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Ariadne issue 34 now available
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Philip Hunter)
Fri Jan 17 20:04:11 2003
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*Apologies for cross-posting -
Ariadne 34 is now available at:
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue34/
This issue includes a large number of articles focusing on the
technologies needed to underpin resource sharing:
Main Articles:
*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.
*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.
*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 .
*Exploring Charging Models for Digital Cultural Heritage: Simon
Tanner and Marilyn Deegan.
*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.
Regular columns:
*Public Libraries: Creating websites for e-citizens: the Public
Library Web Managers workshop, November 2002, held in Bath. A
report by Penny Garrod.
*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.
*EEVL: Search Me!: Roddy MacLeod supplies guidance on the large
range of available EEVL search options.
Get Tooled-Up:
*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.
At the Event reports:
*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.
*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.
*Personalising 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.
Plus three book reviews:
* The Digital Factor in Information and Library Services:
International Yearbook of Library and Information Management
2002-2003 - [Ed. G E Gorman]: reviewed by Bruce Royan.
*e-learning and teaching in library and information services -
[Barbara Allan]: reviewed by John Paschoud.
*The Library and Information Professional's Guide to Plug-ins
and Other Web Browser Tools [Candice M. Benjes-Small and
Melissa L. Just]: reviewed by Ruth Martin.
and our regular Newsline column.
Ariadne numbers 35 and 36 are now in preparation. Books for
review should be sent to the Editor's address (below), and
article proposals should be sent to our regular contact point:
ariadne@ukoln.ac.uk
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UKOLN, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY
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