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• 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.

• From Passive to Active Preservation of Electronic Records

  Heather Briston and Karen Estlund provide a narrative of the process adopted by the University of Oregon in order to integrate electronic records management into its staff's workflow.

• Moving Towards Interoperability: Experiences of the Archives Hub

  Jane Stevenson and Bethan Ruddock describe the work that the Archives Hub team has been doing to promote the sharing of content.

• Archives 2.0: If We Build It, Will They Come?

  Joy Palmer discusses some of the opportunities and tensions emerging around Archives 2.0, crowd-sourcing, and archival authority.

• SHERPA to YODL-ING: Digital Mountaineering at York

  Julie Allinson and Elizabeth Harbord describe the development of digital repositories for the University of York.

• The European Film Gateway

  Georg Eckes and Monika Segbert describe a Best Practice Network funded under the eContentplus Programme of the European Commission, which is building a portal for access to film archival resources in Europe.

• Research Libraries and the Power of the Co-operative

  John MacColl considers the 'co-operative imperative' upon research libraries, and describes the work which the former Research Libraries Group is undertaking as part of OCLC.

• MCN 2007: Building Content, Building Community - 40 Years of Museum Information and Technology

  Guenter Waibel and Jean Godby report on the Museum Computer Network annual meeting, held 7-10 November, 2007 in Chicago, Illinois.

• Discussions from KIDMM Mash-up Day

  In conjunction with his main article on The KIDMM Community's 'MetaKnowledge Mash-up, Conrad Taylor reports on discussions from KIDMM Mash-up Day.

• 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.

• V&A Core Systems Integration Project

  In conjunction with his main article on The KIDMM Community's 'MetaKnowledge Mash-up, Conrad Taylor provides more information on V&A Core Systems Integration Project.

• RDA: A New International Standard

  Ann Chapman describes work on the new cataloguing code, Resource Description and Access (RDA), based on the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR).

• Book Review: Cataloging and Organizing Digital Resources

  Sarah Higgins learns how to incorporate online resources into a library catalogue using AACR2 and MARC, but wonders why the wider issue of organising and describing a full range of digital resources is not addressed.

• Book Review: Metadata for Information Management and Retrieval

  Marieke Guy takes a look at a recent introduction to metadata for the information professional.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Building OAI-PMH Harvesters With Net::OAI::Harvester

  Ed Summers describes Net::OAI::Harvester, the Perl package for easily interacting with OAI-PMH repositories as a metadata harvester. Ed provides examples of how to use Net::OAI::Harvester to write short programs which execute each of the 6 OAI-PMH verbs.

• OAI: The Fourth Open Archives Forum Workshop

  Manjula Patel provides us with an overview of the 4th Open Archives Forum Workshop.

• Collection Description Focus Showcase: Mapping the Information Landscape

  Verity Brack reports on this one-day showcase of Collection Description projects and services held at the British Library, London, 25 March 2003.

• Collection Description Focus: Spreading the Gospel

  Bridget Robinson and Pete Johnston with an overview of CLD activities in the first year.

• The AIM25 Project

  Robert Baxter, Frances Blomeley and Rachel Kemsley present AIM25, a project providing electronic access to descriptions of archives held in various London institutions.

• Access to Archives: England’s Contribution to the National Archive Network

  Caroline Thibeaud discusses the Archive 2 Archive project.

• Collective Convergence: The Work of the Collection Description Focus

  Pete Johnston and Bridget Robinson outline the work of the Collection Description Focus.

• Digitizing Wilfrid

  Philip Hunter talks to Stuart Lee about the prizewinning 'Wilfrid Owen Multimedia Digital Archive' and the JTAP 'Virtual Seminars on WW1'.

• Electronic Access: Archives in the New Millennium

  Michael Day reports from Kew on the Public Record Office view of the Brave New World of online archives.

• RDF Seminar

  Matthew Dovey reports on the RDF seminar held in the Stakis Hotel, Bath.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• A Digital Library Showcase and Support Service - the Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE

  Roy Tennant describes a resource used to create digital libraries and services, and to help others do the same.

• 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.

• Down Your Way: Durham

  Paul Miller travels to Durham and reports on a mammoth archival digitisation project.

• Serving the Arts and Humanities

  Dan Greenstein gives an extensive description of AHDS, the Arts and Humanities Data Service: its objectives, organisation, and how the data will be collected, preserved and described..