Plumbing the Digital Library: Philip Hunter on recent UKOLN developments, and the contents of issue 24.
Interoperability: Paul Miller explains what it is and why you should want it.
Text Encoding for Interchange: a new Consortium: Lou Burnard on the creation of the TEI Consortium which has been created to take the TEI Guidelines into the XML world.
In Vision: Ann Chapman on the Internet as a resource for visually impaired people: a survey of accessible sites, resources, current research and software.
Theory and Practice of the Virtual University: Neil Pollock and James Cornford report on UK universities use of new technologies.
Adaptive developments for learning in the hybrid library: Wilma Alexander on the SELLIC Project and its aim to support the use of electronic resources in teaching science and engineering.
How the Oxford English Dictionary went online: Laura Elliot explains the use of SGML in the management of the OED text.
Agora - from information maze to market: Bridget Robinson, David Palmer and Rosemary Russell outline the Agora cross-searching software project, and its technical background.
JSTOR usage: Alison Murphy reports on the JSTOR electronic journals project continuing success.
Search Engines: Phil Bradley explores search engine ranking techniques.
Planet SOSIG: Heather Dawson with news of the recently merged 'Social Science Librarians Group'.
EMC: EEVL News Nuggets: and EMC Update: Roddy MacLeod and Linda Kerr with news relating to the EMC Hubs.
BIOME: Paula Manning reports on recent developments within BIOME, the health and life sciences hub of the Resource Discovery Network.
Metadata: 'I am a name and a number.' Paul Miller on Digital Object Identifiers.
Public Libraries: Linda Berube on the Longitude project, designed to test a toolkit of qualitative survey methodologies to assess user needs in the digital library.
Web Focus: Brian Kelly reports on the WWW9 conference, held in Amsterdam, in May 2000.
Web Watch: How many web servers are there in the UK Higher Education community? Brian Kelly provides some answers.
Bringing Coherence to Networked Information for the New Century: Gillian Austen reports on the JISC-CNI conference at Stratford, UK,14-16th of June.
Library Resource Sharing and Discovery: Catalogues for the 21st Century: Ariadne reports on the highlights of the recent Glasgow CLUMPS one day conference
JASPER FE meeting: Martin Hamilton reports on the recent JASPER one day meeting on the expansion of JISC services to cover the FE community.
Ariadne is published every three months by UKOLN. UKOLN is funded by Resource: the Council for Museums, Archives Libraries (the organisation succeeding the Library and Information Commission), the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) of the Higher Education Funding Councils, as well as by project funding from the JISC and the European Union. UKOLN also receives support from the University of Bath where it is based. Material referred to on this page is copyright Ariadne/original authors. This page last updated/links checked 27-June-2000
