This page provides access to the articles and columns published in all issues of Exploit Interactive.

Issue 7:

• Editorial

Features

From the Telematics for Libraries Community:

• ELVIL 2000: Ingrid Cartwell and Magnus Enzell introduce the prototype for the ELVIL 2000 Project, an Academic Portal for European Law and Politics.
• EQUINOX: Following on from an earlier article in Exploit Interactive, Monica Brinkley provides an update on the EQUINOX project, a Library Performance Measurement and Quality Management System.
• ILSES: Meinhard Moschner and Repke de Vries describe the development of a specialised networked digital library which integrates publication retrieval and survey data extraction.
• LIBECON 2000: David Fuegi, John Sumsion and Phillip Ramsdale discuss the LIBECON2000 Project and its Millennium Report.
• TECUP: Paul Greenwood and Martina Lange-Rein on TECUP, a meta project which analyses practical mechanisms for rights acquisition for the distribution, archiving and use of electronic products.
• VERITY: Alexandra Papazoglou gives a final report on Project Verity: Virtual and Electronic Resources for Information skills Training for Young people.

From the Broader Community:

• FASTER: Simon Musgrave gives an overview of the FASTER project (and preceding NESSTAR project) that provides flexible access to statistics, tables and electronic resources held at social science data archives and other data publishers.
• News Services for the Library Community: Karen Neal looks at ways in which the European Library community can provide their own news services to their community using the NewsAgent project.
• An Emerging System for Scholarly E-Publishing : Plamen Gradinarov provides a running commentary on the nine principles expounded in the Tempe Meet document on scholarly publishing.
• Towards The End Of 'Do-It-Yourself' Gateways?: Jean-François Vincent offers a possible solution for what to do with all those lists of links we librarians so happily create using the DESIRE Information Gateways Handbook and a little bit of co-operation.

Regular Columns

WebWatch:

• WebWatch: As the EU's Telematics For Libraries programme comes to an end, Brian Kelly reviews the Web sites provided by funded projects.

At the Event:

• ESSIR'2000: Fabio Crestani gives a personal report on the Third European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR'2000) held in Varenna, Italy, by Lake Como, on 11-15 September 2000.
• The Virtual Worlds 2000 Conference : The Virtual Worlds 2000 conference was hosted by the International Institute of Multimedia (Pôle Universitaire Léonard de Vinci) in Paris, France between 5 - 7 July. Its focus was virtual worlds with a component of Artificial Life. Joseph Nechvatal reports.

The Citizen's Gateways:

• PULMAN: Rob Davies announces the likely funding of PULMAN, a successor support measure to PubliCA, the Concerted Action for Public Libraries which ended last year.

News Items:

• News Items

Et cetera

• Software in Use: Comparing Externally-Hosted Web Statistics and Purchased Statistics Services: In a review of software used by Exploit Interactive we compare two types of Statistics software.
• Java Crossword Puzzle
• Job Postings from around Europe: Projects, Networking, Libraries.
• Cultivate Interactive: The Cultivate Interactive Web magazine follows on where Exploit Interactive leaves off. Cultivate Interactive is aimed at the European cultural heritage community including IT staff, information professionals, researchers, managers, policy makers, libraries, museums, archives, galleries, non-profit making organisations....take a look!

Issue 6:

• Editorial

Features

From the Telematics for Libraries Community:

• The EXPLOIT Portal: Christiane Dorff reports on one of the deliverables of EXPLOIT which is to supplement the work of the National Focal Points in EU member states by providing readily available access to information on Telematics for Libraries and national LIS research results.
• DECOMATE II: Nuria Gallart presents the achievements of four academic libraries in the implementation of a distributed digital library working for the service of their users.
• EBLIDA: The annual EBLIDA Council meeting took place recently in Madrid. Teresa Hackett reports.

From the Broader Community:

• Personalized Libraries: Eric Lease Morgan discusses the creation and maintenance of personalized, customizable interfaces to sets of library information resources by outlining the goals of such systems, suggesting a number of technical infrastructures for support, and describing some of the more important content and staffing issues. Introduction
• The Moscow Manifesto: David Fuegi and Monika Segbert reflect on the "Managing the Digital Future of Libraries" conference which was jointly organised by the Russian State Library and the TACIS Project. Results from the TACIS/RSL project were presented at the conference.
• Enhanced edition of the Directory of Online European Information 2000: Mafalda dos Santos gives us a short introduction to the third edition of The Directory of Online European Information.

Regular Columns

Web Technologies:

• XHTML: Brian Kelly educates us on XHTML, eXtensible HyperText Markup Language, the web language celebrated at the recent WWW9 Conference.

At the Event:

• Professional Web Management: Marieke Napier explores the Zen of Professional Web Management after visiting the PWM conference held at Kings College, London

News Items:

• News Items

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• Software in Use: Submitting to Search Engines Using "Scrub The Web": In a review of software used by Exploit Interactive we review an "Easy Submit!" service used to submit new issues of Exploit Interactive to popular search engines.
• Search Facilities Used By Telematics For Library Projects: Brian Kelly reports on the search facilities provided by the Telematics For Library Project Web sites.
• Java Crossword Puzzle
• Job Postings from around Europe: Projects, Networking, Libraries.

Issue 5:

• Editorial

Features

From the Telematics for Libraries Community:

• MALVINE: Hans-Jörg Lieder gives an interim report on the MALVINE project.
• HERCULE: John Shercliff introduces the HERCULE project.
• EXPLOIT: Klaus Reinhardt and Christiane Dorff on the developments to the EXPLOIT project.
• One Password For Everything: Andrew Cox describes how the CANDLE project aims to provide "one password for everything".
• Inside The Digital Library: Neil Smith reports on how two Research & Technology Development projects in the Digital Library arena have been driving the development of marketplace products in the areas of ILL/document delivery and authentication and security.

• Study on the Impact of the Telematics For Libraries FP4 Programme: Details of a survey carried out by PricewaterhouseCoopers.

From the Broader Community:

• Eurotext: Liz Pearce and Freda Carroll describe Eurotext's transition from project to service.
• Performance Indicators For Web Sites: Brian Kelly discusses performance indicators for web sites.
• The Invisible Hand of Peer Review: Stevan Harnad with a controversial proposal.
• NORDGUIDE: Sigrid Tollefsen takes a look at NORDGUIDE.
• DESIRE: Tracey Hooper and her colleagues at ILRT on how the DESIRE project is providing better tools for supporting the work of the research community in Europe.

Regular Columns

Behind the Web Site:

• New Address for the Digicult and the Telematics for Libraries Web Sites: Concha Fernandez de la Puente on the migration of the Libraries and Digicult web sites to CORDIS

Web Technologies:

• Using Metadata To Improve Local Searching: Brian Kelly describes how metadata is used on the Exploit Interactive web magazine to provide advanced searching capabilities.

News Items:

• News Items

Et cetera

• Software in Use: Externally-Hosted Web Statistics Services: In a review of software used by Exploit Interactive we review two web statistics services.

• Exploit Interactive Link Audit: An update on the audit of links on the Exploit Interactive web site

• Links To Telematics For Libraries Web Sites: An audit of the number of links to Telematics For Libraries web sites

Issue 4:

• Editorial

Features

From the Telematics for Libraries Community:

• BIBLINK: Trudi Noordermeer introduces BIBLINK.
• DIEPER: Thanos Massias introduces the DIEPER project.
• NEDLIB: Titia van der Werf introduces the NEDLIB project.

• Towards The Information Society In Europe - The European Union's Contribution: Bernard Smith, head of the Cultural Heritage Applications Unit in the European Commission provides the main feature article on the European Union's Contribution to development of the Information Society.

From the Broader Community:

• Building Europe's Largest Library: Steve Coffman provides the main feature article.

• CULTIVATE: Klaus Reinhardt introduces a project from the Fifth Framework Programme which is due to be launched shortly.
• SEAMLESS: Mary Rowlatt on the SEAMLESS project.
• Danish Electronic Research Library: Hanne Marie Kvaerndrup describes the Danish Electronic Research Library.
• Swisscast: Lorenzo Cantoni looks at "push" services and asks the question "Shall technology lead communication or vice versa?".

Regular Columns

At the Event:

• Consolidating the European Library Space: Teresa Hackett reports on the final concertation meeting of the European Commission Telematics for Libraries Programme
• European Information Days: Florence Poncé reviews the European Information Days held in Paris recently
• Knowledge: Creation, Organization and Use: Christine Dugdale Christine Dugdale reports on the "Knowledge: Creation, Organization and Use" conference held in Washington recently

Behind the Web Site:

• Exploit Interactive: Brian Kelly reports on developments to the Exploit Interactive web magazine

The Citizen's Gateways:

• PubliCA: Rob Davies reports on PubliCA's "Something for Everyone" conference and on the successful completion of the project

Web Technologies:

• Promoting Your Web Site: Brian Kelly describes approaches to use of the web to promote your project web site

News Items:

• News Items

Issue 3:

• Editorial

Features

From the Telematics for Libraries Community:

• DEBORA: Duncan Pemberton and Dave Nichols discuss the DEBORA Project and access to images derived from Renaissance texts.
• EQUINOX: Monica Brinkley introduces the EQUINOX Library Performance Measurement and Quality Management System.
• MIRACLE: Dick Tucker introduces the Music and Information Resources Assisted Computer Library Exchange.
• TACIS: Monika Segbert on creating an information system for the Russian State Library.

From the Broader Community:

• W3C's WAI: Daniel Dardailler on the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative.
• Bobby: Members of CAST describe the Bobby accessibility tool.
• The eLib Programme: Elizabeth Graham discusses the United Kingdom's Electronic Libraries Programme, eLib.
• The Hybrid Library Projects Search Engine: Ian Upton of the BUILDER Project (UK eLib Programme) offers a glimpse behind the scenes.
• Multilingual Provision by Information Gateways: Marianne Peereboom describes the approaches taken by subject gateways to provide multilingual access.
• A Look at the European Libraries Programme: Christine Dugdale takes a look at the statistics for the European Libraries programme since 1990.
• E-Commerce in Europe: Ian Peacock takes a look at the growth of e-commerce in the European Union.

Regular Columns

At the Event:

• Forum99: Roger Torrenti gives a preview of the Forum 99 to be held in Paris on 25-26^th November 1999.
• Customer satisfaction: a focus for research and practice in construction: Christine Dugdale reports from the CIB Joint Triennial Symposium.
• ZIG: Paul Miller reports on the Z39.50 Implementor's Group (ZIG) held in Stockholm during the summer.

Behind the Web Site:

• Analysis of NFP Web Sites: Brian Kelly uses a variety of tools to analyse NFP web sites.
• CORDIS: Thibault Heuzé reports on CORDIS, the official EU research information service.

The Citizen's Gateways:

• PubliCA: Rolf Hapel gives a closer look at the Aarhus Municipal Libraries and the Information Society.

Web Technologies:

• Extending Your Browser With An Automated Page Translation Feature: Brian Kelly describes how web browsers can be extended to include automatic translation of web pages, and speculates on its potential for use with Exploit Interactive

News Items:

• News Items

Et cetera

• Java Crossword Puzzle

• Job Postings: Projects, Networking, Libraries

Issue 2:

• Editorial

Features

From the Telematics for Libraries Community:

• Getting a Result with ADVISER: Bill Whyte discusses ADVISER's online knowledge of who is doing what in European research technology development (RTD).
• CASA: Alessandro Bollini, Jacopo Di Cocco and Peter Burnhill: discuss the project (Co-operative Archive of Serials and Articles), the consortium's expectations, exploitation and cost coverage strategies.
• Central and Eastern European Copyright User Platform: Tuula Haavisto introduces the CECUP project.
• ELISE II: Colleen O'Reilly discusses the second phase of the successful Electronic Library Image Service for Europe.
• LAURIN: Guenter Muehlberger shows us a behind the scenes look at the LAURIN project (Libraries and Archives Collecting Newspaper Clippings Unified for Their Integration in Networks).
• MURIEL: Jens Koblin discusses the MURIEL system architecture and courseware of the now completed project (Multimedia Education System for Librarians Introducing Remote Interactive Processing of Electronic Documents).
• VERITY: Alexandra Papazoglou discusses the VERITY project (Virtual and Electronic Resources for Information Skills Training for Young people).

From the Broader Community:

• Blue Angel Introduces Metastar: Margaret St. Pierre, founder and Chief Technical Officer of Blue Angel Technologies, looks at the integrated knowledge management tool suite.
• Digital Heritage and Cultural Content Web Site: the Web Development Team in Luxembourg walk you through the site and describe some of its features.
• Improving Business Search on Internet (IBSI): Angelo Strano discusses IBSI, defining an innovative XML based Internet search engine to improve e-commerce and business directories, part of the EC funded Knowledge and Information Transfer on Electronic Commerce (KITE) project.
• Solution to SMEs Under IST Programme: Alfredo Ceccarelli discusses the IDEAL-IST partner search solution for 5th Framework.

Regular Columns

At the Event:

• Beyond the Old Limits - New Roads Ahead for Europe's Libraries: Katarina Steinwachs gives an overview of the European Library conference in Leipzig last March, with a brief look at the keynote addresses and presentations by Michael Naumann, Bob Fryer, Frans de Bruie, Lorcan Dempsey and Barbara Lison.
• Conceptions of Library and Information Science (CoLIS3): Christine Dugdale reports from Dubrovnik, Croatia.
• Digital Cultural Heritage Workshop, Maastricht: Paul Miller reports on a recent workshop in the programme of the Amsterdam Maastricht Summer University.
• ELAG '99: European Library Automation Group: Rosemary Russell reports from Bled, Slovenia.
• EUNIS '99: 5th European University Information Systems Organization: Christine Dugdale reports from Espoo, Finland.

The Citizen's Gateways:

• PubliCA Training Placements: Sue Welsh's regular column takes a closer look at the Training Centres Initiative.

Web Technologies:

• Report on the W3C Track at WWW8: Brian Kelly reports on the 8th International World Wide Web Conference held in Toronto, Canada.

News Items:

• News Items

Et cetera

• Java Crossword Puzzle
• Job Postings: Projects, Networking, Libraries
• Books on View

Issue 1:

• Editorial

Features

From the Telematics for Libraries Projects:

• CHILIAS: The European Virtual Children's Library on the Internet - a New Service to foster Children's Computer Literacy: Ingrid Bussmann reflects on the completed project and discusses its resulting ongoing service, Infoplanet.
• Information Engineering and the IESERV Project: Geoff Stephenson summarises the focus of IE and the current activities of IESERV (planned workshops and the web site, El.pub)
• LISTED: Library Integrated System for Telematics-based Education: David Hough introduces LISTED.
• Distance Education in Rural Areas via Libraries: Brigitte Kühne discusses the DERAL Project.
• The LIBERATOR Project: Overview and Key Areas/Challenges: Pedro Isaias introduces LIBERATOR and discusses some of the key challenges to date.
• Projecto LIBERATOR: Visão geral e áreas/desafios chave: Pedro Isaias descreve o projecto LIBERATOR realçando as suas áreas e desafios chave mais relevantes. (Portuguese version)
• Oiling the Works: the PRIDE Project Develops an Information Brokerage Service: by the PRIDE Project Team.
• International Cooperation - Real Opportunities? Traugott Koch, of NetLab/EULER, discusses the benefits of conferences with an interdisciplinary approach, and the opportunities to discuss and approach the problems concerning the big cooperative efforts.

From the Broader Community:

• Extranet-based Document Delivery System: Marc de Wilde of Seasoft describes the extranet-based system used by the EU Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in Belgium.
• Funds for cultural heritage: an introduction: Wendy Sudbury, of The Cambridge Management Group, discusses EC funding and options for libraries in the Fifth Framework Programme.
• A Closer Look at the Telematics for Libraries Web Site: by theTelematics for Libraries Web Development Team.
• Look in the Mirror for Bandwidth Savings: Sally Hadland of the Higher Education National Software Archives (HENSA) in the UK suggests solutions for bandwidth savings.
• Books for Everyone... Cash for You: Elly Russell of Amazon.co.uk introduces Amazon's Associates Programme. Bernadette Daly provides the introduction with a brief outline of the recently announced Amazon partnerships within the library community, including the sponsorship of the British Library's OPAC97.
• An Interview with Thorsten Engler and Martin Wright: Some practical advice from an Associates Programme Member and webmaster of the Amaxon Bookstore Design Centre. Also, take the opportunity to search the various Amazon sites: US, UK and Germany.

Regular Columns

• At the Event: 7th International BOBCATSSS Symposium Christine Dugdale reports on the 7th International BOBCATSSS Symposium on Library and Information Science in Bratislava, Slovakia.
• Behind the Web Site: The Development of Euroguide Marc Garner of Sixtyeight Creative Solutions takes you behind the scenes at euroguide.
• The Citizen's Gateways: Public Libraries in Europe: Meet PubliCA Sue Welsh's regular column will focus on European public libraries and PubliCA activities.
• Web Technologies: The Development of Web Protocols and Formats Brian Kelly explains web protocols and formats.
• Web Technologies: URLs for Telematics for Libraries Web Pages Brian Kelly and Ian Peacock analyse the Web pages of Telematics for Libraries projects using the Webwatcher robot

News Items:

• News Items

Et cetera

1. Java Crossword Puzzle
2. Job Postings: Projects, Networking, Libraries

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