Articles in this issue were added on March 14th 1997,
except for those indicated by an
icon; not surprisingly, these articles were added on April 9th 1997.
Web Editorial:
John Kirriemuir with the editorial for the Web version of Ariadne.
Print Editorial:
John MacColl with the editorial for the Print version of Ariadne.
Formats for the Electronic Library:
Judith Wusteman describes the document formats used in electronic serials.
Reaching the OPAC - Java Telnet:
Bill Drew writes about accessing his library's OPAC within a web page using Java Telnet. He looks at the need, implementation, problems, and opportunities.
Late Night News: the Electronic Telegraph:
A night in the life of the Electronic Telegraph. Emma Worsfold sits in on the
editors' shift at ET.
CEI Looks for Bold Response:
John MacColl describes the new call for proposals for further eLib programme
work.
The Paper House of Cards (and why it's taking so long to collapse):
In our previous issue, Fytton Rowland defended the continuation of print
research journals into the networked age. Here, Stevan Harnad presents a
different case.
COPAC: the new nationally accessible Union Catalogue:
Shirley Cousins introduces COPAC and discusses some of the issues involved
in the ongoing development of a consolidated union OPAC.
Patient Education - a role for Multimedia:
Paul Garrud discusses the potential for on-line patient education multimedia.
INFOMINE:
Steve Mitchell describes INFOMINE, an impressive attempt to build a
Web-based virtual library for the academic community.
In the eLib section, we present descriptions of several eLib projects.
A Glimpse at EEVLs' Evaluation:
Malcolm Moffat, Database Officer for the Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library (EEVL) project, describes some findings from an initial evaluative study.
JEDDS: Joint Electronic Document
Delivery Software project: Kerry Blinco provides details of a global
electronic document delivery project.
MODELS: MOving to Distributed
Environments for Library Services :
Rosemary Russell shows how MODELS are built from clumps.
RUDI: Resource for Urban Design
Information Services:
Alan Reeve maps out a new site in urban design.
WoPEc: Electronic working papers in
Economics Services :
Thomas Krichel describes WoPEc, a working papers project.
In this section, we take a look at several Australian
projects, which cover a wide range of Digital Library issues familiar to the eLib programme.
The Resource Discovery project:
As Renato Iannella shows, the Resource
Discovery project at the DSTC in Australia is investigating issues to do with information discovery and
access across large heterogeneous networks.
SETIS: Electronic Texts at the University of Sydney Library:
Creagh Cole describes a project dedicated to providing in-house access to a
large number of electronic texts on CD-ROM.
Monash University Electronic Reserve project:
Hans W. Groenewegen, Debbie Hedger and
Iris Radulescu describe Monash University's Electronic Reserve Project which is
at the core of the electronic library project at the University's new Berwick campus.
Preserving Oral History Recordings:
Colin Webb and Kevin Bradley look at some of the
practical realities, and implications, of introducing digital technology into the sound preservation
functions of the National Library of Australia.
Australian Co-operative Digitisation Project, 1840-45:
Ross Coleman describes a project which will create a unique research
infrastructure in Australian studies through the digital conversion of Australian serials and fiction of the
seminal period 1840-45.
This section contains a small number of articles of a slightly more
technical nature
(though still readable and often of relevance/interest to the less technically skewed amongst us).
Making a MARC with Dublin
Core:
Jon Knight revisits his Perl module for processing MARC records that was
introduced in the last issue and adds UNIMARC, USMARC and a script that converts Dublin Core
metadata into USMARC records.
Introducing...Web Focus!:
UK Web Focus - a strange job title. What is it? What does it do? In this article Brian
Kelly describes his role as UK Web Focus, his previous involvement with the Web and his
work as the JISC representative on the World Wide Web Consortium.
From MERCI to DESIRE:
European Digital Library Projects: Dave Hartland writes the Netskills
Corner column for this edition. In it, he provides a brief overview of some of the EU-funded Telematics
for Research projects.
Performance and Security -
Notes for System Administrators:
Andy Powell offers some hints and tips on the performance and security
aspects of running electronic library services on UNIX based machines.
Our regular columns and columnists from both the paper and Web
versions.
Public Libraries Corner:
In the Public Libraries Corner for this issue, a guest writer, Catherine Wrathall,
writes about the current provision of Internet-based community information in public libraries.
Web Access for the Disabled -
ASK:
Cathy Murtha describes a simple, but effective, library enquiry system, of use to
disabled and non-disabled people.
Wire - Icarus Sparry:
In his own words, Icarus Sparry tells us how what he is doing at the University
of Bath, as well as revealing his own opinions on various aspects of networking, such as firewalls and
network charging.
Search Engine Corner:
Tracey Stanley looks at 'Push', where a network-based service 'pushes'
information to your machine, rather than you 'pulling' information from the service.
OMNI corner - New Societies for the exploitation of Medicine on the Internet:
Sue Welsh looks at developments of interest to medics publishing on the
Internet.
Down your Way - the Natural History Museum:
John Kirriemuir takes in megabytes of trilobites at the Natural History Museum.
View from the Hill - Jon Ferguy:
Do networks play any part in the making of films? Isobel Stark is shaken (not stirred) when she
finds out.
Around the Table -
Engineering:
Roddy MacLeod casts an EEVL eye over engineering resources.
Interface - Jane Core:
Chris Bailey discusses librarians and learning with Jane
Core of EduLib.
In this section, occasional reports on conferences and workshops are presented, as well as details
of significant forthcoming events.
Down Under with the Dublin Core:
Paul Miller and Tony Gill offer a view of the recent
Dublin Core metadata workshop in the
Australian capital, Canberra.
Beyond the Beginning: The Global Digital Library:
Hazel Gott introduces a major Digital Library event, taking place this June in London.
Unique Identifiers in a Digital World:
Andy Powell reports on a seminar organised jointly by Book Industry Communication and the UK Office for Library and Information Networking on the use of unique identifiers in
electronic publishing.
Disabil-IT? Conference:
Isobel Stark reports from the February 1997 Disabil-IT?
conference, aimed at library and computing services staff to help raise
awareness of issues related to IT provision for students with disabilities.
Disabil-IT? Part 2:
Software for Students with Dyslexia, and Software Design Issues:
Isobel Stark presents the second part of her report on the
Disabil-IT? Conference. In this article, software for students with
dyslexia is looked at, and issues to bear in mind when designing software
which may be used by students with disabilities are listed.
ELVIRA 4:
Claire Davies sets the scene for ELVIRA 4, the annual Electronic Library
Visual Information Research Conference, to be held this May in Milton Keynes, UK.
eLib and Telematics: Projects and
Partnerships:
Jill Beard announces a conference for this August in the south of England that
aims to bring together people and ideas from the UK eLib and European Telematics communities.
The usual collection of the exotic and weird, such as a
cartoon and the infamous caption competition.
Results of the Ariadne survey
:
John MacColl presents a selection of the comments arising from the first
Ariadne readership survey.
Cartoon: The regular
cartoon.
Caption Competition: The now
infamous caption competition - see if you find last issue's winners funny, and
send in your suggestions for the current competition, which has an unusual metadata theme
[contains large picture of around 690Kb].
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