Overview of content related to 'standards'

In From the Trenches, a regular column which delves into the more technical aspects of networking and the World Wide Web, Jon Knight, programmer and a member of the ROADS team, takes a look at the causes of good and bad HTML and explains what tags we should be marking up Web pages with.

Chris Lilley submits to an interview by email.

Jon Knight describes how Linux is a cheap and useful operating system for library systems units and the like.

Nearly half a year after the project’s official start date, ADAM has a fledgling information gateway to information on the Internet in art, design, architecture and media. Tony Gill, ADAM Project Leader, outlines what has been achieved so far, and some of the challenges that lie directly ahead.

Paul Hollands describes and compares tools to help you notice when a Web-based resource has been updated.

Dave Beckett is subjected to an interview via email.

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..

Sarah Ashton reports from the Netlinks Symposium, organised by the Netlinks eLib project and the Department of Information Studies in the University of Sheffield.

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.

Dan Fleming, co-director of the eLib 'Formations' project and lecturer in media studies at the University of Ulster, looks at some of the issues involved in adding value to a pre-prints system by using groupware such as Lotus Notes.

Klaas Wierenga, the director of DESIRE, describes this pan-European project in which the academic network services of the UK have a large stake.

Paul Miller describes Dublin Core and several ideas for how it can be implemented.

Julian Cook describes a major database of medical images.

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

David Houghton discusses a method by which documents marked up using Standard Generalised Markup Language (SGML) can be used to generate a database for use in conjunction with the World Wide Web.

Glen Monks is put under the virtual spotlight to answer a few questions via email.

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.

Acrobat a High Flyer: John MacColl discusses the success of Adobe Acrobat and PDF.

Judith Wusteman describes the document formats used in electronic serials.