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• Digitisation and e-Delivery of Theses from ePrints Soton

  Julian Ball and Christine Fowler describe the partnership between the University of Southampton’s Library Digitisation Unit and its institutional repository for digitising and hosting theses.

• Realising the Potential of Altmetrics within Institutions

  Jean Liu and Euan Adie of Altmetric take a look at the growing presence of altmetrics in universities, and consider some of the potential applications.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 71

  The editor introduces readers to the content of Ariadne Issue 71.

• Augmented Reality in Education: The SCARLET+ Experience

  Laura Skilton, Matt Ramirez, Guyda Armstrong, Rose Lock, Jean Vacher and Marie-Therese Gramstadt describe augmented reality in education case studies from the University of Sussex and the University for the Creative Arts.

• Book Review: Powering Search - The Role of Thesauri in New Information Environments

  Leonard Will reviews a comprehensive survey of the literature on the use of thesauri in information search processes and interfaces.

• DataFinder: A Research Data Catalogue for Oxford

  Sally Rumsey and Neil Jefferies explain the context and the decisions guiding the development of DataFinder, a data catalogue for the University of Oxford.

• 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.

• Improving Evaluation of Resources through Injected Feedback Surveys

  Terry Reese suggests a novel approach for providing intercept survey functionality for librarians looking to simplify the gathering of user feedback for library-provided materials.

• Making Citation Work: A British Library DataCite Workshop

  Alex Ball reports on a workshop on practical data citation issues for institutions, held at the British Library, London, on 8 March 2013.

• The Wellcome Library, Digital

  Christy Henshaw and Robert Kiley describe how the Wellcome Library has transformed its information systems to support mass digitisation of historic collections.

• 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: The E-copyright Handbook

  Charles Oppenheim takes a look at the latest of Paul Pedley’s copyright guidance books, and, in some respects, finds it wanting.

• Case Studies in Web Sustainability

  Scott Turner describes issues around making Web resources sustainable.

• 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.

• The Institutional Web Management Workshop (IWMW) 2012

  Kirsty Pitkin reports on the 16th Institutional Web Management Workshop held at the University of Edinburgh's Appleton Tower between 18 - 20 July 2012.

• The Second British Library DataCite Workshop

  Alex Ball reports on a one-day workshop on metadata supporting the citation of research data, held at the British Library, London, on 6 July 2012.

• 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.

• Data Citation and Publication by NERC’s Environmental Data Centres

  Sarah Callaghan, Roy Lowry, David Walton and members of the Natural Environment Research Council Science Information Strategy Data Citation and Publication Project team describe their work in NERC’s Environmental Data Centres.

• Delivering Open Educational Resources for Engineering Design

  Mansur Darlington describes two methods for presenting online OERs for engineering design that were developed and explored as part of the Higher Education Academy/JISC-funded DelOREs (Delivering Open Educational Resources for Engineering Design) Project.

• The CLIF Project: The Repository as Part of a Content Lifecycle

  Richard Green, Chris Awre and Simon Waddington describe how a digital repository can become part of the technical landscape within an institution and support digital content lifecycle management across systems. 

• The Future of the Past of the Web

  Matthew Brack reports on the one-day international workshop 'The Future of the Past of the Web' held at the British Library Conference Centre, London on 7 October, 2011.

• From Link Rot to Web Sanctuary: Creating the Digital Educational Resource Archive (DERA)

  Bernard M Scaife describes how an innovative use of the EPrints repository software is helping to preserve official documents from the Web.

• Image 'Quotation' Using the C.I.T.E. Architecture

  Christopher Blackwell and Amy Hackney Blackwell describe with examples a digital library infrastructure that affords canonical citation for 'quoting' images, useful for creating commentaries, arguments, and teaching tools.

• Open Educational Resources Hack Day

  Kirsty Pitkin reports on a two-day practical hack event focusing on Open Educational Resources (OER), held by DevCSI and JISC CETIS in Manchester on 31 March - 1 April 2011.

• Retooling Special Collections Digitisation in the Age of Mass Scanning

  Constance Rinaldo, Judith Warnement, Tom Baione, Martin R. Kalfatovic and Susan Fraser describe results from a study to identify and develop a cost-effective and efficient large-scale digitisation workflow for special collections library materials.

• 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.

• Turning Off Tap Into Bath

  Ann Chapman describes the lifecycle of a demonstrator database and the development of a preservation policy for its content and software.

• Book Review: Introductory Concepts in Information Science

  Charles Oppenheim takes a look at an introduction to Information Science but fails to be impressed.

• 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.

• 23 Things in Public Libraries

  Helen Leech describes a collaborative project to increase front-line staff's understanding and use of Web 2.0 in public libraries.

• Eduserv Symposium 2010: The Mobile University

  Shailey Minocha reflects on the one-day symposium organised by Eduserv in May 2010. The aim of the event was to discuss whether and how mobile technology will play a significant role in the delivery of UK Higher Education in the future.

• 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.

• Moving Targets: Web Preservation and Reference Management

  Richard Davis discusses the role of Web preservation in reference management. This article is based on a presentation given at the Innovations in Reference Management workshop, January 2010.

• 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.

• Enhancing Scientific Communication through Aggregated Publications

  Arjan Hogenaar describes changes in the publication and communication process which will mean that the role of authors will become a more prominent one.

• Learning to YODL: Building York's Digital Library

  Peri Stracchino and Yankui Feng describe a year's progress in building the digital library infrastructure outlined by Julie Allinson and Elizabeth Harbord in their article last issue.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Search Engines: Real-time Search

  Phil Bradley looks at the concept of real-time search and points to some of the functionality that users can and should expect to find when exploring these engines.

• Share. Collaborate. Innovate. Building an Organisational Approach to Web 2.0

  Paul Bevan outlines the National Library of Wales' development of a strategic approach to meeting user needs in a post-Web 2.0 world.

• Institutional Repositories for Creative and Applied Arts Research: The Kultur Project

  Andrew Gray discusses institutional repositories and the creative and applied arts specifically in relation to the JISC-funded Kultur Project.

• Open Repositories 2009

  Adrian Stevenson reports on the four-day annual Open Repositories conference held at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, GA, USA over 18 - 21 May 2009.

• The Second International M-Libraries Conference

  Keren Mills reports on a two-day conference exploring and sharing delivery of services and resources to users 'on the move,' via mobile and hand-held devices.

• Encouraging More Open Educational Resources With Southampton's EdShare

  Debra Morris describes the EdSpace Institutional Exemplar Project and the early development of EdShare for sharing learning and teaching materials within and beyond the institution.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Spinning a Semantic Web for Metadata: Developments in the IEMSR

  Emma Tonkin and Alexey Strelnikov reflect on the experience of developing components for the Information Environment Metadata Schema Registry.

• The REMAP Project: Steps Towards a Repository-enabled Information Environment

  Richard Green and Chris Awre investigate what role a repository can play in enabling and supporting the management and preservation of its own digital content.

• Three Perspectives on the Evolving Infrastructure of Institutional Research Repositories in Europe

  Marjan Vernooy-Gerritsen, Gera Pronk and Maurits van der Graaf report on the most significant results from two surveys conducted to provide an overview of repositories with research output in the European Union.

• Assessing FRBR in Dublin Core Application Profiles

  Talat Chaudhri makes a detailed assessment of the FRBR structure of the Dublin Core Application Profiles funded by JISC.

• Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) Fall Meeting

  Paul Walk reports on the Sun-PASIG winter meeting held in Baltimore, USA on 18-20 November 2008.

• dev8D: JISC Developer Happiness Days

  Julian Cheal reports on the 5-day JISC's Developer Happiness Days event held at Birckbeck College, London over 16 - 21 February 2009.

• Book Review: Pro Web 2.0 Mashups

  Ralph LeVan looks at a comprehensive work on how to consume and repurpose Web services.

• Get Tooled Up: SeeAlso: A Simple Linkserver Protocol

  Jakob Voss combines OpenSearch and unAPI to enrich catalogues.

• OAI-ORE, PRESERV2 and Digital Preservation

  Sally Rumsey and Ben O'Steen describe OAI-ORE and how it can contribute to digital preservation activities.

• A DRY CRIG Event for the IE Demonstrator

  Paul Walk reports on an 'unconference' for developers working in and around the JISC Information Environment and institutional systems, hosted by UKOLN at the University of Bath in June 2008.

• 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.

• 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.

• Search Engines: Google Still Growing

  Phil Bradley finds it difficult to ignore some of the latest developments from Google - particularly the ones that are actually quite good.

• 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.

• Custom-built Search Engines

  Phil Bradley reviews a means of enhancing the relevance of search results through the use of custom-built search engines.

• Implementing Ex Libris's PRIMO at the University of East Anglia

  Nick Lewis outlines the University of East Anglia's experience of implementing Ex Libris's Primo, a new search and retrieval interface for presenting the library catalogue and institutional databases and e-resources.

• 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.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Human-powered Search Engines: An Overview and Roundup

  Phil Bradley looks at the major contenders and discusses the value of this type of search engine.

• 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.

• Knowledge by Networking: Digitising Culture in Germany and Europe

  Alastair Dunning reports on an international conference exploring the current state of digitisation in the worlds of culture and scholarship, held in Berlin over 21-22 June 2007.

• The Second Life of UK Academics

  John Kirriemuir introduces a series of studies investigating how the Second Life environment is being used in UK Higher and Further Education.

• 24 Hour Museum: From Past to Future

  As 24 Hour Museum rebuilds and looks outwards to new partnerships, Jon Pratty looks at challenges faced over the last seven years.

• Capacity Building: Spoken Word at Glasgow Caledonian University

  Iain Wallace, Graeme West and David Donald give an account of the origins, nature and establishment of Spoken Word Services at Glasgow Caledonian University.

• 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: Teaching Web Search Skills

  Verity Brack takes a look at this book for Web trainers, teachers and instructors.

• Citeulike: A Researcher's Social Bookmarking Service

  Kevin Emamy and Richard Cameron describe a tool that helps researchers gather, collect and share papers.

• OpenID: Decentralised Single Sign-on for the Web

  Andy Powell and David Recordon take a brief look at OpenID and ask what relevance it has to e-learning.

• Search Engines: Why Ask Me, and Does 'X' Mark the Spot?

  Phil Bradley takes a look at different versions of Ask to see how it is developing and looks at how it is emerging from its servant roots.

• Supporting Creativity in Networked Environments: The COINE Project

  Geoff Butters, Amanda Hulme and Peter Brophy describe an approach to enabling a wide range of users to create and share their own stories, thus contributing to the development of cultural heritage at the local level.

• Using Blogs for Formative Assessment and Interactive Teaching

  Lisa Foggo provides a case-study of using a blog for formative assessment. Its interactivity engaged participants and permitted measurement of student expectations and satisfaction with library sessions.

• New Search Engines in 2006

  Phil Bradley takes a look at some of the search engines that he noticed in 2006 and provides quick assessments.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Web Curator Tool

  Philip Beresford tells the story (from The British Library's perspective) of the development of new software to aid all stages of harvesting Web sites for preservation.

• Considering a Marketing and Communications Approach for an Institutional Repository

  Heleen Gierveld proposes a market-oriented approach to increase the rate of deposit to an institutional repository.

• 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.

• Accoona: Super-Charged Super Target Searching

  Phil Bradley puts a relative newcomer through its paces and finds some very useful features together with potential for improvement.

• 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.

• 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.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 46: Ten Years of Pathfinding

  John MacColl, Lorcan Dempsey and John Kirriemuir reflect in turn on the rationale and history of the founding of Ariadne.

• 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.

• 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.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• 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.

• Book Review: Managing Acquisitions in Library and Information Services

  Bruce Royan welcomes a new edition of the standard text in the acquisitions field.

• 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.

• Improving DSpace@OSU With a Usability Study of the ET/D Submission Process

  Michael Boock discusses the ease and usefulness of conducting a usability study and provides an example of usability testing at Oregon State University undertaken to improve the DSpace ET/D submission process.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Online Repositories for Learning Materials: The User Perspective

  Amber Thomas and Andrew Rothery explore how online repositories are being used to store and share e-learning content, and show how taking the user perspective might challenge the emerging approaches to repository development.

• 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.

• Search Engines

  Phil Bradley casts his eye over image search engines.

• 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.

• DCC Workshop on Persistent Identifiers

  Philip Hunter gives a personal view of this workshop held in Glasgow, 30 June - 1 July, supported by NISO, CETIS, ERPANET, UKOLN and the DCC.

• Book Review: Building an Electronic Resource Collection

  Sarah Pearson considers whether the 2nd edition of this practical guide for building an electronic resource collection can satisfy the needs of both new and experienced practitioners.

• Digital Preservation: Best Practice and Its Dissemination

  Neil Beagrie describes the development and subsequent use of a digital preservation handbook and future plans for expansion of its use in training and professional practice.

• 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.

• EEVL: New Hot Topic In-depth Reports Now Available

  Roddy MacLeod looks at some recent developments to the EEVL service.

• Finding Someplace to Go: Reading and the Internet

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

• 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.

• Book Review: Digital Libraries - Policy, Planning and Practice

  Bruce Royan considers the ironies of communicating the state of the art of digital libraries by means of a print publication.

• Looking for a Google Box?

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

• 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.

• Planet-SOSIG

  Humphrey Southall looks at a new Web site's Vision of Britain while Emma Place examines new changes to the RDN Virtual Training Suite.

• Search Engines: No Longer about Search

  Phil Bradley asks 'Is your choice of search engine based on how good it is, or on what else you use?'

• 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.

• 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.

• ECDL2004: 4th International Web Archiving Workshop, September 2004

  Michael Day reports on the 4th International Web Archiving Workshop held at the University of Bath in September as part of ECDL 2004.

• How the Use of Standards Is Transforming Australian Digital Libraries

  Debbie Campbell explains how the exploitation of recent standards has allowed the National Library of Australia to digitise its collections and host federated search services and provide an improved service.

• ISBN-13: New Number on the Block

  Ann Chapman outlines the planned changes to the ISBN standard and its impact on the information community and the book trade.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Search Engines: New and Developing Search Engines

  Phil Bradley looks at some existing search engines and also some new ones to bring you up to date on what is happening in the world of Internet search engines.

• The Dawning of DARE: A Shared Experience

  Annemiek van der Kuil and Martin Feijen describe the first year of the DARE Project and its foundation of the OAI repositories of Dutch academic output.

• The Tapir: Adding E-Theses Functionality to DSpace

  Richard Jones demonstrates how the Theses Alive Plugin for Institutional Repositories (Tapir) has provided E-Theses functionality for DSpace.

• Virtual Rooms, Real Meetings

  Andy Powell takes a brief look at VRVS, a desktop video-conferencing tool that can be used to support collaborative activities between groups of geographically distributed researchers.

• Web Focus: QA Focus Has Finished - Let's Start Embedding QA

  Brian Kelly reviews the JISC-funded QA Focus Project and argues that developers should be using quality assurance principles.

• 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.

• Cornucopia: An Open Collection Description Service

  Chris Turner describes the latest phase of Cornucopia development and the opportunities this is opening up for the future.

• ERPANET Seminar on Persistent Identifiers

  Monica Duke reports on a two-day training seminar on persistent identifiers held by ERPANET in Cork, Ireland over 17-18 June 2004.

• 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.

• Search Engines: A Mixed Bag - A Review of Some New Search Engines

  Phil Bradley takes a look at some new search engines to see if they are up to challenging the top dogs.

• The Information Environment Service Registry: Promoting the Use of Electronic Resources

  Amanda Hill outlines progress on the Information Environment Service Registry Project and explains what it will mean for service providers and portal developers.

• Towards Library Groupware With Personalised Link Routing

  Daniel Chudnov, Jeremy Frumkin, Jennifer Weintraub, Matthew Wilcox and Raymond Yee describe a potential groupware framework for integrating access to diverse information resources and distributed personal collection development.

• Web Focus: The Web on Your TV

  Brian Kelly takes a look at a digital TV box which provides Web and email access in your living room.

• Book Review: Extreme Searchers' Internet Handbook

  Verity Brack reviews a book on Internet resources and finds it a useful volume for Internet beginners and Google-centric searchers.

• Can We Save Our Audio-visual Heritage?

  Daniel Teruggi describes PrestoSpace, the new FP6 Integrated project for the preservation of our disappearing audio-visual heritage.

• EEVL News: EEVL, VLEs, Institutional and Library Portals

  Malcolm Moffat discusses the use of EEVL functionality in VLEs and Portals.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• 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.

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

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 38.

• 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.

• Towards a User-Centred Approach to Digital Libraries

  Ken Eason reports on the five themes in the Digilib Conference, Espoo, Finland.

• WebWatch: How Accessible Are Australian University Web Sites?

  Dey Alexander reports on a recent study of the accessibility of Australian university Web sites.

• Book Review: Implementing Digital Reference Services

  Ben Wynne reviews a collection of papers from the Third Annual Virtual Reference Desk Conference.

• 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.

• Book Review: The Accidental Systems Librarian

  Eric Jukes takes a look at the strengths and weaknesses of another book in the 'Accidental' series.

• Crime and Punishment: Protecting ICT Users and Their Information Against Computer Crime and Abuse

  Andrew Charlesworth reports on a seminar seeking to protect ICT users and their information against computer crime and abuse.

• 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

• ECDL-2003 Conference Notes

  Lesly Huxley shares her notes on the European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries.

• ECDL-2003 Web Archiving

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

• EEVL News

  Roddy MacLeod describes how EEVL is putting RSS to work.

• Ebooks in UK Libraries: Where Are We Now?

  Penny Garrod brings us up to date on developments in ebooks.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 37: Monocultures Threaten More Than Species

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue issue 37.

• Experiences of Harvesting Web Resources in Engineering Using Automatic Classification

  Kjell Jansson, Jessica Lindholm and Tomas Schoenthal describe the work in setting up a Web index that uses automatic classification as a means for the selection of resources.

• Metadata and Interoperability in a Complex World

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

• News from BIOME

  Donald Mackay reports on BIOME participation in a major project to enhance interoperability between the BIOME core database and those projected by LTSN Subject Centres.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• OAI: The Fourth Open Archives Forum Workshop

  Manjula Patel provides us with an overview of the 4th Open Archives Forum Workshop.

• OpenURL Meeting

  Linda Humphreys Frances Boyle and Andy Powell give us a description of the OpenURL Meeting held in London, September 2003.

• Planet SOSIG

  Anne Dimond and Angela Joyce send further news from the planet of social sciences.

• Public Libraries

  Penny Garrod gives her view of day two of the Public Library Authorities Conference 2003

• Search Engines: Would All New Search Engines Take One Step Forward!

  Phil Bradley gives us an overview of emerging, new and newly discovered search engines that we might want to keep an eye on as they develop.

• Towards a Typology for Portals

  Paul Miller looks at some of the services we call portals, and argues for better words to describe them.

• Trends in Self-Posting of Research Material Online by Academic Staff

  Theo Andrew sheds some light on current trends in posting research material online with a case study from The University of Edinburgh.

• Unicode and Historic Scripts

  Deborah Anderson provides us an overview of the progress made in bringing historic scripts to the Unicode Standard.

• Updated JISC Guides Are Now Available

  Emma Beer describes the new JISC Resource Guides.

• An IMS Generator for the Masses

  Kelvin Hai, David Palmer and Chris Dunlop of the MARTINI Project describe the architecture and operation of the Project-developed IMS Generator and show how its flexibility allows it to handle the diverse nature of data held by institutions.

• Book Review: Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, Volume 36

  Michael Day takes a detailed look at the structure and content of this hardy annual.

• Developing the JISC Information Environment Service Registry

  Verity Brack and Amanda Closier provide us with an overview of the aims and latest work in the development of the JISC IE Service Registry.

• Domesday Redux: The Rescue of the BBC Domesday Project Videodiscs

  Jeffrey Darlington, Andy Finney and Adrian Pearce describe the groundbreaking BBC Domesday Project of 1986, and explain how its unique multimedia collection has been preserved.

• EEVL News and Enhancements

  Roddy MacLeod and Lesa Ng provide us with the news and developments from EEVL.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 36: This Time the Cavalry Showed Up

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 36.

• Framework for the Future: Access to Digital Skills and Services (Including e-Government)

  Penny Garrod examines further this government blueprint and argues that some have to walk before they can run.

• Just a Distraction?: External Content in Institutional Portals

  Ruth Martin and Liz Pearce reflect on stakeholders' views of external resources within institutional portals and highlight the findings of recent PORTAL Project research.

• MIMAS Ten Years on

  Julia Chruszcz looks at the ten years of MIMAS as a JISC-designated national data centre.

• Mapping the JISC IE Service Landscape

  Andy Powell provides a graphical representation of how some well-known services, projects and software applications fit within the JISC Information Environment technical architecture.

• Metadata Wanted for the Evanescent Library

  John MacColl reports on Schemas and Ontologies: Building a Semantic Infrastructure for the GRID and Digital Libraries: a one-day workshop at the e-Science Institute, May 2003.

• News from BIOME

  Donald Mackay, Rod Ward and Jenny Hall provide us with the first of a series of bulletins on developments within the BIOME area of activity.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Planet SOSIG

  Debra Hiom highlights some new events, publications and services in the social sciences and Andy Hargrave introduces recent developments for FE in the Bized Service.

• Review: Naked in Cyberspace

  Marieke Guy taps into our increasing collective paranoia about privacy with a review that explores the use of personal information in the Cyber Age.

• Review: Songs of Innocence and of Experience

  Philip Hunter reviews a CD-ROM edition of one of William Blake's most famous works.

• Search Engines: Weblog Search Engines

  Phil Bradley looks at the developments occurring with weblogs and how you can go about searching on or for them.

• Six MLEs: More Similar Than Different

  Paul Browning offers a technical review of the systems developed by the JISC 'Building MLEs in HE' (7/99) Programme

• The 7th Institutional Web Management Workshop

  Catherine Ewart gives us her view of IWMW 2003, University of Kent, June 2003.

• The Bath Profile Four Years On: What's Being Done in the UK?

  Fraser Nicolaides gives us his take on the conference to review the implementation of the Bath Profile in the UK, July 2003.

• The Intellectual Property Rights Workshop

  William J. Nixon and Jessie Hey co-report on the JISC IPR workshop held in London, May 2003.

• The RoMEO Project: Protecting Metadata in an Open Access Environment

  Elizabeth Gadd, Charles Oppenheim and Steve Probets describe how the RoMEO Project is seeking to safeguard freely available metadata disclosed and harvested under the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting.

• Web Focus: WWW 2003 Trip Report

  Brian Kelly writes on the recent WWW 2003 conference and outlines some of the latest Web developments.

• WebWatch: An Update on Search Engines Used in UK University Web Sites

  Brian Kelly provides an update of his survey of search engines used in UK Universities.

• eBank UK: Building the Links Between Research Data, Scholarly Communication and Learning

  Liz Lyon describes some new digital library development activities and considers the implications of linking research and learning outputs in an environment of assured data provenance.

• Access Management: The Key to a Portal - The Experience of the Subject Portals Project

  Francisco Pinto and Michael Fraser report on the experience of the Subject Portals Project.

• Apart from the Weather, I Think It’s a Good Idea: Stakeholder Requirements for Institutional Portals

  Liz Pearce takes a look at recent research from the PORTAL Project, which asked over 600 users what they might want from an institutional portal.

• Book Review: The Librarian's Internet Survival Guide

  Lina Coelho reviews a practical guide to the Internet.

• Collection Description Focus Showcase: Mapping the Information Landscape

  Verity Brack reports on this one-day showcase of Collection Description projects and services held at the British Library, London, 25 March 2003.

• Creating Websites for e-Citizens: the Public Library Web Managers Workshop 2002

  In the first of a series of articles, Penny Garrod takes us through some of the choices confronting UK public libraries, and begins by looking at the ramifications of the DCMS report "Framework for the future".

• Free Full-text E-journals and EEVL's Engineering E-journal Search Engine

  Nicola Harrison and Roddy MacLeod describe what EEVL has to offer in the area of e-journals.

• 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.

• JISC 2003 Conference Report

  Philip Pothen reports on Secretary of State Charles Clarke's view of the importance of ICT in the education sector and the role of the JISC in its implementation.

• Mandated Online RAE CVs Linked to University Eprint Archives: Enhancing UK Research Impact and Assessment

  Stevan Harnad, Les Carr, Tim Brody and Charles Oppenheim make a case for maximising the advantages and the UK's pre-eminence in the Research Assessment Exercise.

• Planet SOSIG: Regarding Collaboration, Conferences and Courses

  Alejandro Fernandez introduces a new collaborative initiative between the RDN and LTSN, Emma Place reports from the BPS Annual Conference and Neil Jacobs presents a new course for social researchers in Government.

• Review: Do We Want to Keep Our Newspapers?

  Penny Garrod reviews a book on libraries published by Office for Humanities Communication Publications.

• Search Engines: Many Movements in Mere Months

  Phil Bradley looks at various developments that have occurred recently in the ever-shifting scene of the search engine.

• 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.

• Web Focus: A Standards-Based Culture for Web Site Development

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

• WebWatch: Surfing Historical UK University Web Sites

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

• What Features in a Portal?

  Geoff Butters analyses the features found in various types of portal, and includes a comparison with the planned features for the JISC Subject Portals.

• ePrints UK: Developing a National E-prints Archive

  Ruth Martin describes the technical work of the ePrints UK project, and outlines the non-technical issues that must also be addressed if the project is to deliver a national e-prints service

• Book Review: The Library and Information Professional's Guide to Plug-ins and Other Web Browser Tools

  Book review by Ruth Martin.

• 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.

• DAEDALUS : Freeing Scholarly Communication at the University of Glasgow

  William J. Nixon presents a brief overview of the DAEDALUS Open Archives Project at the University of Glasgow.

• EEVL: Search Me!

  Roddy MacLeod supplies guidance on the large range of available EEVL search options.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 34: Cultivating Interoperability and Resource-Sharing

  Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne issue 34.

• Exploring Charging Models for Digital Cultural Heritage

  Simon Tanner and Marilyn Deegan discuss charging models.

• 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.

• Hidden Treasures: The Impact of Moving Image and Sound Archives in the 21st Century

  Philip Hunter reports on the one day meeting on multimedia objects in the British Library, London, October 2002.

• Planet SOSIG: Social Science Case Studies

  Dave Boyd provides an update on SOSIG’s involvement in the new RDN FE case studies project, and on developments within the Geography and Environmental Sciences subject sections.

• 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.

• Review: E-learning and Teaching in Library and Information Services

  Book review by John Paschoud

• Review: The Digital Factor in Information and Library Services

  Book review by Bruce Royan.

• Sharing History of Science and Medicine Gateway Metadata Using OAI-PMH

  David Little outlines the resource sharing arrangements between the MedHist gateway and the Humbul hub, using the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, and some of the issues it has raised.

• The 2nd Workshop on the Open Archives Initiative (OAI)

  William Nixon and Pauline Simpson report on the meeting held at CERN, Geneva, in October 2002.

• The Personalisation of the Digital Library

  Michelle Perrott and Anne Ramsden report on the Joint Open University - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya Seminar on Personalisation and Digital Libraries hosted at the Open University, October 2002.

• Web Focus: Interfaces to Web Testing Tools

  Brian Kelly looks at interfaces to Web testing tools, and in particular at Bookmarklets - simple extensions to browsers which enhance functionality.

• Web Watch: A Survey of Web Server Software Used by UK University Web Sites

  Brian Kelly with an update of his survey of server software used by central Web sites in UK Universities.

• 5 Step Guide to Becoming a Content Provider in the JISC Information Environment

  Andy Powell describes steps which content providers can take to integrate their resources into the JISC IE.

• A Speaking Electronic Librarian

  Markos Dendrinos with a proposal for an interface system, based on speech recognition and synthesis technologies, for automatic library services.

• Climbing the Scholarly Publishing Mountain With SHERPA

  John MacColl and Stephen Pinfield explore the SHERPA project, which is concentrating on making e-prints available online.

• Digital Libraries in China

  Liz Lyon reports on the International Digital Library Conference held in Beijing in July 2002.

• EEVL: Resident EEVL

  Roddy MacLeod provides an update on the EEVL project. Among other things he explains how the EEVL cross-search facility can be run from user pages.

• OCLC-SCURL: Collaboration, Integration and Recombinant Potential

  Pete Johnston reports on the New Directions in Metadata conference, 15-16 August, in Edinburgh

• 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.

• 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.

• Public Libraries: United We Stand

  Penny Garrod on current developments in the Public Library world.

• 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.

• Utilizing E-books to Enhance Digital Library Offerings

  Shirley Hyatt and Lynn Silipigni Connaway, describe the rationale and background of OCLC's acquisition of netLibrary, the information environment that is being pursued, and the resulting benefits that libraries may experience.

• Web Focus: Let's Get Serious about HTML Standards

  Brian Kelly encourages authors to treat compliance with HTML standards seriously.

• Web Watch: An Accessibility Analysis of UK University Entry Points

  Brian Kelly reports on the accessibility of entry points of UK University Web sites.

• 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.

• Another Piece of Cake?

  Anders Ardö, Sigfrid Lundberg and Ann-Sofie Zettergren with an overview of the history of Netlab, now ten years old.

• Collection Description in Focus

  Clare McVeigh and Dierdre Wildy: A Report on the Collection Description Focus Workshops, Nov 2001-Mar 2002

• EEVL

  Roddy Macleod on EEVL's engagement with RSS channels.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 32: The Grid -The Web Twenty Years On?

  Philip Hunter with the editorial for Ariadne issue 32.

• Electronic Theses and Dissertations: A Strategy for the UK

  by John MacColl considers a strategy for electronic theses and dissertations in the United Kingdom.

• 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.

• Internet 2 Spring Member Meeting

  John Paschoud reports on an Internet2 meeting, Arlington, Virginia, 6th – 8th May 2002, which discussed Networks, Applications and Middleware.

• Learning Objects and the Information Environment

  Ian Dolphin and Paul Miller discuss the place of Learning Objects in the wider environment of learning.

• 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.

• Open Archive Forum Workshop: Creating a European Forum on Open Archives

  Ariadne reports on the Open Archives Forum's First Workshop: Creating a European Forum on Open Archives. Pisa, 13-14 May 2002. CNR, Pisa.

• Oxford Reference Online

  A user review of the Oxford University Press reference site by Pete Dowdell.

• Planet SOSIG

  Debra Hiom with a report which covers: the launch of Citizenship Past; a new VTS Tutorial for European Studies; and an update on the SOSIG Portals Project.

• Public Libraries: Building Better Library Services

  Penny Garrod on the recently published Audit Commission Report: Building Better Library Services.

• QA Focus

  Marieke Napier on Quality Assurance procedures in the Jisc 5/99 Programme.

• Search Engines: The New Kids on the Block - Copying Or Competing?

  Search Engines: Phil Bradley The new kids on the block - copying or competing? This article looks at who is providing the competition for Google and Ixquick, and provides some food for thought for those who use these two search engines.

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

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

• The Information Grid

  Ariadne reports on a one-day workshop on 'an interoperable environment to support research, learning and teaching' held at the e-Science Institute in Edinburgh, April 30, 2002.

• UM.Sitemaker: Flexible Web Publishing for Academic Users

  Jonathan Maybaum explains how UM.SiteMaker was designed to fill an important gap in the array of tools to suit academic publishing.

• WWW2002 Here

  Libby Miller sends notes from the WW2002 conference in Hawaii.

• Web Watch: Revisiting 404 Error Pages in UK University Web Sites

  Brian Kelly revists 404 Error Pages in UK University Web Sites.

• Web-archiving: Managing and Archiving Online Documents and Records

  Neil Beagrie and Philip Pothen report on the Digital Preservation Coalition Forum held 25th March 2002.

• Book Review: Building an Electronic Resource Collection

  Penny Garrod reviews a practical guide to electronic resource collection.

• Collection Description Focus: Spreading the Gospel

  Bridget Robinson and Pete Johnston with an overview of CLD activities in the first year.

• EEVL-ution to a Portal

  Roddy Macleod on the hub's 'EEVL-ution' to a portal.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 31: An E-prints Revolution?

  Philip Hunter with the editorial for Ariadne issue 31.

• News from the Resource Discovery Network

  Simon Jennings and Philip Pothen on the new RDN workbook and extensions to the RDN Virtual Training Suite.

• Oxford Puts Its Reference Works Online

  Dave Swarbrick on the new Oxford University Press reference Web site.

• Planet SOSIG

  Emma Place and Dave Boyd describe a new feature on SOSIG called 'Experts Choice', and report on upcoming events.

• Public Libraries

  Penny Garrod's second outing in Ariadne as Public Libraries Focus.

• Search Engines

  Phil Bradley's regular column on search engine technology.

• 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.

• The Distributed National Collection Access, and Cross-sectoral Collaboration: The Research Support Libraries Programme

  Ronald Milne, Director of the programme, with an overview of the objectives for the Research Support Libraries Programme.

• The JISC Information Environment and Web Services

  Andy Powell and Liz Lyon look at possible relationships between the Web Services idea and earlier ideas about seamless access to information.

• The Open Archives Forum

  Susanne Dobratz, Friederike Schimmelpfennig and Peter Schirmbacher introduce the new Open Archives Forum project to promote the ideas of the OAI in Europe.

• Web Focus: Guidelines for URI Naming Policies

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

• Web Watch: Update of a Survey of the Numbers of UK University Web Servers

  Brian Kelly updates a survey of the numbers of UK university Web servers.

• eVALUEd: An Evaluation Model for e-Library Developments

  Becky Hartland-Fox and Pete Dalton on a project to develop a transferable model for e-library evaluation.

• Access to Archives: England’s Contribution to the National Archive Network

  Caroline Thibeaud discusses the Archive 2 Archive project.

• Book Review: The Invisible Web

  Marieke Napier reviews the book: The Invisible Web.

• Development of Digital Libraries for Blind and Visually Impaired People

  Jennie Craven reports on the IFLA/SLB conference in Washington in August 2001.

• Digital Curation: Digital Archives, Libraries and e-Science Seminar

  Neil Beagrie and Philip Pothen report on the Digital Preservation day in October 2001, held in London.

• Digitization: Do We Have a Strategy?

  David Pearson suggests that the library sector should find a mechanism to put digitisation high on the agenda.

• EEVL: Brand new EEVL service

  Roddy Macleod introduces a new service.

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

  Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne issue 30.

• Managed Learning?

  Nicole Harris on current developments towards Managed Learning Environments in the ANGEL project.

• Multi-media and Image Handling: The future is Textless

  Marieke Napier on a DTI multimedia day in London in November 2001.

• My Humbul: Humbul Gets Personal

  Randy Metcalfe describes new functionality available for users of the Humbul Humanities Hub.

• News from the Resource Discovery Network

  Simon Jennings and Philip Pothen with the latest on developments at the RDN.

• Open Archiving Opportunities for Developing Countries: Towards Equitable Distribution of Global Knowledge

  Leslie Chan and Barbara Kirsop explore some of the implications of using the OAI Protocol.

• Public Libraries

  Penny Garrod's first outing in Ariadne as Public Libraries Focus.

• Reference Books on the Web

  Adam Hodgkin explores the range of electronic reference tools.

• Search Engines: Goodbye Alta Vista, Hallo AllTheWeb

  Phil Bradley's regular column.

• The Concept of the Portal

  Paul Miller gives his personal view of the portal and its varieties, both in the wild and on the drawing board.

• The JISC User Behaviour Monitoring and Evaluation Framework

  Jenny Rowley introduces the JISC User Behaviour Monitoring and Evaluation Framework.

• Web Focus: Mobile E-Book Readers

  Brian Kelly, UK Web Focus, writes about Mobile E-Book Readers in his regular column.

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

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

• ACM / IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

  John MacColl reports on a selection of the papers given at this conference in Roanoake, Virginia, June 24-28 2001.

• An Introduction to Web Services

  Tracy Gardner introduces web services: self-describing applications, which can be discovered and accessed over the web by other applications.

• Architects of the Information Age

  Paul Miller reports on a recent UKOLN-organised event at the Office of the e-Envoy, and explores the need for an architecture to scope what we build online.

• Beyond the Online Tutorial

  Ariadne reports on a one day JISC workshop in Edinburgh on pedagogical issues for projects developing resources for the DNER. (30 August)

• Collective Convergence: The Work of the Collection Description Focus

  Pete Johnston and Bridget Robinson outline the work of the Collection Description Focus.

• Country and Regional Search Engines

  Phil Bradley looks at Country and Regional Search Engines.

• Developing an Agenda for Institutional E-Print Archives

  Philip Hunter, John MacColl and Marieke Napier report on a one day Open Archives conference on OAI compliant metadata and e-print issues. Held at the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, London. 11 July 2001.

• Digital Developments Amidst the Tulips and Windmills

  Christine Dugdale reports on the Digital Library course run as part of the annual Summer School at the Tilburg Innovation Centre for Electronic Resources (TICER B.V.). Netherlands, August 2001.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 29: Key Technologies for the Development of the Digital Library

  Philip Hunter with the editorial for Ariadne 29.

• Establishing a Digital Library Centre

  John Kirriemuir outlines some of the issues for the establishment of digital library centres in UK Higher Education institutions.

• Evolution of Portable Electronic Books

  Ruth Wilson charts the development of portable electronic book hardware, from the first generation in 1980s to the range of handheld devices available today.

• Managing Digital Video Content

  Manjula Patel reviews the two-day workshop on current and emerging standards for managing digital video content held in Atlanta, Georgia, 15-16 August 2001.

• Managing Electronic Library Services: Current Issues in UK Higher Education Institutions

  Stephen Pinfield surveys some of the key issues associated with delivering electronic library services.

• Migration: A Camileon Discussion Paper

  Paul Wheatley explores migration issues for the long-term preservation of digital materials.

• Planet SOSIG: SOSIG Expands into Europe

  Louise Woodcock introduces the new European Studies section for SOSIG and Helen Wharam provides an update on the Resource Guide for the Social Sciences.

• Software Review: C4U

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

• Subject Portals

  Judith Clark describes a three-year project to develop a set of subject portals as part of the Distributed National Electronic Resource (DNER) development programme.

• The People's Network and the Learning Revolution: Building the NOF Digitize Programme

  Susi Woodhouse brings us up to date with developments.

• Web Focus: Report on the Fifth Institutional Web Management Workshop

  Brian Kelly, UK Web Focus, reports on the IWMW event 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.

• 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.

• Accessibility: CHI 2001 and Beyond

  Leona Carpenter reports on the key issue of accessibility as covered at the Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) Conference held in Seattle, and also provides a round-up of sources of further information.

• BIOME: Progressing through Partnerships

  Paula Manning reports on recent collaborations.

• Digital Museums: Braining Up Or Dumbing Down?

  Marieke Napier went to find out at the mda's 'Beyond the Museum' colloquium.

• EEVL Update

  Roddy MacLeod and Linda Kerr provide news about the EEVL service

• EEVL: Email Newsletters Examples from Engineering

  Jim Corlett explains how email newsletters can benefit you.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 28: Ariadne's Thread

  Marieke Napier reviews recent developments on the cultural front and the contents of issue 28.

• INSPIRAL: Digital Libraries and Virtual Learning Environments

  Sarah Currier introduces the JISC project INSPIRAL, which is investigating what's involved in joining digital libraries and VLEs to create a fully integrated online learning experience.

• 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.

• Metadata: E-print Services and Long-term Access to the Record of Scholarly and Scientific Research

  Michael Day looks at the long-term preservation implications of one of the OAI protocol's potential applications - e-print services.

• Minotaur: A Comparison of Six Proposals for Freeing the Refereed Literature Online

  Stevan Harnad argues for the self-archiving alternative.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• OpenResolver: A Simple OpenURL Resolver

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

• Personalization of Web Services: Opportunities and Challenges

  Monica Bonett gives an overview of personalization on the World Wide Web and discusses ideas for development within resource discovery systems.

• Planet SOSIG: What's New in Politics?

  Emma Place announces new training materials for the Web, Heather Dawson looks at at Web coverage of the recently run UK General Election and Chris Mitchell provides an update of activities from the Learning and Teaching Support Network Centre.

• Project GOLD: Supporting Distance Learning Students

  Derek Morisson describes an e-learning project which was the antithesis of the current trend towards multifunction, and invariably expensive, Virtual Learning Environments and sophisticated Managed Learning Environments.

• Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG): Vector Graphics for the Web

  David Duce discusses the World Wide Web Consortium's Scalable Vector Graphics markup language for 2 dimensional graphics.

• Search Engines: Ask Jeeves

  Phil Bradley looks at Ask Jeeves.

• Supporting Material for Database Training, or 'Here’s One I Prepared Earlier'

  Alison McNab looks at the wealth of resources available for trainers provided by the information service and content providers within JISC-supported services.

• The JOIN-UP Programme: Seminar on Linking Technologies

  Sandy Shaw reports on a seminar bringing together experts in the field of linking technology for JISC's JOIN-UP Programme.

• The Management of Content: Universities and the Electronic Publishing Revolution

  Philip Hunter attempts to throw some light on the low take up of content management systems (CMS) in the university sector.

• The Secondary Homepages in Mathematics Initiative

  Greig Fratus, MathGate Manager, supplies information about the Secondary Homepages in Mathematics initiative set up by Math-Net.

• The eLib Hybrid Library Projects

  Michael Breaks provides an overview of BUILDER, AGORA, MALIBU, HeadLine and HyLife

• Using the Web for Academic Research: The Reading Experience Database Project

  Alexis Weedon gives us some insight into a new web-based project designed to collate evidence for changing reading habits through history.

• Virtual Training Suite Launch

  John Kirriemuir reports on the Edinburgh stage of the launch of the RDN's Virtual Training Suite.

• 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.

• Web Watch: Size of Institutional Top Level Pages

  Web Watch: Brian Kelly looks at the size of institutional top level pages.

• After the Big Bang: The Forces of Change and E-Learning

  Pete Johnston examines what recent developments in the area of "e-learning" might mean for the custodians of the information resources required to support teaching and learning.

• Ancient World, Digital World: Excavation at Halif

  Paul Jacobs on how field and research strategies were impacted significantly by the use of digital technology in the 1999 field season at Tell Halif, Israel (the Lahav Research Project).

• BIOME

  Paula Manning reports on feedback received on the BIOME Service and how the service will develop in response.

• Distributed Computing: The Seti@home Project

  Eddie Young and Pete Cliff look at a particularly successful example of a distributed solution to a very large number crunching problem.

• 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.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 27: The Digital Library Jigsaw

  Philip Hunter opens the box and looks at some of the choicest pieces of Ariadne issue 27.

• Hylife: Ten Steps to Success

  Peter Wynne, Catherine Edwards and Maureen Jackson, on some important aspects of running a Hybrid Library Project.

• Metadata (1): Encoding OpenURLs in DC Metadata

  Andy Powell and Ann Apps propose a mechanism for embedding machine parsable citations into Dublin Core (DC) metadata records.

• Metadata (2): Towards Consensus on Educational Metadata

  Paul Miller describes the work of the UK's new cross-sectoral Metadata for Education Group (MEG) and calls for widespread support of their first deliverable: the MEG Concord.

• Planet SOSIG

  Debra Hiom and Angela Joyce provide more updates on the Social Sciences Gateway, including a new range of European sites.

• Public Libraries: Lights Out and Silver Boots on

  Sarah Ormes with her predictions for the future of Public Libraries and the Internet.

• Review: From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure

  Michael Day reviews the book by Christine Borgman: From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure.

• Search Engines: Robots, Spiders and Your Website

  Phil Bradley looks at the effect these have on your site's vital statistics.

• The Digital Preservation Coalition

  Neil Beagrie reports on proposals to establish a Digital Preservation Coalition in the UK.

• The Filling in the PIE: HeadLine's Resource Data Model

  John Paschoud explains the concepts of representation and use of metadata in the Resource Data Model (RDM) that has been developed by the HeadLine project.

• The Future Is Hybrid: Edinburgh

  John MacColl and Philip Hunter report on 'The Future is Hybrid' project day in Edinburgh.

• The Future Is Hybrid: Manchester

  Jim Strom and others provide streaming video of some of the sessions from 'The Future is Hybrid' day in Manchester held in February 2001.

• The LEODIS Database

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

• Web Focus: HTML is Dead!

  HTML is Dead: Brian Kelly explains why this is, and why it is a good thing.

• Web Watch: What's Related to My Web Site?

  What's Related To My Web Site? Brian Kelly looks at Netscape's 'What's Related?' facility and reports on the service's findings for institutional Web servers.

• AGORA: The Hybrid Library from a User's Perspective

  Bridget Robinson and David Palmer look at the Agora user studies.

• After eLib

  Chris Rusbridge, the former Director of the UK Electronic Libraries Programme, with an assessment of its achievements and legacy.

• BIOME News

  Paula Manning with a brief report on the official launch of BIOME at the Royal Society on the 2nd of November 2000.

• 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.

• Continuity and Collaboration: The Online Bach Bibliography

  Yo Tomita introduces the single most important online resource for the study of the composer J.S. Bach.

• E-Commerce in Higher Education: Can We Afford to Do Nothing?

  Andrew Aird on the impact of e-commerce on the non-commercial sector.

• EEVL

  Roddy Macleod manager of the EEVL project explains the new profile, new office: and coming soon: a new service.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 26: New Landscapes

  Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne issue 26 with remarks about the new Director of the UKOLN, the eLib Programme, and the DNER.

• Exam Papers Online

  Sally Rumsey on an innovative system for providing electronic access to examination papers.

• It's the End of the World As We Know It (and I Feel Fine), Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the E-Book

  Sarah Ormes explores the e-book from a Public Libraries perspective.

• Metadata: Preservation 2000

  Michael Day reports on the Digital Preservation conference held in York in December 2000.

• NT Explorer

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

• Planet SOSIG: Keeping Social Scientists Connected

  Debra Hiom and Emma Place discuss work to keep social scientists connected.

• Public Libraries: Managing the Virtual Branch

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

• Review of Digital Imaging: A Practical Handbook

  Philip Hunter and Marieke Napier review Stuart Lee's 'Digital Imaging' handbook.

• The Distributed National Electronic Resource and the Hybrid Library

  Stephen Pinfield and Lorcan Dempsey with an overview of the DNER.

• The Future Is Hybrid: London

  Kate Robinson reports on 'The Future is Hybrid' project day at the British Library in London.

• Travelling at the Speed of Discovery: The MALIBU Project's Most Valuable Lessons

  Valeda Dent with a newcomer's perspective on the MALIBU project.

• 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).

• Web Focus: The Web On Your Phone and TV

  Brian Kelly looks at the Web Beyond the PC.

• Web Watch: WebWatching eLib Project Web Sites

  Brian Kelly is WebWatching the eLib Project Sites.

• A Policy Context: eLib and the Emergence of the Subject Gateways

  Derek Law and Lorcan Dempsey outline some of the features of the policy environment which led to the setting up of the influential 'subject gateways' as part of the UK Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib).

• Application Profiles: Mixing and Matching Metadata Schemas

  Rachel Heery and Manjula Patel introduce a means of establishing a common approach to sharing information between implementers and standards makers.

• BIOME News

  Paula Manning announces that the BIOME Site is now live, and reports on the new Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professions Gateway.

• DECOMATE II

  Leona Carpenter gives a personal view of the 'Logged into Economics' conference in Barcelona in June.

• EEVL Backs a Winner

  Roddy MacLeod and the team celebrate their 5th birthday with a day at the races, and supply some EEVL News Nuggets.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 25: Beyond the Web Site

  Philip Hunter on the contents of Ariadne issue 25 and recent developments in the world of Digital Library initiatives.

• Electronic Homer

  Martin Mueller reads Homer electronically with the TLG, Perseus, and the Chicago Homer.

• Knowledge Management in the Perseus Digital Library

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

• Managing Technostress in UK Libraries: A Realistic Guide

  Stephen Harper analyses in detail a familiar disease.

• Metadata: Towards the Intelligent Museum

  Paul Miller and Alice Grant explore CIMI: the collections standards organization which JISC has just joined.

• Planet SOSIG: Internet Training for the Social Sciences

  Debra Hiom and Emma Place announce the RDN virtual training suite.

• Public Libraries: I Just Got Back from the Windy City..

  Sarah Ormes reports on the recent American Library Association conference held in Chicago.

• Review: The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization

  Maurice Line reviews Elaine Svenonius' 'The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization', published by MIT Press.

• Search Engines: Finding Images on the Internet

  Phil Bradley offers his latest look at the search engine marketplace.

• 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.

• Virtual Universities: Institutional Issues for Information Professionals

  Jonathan Foster examines the institutional implications of networked approaches to learning for information professionals.

• 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.

• Web Watch: A Survey Of Web Server Software Used In UK University Web Sites

  Brian Kelly A Survey Of Web Server Software Used In UK University Web Sites.

• XML 2000: New Tools, New Vendors

  Dianne Kennedy reports on the latest XML conference in Paris.

• ZOPE: Swiss Army Knife for the Web?

  Paul Browning looks at this multiple authoring environment.

• Adaptive Developments for Learning in the Hybrid Library

  Wilma Alexander on the SELLIC Project and its aim to support the use of electronic resources in teaching science and engineering.

• Agora: From Information Maze to Market

  Bridget Robinson, David Palmer and Rosemary Russell outline the Agora cross-searching software project, and its technical background.

• BIOME

  Paula Manning reports on recent developments within BIOME, the health and life sciences hub of the Resource Discovery Network.

• Bringing Coherence to Networked Information for the New Century

  Gillian Austen reports on the JISC-CNI conference at Stratford, UK, 14-16 June 2000.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 24: Plumbing the Digital Library

  Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne 24.

• How the Oxford English Dictionary Went Online

  Laura Elliot explains the use of SGML in the management of the OED text.

• 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.

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

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

• JASPER Further Education Meeting

  Martin Hamilton reports on the recent JASPER one day meeting on the expansion of JISC services to cover the FE community.

• JSTOR Usage

  Alison Murphy reports on the JSTOR electronic journals project continuing success.

• LONGITUDE: The Users in the Digital Landscape

  Linda Berube on the Longitude project, designed to test a toolkit of qualitative survey methodologies to assess user needs in the digital library.

• Library Resource Sharing and Discovery: Catalogues for the 21st Century

  Ariadne reports on the highlights of the recent Glasgow CLUMPS one day conference

• Metadata: I Am a Name and a Number

  Paul Miller on Digital Object Identifiers.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Planet SOSIG

  Heather Dawson with news of the recently merged Social Science Librarians Group.

• Review: Building Community Information Networks

  Pete Cliff reviews 'Building community information networks: strategies and experiences,' edited by Sheila Pantry.

• Search Engines: The Relevance of Underpants to Searching the Web

  Phil Bradley explores search engine ranking techniques.

• Text Encoding for Interchange: A New Consortium

  Lou Burnard on the creation of the TEI Consortium which has been created to take the TEI Guidelines into the XML world.

• Theory and Practice of the Virtual University

  Neil Pollock and James Cornford report on UK universities use of new technologies.

• Web Focus: Reflections On WWW9

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

• Web Watch: A Survey Of Numbers of UK University Web Servers

  How many web servers are there in the UK Higher Education community? Brian Kelly provides some answers.

• A Wired Honduran Christmas

  Eddie Young hooks up to the global network, with some improvised electrical plumbing

• Broadband TV

  Philip Hunter links to broadband streaming video resources now emerging on the Internet.

• CLUMPS Conference at Goldsmiths College, London

  Ariadne reports on the first of two CLUMPS conferences, held on the 3rd of March.

• Catalogues for the 21st Century

  Ariadne reports on a one-day Workshop presented by the eLib Clump Projects at Goldsmiths College in London on the 3rd of March

• Convergence of Electronic Entertainment and Information Systems

  John Kirriemuir explores the technology and impact of expanding internet access.

• EPRESS

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

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 23: Ariadne's Thread

  Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne issue 23.

• I Say What I Mean, but Do I Mean What I Say?

  Paul Miller reports on the latest MODELS workshop, and looks at the need for controlled terminologies and thesauri.

• Planet SOSIG

  Justine Kitchen of the Resource Discovery Network Centre reports on the recent SOSIG relaunch, and Debra Hiom explores New Learning and Teaching Support Networks in the Social Sciences

• Review: The Oxford English Dictionary Online

  Pete Cliff previewed the electronic version of this standard reference, and gives a user's verdict.

• Search Engines: 'Ixquick', a Multi-Search Engine With a Difference

  Phil Bradley describes how Ixquick stacks up against the competition.

• So You Want to Build a Union Catalogue?

  Matthew Dovey looks at various models of virtual union catalogues in addition to those adopted by the clump projects, and other models of physical catalogues.

• The DISinHE Centre: Web CT Accessibility

  Murray Rowan examines WebCT from the point of view of accessibility.

• The World's Greatest Dictionary' Goes Online

  Juliet New explains the background to the electronic version of the Oxford English Dictionary, launched on the 14 March 2000.

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

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

• Web Watch: A Survey of Links to UK University Web Sites

  Brian Kelly reports on the number of links to University web sites.

• What Have the CLUMPs Ever Done for Us?

  Peter Stubley puts the CLUMPs in perspective.

• A Free ISP from the British Library

  Brian Kefford outlines the services available from the British Library.

• Aerade

  John Harrington, Karyn Meaden and Emma Turner introduce Aerade, an EEVL-related service.

• BIOME: Incorporating the OMNI Service

  Lisa Gray reports on recent developments with the BIOME hub.

• Delivering the Electronic Library: The ARIADNE Reader

  John MacColl on the new ARIADNE Reader.

• Digitizing Intellectual Property: The Oxford Scoping Study

  Stuart Lee discusses the Mellon Digitization Scoping Study for Oxford University.

• EEVL: Round the World

  Roddy MacLeod considers Southern African engineering resources.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 22: Ariadne's Thread

  Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne issue 22, looks at Ariadne's web accesses for the past year, and previews the Distributed National Electronic Resource (DNER).

• Electronic Publication of Ancient Near Eastern Texts

  Charles E. Jones and David Schloen report on a Chicago conference which explored XML tagging for Ancient Near Eastern Texts on the Web.

• 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.

• Public Libraries and Community Networks: Linking Futures Together?

  Malabika Das argues public libraries and community networks have a future together.

• RDN: Resource Discovery Network

  Alistair Dunning reviews the launch of the RDN (Resource Discovery Network)

• Scientific, Industrial, and Cultural Heritage: A Shared Approach

  Lorcan Dempsey presents a research framework for libraries, archives and museums prepared for the European Commission.

• Search Engines: The Altavista Relaunch, Personalised Search Engines

  Phil Bradley on the Altavista relaunch, and Personalised Search Engines.

• The National Internet Accessibility Database (NIAD)

  E. A. Draffon looks at the National Internet Accessibility Database (NIAD).

• The ResIDe Electronic Library: An Evolving Library Service

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

• Tiny TV: Streaming Video on the Web

  Philip Hunter squints at the world through RealPlayer and MediaPlayer windows.

• Web Cache: The National JANET Web Cache Progress Report

  George Neisser discusses the plans of the National Caching Service.

• Web Focus: Using the Web to Promote Your Web Site

  Brian Kelly expalins how to promote your web site.

• Web Mirrors: Building the UK Mirror Service

  Report on the UK Mirror Service by Mark Russell.

• Web Watch: A Survey of Institutional Web Gateways

  Brian Kelly surveys institutional web gateways.

• An Overview of Subject Gateway Activities in Australia

  Debbie Campbell looks at how the original criteria proposed for an IMesh map against these Australian initiatives.

• Biz/ed Bulletin on Business and Economics

  Libby Miller looks at recent changes to Biz/ed and describes some new sites.

• DISinHE: Web Content Accessibility

  Paul Booth discusses Web content accessibility.

• Developing the Bath Profile

  Paul Miller with details of the "Bath Profile" - a Z39.50 specification for Library Applications and Resource Discovery.

• Digitizing Wilfrid

  Philip Hunter talks to Stuart Lee about the prizewinning 'Wilfrid Owen Multimedia Digital Archive' and the JTAP 'Virtual Seminars on WW1'.

• ECMS: Technology Issues and Electronic Copyright Management Systems

  Pedro Isaias looks at the relevant ECMS e-Commerce technology.

• EEVL: 'Not a Success'

  Roddy Macleod embarks on a tendentious argument.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 21: Ariadne's Thread

  Introduction to Ariadne issue 21 by Philip Hunter.

• Planet SOSIG: Welfare Reform Digest

  Jennie Grimshaw gives a personal account of the creation of the Welfare reform digest.

• Search Engines: FAST, the Biggest and Best Yet?

  Phil Bradley explains how 'FAST' has recently been launched as the most comprehensive of the search engines, and this article compares the FAST results with those of AltaVista and Northern Light.

• The Scholarly Journal in Transition and the PubMed Central Proposal

  Michael Day discusses the scholarly journal in transition and the PubMed Central proposal.

• The Web Editor: 'Abzu and Beyond'

  Charles Jones muses on the history of the Internet presence of the University of Chicago Oriental Institute.

• Unix: What Is mod_perl?

  Ian Peacock explains mod_perl technology for supercharging the Apache Server.

• VITAL services? Evaluating IT access in Public Libraries

  Project officer Juliet Eve discusses the value and impact of end-user IT services in public libraries.

• Web Cache: Clashing with Caching?

  Ruth Jenkins explores some cache related issues for Library and Information Services

• 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."

• WebWatch: UK University Search Engines

  Brian Kelly explores the search facilities used by UK university Web sites.

• Windows NT Explorer

  Brett Burridge on Internet Information Server (IIS 4.0)

• Bibliotecas Universitarias Consorcio

  Agnès Guyon reports on a seminar in Aveiro, Portugal, 26th and 27th April 1999.

• Biz/Ed Bulletin: What Do You Want to Know?

  Chris Mitchell and Martin Poulter introduce the Advice and Answers section of the CTI Economics Web site; and Kate Sharp explores Green Resources on the Web for Economics and Business

• EEVL Eye on Engineering

  The EEVL Team explore patent information web sites, the latest EEVL news, etc.

• JISC Content: NESLI Implications Outside the HE Community

  Alicia Wise discusses NESLI.

• Metadata: Workshop in Luxembourg

  Michael Day and Andy Stone report on the Third Metadata Workshop in Luxembourg.

• Milestone for Mailbase: Ten Years Value-Added Service to UK Higher Education

  Elaine Blair discusses Mailbase services ten years on.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• OMNI: Accessing the Internet

  John Kirriemuir writes about an informal survey of Internet Access in the NHS.

• Planet SOSIG

  Karen Ford examines The Resource Guide, which aims to provide staff and students in HE with an overview of electronic services.

• Practical Clumping: Mick Ridley on the BOPAC System

  Mick Ridley discusses the BOPAC system.

• Search Engines: 'Finding Me, Finding You'

  Phil Bradley looks at the search engines that can be used to trace people.

• The DISinHE Centre

  Professor Alan Newell asks: How can technology assist with the obligations of HE to support staff and students with disabilities?

• The Unix Column: 'Sandboxes Using Chroot'

  Ian Peacock explains how the proliferation of network software brings increasing concerns about security, which can be countered by 'restricted perspectives'.

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

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

• Web Focus: Report on the WWW 8 Conference

  Brian Kelly discusses WWW8 in Toronto, which took place in May 1999.

• Web Mirror: The National Mirror Service

  Sally Hadland on the New National Mirror Service.

• 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.

• BOBCATSSS 99

  Christine Dugdale reports on the BOBCATSSS 99 conference.

• Biz/Ed Bulletin

  Kate Sharp and Libby Miller describe Business and Economics Resources on the Internet.

• Caching In?

  George Neisser describes the National JANET Web Caching Service.

• 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.

• Instructional Management Systems

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

• Metadata: Image Retrieval

  Michael Day reports on combining content-based and metadata-based approaches.

• Planet SOSIG: Internet Resources for Social Scientists

  Pete Maggs discusses finding high-quality Internet resources for social science and methodology, based on his experience as a SOSIG Section Editor.

• SEAMLESS: Introduction to the Project

  Mary Rowlatt describes SEAMLESS, the Essex-based project.

• The DISinHE Centre

  Ian Webb introduces the DISinHE centre.

• The Web Editor: Institutional Troubleshooter

  Stephen Emmott describes his experiences of content management at King's College London.

• 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.

• Web Focus: Extending Your Browser

  Brian Kelly on techniques for extending the capabilities of your browser.

• WebWatch: Conclusions from the WebWatch Project

  Brian Kelly sums up conclusions from the WebWatch Project.

• Windows NT Explorer

  Brett Burridge introduces his regular column on Windows NT with a description of Site Server's search facility.

• BIDS Begets Ingenta

  The University of Bath concluded an agreement to sign over the ownership of BIDS to a new organisation known as ingenta ltd, while still retaining a substantial share. Terry Morrow looks at the implications of the change, and reviews the latest developments in the services offered.

• 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.

• Hybrid Libraries

  Stephen Pinfield describes the role of Hybrid Libraries and Clumps

• Internet Detective: BA Students Get on the Case

  Emma Worsfold and Debra Hiom introduce their "Internet Detective" online tutorial, and BA students from the final year Information Management BA at Queen Margaret College, Edinburgh, review the site.

• JSTOR

  Daniel Holden reports on his trip to the United States to visit colleagues at JSTOR, a not-for-profit organisation creating a digital archive collection of scholarly journals

• 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.

• 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.

• The Technical Advisory Service for Images (TASI)

  Karla Youngs describes what TASI is and the work that it is doing in building a common ‘Framework’ for digital imaging projects.

• Transatlantic Bandwidth: How to Save Money on Your Costs

  Sally Hadland, Information Officer at the Higher Education National Software Archive (HENSA), describes how using HENSA can save on transatlantic bandwidth.

• Web Focus: The Role of the Web Editor

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

• What Is a URI?

  Ian Peacock explains 'URI' in plain English.

• eLib: How Was It for You?

  John Kirriemuir reviews the eLib programme

• Exploring Planet SOSIG: Law, Statistics and Demography

  Planet SOSIG: Exploring Planet SOSIG: Law, Statistics and Demography: Janette Cochrane, Sue Pettit and Wendy White. Planet SOSIG continues its review of the main SOSIG subject sections, highlighting the resources that the Internet can offer to those working in the different fields of the social sciences.

• Information Ecosystems

  John MacColl follows up last issue's breakdown of papers with his reflections on the UKOLN conference held in Bath University at the end of June.

• Metadata: BIBLINK.Checksum

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

• Web Focus: Institutional Web Management

  Brian Kelly reports on the Netskills Institutional Web Management Workshop held in Newcastle.

• What Are Document Management Systems?

  Brian Kelly explains the concept of document management systems.

• Law Vs Jordan

  Stephen Gough discusses: Who makes the best manager of a converged service?

• Metadata Corner

  Michael Day reports from Tomar, Portugal, on the DELOS6 Workshop.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Planet SOSIG

  Phil Cross presents the first of an occasional series of articles looking at individual subsections within SOSIG. Phil has been the section editor for Environmental Sciences for the past year and gives a description of the types of resources users can expect to find in this rapidly expanding field.

• The Good, the Bad and the Useless

  Judith Edwards evaluates Internet resources.

• Web Focus: Ways of Exploiting New Technologies

  Brian Kelly discusses Intermediaries: Ways Of Exploiting New Technologies.

• What Are XLink and Xpointer?

  Brian Kelly explains XLink and XPointer.

• Project Patron

  Elizabeth Lyon and Jon Maslin describe this JISC eLib Programme project (Performing Arts Teaching Resources Online).

• Public Libraries Corner: Elvis Is Alive and Well and Selling Library Management Systems in Kansas City

  Sarah Ormes reports from the American Public Library Association conference in Missouri.

• RDF Seminar

  Matthew Dovey reports on the RDF seminar held in the Stakis Hotel, Bath.

• Search Engines Corner

  Tracey Stanley reviews 'Northern Light', which offers features not available elsewhere.

• Showing Robots the Door

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

• The Access Catalogue Gateway to Resources

  Terry Hanson explores how libraries might develop effective ways of indicating their access arrangements to their users.

• Web Focus: The 7th World Wide Web Conference

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

• What Is XML?

  Brian Kelly elucidates another infuriating three letter acronym: XML.

• A Knight's Tale: Networked CD-ROM Redirectors

  Jon Knight describes how MSCDEX.EXE and networked CD-ROM redirectors can introduce difficulties when using Windows 95 and NT to provide access to library CD-ROMs.

• Copyright Corner

  Charles Oppenheim answers your copyright queries.

• Dublin Comes to Europe

  Paul Miller discusses issues raised at a recent European Commission meeting on metadata for resource discovery.

• Electronic Resource Creation and Management at Scottish Universities

  Dennis Nicholson and Martin Smith describe the Catriona II project.

• Internet Resources for Older People

  Internet resources for older people: Monica Blake describes some findings from the Internet and Older People Project, funded by The British Library Research and Innovation Centre Digital Library Research Programme.

• MODELS

  Rosemary Russell reports on MODELS workshop, held on 5-6 February 1998.

• Netskills Corner: Multimedia Web Design

  Netskills Corner: Multimedia Web Design: Walter Scales considers multimedia web design, asking whether we are running down an up escalator.

• Planet SOSIG: Regard

  Sue Timmis introduces REGARD, a new research database now available on the World Wide Web.

• Search Engines Corner: Meta-search Engines

  Tracey Stanley discusses the next level up from conventional search engines in the 'information food chain', which provide a sophisticated approach to searching across a number of databases.

• Task Force Meeting

  Kelly Russell reports on the US CNI Conference.

• What Is RDF?

  Rachel Heery explains RDF (Resource Description Framework)

• Dearing, IT and Information Services: Two Cheers (or One and a Half?)

  Lyndon Pugh reviews a serious attempt to square a circle.

• Are Print Journals Dinosaurs?

  Tony Kidd wonders if he and and his kind are palæontologists.

• Copyright Corner

  Charles Oppenheim answers copyright queries.

• Search Engines Corner: Moving Up the Ranks

  Tracey Stanley looks at how search engines rank their results.

• The Glass of Fashion and the Mould of Form

  Annette Lafford reports on the new image for NISS's WWW site.

• The Lesser of Two EEVLs?

  Roddy MacLeod, EEVL Project Manager (Information), describes plans for EEVL.

• BULISC '97

  John Eyre reports on the Bournemouth University Library & Information Services Conference, New Tricks 2.

• Cataloguing E-Journals: Where Are We Now?

  Valerie Wilkins reviews the results of a survey, showing a variety of current practices in cataloguing e-journals.

• Cataloguing Electronic Sources

  Jackie Hwang, Team Leader, Bibliographic Services, surveys progress so far at Information Services, University of Birmingham.

• Copyright Corner

  Charles Oppenheim answers copyright queries.

• Search Engines Corner: Finding UK and European Resources on the Web

  Tracey Stanley looks at how to keep your search results coming from within particular geographic areas and thus save on bandwidth.

• York Information Connections: An Attempt to Catalogue the Internet

  Christine Ellwood and Sarah Thompson outline the rationale behind the approach of the University of York Library to cataloguing Internet resources.

• BUBL : How BUBL Benefits Academic Librarians

  Alan Dawson and Jan Simpson take us through BUBL, an old service recently transformed from being Gopher-based to Web-based.

• 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.

• Electronic Journals: Problem Or Panacea?

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

• Planet SOSIG: The New SOSIG Interface

  Tracey Hooper describes the new interface and features of SOSIG, the premier Web-based subject gateway for the Social Sciences.

• The Librarian of Babel: The Self-Citation Machine

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

• 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.

• 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

• 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 Future of Digitising at the State Library of Victoria, Australia

  Catherine Herman and Indra Kurzeme discuss the multimedia source project, set within the context of the pro-multimedia State of Victora, Australia.

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

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

• Beyond the Beginning: The Global Digital Library

  Hazel Gott introduces a major Digital Library event, taking place this June in London.

• 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.

• From MERCI to DESIRE: European Digital Library Projects

  Dave Hartland writes the Netskills Corner column for this edition. In it, he provides a brief overview of some of the EU-funded Telematics for Research projects.

• 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.

• Monash University Electronic Reserve Project

  Hans W. Groenewegen, Debbie Hedger and Iris Radulescu describe Monash University's Electronic Reserve Project which is at the core of the electronic library project at the University's new Berwick campus.

• Reaching the OPAC: Java Telnet

  Bill Drew writes about accessing his library's OPAC within a web page using Java Telnet. He looks at the need, implementation, problems, and opportunities.

• Search Engine Corner

  Tracey Stanley looks at 'Push', where a network-based service 'pushes' information to your machine, rather than you 'pulling' information from the service.

• Survey Results

  John MacColl presents a selection of the comments arising from the first Ariadne readership survey [1]. This article appears in only the Web version of Ariadne.

• The Paper House of Cards (And Why It's Taking So Long to Collapse)

  In our previous issue, Fytton Rowland defended the continuation of print research journals into the networked age. Here, Stevan Harnad presents a different case.

• The Resource Discovery Project

  As Renato Iannella shows, the Resource Discovery project at the DSTC in Australia is investigating issues to do with information discovery and access across large heterogeneous networks.

• Unique Identifiers in a Digital World

  Andy Powell reports on a seminar organised jointly by Book Industry Communication and the UKOLN on the use of unique identifiers in electronic publishing.

• 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.

• MCF: Will Dublin Form the Apple Core

  Jon Knight looks at how Dublin Core and Apple's new MCF metadata file format might make useful and interesting bed fellows.

• Mind the Gap!

  Sheila and Robert Harden describe the making of their public library Web pages.

• Minotaur

  In Minotaur, the collective voice of Internet enthusiasts is countered by words of scepticism or caution. In this issue, Mike Holderness gives a few worrying examples of how much people outside the western hemisphere are behind us in terms of on-line resources.

• OMNI Corner

  In her regular appearance in Ariadne, Sue Welsh, introduces a new experiment in network indexing underway at OMNI.

• An Investigation Into World Wide Web Search Engine Use from within the UK: Preliminary Findings

  Simon Stobart and Susan Kerridge give some of the preliminary results of a JISC- funded investigation into the use of Search Engines such as Alta Vista and Lycos within the UK.

• 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.

• How to Grow Gossamer and Keep It Untangled

  George Munroe describes the experiences in establishing a large institutional web site.

• 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.

• Infopolecon

  John Lindsay comments on the evolution of the UK network infrastructure, and the problems arguably generated along the way.

• Lessons Learned from Developing and Delivering the BORGES Information Filtering Tool

  Alan Smeaton discusses the development and implementation of BORGES, an information filtering service for WWW pages and USENET news.

• Mailbase: Unique Electronic Discussion List Service for UK Higher Education Tops 100,000 Users

  Morna Findlay and Elaine Blair report on the passing of a milestone for UK academia's premier Mailing List resource.

• 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.

• Yahoo: UK and Ireland

  Tracey Stanley takes a good look at a new version of an old index, Yahoo, which is aimed at the UK and Ireland.

• 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.

• Copyright Info on the Net

  Charles Oppenheim takes a look at some of the Web sites and Bulletin Boards that contain information on copyright issues.

• InfoSeek Ultra: (Yet Another) Web Search Engine

  Tracey Stanley looks at InfoSeek Ultra, a new search engine which claims to allow searching on a index of 50 million Web pages.

• Lotus Eaters On-Line: Forming an Alliance Between Groupware and the Web in a Pre-Prints System

  Dan Fleming, co-director of the eLib 'Formations' project and lecturer in media studies at the University of Ulster, looks at some of the issues involved in adding value to a pre-prints system by using groupware such as Lotus Notes.

• 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.

• PICK: Library and Information Science Resources on the Internet

  In 1995, the Thomas Parry Library, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, won funding for PICK, a project to build a gateway to quality resources in the LIS field. Here, Andrew Cox describes this gateway, and reviews the project's achievements at the end of the first year.

• 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.

• 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.

• JUGL

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

• NHS Libraries: At Home on the Web

  Ben Toth describes the establishment and maintenance of a regional Health Web site.

• Serving the Arts and Humanities

  Dan Greenstein gives an extensive description of AHDS, the Arts and Humanities Data Service: its objectives, organisation, and how the data will be collected, preserved and described..

• TAPin: Training and Awareness Programme in Networks

  Kay Flatten outlines the training and awareness project that focuses on universities in the Midlands area.

• TLTP: Teaching and Learning Technology Programme

  Joanna Tiley describes TLTP. The Teaching and Learning Technology Programme, funded by the UK Higher Education Funding Councils of the UK, is a collection of 70+ projects aimed to 'make teaching and learning more productive and efficient by harnessing modern technology'.

• AC/DC

  Dave Beckett and Neil Smith explain a search engine that only indexes sites in the .ac.uk domain.

• FIDDO: Focused Investigation of Document Delivery Options

  Anne Morris, project manager, describes a project from the Supporting Studies area of the eLib programme.

• Link: A New Beginning for BUBL

  Dennis Nicholson and Joanne Gold present an overview of 'daughter of BUBL'.

• Mailing Lists: Keeping Up With eLib

  We point out the advantages of being on the lis-elib mailing list, and briefly describe the other public eLib mailing lists currently in use.

• 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'?).

• URL Monitoring Software and Services

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

• 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.

• Netskills Corner: NCSA Mosaic Web Browser

  In this Netskills Corner, Brian Kelly describes a UK-Wide collaborative (combined directional Web and IRC chat-like system) meeting.

• Netskills eLib Project Launch

  John Kirriemuir on the Netskills eLib project launch.

• Netskills: A Major Training Programme

  The Netskills Team explain how the need for training has never been greater.

• Bernard Naylor: At the Eye of the Internet Storm

  Bernard Naylor, the University Librarian at the University of Southampton, describes the information hurricane that is battering the world of Libraries.

• 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.

• Netskills Corner

  Netskills corner - Brian Kelly, Senior Trainer at Netskills, reviews Internet Explorer, Microsoft's Browser for Windows 95.

• The 4th WWW Conference in Boston

  Debra Hiom and John Kirriemuir provide an informal report from the "cutting edge" of Web development.

• What's Good and Bad about BUBL

  Traugott Koch reviews the Bulletin Board for Libraries (BUBL).

• Wire: Email Interview with Traugott Koch

  Traugott Koch submits to an interview by email.