Overview of articles in Ariadne
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| Article title | Summary |
Date published |
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| Book Review: Ajax in Oracle JDeveloper |
Pete Cliff finds aspects of this work useful and interesting, but he also expresses some serious reservations. |
October 2009
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| Book Review: Information Tomorrow |
Lina Coelho is delighted by this pick-and-mix collection of reflections on the technological future of libraries. |
October 2009
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| Book Review: M-Libraries |
Simon Speight reviews a collection of papers from the First International M-Libraries Conference, which examined potential library uses of mobile phones and other portable technology. |
October 2009
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| Editorial Introduction to Issue 62: The Wisdom of Communities |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 62. |
January 2010
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| Towards a Toolkit for Implementing Application Profiles |
Talat Chaudhri, Julian Cheal, Richard Jones, Mahendra Mahey and Emma Tonkin propose a user-driven methodology for the iterative development, testing and implementation of Dublin Core Application Profiles in diverse repository software environments. |
January 2010
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| Moving Targets: Web Preservation and Reference Management |
Richard Davis discusses the role of Web preservation in reference management. This article is based on a presentation given at the Innovations in Reference Management workshop, January 2010. |
January 2010
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| An Attack on Professionalism and Scholarship? Democratising Archives and the Production of Knowledge |
Andrew Flinn describes some recent developments in democratising the archive and asks whether these developments really deserve to be viewed as a threat to professional and academic standards. |
January 2010
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| Get Tooled Up: Xerxes at Royal Holloway, University of London |
Anna Grigson, Peter Kiely, Graham Seaman and Tim Wales describe the implementation of an open source front end to the MetaLib federated search tool. |
January 2010
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| Uncovering User Perceptions of Research Activity Data |
Cecilia Loureiro-Koechlin discusses the outcomes and lessons learned from user tests performed on the Oxford Blue Pages, a tool designed to display information about researchers and their activities at the University of Oxford. |
January 2010
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| A Research Revolution: The Impact of Digital Technologies |
Dicky Maidment-Otlet and Judy Redfearn describe a new JISC activity to highlight how digital technologies are changing research. |
January 2010
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| Abstract Modelling of Digital Identifiers |
Nick Nicholas, Nigel Ward and Kerry Blinco present an information model of digital identifiers, to help bring clarity to the vocabulary debates from which this field has suffered. |
January 2010
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| eBooks: Tipping or Vanishing Point? |
Emma Tonkin investigates ebooks and takes a look at recent technological and business developments in this area. |
January 2010
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| Intranet Management: Divine Comedy or Strategic Imperative? |
Martin White suggests that a failure to recognise the value of intranets is a symptom of a failure to recognise information as a strategic asset. |
January 2010
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| Fedora UK & Ireland / EU Joint User Group Meeting |
Chris Awre reports on the first coming together of two regional user groups for the Fedora digital repository system, hosted by the University of Oxford in December 2009. |
January 2010
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| The Future of Interoperability and Standards in Education: A JISC CETIS Event |
Sarah Currier reports on an international working meeting involving a range of educational interoperability standards bodies and communities, organised by JISC CETIS. |
January 2010
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| The Digital Preservation Roadshow 2009-10: The Incomplete Diaries of Optimistic Travellers |
William Kilbride and Malcolm Todd report on the Digital Preservation Roadshow - an eleven month tour of the UK and Ireland designed to provide archivists and record managers with practical advice and support in managing digital resources. |
January 2010
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| Subject Repositories: European Collaboration in the International Context |
Dave Puplett reports on the conference Subject Repositories: European Collaboration in the International Context held at the British Library in January 2010. The conference launched Economists Online (EO), an innovative economics subject repository. |
January 2010
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| News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
January 2010
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| Book Review: Delete - The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age |
Pete Cliff hopes he'll not forget this marvellous book, even when the author seems to suggest it might be better if he did! |
January 2010
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| Book Review: Copyright - Interpreting the Law for Libraries, Archives and Information Services |
Charles Oppenheim sees much to like in the new edition of this work by a well-known authority but identifies one potentially major drawback. |
January 2010
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