Issue 9 of Ariadne is now up on the Web. Articles of relevance to people
on this list include:
* Metadata, PICS and Quality : Chris Armstrong looks at the possibility of
a PICS application acting as a quality filter.
* Extending metadata for digital preservation : Michael Day suggests how
the concept of metadata could be extended to provide information in the
specific field of digital preservation.
* Planet SOSIG: A New Internet Role for Europe's Librarians : In the first
of a regular column, Emma Worsfold describes the role and purpose of
SOSIG, and launches a scheme where European Librarians can participate in
adding relevant, quality content to this Social Science Gateway.
* Never mind the quality, check the badge-width! : Alison McNab, Betsy
Anagnostelis and Alison Cooke compare and contrast the methods used to
identify and indicate which Internet-based resources are of high
"quality".
...and other articles of a more tangential interest include:
* From Aberystwyth to ADAM: Using the skills acquired on a library school
course in the real world : Rebecca Bradshaw reflects on how the skills and
knowledge she acquired when a library school student are relevant (or not)
to her current role, developing a network-based subject gateway.
* The Librarian of Babel: The key to the stacks : The Librarian, ably
assisted by Mike Holderness, considers one of the obstacles to the
unhindered dissemination of human knowledge, and makes a modest proposal.
* MIDRIB: beyond clip art for medicine... : Betsy Anagnostelis and Sue
Welsh describe the recent launch of the MIDRIB (Medical Images Digitised
Reference Information Bank) project, and describe the medical image
resource the project will create.
* Wire: Interview via email - Jon Knight and Martin Hamilton, in session :
In this, the last Wire, we asked the same set of questions to Jon Knight
and Martin Hamilton; these are their replies.
* Search Engines Corner - Alta Vista LiveTopics : In the Search Engines
Corner for this issue, Tracey Stanley looks at Live Topics, a more
flexible and user-controlled way of searching the Alta Vista Web Page
index.
* EEVL : Linda Kerr introduces a project from the Access to Network
Resources section of the eLib programme which takes a holistic approach to
providing access to high quality on-line engineering resources.
* The Future of Digitising at the State Library of Victoria, Australia :
Catherine Herman and Indra Kurzeme discuss the multimedia source project,
set within the context of the pro-multimedia State of Victora, Australia.
...and, of course, the captions for the "Metadata Group Photo" caption
competition :-)
All of this and a lot more is in Issue 9 of Ariadne, the Web version,
from:
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/
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Tel: 01225 826354 (live) 01225 465064 (messages) Fax: 01225 826838
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