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• Augmented Reality in Education: The SCARLET+ Experience

  Laura Skilton, Matt Ramirez, Guyda Armstrong, Rose Lock, Jean Vacher and Marie-Therese Gramstadt describe augmented reality in education case studies from the University of Sussex and the University for the Creative Arts.

• Motivations for the Development of a Web Resource Synchronisation Framework

  Stuart Lewis, Richard Jones and Simeon Warner explain some of the motivations behind the development of the ResourceSync Framework.

• Trove: Innovation in Access to Information in Australia

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

• 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.

• Institutional Repositories for Creative and Applied Arts Research: The Kultur Project

  Andrew Gray discusses institutional repositories and the creative and applied arts specifically in relation to the JISC-funded Kultur Project.

• Publish and Cherish With Non-proprietary Peer Review Systems

  Leo Waaijers urges Open Access-mandating research funders to extend OA publishing conditions by stimulating the market.

• 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.

• The Networked Library Service Layer: Sharing Data for More Effective Management and Cooperation

  Janifer Gatenby identifies criteria for determining which data in various library systems could be more beneficially shared and managed at a network level.

• 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.

• 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.

• Retrospective on the RDN

  Debra Hiom, in the first of a two-part series on the Resource Discovery Network, looks back at the development of the RDN and its activities to date.

• Delivering Open Access: From Promise to Practice

  Derek Law predicts how the open access agenda will develop over the next ten years.

• Hyper Clumps, Mini Clumps and National Catalogues: Resource Discovery for the 21st Century

  John Gilby reports on a one-day conference about resource discovery, held at the British Library Conference Centre, London in November.

• ERPANET / CODATA Workshop, Lisbon

  Michael Day gives us a detailed report on the ERPANET / CODATA Workshop held at the Biblioteca Nacional, Lisbon, 15-17 December 2003.

• Editorial Introduction to Ariadne Issue 39: Humanity V Technology, Which Is in the Driving Seat?

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 39.

• 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.

• 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.

• Building ResourceFinder

  Pete Cliff looks at how the RDN has utilised the OAI Metadata Harvesting Protocol.

• Content Management Systems: Who Needs Them?

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

• Search Engines: Goodbye Alta Vista, Hallo AllTheWeb

  Phil Bradley's regular column.

• Metadata: E-print Services and Long-term Access to the Record of Scholarly and Scientific Research

  Michael Day looks at the long-term preservation implications of one of the OAI protocol's potential applications - e-print services.

• OpenResolver: A Simple OpenURL Resolver

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

• Exam Papers Online

  Sally Rumsey on an innovative system for providing electronic access to examination papers.

• DECOMATE II

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

• 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.

• Public Libraries and Community Networks: Linking Futures Together?

  Malabika Das argues public libraries and community networks have a future together.

• Web Mirrors: Building the UK Mirror Service

  Report on the UK Mirror Service by Mark Russell.

• An Overview of Subject Gateway Activities in Australia

  Debbie Campbell looks at how the original criteria proposed for an IMesh map against these Australian initiatives.

• Search Engines: FAST, the Biggest and Best Yet?

  Phil Bradley explains how 'FAST' has recently been launched as the most comprehensive of the search engines, and this article compares the FAST results with those of AltaVista and Northern Light.

• 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'.

• Web Mirror: The National Mirror Service

  Sally Hadland on the New National Mirror Service.

• The Web Editor: Institutional Troubleshooter

  Stephen Emmott describes his experiences of content management at King's College London.

• 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.

• The ExamNet Project at De Montfort University

  David James Houghton introduces the ExamNet Project, which offers access to past De Montfort University examination papers in electronic form.

• 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.

• What Is a URI?

  Ian Peacock explains 'URI' in plain English.

• 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.

• The Access Catalogue Gateway to Resources

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

• Electronic Document Delivery: A Trial in an Academic Library

  In part two of this report, Fiona Williams describes the trials of various electronic document delivery systems in University of Bath Library and Learning Centre over the last few years.

• 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.

• Electronic Document Delivery: A Trial in an Academic Library

  In the first of a two-part article, Fiona Williams describes the trials of various electronic document delivery systems in University of Bath Library and Learning Centre over the last few years. A review of the latest trial, between BL Urgent Action Service and TU DELFT, as well as an overall comparison with the Blackwell's Uncover Service will be given in the next issue of Ariadne.

• The Library Association Web Site

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

• Around the Table: Social Sciences

  Debra Hiom from SOSIG takes us on a guided tour of major Internet-based Social Science resources.

• Extending Metadata for Digital Preservation

  Michael Day suggests how the concept of metadata could be extended to provide information in the specific field of digital preservation.

• 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.

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

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

• Formats for the Electronic Library

  Judith Wusteman describes the document formats used in electronic serials.

• INFOMINE

  Steve Mitchell describes INFOMINE, an impressive attempt to build a Web-based virtual library for the academic community.

• Making a MARC With Dublin Core

  Jon Knight revisits his Perl module for processing MARC records that was introduced in the last issue and adds UNIMARC, USMARC and a script that converts Dublin Core metadata into USMARC records.

• 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.

• 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.

• The Paper House of Cards (And Why It's Taking So Long to Collapse)

  In our previous issue, Fytton Rowland defended the continuation of print research journals into the networked age. Here, Stevan Harnad presents a different case.

• WoPEc: Electronic Working Papers in Economics Services

  Thomas Krichel describes WoPEc, a working papers project.

• Handling MARC With PERL

  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.

• 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.

• Wire: Interview with Nick Gibbins

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

• 10th Annual Anglo-Nordic Seminar

  Kelly Russell from the eLib programme describes this seminar, which heavily featured speakers and current issues relevant to the UK digital libraries movement.

• 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.

• How to Grow Gossamer and Keep It Untangled

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

• Minotaur: Nick Gibbins

  In Minotaur, the collective voice of Internet enthusiasts is countered by words of scepticism or caution. In this issue, Nick Gibbins gives an overview of some of the potential features that the Web does not contain, but a more functional successor to it might.

• MC Journal: The Journal of Academic Media Librarianship

  Lori Widzinski, the editor, describes the evolution of MC Journal: The Journal of Academic Media Librarianship.

• Netskills Corner: Beneath the Surface of Your Web Pages

  Brian Kelly looks beneath the surface of HTML pages and provides advice on the design of the underlying directory structure.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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..

• View from the Hill

  John MacColl meets Ian Kingston, a freelance copy-editor, proof-reader and typesetter.

• AC/DC

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

• 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'.

• 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.

• What's Good and Bad about BUBL

  Traugott Koch reviews the Bulletin Board for Libraries (BUBL).