Articles tagged 'jon knight'
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Jon Knight has contributed 16 articles to Ariadne. For contact and affiliation details (as of latest published article), see Jon Knight author profile.
Most frequently used terms in this author's articles (ordered by total usage / articles): "html", "cache", "database", "marc", "cd-rom", "software", "metadata", "linux", "data", "acorn". For more statistics, see data charts for Jon Knight.
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From the Trenches: HTML, Which Version? |
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. |
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From the Trenches: Network Services on a Shoestring |
Jon Knight describes how Linux is a cheap and useful operating system for library systems units and the like. |
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From the Trenches: Networking (Notworking?) CD-ROMS |
Jon Knight on the perils and problems of networking CD ROMs. |
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Cashing in on Caching |
Jon Knight and Martin Hamilton describe Caching, possibly the most crucial tool available to frequent Web users, and point out why libraries should be aware of it. |
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Securing HTML FORMs |
Jon Knight discusses some of the options available to the designers and implementors of HTML FORMs for providing authentication of users in a library environment. |
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Open Journal Trip Report |
Open Journal trip report: Jon Knight visits the Open Journals eLib project to investigate what research they are undertaking into electronic journal architecture and navigation. |
November 1996, issue6, event report |
Intranets |
Jon Knight investigates what is meant by the current buzzword intranet and looks at how it may be applied in a library environment. A suggestion for a low cost entry level intranet solution is also given. |
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MCF: Will Dublin Form the Apple Core |
Jon Knight looks at how Dublin Core and Apple's new MCF metadata file format might make useful and interesting bed fellows. |
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Handling MARC With PERL |
Jon Knight investigates the inner workings of the MARC record's binary distribution format and presents the first cut at a Perl module to read and write MARC records. |
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Making a MARC With Dublin Core |
Jon Knight revisits his Perl module for processing MARC records that was introduced in the last issue and adds UNIMARC, USMARC and a script that converts Dublin Core metadata into USMARC records. |
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Internationalisation and the Web |
Jon Knight looks at how the Web is currently undergoing the sometimes painful internationalization process required if it is to live up to its name of the World Wide Web. |
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Wire: Interview Via Email With Jon Knight and Martin Hamilton |
In this interview we question Knight and Martin Hamilton and present their replies. |
May 1997, issue9, regular column |
ACORN Implemented |
Jon Knight and Richard Goodman describe the technical implementation of the ACORN system. |
July 1997, issue10, project update |
Knight's Tale: The Hybrid Library - Books and Bytes |
Jon Knight gives his personal view on the fashionable concept of a 'hybrid library'. |
September 1997, issue11, regular column |
A Knight's Tale: Networked CD-ROM Redirectors |
Jon Knight describes how MSCDEX.EXE and networked CD-ROM redirectors can introduce difficulties when using Windows 95 and NT to provide access to library CD-ROMs. |
March 1998, issue14, regular column |
Redeveloping the Loughborough Online Reading List System |
Jon Knight, Jason Cooper and Gary Brewerton describe the redevelopment of Loughborough University’s open source reading list system. |
