Newsflash 7th August! ARIADNE Focus Group at Libtech '97

Welcome to Issue 10 of Ariadne, launched at the end of Tuesday July 15th, 1997.

The big interview...
Clifford Lynch in interview: Clifford Lynch, the Executive Director of CNI, was interviewed by John Kirriemuir at the Metadata - what is it workshop on 18th June. Clifford shares some views on mirroring, caching, metadata, Z39.50 and how he sees his role in CNI.

The editorials for issue 10 of Ariadne.
Goodbyeee - Web editorial: The Web editor, John Kirriemuir bows out after ten issues...
Print editorial: John MacColl with the editorial from issue 10 of the print version.

The main articles from both the Web and print versions of Ariadne.
eLib: Changing the Lightbulb - er, the Culture: How many eLib projects does it take to change the higher education culture? Clare Davies, Alison Scammell and Matthew Hall discuss.
Cybercollege Scorecard - how does your University score?: Tony Durham, multimedia editor of the Times Higher Education Supplement, explains how to determine whether cultural change has affected your institute of learning....
Dublin Core Management: Andy Powell presents three models for the way in which metadata can be managed across a Web-site and describes some of the tools that are beginning to be used at UKOLN to embed Dublin Core metadata into Web pages.
Electronic Journals - problem or panacea?: Judith Edwards outlines some of the problems faced by academia in the acquisition and provision of electronic journals.
Electronic Document Delivery - a trial in an academic library: In the first of a two-part article, Fiona Williams describes the trials of various electronic document delivery systems in University of Bath Library and Learning Centre over the last few years. A review of the latest trial, between BL Urgent Action Service and TU DELFT, as well as an overall comparison with the Blackwell's Uncover Service will be given in the next issue of Ariadne.
Press Release - JISC/Caul collaboration agreement: Kelly Russell outlines the collaboration between JISC and CAUL, and announces the appointment of the post of International Co-ordinator.
Setting priorities for Digital Library research: Graham Jefcoate outlines the rationale of the British Library Research and Innovation Centre's Digital Library Research Programme.
Revolutionaries and captives in the Information Society: Trevor Haywood on the shackles that bind us to the information revolution.
Beyond the Web - the potential uses of HTML in library disaster control planning: During a lifelong library career, 2 out of 5 librarians will face a major disaster in their library. Emma Blagg describes the design and evaluation of a HTML-based disaster control plan, used to provide the counter measures taken to minimise the effects of such a disaster.
Copyright Management Technologies - the key to unlocking digital works?: Anne Ramsden brings us up to date with current developments in copyright management technology.

In the eLib section, we present descriptions of the progress of several projects, as written by the project teams.
ACORN implemented: Jon Knight and Richard Goodman describe the technical implementation of the ACORN system.
Education-line: Sam Saunders reports on a pre-print project for education professionals.
ERCOMS: The ERCOMS team explain the intricacies of their Electronic Reserve Copyright Management System project.
Netskills: Jill Foster brings us an update of one of the flagship eLib projects, which aims to train many thousands of HE staff on various aspects of networks and the Internet.

In this section, we invited the people behind several of the major Web-based resources for librarians (and, for that matter, academics, students and researchers), to tell us about what they have built and maintained, and how it is useful for people in the academic and research communities.
A Digital Library showcase and support service - the Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE: Roy Tennant describes a resource which is used to create digital libraries and services, and to help others do the same.
NISS - National Information Services and Systems: Annette Lafford and Oren Stone talk us through NISS, one of the major sources of on-line information for academics and librarians.
BUBL - how BUBL benefits academic librarians: Alan Dawson and Jan Simpson take us through BUBL, an old service recently transformed from being Gopher-based to Web-based.
The Library Association Web site: Alan Cooper and Finbarr Joy talk about the past, present and future of the Library Association Web Site.
r·cade: the Resource Centre for Access to Data on Europe: Sharon Bolton describes r-cade, an interdisciplinary resource centre that helps researchers and analysts to identify and acquire data for the European Social Sciences.
Access to newspapers and journals for visually impaired people - The Talking Newspaper Association of the UK: Neil H. McLachlan describes the work and electronic products of the Talking Newspaper Assocation (TNAUK).

In this section, we present columns that are written on a regular basis, for either just the Web, or for both the Web and print versions of Ariadne. From each article, you can move back and forth between articles written for the same column in other issues of Ariadne.
Planet SOSIG: The new SOSIG Interface: Tracey Hooper describes the new interface and features of SOSIG, the premier Web-based subject gateway for the Social Sciences.
OMNI-Corner: LA 97- "I don't think we're in Kansas anymore, Toto!": Sue Welsh, the globe-trotting OMNI project manager, presents a report of the 97th Annual Meeting of the Medical Library Association of the U.S.A, held in Seattle from 24th to 28th May, 1997.
The Librarian of Babel: The self-citation machine: The Librarian, talking to Mike Holderness, uncovers the true purpose of the World-Wide Web.
Public Libraries Corner - Stories from the Web: In this issue Sarah Ormes talks about an exciting new BLRIC funded children's library project.
Search Engines Corner - Keyword Spamming: Cheat Your Way To The Top: Tracey Stanley shows how metadata can be abused to enhance the search engine ranking of Web pages.
Interface: Dennis Nicholson: Chris Bailey finds a crusader at Strathclyde.
Metadata Corner: Working Meeting on Electronic Records Research: In the Metadata Corner for this issue, Michael Day reports from the Working Meeting on Electronic Records Research, held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from May 29-31, 1997.
View from the Hill: Chris Zielinski: John MacColl meets Chris Zielinski, a champion of authors' rights.
Minotaur: Gordon Dunsire - Metadata: to be, or not to be (catalogued): Gordon Dunsire thinks that all is not rosy in the garden that is metadata, and wonders how it can assist cataloguing in a real-world sense.
Web Focus corner - Technical aspects of copyright and the Web: in this article Brian Kelly reports on the TALiSMAN seminar on Copyright and the Web.
Down Your Way: Thames Valley University: Sarah Ashton stumbles across a new learning centre in the Thames Valley.
Around the Table: Film and Cinema: Frank Parry discusses some of the many possible sources for Internet information on film and cinema.

In this section, reports from conferences just passed, as well as previews of forthcoming conferences, are presented.
The horse that isn't there - 1997 US Digital Libraries Initiative meeting: Chris Rusbridge reports from the June 1997 US Digital Libraries initiative (DLi) meeting in Pittsburgh.
Netskills Corner: The 2^nd International Symposium on Networked Learner Support (NLS): In the Netskills Corner for this issue, Walter Scales summarises the 2^nd International Symposium on Networked Learner Support (NLS), held on the 23^rd and 24^th June 1997 in Sheffield.

The usual collection of the exotic and weird, such as a cartoon and the infamous caption competition.
Cartoon: The regular cartoon.
Caption Competition: The now infamous caption competition - in this issue, Norman Wiseman, JISC Head of Programmes, strikes a pose for us in a downtown restaurant (this page may prove distressing to any shellfish currently reading Ariadne).
Checkout: Reviews of Web sites and books of interest.
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