Overview of content related to 'search technology'

Julian Cook describes a major database of medical images.

Ann Chapman describes the BNBMARC Currency Survey, a performance measurement survey on the supply of bibliographic records.

Peter Burnhill gives a briefing note on what EDINA and the Data Library are doing about the World Wide Web (W) and the Z39.50 Protocol (Z).

Clare Davies reports on this years event in an annual conference series addressing user-centred aspects of library and information science.

Robert van der Zwan describes a two week summer school in digital library developments at one of Europe's main research centres in this field.

Charles Oppenheim takes a look at the Shetland Times versus Shetland News copyright case, and its implications for users of the World Wide Web.

Tracey Stanley takes a good look at a new version of an old index, Yahoo, which is aimed at the UK and Ireland.

In Minotaur, the collective voice of Internet enthusiasts is countered by words of scepticism or caution. In this issue, Nick Gibbins gives an overview of some of the potential features that the Web does not contain, but a more functional successor to it might.

Debra Hiom reports from the second annual OMNI seminar.

Andrew Harnack and Eugene Kleppinger outline the case for better referencing of electronic sources.

Schelle Simcox describes a Web-based public library, designed in many ways to mimic, and improve on, features of and within a real, large-scale library.

Jon Knight looks at how Dublin Core and Apple's new MCF metadata file format might make useful and interesting bed fellows.

Cathy Murtha outlines the problems that audio-visually impaired people encounter when trying to use network-based resources.

Tracey Stanley describes Web-based Intelligent Searching Agents, and takes a closer look at a few examples you may wish to play with.

In Minotaur, the collective voice of Internet enthusiasts is countered by words of scepticism or caution. In this issue, Mike Holderness gives a few worrying examples of how much people outside the western hemisphere are behind us in terms of on-line resources.

Sue Welsh of the eLib OMNI project visits some of the medical sites.

Bill Drew writes about accessing his library's OPAC within a web page using Java Telnet. He looks at the need, implementation, problems, and opportunities.

In our previous issue, Fytton Rowland defended the continuation of print research journals into the networked age. Here, Stevan Harnad presents a different case.

Steve Mitchell describes INFOMINE, an impressive attempt to build a Web-based virtual library for the academic community.