Cultivating Interoperability and Resource-Sharing: Philip Hunter with the editorial for Ariadne 34

Sharing history of science and medicine gateway metadata using OAI-PMH: David Little outlines the resource sharing arrangements between the MedHist gateway and the Humbul hub, using the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, and some of the issues it has raised.
Cultural Heritage Language Technologies: Building an Infrastructure for Collaborative Digital Libraries in the Humanities: Jeffrey Rydberg-Cox describes the work of the Cultural Heritage Language Technologies consortium, a research group funded by the European Comission Information Society Technologies program and the United States National Science Foundation Digital Libraries Initiative.
Exposing information resources for e-learning: Steve Richardson and Andy Powell on Harvesting and searching IMS metadata using both the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, and the Z39.50 Protocol .
Exploring Charging Models for Digital Cultural Heritage: Simon Tanner and Marilyn Deegan.
DAEDALUS : Freeing Scholarly Communication at the University of Glasgow: William J. Nixon presents a brief overview of the DAEDALUS Open Archives Project at the University of Glasgow.

Public Libraries: Creating websites for e-citizens: the Public Library Web Managers workshop, November 2002, held in Bath. A report by Penny Garrod.
Planet SOSIG - Social Science Case Studies: Dave Boyd provides an update on SOSIG’s involvement in the new RDN FE case studies project, and on developments within the Geography and Environmental Sciences subject sections.
EEVL: Search Me!: Roddy MacLeod supplies guidance on the large range of available EEVL search options.

Web Focus: Interfaces to Web Testing Tools: Brian Kelly looks at interfaces to Web testing tools, and in particular at Bookmarklets - simple extensions to browsers which enhance functionality.
Web Watch: A survey of Web server software used by UK University Web sites: Brian Kelly with an update of his survey of server software used by central Web sites in UK Universities.

The 2nd Workshop on the Open Archives Initiative (OAI): William Nixon and Pauline Simpson report on the meeting held at CERN, Geneva, in October 2002.
Hidden Treasures: the impact of moving image and sound archives in the 21st Century: Philip Hunter reports on the one day meeting on multimedia objects in the British Library, London, October 2002.
The Personalisation of the Digital Library: Michelle Perrott and Anne Ramsden report on the Joint Open University - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya Seminar on Personalisation and Digital Libraries hosted at the Open University, October 2002.

Book Review: The Digital Factor in Information and Library Services: International Yearbook of Library and Information Management 2002-2003 - [Ed. G E Gorman]: reviewed by Bruce Royan.
Book Review: e-learning and teaching in library and information services - [Barbara Allan]: reviewed by John Paschoud.
Book Review: The Library and Information Professional's Guide to Plug-ins and Other Web Browser Tools [Candice M. Benjes-Small and Melissa L. Just]: reviewed by Ruth Martin.
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