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Issue 37 (October 2003) of Ariadne is now available
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Waller)
Fri Oct 31 20:10:49 2003
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With apologies for cross-posting:
Issue 37 of Ariadne is now available at:
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue37/
Main Articles:
*Unicode and Historic Scripts
Deborah Anderson provides us with an overview of the progress made in
bringing historic scripts to the Unicode Standard and warns of the danger of
failing to pursue such work actively.
*Trends in Self-Posting of Research Material Online by Academic Staff
Theo Andrew sheds some light on current trends in posting research material
online
with a case study from The University of Edinburgh.
*Updated JISC Guides Are Now Available
Emma Beer describes the JISC Resource Guide initiative, highlighting
particularly the revamped format of the Guides, ready for the new academic
term.
*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.
*Ebooks in UK Libraries: Where are we now?
Penny Garrod returns to a topic that merits further review and brings us up
to date on developments in a technology that still appears to be waiting in
the wings.
*Experiences of Harvesting Web Resources in Engineering Using Automatic
Classification
Kjell Jansson,Jessica Lindholm and Tomas Schnthal describe the background
to and the work involved in setting up Engine-e, a Web index that uses
automatic classification as a means for the selection of resources in
Engineering. Considerations in offering a robot-generated Web index as a
successor to a manually indexed quality-controlled subject gateway are also
discussed.
*Towards a Typology for Portals
Paul Miller looks at some of the services we call portals, and argues for
better words to describe them.
*DAEDALUS: Initial experiences with EPrints and DSpace at the University of
Glasgow
William Nixon provides an overview of his project's initial experiences with
the GNU EPrints and DSpace software and the decision to use both pieces of
software.
At the Event reports:
ECDL-2003
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.
OAI: The Fourth Open Archives Forum Workshop
Manjula Patel provides us with an overview of the 4th Open Archives Forum
Workshop.
Metadata and Interoperability in a Complex World
Pete Johnston reflects on the 2003 Dublin Core conference, held in Seattle,
Washington.
OpenURL Meeting
Linda Humphreys Frances Boyle and Andy Powell give us a description of the
meeting held in London, September 2003.
Crime and Punishment
Andrew Charlesworth reports on a seminar seeking to protect ICT users and
their information against computer crime and abuse.
Plus our regular columns, news and reviews.
Ariadne numbers 38 and 39 are already 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
Best regards,
Richard Waller
Editor Ariadne
UKOLN
The Library
University of Bath
Bath BA2 7AY
UK
tel +44 (0) 1225 383570
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email ariadne@ukoln.ac.uk
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