Book Review: The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland |
Lorcan Dempsey reviews Volume III of a landmark collection on the history of libraries in 'Britain and Ireland' from 1850 to 2000.
issue53 October 2007 |
amazon, archives, bibliographic data, british library, british museum, cataloguing, cilip, copac, curation, data, digitisation, google, higher education, identifier, information society, infrastructure, itunes, jisc, leeds metropolitan university, national library, national library of wales, oclc, queens university belfast, repositories, research, resource sharing, search technology, university college dublin, university of london, university of nottingham |
The Library Catalogue in the New Discovery Environment: Some Thoughts |
Lorcan Dempsey explores how the library catalogue will develop alongside evolving network discovery systems.
issue48 July 2006 |
aggregation, amazon, authentication, bibliographic data, blog, browser, cataloguing, d-lib magazine, data, database, digitisation, ebook, frbr, google, google scholar, institutional repository, itunes, library management systems, librarything, marc, metadata, network service, oclc, opac, repositories, research, resource management, resource sharing, rss, search technology, software, srw, syndication, tagging, university of huddersfield, web 2.0, web resources, web services, worldcat, z39.50 |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 46: Ten Years of Pathfinding |
John MacColl, Lorcan Dempsey and John Kirriemuir reflect in turn on the rationale and history of the founding of Ariadne.
issue46 February 2006 |
blog, cataloguing, dcc, digital curation, digital library, digitisation, ejournal, elib, framework, google, higher education, information retrieval, jisc, oclc, programmable web, rae, research, resource discovery, search technology, shared resource, software, theseus, ukoln, university of abertay dundee, university of edinburgh, university of sheffield, url, video |
The (Digital) Library Environment: Ten Years After |
Lorcan Dempsey considers how the digital library environment has changed in the ten years since Ariadne was first published.
issue46 February 2006 |
aggregation, amazon, api, archives, archives hub, authentication, authentication service, bath information and data services, bibliographic data, bldsc, blog, born digital, british library, browser, cache, california digital library, cataloguing, content management, copac, copyright, crm, curation, d-lib magazine, data, data set, database, dest, digital asset management, digital curation, digital identity, digital library, digital preservation, digitisation, dner, dspace, dublin core, dublin core metadata initiative, e-framework, e-learning, e-research, ebank uk, elib, eportfolio, firefox, flickr, framework, google, google scholar, harvard university, higher education, html, infrastructure, instant messaging, institutional repository, irra, iso, itunes, jisc, jisc information environment, learning management system, library management systems, metadata, microsoft, national library, national library of australia, netvibes, network service, oai, oai-pmh, oclc, ontologies, open access, open source, openurl, personalisation, portal, portfolio, preservation, programmable web, rae, repositories, research, research information network, resource description, resource discovery, resource management, resource sharing, rss, sakai, schema, search technology, service registry, software, sru, standardisation, tagging, taxonomy, university of virginia, uportal, url, visualisation, vle, vocabularies, w3c, web 2.0, web resources, web services, wiki, wireless, worldcat, z39.50 |
The Distributed National Electronic Resource and the Hybrid Library |
Stephen Pinfield and Lorcan Dempsey with an overview of the DNER.
issue26 January 2001 |
agora, archives, archives hub, authentication, becta, bibliographic data, collection description, copac, data, data set, database, digital library, digital preservation, dner, eevl, elib, framework, further education, geospatial data, gis, higher education, infrastructure, jisc, jisc information environment, ldap, library management systems, national science foundation, oclc, open archives initiative, personalisation, preservation, research, resource discovery, search technology, semantic web, sfx, sosig, standards, ukoln, university of birmingham, university of nottingham, url, web resources, z39.50 |
A Policy Context: eLib and the Emergence of the Subject Gateways |
Derek Law and Lorcan Dempsey outline some of the features of the policy environment which led to the setting up of the influential 'subject gateways' as part of the UK Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib).
issue25 September 2000 |
archives, bibliographic data, british library, cache, cataloguing, cni, coalition for networked information, copac, copyright, d-lib magazine, data, data set, digital object identifier, digitisation, dner, eevl, elib, framework, higher education, identifier, ietf, infrastructure, interoperability, jisc, jisc information environment, kings college london, portfolio, research, resource discovery, software, sosig, tasi, ukoln, university of bath, university of bristol, university of strathclyde, url |
Scientific, Industrial, and Cultural Heritage: A Shared Approach |
Lorcan Dempsey presents a research framework for libraries, archives and museums prepared for the European Commission.
issue22 December 1999 |
accessibility, aggregation, api, archives, authentication, born digital, cache, cataloguing, collection description, copyright, data, database, digital library, digital media, digital repositories, digitisation, document management, framework, identifier, information society, infrastructure, interoperability, jisc, jisc information environment, metadata, mis, multimedia, national library, network service, operating system, personalisation, preservation, privacy, provenance, repositories, research, resource description, resource discovery, resource management, schema, search technology, software, standardisation, subject gateway, telnet, ukoln, university of bath, url, video, visualisation, vocabularies, web development, z39.50 |
Public Libraries: Virtual Library - False Dawn? |
Frank Webster and Lorcan Dempsey exchange views on virtual libraries.
issue20 June 1999 |
amazon, archives, authentication, bbc, born digital, copyright, data, database, dissemination, higher education, information society, infrastructure, mobile, research, smithsonian institution, ukoln, university of birmingham, video |
Public Libraries Corner: Soul and Song |
Lorcan Dempsey writes about the recent report: New Library: the People's Network.
issue12 November 1997 |
british library, copyright, digital library, digitisation, framework, further education, information society, infrastructure, jisc, library association, preservation, research, standards, ukoln, university of bath |
Meta Detectors |
Lorcan Dempsey talks about metadata and the development of resource discovery services in the UK.
issue3 May 1996 |
aggregation, archives, bibliographic data, cataloguing, data, database, dissemination, eevl, elib, framework, higher education, html, identifier, ihr-info, java, jisc, jisc information environment, licence, marc, metadata, niss, oclc, repositories, research, resource discovery, rtf, search technology, sosig, udc, university of kent, university of oxford, z39.50 |
View from the Hill |
Matthew Evans, Chairman of Faber and Faber and of the recently formed Library and Information Commission, in discussion with Lorcan Dempsey.
issue2 March 1996 |
higher education |