Overview of content related to 'standards'

Gordon Dunsire describes the one-day seminar on standard schemas for collection-level description held by UKOLN in February.

Daniel Chudnov, Jeremy Frumkin, Jennifer Weintraub, Matthew Wilcox and Raymond Yee describe a potential groupware framework for integrating access to diverse information resources and distributed personal collection development.

Eric Lease Morgan describes sibling Web Service protocols designed to define a standard form for Internet search queries as well as the structure of the responses.

Chris Turner describes the latest phase of Cornucopia development and the opportunities this is opening up for the future.

This month Neil Jacobs introduces a new book for information professionals in the social sciences and Heta Virnes describes her experience of running virtual helpdesks for SOSIG.

Brian Kelly takes a look at a digital TV box which provides Web and email access in your living room.

Paola Stillone reports on a three-day annual conference of the CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group (CIG), held at the University of Bath, 30 June - 2 July.

Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

Ann Chapman outlines the planned changes to the ISBN standard and its impact on the information community and the book trade.

Paul Davey explains what JISC is doing to improve communications through more effective news promotion. Roddy MacLeod and Malcolm Moffat examine the technology EEVL has developed in this area.

Annemiek van der Kuil and Martin Feijen describe the first year of the DARE Project and its foundation of the OAI repositories of Dutch academic output.

Debbie Campbell explains how the exploitation of recent standards has allowed the National Library of Australia to digitise its collections and host federated search services and provide an improved service.

Rena Lohan outlines how access rights conferred by FOI legislation have affected administrative operations in University College Dublin.

Randy Metcalfe considers the role of free and open source software in UK Further and Higher Education.

Stevan Harnad provides a summary of his critique of Jean-Claude Guédon's views on the green and gold roads to Open Access.

John Gilby reports on a one-day conference about resource discovery, held at the British Library Conference Centre, London in November.

Daniel Chudnov, Richard Cameron, Jeremy Frumkin, Ross Singer and Raymond Yee demonstrate a 'gather locally, share globally' approach to OpenURLs and metadata autodiscovery in scholarly and non-scholarly environments.

Pete Johnston introduces the JISC Information Environment Metadata Schema Registry (IEMSR) Project and examines some of the challenges it is facing.

Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.