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An application programming interface (API) is a particular set of rules and specifications that a software program can follow to access and make use of the services and resources provided by another particular software program that implements that API. It serves as an interface between different software programs and facilitates their interaction, similar to the way the user interface facilitates interaction between humans and computers. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: API)
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23rd International CODATA Conference |
Alex Ball reports on a conference on ‘Open Data and Information for a Changing Planet’ held by the International Council for Science’s Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan on 28–31 October 2012. |
November 2012, issue70, event report |
24 Hour Museum: From Past to Future |
As 24 Hour Museum rebuilds and looks outwards to new partnerships, Jon Pratty looks at challenges faced over the last seven years. |
July 2007, issue52, feature article |
A DRY CRIG Event for the IE Demonstrator |
Paul Walk reports on an 'unconference' for developers working in and around the JISC Information Environment and institutional systems, hosted by UKOLN at the University of Bath in June 2008. |
July 2008, issue56, event report |
A Speaking Electronic Librarian |
Markos Dendrinos with a proposal for an interface system, based on speech recognition and synthesis technologies, for automatic library services. |
October 2002, issue33, feature article |
Access Management: The Key to a Portal - The Experience of the Subject Portals Project |
Francisco Pinto and Michael Fraser report on the experience of the Subject Portals Project. |
April 2003, issue35, feature article |
Adapting VuFind as a Front-end to a Commercial Discovery System |
Graham Seaman describes the adaptation of an open source discovery tool, VuFind, to local needs, discusses the decisions which needed to be made in the process, and considers the implications of this process for future library discovery systems. |
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An Introduction to the Search/Retrieve URL Service (SRU) |
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. |
July 2004, issue40, feature article |
Book Review: Ajax in Oracle JDeveloper |
Pete Cliff finds aspects of this work useful and interesting, but he also expresses some serious reservations. |
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Book Review: Library Mashups |
Aldalin Lyngdoh reviews a book on the basics of mashups and how they have been used in libraries worldwide. |
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Book Review: Making Software - What Really Works, and Why We Believe It |
While acknowledging the genuine usefulness of much of its content, Emma Tonkin provides helpful pointers towards a second edition. |
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Book Review: Pro Web 2.0 Mashups |
Ralph LeVan looks at a comprehensive work on how to consume and repurpose Web services. |
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Book Review: Programming Collective Intelligence |
Pete Cliff tries to remember A-level mathematics as he dives into the fascinating world of machine learning and statistics and how to apply these techniques to Web-accessible datasets. |
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Content Architecture: Exploiting and Managing Diverse Resources |
Jane Stevenson gives a personal view of the recent UK conference organised by the International Society of Knowledge Organization. |
July 2009, issue60, event report |
DataCite UK User Group Meeting |
Alex Ball reports on the 2nd UK User Group meeting for DataCite, held at the British Library in London, in April 2011. |
July 2011, issue67, event report |
ECDL2004: 4th International Web Archiving Workshop, September 2004 |
Michael Day reports on the 4th International Web Archiving Workshop held at the University of Bath in September as part of ECDL 2004. |
October 2004, issue41, event report |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 48: Extended Family Net Works |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne 48. |
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 62: The Wisdom of Communities |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 62. |
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 69 |
The editor introduces readers to the content of Ariadne Issue 69. |
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Emerging Technologies in Academic Libraries (emtacl10) |
Andrew Walsh reports on a new international conference on emerging technologies within academic libraries organised by the library of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and held in Trondheim, Norway in April 2010. |
July 2010, issue64, event report |
EMTACL12 (Emerging Technologies in Academic Libraries) |
Sarah Rayner and Olivia Walsby report on a three-day conference on Emerging Technologies in Academic Libraries, hosted by NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) in Trondheim, Norway over 1 - 3 October 2012. |
November 2012, issue70, event report |
Fedora Users Conference |
Chris Awre and Richard Green report from the Fedora Users Conference, a two-day meeting for users of the open source Fedora repository system held at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, over 19-20 June 2006. |
July 2006, issue48, event report |
Get Tooled Up: SeeAlso: A Simple Linkserver Protocol |
Jakob Voss combines OpenSearch and unAPI to enrich catalogues. |
October 2008, issue57, feature article |
Get Tooled Up: Xerxes at Royal Holloway, University of London |
Anna Grigson, Peter Kiely, Graham Seaman and Tim Wales describe the implementation of an open source front end to the MetaLib federated search tool. |
January 2010, issue62, feature article |
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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Handshake Session at International Repositories Infrastructure Workshop, Amsterdam |
Adrian Stevenson highlights the Handshake Session which formed part of the International Repositories InfrastructureWorkshop, at the Radisson SAS Hotel, Amsterdam, held over 16-17 March 2009. |
April 2009, issue59, event report |
Hydra UK: Flexible Repository Solutions to Meet Varied Needs |
Chris Awre reports on the Hydra UK event held on 22 November 2012 at the Library of the London School of Economics. |
November 2012, issue70, event report |
Institutional Web Management Workshop 2008: The Great Debate |
Adrian Tribe reports on a three-day conference designed for professionals involved in the provision of institutional Web services, organised by UKOLN and held at King's College, University of Aberdeen in July 2008. |
July 2008, issue56, event report |
Introducing UnAPI |
Dan Chudnov and a team of colleagues describe unAPI, a tiny HTTP API for serving information objects in next-generation Web applications. |
July 2006, issue48, feature article |
Intute Integration |
Angela Joyce, Jackie Wickham, Phil Cross and Chris Stephens describe Intute's ongoing Integration Project, which is promoting and developing integration of Intute content in the UK academic library community. |
April 2008, issue55, feature article |
IWMW 2007: Next Steps for the Web Management Community |
Shirley Keane reports on the wide range of presentations given at this year's Institutional Web Management Workshop. |
July 2007, issue52, event report |
JISC Content: NESLI Implications Outside the HE Community |
Alicia Wise discusses NESLI. |
June 1999, issue20, regular column |
Learning Objects and the Information Environment |
Ian Dolphin and Paul Miller discuss the place of Learning Objects in the wider environment of learning. |
July 2002, issue32, feature article |
Learning to YODL: Building York's Digital Library |
Peri Stracchino and Yankui Feng describe a year's progress in building the digital library infrastructure outlined by Julie Allinson and Elizabeth Harbord in their article last issue. |
October 2009, issue61, feature article |
Live Blogging @ IWMW 2009 |
Kirsty McGill provides a live blogger perspective on the three-day Institutional Web Managers Workshop, held by UKOLN at the University of Essex, Colchester, in July 2009. |
October 2009, issue61, event report |
Making the Most of a Conference |
Stephanie Taylor writes about how she made the most of a conference to promote and inform the work of a project. |
July 2012, issue69, feature article |
Mapping the JISC IE Service Landscape |
Andy Powell provides a graphical representation of how some well-known services, projects and software applications fit within the JISC Information Environment technical architecture. |
July 2003, issue36, feature article |
Metadata Corner: CrossROADS and Interoperability |
Michael Day, Rachel Heery and Andy Powell report on work in progress on enhancements to the ROADS software. |
March 1998, issue14, regular column |
Metasearch: Building a Shared, Metadata-driven Knowledge Base System |
Terry Reese discusses the creation of a shared knowledge base system within OSU's open-source metasearch development. |
April 2006, issue47, feature article |
Motivations for the Development of a Web Resource Synchronisation Framework |
Stuart Lewis, Richard Jones and Simeon Warner explain some of the motivations behind the development of the ResourceSync Framework. |
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Moving Ariadne: Migrating and Enriching Content with Drupal |
Thom Bunting explains some of the technology behind the migration of Ariadne (including more than 1600 articles from its back issues archive) onto a Drupal content management platform. |
