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• 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.

• Case Studies in Web Sustainability

  Scott Turner describes issues around making Web resources sustainable.

• 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 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.

• 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.

• Characterising and Preserving Digital Repositories: File Format Profiles

  Steve Hitchcock and David Tarrant show how file format profiles, the starting point for preservation plans and actions, can also be used to reveal the fingerprints of emerging types of institutional repositories.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Through the Web Authoring Tools

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

• Web Focus: Improving the Quality of Your HTML

  Brian Kelly outlines a strategy for fixing the most important HTML resources on a Web site.

• WebWatch: How Accessible Are Australian University Web Sites?

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

• Web Focus: WWW 2003 Trip Report

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

• Public Libraries: Creating Websites for E-citizens -The Public Library Web Managers Workshop 2002

  Penny Garrod reports on the Public Library Web Managers workshop, November 2002, held in Bath.

• Sharing History of Science and Medicine Gateway Metadata Using OAI-PMH

  David Little outlines the resource sharing arrangements between the MedHist gateway and the Humbul hub, using the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, and some of the issues it has raised.

• 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.

• 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.

• Web Focus: Report On The Sixth Institutional Web Management Workshop

  Brian Kelly with a report on the Sixth Institutional International Web Management Workshop held this year at the University of Strathclyde.

• 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.

• Content Management Systems: Who Needs Them?

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

• Multi-media and Image Handling: The future is Textless

  Marieke Napier on a DTI multimedia day in London in November 2001.

• 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.

• 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: Size of Institutional Top Level Pages

  Web Watch: Brian Kelly looks at the size of institutional top level pages.

• Web Focus: The Web On Your Phone and TV

  Brian Kelly looks at the Web Beyond the PC.

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

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

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

  Adam Guy writes about the Question Bank service.

• DISinHE: Web Content Accessibility

  Paul Booth discusses Web content accessibility.

• 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."

• Web Watch: 404s, What's Missing?

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

• Web Focus: Extending Your Browser

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

• Web Focus: Institutional Web Management

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

• Web Focus: Ways of Exploiting New Technologies

  Brian Kelly discusses Intermediaries: Ways Of Exploiting New Technologies.

• 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.

• Web Focus Corner: The World Wide Web Consortium

  Brian Kelly ponders whether the academic community can have a role in shaping the web of the future.

• 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.

• 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.

• MIDAS: Manchester Information, Datasets and Associated Services

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

• Wire: Email Interview with Chris Lilley

  Chris Lilley submits to an interview by email.