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Subject: Re: Ariadne Issue 40 was published 30 July 2004
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 20:11:10 +0100
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  With apologies for any cross-posting:

Issue 40 of  Ariadne was published on 30 July 2004:
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue40/

Main Articles:

* Towards Library Groupware with Personalised Link Routing
- Daniel Chudnov, Jeremy Frumkin, Jennifer Weintraub, Matthew
Wilcox and Raymond Yee describe a potential groupware framework
for integrating access to diverse information resources and
distributed personal collection development.

* Rights Management and Digital Library Requirements
- Karen Coyle describes some aspects of rights expression
languages favoured by the commercial content industries and how
these may differ from the rights needs of digital libraries.

* An Introduction to the Search/Retrieve URL Service (SRU)
- Eric Lease Morgan describes sibling Web Service protocols designed
to define a standard form for Internet search queries as well as the
structure of the responses.

* Collection-level Description: Thinking globally before
acting locally
- Ann Chapman and Bridget Robinson write on the work of the
Collection Description Focus and the links between Tap into Bath,
Cornucopia and the Information Environment Service Registry.

* Tap Into Bath
- Alison Baud and Ann Chapman describe the development of a database
of archive, library and museum collections in Bath.

* Cornucopia
- Chris Turner describes the latest phase of Cornucopia development
and the opportunities this is opening up for the future.

* The Information Environment Service Registry:
Promoting the use of electronic resources
- Amanda Hill outlines progress on the Information Environment
Service Registry Project and explains what it will mean for
service providers and portal developers.

* Targeting Academic Research with Southampton's Institutional Repository
- Jessie Hey describes how user needs have influenced the
evolutionary development of 'e-Prints Soton' as the University
of Southampton Research Repository.


* WebWatch: Testing Web Page Design Concepts for Usability
- In Ariadne's Get Tooled Up section, Dey Alexander and Derek Brown
demonstrate how the layout of a Web page has a direct influence upon
users'capacity and willingness to engage with a Web site.
-supported by:

* Web Focus: The Web on your TV
- Brian Kelly takes a look at a digital TV box which provides Web
and email access in your living room.

Workshop and Conference Reports: At the Event:

* PALS Conference: Institutional repositories and
their impact on publishing
- Kurt Paulus describes for us the Publisher and Library/Learning
Solutions (PALS) Conference held in London this June.

* World Wide Web Conference 2004
- Dave Beckett reports on the international WWW2004 conference
held in New York, May 2004.

* Cataloguing and Indexing Group Conference
- Paola Stillone reports on a three-day annual conference of the CILIP
Cataloguing and Indexing Group (CIG),held at the University of Bath,
30 June - 2 July.

* Support Models for Open Source Deployment
- Sebastian Rahtz and Randy Metcalfe report on OSS Watch's one-day
conference on support models held in London in June 2004.

* Adding Value to the National Information Infrastructure:
The EDINA Exchange Day, Edinburgh
- John MacColl provides us with a report of EDINA's first general
information event for the HE and FE communities held at the National
E-Science Centre.

* Erpanet Persistent Identifiers Seminar
- Monica Duke reports on a two-day training seminar on persistent
identifiers held by ERPANET in Cork, Ireland over 17-18 June 2004.

Ariadne Reviews:

* Information Architecture: Designing information environments for purpose
- John Paschoud looks at this collection of articles and finds some good
parts in a generally ineffective whole.

* Managing your Internet & Intranet Services :
the information professional's guide to strategy
- David Hook sees this edition as a useful overview but finds unfortunate
omissions as well as beneficial inclusions.

* Staying Legal
- Stuart Hannabuss examines an interesting collection of essays and,
with reservations, likes the second edition a lot more.

* Developing Web-based Instruction
- Lyn Parker finds this compilation a useful overview of the issues
involved in developing e-learning and a valuable addition to the literature.

* Net Effects:
How Librarians Can Manage the Unintended Consequences of the Internet
- Grant Young reviews a compilation of articles showcasing librarians'
efforts to wrest control of new technologies and reassert some
traditional values.

..Plus our regular columns and expanded newsline.

Contributions to Ariadne issues 41 and 42 are being arranged and prepared;
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   Richard Waller
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