Overview of articles in Ariadne
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| Article title | Summary |
Date published |
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| Book Review: Introductory Concepts in Information Science |
Charles Oppenheim takes a look at an introduction to Information Science but fails to be impressed. |
October 2010
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| Book Review: The Accidental Taxonomist |
Emma Tonkin takes a look at a book on the work of the taxonomist and notes both merits and disappointments. |
October 2010
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| Conference Review: M-Libraries 2, A Virtual Library in Everyone's Pocket |
Martin White reviews the proceedings of a 2009 M-Libraries conference on mobile applications in libraries. |
October 2010
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| Book Review: Learning with Online and Mobile Technologies |
Brian Whalley looks at a student survival aid in the information age that should also be valuable for tutors. |
October 2010
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| Editorial Introduction to Issue 65: Ariadne in Search of Your Views |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 65. |
October 2010
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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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| Book Review: The Myths of Innovation |
Lina Coelho takes a look at Scott Berkun's challenging view of what innovation and creativity really mean. |
January 2011
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| Book Review: Blogging and RSS - A Librarian's Guide, 2nd Edition |
Elly Cope reviews the second edition of this book in which the author explains how RSS and blogging can be used by librarians and libraries. |
January 2011
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