Buzz - Rfc

• 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.

• 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.

• Abstract Modelling of Digital Identifiers

  Nick Nicholas, Nigel Ward and Kerry Blinco present an information model of digital identifiers, to help bring clarity to the vocabulary debates from which this field has suffered.

• The European Film Gateway

  Georg Eckes and Monika Segbert describe a Best Practice Network funded under the eContentplus Programme of the European Commission, which is building a portal for access to film archival resources in Europe.

• Get Tooled Up: SeeAlso: A Simple Linkserver Protocol

  Jakob Voss combines OpenSearch and unAPI to enrich catalogues.

• Persistent Identifiers: Considering the Options

  Emma Tonkin looks at the current landscape of persistent identifiers, describes several current services, and examines the theoretical background behind their structure and use.

• The Networked Library Service Layer: Sharing Data for More Effective Management and Cooperation

  Janifer Gatenby identifies criteria for determining which data in various library systems could be more beneficially shared and managed at a network level.

• 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.

• Introducing UnAPI

  Dan Chudnov and a team of colleagues describe unAPI, a tiny HTTP API for serving information objects in next-generation Web applications.

• 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.

• ECDL-2003 Web Archiving

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

• Metadata: I Am a Name and a Number

  Paul Miller on Digital Object Identifiers.

• Web Mirrors: Building the UK Mirror Service

  Report on the UK Mirror Service by Mark Russell.

• Web Focus: Technical Aspects of Copyright and the Web

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Wire: Email Interview with Chris Lilley

  Chris Lilley submits to an interview by email.