Andy Powell takes a brief look at VRVS, a desktop video-conferencing tool that can be used to support collaborative activities between groups of geographically distributed researchers. <a href="/issue41">issue41</a> October 2004 <a href="/category/article-type/tooled">tooled up</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/354/author-info">andy powell</a> Andy Powell and Ann Apps propose a mechanism for embedding machine parsable citations into Dublin Core (DC) metadata records. <a href="/issue27">issue27</a> March 2001 <a href="/category/article-type/regular-column">regular column</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/354/author-info">andy powell</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/631/author-info">ann apps</a>