Research: Publications

This section contains publications related to the DESIRE project, including internet drafts, conference papers, presentations and articles. You'll probably also want to look at our working papers section, our results (official deliverables) and our workshop materials.
  1. Papers and Presentations
  2. Internet Drafts
  3. Discussion Papers, Working Group Reports
  4. General Publications
  5. See Also...

Papers and Presentations

Date Event Title Authors
May 2000 TERENA Networking Conference 2000, Lisbon People Power and the Web: Building Quality Controlled Portals Debra Hiom, Martin Belcher & Emma Place
May 2000 Digital Libraries seminar of the British Computer Society, University of Wolverhampton The DESIRE Project: Information Seeking on the Web Phil Cross, Nicky Ferguson, Tracey Hooper, Emma Place
May 2000 WWW9 Poster Session, Amsterdam People Power and the Semantic Web: Building Quality Controlled Portals Martin Belcher & Emma Place
May 2000 WWW9 Developers Day, Amsterdam Getting There From Here - Deploying RDF in a Large Scale Mirror Service Dave Beckett (UK Mirror Service)
May 2000 First SCHEMAS Workshop, Bath Combining multiple metadata standards in implementations: User experience and requirements Rachel Heery
April 2000 Exploit Interactive, issue 5 DESIRE: Making the Most of the Web Phil Cross, Nicky Ferguson, Tracey Hooper and Emma Place
January 2000 Scimitar Electronic Journal Recent Results from the DESIRE project Emma Place
2000 Online Information Review, vol. 24, issue 1 DutchESS: Dutch Electronic Subject Service - a Dutch national collaborative effort Marianne Peereboom
2000 Quality Assurance in Education Volume 8. Number 1. 2000 pp38-47. MCB University Press. ISSN 0968-4883 Quality Assurance in subject gateways: creating high quality portals on the Internet Martin Belcher, Emma Place and Grainne Conole
2000 VINE, No. 117, 2000, pp. 35-48 Resource discovery, interoperability and digital preservation: some aspects of current metadata research and development Michael Day
October 1999 Exploit Interactive, issue 3 Multilingual Provision by Subject Gateways Marianne Peereboom
Issue 8, October 1999 European Information DESIRE: Helping researchers in Europe to get more from the Web Emma Place, Tim Dixon
Volume 4, 1998, pages 105-127 New Review of Information Networking The DESIRE Project - promoting and facilitating Web usage among Europe's research community Emma Place and Debra Hiom
September 1999 Third European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL'99), Paris Adding automatic classification to a robot-generated subject index (DESIRE II) Anders Ardö, Traugott Koch
September 1999 Third European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL'99), Paris, France DESIRE: Demonstration of Quality-Based Ranking of Search Results Rachel Heery, Tracy Gardner
September 1999 Alt-C99, Bristol, UK Internet Detective - Teaching people to question the quality of Internet information - presentation slides Emma Place
September 1999 Janet User Support Workshop, Plymouth, UK DESIRE II - Enhancing Information Retrieval Across Europe - presentation slides Phil Cross
August 1999 SELECT Project Meeting, Edinburgh, UK Quality Ratings in DESIRE II Tracy Gardner
August 1999 IFLA99, Bangkok, Thailand. Conference paper and IFLA Journal (ISSN 0340-0352) Vol.26 (2000) no.1 52-56 pages International Collaboration on Internet Subject Gateways English version, French Version, German version Emma Place
August 1999 The Fourth ACM Conference on Digital Libraries, Berkeley, California, USA Creation and automatic classification of a robot-generated subject index - to appear in The Digital Libraries '99. Anders Ardö, Traugott Koch
June 1999 TERENA/NORDunet Conference 99, Lund, Sweden DESIREII: Progress Towards a User-friendly Network Nicky Ferguson
June 1999 TERENA/NORDunet Conference 99, Lund, Sweden Web Replication and Caching Update Ingrid Melve
1999 The American Library Association, 1999, (chapter 12, pp223-245: The Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG)) The Amazing Internet Challenge - How Leading Projects use Library Skills to Organize the Web Amy Tracy Wells, Susan Calcari, Travis Koplow
1999 Annual Review of OCLC Research 1998 Automatic Classification and Content Navigation Support for Web Services. DESIRE II co-operates with OCLC Traugott Koch and Diane Vizine-Goetz
Spring 1999 HABITAT Internet Detective Emma Place and Debra Hiom
January 1999 db-Qual, the newsletter of The Centre for Information Quality Management (CIQM), Vol 4 Issue 1 Detecting Quality!
January 1999 DESIRE Annual Report Presentation, Brussels DESIRE II Nicky Ferguson, et al
January 1999 Free Pint Internet Detective - it's time to get on the case! Emma Place and Debra Hiom
December 1998 Ariadne Introducing the Internet Detective Emma Place and Debra Hiom
December 1998 Online 1998 DESIRE Quality Work - presentation slides Debra Hiom and Emma Place
October 1998 TERENA Networking Conference, Dresden Building Large-Scale Information Services: Tools and Experiences from the DESIRE Project Tim Dixon, Ingrid Melve, Rui Meneses, Ton Verschuren
October 1998 TERENA Networking Conference, Dresden Subject Gateways - Fulfilling the DESIRE for Knowledge, presentation slides Emma Place
August 1998 IFLA 1998, Amsterdam Questioning the Quality of Internet Information (presentation slides) Emma Place
July 1998 INET '98 conference, Geneva Web Caching Meshes: Hit or Miss? Ton Verschuren, André de Jong, Henny Bekker and Ingrid Melve
April 1998 WWW7, Brisbane A regional distributed WWW search and indexing service - the DESIRE way Anders Ardö and Sigfrid Lundberg
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Internet Drafts

Date Title Authors
October 99 Internet Web Replication and Caching Taxonomy I. Melve, UNINETT; G. Tomlinson, Novell; I. Cooper, Mirror Image

Discussion Papers, Working Group Reports

June 1999 The Noble Art of Being Indexed or The Webmaster's Guide to Harvesting Robots Sigfrid Lundberg and Lars Nooden
August 1998 Subject Gateways on the Internet - A report from the IFLA Internet Discussion Group Emma Place, Marianne Peereboom

General Publications

April 1999 Exploit Interactive International Cooperation - Real Opportunities? Traugott Koch
ongoing The BBC have picked up and referenced a number of Desire related activities, full details available via The BBC Trusty Guide to Internet Research -

See also...