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Web Focus: Towards Library Groupware With Personalised Link Routing

editor — Thu, 29 Apr 2004 23:00:00 +0000

Brian Kelly takes a look at the FOAF Semantic Web application and suggests it is time to start evaluating this technology.

What Is FOAF?

The term FOAF [1] stands for Friend of a Friend. As might be deduced from this phrase one of the key applications of FOAF is to provide a mechanism for creating links to one's friends. From the links to one's immediate circle of friends automated software can be used to process links from your friends, which can provide a visualisation of 'friends of a friend'.

Web Focus: A Standards-Based Culture for Web Site Development

editor — Tue, 29 Apr 2003 23:00:00 +0000

Brian Kelly outlines strategies for choosing appropriate standards for building Web sites.

In Ariadne issue 33 the Web Focus column encouraged Web developers to "get serious about HTML standards" [1]. The article advocated use of XHTML and highlighted reasons why this was an important standard for Web developers.

XHTML is just one of the standards which has been developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). W3C has also developed several standards for XML as well as standards in the area of hyperlinking, multimedia and graphics.

WebWatch: Surfing Historical UK University Web Sites

editor — Tue, 29 Apr 2003 23:00:00 +0000

Brian Kelly outlines strategies for choosing appropriate standards for building Web sites.

It has been said that those who ignore history, are condemned to repeat it. In the Web world we can be so excited by new developments that we may forget approaches we have taken in the past and fail to learn from our mistakes. This article describes how the WayBack Machine [1] was used to look at the history of UK University Web sites.

Web Focus: Guidelines for URI Naming Policies

editor — Wed, 10 Apr 2002 23:00:00 +0000

Brian Kelly with some guidelines For URI naming policies in his regular column.

"Cool URIs"

What are "cool URIs"? This term comes from advice provided by W3C (the World Wide Web Consortium). The paper "Cool URIs don't change" [1] begins by saying:

Web Focus: Institutional Web Management Workshop - The Joined Up Web

editor — Sat, 23 Sep 2000 23:00:00 +0000

Brian Kelly reports on the "Institutional Web Management Workshop: The Joined-Up Web" event, held in Bath.

"One of the best workshops I've ever been at"

"Excellent! One of the best workshops I've ever been at"
"I return because it is by far the best way for me to find out what I need to do in the coming year at my site"
"The workshop gets better every year and I never fail to learn something new."

Web Focus: Reflections On WWW9

editor — Thu, 22 Jun 2000 23:00:00 +0000

Brian Kelly reports on the WWW9 conference, held in Amsterdam, in May 2000.

The Ninth International World Wide Web conference (WWW9) was held at the RAI Congress Centre in Amsterdam. The main part of the conference took place from Tuesday 16th till Thursday 18th May. A day of tutorial and workshops was held on Monday 15th May with the Developer's Day on Friday 19th May. About 1,400 delegates attended the conference. It was pleasing to note the large numbers of delegates from the UK - about 100 in total, with about 50% from the Higher Education community (and about 9 people from Southampton University and another 9 from Bristol University).

Web Watch: A Survey of Institutional Web Gateways

editor — Tue, 21 Dec 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Brian Kelly surveys institutional web gateways.

In September 1999 the author ran a 90 minutes hands-on session on Managing Your Institutional Web Gateway [1] at the JANET User Support Workshop which was held at the University of Plymouth. The materials for included a series of exercises in which the participants were asked to go to their own institutional home page, find the main page which contains links to external web resources and comment on the resource. After reviewing their own web site, they were then asked to look at a number of other university web sites and repeat the exercise.

Web Focus: Report on "Institutional Web Management Next Steps" Workshop

editor — Wed, 22 Sep 1999 23:00:00 +0000

Brian Kelly reports on the latest "Institutional Web Management Workshop," this year called: "The Next Steps."

The "Institutional Web Management: The Next Steps" workshop took place at Goldsmiths College, London on 7-9 September 1999. This was the third annual event for institutional web managers which has been organised by UK Web Focus. The first workshop was held over 2 day (16/17 July 1997) at Kings College London. As described in the workshop report published in Ariadne [1] the event attracted a total of 95 participants. The workshop provided a valuable opportunity for web editors to meet their peers at other institutions and compare experiences.

Web Focus: Report on the WWW 8 Conference

editor — Mon, 21 Jun 1999 23:00:00 +0000

Brian Kelly discusses WWW8 in Toronto, which took place in May 1999.

The Eighth World Wide Web Conference (WWW8) was on a smaller scale than in the past few years. The numbers of delegates seemed to be down, and there was no accompanying exhibition. The conference appeared to be refocussing on the web research community, with delegates from commercial companies more likely to be software developers than marketing types. This refocussing also seemed to be reflected in the conference papers, which, as a number of people commented, seemed to be of a higher quality this year.

Web Focus: The Role of the Web Editor

editor — Sat, 19 Dec 1998 00:00:00 +0000

Brian Kelly asks, does 'web editor' mean Unix guru or an HTML coder?

Web Focus: Ways of Exploiting New Technologies

editor — Sat, 18 Jul 1998 23:00:00 +0000

Brian Kelly discusses Intermediaries: Ways Of Exploiting New Technologies.

Since February 1998 HTML 4.0 [1], CSS 2.0[2], the Mathematical Markup Language MathML [3] and the Extensible Markup Language XML [4] have all become W3C Recommendations. These web protocols, all of which are concerned with the way in which information can be represented and displayed, were initially Working Drafts which were developed by the appropriate W3C Working Group.

What Is XML?

editor — Mon, 18 May 1998 23:00:00 +0000

Brian Kelly elucidates another infuriating three letter acronym: XML.

About XML

What is XML?

XML stands for the Extensible Markup Language. XML has been designed to address a number of deficiencies in HTML.

Which deficiencies in particular?

Web Focus: The 7th World Wide Web Conference

editor — Mon, 18 May 1998 23:00:00 +0000

Brian Kelly is interviewed about the 7th World Wide Web Conference upon his return from Brisbane.

Australia is a long way to go for a conference. What were you doing there?

I attended the conference in my role as UK Web Focus and the JISC representative on the World Wide Web Consortium. Attendenance at the World Wide Web conference provides me with an opportunity to monitor the latest Web developments and keep the community informed.

What were the highlights of the conference?

Web Focus: WebWatching UK Universities and Colleges

editor — Wed, 19 Nov 1997 00:00:00 +0000

Brian Kelly describes the WebWatch project.

About WebWatch

WebWatch is a one year project funded by the British Library Research and Innovation Centre (BLRIC) [1]. The main aim of WebWatch is to develop and use robot software to analyse the use of web technologies with various UK communities and to report on the findings to various interested communities. Other aims of WebWatch include:

Web Focus Corner: Running an Institutional Web Service

editor — Thu, 18 Sep 1997 23:00:00 +0000

Brian Kelly reports on a workshop on running an institutional web service.

Web Focus: Technical Aspects of Copyright and the Web

editor — Fri, 18 Jul 1997 23:00:00 +0000

Brian Kelly reports on the TALiSMAN seminar: Copyright and the Web.

In April a former colleague of mine from Leeds University sent a message to me about a strange copyright statement she had come across on the web, and asked for my comments. I was also intrigued by the statement and, on 23 April, sent the following message to the lis-elib Mailbase list

A strange copyright statment (sic) at the URL http://clans.cla.co.uk/www/auths.html has been brought to my attention.

It states that readers are not authorised to:

Web Focus: Report on the WWW 6 Conference

editor — Sun, 18 May 1997 23:00:00 +0000

Brian Kelly describes the sixth International World Wide Web conference which took place in California from 7 – 11 April 1997.

The Sixth International World Wide Web Conference took place from 7-11th April 1997 in Santa Clara, California, USA. I attended the conference in my capacity as the JISC representative on the W3C (the World Wide Web Consortium).

About 1,800 people attended the conference. This figure was down on the last two years, due possibly to the close proximity of other conferences - the Javasoft conference attracted about 8,000 delagates and the Microsoft Hardware Engineering conference about 15,000 delegates. Both of these conference took place the week before the WWW 6 conference.

Introducing Web Focus

editor — Wed, 19 Mar 1997 00:00:00 +0000

UK Web Focus - a strange job title. What is it? What does it do? In this article Brian Kelly describes his role as UK Web Focus, his previous involvement with the Web and his work as the JISC representative on the World Wide Web Consortium.

Netskills Corner: Beneath the Surface of Your Web Pages

editor — Wed, 18 Sep 1996 23:00:00 +0000

Brian Kelly looks beneath the surface of HTML pages and provides advice on the design of the underlying directory structure.

Pick up a book or read an article on HTML design and what will you find: advice on the use of graphics in Web pages, using tables and providing animation in your pages using technologies such as animated GIFs and client-pull or server-push, use of plug-in software, such as Shockwave, or programming environments such as Java and ActiveX.

There is, however, much more to the design of HTML pages than the appearance as seen by the end user. Of particular importance to the future maintenance of a large set of HTML pages is the underlying directory structure.

Netskills Corner: Redesigning Your Web Pages?

editor — Thu, 18 Jul 1996 23:00:00 +0000

Brian Kelly gives some sensible advice on designing (or, as is more likely, redesigning) Web pages.

How many organisations, departments, groups and individuals throughout the country do you think are planning to redesign their Web pages during the Summer? Are you? Is your university? What is the best design for your Web pages? If there isn't a "best design" how do you avoid a bad design - and anyone who has spent any time surfing the Web will know there are many examples of bad pages around.

Wire: Brian Kelly

editor — Thu, 18 Jul 1996 23:00:00 +0000

Brian Kelly is put under the virtual spotlight to answer a few questions via email on his past, present, and thoughts on matters networking.

What do you do in the world of networking/libraries/WWW?

Netskills Corner: NCSA Mosaic Web Browser

editor — Tue, 19 Mar 1996 00:00:00 +0000

In this Netskills Corner, Brian Kelly describes a UK-Wide collaborative (combined directional Web and IRC chat-like system) meeting.

The World Wide Web, as originally conceived by Tim Berners-Lee, was intended to provide a collaborative groupware system for the European particle physics community. Although Tim Berners-Lee's original browser for the NeXT system provided collaborative authoring capabilities, the mainstream browsers, such as Mosaic and Netscape, implemented a publishing model, with a small number of authors and large numbers of readers.

Netskills Corner

editor — Fri, 19 Jan 1996 00:00:00 +0000

Netskills corner - Brian Kelly, Senior Trainer at Netskills, reviews Internet Explorer, Microsoft's Browser for Windows 95.

In the beginning was Tim Berners-Lee's WWW (World Wide Web) browser for the NeXT. Then came the CERN WWW line browser and the Viola graphical browser for X. However the first widely- used WWW browser was NCSA Mosaic which was developed initially for X, and then for the Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh environments. NCSA Mosaic was developed by a group led by Marc Andreessen at the National Center For Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) based at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.