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Editorials

The Digital Library Jigsaw: Philip Hunter opens the box and looks at some of the choicest pieces.

Main Articles


After the Big Bang: the forces of change and e-learning Pete Johnston examines what recent developments in the area of "e-learning" might mean for the custodians of the information resources required to support teaching and learning.
The filling in the PIE - HeadLine's Resource Data Model: John Paschoud explains the concepts of representation and use of metadata in the Resource Data Model (RDM) that has been developed by the HeadLine project.
The Digital Preservation Coalition: Neil Beagrie reports on proposals to establish a Digital Preservation Coalition in the UK.
e-Books for Students: EBONI: Ruth Wilson on how the EBONI project will investigate the usability of e-books through user evaluations.
Ancient World, Digital World: Excavation at Halif: Paul Jacobs on how field and research strategies were impacted significantly by the use of digital technology in the 1999 field season at Tell Halif, Israel (the Lahav Research Project).
Distributed Computing - the Seti@home project: Eddie Young and Pete Cliff look at a particularly successful example of a distributed solution to a very large number crunching problem.
Hylife: Ten steps to success: Peter Wynne, Catherine Edwards and Maureen Jackson, on some important aspects of running a Hybrid Library Project.
The LEODIS Database: Jonathan Kendal on the creation of LEODIS, a Public Libraries sector digitization and database project.

Regular Columns

Search Engines: Robots, spiders and your website: Phil Bradley looks at the effect these have on your site's vital statistics.
Planet SOSIG: Debra Hiom and Angela Joycewith more updates on the Social Sciences Gateway, including a new range of European sites.
EEVL: Roddy McLeod and Lesa Ng with some useful tips on 'Shoestring Marketing' for projects.
BIOME : Paula Manning reports on feedback received on the BIOME Service and how the service will develop in response.
Metadata (1): Encoding OpenURLs in DC metadata: Andy Powell and Ann Apps propose a mechanism for embedding machine parsable citations into Dublin Core (DC) metadata records.
Metadata (2): Towards consensus on educational metadata: Paul Miller describes the work of the UK's new cross-sectoral Metadata for Education Group (MEG) and calls for widespread support of their first deliverable - the MEG Concord.
Public Libraries 'Lights Out and Silver Boots On': Sarah Ormes with her predictions for the future of Public Libraries and the Internet.

Get Tooled-up

Web Focus: HTML is Dead Brian Kelly explains why this is, and why it is a good thing.
Web Watch: What's Related To My Web Site? Brian Kelly looks at Netscape's 'What's Related?' facility and reports on the service's findings for institutional Web servers.

At the Event


'The Future is Hybrid': Jim Strom and others provide streaming video of some of the sessions from 'The Future is Hybrid' day in Manchester held in February 2001.
'The Future is Hybrid': John MacColl and Philip Hunter report on 'The Future is Hybrid' project day in Edinburgh.

Odds and Ends


Cartoon: The regular Campbell cartoon
The Caption Competition
Newsline: News you can use.
Book Review: Michael Day reviews Christine Borgman's 'From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure'.
Checkout Archive: An archive of reviews of Web sites and books of interest.
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