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Domesday Redux: The Rescue of the BBC Domesday Project Videodiscs

editor — Tue, 29 Jul 2003 23:00:00 +0000

Jeffrey Darlington, Andy Finney and Adrian Pearce describe the groundbreaking BBC Domesday Project of 1986, and explain how its unique multimedia collection has been preserved.

Origins

William of Normandy, having conquered England, decided in 1086 to take account of his new territory. The result was the Domesday Book (actually more than one), which now resides in the National Archives [1]. For the BBC, the 900th anniversary in 1986 presented an opportunity to produce a television series, hosted by Michael Wood. A more unusual production was to use the combination of computer and video known as interactive video to produce a kind of modern-day equivalent of William's survey.

Web Watch: WebWatching eLib Project Web Sites

editor — Wed, 10 Jan 2001 00:00:00 +0000

Brian Kelly is WebWatching the eLib Project Sites.

This issue of Ariadne has the theme of eLib Projects. It is therefore timely for the regular WebWatch column to survey eLib project Web sites.

The aim of the survey is to use a number of Web-based tools to provide information on the entry points for eLib project Web sites and the Web sites themselves. The findings may be of interest to the eLib projects themselves and users of eLib projects. Perhaps more importantly, the findings may be of interest to new JISC-funded programmes.

Convergence of Electronic Entertainment and Information Systems

editor — Thu, 23 Mar 2000 00:00:00 +0000

John Kirriemuir explores the technology and impact of expanding internet access.

The past

Video games have been around for a lot longer than most people realise. Many people can remember playing games on their ZX Spectrum (1982), or even their cartridge-based Atari VCS (1978). However, before these systems came into being there had already been a decade of video game development, mostly based in the US and Japan.

Transatlantic Bandwidth: How to Save Money on Your Costs

editor — Sat, 19 Dec 1998 00:00:00 +0000

Sally Hadland, Information Officer at the Higher Education National Software Archive (HENSA), describes how using HENSA can save on transatlantic bandwidth.

View from the Hill: Birkbeck

editor — Sat, 18 Jul 1998 23:00:00 +0000

Ariadne interview with Philippa Dolphin at Birkbeck, about how IT issues are tackled there.

Birkbeck College

An institution owing its origins to a 19th Century Mechanics' Institute, yet with 40% of its work at postgraduate level, a high research rating and only 5% of its fte drawn from full time students is a place where you might reasonably expect a pragmatic mix of the old and the new in its attitude to widening access. You would not be disappointed as Philippa Dolphin begins to describe her approach to the issue.

Libtech '97

editor — Thu, 18 Sep 1997 23:00:00 +0000

Christine Dugdale & Jackie Chelin of the ResIDe project, University of the West of England, report on the seminar which took place at Libtech at the University of Hertfordshire.

Web Editorial: Goodbyeee

editor — Fri, 18 Jul 1997 23:00:00 +0000

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

This is my last issue as editor of the Web version of Ariadne. In a few weeks time, I will leaving the fluffy bunch of people collectively known as "UKOLN" [1], to join the equally fluffy bunch of people known as the "ILRT" [2]. Just time for a quick look at what is in this issue, and then some thanks to various people who have been useful/groovy/fluffy to Ariadne over the last ooooh, two years or so, now.

Copyright Management Technologies: The Key to Unlocking Digital Works?

editor — Fri, 18 Jul 1997 23:00:00 +0000

Anne Ramsden brings us up to date with current developments in copyright management technology

Digitisation of copyright works and other protected objects has many benefits for the user not least in terms of ease of access, however, for the rights owners it can represent both an opportunity and a threat.

ACORN Implemented

editor — Fri, 18 Jul 1997 23:00:00 +0000

Jon Knight and Richard Goodman describe the technical implementation of the ACORN system.

Preparing Students for a New Electronic Service

editor — Sun, 18 May 1997 23:00:00 +0000

Preparing students for a new electronic service : Elizabeth Gadd outlines the approaches and experiences of Project ACORN in training and promoting their new electronic 'short-loan' collection.

The JISC-funded eLib project, Project ACORN [1] was set up to explore the mechanisms for establishing an electronic 'short-loan' collection of journal articles for undergraduate students. Having received permission to make 236 high-demand journal articles from the reading lists of the departments of Geography, Human Sciences and Information and Library Studies available to registered undergraduates over the University computer network, the next vital step was to prepare students to use the new service prior to its launch on April 21st.

ACORN

editor — Sun, 18 May 1997 23:00:00 +0000

Elizabeth Gadd and Paula Kingston report on progress with Project ACORN.

Wire: Interview Via Email With Jon Knight and Martin Hamilton

editor — Sun, 18 May 1997 23:00:00 +0000

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

Infopolecon

editor — Tue, 19 Nov 1996 00:00:00 +0000

John Lindsay comments on the evolution of the UK network infrastructure, and the problems arguably generated along the way.

Jeremy Bentham coined the term 'panopticon' in his proposal for a circular prison, whose cells were exposed to a central well in which the warders were located, allowing the prisoners to see all other prisoners and to be observed at all times without ever knowing when they were being watched. Bentham also promoted the idea of political economy as the greatest good for the greatest number. Drawing on his terminology as the basis for this article, I therefore propose the new term 'infopolecon' to describe the political economy of information.

ACORN

editor — Tue, 19 Nov 1996 00:00:00 +0000

Paula Kingston outlines the ACORN project, which aims to develop a transferable model for the whole process of providing electronic access to short loan journal articles.

Project ACORN (Access to Course Resources via Networks) began in August 1996 and its distinguishing features are firstly the involvement of Swets & Zeitlinger (the international periodicals subscription agency) in the project consortium, and secondly its sole focus on journal articles.

The overall aim of the project is to develop a transferable model of the whole process of making short loan journal articles available electronically, and in particular to focus on the role of a third party agent in gaining copyright clearance and providing digital copies to libraries.

Libtech 96

editor — Wed, 18 Sep 1996 23:00:00 +0000

John Kirriemuir and Isobel Stark with some notes and pictures from the main annual UK library exhibition: Libtech 96.

The exhibition was opened on the 4th of September by Jack Schofield, the editor of the online section of the Guardian newspaper. He gave a short speech, which included a witty section on the hassle caused by the frequent version updating of software; software where updates appeared every few weeks he named "dribbleware"!

Short Loan Projects

editor — Sat, 18 May 1996 23:00:00 +0000

John MacColl discusses some of the issues involved in the digitisation of short loan collections.

Short Loan Collections have long been a necessary evil in academic libraries. Sometimes called 'Reserve' or 'Heavy Demand' collections, they were developed as a compromise solution to the problem of providing sufficient copies of undergraduate texts to meet the demands of large numbers of students all requiring access to the same texts at the same time.

Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib) Update

editor — Tue, 19 Mar 1996 00:00:00 +0000

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.

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.

In the Preprints/Grey Literature area, we have three projects:

Formations
Lead Site: University of Ulster
Contact: Nigel Gardner, Dan Fleming (dr.fleming@ulst.ac.uk)