Overview of articles in Ariadne
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| Article title | Summary | Date published |
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| Book Review: Mob Rule Learning |
Fiona MacLellan reviews a book which discusses the current unconference phenomenon and highlights the learning opportunities that these environments offer. |
July 2012
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| Book Review: Implementing Technology in Libraries |
Elizabeth McHugh reviews a first published work that she feels is a straightforward, jargon-free guide on how to implement technology solutions in libraries. |
July 2012
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| Book Review: Managing Research Data |
Sally Rumsey reviews a book which describes and explains the topics of interest central to practitioners involved with research data management. |
July 2012
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| Book Review: I, Digital – A History Devoid of the Personal? |
Chris Rusbridge reviews an edited volume that aims to fill a gap in ‘literature designed specifically to guide archivists’ thinking about personal digital materials’. |
July 2012
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| Book Review: Information Need - A Theory Connecting Information Search to Knowledge Formation |
Brian Whalley reviews a book about a new theory of ‘information need’ that builds upon the ideas of Allen and Taylor from the 1960s to provide a basis for information searching. |
July 2012
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| Book Review: Getting Started with Cloud Computing |
Martin White reviews a collection of essays on cloud computing that attempts to clarify the technology and its applications for librarians and information professionals. |
July 2012
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| Collaborations Workshop 2012: Software, Sharing and Collaboration in Oxford |
Simon Choppin reports on a two-day software workshop held at The Queen’s College, Oxford over 21 - 22 March 2012. |
April 2012
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| Data Citation and Publication by NERC’s Environmental Data Centres |
Sarah Callaghan, Roy Lowry, David Walton and members of the Natural Environment Research Council Science Information Strategy Data Citation and Publication Project team describe their work in NERC’s Environmental Data Centres. |
March 2012
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| Delivering Open Educational Resources for Engineering Design |
Mansur Darlington describes two methods for presenting online OERs for engineering design that were developed and explored as part of the Higher Education Academy/JISC-funded DelOREs (Delivering Open Educational Resources for Engineering Design) Project. |
March 2012
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| Perceptions of Public Libraries in Africa |
Monika Elbert, David Fuegi and Ugne Lipeikaite describe the principal findings of the study Perceptions of Public Libraries in Africa which served to provide evidence of how public libraries are perceived by their stakeholders. |
March 2012
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| Has Second Life Lived up to Expectations? |
Paul Gorman examines to what degree Second Life has justified the claims made for it by its evangelists with particular regard to education. |
March 2012
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| Kultivating Kultur: Increasing Arts Research Deposit |
Marie-Therese Gramstadt discusses how the JISC-funded Kultivate Project is encouraging arts research deposit in UK institutional repositories. |
March 2012
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| The CLIF Project: The Repository as Part of a Content Lifecycle |
Richard Green, Chris Awre and Simon Waddington describe how a digital repository can become part of the technical landscape within an institution and support digital content lifecycle management across systems. |
March 2012
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| Peculiarities of Digitising Materials from the Collections of the National Academy of Sciences, Armenia |
Alan Hopkinson and Tigran Zargaryan give an overview of their experience of digitising paper-based materials in the Fundamental Scientific Library of the National Academy of Sciences, Armenia including some of the obstacles encountered during image processing and optical character recognition. |
March 2012
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| Adapting VuFind as a Front-end to a Commercial Discovery System |
Graham Seaman describes the adaptation of an open source discovery tool, VuFind, to local needs, discusses the decisions which needed to be made in the process, and considers the implications of this process for future library discovery systems. |
March 2012
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| Welsh Libraries and Social Media: A Survey |
Alyson Tyler outlines the results of a survey of Welsh libraries, their access to, and use of, social media, and offers a sample business case. |
March 2012
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| Editorial: Welcome to New Ariadne |
The editor introduces readers to the new Ariadne. |
March 2012
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| Editorial Introduction to Issue 68 |
The editor introduces readers to the content of Ariadne issue 68. |
March 2012
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| The Future of the Past of the Web |
Matthew Brack reports on the one-day international workshop 'The Future of the Past of the Web' held at the British Library Conference Centre, London on 7 October, 2011. |
March 2012
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| The Third Annual edUi Conference 2011 |
Danielle Cooley reports on the third annual edUi Conference, held over 13-14 October 2011, in Richmond, Virginia, USA, an opportunity for Web professionals in colleges, universities, libraries, museums, etc to discuss the latest developments in Web trends and technologies. |
March 2012
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