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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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The Tapir: Adding E-Theses Functionality to DSpace |
Richard Jones demonstrates how the Theses Alive Plugin for Institutional Repositories (Tapir) has provided E-Theses functionality for DSpace. |
October 2004, issue41, feature article |
The Video Active Consortium: Europe's Television History Online |
Johan Oomen and Vassilis Tzouvaras provide an insight into the background and development of the Video Active Portal which offers access to television heritage material from leading archives across Europe. |
October 2007, issue53, feature article |
Through the Web Authoring Tools |
Paul Browning offers a technical review of new approaches to Web publishing. |
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To VRE Or Not to VRE?: Do South African Malaria Researchers Need a Virtual Research Environment? |
Heila Pienaar and Martie van Deventer identify the requirements of a Virtual Research Environment (VRE) for malaria researchers in South Africa. |
April 2009, issue59, feature article |
Towards a Toolkit for Implementing Application Profiles |
Talat Chaudhri, Julian Cheal, Richard Jones, Mahendra Mahey and Emma Tonkin propose a user-driven methodology for the iterative development, testing and implementation of Dublin Core Application Profiles in diverse repository software environments. |
January 2010, issue62, feature article |
Towards a User-Centred Approach to Digital Libraries |
Ken Eason reports on the five themes in the Digilib Conference, Espoo, Finland. |
January 2004, issue38, event report |
Towards Virtualisation: A New Approach in Server Management |
Eddie Young provides an account of trials and implementations carried out here after Matt Thrower gives us the background and benefits of employing virtualisation. |
April 2007, issue51, feature article |
Turning Off Tap Into Bath |
Ann Chapman describes the lifecycle of a demonstrator database and the development of a preservation policy for its content and software. |
January 2011, issue66, feature article |
UK Reading Experience Database |
Bethan Ruddock reports from the launch event for the UK Reading Experience Database, held at the Betty Boothroyd Library, the Open University, Milton Keynes, on 24 February 2011. |
July 2011, issue67, event report |
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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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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Unix: What Is mod_perl? |
Ian Peacock explains mod_perl technology for supercharging the Apache Server. |
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Version Identification: A Growing Problem |
Dave Puplett outlines the issues associated with versions in institutional repositories, and discusses the solutions being developed by the Version Identification Framework (VIF) Project. |
January 2008, issue54, feature article |
Virtual Research Environments: Overview and Activity |
Michael Fraser provides an overview of the virtual research environment (VRE) and introduces three JISC-funded projects in which Oxford University is participating. |
July 2005, issue44, feature article |
Walk-in Access to e-Resources at the University of Bath |
Kate Robinson, Lizz Jennings and Laurence Lockton outline a low-cost solution to walk-in (visitor) access to licensed e-journals, drawing on their practice at the University of Bath with a wiki ERM and OPAC terminals. |
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Web 2.0 in U.S. LIS Schools: Are They Missing the Boat? |
Noa Aharony asks whether library and information science schools in the United States are underestimating the opportunities offered by Web 2.0 applications. |
January 2008, issue54, feature article |
Web Curator Tool |
Philip Beresford tells the story (from The British Library's perspective) of the development of new software to aid all stages of harvesting Web sites for preservation. |
January 2007, issue50, 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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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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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: 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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Web Focus: Let's Get Serious about HTML Standards |
Brian Kelly encourages authors to treat compliance with HTML standards seriously. |
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Web Focus: Must Email Die? |
Brian Kelly recently gave a talk on this subject at the Internet Librarian International 2005 conference. In this article he expands on the talk and revisits the question as to whether email really should disappear. |
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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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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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Web Focus: Report on the WWW 8 Conference |
Brian Kelly discusses WWW8 in Toronto, which took place in May 1999. |
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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 Watch: A Survey of Institutional Web Gateways |
Brian Kelly surveys institutional web gateways. |
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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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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 |
WebWatch: UK University Search Engines |
Brian Kelly explores the search facilities used by UK university Web sites. |
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What Is an Open Repository? |
Julie Allinson, Jessie Hey, Chris Awre and Mahendra Mahey report on the Open Repositories 2007 conference, held in San Antonio, Texas between 23-26 January 2007. |
April 2007, issue51, event report |
Wiki Or Won't He? A Tale of Public Sector Wikis |
Marieke Guy revisits a topic receiving considerable attention these days and reflects on wiki use by public organisations. |
October 2006, issue49, feature article |
Wikido: Exploiting the Potential of Wikis |
Marieke Guy reports on a one-day workshop, held in Birmingham in November 2006, which took a closer look at the potential of Wikis for educational institutions. |
January 2007, issue50, event report |
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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World Wide Web Conference 2004 |
Dave Beckett reports on the international WWW2004 conference held in New York, 19-21 May 2004. |
July 2004, issue40, event report |
ZOPE: Swiss Army Knife for the Web? |
Paul Browning looks at this multiple authoring environment. |
September 2000, issue25, feature article |