Buzz - Intranet

• Book Review: Information Consulting - Guide to good practice

  Martin White reviews a book written by three experienced consultants that seeks to support information professionals in setting themselves up as consultants.

• 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.

• Book Review: Understanding Information and Computation

  Martin White reviews a very individual perspective on the extent to which the growth and structure of the World Wide Web is governed by the fundamental laws of physics and mathematics.

• Book Review: Getting Started with Cloud Computing

  Martin White reviews a collection of essays on cloud computing that attempts to clarify the technology and its applications for librarians and information professionals.

• Walk-in Access to e-Resources at the University of Bath

  Kate Robinson, Lizz Jennings and Laurence Lockton outline a low-cost solution to walk-in (visitor) access to licensed e-journals, drawing on their practice at the University of Bath with a wiki ERM and OPAC terminals.

• Book Review: Innovations in Information Retrieval

  Martin White reviews a collection of essays on a wide range of current topics and challenges in information retrieval.

• Conference Review: M-Libraries 2, A Virtual Library in Everyone's Pocket

  Martin White reviews the proceedings of a 2009 M-Libraries conference on mobile applications in libraries.

• Book Review: Copyright - Interpreting the Law for Libraries, Archives and Information Services

  Charles Oppenheim sees much to like in the new edition of this work by a well-known authority but identifies one potentially major drawback.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 62: The Wisdom of Communities

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 62.

• 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.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Book Review: GLUT - Mastering Information through the Ages

  Martin White enjoys a random walk through a historical survey of humanity's quest to classify and categorise information.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• A Support Framework for Remote Workers

  Marieke Guy follows up on her two previous articles for Ariadne with an overview of an evolving structure to provide consistent support to UKOLN colleagues who work remotely.

• Book Review: Copyright Compliance

  Stuart Hannabuss argues that the book's online big sister, Keeping Within the Law (KWtL), launched at the same time, is really the place to go and the source to buy.

• 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.

• Book Review: Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management

  Martin White reviews a book that sets out to provide very practical guidance on managing software projects.

• KIM Project Conference 2008

  Alexander Ball provides an overview of the Knowledge and Information Management Through Life Project Conference held in April, 2008.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Book Review: Digital Copyright

  Stuart Hannabuss looks at an interesting Nile cruise of a book about intellectual property.

• 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.

• Eduserv Foundation Symposium 2007: Virtual Worlds, Real Learning?

  Paul Walk reports on the Eduserv Foundation Symposium which took as its theme 'Virtual Worlds, Real Learning?' and which was primarily concerned with educational uses for Second Life.

• Book Review: Information Architecture for the World Wide Web

  Keith Doyle reviews the 3rd edition of the primary reference book for practising in-house staff and consultants responsible for the development of institutional information architecture.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Wiki Or Won't He? A Tale of Public Sector Wikis

  Marieke Guy revisits a topic receiving considerable attention these days and reflects on wiki use by public organisations.

• 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.

• Delivering Digital Services: A Handbook for Public Libraries and Learning Centres

  Towards the end of the Pantomime season, Bruce Royan finds a golden egg among the goose droppings.

• What Users Want: An Academic 'Hybrid' Library Perspective

  Reg Carr reflects on the development of a user-centred approach in academic libraries over recent decades and into the era of the hybrid library.

• 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 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.

• Book Review: Content and Workflow Management for Library Web Sites

  Martin White welcomes the detail but is concerned at the impact that the publishing process has had on the currency and utility of the content.

• Looking for a Google Box?

  Sebastian Rahtz gives us his evaluation of the Google Search Appliance.

• 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.

• Book Review: Knowledge Management Lessons Learned

  Martin White praises the work of the editors on the 32 essays covering how KM initiatives can deliver tangible outcomes and takes a practical and balanced view of their overall value.

• 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.

• The Institutional Web Management Workshop 2004

  Tracey Stanley reports on the 8th Institutional Web Management Workshop at the University of Birmingham over 27-29 July. The theme of this year's workshop was Transforming the Organisation.

• Book Review: Managing Your Internet & Intranet Services

  David Hook sees this edition as a useful overview but finds unfortunate omissions as well as beneficial inclusions.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 40: Horses for Courses

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 40.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Metadata and Interoperability in a Complex World

  Pete Johnston reflects on the 2003 Dublin Core conference, held in Seattle, Washington.

• 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.

• WebWatch: Surfing Historical UK University Web Sites

  Brian Kelly outlines strategies for choosing appropriate standards for building Web sites.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• EEVL

  Roddy Macleod on EEVL's engagement with RSS channels.

• NetLab's Digital Library Gâteau

  Jessica Lindholm reports from the conference "NetLab and friends: Tribute and outlook after 10 years of digital library development". The conference was held in Lund, Sweden 10-12 April 2002.

• Content Management Systems: Who Needs Them?

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

• Web Watch: An Update On Search Engines Used In UK Universities

  Brian Kelly with an Update On Search Engines Used In UK Universities.

• Software Review: C4U

  Andrew Cox and Simon McLean review this web-monitoring software.

• The LEODIS Database

  Jonathan Kendal on the creation of LEODIS, a Public Libraries sector digitization and database project.

• 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.

• Interoperability: What Is It and Why Should I Want It?

  Paul Miller explains what interoperability is and why you should want it.

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

  Adam Guy writes about the Question Bank service.

• 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."

• Windows NT Explorer

  Brett Burridge on Internet Information Server (IIS 4.0)

• Windows NT Explorer

  Brett Burridge discusses Active Server Pages (ASP) - one of the most useful facilities provided by Windows NT server.

• Instructional Management Systems

  John MacColl explores the IMS concept in the context of the SELLIC project.

• Minotaur: From Mac to Linux and Back?

  Tony Grant on why a former Macintosh fan has fallen for Linux.

• Unix and the Web: Providing Web Access to Your Email

  Brian Kelly introduces a regular column on Unix and Web issues by describing how a combination of Apache, PHP and IMP can make email folders available using a web browser.

• CATRIONA II Management Survey

  Dennis Nicholson and Martin Smith provide a summary report of selected results from the CATRIONA II survey on the University Management of Electronic Resources.

• Down Your Way: University of Abertay Dundee Library

  Ariadne visits the University of Abertay Dundee's new library.

• 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.

• Web Focus: The Role of the Web Editor

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

• A New Publication for a New Challenge

  John MacColl and Lyndon Pugh discuss their proposal for a web and print magazine for Information and IT professionals in UK Higher Education.

• UKOLUG

  Jacqueline Chelin reports on the UKOLUG 20th birthday conference.

• Web Focus: Ways of Exploiting New Technologies

  Brian Kelly discusses Intermediaries: Ways Of Exploiting New Technologies.

• Project Builder

  Stephen Pinfield outlines the aims of Project Builder, a phase-3 eLib project.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• What Is RDF?

  Rachel Heery explains RDF (Resource Description Framework)

• The Online Exhibition: The OMNI Perspective

  Lisa Gray investigates the Online 1997 exhibtion for medical information.

• What Is an Intranet?

  Glen Monks explains the buzz word: intranet.

• Minotaur: We Must Not Be Driven by IT

  Ray Lester says IT is not just a tool in an information strategy.

• View from the Hill: David VandeLinde

  Isobel Stark interviewed Professor David VandeLinde about the Dearing Report.

• 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.

• Copyright Management Technologies: The Key to Unlocking Digital Works?

  Anne Ramsden brings us up to date with current developments in copyright management technology

• The Library Association Web Site

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

• View from the Hill - Jon Ferguy

  Do networks play any part in the making of films? Isobel Stark is shaken (not stirred) when she finds out more from Jon Ferguy.

• 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.

• 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.

• Libtech 96

  John Kirriemuir and Isobel Stark with some notes and pictures from the main annual UK library exhibition: Libtech 96.

• The 1996 UKOLUG State of the Art Conference

  Melanie Lawes describes the 1996 UKOLUG (UK On-Line Users Group) Annual Conference, held in Warwick last July.

• 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.

• Netskills Corner: Redesigning Your Web Pages?

  Brian Kelly gives some sensible advice on designing (or, as is more likely, redesigning) Web pages.