VINE: Volume 31 Issue 3
Table of contents
Web site design and content management
Andrew CoxThis issue of Vine tackles some of the big issues in web site management: design for accessibility and usability, content management and usage analysis, all discussed in…
Design shirk: disparities between the wealth of our material and the poverty of its use
Leo Robert KleinLibraries and other institutions of higher learning have a number of advantages when it comes to developing web‐based media. First they are repositories of large amounts of…
Approaches to web accessibility
Nick PooleThe purpose of this article is to examine the existing tools and guidance available to museums, archives and libraries, and then to consider new technologies such as accessible…
Intranet usability ‐ tackling the management issues around implementing usable design on an Intranet
Sarah AgarwalThe article discusses the practical management issues raised by making an Intranet useable. Starting with a definition of usability in relation to Intranets, the author moves on…
Building an Intranet content management strategy
Luke TredinnickA step‐by‐step guide to the principals of creating content management processes and resources for Intranets, this article covers the creation of aims and objectives for Intranets…
Forget ‘static’ ‐ get ‘dynamic’! Using Active Server Pages to manage electronic resources
Philip James Brabban, Paul KobasaAs academic libraries subscribe to a growing number of electronic resources, traditional static HTML pages are becomingincreasingly unmanageable. This article describes Durham…
Managing the Intranet: trying a new tool
Anne Ramsden, David Turpie, Jonathan ReaA case study is described of how the Open University Library is developing a pilot departmental Intranet with the open source package, Zope and the Content Management Framework…
Content management systems for Intranets
Martin WhiteThis article looks at the issues that need to be considered in specifying and purchasing content management software for an Intranet. The differences between the content…
The future of traffic analysis on the Web
Philip HunterWeb statistics have been a bone of contention for some considerable time. Part of the reason for this is that the analysis of the statistics now serves a quite different range of…
Web site statistics
Jane YeadonThere are three levels of Web site statistics: page counters, third party services and log analysis packages. Log analysis can tell the Web master about changes in site usage over…
Rationalism vs. Incrementalism: two opposing or complementary strategies for effecting change in HEI web development
Mike McConnell, Iain A. MiddletonThe paper examines rationalist and incrementalist approaches for effecting change in website management. Planning is atraditionally rationalist activity that requires specific…
Developed nationally, delivered locally: taking forward the Resource Discovery Network
Simon Jennings, Tessa GriffithsFollowing an introduction describing the history of Resource Discovery Network “RDN”, the authors look to the future, particularly the RDN’s relationship to subject librarians’…
Cataloguing the World Wide Web: CORC at Edinburgh University
Zena Mulligan, John MacCollThis article examines Edinburgh University Library’s experience of using OCLC’s Co‐operative Online Resource Catalogue (CORC). It discusses the project phase of CORC, its…
Accessing electronic journals
Martin RadfordMany electronic journals are licensed on the basis that allowing connections from a specified IP address range is “good enough” as a mechanism for identifying authorised users…
EASY ‐ Electronic Article Supply
Ian Stuart, Sam PhillipsThe Electronic Article Supply “EASY” is a document delivery project, setting out to test a system to satisfy inter‐library loans from publisher’s digital versions of articles. A…
How it all began: a brief history of the Internet
Alice Keefer, Tomas BaigetWhen an article on the history of the Internet was first suggested, our reaction was, “But doesn’t everyone already know how it started?” Having lived the experience “or, perhaps…