Ariadne issue 22 available

[Philip Hunter]

Issue 22 of Ariadne is available at: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue22/


   Featuring a number of  main articles on key developments and issues  in
UK digital library networking, plus two articles from the US:

      *Scientific, Industrial, and Cultural Heritage: A Shared Approach:
Lorcan Dempsey (Director of UKOLN) presents a research framework for
libraries, archives and museums, in a document originally prepared for the
European Commission.

     *Alistair Dunning reviews the launch of the 'Resource Discovery
Network' in November 1999 in London.

Two articles on CLUMPS issues:

     *Clumps as Catalogues: Peter Stubley asks: 'virtual success or
failure?'; and:
     *Clumping towards a UK National Catalogue?: Dennis Nicholson argues in
favour of the distributed approach to cataloguing.

*Digitization issues are considered in: 'Digitizing Intellectual Property:
the Oxford Scoping Study',  by  Dr. Stuart Lee.

    * A US perspective on 'Public Libraries and Community Networks' is
offered by Malabika Das.

     *A report on a conference held recently in Chicago:  'Electronic
Publication of Ancient Near Eastern Texts' by Charles E. Jones and David
Schloen ( XML tagging for Ancient Near Eastern Texts on the Web).




In addition:
     *Tiny TV: streaming video on the web: Philip Hunter uses  RealPlayer
and MediaPlayer  to map live and on-demand video streams currently
available.
     *The ResIDe Electronic Library: an evolving library service: Christine
Dugdale looks at the progress of this project to a functional service.
     *Aerade: John Harrington, Karyn Meaden and Emma Turner introduce this
EEVL-related service (Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library).
     *A free ISP from the British Library: Brian Kefford outlines the
services available.


Two articles look at Ariadne  itself in this issue:
     *'Delivering the Electronic Library' -  John MacColl on the new ARIADNE
reader: a paper publication distributed to Libraries in UK Higher Education,
which collects together some of the best and most interesting articles from
the first three years of Ariadne's existence.
     *Philip Hunter surveys Ariadne's web accesses for the past year in the
editorial for this issue, (and also previews the 'Distributed National
Electronic Resource.)'


Regular columns include:
     *The DISinHE Centre: E. A. Draffon looks at the National Internet
Accessibility Database (NIAD)
    *Search Engines: Phil Bradley on the Altavista relaunch, and
Personalised Search Engines.
     *Planet SOSIG: Adam Guy writes about the Question Bank service.
     *EEVL: Roddy MacLeod: Round the World: Southern African engineering
resources .
     *BIOME: Lisa Gray reports on recent developments with the BIOME hub.
     *Metadata: Michael Day on 'Metadata for Digital Preservation'.



     *Web Cache: George Neisser on the plans of the National Caching
Service.
     *Web Focus: Brian Kelly on how to promote your web site
     *Web Mirrors: Building the UK Mirror Service: by Mark Russell.
     *Web Watch: Brian Kelly surveys institutional web gateways



Two 'At the Event' reports are featured:
     *MODELS 9 & 10: Tracy Gardner reports on the latest MODELS workshops.
     *Running a Public Libraries Web Site: Sally Criddle and Sarah Ormes
review the workshop held at the University of Bath in November.


Plus! The regular cartoon, AND the return of the Caption Competition!


Article proposals and submissions, and general enquiries about the magazine
should be sent to:

Ariadne at ukoln.ac.uk






Philip Hunter
Information Officer and Co-Editor of Ariadne and Exploit Interactive
Tel: +44 (0) 1225 826354           Fax: +44 (0) 1225 826838
Email: p.j.hunter at ukoln.ac.uk       URL: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/
Ariadne: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/