Overview of content related to 'search technology'

Editorial introduction to Issue 19: Ariadne's Thread

editor — Fri, 19 Mar 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Philip Hunter and Bernadette Daly introduce the articles for Ariadne issue 19.

This is the first issue of a purely electronic Ariadne, which has been produced without the assistance of a print editor (Lyndon Pugh) and production manager (John MacColl), both of whom contributed substantially to the commissioning side of the operation. In addition, UKOLN is this month launching a second electronic magazine, Exploit Interactive.

SEAMLESS: Introduction to the Project

editor — Fri, 19 Mar 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Mary Rowlatt describes SEAMLESS, the Essex-based project.

SEAMLESS is a two year research project, funded by the British Library, which aims to develop a new model for citizens' information - one which is distributed, and based on partnerships and common standards.

The objectives of the SEAMLESS project are to:

Instructional Management Systems

editor — Fri, 19 Mar 1999 00:00:00 +0000

John MacColl explores the IMS concept in the context of the SELLIC project.

Web Research: Browsing Video Content

editor — Fri, 19 Mar 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Peter Thomas, UWE, and Peter Macer of Hewlett Packard Research Laboratories describe automated techniques for browsing video content.

Interactive Media-rich Web Content - Using Video

One of the major problems experienced by Web users is the amount of time needed to download data. As the speed and power of desktop computer has increased it has become possible for almost anyone with access to a PC to produce interactive web content using images, audio, and particularly video. Therefore, even though the available bandwidth of the Internet is increasing, the bandwidth requirements of the media available through it, and the number of users trying to access that information are also increasing.

Search Engine Corner

editor — Fri, 19 Mar 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Phil Bradley reviews recent developments with search engines.

OMNI Corner: Information or Hysteria, "Talking sensibly" in the Biomedical Field

editor — Fri, 19 Mar 1999 00:00:00 +0000

John Kirriemuir outlines current areas of concern in: Information or Hysteria? "Talking sensibly" in the biomedical field.

Defining the subjects

Here at OMNI, our subject gateway essentially covers all of the health studies subjects in scope (basically medicine and health), and various biomedical aspects of the life sciences, such as molecular biology research, clinical psychology and sports medicines.

EEVL Eye on Engineering

editor — Fri, 19 Mar 1999 00:00:00 +0000

The EEVL Team explore Internet Resources in Petroleum Engineering and Electronics, take a glance at engineering resources in Australia and South East Asia and give the latest news from the EEVL service.

Here are four updates relevant to the EEVL project.

EEVL Update

Linda Kerr, EEVL

Biz/Ed Bulletin

editor — Fri, 19 Mar 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Kate Sharp and Libby Miller describe Business and Economics Resources on the Internet.

Biz/ed

Introducing Biz/ed

Biz/ed [1] is a free, subject-based information gateway service providing access to quality-assured Internet resources in business and economics. It is managed from the Institute for Learning and Research Technology (ILRT) [2] based at the University of Bristol. The core service was originally targeted at the needs of staff and students up to first year undergraduate level.

Metadata: Image Retrieval

editor — Fri, 19 Mar 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Michael Day reports on combining content-based and metadata-based approaches.

Introduction

Image-based information is a key component of human progress in a number of distinct subject domains and digital image retrieval is a fast-growing research area with regard to both still and moving images. In order to address some relevant issues the Second UK Conference on Image Retrieval - the Challenge of Image Retrieval (CIR 99) was held in Newcastle upon Tyne on the 25 and 26 February 1999 [1]. Participants included both researchers and practitioners in the area of image retrieval.

What Is Apache?

editor — Fri, 19 Mar 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Eddie Young gives the essentials of "Apache", the widely used Unix-based web server software.

Apache is the name of the software that allows you to run a web service on a UNIX server. Apache is very popular and provides access to most web sites on the internet. A recent Netcraft survey of Web Servers around the world placed Apache Powered sites at over 50 percent of the total. Part of the reason for this maybe that it is freely available, reliable and simple to set up and configure, and it can provide most of the requirements for a web site.

Windows NT Explorer

editor — Fri, 19 Mar 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Brett Burridge introduces his regular column on Windows NT with a description of Site Server's search facility.

In this new column, I hope to bring users' attention to the value of employing Windows NT server technology within their institution. While Windows NT has its fair share of problems, there is no denying that the quality of server-side software available for this platform has improved enormously in the last 12 months.

Kicking off, this article examines the use of Microsoft's Site Server 3.0 [1] to provide a sophisticated web based search solution for your institution.