Buzz - Sru

• SUNCAT: Ten Years and Beyond

  Celia Jenkins charts the beginnings of SUNCAT, its development over the last ten years and what the future holds for the service.

• 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.

• 10 Years of Zetoc

  Jane Ronson looks at how Zetoc has developed and what the future holds for the service.

• The Future of Interoperability and Standards in Education: A JISC CETIS Event

  Sarah Currier reports on an international working meeting involving a range of educational interoperability standards bodies and communities, organised by JISC CETIS.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• ARROW, DART and ARCHER: A Quiver Full of Research Repository and Related Projects

  Andrew Treloar and David Groenewegen describe three inter-related projects to support scholarly outputs and the e-research life cycle which have been funded by the Australian Commonwealth Government.

• Book Review: Digital Libraries - Integrating Content and Systems

  Chris Awre finds a useful toolset to guide librarians and LIS students on the future use of IT to deliver their services.

• Introducing UnAPI

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

• 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.

• JISC and SURF International Workshop on Electronic Theses

  Neil Jacobs reports on a JISC-SURF-CURL-sponsored event at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 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.

• DC 2005

  Robina Clayphan reports on the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications: Vocabularies in Practice held at the University of Carlos III, Madrid in September 2005.

• Distributed Services Registry Workshop

  John Gilby reports on the UKOLN/IESR two-day workshop at Scarman House, University of Warwick on 14-15 July 2005.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 40: Horses for Courses

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 40.

• 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.