Buzz - Digital Archive
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Book Review: Powering Search - The Role of Thesauri in New Information Environments
Leonard Will reviews a comprehensive survey of the literature on the use of thesauri in information search processes and interfaces.
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DataFinder: A Research Data Catalogue for Oxford
Sally Rumsey and Neil Jefferies explain the context and the decisions guiding the development of DataFinder, a data catalogue for the University of Oxford.
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ECLAP 2013: Information Technologies for Performing Arts, Media Access and Entertainment
Marieke Guy reports on the second international conference held by ECLAP, the e-library for performing arts.
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The Wellcome Library, Digital
Christy Henshaw and Robert Kiley describe how the Wellcome Library has transformed its information systems to support mass digitisation of historic collections.
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23rd International CODATA Conference
Alex Ball reports on a conference on ‘Open Data and Information for a Changing Planet’ held by the International Council for Science’s Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan on 28–31 October 2012.
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Hydra UK: Flexible Repository Solutions to Meet Varied Needs
Chris Awre reports on the Hydra UK event held on 22 November 2012 at the Library of the London School of Economics.
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International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL) 2012
Anna Mastora and Sarantos Kapidakis report on TPDL 2012 held at Paphos, Cyprus, over 23-27 September 2012.
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 65: Ariadne in Search of Your Views
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 65. -
Trust Me, I'm an Archivist
Christopher Hilton, Dave Thompson and Natalie Walters describe some of the issues of engaging with donors when it comes to transferring born-digital material to the Library. -
Repository Software Comparison: Building Digital Library Infrastructure at LSE
Ed Fay presents a comparison of repository software that was carried out at LSE in support of digital library infrastructure development. -
A Pragmatic Approach to Preferred File Formats for Acquisition
Dave Thompson sets out the pragmatic approach to preferred file formats for long-term preservation used at the Wellcome Library. -
Balancing Stakeholder Needs: Archive 2.0 As Community-centred Design
Jim Ridolfo, William Hart-Davidson and Michael McLeod present a case example on building a digital archive with cultural and scholarly stakeholder groups - to provide a model for balancing stakeholder needs. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 63: Consider the Users in the Field
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 63. -
Moving Towards Interoperability: Experiences of the Archives Hub
Jane Stevenson and Bethan Ruddock describe the work that the Archives Hub team has been doing to promote the sharing of content. -
Planning the Future of the National Library of Mongolia
Monika Segbert-Elbert and David Fuegi describe the National Library of Mongolia's plans to modernise its infrastructure and services. -
The Fourth DCC-RIN Research Data Management Forum
Martin Donnelly and Graham Pryor report on the fourth Research Data Management Forum event, on the theme "Dealing with Sensitive Data: Managing Ethics, Security and Trust," organised by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) and Research Information Network (RIN) in Manchester, England, over 10 - 11 March, 2010. -
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. -
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. -
The RSP Goes 'Back to School'
Stephanie Taylor reports on the three-day residential school for repository managers run by the Repositories Support Project (RSP), held on 14-16 September 2009 in Northumberland. -
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. -
Archives 2.0: If We Build It, Will They Come?
Joy Palmer discusses some of the opportunities and tensions emerging around Archives 2.0, crowd-sourcing, and archival authority. -
The Norwegian National Digital Library
Marianne Takle describes the National Library of Norway's digitisation strategy and how the National Library is taking on a key role in the country's digital library service. -
From Cultural Heritage to Digital Knowledge: Building Infrastructures for a Global Knowledge Society
Astrid Recker reports on the 3rd IFLA Presidential Meeting, held by the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) in Berlin over 19-20 February 2009. -
Preserving Local Archival Heritage for Ongoing Accessibility
Frances Boyle, Alexandra Eveleigh and Heather Needham describe the recent digital preservation initiatives in the local authority archives sector. -
Digital Preservation Planning: Principles, Examples and the Future With Planets
Frances Boyle and Jane Humphreys report on the one-day workshop on digital preservation planning jointly organised by the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and Planets held at the British Library, on Tuesday 29 July 2008. -
eResearch Australasia 2008
Tobias Blanke, Ann Borda, Gaby Bright and Bridget Soulsby report on the annual eResearch Australasia Conference, held in Melbourne, Australia, 29 September - 3 October, 2008. -
iPRES 2008
Frances Boyle and Adam Farquhar report on the two-day international conference which was the fifth in the series on digital preservation of digital objects held at the British Library, on 29 - 30 September 2008. -
Preservation of Web Resources: Making a Start
Stephen Emmott reports on a one-day workshop aimed at all those interested in issues relating to institutional Web resource preservation. The event was held by the JISC-PoWR team at the University of London in June 2008. -
Sun Preservation and Archive Special Interest Group: May 2008 Meeting
Vicky Mays and Ian Dolphin review the Sun Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) meeting held in San Francisco in May 2008. -
Digital Lives: Report of Interviews With the Creators of Personal Digital Collections
Pete Williams, Ian Rowlands, Katrina Dean and Jeremy Leighton John describe initial findings of the AHRC-funded Digital Lives Research Project studying personal digital collections and their relationship with research repositories such as the British Library. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 55: Digital Lives, Digital Values
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 55. -
Future-Proofing the Past: LAI Joint Conference 2008
Siobhan Fitzpatrick reports on the Annual Joint Conference of the Library Association of Ireland and Cilip IRELAND. -
Ancient Cultures Inside Modern Universes
Edgardo Civallero writes on preservation and dissemination of intangible South American indigenous heritage and updating information using Web-based tools. -
We Do Not Know We Are Born (Digital)
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 54. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 53: Unlocking Our Televisual Past
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 53. -
Further Experiences in Collecting Born Digital Archives at the Wellcome Library
Chris Hilton and Dave Thompson continue discussing plans for the engagement with born digital archival material at the Wellcome Library. -
The DARE Chronicle: Open Access to Research Results and Teaching Material in the Netherlands
Leo Waaijers reflects on four years of progress and also looks ahead. -
The KIDMM Community's 'MetaKnowledge Mash-up'
Conrad Taylor reports on the KIDMM knowledge community and its September 2007 one-day conference about data, information and knowledge management issues. -
The Video Active Consortium: Europe's Television History Online
Johan Oomen and Vassilis Tzouvaras provide an insight into the background and development of the Video Active Portal which offers access to television heritage material from leading archives across Europe. -
Access to Scientific Knowledge for Sustainable Development: Options for Developing Countries
Barbara Kirsop, Leslie Chan and Subbiah Arunachalam consider the impact of donor access and open access to research publications on the sustainable development of science in developing countries. -
2nd International DCC Conference 2006: Digital Data Curation in Practice
Alexander Ball and Manjula Patel provide an overview of the second annual conference of the Digital Curation Centre. -
Collecting Born Digital Archives at the Wellcome Library
Chris Hilton and Dave Thompson discuss plans for work with born digital archival material at the Wellcome Library. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 50: Side-Stepping Babel
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne 50. -
Web Curator Tool
Philip Beresford tells the story (from The British Library's perspective) of the development of new software to aid all stages of harvesting Web sites for preservation. -
DC 2006: Metadata for Knowledge and Learning
Julie Allinson, Rachel Heery, Pete Johnston and Rosemary Russell report on DC 2006, the sixth international conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, held 3 - 6 October 2006. -
Immaculate Catalogues, Indexes and Monsters Too...
David E. Bennett reports on the three day residential CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group Annual Conference, University of East Anglia, during September 2006. -
A Foundation for Automatic Digital Preservation
Miguel Ferreira, Ana Alice Baptista and Jose Carlos Ramalho propose a Service-Oriented Architecture to help cultural heritage institutions to accomplish automatic digital preservation. -
The Tasks of the AHDS: Ten Years on
Alastair Dunning reviews 10 years in the history of the Arts and Humanities Data Service. -
Supporting Digital Preservation and Asset Management in Institutions
Leona Carpenter describes a JISC development programme tackling the organisational and technical challenges facing Higher and Further Education in the UK. -
A Tradition of Scholarly Documentation for Digital Objects: The Launch of the Digital Curation Centre
Philip Hunter reports on the launch of the DCC at the National eScience Centre in Edinburgh, November 2004. -
Recasting the Past: Digital Histories
Vanessa Carr reports on a one day conference about digitising historical records, held jointly by the Association for History and Computing UK and the Royal Historical Society. -
How the Use of Standards Is Transforming Australian Digital Libraries
Debbie Campbell explains how the exploitation of recent standards has allowed the National Library of Australia to digitise its collections and host federated search services and provide an improved service. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Rights Management and Digital Library Requirements
Karen Coyle describes some aspects of rights expression languages favoured by the commercial content industries and how these may differ from the rights needs of digital libraries. -
A National Archive of Datasets
Jeffrey Darlington describes how structured datasets produced by UK Government departments and agencies are being archived and made available to users. -
RDN/LTSN Partnerships: Learning Resource Discovery Based on the LOM and the OAI-PMH
Andy Powell and Phil Barker explore the technical collaboration currently underway between the RDN and the LTSN and describe the RDN/LTSN LOM Application Profile and its use to support resource discovery. -
ECDL-2003 Web Archiving
Michael Day reports on the 3rd ECDL Workshop on Web Archives held in Trondheim, August 2003. -
The 2nd Workshop on the Open Archives Initiative (OAI)
William Nixon and Pauline Simpson report on the meeting held at CERN, Geneva, in October 2002. -
Climbing the Scholarly Publishing Mountain With SHERPA
John MacColl and Stephen Pinfield explore the SHERPA project, which is concentrating on making e-prints available online. -
The AIM25 Project
Robert Baxter, Frances Blomeley and Rachel Kemsley present AIM25, a project providing electronic access to descriptions of archives held in various London institutions. -
The Open Archives Forum
Susanne Dobratz, Friederike Schimmelpfennig and Peter Schirmbacher introduce the new Open Archives Forum project to promote the ideas of the OAI in Europe. -
Digital Curation: Digital Archives, Libraries and e-Science Seminar
Neil Beagrie and Philip Pothen report on the Digital Preservation day in October 2001, held in London. -
Metadata: Preservation 2000
Michael Day reports on the Digital Preservation conference held in York in December 2000. -
Travelling at the Speed of Discovery: The MALIBU Project's Most Valuable Lessons
Valeda Dent with a newcomer's perspective on the MALIBU project. -
JSTOR Usage
Alison Murphy reports on the JSTOR electronic journals project continuing success. -
Metadata for Digital Preservation: An Update
Michael Day discusses 'Metadata for Digital Preservation'. -
Digitizing Wilfrid
Philip Hunter talks to Stuart Lee about the prizewinning 'Wilfrid Owen Multimedia Digital Archive' and the JTAP 'Virtual Seminars on WW1'. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 21: Ariadne's Thread
Introduction to Ariadne issue 21 by Philip Hunter. -
Metadata: Workshop in Luxembourg
Michael Day and Andy Stone report on the Third Metadata Workshop in Luxembourg. -
CEDARS
Kelly Russell explores the main deliverables of the CEDARS project: recommendations and guidelines, plus practical, robust and scaleable models for establishing distributed digital archives. -
The Technical Advisory Service for Images (TASI)
Karla Youngs describes what TASI is and the work that it is doing in building a common ‘Framework’ for digital imaging projects. -
Web Editorial: Introduction to Issue 18
The web editors, Bernadette Daly and Philip Hunter, introduce Ariadne issue 18. -
Electronic Access: Archives in the New Millennium
Michael Day reports from Kew on the Public Record Office view of the Brave New World of online archives. -
Metadata Corner
Michael Day reports from Tomar, Portugal, on the DELOS6 Workshop. -
A National Co-ordinating Body for Digital Archiving?
David Haynes discusses one possible way forward for ensuring that potentially valued digital materials are preserved for future study and use. -
Newsline: News You Can Use
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Serving the Arts and Humanities
Dan Greenstein gives an extensive description of AHDS, the Arts and Humanities Data Service: its objectives, organisation, and how the data will be collected, preserved and described..