Issue 24

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 24: Plumbing the Digital Library

  Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne 24.

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

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

• 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.

• 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.

• Theory and Practice of the Virtual University

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

• 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.

• How the Oxford English Dictionary Went Online

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

• Agora: From Information Maze to Market

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

• JSTOR Usage

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

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

  Phil Bradley explores search engine ranking techniques.

• Planet SOSIG

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

• EEVL News Nuggets

  Roddy MacLeod and Linda Kerr with news relating to the EMC Hubs.

• EMC Update

  Roddy MacLeod and Linda Kerr with news relating to the EMC Hubs.

• BIOME

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

• Metadata: I Am a Name and a Number

  Paul Miller on Digital Object Identifiers.

• 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.

• 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.

• Bringing Coherence to Networked Information for the New Century

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

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

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

• 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.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Cartoon

  New cartoon work by Malcolm Campbell.

• Review: Building Community Information Networks

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