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Re: Issue 38 (January 2004) of Ariadne is now available
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Waller)
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With apologies for cross-posting:
Issue 38 of Ariadne (30 January 2004) is now available at:
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue38/
Main Articles:
*The JISC 5/99 Programme: What's in a number?
- Rachel Bruce and Balviar Notay give an overview of the outputs and
influences of the JISC 5/99 Learning and Teaching and Infrastructure
Programme.
*Improving the Quality of Metadata in Eprint Archives
-Marieke Guy, Andy Powell and Michael Day address the argument that the
quality of service to end-users is markedly influenced by the quality of
metadata being produced and provide suggestions.
*Building OAI-PMH Harvesters with Net::OAI::Harvester
-Ed Summers describes Net::OAI::Harvester, the Perl package for easily
interacting with OAI-PMH repositories as a metadata harvester. Ed provides
examples of how to use Net::OAI::Harvester to write short programs which
execute each of the 6 OAI-PMH verbs.
*The Portole Project: Supporting e-learning
-Tracey Stanley, Mina Sotiriou and Matthew Dovey provide an overview of a
project to produce tools to discover information resources and deploy them
within a university VLE.
*The AHDS is Evolving: Changes at the Arts and Humanities Data Service
- Alastair Dunning describes the changes afoot at the AHDS and how it
intends to adapt to the changes in both technology and the needs of its
stakeholders.
*The European Library: Integrated Access to the National Libraries of Europe
-Britta Woldering describes the findings of the recently completed EU
Project The European Library, focusing on technical solutions and metadata
development.
*DSpace vs. ETD-db: Choosing software to manage electronic theses and
dissertations
-Richard Jones examines the similarities and differences between DSpace and
ETD-db to determine their applicability in a modern E-theses service.
*What the Resource Discovery Network is Doing for Further Education
-Mark Williams highlights some of the services that the RDN provides for
the benefit of FE users. Each RDN Hub has written about its plans in this
area
Additionally two detailed articles on Web accessibility issues appear in
this issue's
'Get Tooled Up' section:
*WebWatch: How Accessible Are Australian University Web Sites?
-Dey Alexander reports on a recent study of the accessibility of Australian
university Web sites.
*Developing and Publicising a Workable Accessibility Strategy
-Lawrie Phipps, Sue Harrison, David Sloan and Betty Willder of TechDis look
at the increasing need for developers of institutional and educational Web
sites to develop and follow a strategy for ensuring optimal accessibility of
online content.
At the Event reports:
*The OpenURL and OpenURL Framework: Demystifying Link Resolution
-Ann Apps reports on a conference about current and future uses of the
proposed OpenURL Framework Standard Z39.88-2004.
*Towards a User-Centred Approach to Digital Libraries
-Ken Eason reports on the five themes in the Digilib Conference, Espoo,
Finland.
*Herding Tigers, Part II
-Sophie Clarke describes an event designed to share ideas on accessibility,
evaluation and the use of learning technology standards.
*OSS inaugural conference: Open Source Deployment and Development
-Sebastian Rahtz and Randy Metcalfe give an overview of the first conference
of the Open Source Advisory Service.
*Reaching Out to Your Community: Policies and practice for public library
service
-Fiona Leslie gives an overview of this seminar which covered a variety of
topics of interest to public library professionals.
..Plus our regular columns, news and reviews.
Ariadne numbers 39 and 40 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
fax +44 (0) 1225 386838
email ariadne@ukoln.ac.uk
Web http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/
