Key Technologies for the development of the Digital Library Philip Hunter with the editorial for Ariadne 29.

An introduction to Web Services: Tracy Gardner introduces web services - self-describing applications which can be discovered and accessed over the web by other applications.
Architects of the Information Age: Paul Miller reports on a recent UKOLN-organised event at the Office of the e-Envoy, and explores the need for an architecture to scope what we build online.
Subject Portals: Judith Clark describes a 3-year project to develop a set of subject portals - part of the Distributed National Electronic Resource (DNER) development programme.
Managing electronic library services: current issues in UK Higher Education institutions: Stephen Pinfield surveys some of the key issues associated with delivering electronic library services.
Creating a Digital Library Centre: John Kirriemuir outlines some of the issues for the establishment of digital library centres in UK Higher Education institutions.
Migration: a Camileon discussion paper: Paul Wheatley explores migration issues for the long-term preservation of digital materials.
Evolution of Portable Electronic Books: Ruth Wilson charts the development of portable electronic book hardware, from the first generation in 1980s to the range of handheld devices available today.
The People's Network and the learning revolution: building the NOF Digitize programme: Susi Woodhouse brings us up to date with developments.
Collective Convergence - the work of the Collection Description Focus: Pete Johnston and Bridget Robinson outline the work of the Collection Description Focus.

Search Engines: Phil Bradley looks at Country and Regional Search Engines.
NT Explorer: Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP): Brett Burridge investigates the use of the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), the XML-based protocol that is taking a leading role in the emerging area of Web Services.
Planet SOSIG: Louise Woodcock introduces the new European Studies section for SOSIG and Helen Wharam provides an update on the Resource Guide for the Social Sciences.

Web Focus: Report on the Fifth Institutional Web Management Workshop: Brian Kelly, UK Web Focus, with his regular column.
Web Watch: Carrying out your own WebWatch Survey: Brian Kelly describes how you can carry out your own WebWatch benchmarking survey across your own community.

ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries: John MacColl reports on a selection of the papers given at this conference in Roanoake, Virginia, June 24-28 2001.
Digital Developments Amidst the Tulips and Windmills: Christine Dugdale reports on the Digital Library course run as part of the annual Summer School at the Tilburg Innovation Centre for Electronic Resources (TICER B.V.). Netherlands, August 2001.
Managing Digital Video Content: Manjula Patel reviews the two-day workshop on current and emerging standards for managing digital video content held in Atlanta, Georgia, 15-16 August 2001.
Developing an agenda for institutional e-print archives: Philip Hunter, John MacColl and Marieke Napier report on a one day Open Archives conference on OAI compliant metadata and e-print issues. Held at the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, London. 11 July 2001.
Beyond the Online Tutorial: Ariadne reports on a one day JISC workshop in Edinburgh on pedagogical issues for projects developing resources for the DNER. (30 August)

Cartoon: The regular Malcolm Campbell cartoon.
The famous Ariadne Caption Competition.
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C4U: Andrew Cox and Simon McLean review this web-monitoring software.
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