Overview of content related to 'rss'

Editorial Introduction to Issue 37: Monocultures Threaten More Than Species

editor — Thu, 30 Oct 2003 00:00:00 +0000

Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue issue 37.

These days zoologists view with increasing alarm the disappearance of species in this world, to the point where they fear their extinction will predate their discovery. This is no less true for linguists who are witnessing the same phenomenon in terms of dying languages and dialects. A parallel therefore can be drawn with the situation as detailed by Deborah Anderson.

Delivering OAI Records As RSS: An IMesh Toolkit Module for Facilitating Resource Sharing

editor — Thu, 30 Oct 2003 00:00:00 +0000

Monica Duke provides an overview of a means of providing records in RSS through the use of an IMesh Toolkit module that supports resource sharing. The content of this article was presented at the 4th Open Archives Forum Workshop

Subject Gateways act as a main point of access to high-quality resources on the Web. They are resource discovery guides that provide links to information resources which can be whole Web sites, organisational home pages and other collections or services, themed around a specific subject, such as the physical sciences or humanities. At their core is a catalogue of rich metadata records that describe Internet resources - subject specialists identify and select the resources and create the descriptions.

Towards a Typology for Portals

editor — Thu, 30 Oct 2003 00:00:00 +0000

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

Regular readers of Ariadne and related publications possibly feel more than a little overwhelmed by the current deluge of portal-related literature; a deluge for which my colleagues and I on the PORTAL Project [1] must of course accept some responsibility.

EEVL News

editor — Thu, 30 Oct 2003 00:00:00 +0000

Roddy MacLeod describes how EEVL is putting RSS to work.

EEVL is the Hub for engineering, mathematics and computing. It is an award-winning free service, which provides quick and reliable access to the best engineering, mathematics, and computing information available on the Internet. It is created and run by a team of information specialists from a number of universities and institutions in the UK, lead by Heriot Watt University.