Debra Hiom reports from the second annual OMNI seminar. <a href="/issue7">issue7</a> January 1997 <a href="/category/article-type/event-report">event report</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/193/author-info">debra hiom</a> Anne Mumford summarises the meeting organised by the British Universities Film and Video Council at the National Film Theatre on 18 December 1996, which looked into the problems and issues surrounding using academic networks for multimedia applications. <a href="/issue7">issue7</a> January 1997 <a href="/category/article-type/feature-article">feature article</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/343/author-info">anne mumford</a> Anne McCombe describes a service that provides a wide range of datasets to the wider communities. <a href="/issue7">issue7</a> January 1997 <a href="/category/article-type/project-update">project update</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/351/author-info">anne mccombe</a> Andy Powell and Mark Gillet discuss methods of electronic authentication. <a href="/issue7">issue7</a> January 1997 <a href="/category/article-type/tooled">tooled up</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/354/author-info">andy powell</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/355/author-info">mark gillet</a> Jon Knight looks at how Dublin Core and Apple's new MCF metadata file format might make useful and interesting bed fellows. <a href="/issue7">issue7</a> January 1997 <a href="/category/article-type/tooled">tooled up</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/204/author-info">jon knight</a> 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. <a href="/issue7">issue7</a> January 1997 <a href="/category/article-type/tooled">tooled up</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/204/author-info">jon knight</a>