Overview of content related to 'information retrieval'

Michael Day reports on combining content-based and metadata-based approaches.

Stephen Pinfield describes the role of Hybrid Libraries and Clumps

Jacqueline Chelin reports on the UKOLUG 20th birthday conference.

Michael Day reports from Tomar, Portugal, on the DELOS6 Workshop.

Jim Huntingford reviews IMPEL, an eLib project.

Roddy MacLeod, EEVL Project Manager (Information), describes plans for EEVL.

David Nichols reports on the follow-on conference SIGIR '97.

During a lifelong library career, 2 out of 5 librarians will face a major disaster in their library. Emma Blagg describes the design and evaluation of a HTML-based disaster control plan, used to provide the counter measures taken to minimise the effects of such a disaster.

Michael Day suggests how the concept of metadata could be extended to provide information in the specific field of digital preservation.

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.

Denise Lievesley and Bridget Winstanley describe this national resource centre for computer-readable data in the social sciences and humanities.

Tony Gill presents a few bits and pieces of news regarding the ADAM project which was featured in issue 3 of Ariadne.

Clare Davies reports on this years event in an annual conference series addressing user-centred aspects of library and information science.

Amy Friedlander, the editor of D-Lib, looks at, and towards, some of the benefits of the Web and digital technology towards how we do and present research.

Alison Kilgour checks out the network facilities at Edge Hill College.

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.

Nearly half a year after the project’s official start date, ADAM has a fledgling information gateway to information on the Internet in art, design, architecture and media. Tony Gill, ADAM Project Leader, outlines what has been achieved so far, and some of the challenges that lie directly ahead.

SOSIG was established with funding from the Economics and Social Research Council (ESRC). The Electronic Libraries' Programme (eLib) funds a Documentation and Training Officer, Lesly Huxley, under the Access to Networked Resources umbrella to raise awareness of - and train people to use - SOSIG. Here Lesly provides background to the service and describes the Internet for Social Scientists workshops she is running at Universities around the country.