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• Automating Harvest and Ingest of the Medical Heritage Library

  Christy Henshaw, Dave Thompson and João Baleia describe an automated process to harvest medical books and pamphlets from the Internet Archive into the Wellcome Library’s Digital Services environment.

• 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.

• Visualising Building Access Data

  Gary Brewerton and Jason Cooper describe how the imposition of visitor access control for safety purposes was developed into a useful management tool to measure library building usage.

• Bring Your Own Policy: Why Accessibility Standards Need to Be Contextually Sensitive

  Brian Kelly, Jonathan Hassell, David Sloan, Dominik Lukeš, E A Draffan and Sarah Lewthwaite argue that rather than having a universal standard for Web accessibility, standardisation of Web accessibility practices and policies needs to be sufficiently flexible to cater for the local context.

• 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.

• The Potential of Learning Analytics and Big Data

  Patricia Charlton, Manolis Mavrikis and Demetra Katsifli discuss how the emerging trend of learning analytics and big data can support and empower learning and teaching.

• eMargin: A Collaborative Textual Annotation Tool

  Andrew Kehoe and Matt Gee describe their Jisc-funded eMargin collaborative textual annotation tool, showing how it has widened its focus through integration with Virtual Learning Environments.

• The Institutional Web Management Workshop (IWMW) 2012

  Kirsty Pitkin reports on the 16th Institutional Web Management Workshop held at the University of Edinburgh's Appleton Tower between 18 - 20 July 2012.

• Walk-in Access to e-Resources at the University of Bath

  Kate Robinson, Lizz Jennings and Laurence Lockton outline a low-cost solution to walk-in (visitor) access to licensed e-journals, drawing on their practice at the University of Bath with a wiki ERM and OPAC terminals.

• The Future of the Past of the Web

  Matthew Brack reports on the one-day international workshop 'The Future of the Past of the Web' held at the British Library Conference Centre, London on 7 October, 2011.

• The Third Annual edUi Conference 2011

  Danielle Cooley reports on the third annual edUi Conference, held over 13-14 October 2011, in Richmond, Virginia, USA, an opportunity for Web professionals in colleges, universities, libraries, museums, etc to discuss the latest developments in Web trends and technologies.

• eSciDoc Days 2011: The Challenges for Collaborative eResearch Environments

  Ute Rusnak reports on the fourth in a series of two-day conferences called eSciDoc Days, organised by FIZ Karlsruhe and the Max Planck Digital Library in Berlin over 26-27 October 2011.

• Image 'Quotation' Using the C.I.T.E. Architecture

  Christopher Blackwell and Amy Hackney Blackwell describe with examples a digital library infrastructure that affords canonical citation for 'quoting' images, useful for creating commentaries, arguments, and teaching tools.

• 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.

• Open Educational Resources Hack Day

  Kirsty Pitkin reports on a two-day practical hack event focusing on Open Educational Resources (OER), held by DevCSI and JISC CETIS in Manchester on 31 March - 1 April 2011.

• Piloting Web Conferencing Software: Experiences and Challenges

  Julian Prior and Marie Salter report on their experiences piloting Elluminate Live! at the University of Bath.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 66: Sanity Check

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 66.

• Reading Van Gogh Online?

  Peter Boot shows how log analysis can be employed to assess a site's usability, usage, and users, using the Van Gogh letter edition as an example.

• Saving the Sounds of the UK in the UK SoundMap

  Maureen Pennock and Chris Clark introduce an innovative initiative from the British Library to map a 12-month soundscape of the UK.

• Developing Infrastructure for Research Data Management at the University of Oxford

  James A. J. Wilson, Michael A. Fraser, Luis Martinez-Uribe, Paul Jeffreys, Meriel Patrick, Asif Akram and Tahir Mansoori describe the approaches taken, findings, and issues encountered while developing research data management services and infrastructure at the University of Oxford.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 65: Ariadne in Search of Your Views

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 65.

• Internet Librarian International Conference 2010

  Claire Tylee, Katrin Flemming and Elly Cope report on the two-day Internet Librarian International Conference focusing on innovation and technology in the information profession, held in London on 14-15 October 2010.

• Locating Image Presentation Technology Within Pedagogic Practice

  Marie-Therese Gramstadt contextualises image presentation technology and methods within a pedagogic framework for the visual arts.

• What Is a URI and Why Does It Matter?

  Henry S. Thompson describes how recent developments in Web technology have affected the relationship between URI and resource representation and the related consequences.

• Book Review: iPad - The Missing Manual

  Brian Whalley reviews a manual to help support your use of an iPad - 'the book that should have been in the box'.

• Eduserv Symposium 2010: The Mobile University

  Shailey Minocha reflects on the one-day symposium organised by Eduserv in May 2010. The aim of the event was to discuss whether and how mobile technology will play a significant role in the delivery of UK Higher Education in the future.

• 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.

• 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.

• Making Datasets Visible and Accessible: DataCite's First Summer Meeting

  Tom J Pollard and J Max Wilkinson report on DataCite's First Summer Meeting, a two-day event focused on making datasets visible and accessible, held in Hannover, Germany, in June 2010.

• Trove: Innovation in Access to Information in Australia

  Rose Holley describes a major development in the Australian national digital information infrastructure.

• Book Review: Library Mashups

  Aldalin Lyngdoh reviews a book on the basics of mashups and how they have been used in libraries worldwide.

• Mobilising the Internet Detective

  Diana Massam, Andrew Priest and Caroline Williams describe a recent project to adapt the online Internet Detective tutorial, to deliver a user-friendly mobile site which reflects their market research into user preferences for mobile content.

• Volcanic Eruptions Fail to Thwart Digital Preservation - the Planets Way

  Matthew Barr, Amir Bernstein, Clive Billenness and Manfred Thaller report on the final Planets training event Digital Preservation - The Planets Way held in Rome over 19 - 21 April 2010.

• Abstract Modelling of Digital Identifiers

  Nick Nicholas, Nigel Ward and Kerry Blinco present an information model of digital identifiers, to help bring clarity to the vocabulary debates from which this field has suffered.

• Moving Targets: Web Preservation and Reference Management

  Richard Davis discusses the role of Web preservation in reference management. This article is based on a presentation given at the Innovations in Reference Management workshop, January 2010.

• How to Publish Data Using Overlay Journals: The OJIMS Project

  Sarah Callaghan, Sam Pepler, Fiona Hewer, Paul Hardaker and Alan Gadian describe the implementation details that can be used to create overlay journals for data publishing in the meteorological sciences.

• 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.

• 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.

• The Second International M-Libraries Conference

  Keren Mills reports on a two-day conference exploring and sharing delivery of services and resources to users 'on the move,' via mobile and hand-held devices.

• The REMAP Project: Steps Towards a Repository-enabled Information Environment

  Richard Green and Chris Awre investigate what role a repository can play in enabling and supporting the management and preservation of its own digital content.

• To VRE Or Not to VRE?: Do South African Malaria Researchers Need a Virtual Research Environment?

  Heila Pienaar and Martie van Deventer identify the requirements of a Virtual Research Environment (VRE) for malaria researchers in South Africa.

• Book Review: Managing the Crowd - Rethinking Records Management for the Web 2.0 World

  Marieke Guy reviews a text that could offer the blueprint for moving records management into the 21st century.

• Embedding Web Preservation Strategies Within Your Institution

  Christopher Eddie reports on the third one-day workshop of the JISC-PoWR (Preservation of Web Resources) Project held at the University of Manchester on 12 September 2008.

• Get Tooled Up: SeeAlso: A Simple Linkserver Protocol

  Jakob Voss combines OpenSearch and unAPI to enrich catalogues.

• Get Tooled Up: Staying Connected: Technologies Supporting Remote Workers

  Having considered organisational issues in her previous article, Marieke Guy takes a look at the many technologies that support remote working, from broadband to Web 2.0 social networking tools.

• eResearch Australasia 2008

  Tobias Blanke, Ann Borda, Gaby Bright and Bridget Soulsby report on the annual eResearch Australasia Conference, held in Melbourne, Australia, 29 September - 3 October, 2008.

• 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.

• Integrating Journal Back Files Into an Existing Electronic Environment

  Jason Cooper describes how Loughborough University Library integrated a number of collections of journal back files into their existing electronic environment.

• Persistent Identifiers: Considering the Options

  Emma Tonkin looks at the current landscape of persistent identifiers, describes several current services, and examines the theoretical background behind their structure and use.

• Implementing Ex Libris's PRIMO at the University of East Anglia

  Nick Lewis outlines the University of East Anglia's experience of implementing Ex Libris's Primo, a new search and retrieval interface for presenting the library catalogue and institutional databases and e-resources.

• 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.

• RepoMMan: Delivering Private Repository Space for Day-to-day Use

  Richard Green and Chris Awre describe work undertaken at the University of Hull to place Web services at the heart of its personalised digital repository provision.

• DRIVER: Building the Network for Accessing Digital Repositories Across Europe

  Martin Feijen, Wolfram Horstmann, Paolo Manghi, Mary Robinson and Rosemary Russell present an outline of the DRIVER Project and its achievements so far in supporting and enhancing digital repository development in Europe.

• The KIDMM Community's 'MetaKnowledge Mash-up'

  Conrad Taylor reports on the KIDMM knowledge community and its September 2007 one-day conference about data, information and knowledge management issues.

• The Second Life of UK Academics

  John Kirriemuir introduces a series of studies investigating how the Second Life environment is being used in UK Higher and Further Education.

• Capacity Building: Spoken Word at Glasgow Caledonian University

  Iain Wallace, Graeme West and David Donald give an account of the origins, nature and establishment of Spoken Word Services at Glasgow Caledonian University.

• Book Review: Teaching Web Search Skills

  Verity Brack takes a look at this book for Web trainers, teachers and instructors.

• Citeulike: A Researcher's Social Bookmarking Service

  Kevin Emamy and Richard Cameron describe a tool that helps researchers gather, collect and share papers.

• OpenID: Decentralised Single Sign-on for the Web

  Andy Powell and David Recordon take a brief look at OpenID and ask what relevance it has to e-learning.

• The JISC Annual Conference 2007

  Philip Pothen and colleagues provide an overview of the proceedings of this Spring's JISC Annual Conference.

• 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.

• Limits to Information Transfer: The Boundary Problem

  Jon E. Lervik, Mark Easterby-Smith, Kathryn Fahy and Carole Elliott discuss the challenges in integrating knowledge across boundaries between specialised knowledge communities within an organisation.

• 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'.

• 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

• 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.

• Digital Preservation Coalition Forum on Web Archiving

  Maureen Pennock and Manjula Patel report on the Digital Preservation Coalition's second Web Archiving Forum which took place at the British Library in London on 12 June 2006.

• 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.

• Introducing UnAPI

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

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• The Library Catalogue in the New Discovery Environment: Some Thoughts

  Lorcan Dempsey explores how the library catalogue will develop alongside evolving network discovery systems.

• Digitising an Archive: The Factory Approach

  Duncan Burbidge describes a new approach to digitising an archive both as a future-proof substitute and for Web delivery.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 47: Keeping What We Know

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne 47.

• Folksonomies: The Fall and Rise of Plain-text Tagging

  Emma Tonkin suggests that rising new ideas are often on their second circuit - and none the worse for that.

• 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.

• 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.

• The Second Digital Repositories Programme Meeting

  Julie Allinson and Mahendra Mahey report on a 2-day JISC Digital Repositories Meeting focusing on project clusters working together and other related issues held by JISC in Warwick, UK over 27-28 March 2006.

• Accessibility Testing and Reporting With TAW3

  Patrick Lauke gives a run-down of the free TAW3 tool to aid in accessibility testing of Web pages.

• Excuse Me... Some Digital Preservation Fallacies?

  Chris Rusbridge argues with himself about some of the assumptions behind digital preservation thinking.

• 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.

• Improving DSpace@OSU With a Usability Study of the ET/D Submission Process

  Michael Boock discusses the ease and usefulness of conducting a usability study and provides an example of usability testing at Oregon State University undertaken to improve the DSpace ET/D submission process.

• Online Repositories for Learning Materials: The User Perspective

  Amber Thomas and Andrew Rothery explore how online repositories are being used to store and share e-learning content, and show how taking the user perspective might challenge the emerging approaches to repository development.

• Search Engines

  Phil Bradley casts his eye over image search engines.

• 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.

• Accessibility: The Current Situation and New Directions

  Kevin Carey describes accessibility by disabled people to digital information systems across broadcasting, telecommunications and the Internet, looks into the future and makes recommendations.

• Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility With Firefox

  Patrick Lauke outlines how Mozilla Firefox can be used in conjunction with the Web Developer Toolbar to carry out a preliminary accessibility review.

• Mobile Blogs, Personal Reflections and Learning Environments: The RAMBLE Project

  Paul Trafford describes how mobile blogs for personal reflection may be related to institutional learning environments, drawing on experiences from the RAMBLE Project.

• 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.

• Web Accessibility Revealed: The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council Audit

  Marcus Weisen, Helen Petrie, Neil King and Fraser Hamilton describe a comprehensive Web accessibility audit involving extensive user testing as well as automatic testing of Web sites.

• Web Focus: The WWW 2005 Conference

  Brian Kelly provides his impressions including reports of areas of doubt and uncertainty - but also of an exciting new development.

• Opening Up OpenURLs with Autodiscovery

  Daniel Chudnov, Richard Cameron, Jeremy Frumkin, Ross Singer and Raymond Yee demonstrate a 'gather locally, share globally' approach to OpenURLs and metadata autodiscovery in scholarly and non-scholarly environments.

• Web Focus: Using Collaborative Technologies When on the Road

  Brian Kelly argues that since conference delegates now expect to be able to read email on the road, there are additional technologies which might enhance our effectiveness when away from the office.

• Advanced Collaboration With the Access Grid

  Michael Daw describes the Access Grid system and its claim to be an Advanced Collaboration Environment.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 42: Less Could Mean More

  Richard Waller provides an editorial introduction to Ariadne issue 42.

• Mozilla Firefox for Rapid Web Development and Testing

  Patrick Lauke takes a quick look at Firefox, the new browser released by the Mozilla Foundation, and points out useful features and extensions for Web developers.

• News from BIOME

  Jenny Hall reports on recent news form BIOME, the Health and Life Sciences hub of the Resource Discovery Network.

• Search Engines: No Longer about Search

  Phil Bradley asks 'Is your choice of search engine based on how good it is, or on what else you use?'

• Web Focus: Experiences of Using a Wiki for Note-taking at a Workshop

  Brian Kelly describes how the Wikalong Wiki tool was used to support note-taking at a workshop.

• How the Use of Standards Is Transforming Australian Digital Libraries

  Debbie Campbell explains how the exploitation of recent standards has allowed the National Library of Australia to digitise its collections and host federated search services and provide an improved service.

• Search Engines: New and Developing Search Engines

  Phil Bradley looks at some existing search engines and also some new ones to bring you up to date on what is happening in the world of Internet search engines.

• Virtual Rooms, Real Meetings

  Andy Powell takes a brief look at VRVS, a desktop video-conferencing tool that can be used to support collaborative activities between groups of geographically distributed researchers.

• 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.

• 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.

• ERPANET Seminar on Persistent Identifiers

  Monica Duke reports on a two-day training seminar on persistent identifiers held by ERPANET in Cork, Ireland over 17-18 June 2004.

• Web Focus: The Web on Your TV

  Brian Kelly takes a look at a digital TV box which provides Web and email access in your living room.

• World Wide Web Conference 2004

  Dave Beckett reports on the international WWW2004 conference held in New York, 19-21 May 2004.

• Book Review: Extreme Searchers' Internet Handbook

  Verity Brack reviews a book on Internet resources and finds it a useful volume for Internet beginners and Google-centric searchers.

• Through the Web Authoring Tools

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

• Developing and Publicising a Workable Accessibility Strategy

  Lawrie Phipps, Sue Harrison, David Sloan and Betty Willder look at the increasing need for developers of institutional and educational Web sites to develop and follow a strategy for ensuring optimal accessibility of online content.

• OSS Inaugural Conference: Open Source Deployment and Development

  Sebastian Rahtz and Randy Metcalfe give an overview of the first conference of the Open Source Advisory Service.

• Search Engines: The Year 2003 in Perspective

  Phil Bradley takes us through the major trends and highlights in the world of search engines over the course of the past year.

• The European Library: Integrated Access to the National Libraries of Europe

  Britta Woldering describes the findings of the recently completed EU Project The European Library, focusing on technical solutions and metadata development.

• WebWatch: How Accessible Are Australian University Web Sites?

  Dey Alexander reports on a recent study of the accessibility of Australian university Web sites.

• EEVL News

  Roddy MacLeod describes how EEVL is putting RSS to work.

• Towards a Typology for Portals

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

• Unicode and Historic Scripts

  Deborah Anderson provides us an overview of the progress made in bringing historic scripts to the Unicode Standard.

• 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.

• Web Focus: WWW 2003 Trip Report

  Brian Kelly writes on the recent WWW 2003 conference and outlines some of the latest Web developments.

• 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.

• Functionality in Digital Annotation: Imitating and Supporting Real-world Annotation

  Richard Waller looks at both pre-digital and digital concepts of annotation, with a view to how annotation tools might be used in the subject-gateway environment.

• WebWatch: Surfing Historical UK University Web Sites

  Brian Kelly outlines strategies for choosing appropriate standards for building Web sites.

• What Features in a Portal?

  Geoff Butters analyses the features found in various types of portal, and includes a comparison with the planned features for the JISC Subject Portals.

• Book Review: The Library and Information Professional's Guide to Plug-ins and Other Web Browser Tools

  Book review by Ruth Martin.

• Cultural Heritage Language Technologies: Building an Infrastructure for Collaborative Digital Libraries in the Humanities

  Jeffrey Rydberg-Cox describes the work of the Cultural Heritage Language Technologies consortium, a research group funded by the European Comission Information Society Technologies program and the United States National Science Foundation Digital Libraries Initiative.

• 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.

• A Speaking Electronic Librarian

  Markos Dendrinos with a proposal for an interface system, based on speech recognition and synthesis technologies, for automatic library services.

• EEVL: Resident EEVL

  Roddy MacLeod provides an update on the EEVL project. Among other things he explains how the EEVL cross-search facility can be run from user pages.

• Portals, Portals Everywhere

  Ian Dolphin, Paul Miller and Robert Sherratt report on two conferences over the summer which explored the progress being made in deploying institutional portals of various forms.

• Utilizing E-books to Enhance Digital Library Offerings

  Shirley Hyatt and Lynn Silipigni Connaway, describe the rationale and background of OCLC's acquisition of netLibrary, the information environment that is being pursued, and the resulting benefits that libraries may experience.

• Web Focus: Let's Get Serious about HTML Standards

  Brian Kelly encourages authors to treat compliance with HTML standards seriously.

• Web Watch: An Accessibility Analysis of UK University Entry Points

  Brian Kelly reports on the accessibility of entry points of UK University Web sites.

• 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.

• Internet 2 Spring Member Meeting

  John Paschoud reports on an Internet2 meeting, Arlington, Virginia, 6th – 8th May 2002, which discussed Networks, Applications and Middleware.

• NetLab's Digital Library Gâteau

  Jessica Lindholm reports from the conference "NetLab and friends: Tribute and outlook after 10 years of digital library development". The conference was held in Lund, Sweden 10-12 April 2002.

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

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

• 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.

• Book Review: The Invisible Web

  Marieke Napier reviews the book: The Invisible Web.

• Content Management Systems: Who Needs Them?

  Paul Browning and Mike Lowndes explore the CMS concept and look at the available tools.

• Development of Digital Libraries for Blind and Visually Impaired People

  Jennie Craven reports on the IFLA/SLB conference in Washington in August 2001.

• Web Focus: Mobile E-Book Readers

  Brian Kelly, UK Web Focus, writes about Mobile E-Book Readers in his regular column.

• Web Watch: An Update On Search Engines Used In UK Universities

  Brian Kelly with an Update On Search Engines Used In UK Universities.

• Software Review: C4U

  Andrew Cox and Simon McLean review this web-monitoring software.

• Web Watch: Carrying Out Your Own Web Watch Survey

  Brian Kelly describes how you can carry out your own WebWatch benchmarking survey across your own community.

• Accessibility: CHI 2001 and Beyond

  Leona Carpenter reports on the key issue of accessibility as covered at the Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) Conference held in Seattle, and also provides a round-up of sources of further information.

• Information Skills and the DNER: The INHALE Project

  Margaret Weaver describes the work of the Information for Nursing and Health in a Learning Environment (INHALE) Project team.

• OpenResolver: A Simple OpenURL Resolver

  Andy Powell describes UKOLN's OpenResolver, a freely available demonstration OpenURL resolver.

• Personalization of Web Services: Opportunities and Challenges

  Monica Bonett gives an overview of personalization on the World Wide Web and discusses ideas for development within resource discovery systems.

• Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG): Vector Graphics for the Web

  David Duce discusses the World Wide Web Consortium's Scalable Vector Graphics markup language for 2 dimensional graphics.

• The JOIN-UP Programme: Seminar on Linking Technologies

  Sandy Shaw reports on a seminar bringing together experts in the field of linking technology for JISC's JOIN-UP Programme.

• E-Books for Students: EBONI

  Ruth Wilson on how the EBONI project will investigate the usability of e-books through user evaluations.

• Hylife: Ten Steps to Success

  Peter Wynne, Catherine Edwards and Maureen Jackson, on some important aspects of running a Hybrid Library Project.

• Metadata (1): Encoding OpenURLs in DC Metadata

  Andy Powell and Ann Apps propose a mechanism for embedding machine parsable citations into Dublin Core (DC) metadata records.

• Search Engines: Robots, Spiders and Your Website

  Phil Bradley looks at the effect these have on your site's vital statistics.

• The Future Is Hybrid: Edinburgh

  John MacColl and Philip Hunter report on 'The Future is Hybrid' project day in Edinburgh.

• The Future Is Hybrid: Manchester

  Jim Strom and others provide streaming video of some of the sessions from 'The Future is Hybrid' day in Manchester held in February 2001.

• The LEODIS Database

  Jonathan Kendal on the creation of LEODIS, a Public Libraries sector digitization and database project.

• Web Watch: What's Related to My Web Site?

  What's Related To My Web Site? Brian Kelly looks at Netscape's 'What's Related?' facility and reports on the service's findings for institutional Web servers.

• Clumps Come Up Trumps

  Helena Gillis, Verity Brack, John Gilby and Marian Hogg review the four eLib CLUMP projects now at the end of their funding periods.

• E-Commerce in Higher Education: Can We Afford to Do Nothing?

  Andrew Aird on the impact of e-commerce on the non-commercial sector.

• NT Explorer

  Brett Burridge Looks at Microsoft's Site Server 3.0 Commerce Edition.

• Web Focus: The Web On Your Phone and TV

  Brian Kelly looks at the Web Beyond the PC.

• Web Watch: WebWatching eLib Project Web Sites

  Brian Kelly is WebWatching the eLib Project Sites.

• DECOMATE II

  Leona Carpenter gives a personal view of the 'Logged into Economics' conference in Barcelona in June.

• Knowledge Management in the Perseus Digital Library

  Jeffrey Rydberg-Cox on the Perseus Project's new knowledge management and digital delivery tools.

• Search Engines: Finding Images on the Internet

  Phil Bradley offers his latest look at the search engine marketplace.

• Web Focus: Institutional Web Management Workshop - The Joined Up Web

  Brian Kelly reports on the "Institutional Web Management Workshop: The Joined-Up Web" event, held in Bath.

• ZOPE: Swiss Army Knife for the Web?

  Paul Browning looks at this multiple authoring environment.

• In Vision: The Internet As a Resource for Visually Impaired People

  Ann Chapman on the Internet as a resource for visually impaired people: a survey of accessible sites, resources, current research and software.

• Library Resource Sharing and Discovery: Catalogues for the 21st Century

  Ariadne reports on the highlights of the recent Glasgow CLUMPS one day conference

• Metadata: I Am a Name and a Number

  Paul Miller on Digital Object Identifiers.

• Search Engines: The Relevance of Underpants to Searching the Web

  Phil Bradley explores search engine ranking techniques.

• Web Focus: Reflections On WWW9

  Brian Kelly reports on the WWW9 conference, held in Amsterdam, in May 2000.

• Catalogues for the 21st Century

  Ariadne reports on a one-day Workshop presented by the eLib Clump Projects at Goldsmiths College in London on the 3rd of March

• Convergence of Electronic Entertainment and Information Systems

  John Kirriemuir explores the technology and impact of expanding internet access.

• EPRESS

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

• I Say What I Mean, but Do I Mean What I Say?

  Paul Miller reports on the latest MODELS workshop, and looks at the need for controlled terminologies and thesauri.

• Search Engines: 'Ixquick', a Multi-Search Engine With a Difference

  Phil Bradley describes how Ixquick stacks up against the competition.

• Web Focus: The Use of Third-Party Web Services

  Brian Kelly discusses the use of third-party web services.

• A Free ISP from the British Library

  Brian Kefford outlines the services available from the British Library.

• Electronic Publication of Ancient Near Eastern Texts

  Charles E. Jones and David Schloen report on a Chicago conference which explored XML tagging for Ancient Near Eastern Texts on the Web.

• Planet SOSIG: Asking Questions - The CASS Social Survey Question Bank

  Adam Guy writes about the Question Bank service.

• Unix: What Is mod_perl?

  Ian Peacock explains mod_perl technology for supercharging the Apache Server.

• Web Cache: Clashing with Caching?

  Ruth Jenkins explores some cache related issues for Library and Information Services

• 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)

• Practical Clumping: Mick Ridley on the BOPAC System

  Mick Ridley discusses the BOPAC system.

• Web Focus: Report on the WWW 8 Conference

  Brian Kelly discusses WWW8 in Toronto, which took place in May 1999.

• Web Watch: 404s, What's Missing?

  Brian Kelly discusses 404 'not found' messages, and why you don't always get the same one.

• Windows NT Explorer

  Brett Burridge discusses Active Server Pages (ASP) - one of the most useful facilities provided by Windows NT server.

• Biz/Ed Bulletin

  Kate Sharp and Libby Miller describe Business and Economics Resources on the Internet.

• 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.

• Web Research: Browsing Video Content

  Peter Thomas, UWE, and Peter Macer of Hewlett Packard Research Laboratories describe automated techniques for browsing video content.

• 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.

• Windows NT Explorer

  Brett Burridge introduces his regular column on Windows NT with a description of Site Server's search facility.

• Internet Detective: BA Students Get on the Case

  Emma Worsfold and Debra Hiom introduce their "Internet Detective" online tutorial, and BA students from the final year Information Management BA at Queen Margaret College, Edinburgh, review the site.

• Launching an Electronic Magazine: An Overview of Value-added Features and Services

  Bernadette Daly looks at a variety of electronic publications as part of the research phase in the delivery of a new Web magazine.

• SGML, XML and Databases

  Stephen Emmott reports on a one day meeting in London

• 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.

• ALA '98

  Ian Winship reports on electronic library related activity at this year's American Library Association Conference in Washington D.C.

• Metadata: BIBLINK.Checksum

  Ian Peacock and Andy Powell describe a proposed algorithm for calculating a checksum for Web pages.

• VERITY

  Panayiotis Periorellis and Walter Scales writes about the VERITY European Telematics Project.

• Web Focus: Institutional Web Management

  Brian Kelly reports on the Netskills Institutional Web Management Workshop held in Newcastle.

• What Are Document Management Systems?

  Brian Kelly explains the concept of document management systems.

• Hacking the Net

  David Nicholas looks at the Internet phenomenon from the point of view of the Media.

• The Good, the Bad and the Useless

  Judith Edwards evaluates Internet resources.

• Web Focus: Ways of Exploiting New Technologies

  Brian Kelly discusses Intermediaries: Ways Of Exploiting New Technologies.

• What Are XLink and Xpointer?

  Brian Kelly explains XLink and XPointer.

• Project Patron

  Elizabeth Lyon and Jon Maslin describe this JISC eLib Programme project (Performing Arts Teaching Resources Online).

• The Access Catalogue Gateway to Resources

  Terry Hanson explores how libraries might develop effective ways of indicating their access arrangements to their users.

• Web Focus: The 7th World Wide Web Conference

  Brian Kelly is interviewed about the 7th World Wide Web Conference upon his return from Brisbane.

• What Is XML?

  Brian Kelly elucidates another infuriating three letter acronym: XML.

• An End User's View

  Oliver de Peyer with his personal view of what it is like being on the other side of the the metaphorical electronic issue desk.

• Electronic Resource Creation and Management at Scottish Universities

  Dennis Nicholson and Martin Smith describe the Catriona II project.

• Netskills Corner: Multimedia Web Design

  Netskills Corner: Multimedia Web Design: Walter Scales considers multimedia web design, asking whether we are running down an up escalator.

• Planet SOSIG: Regard

  Sue Timmis introduces REGARD, a new research database now available on the World Wide Web.

• Search Engines Corner: Meta-search Engines

  Tracey Stanley discusses the next level up from conventional search engines in the 'information food chain', which provide a sophisticated approach to searching across a number of databases.

• Web Focus: Animate Your Pages

  Brian Kelly gives an introduction to Dynamic HTML, explaining recent developments that enable dynamic web pages to be produced using simple scripting languages such as Javascript.

• What Is an Intranet?

  Glen Monks explains the buzz word: intranet.

• CINE: Cartoon Images for the Network Education (CINE)

  Frances Blomeley describes the Cartoon Images for the Network Education (CINE) eLib project.

• Down Your Way: The Radcliffe Science Library

  Sarah Ashton meets the Deputy Keeper of the Scientific Book, Dave Price.

• Search Engines Corner: Moving Up the Ranks

  Tracey Stanley looks at how search engines rank their results.

• The Glass of Fashion and the Mould of Form

  Annette Lafford reports on the new image for NISS's WWW site.

• The History of History

  Stephen Smith explains the background to the relaunch of IHR-Info as HISTORY.

• Web Focus: WebWatching UK Universities and Colleges

  Brian Kelly describes the WebWatch project.

• Copyright Corner

  Charles Oppenheim answers copyright queries.

• ACORN Implemented

  Jon Knight and Richard Goodman describe the technical implementation of the ACORN system.

• BUBL : How BUBL Benefits Academic Librarians

  Alan Dawson and Jan Simpson take us through BUBL, an old service recently transformed from being Gopher-based to Web-based.

• Beyond the Web: The Potential Uses of HTML in Library Disaster Control Planning

  During a lifelong library career, 2 out of 5 librarians will face a major disaster in their library. Emma Blagg describes the design and evaluation of a HTML-based disaster control plan, used to provide the counter measures taken to minimise the effects of such a disaster.

• Clifford Lynch in Interview

  Clifford Lynch, the Executive Director of CNI, was interviewed by John Kirriemuir at the Metadata: What Is It? workshop on 18 June 1997. Clifford shares some views on mirroring, caching, metadata, Z39.50 and how he sees his role in CNI.

• Copyright Management Technologies: The Key to Unlocking Digital Works?

  Anne Ramsden brings us up to date with current developments in copyright management technology

• 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.

• Education-Line

  Sam Saunders reports on a pre-print project for education professionals.

• NISS: National Information Services and Systems

  Annette Lafford and Oren Stone talk us through NISS, one of the major sources of on-line information for academics and librarians

• Web Focus: Technical Aspects of Copyright and the Web

  Brian Kelly reports on the TALiSMAN seminar: Copyright and the Web.

• Internationalisation and the Web

  Jon Knight looks at how the Web is currently undergoing the sometimes painful internationalization process required if it is to live up to its name of the World Wide Web.

• Netskills Corner: The Evolution of HTML - Netscape Gold

  Niall Mackenzie looks at using Netscape Gold for a more automated manner of Web page production.

• Planet SOSIG: A New Internet Role for Europe's Librarians

  Emma Worsfold describes the role and purpose of SOSIG, and launches a scheme where European Librarians can participate in adding relevant, quality content to this Social Science Gateway.

• REDD: Regional Electronic Document Delivery Service

  Chris Taylor provides details on an Australian electronic document delivery service that is based on standard Internet protocols.

• Search Engines Corner: Alta Vista LiveTopics

  Tracey Stanley looks at Live Topics, a more flexible and user-controlled way of searching the Alta Vista Web Page index.

• The Librarian of Babel: The Key to the Stacks

  The Librarian, ably assisted by Mike Holderness, considers one of the obstacles to the unhindered dissemination of human knowledge, and makes a modest proposal.

• Web Focus: Report on the WWW 6 Conference

  Brian Kelly describes the sixth International World Wide Web conference which took place in California from 7 – 11 April 1997.

• Wire: Interview Via Email With Jon Knight and Martin Hamilton

  In this interview we question Knight and Martin Hamilton and present their replies.

• COPAC: The New Nationally Accessible Union Catalogue

  Shirley Cousins introduces COPAC and discusses some of the issues involved in the ongoing development of a consolidated union OPAC.

• Formats for the Electronic Library

  Judith Wusteman describes the document formats used in electronic serials.

• Introducing Web Focus

  UK Web Focus - a strange job title. What is it? What does it do? In this article Brian Kelly describes his role as UK Web Focus, his previous involvement with the Web and his work as the JISC representative on the World Wide Web Consortium.

• Monash University Electronic Reserve Project

  Hans W. Groenewegen, Debbie Hedger and Iris Radulescu describe Monash University's Electronic Reserve Project which is at the core of the electronic library project at the University's new Berwick campus.

• Reaching the OPAC: Java Telnet

  Bill Drew writes about accessing his library's OPAC within a web page using Java Telnet. He looks at the need, implementation, problems, and opportunities.

• SETIS: Electronic Texts at the University of Sydney Library

  Creagh Cole describes a project dedicated to providing in-house access to a large number of electronic texts on CD-ROM.

• Search Engine Corner

  Tracey Stanley looks at 'Push', where a network-based service 'pushes' information to your machine, rather than you 'pulling' information from the service.

• The Resource Discovery Project

  As Renato Iannella shows, the Resource Discovery project at the DSTC in Australia is investigating issues to do with information discovery and access across large heterogeneous networks.

• Acrobat a High Flyer: John MacColl Discusses the Success of Adobe Acrobat and PDF

  Acrobat a High Flyer: John MacColl discusses the success of Adobe Acrobat and PDF.

• Intelligent Searching Agents on the Web

  Tracey Stanley describes Web-based Intelligent Searching Agents, and takes a closer look at a few examples you may wish to play with.

• Interface: Les Carr Interview

  Steve Hitchcock and Les Carr of the Open Journal Project link up with Ian Budden.

• MCF: Will Dublin Form the Apple Core

  Jon Knight looks at how Dublin Core and Apple's new MCF metadata file format might make useful and interesting bed fellows.

• MIDAS: Manchester Information, Datasets and Associated Services

  Anne McCombe describes a service that provides a wide range of datasets to the wider communities.

• Minotaur

  In Minotaur, the collective voice of Internet enthusiasts is countered by words of scepticism or caution. In this issue, Mike Holderness gives a few worrying examples of how much people outside the western hemisphere are behind us in terms of on-line resources.

• Wire: Interview with Nick Gibbins

  Nick Gibbins is put under the virtual spotlight to answer a few questions via email.

• Displaying SGML Documents on the World Wide Web

  David Houghton discusses a method by which documents marked up using Standard Generalised Markup Language (SGML) can be used to generate a database for use in conjunction with the World Wide Web.

• EDINA: WWW, Z39.50 and All That!

  Peter Burnhill gives a briefing note on what EDINA and the Data Library are doing about the World Wide Web (W) and the Z39.50 Protocol (Z).

• How to Grow Gossamer and Keep It Untangled

  George Munroe describes the experiences in establishing a large institutional web site.

• Infopolecon

  John Lindsay comments on the evolution of the UK network infrastructure, and the problems arguably generated along the way.

• 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.

• OMNI-Corner: Meeting the Visible Human

  Sue Welsh reports from the Visible Human Project Conference of October 1996, an event that brought together many of the people involved with one of the most high profile Internet-based medical resources.

• Open Journal Trip Report

  Open Journal trip report: Jon Knight visits the Open Journals eLib project to investigate what research they are undertaking into electronic journal architecture and navigation.

• BIDS Hits the Web

  Isobel Stark takes a look at the soon to be released trial BIDS web interface.

• British Library Corner: Text and the Internet

  Graham Jefcoate, a Research Analyst from the British Library Research and Innovation Centre will be writing this regular column for the remaining issues of Ariadne. In this issue, Graham gives us the text of his Libtech talk: Text and the Internet.

• Copyright Info on the Net

  Charles Oppenheim takes a look at some of the Web sites and Bulletin Boards that contain information on copyright issues.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 5

  The editor introduces Ariadne issue 5.

• Lotus Eaters On-Line: Forming an Alliance Between Groupware and the Web in a Pre-Prints System

  Dan Fleming, co-director of the eLib 'Formations' project and lecturer in media studies at the University of Ulster, looks at some of the issues involved in adding value to a pre-prints system by using groupware such as Lotus Notes.

• Metadata for the Masses

  Paul Miller describes Dublin Core and several ideas for how it can be implemented.

• Open Journals

  Steve Hitchcock describes the Open Journals project. This involves the use of an innovative approach to handling the hyperlinks between Web-based resources, which could have significant implications for on-line journals and publishing.

• Putting the UK on the Map

  Peter Burden of the University of Wolverhampton's School of Computing and Information Technology describes the history behind his clickable maps of the UK, an essential and well established (though unfunded) resource for quickly locating academic and research Web sites.

• 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.

• The Katharine Sharp Review

  Kevin Ward, the editor of the Katherine Sharp Review, gives an overview of the first two years of this major journal for Librarians, and looks to its future.

• Web4Lib: The Library Web Manager's Electronic Discussion List

  Roy Tennant, Project Manager of the Digital Library Research & Development at the University of California, Berkeley, describes the Web4Lib mailing list, an electronic discussion forum for library Web managers.

• Wire: Interview with Jasper Tredgold

  Jasper Tredgold is put under the virtual spotlight to answer a few questions via email.

• Best eLib Project Web Pages

  In the spring, we held a competition for those eLib projects that had, to date, produced and mounted their own set of Web pages. Here, we announce the winner...

• Cashing in on Caching

  Jon Knight and Martin Hamilton describe Caching, possibly the most crucial tool available to frequent Web users, and point out why libraries should be aware of it.

• Netskills Corner: Redesigning Your Web Pages?

  Brian Kelly gives some sensible advice on designing (or, as is more likely, redesigning) Web pages.

• Wire: Brian Kelly

  Brian Kelly is put under the virtual spotlight to answer a few questions via email on his past, present, and thoughts on matters networking.

• ADAM: Information Gateway to Resources on the Internet in Art, Design, Architecture and Media

  Nearly half a year after the project’s official start date, ADAM has a fledgling information gateway to information on the Internet in art, design, architecture and media. Tony Gill, ADAM Project Leader, outlines what has been achieved so far, and some of the challenges that lie directly ahead.

• Link: A New Beginning for BUBL

  Dennis Nicholson and Joanne Gold present an overview of 'daughter of BUBL'.

• Mailbase Reviewed

  Terry Hanson reviews the mother of academic mailing list systems in the UK.

• Netskills Corner: Fifth WWW Conference, Paris

  Brian Kelly undertakes the arduous task of attending the 5th WWW Conference in Paris (is there a 'smiley' for 'green with envy'?).

• URL Monitoring Software and Services

  Paul Hollands describes and compares tools to help you notice when a Web-based resource has been updated.

• Wire: Dave Beckett, Interviewed

  Dave Beckett is subjected to an interview via email.

• A Thread of Ariadnes

  One of my previous lecturers jokingly said that once you had a title, logo and an acronym for your project, 80% of the work was done. Except I'm not so sure she was joking, now. Ariadne took (relatively) little time to be decided on as a title, but as it turned out, many other projects around the world, and one in particular in the UK, shared this greek mythological name. This has caused problems; for example, lists of digital libraries/training projects occasionally get us mixed up with the Ariadne project at Lancaster. Dr. David Nichols from this Lancaster project gives a brief run-down of other projects that have taken the name Ariadne.

• 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.

• Netskills Corner: NCSA Mosaic Web Browser

  In this Netskills Corner, Brian Kelly describes a UK-Wide collaborative (combined directional Web and IRC chat-like system) meeting.

• SOSIG: Social Science Information Gateway

  SOSIG was established with funding from the Economics and Social Research Council (ESRC). The Electronic Libraries' Programme (eLib) funds a Documentation and Training Officer, Lesly Huxley, under the Access to Networked Resources umbrella to raise awareness of - and train people to use - SOSIG. Here Lesly provides background to the service and describes the Internet for Social Scientists workshops she is running at Universities around the country.

• Spotlight on BIDS

  BIDS is put under the spotlight by Isobel Stark, a BIDS trainer amongst other things, who gives us her thoughts on one of the UK's most well-known networking services. Linked from this article are responses from BIDS people.

• Wire: Email Interview with Chris Lilley

  Chris Lilley submits to an interview by email.

• From the Trenches: HTML, Which Version?

  In From the Trenches, a regular column which delves into the more technical aspects of networking and the World Wide Web, Jon Knight, programmer and a member of the ROADS team, takes a look at the causes of good and bad HTML and explains what tags we should be marking up Web pages with.

• Netskills Corner

  Netskills corner - Brian Kelly, Senior Trainer at Netskills, reviews Internet Explorer, Microsoft's Browser for Windows 95.

• The 4th WWW Conference in Boston

  Debra Hiom and John Kirriemuir provide an informal report from the "cutting edge" of Web development.

• Wire: Email Interview with Traugott Koch

  Traugott Koch submits to an interview by email.