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The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology. Before the term open source became widely adopted, developers and producers used a variety of phrases to describe the concept; open source gained hold with the rise of the Internet, and the attendant need for massive retooling of the computing source code. Opening the source code enabled a self-enhancing diversity of production models, communication paths, and interactive communities. Subsequently, the new phrase "open-source software" was born to describe the environment that the new copyright, licensing, domain, and consumer issues created. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Open source)
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Editorial introduction to Issue 19: Ariadne's Thread |
Philip Hunter and Bernadette Daly introduce the articles for Ariadne issue 19. |
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Minotaur: From Mac to Linux and Back? |
Tony Grant on why a former Macintosh fan has fallen for Linux. |
March 1999, issue19, regular column |
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: Report on the WWW 8 Conference |
Brian Kelly discusses WWW8 in Toronto, which took place in May 1999. |
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Unix: What Is mod_perl? |
Ian Peacock explains mod_perl technology for supercharging the Apache Server. |
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Web Focus: Report on "Institutional Web Management Next Steps" Workshop |
Brian Kelly reports on the latest "Institutional Web Management Workshop," this year called: "The Next Steps." |
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WebWatch: UK University Search Engines |
Brian Kelly explores the search facilities used by UK university Web sites. |
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Electronic Publication of Ancient Near Eastern Texts |
Charles E. Jones and David Schloen report on a Chicago conference which explored XML tagging for Ancient Near Eastern Texts on the Web. |
December 1999, issue22, feature article |
Web Watch: A Survey of Institutional Web Gateways |
Brian Kelly surveys institutional web gateways. |
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Review: in the Beginning... Was the Command Line |
Madeleine Shepherd reviews 'In the Beginning... was the Command Line' by Neal Stephenson. |
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ZOPE: Swiss Army Knife for the Web? |
Paul Browning looks at this multiple authoring environment. |
September 2000, issue25, feature article |
Web Focus: Institutional Web Management Workshop - The Joined Up Web |
Brian Kelly reports on the "Institutional Web Management Workshop: The Joined-Up Web" event, held in Bath. |
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Web Focus: The Web On Your Phone and TV |
Brian Kelly looks at the Web Beyond the PC. |
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Web Focus: Hot News From WWW10 |
Brian Kelly reports on the Tenth International World Wide Web Conference, held in Hong Kong on 1-5 May 2001. |
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The JOIN-UP Programme: Seminar on Linking Technologies |
Sandy Shaw reports on a seminar bringing together experts in the field of linking technology for JISC's JOIN-UP Programme. |
June 2001, issue28, event report |
Subject Portals |
Judith Clark describes a three-year project to develop a set of subject portals as part of the Distributed National Electronic Resource (DNER) development programme. |
October 2001, issue29, feature article |
Open Archiving Opportunities for Developing Countries: Towards Equitable Distribution of Global Knowledge |
Leslie Chan and Barbara Kirsop explore some of the implications of using the OAI Protocol. |
January 2002, issue30, feature article |
Building ResourceFinder |
Pete Cliff looks at how the RDN has utilised the OAI Metadata Harvesting Protocol. |
January 2002, issue30, feature article |
Content Management Systems: Who Needs Them? |
Paul Browning and Mike Lowndes explore the CMS concept and look at the available tools. |
January 2002, issue30, feature article |
The Concept of the Portal |
Paul Miller gives his personal view of the portal and its varieties, both in the wild and on the drawing board. |
January 2002, issue30, feature article |
Web Watch: An Update On Search Engines Used In UK Universities |
Brian Kelly with an Update On Search Engines Used In UK Universities. |
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Electronic Theses and Dissertations: A Strategy for the UK |
by John MacColl considers a strategy for electronic theses and dissertations in the United Kingdom. |
July 2002, issue32, feature article |
Planet SOSIG |
Debra Hiom with a report which covers: the launch of Citizenship Past; a new VTS Tutorial for European Studies; and an update on the SOSIG Portals Project. |
July 2002, issue32, regular column |
Web Focus: Report On The Sixth Institutional Web Management Workshop |
Brian Kelly with a report on the Sixth Institutional International Web Management Workshop held this year at the University of Strathclyde. |
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UM.Sitemaker: Flexible Web Publishing for Academic Users |
Jonathan Maybaum explains how UM.SiteMaker was designed to fill an important gap in the array of tools to suit academic publishing. |
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Open Archive Forum Workshop: Creating a European Forum on Open Archives |
Ariadne reports on the Open Archives Forum's First Workshop: Creating a European Forum on Open Archives. Pisa, 13-14 May 2002. CNR, Pisa. |
July 2002, issue32, event report |
Climbing the Scholarly Publishing Mountain With SHERPA |
John MacColl and Stephen Pinfield explore the SHERPA project, which is concentrating on making e-prints available online. |
October 2002, issue33, feature article |
Web Focus: Let's Get Serious about HTML Standards |
Brian Kelly encourages authors to treat compliance with HTML standards seriously. |
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Windows Explorer: The Index Server Companion |
Brett Burridge describes the Index Server Companion, an application he has created that allows Microsoft Index Server to index content from remote websites and ODBC databases. |
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Portals, Portals Everywhere |
Ian Dolphin, Paul Miller and Robert Sherratt report on two conferences over the summer which explored the progress being made in deploying institutional portals of various forms. |
October 2002, issue33, event report |
Exposing Information Resources for E-learning |
Steve Richardson and Andy Powell on Harvesting and searching IMS metadata using both the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, and the Z39.50 Protocol. |
January 2003, issue34, feature article |
DAEDALUS : Freeing Scholarly Communication at the University of Glasgow |
William J. Nixon presents a brief overview of the DAEDALUS Open Archives Project at the University of Glasgow. |
January 2003, issue34, feature article |
Public Libraries: Creating Websites for E-citizens -The Public Library Web Managers Workshop 2002 |
Penny Garrod reports on the Public Library Web Managers workshop, November 2002, held in Bath. |
January 2003, issue34, event report |
Web Focus: Interfaces to Web Testing Tools |
Brian Kelly looks at interfaces to Web testing tools, and in particular at Bookmarklets - simple extensions to browsers which enhance functionality. |
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Access Management: The Key to a Portal - The Experience of the Subject Portals Project |
Francisco Pinto and Michael Fraser report on the experience of the Subject Portals Project. |
April 2003, issue35, feature article |
Web Focus: A Standards-Based Culture for Web Site Development |
Brian Kelly outlines strategies for choosing appropriate standards for building Web sites. |
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Six MLEs: More Similar Than Different |
Paul Browning offers a technical review of the systems developed by the JISC 'Building MLEs in HE' (7/99) Programme |
July 2003, issue36, feature article |
WebWatch: An Update on Search Engines Used in UK University Web Sites |
Brian Kelly provides an update of his survey of search engines used in UK Universities. |
July 2003, issue36, regular column |
Metadata Wanted for the Evanescent Library |
John MacColl reports on Schemas and Ontologies: Building a Semantic Infrastructure for the GRID and Digital Libraries: a one-day workshop at the e-Science Institute, May 2003. |
July 2003, issue36, event report |
The Intellectual Property Rights Workshop |
William J. Nixon and Jessie Hey co-report on the JISC IPR workshop held in London, May 2003. |
July 2003, issue36, event report |
