Library Hi Tech: Volume 19 Issue 3

A love affair with markup

Michael Seadle

It was not love at first sight when I met my first markup language sometime in the 1980s. But XML is different. It has a rich and flexible tag‐set that lets it function as a…

Using XML and XSLT to process and render online journals

Timothy W. Cole, William H. Mischo, Thomas G. Habing, Robert H. Ferrer

Describes an approach to the processing and presentation of online full‐text journals that utilizes several evolving information technologies, including extensible markup language…

The NISO circulation interchange protocol (NCIP) – an XML based standard

Mark Needleman, John Bodfish, Tony O’Brien, James E. Rush, Pat Stevens

Describes the NISO circulation interchange protocol (NCIP) and some of the design decisions that were made in developing it. When designing a protocol of the scale and scope of…

Information architecture planning with XML

John Robert Gardner

The explosion of standards building on the 1998 XML specification from the World Wide Web Consortium has been slow to reach academic and library information science applications…

From unstructured HTML to structured XML: how XML supports financial knowledge management on the Internet

Lok Tin Yuen, Yue Wefield Lee, Sau Mui Lau

Reports the benefits of using extensible markup language (XML) to support knowledge management of financial information. Current search engines cannot provide sufficient…

Moving to XML: Latin texts XML conversion project at the Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities

Brian Hancock, Michael J. Giarlo

The delivery of documents on the Web has moved beyond the restrictions of the traditional Web markup language, HTML. HTML’s static tags cannot deal with the variety of data…

Setting priorities for the library’s systems office

Scott P. Muir

While many libraries do some form of planning, few take the time to identify, review and establish priorities. The lack of a commitment to setting priorities leads libraries to…

PubSearch: a Web citation‐based retrieval system

Yulan He, Siu Cheung Hui

Many scientific publications are now available on the World Wide Web for researchers to share research findings. However, they tend to be poorly organised, making the search of…

Steering the cybrary into the twenty‐first century: who is the leader?

Morell D. Boone

One way to think of a cybrary is as a smart organizational structure in a smart building. What administrative implications does the creation of a cybrary have for its host…

Metadata harvesting

Rebecca A. Graham

For this fourth column in the IT I‐V (information technology interview) series participants actively engaged or interested in the metadata harvesting protocol of the open archives…

Categorical relationships: chi‐square

Joseph Janes

Continues a series on topics in research methodology, statistics and data analysis techniques for the library and information sciences. Discusses the chi‐square test for…

Copyright in the networked world: digital legal deposit

Michael Seadle

Legal deposit is the requirement that particular types of material be deposited with a national library or designated research libraries. US law does not at present include any…