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The American Standard Code for Information Interchange is a character-encoding scheme based on the ordering of the English alphabet. ASCII codes represent text in computers, communications equipment, and other devices that use text. Most modern character-encoding schemes are based on ASCII, though they support many more characters than did ASCII. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: ASCII)
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Data Citation and Publication by NERC’s Environmental Data Centres |
Sarah Callaghan, Roy Lowry, David Walton and members of the Natural Environment Research Council Science Information Strategy Data Citation and Publication Project team describe their work in NERC’s Environmental Data Centres. |
March 2012, issue68, feature article |
Abstract Modelling of Digital Identifiers |
Nick Nicholas, Nigel Ward and Kerry Blinco present an information model of digital identifiers, to help bring clarity to the vocabulary debates from which this field has suffered. |
January 2010, issue62, feature article |
Data Preservation and Long-term Analysis in High-Energy Physics |
Richard Mount reports on the First Workshop on Data Preservation and Long-Term Analysis in High-Energy Physics, held at DESY (Deutsche Elektronen-Synchrotron), Hamburg, Germany, on 26-28 January 2008. |
January 2009, issue58, event report |
The KIDMM Community's 'MetaKnowledge Mash-up' |
Conrad Taylor reports on the KIDMM knowledge community and its September 2007 one-day conference about data, information and knowledge management issues. |
October 2007, issue53, event report |
Book Review: Mastering Regular Expressions, 3rd Edition |
Emma Tonkin and Greg Tourte take a look at the new edition of an O'Reilly classic. |
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Immaculate Catalogues, Indexes and Monsters Too... |
David E. Bennett reports on the three day residential CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group Annual Conference, University of East Anglia, during September 2006. |
October 2006, issue49, event report |
A Foundation for Automatic Digital Preservation |
Miguel Ferreira, Ana Alice Baptista and Jose Carlos Ramalho propose a Service-Oriented Architecture to help cultural heritage institutions to accomplish automatic digital preservation. |
July 2006, issue48, feature article |
Folksonomies: The Fall and Rise of Plain-text Tagging |
Emma Tonkin suggests that rising new ideas are often on their second circuit - and none the worse for that. |
April 2006, issue47, feature article |
Revealing All |
Ann Chapman describes Revealweb, a Web site that brings together information about accessible resources for visually impaired people. |
July 2005, issue44, feature article |
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. |
April 2004, issue39, feature article |
Domesday Redux: The Rescue of the BBC Domesday Project Videodiscs |
Jeffrey Darlington, Andy Finney and Adrian Pearce describe the groundbreaking BBC Domesday Project of 1986, and explain how its unique multimedia collection has been preserved. |
July 2003, issue36, feature article |
Setting up an Institutional E-Print Archive |
Stephen Pinfield, Mike Gardner, and John MacColl with some practical advice on setting up an e-print archive. |
April 2002, issue31, feature article |
Book Review: The Information Professional's Guide to Career Development Online |
A book review by Pete Dowdell. |
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Migration: A Camileon Discussion Paper |
Paul Wheatley explores migration issues for the long-term preservation of digital materials. |
October 2001, issue29, feature article |
Using the Web for Academic Research: The Reading Experience Database Project |
Alexis Weedon gives us some insight into a new web-based project designed to collate evidence for changing reading habits through history. |
June 2001, issue28, feature article |
In Vision: The Internet As a Resource for Visually Impaired People |
Ann Chapman on the Internet as a resource for visually impaired people: a survey of accessible sites, resources, current research and software. |
June 2000, issue24, feature article |
How the Oxford English Dictionary Went Online |
Laura Elliot explains the use of SGML in the management of the OED text. |
June 2000, issue24, feature article |
Electronic Publication of Ancient Near Eastern Texts |
Charles E. Jones and David Schloen report on a Chicago conference which explored XML tagging for Ancient Near Eastern Texts on the Web. |
December 1999, issue22, feature article |
Z39.50 for All |
Paul Miller looks at the Z39.50 standard and attempts to extract some meaning from the mass of associated literature. |
September 1999, issue21, feature article |
WebWatch: UK University Search Engines |
Brian Kelly explores the search facilities used by UK university Web sites. |
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SEAMLESS: Introduction to the Project |
Mary Rowlatt describes SEAMLESS, the Essex-based project. |
March 1999, issue19, feature article |
Web Research: Browsing Video Content |
Peter Thomas, UWE, and Peter Macer of Hewlett Packard Research Laboratories describe automated techniques for browsing video content. |
March 1999, issue19, feature article |
Old Ghosts Rear Their Heads |
Peter Brophy calls for effective use of email. |
November 1997, issue12, feature article |
Access to Newspapers and Journals for Visually Impaired People: The Talking Newspaper Association of the UK |
Neil H. McLachlan describes the work and electronic products of the Talking Newspaper Assocation (TNAUK). |
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Metadata Corner: Working Meeting on Electronic Records Research |
Michael Day reports from the Working Meeting on Electronic Records Research, held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania May 29-31, 1997. |
July 1997, issue10, regular column |
Internationalisation and the Web |
Jon Knight looks at how the Web is currently undergoing the sometimes painful internationalization process required if it is to live up to its name of the World Wide Web. |
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Formats for the Electronic Library |
Judith Wusteman describes the document formats used in electronic serials. |
March 1997, issue8, feature article |
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. |
March 1997, issue8, project update |
Down Your Way: Durham |
Paul Miller travels to Durham and reports on a mammoth archival digitisation project. |
January 1997, issue7, regular column |
Displaying SGML Documents on the World Wide Web |
David Houghton discusses a method by which documents marked up using Standard Generalised Markup Language (SGML) can be used to generate a database for use in conjunction with the World Wide Web. |
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Net Gains for Digital Researchers |
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. |
September 1996, issue5, feature article |
CAUSE / EFFECT |
Julia A. Rudy, Cause/Effect Editor and Director of Publications at CAUSE, an international, nonprofit professional association for managers and users of information resources on college and university campuses, describes CAUSE/EFFECT. |
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MC Journal: The Journal of Academic Media Librarianship |
Lori Widzinski, the editor, describes the evolution of MC Journal: The Journal of Academic Media Librarianship. |
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The Katharine Sharp Review |
Kevin Ward, the editor of the Katherine Sharp Review, gives an overview of the first two years of this major journal for Librarians, and looks to its future. |
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Around the Table |
Ian Budden points to resources for humanities scholars. |
July 1996, issue4, regular column |
URL Monitoring Software and Services |
Paul Hollands describes and compares tools to help you notice when a Web-based resource has been updated. |
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From the Trenches: Network Services on a Shoestring |
Jon Knight describes how Linux is a cheap and useful operating system for library systems units and the like. |
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The 4th WWW Conference in Boston |
Debra Hiom and John Kirriemuir provide an informal report from the "cutting edge" of Web development. |
January 1996, issue1, feature article |
From the Trenches: HTML, Which Version? |
In From the Trenches, a regular column which delves into the more technical aspects of networking and the World Wide Web, Jon Knight, programmer and a member of the ROADS team, takes a look at the causes of good and bad HTML and explains what tags we should be marking up Web pages with. |