- One Day We All Learn the Hard Way
- Creative Archive
- Paul Gerhardt describes the origins and development of
the Creative Archive Project at the BBC.
- Accessibility: The Current Situation and New Directions
- Kevin Carey describes accessibility by disabled people
to digital information systems across broadcasting, telecommunications and
the Internet, looks into the future and makes recommendations.
- Involving Users in the Development of a Web Accessibility
Tool
- Jenny Craven and Mikael Snaprud describe
how the EC-funded European Internet Accessibility Observatory Project is involving
users in the development of a Web accessibility checking and monitoring tool.
- Web Accessibility Revealed: The Museums, Libraries
and Archives Council Audit
- Marcus Weisen, Helen Petrie, Neil
King and Fraser Hamilton describe a comprehensive
Web accessibility audit involving extensive user testing as well as automatic
testing of Web sites.
- Revealing All
- Ann Chapman describes Revealweb, a Web site that brings
together information about accessible resources for visually impaired people.
- Towards a Pragmatic Framework for Accessible e-Learning
- Lawrie Phipps, Neil Witt and Brian
Kelly while recognising the importance of accessibility in e-learning
resources, query the universal applicability of the Web Accessibility Initiative's
guidelines and describe a pragmatic framework which provides a broader context
for their use.
- Virtual Research Environments: Overview and Activity
- Michael Fraser provides an overview of the virtual research
environment (VRE) and introduces three JISC-funded projects in which Oxford
University is participating.
- Mobile Blogs, Personal Reflections and Learning Environments: The RAMBLE Project
- Paul Trafford describes how mobile blogs for personal reflection
may be related to institutional learning environments, drawing on experiences
from the RAMBLE Project.
- Supporting Local Data Users in the UK Academic Community
- Luis Martinez and Stuart Macdonald discuss
the differing areas of expertise within the UK data libraries with particular
reference to their relationship with National Data Centres, the role of the
Data Information Specialists Committee - UK (DISC-UK) and other information
specialists.
- Planet-SOSIG
- Emma Place assesses the recent SOSIG Social Science Online
seminars, Jacky Clake reports on the ESRC Social Science
Week and Debra Hiom updates us on the virtual seminar run
by SOSIG as part of Social Science Week.
- EEVL Xtra: The Hidden Web at Your Fingertips
- Roddy MacLeod looks at the latest service from EEVL..
- News from BIOME
- Jenny Hall reports on recent news form BIOME, the Health and Life Sciences hub of the Resource Discovery Network.
- Search Engines: Google and Search: Some of the
Latest Developments
- Phil Bradley takes a look at some of the new developments
at Google.
- Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility with Firefox
- Patrick Lauke outlines how Mozilla Firefox can be used in conjunction with the Web Developer Toolbar to carry out a preliminary accessibility review.
- Web Focus: The WWW 2005 Conference
- Brian Kelly provides his impressions including reports of areas of doubt and uncertainty - but also of an exciting new development.
- Integration and Impact: The JISC Annual Conference
- Marieke Guy has collated reports on sessions from the JISC
Annual Conference held in Birmingham.
- IWMW 2005
- Miles Banbery reports on the 9th Institutional Web Management
Workshop held at the University of Manchester, UK, over 6-8 July 2005.
- Building Open Source Communities: 4th OSS Watch
Conference
- Sebastian Rahtz and Randy Metcalfe report
on a one-day conference on open source software development communities organised
by OSS Watch held in Edinburgh on 4 July 2005.
- DCC Workshop on Persistent Identifiers
- Philip Hunter gives a personal view of this workshop held
in Glasgow, 30 June - 1 July, supported by NISO, CETIS, ERPANET, UKOLN and
the DCC.
- Newsline: News and events
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- Content and Workflow Management for Library Web Sites
- Martin White welcomes the detail but is concerned at the impact that
the publishing process has had on the currency and utility of the content.
- The Academic Library
- Ruth Jenkins wishes this textbook had been available when
she was a library school student.
- Disaster Management for Libraries and Archives
- Ian Lovecy looks at a useful consolidation of approaches
to disaster management.
- Managing Suppliers and Partners for the Academic Library
- Tony Kidd examines this study's view of the importance
of partnerships in their widest context for the modern academic library.
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