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Send a boy – or dial it yourself? numbering for the information society
Adam, Ralph - In: Aslib Proceedings 51 (1999) 1, pp. 11-19
Numbering and addressing are key features of telecommunications: without them, the Global Information Society cannot exist. As the demand for new, and more innovative, services grows and the world moves towards deregulation and competition, so the pressure on numbering space increases. This...
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Librarians – architects of the future?
Rowbotham, Julie - In: Aslib Proceedings 51 (1999) 2, pp. 59-63
This article explores the reasons why librarians should be at the heart of Internet site development. There are two … area is the role librarians can play in the structuring of the data which drives the site (data management).  …
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Information retrieval and the perpetual innovation economy
Karamuftuoglu, Murat - In: Aslib Proceedings 51 (1999) 4, pp. 99-108
networks, such as the Internet, make it possible to devise work environments that are conducive to the development and …
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The migration of news to the web
Williams, Peter; Nicholas, David - In: Aslib Proceedings 51 (1999) 4, pp. 122-134
comprehensive Internet services. With such an array of sources available, the future of mass access to the Internet, possibly via TV …
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Information available on UK agricultural web sites
Craig, Gillian M. - In: Aslib Proceedings 51 (1999) 5, pp. 155-166
In a survey of 132 UK agricultural web sites, more than 60 per cent mounted directorytype information like that found in printed directories of information sources, but this was not always easily accessible. Information about people in organisations varied between the different categories of web...
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On universality in productive and information technology
Warner, Julian - In: Aslib Proceedings 51 (1999) 5, pp. 167-171
Information science has differentiated information technology from productive technology, but the common concept of technology remains largely unexplored. A view of technology as a human construction, applied to productive technology, has begun to be developed to comprehend information...
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The Internet and Japanese education: the effect of globalisation on education policies and government initiatives
McLaughlin, Ruth - In: Aslib Proceedings 51 (1999) 7, pp. 224-232
Examines the effect of Internet growth on education within Japan, where English and the alphabet are not the first … forms of communication. In 1997 the Internet Society carried out research to find what language people were using on the … Internet. English accounted for 82% of all web sites, German was second with 4% and then Japanese at under 2%. However, with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014674047
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Building the digital library on solid research foundations
Rowlands, Ian; Bawden, David - In: Aslib Proceedings 51 (1999) 8, pp. 275-282
The digital library is a socio‐technical concept of great significance. It redefines the relationships between information providers and intermediaries and, potentially, transforms the way that services are delivered to users. This article, based on a British Library Research & Innovation...
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The future of “free” information in the Age of the Internet
Lennon, David - In: Aslib Proceedings 51 (1999) 9, pp. 285-289
. Information and knowledge are the high‐value tools of the present age. The rise of the Internet has led to a preoccupation with …
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Access to information on the World Wide Web for blind and visually impaired people
Oppenheim, Charles; Selby, Karen - In: Aslib Proceedings 51 (1999) 10, pp. 335-345
The Internet gives access for blind and visually impaired users to previously unobtainable information via Braille or … information to a small group of visually impaired and blind users and how accessible individual Internet pages are. Two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014674059