Journal of Documentation: Volume 55 Issue 1

Availability of bibliographic records for the UK imprint

Ann Chapman

Various measures exist to determine the quality, however defined, of records in a database or catalogue but there has been less work in developing quality measures for catalogues…

National bibliographic records in the digital information environment: metadata, links and standards

Michael Day, Rachel Heery, Andy Powell

This paper reviews BIBLINK, an EC funded project that is attempting to create links between national bibliographic agencies and the publishers of electronic resources. The project…

A utopian place of criticism? brokering access to network information

Lorcan Dempsey, Rosemary Russell, Robin Murray

The management of autonomous, heterogeneous network resources and services provides new challenges which libraries are now addressing. This paper outlines an approach based on the…

The evolution of web protocols

Brian Kelly

This paper outlines the evolution of World Wide Web protocols. The paper reviews the original protocols developed for the web, in addressing, transport and data formats. A review…

How is my web community developing? Monitoring trends in web service provision

Brian Kelly, Ian Peacock

As the World Wide Web continues its tremendous rate of development, providers of services on the web have difficult decisions to make regarding the deployment of new technologies…