IFLA World Library and Information Congress 2012 |
Marieke Guy reports on the 78th IFLA General Conference and Assembly held in Helsinki, Finland over 11-17 August 2012.
issue70 November 2012 |
accessibility, aggregation, archives, arl, association of research libraries, chrome, cloud computing, cni, coalition for networked information, communications protocol, copyright, curation, data, data management, data set, dcc, digital curation, digital library, digital preservation, dublin core, facebook, framework, google, identifier, ifla, internet explorer, linked data, mac os, metadata, mobile, named entity recognition, preservation, privacy, remote working, repositories, research, simon fraser university, twitter, ukoln, university of bath, university of glasgow, university of northampton, video |
Online Information 2012 |
Marieke Guy reports on the largest gathering of information professionals in Europe.
issue70 November 2012 |
algorithm, amazon, augmented reality, bibliographic data, big data, blog, cataloguing, cloud computing, copyright, data, data management, data set, database, datashare, dcc, digital curation, digital library, digital repositories, dmponline, facebook, flickr, framework, google, higher education, identifier, interoperability, jisc, junaio, library data, licence, linked data, marc, metadata, microsoft, mimas, mobile, oclc, oer, open data, open source, operating system, privacy, qr code, rdfa, rdmrose, remote working, repositories, research, schema.org, search technology, software, streaming, twitter, ukoln, university of bath, university of dundee, university of edinburgh, university of manchester, university of sheffield, university of sussex, uri, video, vocabularies, wikipedia, worldcat, youtube |
Eduserv Symposium 2012: Big Data, Big Deal? |
Marieke Guy attended the annual Eduserv Symposium on 10 May 2012 at the Royal College of Physicians, London to find out what are the implications of big data for Higher Education Institutions.
issue69 July 2012 |
accessibility, algorithm, amazon, big data, blog, cetis, cloud computing, curation, data, data management, data set, database, dcc, dealing with data, digitisation, eduserv, gis, google, google analytics, google trends, hadoop, higher education, impact project, infrastructure, intellectual property, internet explorer, irods, jisc, mobile, nosql, oer, open data, open source, orcid, oreilly, oxford internet institute, remote working, research, twitter, ukoln, university of bath, university of bristol, university of california berkeley, university of leicester, university of oxford, usb, webtrends, wellcome trust |
IMPACT Final Conference 2011 |
Marieke Guy reports on the two-day conference looking at the results of the IMPACT Project in making digitisation and OCR better, faster and cheaper.
issue68 March 2012 |
abbyy, ahlib, archives, austrian national library, blog, bnf, brightsolid, british library, california digital library, content conversion specialists, copyright, d-lib magazine, data, data management, data set, database, dcc, digital library, digitisation, dissemination, europeana, finereader, framework, google, google books, ibm, ict, impact project, information retrieval, institute for dutch lexicology, interoperability, metadata, mets, national and university library of slovenia, national library, national library of finland, national library of the netherlands, ocr, oer, open source, optical character recognition, preservation, research, search technology, software, solr, stanford university, tagging, tesseract, tufts university, twitter, ukoln, unicode, university of bath, university of munich, university of oxford, university of salford, university of utrecht, wiki, wordpress |
10 Cheap and Easy Ways to Amplify Your Event |
Marieke Guy describes new tools and services that can help you get your event heard.
issue66 January 2011 |
amplified event, archives, avi, beginners guide to digital preservation, blog, copyright, creative commons, digital preservation, dissemination, eduserv, elluminate, facebook, flickr, google, hashtag, intellectual property, internet archive, jisc, jisc powr project, licence, metadata, mobile, mobile phone, mp4, mpeg, netvibes, odp, open source, opml, pageflakes, podcast, powr, preservation, qik, remote working, research, rss, search technology, software, storify, streaming, tagging, twitter, ukoln, university of bath, usb, ustream, video, web development, webinar, wiki, wordpress, youtube |
Blue Ribbon Task Force Symposium on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access |
Marieke Guy reports on a symposium which provided an opportunity for stakeholders to respond to the recent Blue Ribbon Task Force report on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access.
issue64 July 2010 |
archives, bbc, beginners guide to digital preservation, blog, british library, cni, coalition for networked information, copyright, creative commons, curation, data, data set, dcc, digital curation, digital library, digital preservation, digitisation, dublin core, europeana, fedora commons, framework, infrastructure, iso, jisc, national library, oclc, open access, open planets foundation, open source, preservation, research, software, uk data archive, ukoln, university college london, university of bath, university of essex, video |
A Support Framework for Remote Workers |
Marieke Guy follows up on her two previous articles for Ariadne with an overview of an evolving structure to provide consistent support to UKOLN colleagues who work remotely.
issue59 April 2009 |
blog, data, dissemination, framework, higher education, ict, intranet, multimedia, remote working, research, software, twitter, ucisa, ukoln, university of bath, university of london, video |
Book Review: Presentation Zen - Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery |
Marieke Guy gets in touch with her inner PowerPoint Zen.
issue58 January 2009 |
apple, blog, data, research, ukoln, university of bath |
Get Tooled Up: Staying Connected: Technologies Supporting Remote Workers |
Having considered organisational issues in her previous article, Marieke Guy takes a look at the many technologies that support remote working, from broadband to Web 2.0 social networking tools.
issue57 October 2008 |
adobe, archives, authentication, bbc, blog, browser, data, database, dissemination, e-learning, eportfolio, facebook, flickr, google, google docs, higher education, infrastructure, internet archive, jabber, jisc, microblogging, microsoft, mobile, mobile phone, mp3, multimedia, operating system, passwords, podcast, portfolio, powr, preservation, remote working, repositories, research, search technology, smartphone, social networks, software, standards, streaming, twitter, ukoln, university of aberdeen, university of bath, university of london, usability, video, videoconferencing, web 2.0, web application, web development, web resources, wiki, wikipedia, windows, wireless, wordpress, youtube |
Book Review: Managing the Crowd - Rethinking Records Management for the Web 2.0 World |
Marieke Guy reviews a text that could offer the blueprint for moving records management into the 21st century.
issue57 October 2008 |
blog, browser, data, foia, framework, jisc, metadata, powr, research, resource discovery, search technology, software, tagging, ukoln, university of bath, web 2.0, web development |
A Desk Too Far?: The Case for Remote Working |
Marieke Guy examines both the benefits and the pitfalls of working remotely from the standpoint of both employees and their organisation.
issue56 July 2008 |
blog, coventry university, data, e-business, e-learning, harvard university, higher education, infrastructure, instant messaging, jisc, liw, mobile, remote working, research, rss, standards, ukoln, university of bath, university of oxford, video, web 2.0, wiki, wikipedia |
Wikido: Exploiting the Potential of Wikis |
Marieke Guy reports on a one-day workshop, held in Birmingham in November 2006, which took a closer look at the potential of Wikis for educational institutions.
issue50 January 2007 |
api, authentication, blog, data, digital repositories, e-learning, firefox, flickr, google, ict, imperial college london, interoperability, kings college london, metadata, open source, research, shibboleth, software, sword protocol, ukoln, university of bath, usability, web 2.0, web development, wiki, wikipedia, wireless |
Wiki Or Won't He? A Tale of Public Sector Wikis |
Marieke Guy revisits a topic receiving considerable attention these days and reflects on wiki use by public organisations.
issue49 October 2006 |
archives, authentication, bbc, blog, cataloguing, cetis, cloud computing, content management, copyright, data, database, digital repositories, e-learning, eportfolio, further education, gnu, google, interoperability, intranet, jisc, knowledge base, licence, metadata, moodle, nhs, oclc, open access, open source, oss watch, podcast, preservation, repositories, research, rss, search technology, social software, software, standardisation, standards, syndication, tagging, ukoln, university of bath, university of manchester, university of oxford, url, web 2.0, web development, wiki, wikimania, wikipedia, wireless, worldcat |
The Rustle of Digital Curation: The JISC Annual Conference |
Julie Allinson, Marieke Guy and Maureen Pennock find themselves contemplating e-frameworks, digital curation and repositories at the JISC Annual Conference.
issue47 April 2006 |
api, archives, blog, british library, cataloguing, cclrc, cd-lor, claddier, coalition for networked information, copyright, curation, data, data set, database, dcc, dest, digital curation, digital preservation, digital preservation coalition, digital repositories, digitisation, e-framework, e-learning, e-research, edina, eportfolio, eprints, flash, framework, geospatial data, gis, google, google maps, hefce, higher education, ict, infrastructure, institutional repository, interoperability, intute, jisc, jisc collections, jisc information environment, jorum, learning design, learning objects, london school of economics, metadata, mimas, ogc, open access, open geospatial consortium, open source, preservation, repositories, research, resource discovery, romeo, search technology, sherpa, text mining, ukoln, university of bath, university of dundee, university of edinburgh, university of southampton, vocabularies, wellcome trust, wireless, wms, xml |
Integration and Impact: The JISC Annual Conference |
Marieke Guy has collated reports on sessions from the JISC Annual Conference held in Birmingham.
issue44 July 2005 |
accessibility, amazon, archives, authentication, creative commons, cree, curation, data, data management, data set, database, dcc, digimap, digital curation, digital library, dissemination, e-business, e-learning, e-research, e-science, ebook, edina, eduserv, ejournal, framework, further education, geospatial data, gis, google, google scholar, higher education, ibm, ict, infrastructure, interoperability, jisc, jisc information environment, licence, mimas, mobile, mrc, national e-science centre, national grid service, open access, open data, open university, oxford university press, portal, preservation, repositories, research, resource discovery, search technology, shibboleth, software, text mining, ukerna, ukoln, university college london, university of cambridge, university of nottingham, university of oxford, uportal, video, virtual research environment, vle, web services, wellcome trust, wsrp |
Finding Someplace to Go: Reading and the Internet |
Marieke Guy takes a look at what the Internet has to offer the art of reading.
issue43 April 2005 |
archives, bbc, cataloguing, database, framework, hypertext, interoperability, metadata, mla, national library, network service, openurl, ukoln, url |
Book Review: Metadata for Information Management and Retrieval |
Marieke Guy takes a look at a recent introduction to metadata for the information professional.
issue43 April 2005 |
algorithm, american library association, bibliographic data, cataloguing, cilip, controlled vocabularies, data, data model, dublin core, e-government, ead, framework, frbr, gif, graphics, identifier, ieee, ieee lom, information retrieval, interoperability, learning object metadata, learning objects, lom, marc, metadata, mets, multimedia, oais, oasis, onix, rdf, research, resource description, semantic web, sgml, standards, ukoln, vocabularies, xml |
Improving the Quality of Metadata in Eprint Archives |
Marieke Guy, Andy Powell and Michael Day address the argument that the quality of service to end-users is markedly influenced by the quality of metadata being produced and provide suggestions.
issue38 January 2004 |
andrew w mellon foundation, application profile, archives, cataloguing, collection description, controlled vocabularies, data, digital library, dublin core, eprints, eprints uk, gnu, html, interoperability, jisc, learning objects, metadata, oai, oai-pmh, open archives initiative, research, rslp, schema, search technology, semantic web, simple dublin core, software, subject portals project, ukoln, university of southampton, usability, vocabularies |
Review: Naked in Cyberspace |
Marieke Guy taps into our increasing collective paranoia about privacy with a review that explores the use of personal information in the Cyber Age.
issue36 July 2003 |
copyright, data, database, google, privacy, research, search technology, software, ukoln, university of bath, url |
QA Focus |
Marieke Napier on Quality Assurance procedures in the Jisc 5/99 Programme.
issue32 July 2002 |
accessibility, archives, data set, database, digitisation, dner, framework, graphics, html, ilrt, jisc, metadata, preservation, research, software, standards, tasi, ukoln, university of bath, university of bristol, url, usability, vads, video |
Multi-media and Image Handling: The future is Textless |
Marieke Napier on a DTI multimedia day in London in November 2001.
issue30 January 2002 |
algorithm, archives, bbc, css, data, data visualisation, graphics, metadata, middlesex university, mobile, mpeg, multimedia, personalisation, research, software, standardisation, thesaurus, university of southampton, university of wales, url, visualisation, web development |
Book Review: The Invisible Web |
Marieke Napier reviews the book: The Invisible Web.
issue30 January 2002 |
archives, browser, copyright, database, file sharing, framework, ftp, gopher, graphics, jisc, metadata, oracle, passwords, png, rdf, research, resource description, search technology, software, svg, ukoln, university of bath, url, vector graphics, w3c, web resources, web services, xml |
Developing an Agenda for Institutional E-Print Archives |
Philip Hunter, John MacColl and Marieke Napier report on a one day Open Archives conference on OAI compliant metadata and e-print issues. Held at the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, London. 11 July 2001.
issue29 October 2001 |
archives, authentication, british library, cornell university, data, data set, database, digital preservation, dissemination, dner, dublin core, eprints, framework, further education, html, infrastructure, interoperability, jisc, jisc information environment, marc, metadata, mimas, nesli, oai, oais, portal, preservation, rae, repec, repositories, research, software, standards, stm, ukoln, university college london, university of glasgow, university of leeds, university of southampton, url, xml, z39.50 |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 28: Ariadne's Thread |
Marieke Napier reviews recent developments on the cultural front and the contents of issue 28.
issue28 June 2001 |
accessibility, agora, british library, collection description, d-lib magazine, database, digital library, dner, dublin core, e-learning, elib, graphics, inspiral, jisc, metadata, oai, oxford brookes university, personalisation, preservation, queens university belfast, raster graphics, research, resource discovery, rslp, software, sosig, svg, ukoln, university of oxford, url, vector graphics, web development, xml |
Digital Museums: Braining Up Or Dumbing Down? |
Marieke Napier went to find out at the mda's 'Beyond the Museum' colloquium.
issue28 June 2001 |
archives, british library, cataloguing, framework, identifier, imperial college london, multimedia, search technology, semantic web, software, ukoln, university of oxford, url |
Review of Digital Imaging: A Practical Handbook |
Philip Hunter and Marieke Napier review Stuart Lee's 'Digital Imaging' handbook.
issue26 January 2001 |
andrew w mellon foundation, archives, cataloguing, copyright, digitisation, dublin core, framework, jisc, library association, metadata, multimedia, rdf, research, resource description, sgml, ukoln, university of bath, university of oxford, url, xml |
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