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Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 13:42:33 +0100
From: John Kirriemuir
Issue 10 of Ariadne is now available from:
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue10/
The Web version of this issue includes:- Clifford Lynch, the new Executive Director of CNI (Coalition for Networked Information), was recently interviewed by Ariadne. Clifford shares some views on mirroring, caching, metadata and Z39.50 and how he sees his role in CNI.- eLib: Changing the Lightbulb - er, the Culture: How many eLib projects does it take to change the higher education culture in the UK? Clare Davies, Alison Scammell and Matthew Hall discuss.- Electronic Journals - problem or panacea?: Judith Edwards outlines some of the problems faced by academia in the acquisition and provision of electronic journals.- Electronic Document Delivery - a trial in an academic library: In the first of a two-part article, Fiona Williams describes the trials of various electronic document delivery systems in University of Bath Library and Learning Centre over the last few years.- Dublin Core Management: Andy Powell presents three models for the way in which metadata can be managed across a Web-site and describes some of the tools that are beginning to be used at UKOLN to embed Dublin Core metadata into Web pages.- Setting priorities for Digital Library research: Graham Jefcoate outlines the rationale of the British Library Research and Innovation Centre's Digital Library Research Programme.- Copyright Management Technologies - the key to unlocking digital works?: Anne Ramsden brings us up to date with current developments in copyright management technology.- eLib project updates from ACORN, Education-line, ERCOMS and Netskills- A section where we invited the people behind several of the major Web-based resources for librarians (and, for that matter, academics, students and researchers), to tell us about what they have built and maintained, and how it is useful for people in the academic and research communities. Articles in here from BUBL, NISS, the Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE, Library Association, R*cade and TNAUK- The new SOSIG Interface: Tracey Hooper describes the new interface and features of SOSIG, the premier Web-based subject gateway for the Social Sciences.- The Librarian of Babel: The self-citation machine: The Librarian, talking to Mike Holderness, uncovers the true purpose of the World-Wide Web.- Search Engines Corner - Keyword Spamming: Cheat Your Way To The Top: Tracey Stanley shows how metadata can be abused to enhance the search engine ranking of Web pages.- Interviews with Chris Zielinski and Dennis Nicholson- Metadata: to be, or not to be (catalogued): Gordon Dunsire thinks that all is not rosy in the garden that is metadata, and wonders how it can assist cataloguing in a real-world sense.- Conference reports from the 2nd 2nd International Symposium on Networked Learner Support (NLS), the 1997 US Digital Libraries Initiative meeting and the Working Meeting on Electronic Records Research.- ...and several other articles, features and reports, including the return of the caption competition, guest starring Norman Wiseman, JISC head of programmes.
John Kirriemuir
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