UKOLN and the Institutional Web Service

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UKOLN and the Institutional Web Service

• UKOLN (UK Office for Library and Information
  Networking) is a research and dissemination unit
  based at the University of Bath.
• It provides advice and support related to a
  variety of Higher Education, Library, Museums,
  Archives and other related communities.
• Much of the advice it provides and demonstrators
  will be of interest to managers of institutional
  web services.

Advice UKOLN hosts the UK Web Focus and
Interoperability Focus posts.
Demonstrators UKOLN provides a number of
demonstrator systems.
UKOLN
Dissemination UKOLN hosts the Ariadne and Exploit
Interactive web magazines. These provide
regular columns covering topics of interest to
University web managers.
Events UKOLN organises the annual Institutional
Web Management workshop, together with a number
of other seminars and workshops.
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UKOLNs WebWatch Services

• Services Developed By The WebWatch Project
• UKOLNs WebWatch project provided robot software
  to analyse technologies used on the web.
• A number of the analysis tools developed were
  released with a web interface.

The doc-info Service The doc-info service
provides details about a web resource, such as
file sizes, link validity, etc. The related
http-info service provides information on HTTP
headers.
Browser Extensions In order to make these
services easier to use they have been made
available as browser extension aids. A link can
be copied from a web page to Netscapes personal
tool bar.
For further information see lthttp//www.ariadne.a
c.uk/issue19/web-focus/gt
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Metadata Management Tools

• Metadata Tools
• UKOLN have much expertise in the area of
  metadata.
• Involvement in UK and European projects has
  contributed to the development of metadata
  standards and to a variety of metadata services.

DC-dot DC-dot is a metadata creation and
management tool. DC-dot has a web interface. No
software installation is required - any browser
which supports JavaScript can be used
Browser Extension DC-dot can be used as a
browser extension. This makes it easier to use.
For further information see lthttp//www.ukoln.ac.
uk/metadata/dcdot/gt
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Web-Enabled Email

• Web-Enabled Email
• In addition to use of standard email programs
  (e.g. Pine and Outlook Express) UKOLN staff can
  access their email using a Web-enabled email
  interface when away from their office.

Functionality The IMP software provides much of
the functionality provided in desktop email
clients including managing mail messages and
folders, sending messages, attachments, etc.
Specification IMP is freely available. It runs in
conjunction with Apache servers with the PHP/FE
extension. In order to use IMP your email server
must support IMAP. UKOLN are happy to recommend
IMP for use in an Intranet environment.
For further information see lthttp//www.ariadne.a
c.uk/issue19/unix/gt
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Ariadne and Exploit Interactive

• Dissemination
• An important aspect of UKOLNs role is
  dissemination of its findings, and supporting
  dissemination by other groups.

Ariadne Ariadne is a web magazine which was
initially funded by the eLib programme. Regular
columns include the Web Editor, WebWatch and Web
Focus, columns, and articles about JISC services
and eLib projects.
See lthttp//www.ariadne.ac.uk/gt
Exploit Interactive Exploit Interactive,
Ariadnes sister web magazine, is funded by the
EU Telematics For Libraries programme. It also
provides a forum for information professionals,
with an emphasis on EU projects.
See lthttp//www.exploit-lib.org/gt