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The Gopher protocol is a TCP/IP application layer protocol designed for distributing, searching, and retrieving documents over the Internet. Strongly oriented towards a menu-document design, the Gopher protocol was a predecessor of (and later, an alternative to) the World Wide Web. The protocol offers some features not natively supported by the Web and imposes a much stronger hierarchy on information stored on it. Its text menu interface is well-suited to computing environments that rely heavily on remote text-oriented computer terminals, which were still common at the time of its creation in 1991, and the simplicity of its protocol facilitated a wide variety of client implementations. Although largely supplanted by the Web in the years following, the Gopher protocol is still in use by enthusiasts, and a small population of actively-maintained servers remains. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Gopher protocol)
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IWMW 2006: Quality Matters |
Adrian Stevenson reports on the 10th Institutional Web Management Workshop held at the University of Bath over 14-16 June 2006. |
July 2006, issue48, event report |
Delivering Open Access: From Promise to Practice |
Derek Law predicts how the open access agenda will develop over the next ten years. |
February 2006, issue46, feature article |
Excuse Me... Some Digital Preservation Fallacies? |
Chris Rusbridge argues with himself about some of the assumptions behind digital preservation thinking. |
February 2006, issue46, feature article |
Another Piece of Cake? |
Anders Ardö, Sigfrid Lundberg and Ann-Sofie Zettergren with an overview of the history of Netlab, now ten years old. |
July 2002, issue32, feature article |
Book Review: The Invisible Web |
Marieke Napier reviews the book: The Invisible Web. |
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ACM / IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries |
John MacColl reports on a selection of the papers given at this conference in Roanoake, Virginia, June 24-28 2001. |
October 2001, issue29, event report |
DECOMATE II |
Leona Carpenter gives a personal view of the 'Logged into Economics' conference in Barcelona in June. |
September 2000, issue25, event report |
Web Focus: The Role of the Web Editor |
Brian Kelly asks, does 'web editor' mean Unix guru or an HTML coder? |
December 1998, issue18, regular column |
Planet SOSIG |
Phil Cross presents the first of an occasional series of articles looking at individual subsections within SOSIG. Phil has been the section editor for Environmental Sciences for the past year and gives a description of the types of resources users can expect to find in this rapidly expanding field. |
July 1998, issue16, regular column |
Web Focus: Ways of Exploiting New Technologies |
Brian Kelly discusses Intermediaries: Ways Of Exploiting New Technologies. |
July 1998, issue16, regular column |
The Access Catalogue Gateway to Resources |
Terry Hanson explores how libraries might develop effective ways of indicating their access arrangements to their users. |
May 1998, issue15, feature article |
Web Focus: The 7th World Wide Web Conference |
Brian Kelly is interviewed about the 7th World Wide Web Conference upon his return from Brisbane. |
May 1998, issue15, regular column |
Internet Resources for Older People |
Internet resources for older people: Monica Blake describes some findings from the Internet and Older People Project, funded by The British Library Research and Innovation Centre Digital Library Research Programme. |
March 1998, issue14, feature article |
What Is an Intranet? |
Glen Monks explains the buzz word: intranet. |
January 1998, issue13, regular column |
A Digital Library Showcase and Support Service - the Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE |
Roy Tennant describes a resource used to create digital libraries and services, and to help others do the same. |
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BUBL : How BUBL Benefits Academic Librarians |
Alan Dawson and Jan Simpson take us through BUBL, an old service recently transformed from being Gopher-based to Web-based. |
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Interface: Dennis Nicholson |
Chris Bailey finds a crusader at Strathclyde: Dennis Nicholson. |
July 1997, issue10, regular column |
Extending Metadata for Digital Preservation |
Michael Day suggests how the concept of metadata could be extended to provide information in the specific field of digital preservation. |
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Wire: Interview Via Email With Jon Knight and Martin Hamilton |
In this interview we question Knight and Martin Hamilton and present their replies. |
May 1997, issue9, regular column |
Formats for the Electronic Library |
Judith Wusteman describes the document formats used in electronic serials. |
March 1997, issue8, feature article |
INFOMINE |
Steve Mitchell describes INFOMINE, an impressive attempt to build a Web-based virtual library for the academic community. |
March 1997, issue8, feature article |
Introducing Web Focus |
UK Web Focus - a strange job title. What is it? What does it do? In this article Brian Kelly describes his role as UK Web Focus, his previous involvement with the Web and his work as the JISC representative on the World Wide Web Consortium. |
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A Brief History of the American Library Association Web Site |
A brief history of the American Library Association Web Site: Rob Carlson, Internet Coordinator of the ALA, introduces us to the acclaimed Web site of the largest Library Association in the World. |
January 1997, issue7, feature article |
MIDAS: Manchester Information, Datasets and Associated Services |
Anne McCombe describes a service that provides a wide range of datasets to the wider communities. |
January 1997, issue7, project update |
Web Access for the Disabled |
Cathy Murtha outlines the problems that audio-visually impaired people encounter when trying to use network-based resources. |
January 1997, issue7, regular column |
Wire: Interview with Nick Gibbins |
Nick Gibbins is put under the virtual spotlight to answer a few questions via email. |
January 1997, issue7, regular column |
Down Your Way: Durham |
Paul Miller travels to Durham and reports on a mammoth archival digitisation project. |
January 1997, issue7, regular column |
Review of Where the Wild Things Are: Librarian's Guide to the Best Information on the Net |
Marylaine Block describes the construction of Where the Wild Things Are: Librarian's Guide to the Best Information on the Net. |
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The Internet Resources Newsletter from Heriot-Watt University |
Roddy MacLeod describes a Web-based resources newsletter. |
November 1996, issue6, feature article |
How to Grow Gossamer and Keep It Untangled |
George Munroe describes the experiences in establishing a large institutional web site. |
November 1996, issue6, feature article |
OMNI-Corner: Meeting the Visible Human |
Sue Welsh reports from the Visible Human Project Conference of October 1996, an event that brought together many of the people involved with one of the most high profile Internet-based medical resources. |
November 1996, issue6, regular column |
Minotaur: Nick Gibbins |
In Minotaur, the collective voice of Internet enthusiasts is countered by words of scepticism or caution. In this issue, Nick Gibbins gives an overview of some of the potential features that the Web does not contain, but a more functional successor to it might. |
November 1996, issue6, regular column |
Web4Lib: The Library Web Manager's Electronic Discussion List |
Roy Tennant, Project Manager of the Digital Library Research & Development at the University of California, Berkeley, describes the Web4Lib mailing list, an electronic discussion forum for library Web managers. |
September 1996, issue5, project update |
Subject Trees: The Exeter Experience |
Ian Tilsed, Computing Development Officer at the University of Exeter Library, describes the building of the main University subject tree, or index, of Internet Resources. |
September 1996, issue5, project update |
Putting the UK on the Map |
Peter Burden of the University of Wolverhampton's School of Computing and Information Technology describes the history behind his clickable maps of the UK, an essential and well established (though unfunded) resource for quickly locating academic and research Web sites. |
September 1996, issue5, project update |
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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Around the Table |
Around the Table: Sheona Farquhar looks at sites in science and engineering. |
September 1996, issue5, regular column |
Review: The Student's Guide to the Internet by Ian Winship and Alison McNab |
Ian Winship and Alison McNab publish cut-price guide, aimed at all students, to the Internet. |
September 1996, issue5, news and events |
Serving the Arts and Humanities |
Dan Greenstein gives an extensive description of AHDS, the Arts and Humanities Data Service: its objectives, organisation, and how the data will be collected, preserved and described.. |
July 1996, issue4, feature article |
NHS Libraries: At Home on the Web |
Ben Toth describes the establishment and maintenance of a regional Health Web site. |
July 1996, issue4, project update |