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Issue 38 of Ariadne carries articles related to metadata quality issues and metadata harvesting. Marieke Guy, Andy Powell and Michael Day address the argument that the usefulness of OAI service
providers is directly influenced by the consistency and accuracy of the harvested metadata on which they are based. Ed Summers provides practical examples of how to build OAI-PMH harvesters in Perl using the Net::OAI::Harvester toolkit; plus articles on Web accessibility, the 5-99 Programme, software, resources for Further Education and others.

Issue 38 of Ariadne carries articles related to metadata quality issues and metadata harvesting. Marieke Guy, Andy Powell and Michael Day address the argument that the usefulness of OAI service
providers is directly influenced by the consistency and accuracy of the harvested metadata on which they are based. Ed Summers provides practical examples of how to build OAI-PMH harvesters in Perl using the Net::OAI::Harvester toolkit; plus articles on Web accessibility, the 5-99 Programme, software, resources for Further Education and others.

In the next few months ePrints UK Project will be running a series of workshops providing an introduction to eprints and institutional
repositories and the issues surrounding them. These workshop are aimed at HE/FE librarians, information systems staff and academics and are free to attend. People can now register for the Manchester (Thursday 22nd April), Edinburgh
(Friday 14th May), and Nottingham (Monday 24th May 2004) workshops.

In the next few months ePrints UK Project will be running a series of workshops providing an introduction to eprints and institutional
repositories and the issues surrounding them. These workshop are aimed at HE/FE librarians, information systems staff and academics and are free to attend. People can now register for the Edinburgh (Friday 14th May) and Nottingham (Monday 24th May 2004) workshops.

The CD Focus will be holding a Collection Description Schema Forum at the CBI Conference Centre, Centre Point, London on Thursday 12th February 2004. The day will be a combination of presentations in the morning and discussion groups in the afternoon. The discussion groups will be looking at both strategic and implementation issues.

The CD Focus will be holding a Schema Forum at the CBI Conference Centre, Centre Point, London on Thursday 12th February 2004. The day will be a combination of presentations in the morning and discussion groups in the afternoon. The discussion groups will be looking at both strategic and implementation issues.

This new DCMI Recommendation by Andy Powell describes how a Dublin Core metadata record can be embedded into an HTML/XHTML Web page using HTML/XHTML elements.

This new DCMI Recommendation by Andy Powell describes how a Dublin Core metadata record can be embedded into an HTML/XHTML Web page using HTML/XHTML elements.