Organisation - Oracle
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Bring Your Own Policy: Why Accessibility Standards Need to Be Contextually Sensitive
Brian Kelly, Jonathan Hassell, David Sloan, Dominik Lukeš, E A Draffan and Sarah Lewthwaite argue that rather than having a universal standard for Web accessibility, standardisation of Web accessibility practices and policies needs to be sufficiently flexible to cater for the local context.
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The Performance-based Funding Model: Creating New Research Databases in Sweden and Norway
Leif Eriksson describes how the introduction of Performance-based Research Funding Systems (PRFS) has created new forms of research databases in Sweden and Norway.
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Why UK Further and Higher Education Needs Local Software Developers
Mahendra Mahey and Paul Walk discuss the work of the Developer Community Supporting Innovation (DevCSI) Project which focuses on building capacity for software developers in UK Further and Higher Education to support innovation in the sector. -
International UPA 2010 Conference User Experience Design for the World
Liza Zamboglou and Lorraine Paterson report on the Usability Professionals' Association's International Conference held in Munich, Germany in May 2010. -
Book Review: Ajax in Oracle JDeveloper
Pete Cliff finds aspects of this work useful and interesting, but he also expresses some serious reservations. -
Learning to YODL: Building York's Digital Library
Peri Stracchino and Yankui Feng describe a year's progress in building the digital library infrastructure outlined by Julie Allinson and Elizabeth Harbord in their article last issue. -
Content Architecture: Exploiting and Managing Diverse Resources
Jane Stevenson gives a personal view of the recent UK conference organised by the International Society of Knowledge Organization. -
The SPP Alerting Portlet: Delivering Personalised Updates
Virginia Knight describes the open-source alerting portlet which has been developed as part of the SPP Subject Portals Project (SPP) and the results of user feedback. -
Web Curator Tool
Philip Beresford tells the story (from The British Library's perspective) of the development of new software to aid all stages of harvesting Web sites for preservation. -
Putting the Library Into the Institution: Using JSR 168 and WSRP to Enable Search Within Portal Frameworks
Chris Awre, Stewart Waller, Jon Allen, Matthew J Dovey, Jon Hunter and Ian Dolphin describe the investigations and technical development undertaken within the JISC-funded Contextual Resource Evaluation Environment (CREE) Project to enable the presentation of existing search tools within portal frameworks using the JSR 168 and WSRP portlet standards. -
Developing Portal Services and Evaluating How Users Want to Use Them: The CREE Project
Chris Awre, Matthew J Dovey, Jon Hunter, William Kilbride and Ian Dolphin describe the JISC-funded Contextual Resource Evaluation Environment (CREE) Project and its user and technical investigations to examine how users wish to use library search services. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Search Engines: The Google Backlash
Phil Bradley reviews and analyses recent criticisms of the giant and takes an objective view from a broader perspective. -
EEVL News
Roddy MacLeod describes how EEVL is putting RSS to work. -
Windows Explorer: The Index Server Companion
Brett Burridge describes the Index Server Companion, an application he has created that allows Microsoft Index Server to index content from remote websites and ODBC databases. -
The JISC Information Environment and Web Services
Andy Powell and Liz Lyon look at possible relationships between the Web Services idea and earlier ideas about seamless access to information. -
Book Review: The Invisible Web
Marieke Napier reviews the book: The Invisible Web. -
The LEODIS Database
Jonathan Kendal on the creation of LEODIS, a Public Libraries sector digitization and database project. -
NT Explorer
Brett Burridge Looks at Microsoft's Site Server 3.0 Commerce Edition. -
ZOPE: Swiss Army Knife for the Web?
Paul Browning looks at this multiple authoring environment. -
Theory and Practice of the Virtual University
Neil Pollock and James Cornford report on UK universities use of new technologies. -
Windows NT Explorer
Brett Burridge on Internet Information Server (IIS 4.0) -
Instructional Management Systems
John MacColl explores the IMS concept in the context of the SELLIC project. -
What Are Document Management Systems?
Brian Kelly explains the concept of document management systems. -
Metadata Corner: CrossROADS and Interoperability
Michael Day, Rachel Heery and Andy Powell report on work in progress on enhancements to the ROADS software. -
r·cade: Resource Centre for Access to Data on Europe
Sharon Bolton describes r-cade, an interdisciplinary resource centre that helps researchers and analysts to identify and acquire data for the European Social Sciences. -
Centre for Database Access Research (CEDAR): The Huddersfield Connection
Steve Pollitt describes the history and research behind CEDAR, the Centre for Database Access Research, which specialises in work on the design of interfaces for information retrieval systems. -
Netskills Corner
Netskills corner - Brian Kelly, Senior Trainer at Netskills, reviews Internet Explorer, Microsoft's Browser for Windows 95.