Ariadne issue 30

[Philip Hunter]

*Apologies for cross-posting*

Ariadne 30 (December/January issue) is available at:

http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue30


The Main articles section includes:

*Reference books on the Web: Adam Hodgkin explores the range of electronic
reference tools.

*Digitization: do we have a strategy? David Pearson suggests that the
library sector should find a mechanism to put digitisation high on the
agenda.

*Open Archiving Opportunities for Developing Countries: towards equitable
distribution of global knowledge: Leslie Chan and Barbara Kirsop explore
some of the implications of using the OAI Protocol.

*Building ResourceFinder: Pete Cliff looks at how the RDN has utilised the
OAI Metadata Harvesting Protocol.

*The JISC User Behaviour Monitoring and Evaluation Framework: Jenny Rowley
introduces this JISC initiative.

*Access to Archives: Englands Contribution to the National Archive Network:
Caroline Thibeaud discusses the Archive 2 Archive project.

*Managed Learning? Nicole Harris on current developments towards Managed
Learning Environments in the ANGEL project.

*My Humbul - Humbul Gets Personal: Randy Metcalfe describes new
functionality available for users of the Humbul Humanities Hub.

*Content Management Systems: Who needs them?: Paul Browning and Mike Lowndes
explore the CMS concept and look at the available tools.

*The Concept of the Portal: Paul Miller gives his personal view of its
varieties, both in the wild and on the drawing board.

*Do they need to know?: Andrew Cox and James Currall on the issue of Web
security.


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Ariadne's Regular Columns section now includes a review of developments at
the RDN:

*News from the Resource Discovery Network: Simon Jennings and Philip Pothen.

and:

*Planet SOSIG: Phil Cross reports on a recent workshop for subject gateways
in Europe and Dave Boyd looks forward to developments within the Geography
section of SOSIG.

*EEVL: Roddy Macleod introduces a 'Brand New Service'.

*Search Engines: 'Goodbye Alta Vista, hallo AllTheWeb': Phil Bradley's
regular column.

*Public Libraries: Penny Garrod's first outing in Ariadne as Public
Libraries Focus.

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Brian Kelly contributes two items for our 'Get Tooled Up' section:

*Web Focus: Mobile E-Book Readers.

*Web Watch: An Update On Search Engines Used In UK Universities.

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Ariadne's 'At the Event' section  includes:

*The development of digital libraries for blind and visually impaired people
Jennie Craven reports on the IFLA/SLB conference in Washington in August
2001.

*Multimedia and Image Handling: Marieke Napier on a DTI multimedia day in
London in November 2001.

*Digital Curation: Neil Beagrie and Philip Pothen report on the Digital
Preservation day in October 2001, held in London.

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In addition there is (of course) the famous Caption Competition, and the
Campbell Cartoon. Plus Marieke Napier reviews  'The Invisible Web.'

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Ariadne issues number 31 and 32 are now in progress. Suggestions for
articles and features should be sent to the Editor at: ariadne at ukoln.ac.uk,
or to p.j.hunter at ukoln.ac.uk. Author guidelines are available at
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/about/


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