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A data set (or dataset) is a collection of data, usually presented in tabular form. Each column represents a particular variable. Each row corresponds to a given member of the data set in question. Its values for each of the variables, such as height and weight of an object or values of random numbers. Each value is known as a datum. The data set may comprise data for one or more members, corresponding to the number of rows. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Data set)
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CURL OPAC launch |
Andrew Cooper describes the CURL OPAC launch in Manchester. |
May 1996, issue3, event report |
Are They Being Served? |
Lynne Brindley, Chair of JISC's new committee on electronic information, writes on the fundamental issue of networked information user's needs. |
July 1996, issue4, feature article |
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 |
JISC Projects Ahead |
John MacColl outlines some of the key points in JISCÆs five year strategy document. |
September 1996, issue5, feature article |
Net Gains for Digital Researchers |
Amy Friedlander, the editor of D-Lib, looks at, and towards, some of the benefits of the Web and digital technology towards how we do and present research. |
September 1996, issue5, feature article |
Metadata for the Masses |
Paul Miller describes Dublin Core and several ideas for how it can be implemented. |
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Infopolecon |
John Lindsay comments on the evolution of the UK network infrastructure, and the problems arguably generated along the way. |
November 1996, issue6, feature article |
An Investigation Into World Wide Web Search Engine Use from within the UK: Preliminary Findings |
Simon Stobart and Susan Kerridge give some of the preliminary results of a JISC- funded investigation into the use of Search Engines such as Alta Vista and Lycos within the UK. |
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 |
Networking Moving Images |
Anne Mumford summarises the meeting organised by the British Universities Film and Video Council at the National Film Theatre on 18 December 1996, which looked into the problems and issues surrounding using academic networks for multimedia applications. |
January 1997, issue7, feature article |
Biz/ed |
Catherine Sladen describes an information gateway for Business Studies and Economics. |
January 1997, issue7, project update |
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 |
Data Archive at the University of Essex |
Denise Lievesley and Bridget Winstanley describe this national resource centre for computer-readable data in the social sciences and humanities. |
January 1997, issue7, project update |
MIDRIB: Beyond Clip Art for Medicine |
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. |
May 1997, issue9, feature article |
The Australian Museums on Line Project |
Louise Douglas and Stephen Hall describe the Australian Museums On Line (AMOL) project, which aims to dramatically increase access to the cultural resources of Australian museums via the Internet by 2001 through the AMOL World Wide Web site. |
May 1997, issue9, project update |
Around the Table: Social Sciences |
Debra Hiom from SOSIG takes us on a guided tour of major Internet-based Social Science resources. |
May 1997, issue9, regular column |
NISS: National Information Services and Systems |
Annette Lafford and Oren Stone talk us through NISS, one of the major sources of on-line information for academics and librarians |
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r·cade: Resource Centre for Access to Data on Europe |
Sharon Bolton describes r-cade, an interdisciplinary resource centre that helps researchers and analysts to identify and acquire data for the European Social Sciences. |
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Planet SOSIG: ALISS and IRISS |
Debra Hiom on recent developments and happenings with ALISS, IRISS, and SOSIG. |
September 1997, issue11, regular column |
The History of History |
Stephen Smith explains the background to the relaunch of IHR-Info as HISTORY. |
November 1997, issue12, project update |
HEADLINE (HYBRID Electronic Access and Delivery in the Library Networked Environment) |
Maureen Wade introduces HEADLINE (HYBRID Electronic Access and Delivery in the Library Networked Environment). |
January 1998, issue13, project update |
Planet SOSIG: Politically Correct - Editing the Politics Section of SOSIG |
Heather Dawson from The British Library of Political and Economic Science talks about her role as a SOSIG Section Editor. |
January 1998, issue13, regular column |
An End User's View |
Oliver de Peyer with his personal view of what it is like being on the other side of the the metaphorical electronic issue desk. |
March 1998, issue14, feature article |
Planet SOSIG: Regard |
Sue Timmis introduces REGARD, a new research database now available on the World Wide Web. |
March 1998, issue14, regular column |
Newsline: News You Can Use |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
March 1998, issue14, news and events |
Newsline: News You Can Use |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
May 1998, issue15, news and events |
Electronic Access: Archives in the New Millennium |
Michael Day reports from Kew on the Public Record Office view of the Brave New World of online archives. |
July 1998, issue16, event report |
Knowledge Management |
Sheila Corrall asks if 'knowledge management' is a new phrase in place of 'information management', or a new concept altogether. |
December 1998, issue18, feature article |
JSTOR |
Daniel Holden reports on his trip to the United States to visit colleagues at JSTOR, a not-for-profit organisation creating a digital archive collection of scholarly journals |
December 1998, issue18, feature article |
CEDARS |
Kelly Russell explores the main deliverables of the CEDARS project: recommendations and guidelines, plus practical, robust and scaleable models for establishing distributed digital archives. |
December 1998, issue18, project update |
Metadiversity |
Michael Day on a Biodiversity conference in the States interested in Metadata. |
December 1998, issue18, event report |
SEAMLESS: Introduction to the Project |
Mary Rowlatt describes SEAMLESS, the Essex-based project. |
March 1999, issue19, feature article |
Planet SOSIG: Internet Resources for Social Scientists |
Pete Maggs discusses finding high-quality Internet resources for social science and methodology, based on his experience as a SOSIG Section Editor. |
March 1999, issue19, regular column |
JISC Content: NESLI Implications Outside the HE Community |
Alicia Wise discusses NESLI. |
June 1999, issue20, regular column |
An Overview of Subject Gateway Activities in Australia |
Debbie Campbell looks at how the original criteria proposed for an IMesh map against these Australian initiatives. |
September 1999, issue21, feature article |
The Web Editor: 'Abzu and Beyond' |
Charles Jones muses on the history of the Internet presence of the University of Chicago Oriental Institute. |
September 1999, issue21, regular column |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 22: Ariadne's Thread |
Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne issue 22, looks at Ariadne's web accesses for the past year, and previews the Distributed National Electronic Resource (DNER). |
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Clumping Towards a UK National Catalogue? |
Dennis Nicholson argues in favour of the distributed approach to cataloguing. |
December 1999, issue22, feature article |
Electronic Publication of Ancient Near Eastern Texts |
Charles E. Jones and David Schloen report on a Chicago conference which explored XML tagging for Ancient Near Eastern Texts on the Web. |
December 1999, issue22, feature article |
Planet SOSIG: Asking Questions - The CASS Social Survey Question Bank |
Adam Guy writes about the Question Bank service. |
December 1999, issue22, regular column |
