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Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT, NYSE: MSFT) is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions. Established on April 4, 1975 to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800, Microsoft rose to dominate the home computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems. Microsoft would also come to dominate the office suite market with Microsoft Office. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Microsoft)
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The (Digital) Library Environment: Ten Years After |
Lorcan Dempsey considers how the digital library environment has changed in the ten years since Ariadne was first published. |
February 2006, issue46, feature article |
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 |
The ARK Project: Analysing Raptor at Kent |
Leo Lyons describes how University of Kent librarians are benefitting from Raptor's ability to produce e-resource usage statistics and charts. |
November 2012, issue70, feature article |
The BNBMARC Currency Survey |
Ann Chapman describes the BNBMARC Currency Survey, a performance measurement survey on the supply of bibliographic records. |
November 1996, issue6, project update |
The CLIF Project: The Repository as Part of a Content Lifecycle |
Richard Green, Chris Awre and Simon Waddington describe how a digital repository can become part of the technical landscape within an institution and support digital content lifecycle management across systems. |
March 2012, issue68, feature article |
The Concept of the Portal |
Paul Miller gives his personal view of the portal and its varieties, both in the wild and on the drawing board. |
January 2002, issue30, feature article |
The DISinHE Centre |
Professor Alan Newell asks: How can technology assist with the obligations of HE to support staff and students with disabilities? |
June 1999, issue20, regular column |
The ExamNet Project at De Montfort University |
David James Houghton introduces the ExamNet Project, which offers access to past De Montfort University examination papers in electronic form. |
December 1998, issue18, feature article |
The Filling in the PIE: HeadLine's Resource Data Model |
John Paschoud explains the concepts of representation and use of metadata in the Resource Data Model (RDM) that has been developed by the HeadLine project. |
March 2001, issue27, feature article |
The Historic Hospitals Admission Records Project |
Sue Hawkins and Andrea Tanner describe a ground-breaking Web site using children's hospital admission registers. |
July 2009, issue60, feature article |
The Information Grid |
Ariadne reports on a one-day workshop on 'an interoperable environment to support research, learning and teaching' held at the e-Science Institute in Edinburgh, April 30, 2002. |
July 2002, issue32, event report |
The Internet Resources Newsletter from Heriot-Watt University |
Roddy MacLeod describes a Web-based resources newsletter. |
November 1996, issue6, feature article |
The JISC Annual Conference 2007 |
Philip Pothen and colleagues provide an overview of the proceedings of this Spring's JISC Annual Conference. |
April 2007, issue51, event report |
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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The LEODIS Database |
Jonathan Kendal on the creation of LEODIS, a Public Libraries sector digitization and database project. |
March 2001, issue27, feature article |
The Librarian of Babel: The Key to the Stacks |
The Librarian, ably assisted by Mike Holderness, considers one of the obstacles to the unhindered dissemination of human knowledge, and makes a modest proposal. |
May 1997, issue9, feature article |
The Library Association Web Site |
Alan Cooper and Finbarr Joy talk about the past, present and future of the Library Association Web Site. |
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The National Centre for Text Mining: A Vision for the Future |
Sophia Ananiadou describes NaCTeM and the main scientific challenges it helps to solve together with issues related to deployment, use and uptake of NaCTeM's text mining tools and services. |
October 2007, issue53, feature article |
The OpenURL and OpenURL Framework: Demystifying Link Resolution |
Ann Apps reports on a conference about current and future uses of the proposed OpenURL Framework Standard Z39.88-2004. |
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The Portole Project: Supporting E-learning |
Tracey Stanley, Mina Sotiriou and Matthew Dovey provide an overview of a project to produce tools to discover information resources and deploy them within a university VLE. |
January 2004, issue38, feature article |
The Second International M-Libraries Conference |
Keren Mills reports on a two-day conference exploring and sharing delivery of services and resources to users 'on the move,' via mobile and hand-held devices. |
July 2009, issue60, event report |
The Third Annual edUi Conference 2011 |
Danielle Cooley reports on the third annual edUi Conference, held over 13-14 October 2011, in Richmond, Virginia, USA, an opportunity for Web professionals in colleges, universities, libraries, museums, etc to discuss the latest developments in Web trends and technologies. |
March 2012, issue68, event report |
The Web Editor: From 'One Stop Shop' to Information Hierarchy |
Rebecca Linford discusses the web editor role: from 'one stop shop' to information hierarchy. |
June 1999, issue20, regular column |
Through the Web Authoring Tools |
Paul Browning offers a technical review of new approaches to Web publishing. |
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Tiny TV: Streaming Video on the Web |
Philip Hunter squints at the world through RealPlayer and MediaPlayer windows. |
December 1999, issue22, feature article |
To VRE Or Not to VRE?: Do South African Malaria Researchers Need a Virtual Research Environment? |
Heila Pienaar and Martie van Deventer identify the requirements of a Virtual Research Environment (VRE) for malaria researchers in South Africa. |
April 2009, issue59, feature article |
Towards Virtualisation: A New Approach in Server Management |
Eddie Young provides an account of trials and implementations carried out here after Matt Thrower gives us the background and benefits of employing virtualisation. |
April 2007, issue51, feature article |
Transatlantic Bandwidth: How to Save Money on Your Costs |
Sally Hadland, Information Officer at the Higher Education National Software Archive (HENSA), describes how using HENSA can save on transatlantic bandwidth. |
December 1998, issue18, feature article |
UK Institutional Repository Search: Innovation and Discovery |
Vic Lyte, Sophia Jones, Sophia Ananiadou and Linda Kerr describe an innovative tool to showcase UK research output through advanced discovery and retrieval facilities. |
October 2009, issue61, feature article |
Uncovering User Perceptions of Research Activity Data |
Cecilia Loureiro-Koechlin discusses the outcomes and lessons learned from user tests performed on the Oxford Blue Pages, a tool designed to display information about researchers and their activities at the University of Oxford. |
January 2010, issue62, feature article |
Unix and the Web: Providing Web Access to Your Email |
Brian Kelly introduces a regular column on Unix and Web issues by describing how a combination of Apache, PHP and IMP can make email folders available using a web browser. |
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Unix: What Is mod_perl? |
Ian Peacock explains mod_perl technology for supercharging the Apache Server. |
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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 |
Version Identification: A Growing Problem |
Dave Puplett outlines the issues associated with versions in institutional repositories, and discusses the solutions being developed by the Version Identification Framework (VIF) Project. |
January 2008, issue54, feature article |
Video Streaming of Events |
Greg Tourte and Emma Tonkin describe the set-up and use of video streaming technology at the IWMW 2006 event. |
October 2006, issue49, feature article |
Web Curator Tool |
Philip Beresford tells the story (from The British Library's perspective) of the development of new software to aid all stages of harvesting Web sites for preservation. |
January 2007, issue50, feature article |
Web Focus Corner: Running an Institutional Web Service |
Brian Kelly reports on a workshop on running an institutional web service. |
September 1997, issue11, regular column |
Web Focus: A Standards-Based Culture for Web Site Development |
Brian Kelly outlines strategies for choosing appropriate standards for building Web sites. |
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Web Focus: Animate Your Pages |
Brian Kelly gives an introduction to Dynamic HTML, explaining recent developments that enable dynamic web pages to be produced using simple scripting languages such as Javascript. |
March 1998, issue14, regular column |
Web Focus: Guidelines for URI Naming Policies |
Brian Kelly with some guidelines For URI naming policies in his regular column. |
