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Adrian Stevenson reports on the 10th Institutional Web Management Workshop held at the University of Bath over 14-16 June 2006.
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Derek Law predicts how the open access agenda will develop over the next ten years.
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Chris Rusbridge argues with himself about some of the assumptions behind digital preservation thinking.
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John MacColl reports on a selection of the papers given at this conference in Roanoake, Virginia, June 24-28 2001.
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Leona Carpenter gives a personal view of the 'Logged into Economics' conference in Barcelona in June.
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Brian Kelly asks, does 'web editor' mean Unix guru or an HTML coder?
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Phil Cross presents the first of an occasional series of articles looking at individual subsections within SOSIG. Phil has been the section editor for Environmental Sciences for the past year and gives a description of the types of resources users can expect to find in this rapidly expanding field.
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Brian Kelly discusses Intermediaries: Ways Of Exploiting New Technologies.
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Terry Hanson explores how libraries might develop effective ways of indicating their access arrangements to their users.
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Brian Kelly is interviewed about the 7th World Wide Web Conference upon his return from Brisbane.
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Internet resources for older people:
Monica Blake describes some findings from the Internet and Older People Project, funded by The British Library Research and Innovation Centre Digital Library Research Programme.
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Roy Tennant describes a resource used to create digital libraries and services, and to help others do the same.
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Alan Dawson and
Jan Simpson take us through BUBL, an old service recently transformed from being Gopher-based to Web-based.
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Chris Bailey finds a crusader at Strathclyde: Dennis Nicholson.
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Michael Day suggests how the concept of metadata could be extended to provide information in the specific field of digital preservation.
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In this interview we question Knight and
Martin Hamilton and present their replies.
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Steve Mitchell describes INFOMINE, an impressive attempt to build a Web-based virtual library for the academic community.
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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.
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A brief history of the American Library Association Web Site:
Rob Carlson, Internet Coordinator of the ALA, introduces us to the acclaimed Web site of the largest Library Association in the World.
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Paul Miller travels to Durham and reports on a mammoth archival digitisation project.
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Anne McCombe describes a service that provides a wide range of datasets to the wider communities.
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Cathy Murtha outlines the problems that audio-visually impaired people encounter when trying to use network-based resources.
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Nick Gibbins is put under the virtual spotlight to answer a few questions via email.
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George Munroe describes the experiences in establishing a large institutional web site.
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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.
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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.
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Marylaine Block describes the construction of Where the Wild Things Are: Librarian's Guide to the Best Information on the Net.
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Around the Table:
Sheona Farquhar looks at sites in science and engineering.
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Lori Widzinski, the editor, describes the evolution of MC Journal: The Journal of Academic Media Librarianship.
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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.
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Ian Tilsed, Computing Development Officer at the University of Exeter Library, describes the building of the main University subject tree, or index, of Internet Resources.
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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.
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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.
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Ben Toth describes the establishment and maintenance of a regional Health Web site.
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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..
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Brian Kelly is put under the virtual spotlight to answer a few questions via email on his past, present, and thoughts on matters networking.
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Terry Hanson reviews the mother of academic mailing list systems in the UK.
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Alison Kilgour takes a look at the networking facilities inside Glasgow University Library.
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Bernard Naylor, the University Librarian at the University of Southampton, describes the information hurricane that is battering the world of Libraries.
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Interview with
Paul Evan Peters, director of the US Coalition for Networked Information.
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Jim Smith finds that the Internet is no place to do research.
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