Ariadne 25 now available

[Philip Hunter]

Issue 25 of Ariadne magazine is now available at:
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue25/


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Featured articles in this issue are:

*A policy context - eLib and the emergence of the subject gateways: Derek
Law and Lorcan Dempsey outline some of the features of the policy
environment which led to the setting up of the influential 'subject
gateways' as part of the UK Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib).

*Knowledge Management in the Perseus Digital Library: Jeffrey Rydberg-Cox on
the Perseus Project's new knowledge management and digital delivery tools.

*Electronic Homer: Martin Mueller Reading Homer electronically with the TLG,
Perseus, and the Chicago Homer.

 *The Klearinghouse: an inventory of knowledge technologies: George Brett on
an Internet2 related proposal, 'The Klearinghouse'. Internet2 is a
consortium being led by over 170 universities working in partnership with US
industry and government to develop and deploy advanced network
     applications and technologies.

*Virtual Universities: Jonathan Foster on the institutional implications of
networked approaches to learning for information professionals.

*Application Profiles: mixing and matching metadata schemas: Rachel Heery
and Manjula Patel introduce a means of establishing a common approach to
sharing information between implementations and standards makers.

*Technostress: Stephen Harper with detail on a familiar disease.

 *ZOPE - Swiss Army Knife for the Web?: Paul Browning on this multiple
authoring environment.


Regular columns:

     *Search Engines: Finding Images on the Internet: Phil Bradley with his
latest look at the search engine marketplace.

*Planet SOSIG: Internet Training for the Social Sciences: Debra Hiom and
Emma Place announce the RDN virtual training suite.

*EEVL: EEVL backs a winner: Roddy Macleod and the team celebrate their 5th
birthday with a day at the races, and supply some EEVL News Nuggets.

*BIOME News: Paula Manning announces that the BIOME Site is now live, and
reports on the new Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professions Gateway.

*Metadata: Towards the intelligent museum: Paul Miller and Alice Grant
explore CIMI: the collections standards organization which JISC has just
joined.

*Public Libraries: I Just got back from the Windy City... Sarah Ormes
reports on the recent American Association of Librarians conference held in
Chicago.

The Get Tooled Up section:

*Web Focus: Brian Kelly reports on the "Institutional Web Management: The
Joined-Up Web" Workshop, held in Bath.

*Web Watch: Brian Kelly A Survey Of Web Server Software Used In UK
University Web Sites.

The At the Event section:

*XML 2000: New Tools, New Vendors!: Dianne Kennedy reports on the latest XML
conference in Paris.

*DECOMATE II: Leona Carpenter gives a personal view of the 'Logged into
Economics' conference in Barcelona in June.

Plus, bringing up the rear:

*Cartoon Page: *two* cartoons in this issue!

*The Famous Caption Competition, with a brace of winners.

And finally,

*Maurice Line reviews Elaine Svenonius' 'The Intellectual Foundation of
Information Organization', published by MIT Press.


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Copy deadline for issue 26 is November 21 for articles in Word format, and
December 1 for submissions in HTML (using our document templates).
Publication date for issue 26 is scheduled for  December 20. Suggestions for
articles for issues 26 to 28 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/
Ariadne: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/