Overview of content related to 'standards'

Monica Duke reports on a two-day training seminar on persistent identifiers held by ERPANET in Cork, Ireland over 17-18 June 2004.

Jeffrey Darlington describes how structured datasets produced by UK Government departments and agencies are being archived and made available to users.

Liz Pearce and Neil Smith introduce the IT for Me Project which aims to provide personalised access to online resources in South Yorkshire's public libraries.

Paul Browning offers a technical review of new approaches to Web publishing.

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

Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 38.

Tracey Stanley, Mina Sotiriou and Matthew Dovey provide an overview of a project to produce tools to discover information resources and deploy them within a university VLE.

Phil Bradley takes us through the major trends and highlights in the world of search engines over the course of the past year.

Lawrie Phipps, Sue Harrison, David Sloan and Betty Willder look at the increasing need for developers of institutional and educational Web sites to develop and follow a strategy for ensuring optimal accessibility of online content.

Ann Apps reports on a conference about current and future uses of the proposed OpenURL Framework Standard Z39.88-2004.

Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

Deborah Anderson provides us an overview of the progress made in bringing historic scripts to the Unicode Standard.

Penny Garrod brings us up to date on developments in ebooks.

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

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.

Linda Humphreys Frances Boyle and Andy Powell give us a description of the OpenURL Meeting held in London, September 2003.

Stuart Hannabuss seeks the tenor among the diversity of voices provided by Challenge and Change in the Information Society.

Jeffrey Darlington, Andy Finney and Adrian Pearce describe the groundbreaking BBC Domesday Project of 1986, and explain how its unique multimedia collection has been preserved.

Kelvin Hai, David Palmer and Chris Dunlop of the MARTINI Project describe the architecture and operation of the Project-developed IMS Generator and show how its flexibility allows it to handle the diverse nature of data held by institutions.