Overview of content related to 'sosig'

Tony Kidd wonders if he and and his kind are palæontologists.

Christine Ellwood and Sarah Thompson outline the rationale behind the approach of the University of York Library to cataloguing Internet resources.

Tracey Stanley looks at how to keep your search results coming from within particular geographic areas and thus save on bandwidth.

The Web editor, John Kirriemuir bows out after ten Ariadne issues.

Betsy Anagnostelis and Sue Welsh describe the recent launch of the MIDRIB (Medical Images Digitised Reference Information Bank) project, and describe the medical image resource the project will create.

Linda Kerr introduces a project from the Access to Network Resources section of the eLib programme which takes a holistic approach to providing access to high quality on-line engineering resources.

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

In this interview we question Knight and Martin Hamilton and present their replies.

A night in the life of the Electronic Telegraph. Emma Worsfold sits in on the editors' shift at ET.

Debra Hiom reports from the second annual OMNI seminar.

Jon Knight looks at how Dublin Core and Apple's new MCF metadata file format might make useful and interesting bed fellows.

Lesly Huxley, the SOSIG Documentation and Training Officer, describes the workshops that SOSIG, one of the projects from the Access to Network Resource section, run.

Open Journal trip report: Jon Knight visits the Open Journals eLib project to investigate what research they are undertaking into electronic journal architecture and navigation.

In 1995, the Thomas Parry Library, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, won funding for PICK, a project to build a gateway to quality resources in the LIS field. Here, Andrew Cox describes this gateway, and reviews the project's achievements at the end of the first year.

Jasper Tredgold is put under the virtual spotlight to answer a few questions via email.

Lorcan Dempsey talks about metadata and the development of resource discovery services in the UK.

Rachel Heery, the ROADS Research Officer, describes this project from the Access to Network Resources area of the Electronic Libraries Programme. The deliverables of this project will constitute a large portion of the underlying software for most of the other projects in the same programme area, as well as other eLib and non-eLib projects, and therefore is one of the more crucial facets of the overall programme.

Recently, a wave of new projects under the umbrella of the Electronic Libraries Programme was announced. A consequence of this is that a large majority of the HE institutions in the UK are involved in at least one eLib project (is yours?), as well as many non HE organisations and institutions. Here, we give brief details of some of these new projects.

The Netskills Team explain how the need for training has never been greater.