This Time the Cavalry Showed Up
Domesday Redux: The rescue of the BBC Domesday
Project videodiscs
Jeffrey Darlington, Andy
Finney and Adrian Pearce describe the
groundbreaking BBC Domesday Project of 1986, and explain how its
unique multimedia collection has been preserved.
Developing the JISC Information Environment
Service Registry
Verity Brack and Amanda
Closier provide us with an overview of the aims and
latest work in the development of the JISC IE Service
Registry.
Mapping the JISC IE service landscape
Andy Powell gives a graphical
representation of how well-known services and projects fit within
the JISC Information Environment technical architecture.
eBank UK: Building the links between research
data, scholarly communication and learning
Liz Lyon describes some new digital library development
activities and considers the implications of linking research and learning
outputs in an environment of assured data provenance.
Six MLEs - more similar than different
Paul Browning offers a technical review of the systems
developed by the JISC 'Building MLEs in HE' (7/99)
Programme
An IMS Generator for the Masses
Kelvin Hai, David Palmer
and Chris Dunlop
of the MARTINI Project describe the
architecture and operation of the Project-developed IMS Generator
and its ability to handle the diverse nature of data held by
institutions.
The RoMEO Project: Protecting metadata in an
open access environment
Elizabeth Gadd, Charles
Oppenheim and Steve Probets describe
how the RoMEO Project is seeking to safeguard freely available
metadata disclosed and harvested under the OAI Protocol for
Metadata Harvesting.
Just a Distraction?: External content in
institutional portals
Ruth Martin and Liz Pearce
reflect on stakeholders' views of external resources within
institutional portals and highlight the findings of recent PORTAL
Project research.
MIMAS Ten Years On
Julia Chruszcz looks at the ten years of MIMAS
as a JISC-designated national data centre.
Framework for the Future: Access
to digital skills and services
Penny Garrod examines further this government blueprint
and argues that some have to walk before they can run.
Planet SOSIG
Debra Hiom highlights some new events,
publications and services in the social sciences and Andy
Hargrave introduces recent developments for FE in the
Bized Service.
EEVL News and Enhancements
Roddy MacLeod and Lesa Ng
provide us with the news and developments from EEVL.
News from BIOME
Donald Mackay, Rod Ward and
Jenny Hall provide us with the first of
a series of bulletins on developments within the BIOME area of
activity.
Search Engines: Weblog search
engines
Phil Bradley looks at the developments
occurring with weblogs and how you can go about searching on or
for them.
Web Focus: WWW 2003 Trip Report
Brian Kelly writes on the recent WWW 2003
conference and outlines some of the latest Web
developments.
WebWatch: An Update on Search Engines Used
in UK University Web Sites
Brian Kelly provides an update of his survey of
search engines used in UK Universities.
Metadata Wanted for the Evanescent
Library
John MacColl reports on Schemas and Ontologies:
Building a Semantic Infrastructure for the GRID and Digital
Libraries: a one-day workshop at the e-Science Institute, May
2003.
The Intellectual Property Rights
Workshop
William J Nixon and Jessie Hey
co-report on the JISC IPR workshop held in London, May
2003.
The 7th Institutional Web Management
Workshop
Catherine Ewart gives us her view of IWMW
2003, University of Kent, June 2003.
The Bath Profile Four Years On:
What's being done in the UK?
Fraser Nicolaides gives us his take on the
conference to review the implementation of the Bath Profile in
the UK, July 2003
Newsline: News you can use.
Annual Review of Information Science and
Technology, Volume 36, 2002.
Michael Day takes a detailed look at the
structure and content of this hardy annual.
Naked in Cyberspace
Marieke Guy taps into our increasing
collective paranoia about privacy with a review that explores the
use of personal information in the Cyber Age.
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Philip Hunter reviews a CD-ROM edition of
one of William Blake's most famous works.
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