- The Quality of Metadata is not Strained
- The AHDS is Evolving: Changes at the Arts and Humanities
Data Service
- Alastair Dunning describes the changes afoot at the AHDS
and how it intends to adapt to the changes in both technology and the needs
of its stakeholders.
- The JISC 5/99 Programme: What's in a number?
- Rachel Bruce and Balviar Notay give an
overview of the outputs and influences of the JISC 5/99 Learning and Teaching
and Infrastructure Programme.
- Improving the Quality of Metadata in Eprint Archives
- Marieke Guy, Andy Powell and Michael
Day address the argument that the quality of service to end-users
is markedly influenced by the quality of metadata being produced and provide
suggestions.
- Building OAI-PMH Harvesters with Net::OAI::Harvester
- Ed Summers describes Net::OAI::Harvester, the Perl package
for easily interacting with OAI-PMH repositories as a metadata harvester.
Ed provides examples of how to use Net::OAI::Harvester to write short programs
which execute each of the 6 OAI-PMH verbs.
- The Portole Project: Supporting e-learning
- Tracey Stanley, Mina Sotiriou and Matthew
Dovey provide an overview of a project to produce tools to discover
information resources and deploy them within a university VLE.
- The European Library: Integrated Access to the National
Libraries of Europe
- Britta Woldering describes the findings of the recently
completed EU Project The European Library, focusing on technical solutions
and metadata development.
- DSpace vs. ETD-db: Choosing software to manage electronic
theses and dissertations
- Richard Jones examines the similarities and differences
between DSpace and ETD-db to determine their applicability in a modern E-theses
service.
- What the Resource Discovery Network is Doing for Further
Education
- Mark Williams highlights some of the services that the
RDN provides for the benefit of FE users.
Each RDN Hub has written about its plans in this area:
Altis | Artifact
| BIOME | EEVL | GESource
| Humbul | SOSIG | PSIgate
- Public Libraries: 2003, 2004: A backward glance
and thoughts on the future
- Penny Garrod looks at some of the broader issues affecting
public libraries and information professionals.
- Search Engines: 2003: the year in perspective
- Phil Bradley takes us through the major trends and highlights
in the world of search engines over the course of the past year.
- WebWatch: How Accessible Are Australian University
Web Sites?
- Dey Alexander reports on a recent study of the accessibility
of Australian university Web sites.
- Developing and Publicising a Workable Accessibility Strategy
- Lawrie Phipps, Sue Harrison, David
Sloan and Betty Willder look at the increasing need
for developers of institutional and educational Web sites to develop and follow
a strategy for ensuring optimal accessibility of online content.
- Web Focus
- Brian Kelly outlines a strategy for fixing the most important
HTML resources on a Web site.
- The OpenURL and OpenURL Framework: Demystifying Link
Resolution
- Ann Apps reports on a conference about current and future
uses of the proposed OpenURL Framework Standard Z39.88-2004.
- Towards a User-Centred Approach to Digital Libraries
- Ken Eason reports on the five themes in the Digilib Conference,
Espoo, Finland.
- Herding Tigers, Part II
- Sophie Clarke describes an event designed to share ideas
on accessibility, evaluation and the use of learning technology standards.
- OSS inaugural conference: Open Source Deployment
and Development
- Sebastian Rahtz and Randy Metcalfe give an overview of
the first conference of the Open Source Advisory Service.
- Reaching Out to Your Community: Policies and practice
for public library service
- Fiona Leslie gives an overview of this seminar which covered
a variety of topics of interest to public library professionals.
- Newsline: News and events
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- Super Searchers Make It on Their Own
- Lina Coelho looks at the work and lives of independent
information professionals prepared to share their secrets for starting and
running a research business.
- Annual Review of Information Science and Technology,
Volume 37, 2003
- Colin Harris declares himself a veteran reader of the ARIST,
assesses the kinds of reviewing it performs and balances the strengths and
weaknesses of this long-standing publication.
- Centred on Learning: Academic Case Studies on Learning
Centre Development
- Bruce Royan takes a structured look at this series of case
studies and analyses their view of the Learning Resource Centre phenomenon.
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