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• Editorial Introduction to Issue 73

  The Editor introduces Issue 73 and provides an update on the future of Ariadne.

• Internet Librarian International Conference 2014

  Zoë Hurley and Garth Bradshaw report on the Internet Librarian Conference, held at the Olympia Conference Centre in London over 20-22 October 2014.

• Mining the Archives: Metadata Development and Implementation

  Martin White looks through the Ariadne archive to track the development and implementation of metadata in a variety of settings.

• Book Review: Digital Dieting - From Information Obesity to Intellectual Fitness

  Kevin Sanders examines Tara Brabazon’s latest analytical work which investigates the proliferation of low-quality information in the digital realm and the issues of excessive reliance on social tools for learning.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 72

  The new editor introduces readers to the content of Ariadne Issue 72.

• LinkedUp: Linking Open Data for Education

  Marieke Guy, Mathieu d’Aquin, Stefan Dietze, Hendrik Drachsler, Eelco Herder and Elisabetta Parodi describe the activities carried out by the LinkedUp Project looking at the promotion of open data in education.

• 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: Ariadne Carries On

  The editor writes of the next coils in Ariadne's thread, and bids farewell.

• Book Review: Crisis Information Management

  Emma Tonkin offers a review of a thought-provoking overview of crisis informatics.

• Book Review: Marketing Your Library’s Electronic Resources

  Lizz Jennings reviews a concise and practical guide to marketing library e-resources which offers the busy professional a structured approach to planning a successful campaign.

• Bring Your Own Policy: Why Accessibility Standards Need to Be Contextually Sensitive

  Brian Kelly, Jonathan Hassell, David Sloan, Dominik Lukeš, E A Draffan and Sarah Lewthwaite argue that rather than having a universal standard for Web accessibility, standardisation of Web accessibility practices and policies needs to be sufficiently flexible to cater for the local context.

• KAPTUR the Highlights: Exploring Research Data Management in the Visual Arts

  Leigh Garrett, Marie-Therese Gramstadt, Carlos Silva and Anne Spalding describe the exploration of the importance and nature of research data in the visual arts and requirements for their appropriate curation and preservation.

• 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.

• 'Does He Take Sugar?': The Risks of Standardising Easy-to-read Language

  Brian Kelly, Dominik Lukeš and Alistair McNaught highlight the risks of attempting to standardise easy-to-read language for online resources.

• 23rd International CODATA Conference

  Alex Ball reports on a conference on ‘Open Data and Information for a Changing Planet’ held by the International Council for Science’s Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan on 28–31 October 2012.

• EMTACL12 (Emerging Technologies in Academic Libraries)

  Sarah Rayner and Olivia Walsby report on a three-day conference on Emerging Technologies in Academic Libraries, hosted by NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) in Trondheim, Norway over 1 - 3 October 2012.

• IFLA World Library and Information Congress 2012

  Marieke Guy reports on the 78th IFLA General Conference and Assembly held in Helsinki, Finland over 11-17 August 2012.

• Online Information 2012

  Marieke Guy reports on the largest gathering of information professionals in Europe.

• euroCRIS Membership Meeting, Madrid

  Rosemary Russell and Brigitte Jörg report on the bi-annual euroCRIS membership and Task Groups meetings which took place in Madrid on 5-6 November 2012.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 69

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

• Eduserv Symposium 2012: Big Data, Big Deal?

  Marieke Guy attended the annual Eduserv Symposium on 10 May 2012 at the Royal College of Physicians, London to find out what are the implications of big data for Higher Education Institutions.

• JISC Research Information Management: CERIF Workshop

  Rosemary Russell reports on a two-day workshop on research information management and CERIF held in Bristol over 27-28 June 2012.

• Moving Ariadne: Migrating and Enriching Content with Drupal

  Thom Bunting explains some of the technology behind the migration of Ariadne (including more than 1600 articles from its back issues archive) onto a Drupal content management platform.

• 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.

• 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.

• Book Review: Making Software - What Really Works, and Why We Believe It

  While acknowledging the genuine usefulness of much of its content, Emma Tonkin provides helpful pointers towards a second edition.

• IMPACT Final Conference 2011

  Marieke Guy reports on the two-day conference looking at the results of the IMPACT Project in making digitisation and OCR better, faster and cheaper.

• The Informatics Transform: Re-engineering Libraries for the Data Decade

  Liz Lyon proposes that libraries re-position, re-profile and ramp up their engagement with research data management, scholarly communications and citizen science.

• Book Review: Preparing Collections for Digitization

  Michael Day reviews a recently published book on the selection and preparation of archive and library collections for digitisation.

• Connecting Researchers at the University of Bath

  Jez Cope and Geraldine Jones describe a recent series of events introducing social media to research students at the University of Bath.

• DataCite UK User Group Meeting

  Alex Ball reports on the 2nd UK User Group meeting for DataCite, held at the British Library in London, in April 2011.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 67: Changes Afoot

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 67.

• Piloting Web Conferencing Software: Experiences and Challenges

  Julian Prior and Marie Salter report on their experiences piloting Elluminate Live! at the University of Bath.

• 10 Cheap and Easy Ways to Amplify Your Event

  Marieke Guy describes new tools and services that can help you get your event heard.

• 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.

• International Digital Curation Conference 2010

  Alex Ball reports on the 6th International Digital Curation Conference, held on 7-8 December 2010 in Chicago.

• 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: The Accidental Taxonomist

  Emma Tonkin takes a look at a book on the work of the taxonomist and notes both merits and disappointments.

• Internet Librarian International Conference 2010

  Claire Tylee, Katrin Flemming and Elly Cope report on the two-day Internet Librarian International Conference focusing on innovation and technology in the information profession, held in London on 14-15 October 2010.

• Why UK Further and Higher Education Needs Local Software Developers

  Mahendra Mahey and Paul Walk discuss the work of the Developer Community Supporting Innovation (DevCSI) Project which focuses on building capacity for software developers in UK Further and Higher Education to support innovation in the sector.

• Blue Ribbon Task Force Symposium on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access

  Marieke Guy reports on a symposium which provided an opportunity for stakeholders to respond to the recent Blue Ribbon Task Force report on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access.

• Book Review: Access, Delivery, Performance - The Future of Libraries Without Walls

  Michael Day reviews a Festschrift celebrating the work of Professor Peter Brophy, founder of the Centre for Research in Library and Information Management.

• Book Review: The Art of Community - Building the New Age of Participation

  Ed Bremner reviews a work on building and supporting online communities.

• 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.

• Book Review: Information Science in Transition

  Michael Day reviews an edited volume published to commemorate the founding of the Institute of Information Scientists in 1958.

• Towards a Toolkit for Implementing Application Profiles

  Talat Chaudhri, Julian Cheal, Richard Jones, Mahendra Mahey and Emma Tonkin propose a user-driven methodology for the iterative development, testing and implementation of Dublin Core Application Profiles in diverse repository software environments.

• eBooks: Tipping or Vanishing Point?

  Emma Tonkin investigates ebooks and takes a look at recent technological and business developments in this area.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• The RSP Goes 'Back to School'

  Stephanie Taylor reports on the three-day residential school for repository managers run by the Repositories Support Project (RSP), held on 14-16 September 2009 in Northumberland.

• UK Institutional Repository Search: Innovation and Discovery

  Vic Lyte, Sophia Jones, Sophia Ananiadou and Linda Kerr describe an innovative tool to showcase UK research output through advanced discovery and retrieval facilities.

• Collecting Evidence in a Web 2.0 Context

  Ann Chapman and Rosemary Russell describe the challenge of collecting evidence for a study of how Web 2.0 is being used in the UK HE sector.

• 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.

• Research Data Preservation and Access: The Views of Researchers

  Neil Beagrie, Robert Beagrie and Ian Rowlands present findings from a UKRDS survey of researchers' views on and practices for preservation and dissemination of research data in four UK universities.

• 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.

• A Support Framework for Remote Workers

  Marieke Guy follows up on her two previous articles for Ariadne with an overview of an evolving structure to provide consistent support to UKOLN colleagues who work remotely.

• Book Review: Sketching Tomorrow - The Social Dynamics of Information and Communication Technology

  Emma Tonkin takes a look at an ambitious work on the relationship of modern society to information and communication technologies and observes more sins of omission than commission.

• Handshake Session at International Repositories Infrastructure Workshop, Amsterdam

  Adrian Stevenson highlights the Handshake Session which formed part of the International Repositories InfrastructureWorkshop, at the Radisson SAS Hotel, Amsterdam, held over 16-17 March 2009.

• IMPACT Conference: Optical Character Recognition in Mass Digitisation

  Lieke Ploeger, Yola Park, Jeanna Nikolov-Ramirez Gaviria, Clemens Neudecker, Fedor Bochow and Michael Day report from the first IMPACT Conference, held in The Hague, Netherlands on 6-7 April, 2009.

• NSF Workshop on Cyberinfrastructure Software Sustainability

  Paul Walk reports on a two-day NSF-sponsored workshop held at Indiana University, on 26-27 March 2009.

• 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.

• 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.

• Book Review: Making Sense With Metadata

  Emma Tonkin takes a look at an impressive new book on the topic of metadata design, implementation and evaluation in theory and practice.

• Book Review: Presentation Zen - Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery

  Marieke Guy gets in touch with her inner PowerPoint Zen.

• 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.

• A Bug's Life?: How Metaphors from Ecology Can Articulate the Messy Details of Repository Interactions

  R. John Robertson, Mahendra Mahey and Phil Barker introduce work investigating an alternative model of repository and service interaction.

• Book Review: Against the Machine

  Mahendra Mahey reviews a book which examines popular Internet culture and how it may be having negative effects on many of us.

• Book Review: Managing the Crowd - Rethinking Records Management for the Web 2.0 World

  Marieke Guy reviews a text that could offer the blueprint for moving records management into the 21st century.

• Book Review: Website Optimization

  Pete Cliff used to think 'Website Optimisation' simply meant compressing images and avoiding nested tables, but in this he book finds out how much more there is to it, even in the Age of Broadband.

• Embedding Web Preservation Strategies Within Your Institution

  Christopher Eddie reports on the third one-day workshop of the JISC-PoWR (Preservation of Web Resources) Project held at the University of Manchester on 12 September 2008.

• Get Tooled Up: Staying Connected: Technologies Supporting Remote Workers

  Having considered organisational issues in her previous article, Marieke Guy takes a look at the many technologies that support remote working, from broadband to Web 2.0 social networking tools.

• iPRES 2008

  Frances Boyle and Adam Farquhar report on the two-day international conference which was the fifth in the series on digital preservation of digital objects held at the British Library, on 29 - 30 September 2008.

• 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.

• A Desk Too Far?: The Case for Remote Working

  Marieke Guy examines both the benefits and the pitfalls of working remotely from the standpoint of both employees and their organisation.

• Book Review: Visualizing Data

  Pete Cliff considers a new book on data visualisation and hopes one day to implement some of the interesting ideas presented in this work.

• Book Review: Web Accessibility

  Martin White reviews a book that provides advice for managers on how to ensure that Web sites, intranets and library services are fully compliant with guidelines and legislation on accessibility.

• Institutional Web Management Workshop 2008: The Great Debate

  Adrian Tribe reports on a three-day conference designed for professionals involved in the provision of institutional Web services, organised by UKOLN and held at King's College, University of Aberdeen in July 2008.

• Lost in the JISC Information Environment

  Tony Ross gives a personal reflection on his intellectual struggle to comprehend the JISC Information Environment.

• Open Repositories 2008

  Mahendra Mahey reports on the third international Open Repositories 2008 Conference, held at the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton in April 2008.

• 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.

• Preservation of Web Resources: Making a Start

  Stephen Emmott reports on a one-day workshop aimed at all those interested in issues relating to institutional Web resource preservation. The event was held by the JISC-PoWR team at the University of London in June 2008.

• Developing the Capability and Skills to Support EResearch

  Margaret Henty provides an Australian perspective on improving the environment in which eResearch is conducted through developing institutional capability and providing appropriate skills training.

• KIM Project Conference 2008

  Alexander Ball provides an overview of the Knowledge and Information Management Through Life Project Conference held in April, 2008.

• Book Review: Programming Collective Intelligence

  Pete Cliff tries to remember A-level mathematics as he dives into the fascinating world of machine learning and statistics and how to apply these techniques to Web-accessible datasets.

• Exploiting the Potential of Blogs and Social Networks

  Gill Ferrell reports on a one-day workshop about Blogs and Social Networks, held in Birmingham in November 2007.

• 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.

• Saving Energy in the Workplace

  Eddie Young outlines some of the issues faced by a Systems Administrator when trying to save energy in the workplace.

• DRIVER: Building the Network for Accessing Digital Repositories Across Europe

  Martin Feijen, Wolfram Horstmann, Paolo Manghi, Mary Robinson and Rosemary Russell present an outline of the DRIVER Project and its achievements so far in supporting and enhancing digital repository development in Europe.

• ECDL 2007

  Mahendra Mahey, Emma Tonkin and Robert John Robertson report on the 2007 European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, held in Budapest, Hungary, over 16-22 September, 2007.

• ALPSP Conference

  Kara Jones reports on the ALPSP 'Publishing and the Library of the Future' one-day seminar held at St Anthony's College, Oxford, in July 2007.

• Blogging from the Backroom

  Ann Chapman reports on a seminar on blogging, designed for those working in the traditional 'backroom' professions such as cataloguing and indexing, held by the CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group in London, on 8 June 2007.

• Eduserv Foundation Symposium 2007: Virtual Worlds, Real Learning?

  Paul Walk reports on the Eduserv Foundation Symposium which took as its theme 'Virtual Worlds, Real Learning?' and which was primarily concerned with educational uses for Second Life.

• IWMW 2007: Next Steps for the Web Management Community

  Shirley Keane reports on the wide range of presentations given at this year's Institutional Web Management Workshop.

• Book Review: Blogging and RSS - A Librarian's Guide

  Kara Jones reviews a practical guide to blogs and RSS written for librarians, packed with library-specific examples.

• Book Review: Digital Literacies for Learning

  Pete Cliff reviews a work that challenges traditional notions of literacy and how suggests that new literacies need to be developed to empower both learners and teachers in the digital age.

• KIM Project Conference: Knowledge and Information Management through Life

  Alex Ball provides an overview of the March 2007 KIM Project Conference.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• What Is an Open Repository?

  Julie Allinson, Jessie Hey, Chris Awre and Mahendra Mahey report on the Open Repositories 2007 conference, held in San Antonio, Texas between 23-26 January 2007.

• 2nd International DCC Conference 2006: Digital Data Curation in Practice

  Alexander Ball and Manjula Patel provide an overview of the second annual conference of the Digital Curation Centre.

• A Dublin Core Application Profile for Scholarly Works

  Julie Allinson, Pete Johnston and Andy Powell describe a Dublin Core application profile for describing scholarly works that makes use of FRBR and the DCMI Abstract Model.

• Book Review: Digital Preservation

  Maureen Pennock reviews a release in Facet's Digital Futures series.

• JISC CETIS Conference, 2006

  Paul Walk reports on the third annual CETIS conference held in Salford, Manchester, over 14 -15 November 2006.

• Wikido: Exploiting the Potential of Wikis

  Marieke Guy reports on a one-day workshop, held in Birmingham in November 2006, which took a closer look at the potential of Wikis for educational institutions.

• Book Review: Ambient Findability

  Emma Tonkin reviews a book with interesting content despite a few rough edges.

• DC 2006: Metadata for Knowledge and Learning

  Julie Allinson, Rachel Heery, Pete Johnston and Rosemary Russell report on DC 2006, the sixth international conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, held 3 - 6 October 2006.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 49: Technology Is Only Part of the Story

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 49.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• RDA: A New International Standard

  Ann Chapman describes work on the new cataloguing code, Resource Description and Access (RDA), based on the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR).

• Video Streaming of Events

  Greg Tourte and Emma Tonkin describe the set-up and use of video streaming technology at the IWMW 2006 event.

• 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.

• Digital Preservation Coalition Forum on Web Archiving

  Maureen Pennock and Manjula Patel report on the Digital Preservation Coalition's second Web Archiving Forum which took place at the British Library in London on 12 June 2006.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 48: Extended Family Net Works

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne 48.

• IWMW 2006: Quality Matters

  Adrian Stevenson reports on the 10th Institutional Web Management Workshop held at the University of Bath over 14-16 June 2006.

• Intute: The New Best of the Web

  Caroline Williams describes Intute in the context of the online information environment and outlines aspirations for the future.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Retrospective on the RDN

  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.

• The Rustle of Digital Curation: The JISC Annual Conference

  Julie Allinson, Marieke Guy and Maureen Pennock find themselves contemplating e-frameworks, digital curation and repositories at the JISC Annual Conference.

• The Second Digital Repositories Programme Meeting

  Julie Allinson and Mahendra Mahey report on a 2-day JISC Digital Repositories Meeting focusing on project clusters working together and other related issues held by JISC in Warwick, UK over 27-28 March 2006.

• Book Review: ARIST 39 - Annual Review of Information Science and Technology

  Michael Day reviews another recent volume of this key annual publication on information science and technology.

• 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.

• Projects Into Services: The UK Experience

  Peter Brophy reviews the experience of the UK academic sector in turning digital library projects into sustainable services.

• Digital Curation: Where Do We Go from Here?

  Peter Kerr, Fiona Reddington and Max Wilkinson report on the 1st International Digital Curation Conference held in Bath in September 2005.

• 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.

• IWMW 2005

  Miles Banbery reports on the 9th Institutional Web Management Workshop held at the University of Manchester, UK, over 6-8 July 2005.

• Towards a Pragmatic Framework for Accessible E-Learning

  Lawrie Phipps, Neil Witt and Brian Kelly while recognising the importance of accessibility in e-learning resources, query the universal applicability of the Web Accessibility Initiative's guidelines and describe a pragmatic framework which provides a broader context for their use.

• Web Focus: The WWW 2005 Conference

  Brian Kelly provides his impressions including reports of areas of doubt and uncertainty - but also of an exciting new development.

• Trust in Global Virtual Teams

  Niki Panteli identifies ways of developing trust within global virtual teams.

• Web Focus: Using Collaborative Technologies When on the Road

  Brian Kelly argues that since conference delegates now expect to be able to read email on the road, there are additional technologies which might enhance our effectiveness when away from the office.

• What Are Your Terms?

  Pete Johnston introduces the JISC Information Environment Metadata Schema Registry (IEMSR) Project and examines some of the challenges it is facing.

• Beyond Email: Wikis, Blogs and Other Strange Beasts

  Robert Bristow reports on a one-day workshop 'Beyond Email: Strategies for Collaborative Working and Learning in the 21st Century'.

• Tap Into Bath Takes Off

  Stephanie Round covers the launch of a small but promising collaborative effort.

• 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.

• ECDL 2004: A Digital Librarian's Report

  Jessie Hey reports on the 8th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries held at the University of Bath in September 2004.

• 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.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 41: Forces in Train

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne 41.

• Planet-SOSIG

  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.

• 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.

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

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

• 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.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Public Libraries: Weblogs: Do They Belong in Libraries?

  Penny Garrod takes a look at weblogs and weblogging activities in libraries and considers some of the ways they can be used to support public library users.

• Tap Into Bath

  Alison Baud and Ann Chapman describe the development of a database of archive, library and museum collections in Bath.

• The Future of Cataloguing: Cataloguing and Indexing Group Conference

  Paola Stillone reports on a three-day annual conference of the CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group (CIG), held at the University of Bath, 30 June - 2 July.

• 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.

• At the Event: The EPrints UK Workshop

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

• ERPANET / CODATA Workshop, Lisbon

  Michael Day gives us a detailed report on the ERPANET / CODATA Workshop held at the Biblioteca Nacional, Lisbon, 15-17 December 2003.

• News from BIOME

  Jenny Hall reports on recent news from BIOME, the Health and Life Sciences hub of the Resource Discovery Network.

• RDN/LTSN Partnerships: Learning Resource Discovery Based on the LOM and the OAI-PMH

  Andy Powell and Phil Barker explore the technical collaboration currently underway between the RDN and the LTSN and describe the RDN/LTSN LOM Application Profile and its use to support resource discovery.

• Web Focus: Towards Library Groupware With Personalised Link Routing

  Brian Kelly takes a look at the FOAF Semantic Web application and suggests it is time to start evaluating this technology.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Public Libraries: 2003, 2004: A Backward Glance and Thoughts on the Future

  Penny Garrod looks at some of the broader issues affecting public libraries and information professionals.

• Web Focus: Improving the Quality of Your HTML

  Brian Kelly outlines a strategy for fixing the most important HTML resources on a Web site.

• 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.

• Metadata and Interoperability in a Complex World

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

• 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.

• Web Focus: Widening the Focus for the Future

  Brian Kelly reviews the history of the Web Focus post and describes funding changes which gives Web Focus a much wider remit.

• 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.

• 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.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• OCLC-SCURL: Collaboration, Integration and Recombinant Potential

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• 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.

• QA Focus

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

• 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.

• WWW2002 Here

  Libby Miller sends notes from the WW2002 conference in Hawaii.

• Web Focus: Report On The Sixth Institutional Web Management Workshop

  Brian Kelly with a report on the Sixth Institutional International Web Management Workshop held this year at the University of Strathclyde.

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

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

• Collection Description Focus: Spreading the Gospel

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

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Content Management Systems: Who Needs Them?

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

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Software Review: C4U

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• 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.

• The Future Is Hybrid: Edinburgh

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

• 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.

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

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

• 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.

• Metadata: Preservation 2000

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

• 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 Future Is Hybrid: London

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

• 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.

• Cartoon

  New cartoon work by Malcolm Campbell.

• DECOMATE II

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Agora: From Information Maze to Market

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

• Cartoon

  New cartoon work by Malcolm Campbell.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 24: Plumbing the Digital Library

  Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne 24.

• 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.

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

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• Review: Online Searching (Library Association)

  Pete Cliff reviews the Library Association's guide: Online Searching.

• Review: The Oxford English Dictionary Online

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

• 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.

• A Free ISP from the British Library

  Brian Kefford outlines the services available from the British Library.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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)

• Z39.50 for All

  Paul Miller looks at the Z39.50 standard and attempts to extract some meaning from the mass of associated literature.

• Editorial Introduction to Ariadne Issue 20

  Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne issue 20.

• Metadata: Workshop in Luxembourg

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

• Planet SOSIG

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

• Web Focus: Report on the WWW 8 Conference

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

• Web Watch: 404s, What's Missing?

  Brian Kelly discusses 404 'not found' messages, and why you don't always get the same one.

• Editorial introduction to Issue 19: Ariadne's Thread

  Philip Hunter and Bernadette Daly introduce the articles for Ariadne issue 19.

• Information Ecologies: Report of the eLib Conference

  Philip Hunter reports on the eLib conference in York in December 1998, which explored a number of hybrid library, subject Gateway and copyright control issues.

• Metadata: Image Retrieval

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

• 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.

• What Is Apache?

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

• 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.

• Launching an Electronic Magazine: An Overview of Value-added Features and Services

  Bernadette Daly looks at a variety of electronic publications as part of the research phase in the delivery of a new Web magazine.

• Metadata: Cataloguing Theory and Internet Subject-based Information Gateways

  Ann Chapman, Michael Day, and Debra Hiom compare library cataloguing concepts and ROADS Template creation.

• Metadiversity

  Michael Day on a Biodiversity conference in the States interested in Metadata.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Public Libraries Corner

  Sarah Ormes and David Potts shed light on the what exactly the Networked Policy Taskgroup does.

• Web Editorial: Introduction to Issue 18

  The web editors, Bernadette Daly and Philip Hunter, introduce Ariadne issue 18.

• 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.

• Web Editorial: Introduction to Issue 17

  The web editors, Philip Hunter and Bernadette Daly, introduce Ariadne issue 17.

• 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.

• Electronic Access: Archives in the New Millennium

  Michael Day reports from Kew on the Public Record Office view of the Brave New World of online archives.

• Information Landscapes

  Rosemary Russell, Sally Criddle and Sarah Ormes report on the UKOLN conference held in June 1998.

• Metadata Corner

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

• Web Editorial: Introduction to Issue 16

  Philip Hunter and Bernadette Daly introduce Ariadne issue 16.

• 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.

• Showing Robots the Door

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

• Web Editorial: Ariadne Issue 15

  Web editor Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne 15.

• 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.

• Metadata Corner: CrossROADS and Interoperability

  Michael Day, Rachel Heery and Andy Powell report on work in progress on enhancements to the ROADS software.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Public Libraries Corner: An Internet Open Day

  Sally Criddle describes a World Wide Web training event organised by UKOLN and the University of Bath for the 1997 National Libraries Week.

• Web Focus: Animate Your Pages

  Brian Kelly gives an introduction to Dynamic HTML, explaining recent developments that enable dynamic web pages to be produced using simple scripting languages such as Javascript.

• What Is RDF?

  Rachel Heery explains RDF (Resource Description Framework)

• Down Your Way: University of Ulster, Coleraine

  Isobel Stark investigates University of Ulster, Coleraine.

• International FEMIRC Conference, Warsaw

  Philip Hunter reports from the International Conference on Activities in Science and Technology in CEEC towards European Integration, organised by the OPI (Information Processing Centre) in Warsaw .

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Web Focus Corner: The World Wide Web Consortium

  Brian Kelly ponders whether the academic community can have a role in shaping the web of the future.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Public Libraries Corner: Soul and Song

  Lorcan Dempsey writes about the recent report: New Library: the People's Network.

• Web Focus: WebWatching UK Universities and Colleges

  Brian Kelly describes the WebWatch project.

• Down Your Way: Queen's University Library

  Isobel Stark visits the Victorian and 20th-century splendours of the Queen's Univerity, Belfast.

• Electronic Document Delivery: A Trial in an Academic Library

  In part two of this report, Fiona Williams describes the trials of various electronic document delivery systems in University of Bath Library and Learning Centre over the last few years.

• Interface: All Pre-Prints Servers Are Not the Same

  Isobel Stark talks to Dan Fleming of the Formations project.

• Metadata Corner: Naming Names - Metadata Registries

  Rachel Heery examines metadata issues.

• Public Libraries Corner: A Public Library Metadata Initiative

  Sally Criddle introduces an initiative to extend current developments in the use of metadata to the public library community.

• Web Focus Corner: Running an Institutional Web Service

  Brian Kelly reports on a workshop on running an institutional web service.

• Electronic Document Delivery: A Trial in an Academic Library

  In the first of a two-part article, Fiona Williams describes the trials of various electronic document delivery systems in University of Bath Library and Learning Centre over the last few years. A review of the latest trial, between BL Urgent Action Service and TU DELFT, as well as an overall comparison with the Blackwell's Uncover Service will be given in the next issue of Ariadne.

• Down Your Way: University of Bath

  Isobel Stark has a look at the new library building (from where the Web version of Ariadne is produced) at the University of Bath.

• Elvira 4: May 1997, Milton Keynes

  Ian Bloor reports on the recently held Elvira (Electronic Library and Visual Information Research) event.

• Extending Metadata for Digital Preservation

  Michael Day suggests how the concept of metadata could be extended to provide information in the specific field of digital preservation.

• Public Libraries Corner: MODELS 5 Workshop Report and Futures

  Sarah Ormes gives a report on the recent MODELS 5 workshop and its outcomes.

• Web Focus: Report on the WWW 6 Conference

  Brian Kelly describes the sixth International World Wide Web conference which took place in California from 7 – 11 April 1997.

• Disabil-IT? Conference

  Isobel Stark reports from the February 1997 Disabil-IT? conference, aimed at library and computing services staff to help raise awareness of issues related to IT provision for students with disabilities.

• Disabil-IT? Part 2: Software for Students With Dyslexia, and Software Design Issues

  Isobel Stark presents the second part of her report on the Disabil-IT? Conference. In this article, software for students with dyslexia is looked at, and issues to bear in mind when designing software which may be used by students with disabilities are listed.

• Down Your Way: The Natural History Museum

  John Kirriemuir takes in megabytes of trilobites at the Natural History Museum.

• 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.

• MODELS: MOving to Distributed Environments for Library Services

  Rosemary Russell shows how MODELS are built from clumps.

• Performance and Security: Notes for System Administrators

  Performance and Security - Notes for System Administrators: Andy Powell offers some hints and tips on the performance and security aspects of running electronic library services on UNIX based machines.

• 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.

• View from the Hill - Jon Ferguy

  Do networks play any part in the making of films? Isobel Stark is shaken (not stirred) when she finds out more from Jon Ferguy.

• Web Editorial: Introduction to Issue 8

  John Kirriemuir with the editorial for the Web version of Ariadne issue 8.

• Wire: Interview with Icarus Sparry

  In his own words, Icarus Sparry tells us how what he is doing at the University of Bath, as well as revealing his own opinions on various aspects of networking, such as firewalls and network charging.

• Controlling Access in the Electronic Library

  Andy Powell and Mark Gillet discuss methods of electronic authentication.

• British Library Corner: Setting Priorities for Digital Library Research, The Beginnings of a Process?

  Graham Jefcoate describes the background behind the recently announced British Library Research and Innovation Centre call for proposals in the field of digital library research.

• Down Your Way: John Moores

  Isobel Stark visits one of the most prominent new university library buildings of recent years.

• Sideline: Boys (and Girls) and Blackstuff

  In Sideline, people give an alternative view of conference attendance. Terry Morrow is Marketing Manager, BIDS (Bath Information and Data Services), University of Bath.

• Wire: Interview with Glen Monks

  Glen Monks is put under the virtual spotlight to answer a few questions via email.

• 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.

• Downtime

  Ariadne offers its readers a cartoon, poem, and caption competition.

• Interface: George H Brett II, in Interview

  An interview with George H. Brett II, International Library and Networking consultant.

• Link: A New Beginning for BUBL

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

• Poem and Cartoon

• Spotlight on BIDS

  BIDS is put under the spotlight by Isobel Stark, a BIDS trainer amongst other things, who gives us her thoughts on one of the UK's most well-known networking services. Linked from this article are responses from BIDS people.

• Adrian Stevenson

• Alex Ball

• Alexey Strelnikov

• Ann Chapman

• Brian Kelly

• Bridget Robinson

• Claire Tylee

• Ed Bremner

• Eddie Young

• Elly Cope

• Garth Bradshaw

• Geraldine Jones

• Greg Tourte

• Jez Cope

• Julian Cheal

• Julian Prior

• Kara Jones

• Kate Robinson

• Katrin Flemming

• Kevin Sanders

• Laurence Lockton

• Lizz Jennings

• Mahendra Mahey

• Manjula Patel

• Mansur Darlington

• Marie Salter

• Matt Thrower

• Maureen Pennock

• Michael Day

• Monica Duke

• Niki Panteli

• Paul Walk

• Penny Garrod

• Pete Johnston

• Peter Cliff

• Philip Hunter

• Richard Waller

• Rosemary Russell

• Shirley Keane

• Stephanie Taylor

• Talat Chaudhri

• Test Article ahead of publication

  Lizz Jennings experiments with the Articles Ahead of Publication feature.

• Zoë Hurley