Overview of content related to 'ftp'

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.

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.

Debra Hiom from SOSIG takes us on a guided tour of major Internet-based Social Science resources.

Pete Cliff looks at how the RDN has utilised the OAI Metadata Harvesting Protocol.

Clifford Lynch, the Executive Director of CNI, was interviewed by John Kirriemuir at the Metadata: What Is It? workshop on 18 June 1997. Clifford shares some views on mirroring, caching, metadata, Z39.50 and how he sees his role in CNI.

Leona Carpenter gives a personal view of the 'Logged into Economics' conference in Barcelona in June.

Duncan Burbidge describes a new approach to digitising an archive both as a future-proof substitute and for Web delivery.

Richard Jones examines the similarities and differences between DSpace and ETD-db to determine their applicability in a modern E-theses service.

In the first of a two-part article, Fiona Williams describes the trials of various electronic document delivery systems in University of Bath Library and Learning Centre over the last few years. A review of the latest trial, between BL Urgent Action Service and TU DELFT, as well as an overall comparison with the Blackwell's Uncover Service will be given in the next issue of Ariadne.

Stuart Peters on EPRESS text management software tools, currently in development.

Sally Rumsey on an innovative system for providing electronic access to examination papers.

Judith Wusteman describes the document formats used in electronic serials.

George Munroe describes the experiences in establishing a large institutional web site.

Steve Mitchell describes INFOMINE, an impressive attempt to build a Web-based virtual library for the academic community.

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.

Dennis Nicholson and Joanne Gold present an overview of 'daughter of BUBL'.

Lori Widzinski, the editor, describes the evolution of MC Journal: The Journal of Academic Media Librarianship.

Ian Peacock and Andy Powell describe a proposed algorithm for calculating a checksum for Web pages.

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.