July 1996, issue4, project update |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 5 |
The editor introduces Ariadne issue 5. |
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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. |
September 1996, issue5, project update |
Metadata for the Masses |
Paul Miller describes Dublin Core and several ideas for how it can be implemented. |
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Down Your Way: Edge Hill University |
Alison Kilgour checks out the network facilities at Edge Hill College. |
September 1996, issue5, regular column |
MIDRIB |
Julian Cook describes a major database of medical images. |
November 1996, issue6, project update |
10th Annual Anglo-Nordic Seminar |
Kelly Russell from the eLib programme describes this seminar, which heavily featured speakers and current issues relevant to the UK digital libraries movement. |
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 |
OMNI Seminar |
Debra Hiom reports from the second annual OMNI seminar. |
January 1997, issue7, event report |
Networking Moving Images |
Anne Mumford summarises the meeting organised by the British Universities Film and Video Council at the National Film Theatre on 18 December 1996, which looked into the problems and issues surrounding using academic networks for multimedia applications. |
January 1997, issue7, feature article |
MIDAS: Manchester Information, Datasets and Associated Services |
Anne McCombe describes a service that provides a wide range of datasets to the wider communities. |
January 1997, issue7, project update |
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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Print Editorial: Introduction to Issue 8 |
John MacColl with the editorial for the Print version of Ariadne issue 8. |
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MODELS: MOving to Distributed Environments for Library Services |
Rosemary Russell shows how MODELS are built from clumps. |
March 1997, issue8, project update |
RUDI: Resource for Urban Design Information Services |
Alan Reeve maps out a new site in urban design. |
March 1997, issue8, project update |
WoPEc: Electronic Working Papers in Economics Services |
Thomas Krichel describes WoPEc, a working papers project. |
March 1997, issue8, project update |
The Resource Discovery Project |
As Renato Iannella shows, the Resource Discovery project at the DSTC in Australia is investigating issues to do with information discovery and access across large heterogeneous networks. |
March 1997, issue8, project update |
Preserving Oral History Recordings |
Colin Webb and Kevin Bradley look at some of the practical realities, and implications, of introducing digital technology into the sound preservation functions of the National Library of Australia. |
March 1997, issue8, project update |
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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Down Your Way: The Natural History Museum |
John Kirriemuir takes in megabytes of trilobites at the Natural History Museum. |
March 1997, issue8, regular column |
Down Under With the Dublin Core |
Paul Miller and Tony Gill offer a view of the recent Dublin Core metadata workshop in the Australian capital, Canberra. |
March 1997, issue8, event report |
Beyond the Beginning: The Global Digital Library |
Hazel Gott introduces a major Digital Library event, taking place this June in London. |
March 1997, issue8, event report |
MIDRIB: Beyond Clip Art for Medicine |
Betsy Anagnostelis and Sue Welsh describe the recent launch of the MIDRIB (Medical Images Digitised Reference Information Bank) project, and describe the medical image resource the project will create. |
May 1997, issue9, feature article |
Never Mind the Quality, Check the Badge-Width! |
Alison McNab, Betsy Anagnostelis and Alison Cooke compare and contrast the methods used to identify and indicate which Internet-based resources are of high "quality". |
May 1997, issue9, feature article |
The Future of Digitising at the State Library of Victoria, Australia |
Catherine Herman and Indra Kurzeme discuss the multimedia source project, set within the context of the pro-multimedia State of Victora, Australia. |
May 1997, issue9, project update |
