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Keith Doyle provides a personal perspective on a conference organised by UKOLN for those involved in the provision of institutional Web services.
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Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.
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Emma Tonkin and
Alexey Strelnikov reflect on the experience of developing components for the Information Environment Metadata Schema Registry.
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Virginia Knight describes the open-source alerting portlet which has been developed as part of the SPP Subject Portals Project (SPP) and the results of user feedback.
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Nigel Goldsmith reviews a new book on digital photography by the accomplished American landscape photographer Stephen Johnson.
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Caroline Williams describes Intute in the context of the online information environment and outlines aspirations for the future.
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Debra Hiom, in the first of a two-part series on the Resource Discovery Network, looks back at the development of the RDN and its activities to date.
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Flora Watson introduces a new podcasting service from Biz/ed and Angela Joyce reports on the latest developments in the Eurostudies section of SOSIG.
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Emma Place assesses the recent SOSIG Social Science Online seminars, Jacky Clake reports on the ESRC Social Science Week and Debra Hiom updates us on the virtual seminar run by SOSIG as part of Social Science Week.
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Paul Ayres examines how the SOSIG Subject News blog is keeping users up to date and providing reusable site content at the same time.
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Pete Johnston introduces the JISC Information Environment Metadata Schema Registry (IEMSR) Project and examines some of the challenges it is facing.
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Robert Bristow reports on a one-day workshop 'Beyond Email: Strategies for Collaborative Working and Learning in the 21st Century'.
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Angela Joyce shares her personal impressions from the recent European Digital Libraries Conference in Bath; Emma Place introduces a new seminar series to support online information seeking in the social sciences.
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Brian Kelly reviews the JISC-funded QA Focus Project and argues that developers should be using quality assurance principles.
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This month
Neil Jacobs introduces a new book for information professionals in the social sciences and Heta Virnes describes her experience of running virtual helpdesks for SOSIG.
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This month
Neil Jacobs reports on updates to the Regard service, Martin Poulter introduces a new Economics Assessment Bank and Emma Place highlights the programme of training and outreach conducted by SOSIG this spring.
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Emma Place gives an insight into the pitfalls that await new users of the Internet in their search for relevant and quality materials and explains how SOSIG has catered for the needs of both FE students and practitioners.
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Lesly Huxley shares her notes on the European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries.
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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.
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Catherine Ewart gives us her view of IWMW 2003, University of Kent, June 2003.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Marieke Napier on Quality Assurance procedures in the Jisc 5/99 Programme.
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Libby Miller sends notes from the WW2002 conference in Hawaii.
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Emma Place and
Dave Boyd describe a new feature on SOSIG called 'Experts Choice', and report on upcoming events.
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John Kirriemuir outlines some of the issues for the establishment of digital library centres in UK Higher Education institutions.
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Louise Woodcock introduces the new European Studies section for SOSIG and Helen Wharam provides an update on the Resource Guide for the Social Sciences.
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Brian Kelly, UK Web Focus, reports on the IWMW event in his regular column.
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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.
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Sarah Ormes reports on the recent Public Libraries Web Managers Workshop held in the University of Bath.
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Brian Kelly reports on the WWW9 conference, held in Amsterdam, in May 2000.
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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
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Debbie Campbell looks at how the original criteria proposed for an IMesh map against these Australian initiatives.
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Libby Miller looks at recent changes to Biz/ed and describes some new sites.
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Paul Miller looks at the Z39.50 standard and attempts to extract some meaning from the mass of associated literature.
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Karen Ford examines The Resource Guide, which aims to provide staff and students in HE with an overview of electronic services.
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Brian Kelly discusses WWW8 in Toronto, which took place in May 1999.
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In this edition,
Stuart Macwilliam, the section editor for Sociology, gives an overview of the resources likely to be found in his section. This is preceded by news of some 'mutual mirroring' across the Atlantic, involving SOSIG and the Internet Scout Project.
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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.
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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.
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Lesly Huxley writes about a new Internet service for social scientists.
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Debra Hiom on recent developments and happenings with ALISS, IRISS, and SOSIG.
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Betsy Anagnostelis and
Sue Welsh describe the recent launch of the MIDRIB (Medical Images Digitised Reference Information Bank) project, and describe the medical image resource the project will create.
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Catherine Sladen describes an information gateway for Business Studies and Economics.
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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.
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