 Section 2 : Information Issues
2.1. Quality selection: ensuring the quality of your collection
DutchESS, http://www.konbib.nl/dutchess/
EELS, http://www.ub.lu.se/eel/
European Link Treasury, http://www.en.eun.org/news/european-link-treasury.html
Information Quality WWW Virtual Library, http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVL-InfoQuality.html
Internet Detective, http://www.sosig.ac.uk/desire/internet-detective.html
Länkskafferiet (Link Larder), http://lankskafferiet.skolverket.se/information/kvalitetskriterier.html
PICS Home Page, http://www.w3.org/PICS/
RDF Home Page, http://www.w3.org/RDF/
Scout Report, http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/index.html
SOSIG, http://www.sosig.ac.uk/
J. Alexander & M. A. Tate, Evaluating Web Resources,
http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/webeval.htm
C. Armstrong, 'Metadata, PICS and Quality', Ariadne Issue 9. 1997
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue9/pics/
N. Auer, Bibliography on Evaluating Internet Resources
http://www.lib.vt.edu/research/libinst/evalbiblio.html
D. Brickley, T. Gardner, R. Heery & D. Hiom, Recommendations on Implementation of Quality Ratings in an RDF Environment.
http://www.desire.org/html/research/deliverables/D3.2/
A. Cooke, Finding Quality on the Internet: a guide for librarians and information professionals,
(London: Library Association Publishing, 1999. ISBN: 1-85604-267-7).
2.2 Resource discovery
College and University Home Pages (world-wide), http://www.rirr.cnuce.cnr.it/universities/univ.html
Dejanews, http://www.dejanews.com/
The Directory of Scholarly and Professional E-Conferences, http://www.n2h2.com/KOVACS/
DutchESS, http://www.konbib.nl/dutchess/
EEVL, http://www.eevl.ac.uk/
EUNI - List of European Universities, http://www.ensmp.fr/~scherer/euni/euni_list.html
The Informant, http://informant.dartmouth.edu/
Library and Related Sources, http://www.exeter.ac.uk/~ijtilsed/lib/wwwlibs.html
Liszt, http://www.liszt.com/
Mailbase, http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/
Mind-it, http://mindit.netmind.com/
NewJour: Recent Issues, http://gort.ucsd.edu/newjour/nj2/
Search Engine Corner, http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue19/search-engines/
Search Engine Watch, http://searchenginewatch.com/
Manchester Metropolitan University's Department of Information and Communications Search Tools, http://www.mmu.ac.uk/h-ss/dic/main/search.htm
The Social Science Research Grapevine, http://www.grapevine.bris.ac.uk/
SOSIG, http://www.sosig.ac.uk
What's New in WWW Social Sciences Online Newsletter, http://www.mmu.ac.uk/h-ss/dic/main/search.htm
'What's New' on the Web server of the European Union, http://europa.eu.int/geninfo/whatsnew.htm
A. S. McNab & I. R. Winship, How to find out about new resources on the Internet, The New Review of Information Networking (1995), 147-53.
Association of Public Data Users and International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology (IASSIST), Strategies for Searching for Information on the Internet.
http://dpls.dacc.wisc.edu/www_searchers.html
TERENA & M. Isaacs, Internet Users' Guide to Network Resource Tools, Addison Wesley Longman: 1998
E. Worsfold, Finding Internet resources for SOSIG - strategies and sources, 1997
http://sosig.ac.uk/desire/esig.html
2.3 Metadata formats
BIBLINK, http://hosted.ukoln.ac.uk/biblink/
d2m, http://www.bibsys.no/meta/d2m/
DC-dot, http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/cgi-bin/dcdot.pl
Dublin Core, http://purl.oclc.org/dc
EdNA, http://www.edna.edu.au/EdNA/
InterCat, http://purl.org/net/intercat
ROADS, http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/roads/
P. L. Caplan & R. S. Guenther, 'Metadata for Internet resources: the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set and its mapping to USMARC', Cataloging and Classification Quarterly 22 (3/4) (1996), 43-58.
M. Day, Interoperability between metadata formats (Bath: UKOLN, 1996).
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/interoperability/
M. Day, Mapping BIBKLINK Core (BC) to UNIMARC. BIBLINK project document (Bath: UKOLN, 10 September 1998).
http://hosted.ukoln.ac.uk/biblink/wp10/bc-unimarc.html
M. Day, R. Heery & A. Powell, 'National bibliographic records in the digital information environment: metadata, links and standards', Journal of Documentation 55 (1) (1999), 16-32.
L. Demspey & R. Heery, 'Metadata: a current view of practice and issues', Journal of Documentation 54 (2) (1998), 145-172.
L. Demspey, R. Heery, M. Hamilton, D. Hiom, J. Knight, T. Koch, M. Peereboom & A. Powell, A review of metadata: a survey of current resource description formats (DESIRE deliverable D3.2 (1), March 1997).
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/desire/overview/
P. Deutsch, A. Emtage, M. Koster & M. Stumpf, Publishing information on the Internet with Anonymous FTP (Internet-Draft, September 1994).
http://info.webcrawler.com/mak/projects/iafa/iafa.txt
J. Hakala, P. Hansen, O. Husby, T. Koch & S. Thorborg, The Nordic Metadata Project: final report (Helsinki: Helsinki University Library, July 1998).
http://linnea.helsinki.fi/meta/nmfinal.htm
R. Heery, 'Review of metadata formats', Program 30 (4) (1996), 345-373.
R. Iannella & D. Campbell, The A-Core: metadata about content metadata (Internet-Draft, 21 June 1999).
http://metadata.net/admin/draft-iannella-admin-01.txt
J. Kunze, Encoding Dublin Core Metadata in HTML (Internet-Draft, 25 May 1999).
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-kunze-dchtml-01.txt
O. Lassila & R. Swick, eds., Resource Description Framework (RDF) model and syntax specification (W3C Working Draft, 1999).
http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-rdf-syntax/
Making of America project, The Making of America II testbed project white paper (Version 1.03, March 16 1998).
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/MOA2/wp-v1_03.html
E. Miller, P. Miller & D. Brickley, eds., Guidance on expressing the Dublin Core within the Resource Description Framework (RDF) (Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, Draft Proposal,1999).
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/resources/dc/datamodel/WD-dc-rdf/
S. Weibel, J. Kunze, C. Lagoze & M. Wolf, RFC 2413, Dublin Core metadata for resource discovery (Internet Engineering Task Force, Network Working Group, September 1998).
ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2413.txt
S. Weibel, 'The State of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative', D-Lib Magazine 5 (4) (April 1999).
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april99/04weibel.html
S. L. Weibel & C. Lagoze, 'An element set to support resource discovery: the state of the Dublin Core', International Journal on Digital Libraries, 1(2) (January 1997), 176-186.
2.4 Cataloguing
CORC, http://www.oclc.org/oclc/research/projects/corc/index.htm
Intercat, http://purl.org/net/intercat
H. Alvestrand, RFC 1766, Tags for the identification of languages (Internet Engineering Task Force, Network Working Group, March 1995).
ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes//rfc1766.txt
R. Braden, ed., RFC 1123, Requirements for Internet hosts - application and support (Internet Engineering Task Force, Network Working Group, October 1989).
ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes//rfc1123.txt
R. Bradshaw, Cataloguing rules for the ADAM database: a procedural manual (ADAM, the Art, Design, Architecture & Media Information Gateway, 1997).
http://www.adam.ac.uk/adam/reports/cat/
P. Bryant, 'Progress in documentation: the catalogue', Journal of Documentation 36 (2) (1980), 133-163.
J. D. Byrum, 'ISO 639-1 and ISO 639-2: international standards for language codes. ISO 15924: international standard for names of scripts', 65th IFLA Council and General Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, 20-28 August 1999.
http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla65/papers/099-155e.htm
D. H. Crocker (rev.), RFC 822, Standard for the format of ARPA Internet text messages (Internet Engineering Task Force, 13 August 1982).
ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes//rfc822.txt
M. Day, ROADS cataloguing guidelines (Bath: UKOLN The UK Office for Library and Information Networking, 1998).
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/roads/cataloguing/cataloguing-rules.html
P. Deutsch, A. Emtage, M. Koster & M. Stumpf, Publishing information on the Internet with Anonymous FTP (Internet Engineering Task Force Internet Draft, September 1994).
http://info.webcrawler.com/mak/projects/iafa/iafa.txt
M. Dillon & E. Jul, 'Cataloging Internet resources: the convergence of libraries and Internet resources', Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 22 (3/4) (1996), 197-238.
M. Dillon, E. Jul, M. Burge & C. Hickey, 'The OCLC Internet Resources Project: Toward Providing Library Services for Computer-Mediated Communication' in A. P. Bishop (ed.), Emerging communities: integrated networked information into library services (Urbana-Champaign, Ill.: University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, 1994), 54-69.
M. Gorman & P. W. Winkler (ed.), Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2nd ed. (Ottawa: Canadian Library Association; London: Library Association Publishing; Chicago, Ill.: American Library Association, 1988).
Guidelines for the Use of Field 856 (Network Development and MARC Standards Office, Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1997).
http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/856guide.html
B. Holt, 'Presentation of UNIMARC on the Web: new fields including the one for electronic resources', 64th IFLA General Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 16-21 August 1998.
http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla64/110-161e.htm
ISBD(ER) International Standard Bibliographic Description for Electronic Resources: revised from the ISBD(CF): International Standard Bibliographic Description for Computer Files (UBCIM publications, New Series, 17. Munich: Saur, 1997).
ISO 639-1:1988, Code for the representation of names of languages (Geneva: International Organisation for Standardization, 1988).
ISO 639-2:1998, Codes for the representation of names of languages - Part 2: Alpha-3 code (Geneva: International Organisation for Standardization, 1998).
ISO 8601:1988, Data elements and interchange formats - Information interchange - Representation of dates and times (Geneva: International Organisation for Standardization, 1988).
E. Jul, InterCat year-end statistics (E-mail to OCLC Internet Cataloging project list INTERCAT@oclc.org, 4 January 1999).
D. M. Levy, 'Cataloguing in the digital order', Digital Libraries '95: The Second Annual Conference on the Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, Texas A & M University, Austin, Texas, USA, 11-13 June 1995.
http://csdl.tamu.edu/DL95/papers/levy/levy.html
C. Lynch, 'Searching the Internet', Scientific American 276 (3) (March 1997), 52-56.
M. Münnich, 'German authority work and control', Authority Control in the 21st Century, Online Computer Library Center (OCLC), Dublin, Ohio, 31 March-1 April 1996.
http://www.oclc.org/oclc/man/authconf/muennich.htm
N. B. Olson (ed.), Cataloging Internet resources: a manual and practical guide, 2nd. ed. (Dublin, Ohio: OCLC Online Computer Library Center, 1997).
http://www.purl.org/oclc/cataloging-internet
A. Sandberg-Fox & J. D. Byrum, 'From ISBD(CF) to ISBD(ER): process, policy, and provisions', Library Resources and Technical Services 42 (2) (1998), 89-101.
V. T. Sha, 'Cataloguing Internet resources: the library approach', The Electronic Library 13 (5) (1995), 467-476.
D. Vizine-Goetz, 'OCLC investigates using classification tools to organize Internet data', in P. A. Cochrane & E. H. Johnson (eds.), Visualizing subject access for 21st century information sources (Urbana-Champaign, Ill.: University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Graduate School of Library and Information Science,1998), 93-105.
M. Wolf & C. Wicksteed, Date and Time Formats (submission to World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), 15 September 1997).
http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime-970915
S. Zillhardt & F. Bourdon, AUTHOR project: final report (Paris: Bibliothcque nationale de France, 5 June 1998).
http://www.bl.uk/information/author.pdf
2.5 Subject classification, browsing and searching
Biz/ed, http://www.bized.ac.uk/
DESIRE, http://www.desire.org/
EELS, http://eels.lub.lu.se/
OMNI, http://www.omni.ac.uk/
SOSIG, http://www.sosig.ac.uk/
T. Koch, Controlled vocabularies, thesauri and classification systems available in the WWW. DC Subject,
http://www.ub2.lu.se/metadata/subject-help.html
D. Hiom, Mapping classification schemes (Bristol: SOSIG, 1998)
http://www.sosig.ac.uk/desire/class/mapping.html
E. Miller, P. Miller & D.Brickley, Guidance on expressing the Dublin Core within the Resource Description Framework (RDF), 1999
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/resources/dc/datamodel/WD-dc-rdf/WD-dc-rdf-19990427.html
J. Kirriemuir, D. Brickley, S. Welsh, J. Knight & M. Hamilton, 'Cross-Searching Subject Gateways - The Query Routing and Forward Knowledge Approach', D-Lib Magazine (January 1998).
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january98/01kirriemuir.html
T. Koch & M. Day, The role of classification schemes in Internet resource description and discovery (DESIRE project: UKOLN, Bath, 1997).
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/desire/classification/
T. Koch, 'Nutzung von Klassifikationssystemen zur verbesserten Beschreibung, Organisation und Suche von Internet Ressourcen', Buch und Bibliothek 50:5 (1998), 326-335.
http://www.ub2.lu.se/tk/publ/bubmanus.html
T. Koch, A. Ardö & L. Noodén, 'The construction of a robot-generated subject index', EU Project DESIRE II D3.6a, Working Paper 1, 1999.
http://www.lub.lu.se/desire/DESIRE36a-WP1.html
T. Koch & D. Vizine-Goetz, 'Automatic Classification and Content Navigation Support for Web Services. DESIRE II co-operates with OCLC' in Annual Review of OCLC Research 1998 (1999).
http://www.oclc.org/oclc/research/publications/review98/koch_vizine-goetz/automatic.htm
T. Koch, Controlled vocabularies, thesauri and classification systems available in the WWW (ongoing).
http://www.ub2.lu.se/metadata/subject-help.html
I. C. McIlwaine, Guide to the use of UDC: an introductory guide to the use and application of the Universal Decimal Classification, rev. ed. (The Hague: International Federation for Information and Documentation (FID), 1995).
G. McKiernan, Beyond bookmarks: schemes for organising the Web (Iowa State University, 1996 and ongoing).
http://www.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/CTW.htm
2.6 Collection management
Mind-it by NetMind, http://mindit.netmind.com/
ROADS, http://www.roads.lut.ac.uk/
SOSIG, http://www.sosig.ac.uk/
W. Koehler, 'Digital Libraries and World Wide Web Sites and Page Persistence', Information Research Volume 4 No. 4 (June 1999).
J. E. Pitkow, 'Summary of WWW Characterizations', in Proceedings of the Seventh International World Wide Web Conference, 14-18 April 1998, Brisbane, Australia (Elsevier Science B.V., 1998).
2.7 Working with information providers
P. B. Hansen & J. Hansen, INDOREG: INternet Document REGistration: project report (1997).
http://purl.dk/rapport/html.uk/
2.8 Publicity and promotion
Alta Vista, http://www.altavista.com/
Biz/ed, http://www.bized.ac.uk/
NMM Port, http://www.port.nmm.ac.uk/
OMNI, http://www.omni.ac.uk/
SOSIG, http://www.sosig.ac.uk
Submit It!, http://www.submitit.com/
D. Hiom, 'Around the table: Social scientists have their own favourite places on the Web', Ariadne 9 (May 1997).
D. Hiom, 'SOSIG: Providing access to internet information', Laser Link (Autumn 1998).
J. Kirriemuir, 'A report on the third annual OMNI seminar: A cure for information overload', CTICM Update 8:2 (December 1997).
C. Sladen, 'Ethical Business', Business Review (April 1998).
C. Sladen, 'Mergers and Take-overs', Business Education Today (May/June 1998).
2.9 User interface design
Biz/ed,
http://www.bized.ac.uk/
G. E. Bader & C. A. Rossi, Focus Groups: A Step-By-Step Guide (1998).
R. A. Krueger, Focus Groups : A Practical Guide for Applied Research (1994).
J. Nielsen, Cost of user testing a Website
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/980503.html
J. Nielsen,Guerrilla HCI
http://www.useit.com/papers/guerrilla_hci.html
J. Nielsen,Differences between print design and Web design
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990124.html
J. Nielsen,How users read on the Web
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9710a.html
J. Nielsen,Be succinct! (writing for the Web)
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9703b.html
J. Nielsen,The top ten new mistakes of Web site design
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990530.html
A.N. Oppenheim, Questionnaire Design, Interviewing and Attitude Measurement (1992).
J. F. Templeton, The Focus Group: A Strategic Guide to Organising, Conducting and Analysing the Focus Group Interview (1994).
W3C, List of Checkpoints for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/checkpoint-list.html
W3C, Web Accessibility Initiative Standard (WAI)
http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/
2.10 Integration of robot and manual indexes
Due in version 2.0 of the handbook
2.11 Distributed cataloguing
DutchESS Manual: handleiding voor vakspecialisten, http://www.konbib.nl/dutchess/manual/
EELS Project, http://www.ub2.lu.se/eel/about.html
EEVL, http://www.eevl.ac.uk/volunt.html
Friends of ADAM, http://www.adam.ac.uk/friends/
Länkskafferiet (Link Larder), http://lankskafferiet.skolverket.se/information/brief_presentation.html
SOSIG Correspondents Pages, http://www.sosig.ac.uk/desire/ecorresp.html
T. Hooper, L. Huxley & P. Hollands, DESIRE: Subject-based training materials
http://www.desire.org/results/training/D8-2af.html
L. Huxley, 'DESIRE on Planet SOSIG: Training for the Distributed Internet Cataloguing Model', Ariadne 12 (1997).
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue12/planet-sosig/
E. Worsfold, 'Distributed and Part-Automated Cataloguing: A DESIRE Issues Paper' (March 1998).
http://www.sosig.ac.uk/desire/cat/cataloguing.html
2.12 Multi-lingual issues
DutchESS, http://www.konbib.nl/dutchess/
EuroWordNet, http://www.let.uva.nl/~ewn/
Jyväskylä Virtual Library, http://www.jyu.fi/library/virtuaalikirjasto/engroads.htm
SOSIG, http://www.sosig.ac.uk/
Unicode Consortium, http://www.unicode.org
H. Alvestrand, RFC 1766, Tags for the Identification of Languages (UNINETT, March 1995).
ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc1766.txt
G. Clavel et al., CoBRA+ working group on multilingual subject access : Final report (Bern, 9th March 1999).
http://www.bl.uk/information/finrap3.html
Y. Demchenko, i18n and Multilingual support in Internet mail Standards. Overview.
http://www.terena.nl/multiling/
Encoding Dublin Core Metadata in HTML (Internet Draft).
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-kunze-dchtml-01.txt
Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (W3C Recommendation, 10 February 1998).
http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-19980210
The ISO 8859 Character Sets
http://www.terena.nl/multiling/ml-docs/iso-8859.html
ISO 639, 'Code for the representation of names of languages'.
ISO/IEC 10646-1:1993(E ), 'Information technology - Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS) -- Part 1: Architecture and Basic Multilingual Plane' JTC1/SC2 (1993).
J. Knight, Internationalization in the DESIRE project
http://www.roads.lut.ac.uk/DESIRE/DesireI18N.html
D. W. Oard, 'Serving Users in Many Languages : Cross-Language Information Retrieval for Digital Libraries', D-Lib Magazine (December 1997).
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december97/oard/12oard.html
D. W. Oard, Cross-Language Information Retrieval Resources (Overview).
http://www.ee.umd.edu/medlab/mlir/
C. Peters, & E. Picchi, 'Across Languages, Across Cultures : Issues in Multilinguality and Digital Libraries', D-Lib Magazine (May 1997).
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may97/peters/05peters.html
RFC 2413. Dublin Core Metadata for Resource Discovery
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2413.txt
RFC 2616. Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt
The Unicode standard, version 2.0 (Unicode Consortium. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Developers Press, 1996).
C. Weider, C. Preston, K. Simonsen, H. Alvestrand, R. Atkinson, M. Crispin & P. Svanberg, RFC 2130 - Report from the IAB Character Set Workshop (April 1997).
ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2130.txt
E. Worsfold et al., Developing multilingual subject gateways (An issues paper written as part of the DESIRE Cataloguing Project)
http://www.sosig.ac.uk/desire/lang/language.html
F. Yergeau, RFC 2279 - UTF-8, a Transformation Format of Unicode and ISO 10646 (January 1998)
ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2279.txt
2.13 Co-operation between gateways
Biz/ed, http://www.bized.ac.uk
CrossROADS, http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/roads/crossroads/
DEF Project, http://www.deflink.dk/english/def.ihtml
DESIRE, http://www.desire.org/
EELS, http://www.ub.lu.se/eel/
EEVL, http://www.eevl.ac.uk/
IMesh, http://www.desire.org/html/subjectgateways/community/imesh/
ISAAC, http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/research/index.html
Pinakes, http://www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/irn/pinakes/pinakes.html
RDNet, http://www.rdn.ac.uk/
ROADS, http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/roads/
Scout Report Signpost, http://www.signpost.org/signpost/
SOSIG, http://www.sosig.ac.uk/
R. Heery, A. Powell & M. Day, CrossROADS and Interoperability, Ariadne, issue 14
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue14/metadata/
M. Day, ROADS Interoperability guidelines (1999)
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/roads/interoperability/
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