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• 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.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 71

  The editor introduces readers to the content of Ariadne Issue 71.

• 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.

• JABES 2013

  Marlène Delhaye reports on the two-day annual conference organised by the French Agence Bibliographique de l’Enseignement Supérieur (ABES) held in Montpellier, France over 14-15 May 2013.

• The Wellcome Library, Digital

  Christy Henshaw and Robert Kiley describe how the Wellcome Library has transformed its information systems to support mass digitisation of historic collections.

• 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.

• Case Studies in Web Sustainability

  Scott Turner describes issues around making Web resources sustainable.

• 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.

• SUSHI: Delivering Major Benefits to JUSP

  Paul Meehan, Paul Needham and Ross MacIntyre explain the enormous time and cost benefits in using SUSHI to support rapid gathering of journal usage reports into the JUSP service.

• 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.

• Redeveloping the Loughborough Online Reading List System

  Jon Knight, Jason Cooper and Gary Brewerton describe the redevelopment of Loughborough University’s open source reading list system.

• Data Citation and Publication by NERC’s Environmental Data Centres

  Sarah Callaghan, Roy Lowry, David Walton and members of the Natural Environment Research Council Science Information Strategy Data Citation and Publication Project team describe their work in NERC’s Environmental Data Centres.

• Delivering Open Educational Resources for Engineering Design

  Mansur Darlington describes two methods for presenting online OERs for engineering design that were developed and explored as part of the Higher Education Academy/JISC-funded DelOREs (Delivering Open Educational Resources for Engineering Design) Project.

• 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.

• From Link Rot to Web Sanctuary: Creating the Digital Educational Resource Archive (DERA)

  Bernard M Scaife describes how an innovative use of the EPrints repository software is helping to preserve official documents from the Web.

• 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.

• Beyond the PDF

  Jodi Schneider reports on a three-day workshop about the future of scientific communication, held in San Diego CA, USA, in January 2011.

• 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.

• Repository Fringe 2010

  Martin Donnelly (and friends) report on the Repository Fringe "unconference" held at the National e-Science Centre in Edinburgh, Scotland, over 2-3 September 2010.

• Survive or Thrive

  Ed Fay reports on a two-day conference organised by UKOLN on behalf of JISC to consider growth and use of digital content on the Web, which was held in Manchester in June 2010.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Product Review: The IPad and the Educator, First Impressions

  Brian Whalley reports on his initial impressions of the new Apple iPad in the first three weeks since its release in the USA and what it has to offer the mobile educator.

• Get Tooled Up: Xerxes at Royal Holloway, University of London

  Anna Grigson, Peter Kiely, Graham Seaman and Tim Wales describe the implementation of an open source front end to the MetaLib federated search tool.

• Intranet Management: Divine Comedy or Strategic Imperative?

  Martin White suggests that a failure to recognise the value of intranets is a symptom of a failure to recognise information as a strategic asset.

• eBooks: Tipping or Vanishing Point?

  Emma Tonkin investigates ebooks and takes a look at recent technological and business developments in this area.

• 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.

• Search Engines: Real-time Search

  Phil Bradley looks at the concept of real-time search and points to some of the functionality that users can and should expect to find when exploring these engines.

• Share. Collaborate. Innovate. Building an Organisational Approach to Web 2.0

  Paul Bevan outlines the National Library of Wales' development of a strategic approach to meeting user needs in a post-Web 2.0 world.

• Book Review: Digital Consumers - Reshaping the Information Professions

  Muhammad Rafiq offers us a detailed review of a work which examines digital consumers from both an historical and future perspective.

• Open Repositories 2009

  Adrian Stevenson reports on the four-day annual Open Repositories conference held at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, GA, USA over 18 - 21 May 2009.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Spinning a Semantic Web for Metadata: Developments in the IEMSR

  Emma Tonkin and Alexey Strelnikov reflect on the experience of developing components for the Information Environment Metadata Schema Registry.

• 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.

• Get Tooled Up: SeeAlso: A Simple Linkserver Protocol

  Jakob Voss combines OpenSearch and unAPI to enrich catalogues.

• Book Review: Visualizing Data

  Pete Cliff considers a new book on data visualisation and hopes one day to implement some of the interesting ideas presented in this work.

• Book Review: Web Accessibility

  Martin White reviews a book that provides advice for managers on how to ensure that Web sites, intranets and library services are fully compliant with guidelines and legislation on accessibility.

• Search Engines: Google Still Growing

  Phil Bradley finds it difficult to ignore some of the latest developments from Google - particularly the ones that are actually quite good.

• Custom-built Search Engines

  Phil Bradley reviews a means of enhancing the relevance of search results through the use of custom-built search engines.

• 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.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Book Review: Mastering Regular Expressions, 3rd Edition

  Emma Tonkin and Greg Tourte take a look at the new edition of an O'Reilly classic.

• Book Review: Principles of Data Management

  Pete Cliff takes a look at a new book from the British Computer Society that aims to help readers understand the importance, issues and benefits of data management across an enterprise.

• Newsline

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• The DARE Chronicle: Open Access to Research Results and Teaching Material in the Netherlands

  Leo Waaijers reflects on four years of progress and also looks ahead.

• 24 Hour Museum: From Past to Future

  As 24 Hour Museum rebuilds and looks outwards to new partnerships, Jon Pratty looks at challenges faced over the last seven years.

• IIPC Web Archiving Toolset Performance Testing at The British Library

  Jackson Pope and Philip Beresford pick up the threads from an initial contribution in issue 50 and report on progress at The British Library in installing and performance testing the Web Curator Tool.

• IWMW 2007: Next Steps for the Web Management Community

  Shirley Keane reports on the wide range of presentations given at this year's Institutional Web Management Workshop.

• Book Review: Teaching Web Search Skills

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

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 51: Democratising Cultural Heritage

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne 51.

• The W3C Technical Architecture Group

  Henry S. Thompson introduces the W3C Technical Architecture Group and its work.

• 2nd International DCC Conference 2006: Digital Data Curation in Practice

  Alexander Ball and Manjula Patel provide an overview of the second annual conference of the Digital Curation Centre.

• Book Review: Google Hacks

  Phil Bradley looks at a work offering programming 'know-how' to create resources that will do things with the search engine that might otherwise prove difficult or impossible.

• Collecting Born Digital Archives at the Wellcome Library

  Chris Hilton and Dave Thompson discuss plans for work with born digital archival material at the Wellcome Library.

• 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.

• UK Digital Preservation Needs Assessment: Where We Go from Here

  Najla Semple and Maggie Jones outline the background and findings of the Digital Preservation Coalition's UK Needs Assessment and the Mind the Gap report.

• 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.

• 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.

• Joint Workshop on Future-proofing Institutional Websites

  Maureen Pennock reports on a two-day workshop on Future-Proofing Web Sites, organised by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) and the Wellcome Library at the Wellcome Library, London, over 19-20 January 2006.

• 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.

• Putting the Library Into the Institution: Using JSR 168 and WSRP to Enable Search Within Portal Frameworks

  Chris Awre, Stewart Waller, Jon Allen, Matthew J Dovey, Jon Hunter and Ian Dolphin describe the investigations and technical development undertaken within the JISC-funded Contextual Resource Evaluation Environment (CREE) Project to enable the presentation of existing search tools within portal frameworks using the JSR 168 and WSRP portlet standards.

• 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.

• Web Focus: Must Email Die?

  Brian Kelly recently gave a talk on this subject at the Internet Librarian International 2005 conference. In this article he expands on the talk and revisits the question as to whether email really should disappear.

• 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.

• 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.

• 10th CETIS-TechDis Accessibility Special Interest Group Meeting

  Ann Chapman reports on a one-day meeting that focused among other things on accessibility in virtual learning environments and personal learning profiles.

• E-Archiving: An Overview of Some Repository Management Software Tools

  Marion Prudlo discusses LOCKSS, EPrints, and DSpace in terms of who uses them, their cost, underlying technology, the required know-how, and functionalities.

• 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.

• Beyond Email: Wikis, Blogs and Other Strange Beasts

  Robert Bristow reports on a one-day workshop 'Beyond Email: Strategies for Collaborative Working and Learning in the 21st Century'.

• EEVL: Four Search Engines and a Plaque

  Roddy MacLeod looks at some recent developments to the EEVL service.

• Making the Case for a Wiki

  Emma Tonkin examines wikis and considers the feasibility of their deployment - and the danger of the 'tumbleweed' syndrome.

• 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.

• 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.

• Improving Communications Within JISC through News Aggregation

  Paul Davey explains what JISC is doing to improve communications through more effective news promotion. Roddy MacLeod and Malcolm Moffat examine the technology EEVL has developed in this area.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• 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.

• The Tapir: Adding E-Theses Functionality to DSpace

  Richard Jones demonstrates how the Theses Alive Plugin for Institutional Repositories (Tapir) has provided E-Theses functionality for DSpace.

• Web Focus: QA Focus Has Finished - Let's Start Embedding QA

  Brian Kelly reviews the JISC-funded QA Focus Project and argues that developers should be using quality assurance principles.

• 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.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• PALS Conference: Institutional Repositories and Their Impact on Publishing

  Kurt Paulus describes for us the Publisher and Library/Learning Solutions (PALS) Conference held in London this June.

• Support Models for Open Source Deployment

  Sebastian Rahtz and Randy Metcalfe report on OSS Watch's one-day conference on support models held in London in June 2004.

• Tap Into Bath

  Alison Baud and Ann Chapman describe the development of a database of archive, library and museum collections in Bath.

• Targeting Academic Research With Southampton's Institutional Repository

  Jessie Hey describes how user needs have influenced the evolutionary development of 'e-Prints Soton' as the University of Southampton Research Repository.

• The Information Environment Service Registry: Promoting the Use of Electronic Resources

  Amanda Hill outlines progress on the Information Environment Service Registry Project and explains what it will mean for service providers and portal 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.

• 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.

• EEVL News: EEVL, VLEs, Institutional and Library Portals

  Malcolm Moffat discusses the use of EEVL functionality in VLEs and Portals.

• Planet-SOSIG: A Variety of Reports

  This month Neil Jacobs reports on updates to the Regard service, Martin Poulter introduces a new Economics Assessment Bank and Emma Place highlights the programme of training and outreach conducted by SOSIG this spring.

• RDN/LTSN Partnerships: Learning Resource Discovery Based on the LOM and the OAI-PMH

  Andy Powell and Phil Barker explore the technical collaboration currently underway between the RDN and the LTSN and describe the RDN/LTSN LOM Application Profile and its use to support resource discovery.

• Through the Web Authoring Tools

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

• Web Focus: Towards Library Groupware With Personalised Link Routing

  Brian Kelly takes a look at the FOAF Semantic Web application and suggests it is time to start evaluating this technology.

• Improving the Quality of Metadata in Eprint Archives

  Marieke Guy, Andy Powell and Michael Day address the argument that the quality of service to end-users is markedly influenced by the quality of metadata being produced and provide suggestions.

• 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.

• The Portole Project: Supporting E-learning

  Tracey Stanley, Mina Sotiriou and Matthew Dovey provide an overview of a project to produce tools to discover information resources and deploy them within a university VLE.

• 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.

• Delivering OAI Records As RSS: An IMesh Toolkit Module for Facilitating Resource Sharing

  Monica Duke provides an overview of a means of providing records in RSS through the use of an IMesh Toolkit module that supports resource sharing. The content of this article was presented at the 4th Open Archives Forum Workshop

• ECDL-2003 Web Archiving

  Michael Day reports on the 3rd ECDL Workshop on Web Archives held in Trondheim, August 2003.

• Experiences of Harvesting Web Resources in Engineering Using Automatic Classification

  Kjell Jansson, Jessica Lindholm and Tomas Schoenthal describe the work in setting up a Web index that uses automatic classification as a means for the selection of resources.

• 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.

• Web Focus: Widening the Focus for the Future

  Brian Kelly reviews the history of the Web Focus post and describes funding changes which gives Web Focus a much wider remit.

• An IMS Generator for the Masses

  Kelvin Hai, David Palmer and Chris Dunlop of the MARTINI Project describe the architecture and operation of the Project-developed IMS Generator and show how its flexibility allows it to handle the diverse nature of data held by institutions.

• EEVL News and Enhancements

  Roddy MacLeod and Lesa Ng provide us with the news and developments from EEVL.

• The Bath Profile Four Years On: What's Being Done in the UK?

  Fraser Nicolaides gives us his take on the conference to review the implementation of the Bath Profile in the UK, July 2003.

• Web Focus: WWW 2003 Trip Report

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

• Free Full-text E-journals and EEVL's Engineering E-journal Search Engine

  Nicola Harrison and Roddy MacLeod describe what EEVL has to offer in the area of e-journals.

• 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.

• Syndicated Content: It's More Than Just Some File Formats?

  Paul Miller takes a look at issues arising from the current enthusiasm for syndicating content to portals or other web sites, and offers some guidelines for good practice.

• Web Focus: A Standards-Based Culture for Web Site Development

  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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Review: E-learning and Teaching in Library and Information Services

  Book review by John Paschoud

• 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.

• 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.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 33: Exploring the Information Environment

  Philip Hunter with the editorial for Ariadne 33.

• 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.

• Public Libraries: United We Stand

  Penny Garrod on current developments in the Public Library world.

• 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.

• EEVL

  Roddy Macleod on EEVL's engagement with RSS channels.

• Electronic Theses and Dissertations: A Strategy for the UK

  by John MacColl considers a strategy for electronic theses and dissertations in the United Kingdom.

• First Impressions of Ex Libris's Metalib: Talking about a Revolution?

  Nick Lewis outlines key issues in the implementation of a cross-searching portal using Metalib.

• Internet 2 Spring Member Meeting

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

• QA Focus

  Marieke Napier on Quality Assurance procedures in the Jisc 5/99 Programme.

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

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

• UM.Sitemaker: Flexible Web Publishing for Academic Users

  Jonathan Maybaum explains how UM.SiteMaker was designed to fill an important gap in the array of tools to suit academic publishing.

• WWW2002 Here

  Libby Miller sends notes from the WW2002 conference in Hawaii.

• 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.

• Public Libraries

  Penny Garrod's second outing in Ariadne as Public Libraries Focus.

• Setting up an Institutional E-Print Archive

  Stephen Pinfield, Mike Gardner, and John MacColl with some practical advice on setting up an e-print archive.

• 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.

• The Concept of the Portal

  Paul Miller gives his personal view of the portal and its varieties, both in the wild and on the drawing board.

• Web Focus: Mobile E-Book Readers

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

• Developing an Agenda for Institutional E-Print Archives

  Philip Hunter, John MacColl and Marieke Napier report on a one day Open Archives conference on OAI compliant metadata and e-print issues. Held at the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, London. 11 July 2001.

• Evolution of Portable Electronic Books

  Ruth Wilson charts the development of portable electronic book hardware, from the first generation in 1980s to the range of handheld devices available today.

• 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.

• Windows NT Explorer: Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)

  Brett Burridge investigates the use of the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), the XML-based protocol that is taking a leading role in the emerging area of Web Services.

• 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.

• EEVL: Email Newsletters Examples from Engineering

  Jim Corlett explains how email newsletters can benefit you.

• 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.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• 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.

• Supporting Material for Database Training, or 'Here’s One I Prepared Earlier'

  Alison McNab looks at the wealth of resources available for trainers provided by the information service and content providers within JISC-supported services.

• The Management of Content: Universities and the Electronic Publishing Revolution

  Philip Hunter attempts to throw some light on the low take up of content management systems (CMS) in the university sector.

• Web Watch: Size of Institutional Top Level Pages

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

• 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 Filling in the PIE: HeadLine's Resource Data Model

  John Paschoud explains the concepts of representation and use of metadata in the Resource Data Model (RDM) that has been developed by the HeadLine project.

• The Future Is Hybrid: Edinburgh

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

• Web Focus: HTML is Dead!

  HTML is Dead: Brian Kelly explains why this is, and why it is a good thing.

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

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

• It's the End of the World As We Know It (and I Feel Fine), Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the E-Book

  Sarah Ormes explores the e-book from a Public Libraries perspective.

• Public Libraries: Managing the Virtual Branch

  Sarah Ormes reports on the recent Public Libraries Web Managers Workshop held in the University of Bath.

• 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.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 25: Beyond the Web Site

  Philip Hunter on the contents of Ariadne issue 25 and recent developments in the world of Digital Library initiatives.

• Knowledge Management in the Perseus Digital Library

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

• Managing Technostress in UK Libraries: A Realistic Guide

  Stephen Harper analyses in detail a familiar disease.

• 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.

• XML 2000: New Tools, New Vendors

  Dianne Kennedy reports on the latest XML conference in Paris.

• ZOPE: Swiss Army Knife for the Web?

  Paul Browning looks at this multiple authoring environment.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 24: Plumbing the Digital Library

  Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne 24.

• How the Oxford English Dictionary Went Online

  Laura Elliot explains the use of SGML in the management of the OED text.

• 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.

• Web Focus: Reflections On WWW9

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

• EPRESS

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

• The World's Greatest Dictionary' Goes Online

  Juliet New explains the background to the electronic version of the Oxford English Dictionary, launched on the 14 March 2000.

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

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

• Aerade

  John Harrington, Karyn Meaden and Emma Turner introduce Aerade, an EEVL-related service.

• 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.

• Web Focus: Using the Web to Promote Your Web Site

  Brian Kelly expalins how to promote your web site.

• Web Watch: A Survey of Institutional Web Gateways

  Brian Kelly surveys institutional web gateways.

• 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.

• DISinHE: Web Content Accessibility

  Paul Booth discusses Web content accessibility.

• Digitizing Wilfrid

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

• The Web Editor: 'Abzu and Beyond'

  Charles Jones muses on the history of the Internet presence of the University of Chicago Oriental Institute.

• Unix: What Is mod_perl?

  Ian Peacock explains mod_perl technology for supercharging the Apache Server.

• 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."

• WebWatch: UK University Search Engines

  Brian Kelly explores the search facilities used by UK university Web sites.

• Windows NT Explorer

  Brett Burridge on Internet Information Server (IIS 4.0)

• CLUMPS in the Real World

  Juliet Dye and Jane Harrington look into evaluation procedures for the CLUMPS projects.

• Milestone for Mailbase: Ten Years Value-Added Service to UK Higher Education

  Elaine Blair discusses Mailbase services ten years on.

• Practical Clumping: Mick Ridley on the BOPAC System

  Mick Ridley discusses the BOPAC system.

• The Web Editor: From 'One Stop Shop' to Information Hierarchy

  Rebecca Linford discusses the web editor role: from 'one stop shop' to information hierarchy.

• 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.

• Metadata: Image Retrieval

  Michael Day reports on combining content-based and metadata-based approaches.

• SEAMLESS: Introduction to the Project

  Mary Rowlatt describes SEAMLESS, the Essex-based project.

• The Web Editor: Institutional Troubleshooter

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

• 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.

• Windows NT Explorer

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

• 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.

• Metadata: Cataloguing Theory and Internet Subject-based Information Gateways

  Ann Chapman, Michael Day, and Debra Hiom compare library cataloguing concepts and ROADS Template creation.

• SGML, XML and Databases

  Stephen Emmott reports on a one day meeting in London

• 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.

• Web Editorial: Introduction to Issue 18

  The web editors, Bernadette Daly and Philip Hunter, introduce Ariadne issue 18.

• Web Focus: The Role of the Web Editor

  Brian Kelly asks, does 'web editor' mean Unix guru or an HTML coder?

• What Is a URI?

  Ian Peacock explains 'URI' in plain English.

• 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.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Teleworking from Home

  Nicola Harrison, Project Assistant at Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library (EEVL), describes her experience of teleworking.

• 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.

• 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.

• View from the Hill: Birkbeck

  Ariadne interview with Philippa Dolphin at Birkbeck, about how IT issues are tackled there.

• 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.

• A National Co-ordinating Body for Digital Archiving?

  David Haynes discusses one possible way forward for ensuring that potentially valued digital materials are preserved for future study and use.

• Project Patron

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

• RDF Seminar

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

• Showing Robots the Door

  Ian Peacock explains how web robot access to your site can be controlled.

• 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.

• EDDIS

  David Larbey writes about EDDIS, one of eLib’s document delivery projects.

• Electronic Resource Creation and Management at Scottish Universities

  Dennis Nicholson and Martin Smith describe the Catriona II project.

• Internet Resources for Older People

  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.

• 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.

• Web Editorial: Introduction to Issue 14

  The Web editors, Philip Hunter and Isobel Stark, introduce Ariadne issue 14.

• 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 RDF?

  Rachel Heery explains RDF (Resource Description Framework)

• HEADLINE (HYBRID Electronic Access and Delivery in the Library Networked Environment)

  Maureen Wade introduces HEADLINE (HYBRID Electronic Access and Delivery in the Library Networked Environment).

• 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.

• What Is an Intranet?

  Glen Monks explains the buzz word: intranet.

• Are Print Journals Dinosaurs?

  Tony Kidd wonders if he and and his kind are palæontologists.

• Consortium and Site Licensing

  Jim Huntingford reports from the Consortium and Site Licensing Seminar organised by the United Kingdom Serials Group.

• Down Your Way: The Radcliffe Science Library

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

• Metadata Corner: DC5 - the Search for Santa

  Tony Gill and Paul Miller's report from the 5th Dublin Core metdata conference in Helsinki.

• Netskills Corner

  Justin MacNeil reviews FrontPage '98 Beta.

• Search Engines Corner: Moving Up the Ranks

  Tracey Stanley looks at how search engines rank their results.

• Web Editorial: Introduction to Issue 12

  Philip Hunter and Isobel Stark introduce Ariadne, in its Web Version.

• Web Focus: WebWatching UK Universities and Colleges

  Brian Kelly describes the WebWatch project.

• Copyright Corner

  Charles Oppenheim answers copyright queries.

• Edbank

  Hilary Nunn describes this project to create, maintain and run a database of digitised teaching materials to support remote (off campus) students in teacher training, based at the Open University Library.

• Planet SOSIG: ALISS and IRISS

  Debra Hiom on recent developments and happenings with ALISS, IRISS, and SOSIG.

• Public Libraries Corner: A Public Library Metadata Initiative

  Sally Criddle introduces an initiative to extend current developments in the use of metadata to the public library community.

• SKIP: Skills for new Information Professionals

  Penny Garrod reports on the changing skills profile in LIS. This article is an extended version of that which appears in the print edition of Ariadne.

• Web Focus Corner: Running an Institutional Web Service

  Brian Kelly reports on a workshop on running an institutional web service.

• 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.

• ACORN Implemented

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

• Access to Newspapers and Journals for Visually Impaired People: The Talking Newspaper Association of the UK

  Neil H. McLachlan describes the work and electronic products of the Talking Newspaper Assocation (TNAUK).

• 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.

• Cybercollege Scorecard: How Does Your University Score?

  Tony Durham, multimedia editor of the Times Higher Education Supplement, explains how to determine whether cultural change has affected your institute of learning.

• 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.

• Search Engines Corner: Keyword Spamming - Cheat Your Way to the Top

  Tracey Stanley shows how metadata can be abused to enhance the search engine ranking of Web pages.

• The Librarian of Babel: The Self-Citation Machine

  The Librarian, talking to Mike Holderness, uncovers the true purpose of the World-Wide Web.

• The Library Association Web Site

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

• Web Focus: Technical Aspects of Copyright and the Web

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

• From Aberystwyth to ADAM: Using the Skills Acquired on a Library School Course in the Real World

  Rebecca Bradshaw reflects on how the skills and knowledge she acquired when a library school student are relevant (or not) to her current role, developing a network-based subject gateway.

• Indian Ocean Rim Region Virtual Library Project

  Susan Lutley describes a prototype virtual library, built as part of a co-operative venture focusing on broad issues in Social Development within the Indian Ocean Rim Region.

• 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.

• Monash University Library Electronic Resources Directory

  Lisa Smith describes a system which can be used to help people locate the electronic resources of Monash University Library

• Netskills Corner: The Evolution of HTML - Netscape Gold

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

• Never Mind the Quality, Check the Badge-Width!

  Alison McNab, Betsy Anagnostelis and Alison Cooke compare and contrast the methods used to identify and indicate which Internet-based resources are of high "quality".

• REDD: Regional Electronic Document Delivery Service

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

• The Future of Digitising at the State Library of Victoria, Australia

  Catherine Herman and Indra Kurzeme discuss the multimedia source project, set within the context of the pro-multimedia State of Victora, Australia.

• 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.

• Disabil-IT? Part 2: Software for Students With Dyslexia, and Software Design Issues

  Isobel Stark presents the second part of her report on the Disabil-IT? Conference. In this article, software for students with dyslexia is looked at, and issues to bear in mind when designing software which may be used by students with disabilities are listed.

• Down Under With the Dublin Core

  Paul Miller and Tony Gill offer a view of the recent Dublin Core metadata workshop in the Australian capital, Canberra.

• 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.

• 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.

• Late Night News: The Electronic Telegraph

  A night in the life of the Electronic Telegraph. Emma Worsfold sits in on the editors' shift at ET.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• A Brief History of the American Library Association Web Site

  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.

• 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.

• DeLiberations

  Graham Alsop explains how an interactive electronic magazine can improve teaching methods.

• 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.

• Mind the Gap!

  Sheila and Robert Harden describe the making of their public library Web pages.

• 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.

• Elib Technical Issues Concertation Day

  Clare McClean describes a day given over to the more technical issues arising from the Electronic Libraries Programme.

• How to Grow Gossamer and Keep It Untangled

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

• ILRT: The Institute for Learning and Research Technology

  Gillian Austen, External Relations Manager at the recently founded Institute for Learning and Research Technology at the University of Bristol, gives an overview of its structure and objectives.

• 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.

• Lessons Learned from Developing and Delivering the BORGES Information Filtering Tool

  Alan Smeaton discusses the development and implementation of BORGES, an information filtering service for WWW pages and USENET news.

• 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.

• Public Libraries Corner: Treasure Island on the Web

  Sarah Ormes looks at children's libraries and literacy, and describes the Treasure Island Web pages, a resource that shows how the potential of the Web can be used to make classic texts more accessible to a younger audience.

• Review of Where the Wild Things Are: Librarian's Guide to the Best Information on the Net

  Marylaine Block describes the construction of Where the Wild Things Are: Librarian's Guide to the Best Information on the Net.

• The Internet Resources Newsletter from Heriot-Watt University

  Roddy MacLeod describes a Web-based resources newsletter.

• 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.

• CAUSE / EFFECT

  Julia A. Rudy, Cause/Effect Editor and Director of Publications at CAUSE, an international, nonprofit professional association for managers and users of information resources on college and university campuses, describes CAUSE/EFFECT.

• 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.

• DESIRE: Development of a European Service for Information on Research and Education

  Klaas Wierenga, the director of DESIRE, describes this pan-European project in which the academic network services of the UK have a large stake.

• Down Your Way: Edge Hill University

  Alison Kilgour checks out the network facilities at Edge Hill College.

• InfoSeek Ultra: (Yet Another) Web Search Engine

  Tracey Stanley looks at InfoSeek Ultra, a new search engine which claims to allow searching on a index of 50 million Web pages.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Open Peer Review & Argumentation: Loosening the Paper Chains on Journals

  Tamara Sumner and Simon Buckingham Shum of the Knowledge Media Institute of the Open University, describe the design and implementation of the Journal of Interactive Media in Education, and some of the issues behind the approach that this journal takes to the process of scholarly review.

• Provenance

  Neal Chan describes Provenance, a Canadian-based Web magazine for Information Professionals.

• 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.

• Subject Trees: The Exeter Experience

  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.

• UKERNA: Training the Networkers

  John MacCulloch and Jane Batchelor, from UKERNA, detail their training course, designed for those installing, running, supporting, or managing a JANET connection.

• View from the Hill: Internet Cafes

  John MacColl orders lunch with a portion of e-mail.

• Wire: Interview with Jasper Tredgold

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

• Around the Table

  Ian Budden points to resources for humanities scholars.

• Burnside Writes

  John Burnside takes his first tentative step in Web page creation.

• 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.

• Centre for Database Access Research (CEDAR): The Huddersfield Connection

  Steve Pollitt describes the history and research behind CEDAR, the Centre for Database Access Research, which specialises in work on the design of interfaces for information retrieval systems.

• NHS Libraries: At Home on the Web

  Ben Toth describes the establishment and maintenance of a regional Health Web site.

• 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..

• TAPin: Training and Awareness Programme in Networks

  Kay Flatten outlines the training and awareness project that focuses on universities in the Midlands area.

• 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.

• Meta Detectors

  Lorcan Dempsey talks about metadata and the development of resource discovery services 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.

• 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.

• Interface

  Interview with Jill Foster, director of Mailbase and Netskills.

• 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.

• 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.

• What's Good and Bad about BUBL

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

• Wire: Email Interview with Traugott Koch

  Traugott Koch submits to an interview by email.