Overview of articles in Ariadne
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Article title |
Summary | Date published |
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| What Happens When We Mash the Library? |
Paul Miller looks at recent attempts to make library resources more appealing, including the Talis competition to build library 'mashups'. |
January 2007
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| What Have the CLUMPs Ever Done for Us? |
Peter Stubley puts the CLUMPs in perspective. |
March 2000
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| What Is a URI and Why Does It Matter? |
Henry S. Thompson describes how recent developments in Web technology have affected the relationship between URI and resource representation and the related consequences. |
October 2010
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| What Is a URI? |
Ian Peacock explains 'URI' in plain English. |
December 1998
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| What Is an Intranet? |
Glen Monks explains the buzz word: intranet. |
January 1998
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| What Is an Open Repository? |
Julie Allinson, Jessie Hey, Chris Awre and Mahendra Mahey report on the Open Repositories 2007 conference, held in San Antonio, Texas between 23-26 January 2007. |
April 2007
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| What Is Apache? |
Eddie Young gives the essentials of "Apache", the widely used Unix-based web server software. |
March 1999
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| What Is RDF? |
Rachel Heery explains RDF (Resource Description Framework) |
March 1998
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| What Is XML? |
Brian Kelly elucidates another infuriating three letter acronym: XML. |
May 1998
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| What the Resource Discovery Network Is Doing for Further Education |
Mark Williams highlights some of the services that the RDN provides for the benefit of FE users. |
January 2004
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| What Users Want: An Academic 'Hybrid' Library Perspective |
Reg Carr reflects on the development of a user-centred approach in academic libraries over recent decades and into the era of the hybrid library. |
February 2006
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| What's Good and Bad about BUBL |
Traugott Koch reviews the Bulletin Board for Libraries (BUBL). |
January 1996
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| What's in Artifact for Further Education? |
Jayne Everard writes about the areas covered by the new subject service Artifact and takes us through the facilities on offer to FE practitioners. |
January 2004
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| What's in EEVL for Further Education |
Roddy MacLeod gives |
January 2004
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| What's in GEsource for Further Education? |
John Blunden-Ellis provides a view of the material available to FE from GEsource, the RDN subject service for geography and environment. |
January 2004
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| What's in Humbul for Further Education? |
Randy Metcalfe provides an overview of the materials and services of use to humanities practitioners in the FE sector. |
January 2004
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| What's in PSIgate for Further Education? |
John Blunden-Ellis describes the materials and services available from the RDN subject service PSIgate in respect of students and practitioners in FE. |
January 2004
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| What's in SOSIG for Further Education? |
Emma Place gives an insight into the pitfalls that await new users of the Internet in their search for relevant and quality materials and explains how SOSIG has catered for the needs of both FE students and practitioners. |
January 2004
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| Why Are Users So Useful? User Engagement and the Experience of the JISC Digitisation Programme |
Paola Marchionni discusses the importance of user engagement in the creation of digitised scholarly resources with case studies from the JISC Digitisation Programme. |
October 2009
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| Why Give It Away? |
David Haynes, Elizabeth Lyon and David Streatfield explore the mysteries of devolved budgeting. |
September 1998
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