Overview of articles in Ariadne
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| Article title | Summary | Date published |
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| A Double-edged Sword: What Are the Implications of Freedom of Information for the HE Sector? |
Amy Gibbons reports on the second in a series of workshops organised by the Research Information Network to explore the impact of the Freedom of Information Act on the Higher Education sector, held at University College London on 1 April 2011. |
July 2011
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| UK Reading Experience Database |
Bethan Ruddock reports from the launch event for the UK Reading Experience Database, held at the Betty Boothroyd Library, the Open University, Milton Keynes, on 24 February 2011. |
July 2011
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| Open Educational Resources Hack Day |
Kirsty Pitkin reports on a two-day practical hack event focusing on Open Educational Resources (OER), held by DevCSI and JISC CETIS in Manchester on 31 March - 1 April 2011. |
July 2011
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| Institutional Challenges in the Data Decade |
Marion Tattersall, Carmen O'Dell and John Lewis report on Institutional Challenges in the Data Decade, organised by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) in partnership with the White Rose University Consortium and held 1-3 March 2011 at the University of Sheffield. |
July 2011
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| Book Review: Envisioning Future Academic Library Services |
John Azzolini reviews a timely collection of essays that highlights the values of institutional leadership and resourcefulness in academic librarianship's engagements with Web 2.0. |
July 2011
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| Book Review: Preparing Collections for Digitization |
Michael Day reviews a recently published book on the selection and preparation of archive and library collections for digitisation. |
July 2011
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| Book Review: The Expert Library |
Sylvie Lafortune reviews a book taking a hard look at academic libraries, how they are being redefined and what skills will be required of the staff who will move them forward. |
July 2011
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| Editorial Introduction to Issue 66: Sanity Check |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 66. |
January 2011
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| Reading Van Gogh Online? |
Peter Boot shows how log analysis can be employed to assess a site's usability, usage, and users, using the Van Gogh letter edition as an example. |
January 2011
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| Turning Off Tap Into Bath |
Ann Chapman describes the lifecycle of a demonstrator database and the development of a preservation policy for its content and software. |
January 2011
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| RefShare: A Community of Practice to Enhance Research Collaboration |
Tertia Coetsee describes a community of practice for postgraduate students in phytomedicine using RefShare, to enhance collaborative research. |
January 2011
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| Developments in Virtual 3D Imaging of Cultural Artefacts |
Richard Collmann describes how experience using a portable Virtual 3D Object Rig in cultural institutions has led to significant improvements in apparatus design and workflow. |
January 2011
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| 10 Cheap and Easy Ways to Amplify Your Event |
Marieke Guy describes new tools and services that can help you get your event heard. |
January 2011
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| Characterising and Preserving Digital Repositories: File Format Profiles |
Steve Hitchcock and David Tarrant show how file format profiles, the starting point for preservation plans and actions, can also be used to reveal the fingerprints of emerging types of institutional repositories. |
January 2011
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| Saving the Sounds of the UK in the UK SoundMap |
Maureen Pennock and Chris Clark introduce an innovative initiative from the British Library to map a 12-month soundscape of the UK. |
January 2011
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| 10 Years of Zetoc |
Jane Ronson looks at how Zetoc has developed and what the future holds for the service. |
January 2011
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| International Digital Curation Conference 2010 |
Alex Ball reports on the 6th International Digital Curation Conference, held on 7-8 December 2010 in Chicago. |
January 2011
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| Never Waste a Good Crisis: Innovation and Technology in Institutions |
Tore Hoel reports on the CETIS 2010 Conference, 15 - 16 November 2010 at the National College for Leadership of Schools and Childrens' Services Conference Centre, Nottingham. |
January 2011
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| Beyond the PDF |
Jodi Schneider reports on a three-day workshop about the future of scientific communication, held in San Diego CA, USA, in January 2011. |
January 2011
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| Book Review: Introducing RDA |
Katrina Clifford reviews a work covering the long-heralded change in the cataloguing rule set - RDA (Resource Description and Access). |
January 2011
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