Overview of content related to 'search technology'

Delivering OAI Records As RSS: An IMesh Toolkit Module for Facilitating Resource Sharing

editor — Thu, 30 Oct 2003 00:00:00 +0000

Monica Duke provides an overview of a means of providing records in RSS through the use of an IMesh Toolkit module that supports resource sharing. The content of this article was presented at the 4th Open Archives Forum Workshop

Subject Gateways act as a main point of access to high-quality resources on the Web. They are resource discovery guides that provide links to information resources which can be whole Web sites, organisational home pages and other collections or services, themed around a specific subject, such as the physical sciences or humanities. At their core is a catalogue of rich metadata records that describe Internet resources - subject specialists identify and select the resources and create the descriptions.

Experiences of Harvesting Web Resources in Engineering Using Automatic Classification

editor — Thu, 30 Oct 2003 00:00:00 +0000

Kjell Jansson, Jessica Lindholm and Tomas Schoenthal describe the work in setting up a Web index that uses automatic classification as a means for the selection of resources.

The story behind Engine-e [1], a recently created robot-generated Web index, is best told by starting in 1994 with the development and maintenance of EELS (Engineering Electronic Library, Sweden) [2], a manually indexed quality-controlled subject gateway in Engineering. EELS was accompanied by the experimental robot-generated index, "All" Engineering [3], created within the DESIRE framework [4]. The solution used already in "All" Engineering is similar to that of Engine-e, but with some distinct differences.

Towards a Typology for Portals

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Paul Miller looks at some of the services we call portals, and argues for better words to describe them.

Regular readers of Ariadne and related publications possibly feel more than a little overwhelmed by the current deluge of portal-related literature; a deluge for which my colleagues and I on the PORTAL Project [1] must of course accept some responsibility.

DAEDALUS: Initial Experiences With EPrints and DSpace at the University of Glasgow

editor — Thu, 30 Oct 2003 00:00:00 +0000

William Nixon provides an overview of the DAEDALUS initial experience with the GNU EPrints and DSpace software and the decision to employ both.

DAEDALUS [1] is a three-year JISC-funded project under the FAIR Programme [2] which will build a network of open access digital collections at the University of Glasgow. These collections will enable us to unlock access to a wide range of our institutional scholarly output. This output includes not only published and peer-reviewed papers but also administrative documents, research finding aids, pre-prints and theses.

News from BIOME

editor — Thu, 30 Oct 2003 00:00:00 +0000

Donald Mackay reports on BIOME participation in a major project to enhance interoperability between the BIOME core database and those projected by LTSN Subject Centres.

BIOME is currently participating in a major project to enhance interoperability between the BIOME core database and those being created by our cognate Learning and Teaching Support Network (LTSN) Subject Centres. The partners in the project are the Resource Description Network (RDN) Hubs BIOME and ALTIS and five LTSN centres: Bioscience; Health Sciences and Practice; Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism; Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary Medicine; and Psychology.

Search Engines: Would All New Search Engines Take One Step Forward!

editor — Thu, 30 Oct 2003 00:00:00 +0000

Phil Bradley gives us an overview of emerging, new and newly discovered search engines that we might want to keep an eye on as they develop.

There have been several additions to the world of search engines over the summer, and I thought I'd do a quick round-up of them to see how they perform.

ZapMeta | Netnose | Wotbox

ECDL-2003 Conference Notes

editor — Thu, 30 Oct 2003 00:00:00 +0000

Lesly Huxley shares her notes on the European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries.

ECDL2003 was the seventh in the annual series of European Digital Library conferences, this year hosted in Trondheim, Norway. The unusual move from September to August does not carry through to next year's conference at the University of Bath, UK, which returns to the 'normal' September slot (12-16 September).

ECDL-2003 Web Archiving

editor — Thu, 30 Oct 2003 00:00:00 +0000

Michael Day reports on the 3rd ECDL Workshop on Web Archives held in Trondheim, August 2003.

On 21 August 2003, the 3rd ECDL Workshop on Web Archives [1] [2] was held in Trondheim, Norway in association with the 7th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL) [3]. This event was the third in a series of annual workshops that have been held in association with the ECDL conferences held in Darmstadt [4] and Rome [5].

OAI: The Fourth Open Archives Forum Workshop

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Manjula Patel provides us with an overview of the 4th Open Archives Forum Workshop.

Welcome and Introduction

Rachel Heery, UKOLN, University of Bath

Delegates were welcomed and reminded that this was the fourth and final in a series of workshops which have been organised by the Open Archives Forum Project. Rachel Heery explained that the project was a supporting action funded by the European Commission to bring together EU researchers and implementers working in the area of open access to archives.

Newsline: News You Can Use

editor — Thu, 30 Oct 2003 00:00:00 +0000

Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

Reveal

[September 2003]

The Reveal Web site, launched on 16 September 2003, brings together information about services and resources for visually impaired people from organisations across the United Kingdom. Reveal is an information resource where you will be able to find books in Braille and Moon, audio books and digital talking books, tactile diagrams and other accessible format materials, find out who produces, loans or sells accessible materials, and find information about the different accessible materials.