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A web portal or links page is a web site that functions as a point of access to information on the World Wide Web. A portal presents information from diverse sources in a unified way. Apart from the standard search engine feature, web portals offer other services such as e-mail, news, stock prices, information, databases and entertainment. Portals provide a way for enterprises to provide a consistent look and feel with access control and procedures for multiple applications and databases, which otherwise would have been different entities altogether. Examples of public web portals are AOL, Excite, iGoogle, MSN, Netvibes, and Yahoo! (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Portal)
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Involving Users in the Development of a Web Accessibility Tool |
Jenny Craven and Mikael Snaprud describe how the EC-funded European Internet Accessibility Observatory Project is involving users in the development of a Web accessibility checking and monitoring tool. |
July 2005, issue44, feature article |
Virtual Research Environments: Overview and Activity |
Michael Fraser provides an overview of the virtual research environment (VRE) and introduces three JISC-funded projects in which Oxford University is participating. |
July 2005, issue44, feature article |
EEVL Xtra: The Hidden Web at Your Fingertips |
Roddy MacLeod looks at the latest service from EEVL. |
July 2005, issue44, regular column |
Integration and Impact: The JISC Annual Conference |
Marieke Guy has collated reports on sessions from the JISC Annual Conference held in Birmingham. |
July 2005, issue44, event report |
Book Review: Content and Workflow Management for Library Web Sites |
Martin White welcomes the detail but is concerned at the impact that the publishing process has had on the currency and utility of the content. |
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 45: Smaller Might Be Beautiful |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 45. |
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Web 2.0: Building the New Library |
Paul Miller explores some of the recent buzz around the concept of 'Web 2.0' and asks what it means for libraries and related organisations. |
October 2005, issue45, feature article |
Putting the Library Into the Institution: Using JSR 168 and WSRP to Enable Search Within Portal Frameworks |
Chris Awre, Stewart Waller, Jon Allen, Matthew J Dovey, Jon Hunter and Ian Dolphin describe the investigations and technical development undertaken within the JISC-funded Contextual Resource Evaluation Environment (CREE) Project to enable the presentation of existing search tools within portal frameworks using the JSR 168 and WSRP portlet standards. |
October 2005, issue45, feature article |
Looking for More Than Text? |
Balviar Notay and Catherine Grout give an overview of developments in digitisation programmes, on-line delivery services and specialised search engines which cater for searching and locating still images and time-based media and consider the issues that surround their use, focusing particularly on JISC developments. |
October 2005, issue45, feature article |
Planet-SOSIG |
Flora Watson introduces a new podcasting service from Biz/ed and Angela Joyce reports on the latest developments in the Eurostudies section of SOSIG. |
October 2005, issue45, regular column |
Web Focus: Must Email Die? |
Brian Kelly recently gave a talk on this subject at the Internet Librarian International 2005 conference. In this article he expands on the talk and revisits the question as to whether email really should disappear. |
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Distributed Services Registry Workshop |
John Gilby reports on the UKOLN/IESR two-day workshop at Scarman House, University of Warwick on 14-15 July 2005. |
October 2005, issue45, event report |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
October 2005, issue45, news and events |
The (Digital) Library Environment: Ten Years After |
Lorcan Dempsey considers how the digital library environment has changed in the ten years since Ariadne was first published. |
February 2006, issue46, feature article |
Delivering Digital Services: A Handbook for Public Libraries and Learning Centres |
Towards the end of the Pantomime season, Bruce Royan finds a golden egg among the goose droppings. |
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Search Engines: Where We Were, Are Now, and Will Ever Be |
Phil Bradley takes a look at the development of search engines over the lifetime of Ariadne and points to what we might anticipate in the years to come. |
April 2006, issue47, feature article |
Retrospective on the RDN |
Debra Hiom, in the first of a two-part series on the Resource Discovery Network, looks back at the development of the RDN and its activities to date. |
April 2006, issue47, feature article |
Serving Services in Web 2.0 |
Theo van Veen shows with the help of an example, how standardised descriptions of services can help users control the integration of services from different providers. |
April 2006, issue47, feature article |
IWMW 2006: Quality Matters |
Adrian Stevenson reports on the 10th Institutional Web Management Workshop held at the University of Bath over 14-16 June 2006. |
July 2006, issue48, event report |
JISC/CNI Conference, York 2006 |
Najla Semple and Robin Rice were at the JISC / CNI conference 'Envisioning future challenges in networked information'. |
July 2006, issue48, event report |
CRIS2006: Enabling Interaction and Quality: Beyond the Hanseatic League |
Derek Sergeant and Jessie Hey report on this 3-day conference in Bergen, Norway, 11-13 May 2006. |
July 2006, issue48, event report |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 49: Technology Is Only Part of the Story |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 49. |
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From Nought to a Thousand: The HUSCAP Project |
Suziki Masako and Sugita Shigeki describe Hokkaido University's efforts to populate its institutional repository with journal articles. |
October 2006, issue49, feature article |
Considering a Marketing and Communications Approach for an Institutional Repository |
Heleen Gierveld proposes a market-oriented approach to increase the rate of deposit to an institutional repository. |
October 2006, issue49, feature article |
e-Books for the Future: Here but Hiding? |
Brian Whalley outlines some developments in e-book technologies and links them to existing ways of presenting textbook information. |
October 2006, issue49, feature article |
GROW: Building a High-quality Civil Engineering Learning Object Repository and Portal |
Yan Han provides a general overview of the Geotechnical, Rock and Water Digital Library (GROW), a learning object repository and peer-reviewed civil engineering Web portal. |
October 2006, issue49, feature article |
e-Collaboration Workshop: Access Grid, Portals and Other VREs for the Social Sciences |
Rob Allan, Rob Crouchley and Michael Daw cover a one-day workshop reporting on the latest developments in e-Collaboration technology and applications. |
October 2006, issue49, event report |
Immaculate Catalogues, Indexes and Monsters Too... |
David E. Bennett reports on the three day residential CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group Annual Conference, University of East Anglia, during September 2006. |
October 2006, issue49, event report |
Workshop on E-Research, Digital Repositories and Portals |
Rob Allan, Rob Crouchley and Caroline Ingram report on a two-day workshop held at University of Lancaster over 6-7 September 2006 |
October 2006, issue49, event report |
What Happens When We Mash the Library? |
Paul Miller looks at recent attempts to make library resources more appealing, including the Talis competition to build library 'mashups'. |
January 2007, issue50, feature article |
Book Review: Digital Libraries - Integrating Content and Systems |
Chris Awre finds a useful toolset to guide librarians and LIS students on the future use of IT to deliver their services. |
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 51: Democratising Cultural Heritage |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne 51. |
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ARROW, DART and ARCHER: A Quiver Full of Research Repository and Related Projects |
Andrew Treloar and David Groenewegen describe three inter-related projects to support scholarly outputs and the e-research life cycle which have been funded by the Australian Commonwealth Government. |
April 2007, issue51, feature article |
Developing a Virtual Research Environment in a Portal Framework: The EVIE Project |
Tracey Stanley provides an overview of the EVIE Project at the University of Leeds which was funded under the JISC Virtual Research Environments Programme. |
April 2007, issue51, feature article |
Citeulike: A Researcher's Social Bookmarking Service |
Kevin Emamy and Richard Cameron describe a tool that helps researchers gather, collect and share papers. |
April 2007, issue51, feature article |
What Is an Open Repository? |
Julie Allinson, Jessie Hey, Chris Awre and Mahendra Mahey report on the Open Repositories 2007 conference, held in San Antonio, Texas between 23-26 January 2007. |
April 2007, issue51, event report |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
April 2007, issue51, news and events |
Book Review: Teaching Web Search Skills |
Verity Brack takes a look at this book for Web trainers, teachers and instructors. |
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 52: The New Invisible Industry |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 52. |
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DRIVER: Seven Items on a European Agenda for Digital Repositories |
Maurits van der Graaf provides results and conclusions from the DRIVER inventory study. |
July 2007, issue52, feature article |