- Humanity v Technology – Which is in the Driving
Seat?
- A National Archive of Datasets
- Jeffrey Darlington describes how structured datasets produced
by UK Government departments and agencies are being archived and made available
to users.
- Seeing is Believing: The JISC Information Environment Presentation Programme
- Chris Awre reviews the JISC Information Environment
Presentation Programme and offers an insight to the outcomes of recent studies.
- RDN/LTSN Partnerships: Learning resource discovery based on the LOM and the OAI-PMH
- Andy Powell and Phil Barker explore the technical collaboration currently
underway between the RDN and the LTSN and describe the RDN/LTSN LOM Application Profile and its use to
support resource discovery.
- Towards the Digital Aquifer: Introducing the Common Information Environment
- Paul Miller discusses current efforts by UK agencies to collaborate on a Common
Information Environment that meets the diverse needs of current and future consumers of digital content and services.
- Can We Save our Audio-visual Heritage?
- Daniel Teruggi describes PrestoSpace, the new FP6 Integrated project for the preservation of
our disappearing audio-visual heritage.
- IT for Me: Getting personal in South Yorkshire public libraries
- Liz Pearce and Neil Smith introduce the IT for Me Project
which aims to provide personalised access to online resources in South Yorkshire's public libraries.
- Filling Institutional Repositories: Practical strategies from the DAEDALUS Project
- Morag Mackie describes some strategies that can be used to help populate an institutional repository.
- Public Libraries: The changing face of the public library
- Penny Garrod looks at developments in Hampshire and comments on the shape of things to come.
- Planet-SOSIG: A variety of reports
- This month Neil Jacobs reports on updates to the Regard service, Martin Poulter
introduces a new Economics Assessment Bank and Emma Place highlights the programme
of training and outreach conducted by SOSIG this spring.
- EEVL News: EEVL, VLEs, Institutional and Library Portals
- Malcolm Moffat discusses the use of EEVL functionality in VLEs and Portals.
- News from BIOME:
- Jenny Hall reports on recent news from BIOME, the Health and Life Sciences
hub of the Resource Discovery Network.
- Search Engines: The Google Backlash
- Phil Bradley reviews and analyses recent criticisms of the giant and takes
an objective view from a broader perspective.
- Through the Web Authoring Tools
- Paul Browning offers a technical review of new approaches to Web publishing.
- Web Focus
- Brian Kelly takes a look at the FOAF Semantic Web application and suggests it is time to start evaluating this technology.
- The ePrints UK Workshop
- Phil Cross, Debra Hiom and
Emma Place report on this workshop which was held at the University
of Bath in February 2004.
- The Collection Description Schema Forum
- Gordon Dunsire describes the one-day seminar on standard schemas for collection-level
description held by UKOLN in February.
- Terminologies Report
- Sarah Shreeves reports on a one-day workshop on current developments and future
directions for JISC terminology services held in London, February 2004.
- The Biggest Digital Library Conference in the World
- John Paschoud reports on the International Conference on Digital Libraries held in New Delhi,
India, 24-27 February 2004.
- ERPANET / CODATA Workshop, Lisbon
- Michael Day gives us a detailed report on the ERPANET / CODATA Workshop held
at the Biblioteca Nacional, Lisbon, 15-17 December 2003.
- Newsline: News and events
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- Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval
- Charles Oppenheim sees improvements in this second edition
but has reservations about one of the few UK-based texts on this subject.
- Extreme Searchers' Internet Handbook
- Verity Brack reviews one of the latest books on Internet
resources and finds it a useful volume for Internet beginners and Google-centric searchers.
- Developing Academic Library Staff for Future Success
- Stephen Town considers this new multi-author volume, appreciates its many qualities and
reflects on the key issues for library staff development in the digital future.
- The Accidental Webmaster
- Andy Prue examines a guide aimed at inexperienced Webmasters. While the book
covers some interesting and salient points, Andy raises questions as to the ideal audience.
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