Buzz - Perl

• 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.

• 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.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 70

  The editor introduces readers to the content of Ariadne Issue 70.

• 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.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 69

  The editor introduces readers to the content of Ariadne Issue 69.

• 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.

• Book Review: Blogging and RSS - A Librarian's Guide, 2nd Edition

  Elly Cope reviews the second edition of this book in which the author explains how RSS and blogging can be used by librarians and libraries.

• Get Tooled Up: SeeAlso: A Simple Linkserver Protocol

  Jakob Voss combines OpenSearch and unAPI to enrich catalogues.

• Integrating Journal Back Files Into an Existing Electronic Environment

  Jason Cooper describes how Loughborough University Library integrated a number of collections of journal back files into their existing electronic environment.

• 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.

• Book Review: Blended Learning

  Brian Whalley reviews Barbara Allan's book on blended learning for Information and Library Science staff and educational developers.

• SWORD: Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit

  Julie Allinson, Sebastien Francois and Stuart Lewis describe the JISC-funded SWORD Project which has produced a lightweight protocol for repository deposit.

• 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: 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.

• Book Review: Managing Electronic Records

  Lise Foster finds much to think about in this wide-ranging collection of essays on the fast-developing field of electronic records management.

• DAEDALUS: Delivering the Glasgow EPrints Service

  Morag Greig and William Nixon describe the key aims and findings of the DAEDALUS Project and the Glasgow ePrints Service.

• 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.

• 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.

• Making the Case for a Wiki

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

• Developing Portal Services and Evaluating How Users Want to Use Them: The CREE Project

  Chris Awre, Matthew J Dovey, Jon Hunter, William Kilbride and Ian Dolphin describe the JISC-funded Contextual Resource Evaluation Environment (CREE) Project and its user and technical investigations to examine how users wish to use library search services.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• What Do Application Profiles Reveal about the Learning Object Metadata Standard?

  Jean Godby assesses the customised subsets of metadata elements that have been defined by 35 projects using the LOM standard to describe e-learning resources.

• An Introduction to the Search/Retrieve URL Service (SRU)

  Eric Lease Morgan describes sibling Web Service protocols designed to define a standard form for Internet search queries as well as the structure of the responses.

• At the Event: The EPrints UK Workshop

  Phil Cross, Debra Hiom and Emma Place report on this workshop which was held at the University of Bath in February 2004.

• Filling Institutional Repositories: Practical Strategies from the DAEDALUS Project

  Morag Mackie describes some strategies that can be used to help populate an institutional repository.

• Through the Web Authoring Tools

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

• Building OAI-PMH Harvesters With Net::OAI::Harvester

  Ed Summers describes Net::OAI::Harvester, the Perl package for easily interacting with OAI-PMH repositories as a metadata harvester. Ed provides examples of how to use Net::OAI::Harvester to write short programs which execute each of the 6 OAI-PMH verbs.

• DSpace Vs. ETD-db: Choosing Software to Manage Electronic Theses and Dissertations

  Richard Jones examines the similarities and differences between DSpace and ETD-db to determine their applicability in a modern E-theses service.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 38: The Quality of Metadata Is Not Strained

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 38.

• What's in EEVL for Further Education

  Roddy MacLeod gives an overview of the services and plans EEVL has for students and practitioners in the Further Education sector.

• DAEDALUS: Initial Experiences With EPrints and DSpace at the University of Glasgow

  William Nixon provides an overview of the DAEDALUS initial experience with the GNU EPrints and DSpace software and the decision to employ both.

• 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

• Exposing Information Resources for E-learning

  Steve Richardson and Andy Powell on Harvesting and searching IMS metadata using both the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, and the Z39.50 Protocol.

• Planet SOSIG: A Spring-clean for SOSIG: A Systematic Approach to Collection Management

  Lesly Huxley, Emma Place, David Boyd, and Phil Cross report on a spring-cleaning exercise for SOSIG using a systematic approach to collection management.

• 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.

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

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

• 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 AIM25 Project

  Robert Baxter, Frances Blomeley and Rachel Kemsley present AIM25, a project providing electronic access to descriptions of archives held in various London institutions.

• Web Focus: Guidelines for URI Naming Policies

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

• Building ResourceFinder

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

• Content Management Systems: Who Needs Them?

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

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 30: Centering the Periphery - A New Equity in Information Access?

  Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne issue 30.

• 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.

• 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.

• OpenResolver: A Simple OpenURL Resolver

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

• Building on BUILDER

  Ian Upton explores the achievements of this Windows NT server based project.

• Clumps Come Up Trumps

  Helena Gillis, Verity Brack, John Gilby and Marian Hogg review the four eLib CLUMP projects now at the end of their funding periods.

• NT Explorer

  Brett Burridge Looks at Microsoft's Site Server 3.0 Commerce Edition.

• Public Libraries: Managing the Virtual Branch

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

• The Klearinghouse: An Inventory of Knowledge Technologies

  George Brett discusses part of a model of distributed user support, The Klearinghouse. The National Laboratory for Applied Network Research (NLANR) has been actively supporting high performance applications and networking for the past five years. The Klearinghouse is a next generation effort of the Advanced Applications Clearinghouse which is in the Distributed Applications Support Team of the NLANR.

• ZOPE: Swiss Army Knife for the Web?

  Paul Browning looks at this multiple authoring environment.

• 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.

• EPRESS

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

• Unix: What Is mod_perl?

  Ian Peacock explains mod_perl technology for supercharging the Apache Server.

• Windows NT Explorer

  Brett Burridge on Internet Information Server (IIS 4.0)

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

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

• Windows NT Explorer

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

• WebWatch: Conclusions from the WebWatch Project

  Brian Kelly sums up conclusions from the WebWatch Project.

• What Is Apache?

  Eddie Young gives the essentials of "Apache", the widely used Unix-based web server software.

• 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 Focus: The Role of the Web Editor

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

• Metadata: BIBLINK.Checksum

  Ian Peacock and Andy Powell describe a proposed algorithm for calculating a checksum for Web pages.

• Showing Robots the Door

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

• ACORN Implemented

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

• 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.

• ERCOMS

  The ERCOMS team explain the intricacies of their Electronic Reserve Copyright Management System project.

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

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

• 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.

• 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.

• Handling MARC With PERL

  Jon Knight investigates the inner workings of the MARC record's binary distribution format and presents the first cut at a Perl module to read and write MARC records.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Wire: Interview with Jasper Tredgold

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

• URL Monitoring Software and Services

  Paul Hollands describes and compares tools to help you notice when a Web-based resource has been updated.