Buzz - Hypertext

• LinkedUp: Linking Open Data for Education

  Marieke Guy, Mathieu d’Aquin, Stefan Dietze, Hendrik Drachsler, Eelco Herder and Elisabetta Parodi describe the activities carried out by the LinkedUp Project looking at the promotion of open data in education.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Book Review: Supporting Research Students

  Brian Whalley reviews a work which helps Library and Information Science Staff at Higher Education Institutions to support their research students.

• 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.

• eBooks: Tipping or Vanishing Point?

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

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 58: People Still Matter

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 58.

• Get Tooled Up: SeeAlso: A Simple Linkserver Protocol

  Jakob Voss combines OpenSearch and unAPI to enrich catalogues.

• What Happens If I Click on This?': Experiences of the Archives Hub

  Jane Stevenson describes the results of usability testing for the Archives Hub Web site.

• Collaborative and Social Tagging Networks

  Emma Tonkin, Edward M. Corrado, Heather Lea Moulaison, Margaret E. I. Kipp, Andrea Resmini, Heather D. Pfeiffer and Qiping Zhang gather a series of international perspectives on the practice of social tagging of documents within a community context.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• The Video Active Consortium: Europe's Television History Online

  Johan Oomen and Vassilis Tzouvaras provide an insight into the background and development of the Video Active Portal which offers access to television heritage material from leading archives across Europe.

• A Dublin Core Application Profile for Scholarly Works

  Julie Allinson, Pete Johnston and Andy Powell describe a Dublin Core application profile for describing scholarly works that makes use of FRBR and the DCMI Abstract Model.

• Limits to Information Transfer: The Boundary Problem

  Jon E. Lervik, Mark Easterby-Smith, Kathryn Fahy and Carole Elliott discuss the challenges in integrating knowledge across boundaries between specialised knowledge communities within an organisation.

• e-Books for the Future: Here but Hiding?

  Brian Whalley outlines some developments in e-book technologies and links them to existing ways of presenting textbook information.

• Book Review: ARIST 39 - Annual Review of Information Science and Technology

  Michael Day reviews another recent volume of this key annual publication on information science and technology.

• Finding Someplace to Go: Reading and the Internet

  Marieke Guy takes a look at what the Internet has to offer the art of reading.

• Making the Case for a Wiki

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

• Recasting the Past: Digital Histories

  Vanessa Carr reports on a one day conference about digitising historical records, held jointly by the Association for History and Computing UK and the Royal Historical Society.

• Web Focus: Experiences of Using a Wiki for Note-taking at a Workshop

  Brian Kelly describes how the Wikalong Wiki tool was used to support note-taking at a workshop.

• World Wide Web Conference 2004

  Dave Beckett reports on the international WWW2004 conference held in New York, 19-21 May 2004.

• 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.

• Book Review: Joining Up the Dots

  Stuart Hannabuss seeks the tenor among the diversity of voices provided by Challenge and Change in the Information Society.

• 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.

• 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.

• Student Searching Behaviour in the JISC Information Environment

  Jill R. Griffiths and Peter Brophy report on work in progress and air some initial findings on the EDNER project, which undertakes evaluation of the developing JISC Information Environment.

• 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.

• Web Focus: Guidelines for URI Naming Policies

  Brian Kelly with some guidelines For URI naming policies in his regular column.

• 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.

• 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.

• E-Books for Students: EBONI

  Ruth Wilson on how the EBONI project will investigate the usability of e-books through user evaluations.

• EEVL

  Roddy MacLeod and Lesa Ng with some useful tips on Shoestring Marketing for projects.

• Understanding the Searching Process for Visually Impaired Users of the Web (NoVA)

  Jenny Craven gives an overview of the Resource funded NoVA project (Non-visual access to the digital library).

• Knowledge Management in the Perseus Digital Library

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

• ZOPE: Swiss Army Knife for the Web?

  Paul Browning looks at this multiple authoring environment.

• Web Focus: Reflections On WWW9

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

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

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

• Metadata for Digital Preservation: An Update

  Michael Day discusses 'Metadata for Digital Preservation'.

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

  Adam Guy writes about the Question Bank service.

• The ResIDe Electronic Library: An Evolving Library Service

  Christine Dugdale looks at the progress of this project to a functional service.

• 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'.

• 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 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.

• EEVL Eye on Engineering

  The EEVL Team explore Internet Resources in Petroleum Engineering and Electronics, take a glance at engineering resources in Australia and South East Asia and give the latest news from the EEVL service.

• Web Research: Browsing Video Content

  Peter Thomas, UWE, and Peter Macer of Hewlett Packard Research Laboratories describe automated techniques for browsing video content.

• Knowledge Management

  Sheila Corrall asks if 'knowledge management' is a new phrase in place of 'information management', or a new concept altogether.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• SGML, XML and Databases

  Stephen Emmott reports on a one day meeting in London

• VERITY

  Panayiotis Periorellis and Walter Scales writes about the VERITY European Telematics Project.

• What Are Document Management Systems?

  Brian Kelly explains the concept of document management systems.

• What Are XLink and Xpointer?

  Brian Kelly explains XLink and XPointer.

• Web Focus: The 7th World Wide Web Conference

  Brian Kelly is interviewed about the 7th World Wide Web Conference upon his return from Brisbane.

• Superjournal Update

  Christine Baldwin describes work so far on the Superjournal project which set out to study factors which make e-journals successful and useful to academia.

• Task Force Meeting

  Kelly Russell reports on the US CNI Conference.

• 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.

• Down Your Way: The Radcliffe Science Library

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

• JournalsOnline: The Online Journal Solution

  Jane Henley and Sarah Thompson look at the BIDS JournalsOnline service and its commercial competitors.

• Web Focus: WebWatching UK Universities and Colleges

  Brian Kelly describes the WebWatch project.

• Digital Libraries '97

  David Nichols reports on the important international conference: Digital Libraries '97.

• 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.

• Electronic Journals: Problem Or Panacea?

  Judith Edwards outlines some of the problems faced by academia in the acquisition and provision of electronic journals.

• Metadata Corner: Working Meeting on Electronic Records Research

  Michael Day reports from the Working Meeting on Electronic Records Research, held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania May 29-31, 1997.

• The Librarian of Babel: The Self-Citation Machine

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

• Elvira 4: May 1997, Milton Keynes

  Ian Bloor reports on the recently held Elvira (Electronic Library and Visual Information Research) event.

• 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.

• Planet SOSIG: A New Internet Role for Europe's Librarians

  Emma Worsfold describes the role and purpose of SOSIG, and launches a scheme where European Librarians can participate in adding relevant, quality content to this Social Science Gateway.

• 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 Eighth ACM International Hypertext Conference

  Nick Gibbins reports from the Hypertext Conference held in Southampton in April 1997

• Around the Table – Engineering

  Roddy MacLeod casts an EEVL eye over engineering resources.

• 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.

• 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.

• Copyright Issues in Projects Funded by the Electronic Libraries Programme

  After several months experience of dealing with copyright and the eLib programme, Charles Oppenheim returns to the major issues that have a risen.

• Intelligent Searching Agents on the Web

  Tracey Stanley describes Web-based Intelligent Searching Agents, and takes a closer look at a few examples you may wish to play with.

• Interface: Les Carr Interview

  Steve Hitchcock and Les Carr of the Open Journal Project link up with Ian Budden.

• Print Journals: Fit for the Future?

  Do authors choose to appear in print journals for the wrong reasons? Do print journals continue for the wrong reasons? In short, are print research journals a corrupt form of scholarly communication? We asked Fytton Rowland to provide a defence of the traditional scholarly journal. In our next journal we shall provide a perspective from the other side of the debate.

• Promoting the Internet to Staff at a UK University

  Paul Hollands is the human part of a project to promote the use of Internet based information services among teaching and research staff at the university; in his own words, this is how the project has progressed to date.

• 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.

• Allerton 1996

  Clare Davies reports on this years event in an annual conference series addressing user-centred aspects of library and information science.

• Copyright Battles: The Shetland News

  Charles Oppenheim takes a look at the Shetland Times versus Shetland News copyright case, and its implications for users of the World Wide Web.

• 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.

• 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.

• Networked Learner Support Current Practice Case Base

  Sarah Ashton describes the Current Practice Case Base, an index of links to sites that demonstrate a use of networked learner support.

• 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.

• Around the Table

  Around the Table: Sheona Farquhar looks at sites in science and engineering.

• 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.

• 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 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.

• 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.

• Around the Table

  Ian Budden points to resources for humanities scholars.

• 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.

• JILT: Journal of Information, Law and Technology

  Nicola Clare presents the case for an electronic journal in law.

• JUGL

  Emma Wright put on her woolies and went to Preston to report on the annual JUGL (JANET User Group for Libraries) conference.

• 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'?).

• Alta Vista Vs. Lycos

  Tracey Stanley presents the results of a detailed comparison of the two main search engines of today, Lycos and Alta Vista.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Wire: Email Interview with Traugott Koch

  Traugott Koch submits to an interview by email.