Ariadne 24 (June) now available

[Philip Hunter]

 Issue 24 of Ariadne magazine is now available at:
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue24/


Featured articles in this issue are:

     *Interoperability: Paul Miller explains what it is and why you should
want it.
     *Text Encoding for Interchange: a new Consortium: Lou Burnard on the
creation of the TEI Consortium, which has been created to take the TEI
Guidelines into the XML world.
     *In Vision: Ann Chapman on the Internet as a resource for visually
impaired people: a survey of accessible sites, resources, current research
and software.
     *Theory and Practice of the Virtual University: Neil Pollock and James
Cornford report on UK universities use of new technologies.
     *Adaptive developments for learning in the hybrid library: Wilma
Alexander on the SELLIC Project and its aim to support the use
     of electronic resources in teaching science and engineering.
     *How the Oxford English Dictionary went online: Laura Elliot explains
the use of SGML in the management of the OED text.
     *Agora - from information maze to market: Bridget Robinson, David
Palmer and Rosemary Russell outline the Agora
     cross-searching software project, and its technical background.
     *JSTOR usage: Alison Murphy reports on the JSTOR electronic journals
projects continuing success.

'Regular columns'  include:

     *Search Engines: Phil Bradley explores search engine ranking
techniques.
     *Planet SOSIG: Debra Hiom with news of the recently merged 'Social
Science Librarians Group'.
     *EEVL News Nuggets: and EMC Update: Roddy MacLeod and Linda Kerr with
news nuggets from EEVL.
     *BIOME: Paula Manning reports on recent developments within BIOME, the
health and life sciences hub of the Resource
     Discovery Network.
     *Metadata: 'I am a name _and_ a number.' Paul Miller on Digital Object
Identifiers.
     *Public Libraries: Linda Berube on the Longitude project - designed to
test a toolkit of qualitative survey methodologies to assess user needs in
the digital library.

Ariadne's 'Get Tooled Up' section features two articles by Brian Kelly:

     *Web Focus: A report on the WWW9 conference, held in Amsterdam, in May
2000.
     *Web Watch: How many web servers are there in the UK Higher Education
community?

This issue's 'At The Event' section features items of interest to readers
both in the US and the UK:

     *Bringing Coherence to Networked Information for the New Century:
Gillian Austen reports on the JISC-CNI conference at Stratford, UK,14 -16th
of June.
     *Library Resource Sharing and Discovery: Catalogues for the 21st
Century: Ariadne reports on the highlights of the recent Glasgow CLUMPS one
day conference
     *Martin Hamilton reports on the recent JASPER one day meeting on the
expansion of JISC services to cover the UK Further Education community.

 Bringing up the rear:

     *Ariadne Newsline: Updates on news you can use.
     *Cartoon: The regular cartoon
     *The Famous Ariadne Caption Competition
     *Checkout Review: Peter Cliff reviews: 'Building community information
networks: strategies and experiences,' ed. by Sheila Pantry.



Copy deadline for issue 25 is August 21st  for articles in Word format, and
Sept 1st for submissions in HTML (using our document templates). Publication
date for issue 25 is scheduled for Wednesday September 20.

Suggestions for articles for issues 25 to 27 are now being considered. Books
for review should be sent to:

     The Editor
     Ariadne
     UKOLN
     The Library,
     University of Bath
     Claverton Down
     Bath BA2 7AY
     United Kingdom

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

 ariadne at ukoln.ac.uk


Philip Hunter

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