Buzz - Apache

• SUNCAT: Ten Years and Beyond

  Celia Jenkins charts the beginnings of SUNCAT, its development over the last ten years and what the future holds for the service.

• Developing a Prototype Library WebApp for Mobile Devices

  Jason Cooper and Gary Brewerton describe the development of a prototype WebApp to improve access to Library systems at Loughborough University for mobile devices.

• Improving Evaluation of Resources through Injected Feedback Surveys

  Terry Reese suggests a novel approach for providing intercept survey functionality for librarians looking to simplify the gathering of user feedback for library-provided materials.

• CURATEcamp iPres 2012

  Mark Jordan, Courtney Mumma, Nick Ruest and the participants of CURATEcamp iPres 2012 report on this unconference for digital curation practitioners and researchers, held on 2 October 2012 in Toronto.

• 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.

• 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.

• The Second British Library DataCite Workshop

  Alex Ball reports on a one-day workshop on metadata supporting the citation of research data, held at the British Library, London, on 6 July 2012.

• MyMobileBristol

  Mike Jones, Simon Price, Nikki Rogers and Damian Steer describe the rationale, aims and progress of MyMobileBristol, highlighting some of the challenges and opportunities that have arisen during the project.

• UK Reading Experience Database

  Bethan Ruddock reports from the launch event for the UK Reading Experience Database, held at the Betty Boothroyd Library, the Open University, Milton Keynes, on 24 February 2011.

• Institutional Web Management Workshop 2010

  Keith Doyle provides a personal perspective on a conference organised by UKOLN for those involved in the provision of institutional Web services.

• The Future of Interoperability and Standards in Education: A JISC CETIS Event

  Sarah Currier reports on an international working meeting involving a range of educational interoperability standards bodies and communities, organised by JISC CETIS.

• Book Review: Ajax in Oracle JDeveloper

  Pete Cliff finds aspects of this work useful and interesting, but he also expresses some serious reservations.

• UK Institutional Repository Search: Innovation and Discovery

  Vic Lyte, Sophia Jones, Sophia Ananiadou and Linda Kerr describe an innovative tool to showcase UK research output through advanced discovery and retrieval facilities.

• NSF Workshop on Cyberinfrastructure Software Sustainability

  Paul Walk reports on a two-day NSF-sponsored workshop held at Indiana University, on 26-27 March 2009.

• Book Review: Website Optimization

  Pete Cliff used to think 'Website Optimisation' simply meant compressing images and avoiding nested tables, but in this he book finds out how much more there is to it, even in the Age of Broadband.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• SWORD: Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit

  Julie Allinson, Sebastien Francois and Stuart Lewis describe the JISC-funded SWORD Project which has produced a lightweight protocol for repository deposit.

• Towards Virtualisation: A New Approach in Server Management

  Eddie Young provides an account of trials and implementations carried out here after Matt Thrower gives us the background and benefits of employing virtualisation.

• 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.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Take a Peek Beneath the EPrints V3 Wrappers

  With v3 officially launched at the Open Repositories Conference in San Antonio last week, William Nixon and Peter Millington report on the EPrints 3 pre-launch briefing in London, 8 December 2006.

• Web Curator Tool

  Philip Beresford tells the story (from The British Library's perspective) of the development of new software to aid all stages of harvesting Web sites for preservation.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Introducing UnAPI

  Dan Chudnov and a team of colleagues describe unAPI, a tiny HTTP API for serving information objects in next-generation Web applications.

• QMSearch: A Quality Metrics-aware Search Framework

  Aaron Krowne and Urvashi Gadi present a framework which improves searching in the context of scholarly digital libraries by taking a 'quality metrics-aware' approach.

• 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.

• Building Open Source Communities: 4th OSS Watch Conference

  Sebastian Rahtz and Randy Metcalfe report on a one-day conference on open source software development communities organised by OSS Watch held in Edinburgh on 4 July 2005.

• E-Archiving: An Overview of Some Repository Management Software Tools

  Marion Prudlo discusses LOCKSS, EPrints, and DSpace in terms of who uses them, their cost, underlying technology, the required know-how, and functionalities.

• Installing Shibboleth

  Simon McLeish describes the experience of Shibboleth installation in a Higher Education environment, and suggests ways to make this experience more user-friendly.

• Software Choice: Decision-making in a Mixed Economy

  Randy Metcalfe considers the role of free and open source software in UK Further and Higher Education.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• The Tapir: Adding E-Theses Functionality to DSpace

  Richard Jones demonstrates how the Theses Alive Plugin for Institutional Repositories (Tapir) has provided E-Theses functionality for DSpace.

• Cornucopia: An Open Collection Description Service

  Chris Turner describes the latest phase of Cornucopia development and the opportunities this is opening up for the future.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Support Models for Open Source Deployment

  Sebastian Rahtz and Randy Metcalfe report on OSS Watch's one-day conference on support models held in London in June 2004.

• At the Event: The EPrints UK Workshop

  Phil Cross, Debra Hiom and Emma Place report on this workshop which was held at the University of Bath in February 2004.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Through the Web Authoring Tools

  Paul Browning offers a technical review of new approaches to Web publishing.

• DSpace Vs. ETD-db: Choosing Software to Manage Electronic Theses and Dissertations

  Richard Jones examines the similarities and differences between DSpace and ETD-db to determine their applicability in a modern E-theses service.

• DAEDALUS: Initial Experiences With EPrints and DSpace at the University of Glasgow

  William Nixon provides an overview of the DAEDALUS initial experience with the GNU EPrints and DSpace software and the decision to employ both.

• 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.

• Web Focus: Interfaces to Web Testing Tools

  Brian Kelly looks at interfaces to Web testing tools, and in particular at Bookmarklets - simple extensions to browsers which enhance functionality.

• Web Watch: A Survey of Web Server Software Used by UK University Web Sites

  Brian Kelly with an update of his survey of server software used by central Web sites in UK Universities.

• Windows Explorer: The Index Server Companion

  Brett Burridge describes the Index Server Companion, an application he has created that allows Microsoft Index Server to index content from remote websites and ODBC databases.

• The Evolution of an Institutional E-prints Archive at the University of Glasgow

  William Nixon with some practical advice based on the Glasgow experience.

• Setting up an Institutional E-Print Archive

  Stephen Pinfield, Mike Gardner, and John MacColl with some practical advice on setting up an e-print archive.

• The JISC Information Environment and Web Services

  Andy Powell and Liz Lyon look at possible relationships between the Web Services idea and earlier ideas about seamless access to information.

• Web Focus: Guidelines for URI Naming Policies

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

• Windows NT Explorer: Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)

  Brett Burridge investigates the use of the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), the XML-based protocol that is taking a leading role in the emerging area of Web Services.

• Web Focus: Hot News From WWW10

  Brian Kelly reports on the Tenth International World Wide Web Conference, held in Hong Kong on 1-5 May 2001.

• Web Watch: WebWatching eLib Project Web Sites

  Brian Kelly is WebWatching the eLib Project Sites.

• Web Watch: A Survey Of Web Server Software Used In UK University Web Sites

  Brian Kelly A Survey Of Web Server Software Used In UK University Web Sites.

• ZOPE: Swiss Army Knife for the Web?

  Paul Browning looks at this multiple authoring environment.

• EPRESS

  Stuart Peters on EPRESS text management software tools, currently in development.

• Web Focus: Using the Web to Promote Your Web Site

  Brian Kelly expalins how to promote your web site.

• Web Mirrors: Building the UK Mirror Service

  Report on the UK Mirror Service by Mark Russell.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 21: Ariadne's Thread

  Introduction to Ariadne issue 21 by Philip Hunter.

• Unix: What Is mod_perl?

  Ian Peacock explains mod_perl technology for supercharging the Apache Server.

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

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

• Windows NT Explorer

  Brett Burridge on Internet Information Server (IIS 4.0)

• The Unix Column: 'Sandboxes Using Chroot'

  Ian Peacock explains how the proliferation of network software brings increasing concerns about security, which can be countered by 'restricted perspectives'.

• The Web Editor: From 'One Stop Shop' to Information Hierarchy

  Rebecca Linford discusses the web editor role: from 'one stop shop' to information hierarchy.

• Editorial introduction to Issue 19: Ariadne's Thread

  Philip Hunter and Bernadette Daly introduce the articles for Ariadne issue 19.

• Minotaur: From Mac to Linux and Back?

  Tony Grant on why a former Macintosh fan has fallen for Linux.

• Unix and the Web: Providing Web Access to Your Email

  Brian Kelly introduces a regular column on Unix and Web issues by describing how a combination of Apache, PHP and IMP can make email folders available using a web browser.

• Web Focus: Extending Your Browser

  Brian Kelly on techniques for extending the capabilities of your browser.

• WebWatch: Conclusions from the WebWatch Project

  Brian Kelly sums up conclusions from the WebWatch Project.

• What Is Apache?

  Eddie Young gives the essentials of "Apache", the widely used Unix-based web server software.

• Transatlantic Bandwidth: How to Save Money on Your Costs

  Sally Hadland, Information Officer at the Higher Education National Software Archive (HENSA), describes how using HENSA can save on transatlantic bandwidth.

• Web Focus: WebWatching UK Universities and Colleges

  Brian Kelly describes the WebWatch project.

• Web Focus Corner: Running an Institutional Web Service

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

• Dublin Core Management

  Andy Powell presents three models for the way in which metadata can be managed across a Web site and describes some of the tools that are beginning to be used at UKOLN to embed Dublin Core metadata into Web pages.

• ERCOMS

  The ERCOMS team explain the intricacies of their Electronic Reserve Copyright Management System project.

• The Library Association Web Site

  Alan Cooper and Finbarr Joy talk about the past, present and future of the Library Association Web Site.

• Performance and Security: Notes for System Administrators

  Performance and Security - Notes for System Administrators: Andy Powell offers some hints and tips on the performance and security aspects of running electronic library services on UNIX based machines.

• Elib Technical Issues Concertation Day

  Clare McClean describes a day given over to the more technical issues arising from the Electronic Libraries Programme.

• Intranets

  Jon Knight investigates what is meant by the current buzzword intranet and looks at how it may be applied in a library environment. A suggestion for a low cost entry level intranet solution is also given.

• Securing HTML FORMs

  Jon Knight discusses some of the options available to the designers and implementors of HTML FORMs for providing authentication of users in a library environment.

• AC/DC

  Dave Beckett and Neil Smith explain a search engine that only indexes sites in the .ac.uk domain.

• From the Trenches: Network Services on a Shoestring

  Jon Knight describes how Linux is a cheap and useful operating system for library systems units and the like.