The editorial for issue 19.
Ariadne's Thread: Philip Hunter and Bernadette Daly introduce the articles for Ariadne issue 19.

The main articles for Ariadne.
SEAMLESS: Mary Rowlatt describes this Essex based project
Meta-Objects: Matthew Dovey outlines an Object Oriented approach to metadata.
Instructional Management Systems: John MacColl explores the IMS concept in the context of the SELLIC project.
Web Research: Browsing Video Content: Peter Thomas, UWE and Peter Macer of Hewlett Packard Research Laboratories describe automated techniques for browsing video content.

From each article, you can move back and forth between articles written for the same column in other issues of Ariadne.

The DISinHE Centre: Ian Webb introduces the DISinHE centre.
The Web Editor: Institutional Troubleshooter: Stephen Emmott describes his experiences of content management at King's College London.
Caching In: ....?: George Neisser, in a new regular column, describes the National JANET Web Caching Service.
Minotaur: From Mac to Linux and Back?: Tony Grant on why a former Macintosh fan has fallen for Linux.
Search Engine Corner: Phil Bradley reviews recent developments with search engines.
Planet SOSIG: Internet Resources for Social Scientists: Pete Maggs on finding high quality Internet resources for social science and methodology, based on his experience as a SOSIG Section Editor.
OMNI Corner: John Kirriemuir outlines current areas of concern in: Information or Hysteria? "Talking sensibly" in the biomedical field.
EEVL Eye on Engineering: The EEVL Team explore Internet Resources in Petroleum Engineering and Electronics, take a glance at engineering resources in Australia and South East Asia and give the latest news from the EEVL service.
Biz/Ed Bulletin: Kate Sharp and Libby Miller describe Business and Economics Resources on the Internet.
Metadata: Image retrieval: combining content-based and metadata-based approaches: a report by Michael Day.

This section contain articles exploring technical developments and practical issues.
What Is...?: Eddie Young gives the essentials of "Apache", the widely used Unix-based web server software.
Windows NT Explorer: Brett Burridge introduces his regular column on Windows NT with a description of Site Server's search facility.
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.
Web Focus corner: Extending Your Browser: Brian Kelly on techniques for extending the capabilities of your browser.
WebWatch: Conclusions From The WebWatch Project: Brian Kelly sums up.

Reports from conferences just passed, as well as previews of forthcoming conferences, are presented.
BOBCATSSS 99: Christine Dugdale reports on the recent conference (this article also appears in issue 1 of Ariadne's sister magazine Exploit Interactive).
Information Ecologies: Philip Hunter reports on the eLib conference in York in December 1998, which explored a number of hybrid library, subject Gateway and copyright control issues.

The regular cartoon and other items.
Cartoon: The regular cartoon.
Checkout: Reviews of Web sites and books of interest.
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