Issue 44

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 44: One Day We All Learn the Hard Way

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 44.

• Creative Archive

  Paul Gerhardt describes the origins and development of the Creative Archive Project at the BBC.

• Accessibility: The Current Situation and New Directions

  Kevin Carey describes accessibility by disabled people to digital information systems across broadcasting, telecommunications and the Internet, looks into the future and makes recommendations.

• Involving Users in the Development of a Web Accessibility Tool

  Jenny Craven and Mikael Snaprud describe how the EC-funded European Internet Accessibility Observatory Project is involving users in the development of a Web accessibility checking and monitoring tool.

• Web Accessibility Revealed: The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council Audit

  Marcus Weisen, Helen Petrie, Neil King and Fraser Hamilton describe a comprehensive Web accessibility audit involving extensive user testing as well as automatic testing of Web sites.

• Revealing All

  Ann Chapman describes Revealweb, a Web site that brings together information about accessible resources for visually impaired people.

• 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.

• Virtual Research Environments: Overview and Activity

  Michael Fraser provides an overview of the virtual research environment (VRE) and introduces three JISC-funded projects in which Oxford University is participating.

• Mobile Blogs, Personal Reflections and Learning Environments: The RAMBLE Project

  Paul Trafford describes how mobile blogs for personal reflection may be related to institutional learning environments, drawing on experiences from the RAMBLE Project.

• Supporting Local Data Users in the UK Academic Community

  Luis Martinez and Stuart Macdonald discuss the differing areas of expertise within the UK data libraries with particular reference to their relationship with National Data Centres, the role of the Data Information Specialists Committee - UK (DISC-UK) and other information specialists.

• Planet-SOSIG

  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.

• EEVL Xtra: The Hidden Web at Your Fingertips

  Roddy MacLeod looks at the latest service from EEVL.

• News from BIOME

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

• Search Engines: Google and Search: Some of the Latest Developments

  Phil Bradley takes a look at some of the new developments at Google.

• Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility With Firefox

  Patrick Lauke outlines how Mozilla Firefox can be used in conjunction with the Web Developer Toolbar to carry out a preliminary accessibility review.

• 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.

• Integration and Impact: The JISC Annual Conference

  Marieke Guy has collated reports on sessions from the JISC Annual Conference held in Birmingham.

• IWMW 2005

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

• Building Open Source Communities: 4th OSS Watch Conference

  Sebastian Rahtz and Randy Metcalfe report on a one-day conference on open source software development communities organised by OSS Watch held in Edinburgh on 4 July 2005.

• 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.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Book Review: Content and Workflow Management for Library Web Sites

  Martin White welcomes the detail but is concerned at the impact that the publishing process has had on the currency and utility of the content.

• Book Review: The Academic Library

  Ruth Jenkins wishes this textbook had been available when she was a library school student.

• Book Review: Disaster Management for Libraries and Archives

  Ian Lovecy looks at a useful consolidation of approaches to disaster management.

• Book Review: Managing Suppliers and Partners for the Academic Library

  Tony Kidd examines this study's view of the importance of partnerships in their widest context for the modern academic library.