Buzz - Digital Curation
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Making Citation Work: A British Library DataCite Workshop
Alex Ball reports on a workshop on practical data citation issues for institutions, held at the British Library, London, on 8 March 2013.
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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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CURATEcamp iPres 2012
Mark Jordan, Courtney Mumma, Nick Ruest and the participants of CURATEcamp iPres 2012 report on this unconference for digital curation practitioners and researchers, held on 2 October 2012 in Toronto.
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 70
The editor introduces readers to the content of Ariadne Issue 70.
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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.
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Online Information 2012
Marieke Guy reports on the largest gathering of information professionals in Europe.
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Upskilling Liaison Librarians for Research Data Management
Andrew Cox, Eddy Verbaan and Barbara Sen explore the design of a curriculum to train academic librarians in the competencies to support Research Data Management.
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The Second British Library DataCite Workshop
Alex Ball reports on a one-day workshop on metadata supporting the citation of research data, held at the British Library, London, on 6 July 2012.
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Data Citation and Publication by NERC’s Environmental Data Centres
Sarah Callaghan, Roy Lowry, David Walton and members of the Natural Environment Research Council Science Information Strategy Data Citation and Publication Project team describe their work in NERC’s Environmental Data Centres.
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The Future of the Past of the Web
Matthew Brack reports on the one-day international workshop 'The Future of the Past of the Web' held at the British Library Conference Centre, London on 7 October, 2011.
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The Informatics Transform: Re-engineering Libraries for the Data Decade
Liz Lyon proposes that libraries re-position, re-profile and ramp up their engagement with research data management, scholarly communications and citizen science.
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DataCite UK User Group Meeting
Alex Ball reports on the 2nd UK User Group meeting for DataCite, held at the British Library in London, in April 2011. -
Institutional Challenges in the Data Decade
Marion Tattersall, Carmen O'Dell and John Lewis report on Institutional Challenges in the Data Decade, organised by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) in partnership with the White Rose University Consortium and held 1-3 March 2011 at the University of Sheffield. -
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. -
International Digital Curation Conference 2010
Alex Ball reports on the 6th International Digital Curation Conference, held on 7-8 December 2010 in Chicago. -
Academic Liaison Librarianship: Curatorial Pedagogy or Pedagogical Curation?
Allan Parsons presents a strategic view of the need to develop the academic liaison librarianship role. -
Developing Infrastructure for Research Data Management at the University of Oxford
James A. J. Wilson, Michael A. Fraser, Luis Martinez-Uribe, Paul Jeffreys, Meriel Patrick, Asif Akram and Tahir Mansoori describe the approaches taken, findings, and issues encountered while developing research data management services and infrastructure at the University of Oxford. -
Repository Fringe 2010
Martin Donnelly (and friends) report on the Repository Fringe "unconference" held at the National e-Science Centre in Edinburgh, Scotland, over 2-3 September 2010. -
Survive or Thrive
Ed Fay reports on a two-day conference organised by UKOLN on behalf of JISC to consider growth and use of digital content on the Web, which was held in Manchester in June 2010. -
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. -
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. -
Data Services for the Sciences: A Needs Assessment
Brian Westra describes a data services needs assessment for science research staff at the University of Oregon. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 64: Supporting the Power of Research Data
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 64. -
Retooling Libraries for the Data Challenge
Dorothea Salo examines how library systems and procedures need to change to accommodate research data. -
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. -
A Research Revolution: The Impact of Digital Technologies
Dicky Maidment-Otlet and Judy Redfearn describe a new JISC activity to highlight how digital technologies are changing research. -
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. -
Enhancing Scientific Communication through Aggregated Publications
Arjan Hogenaar describes changes in the publication and communication process which will mean that the role of authors will become a more prominent one. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Research Data Preservation and Access: The Views of Researchers
Neil Beagrie, Robert Beagrie and Ian Rowlands present findings from a UKRDS survey of researchers' views on and practices for preservation and dissemination of research data in four UK universities. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Data Preservation and Long-term Analysis in High-Energy Physics
Richard Mount reports on the First Workshop on Data Preservation and Long-Term Analysis in High-Energy Physics, held at DESY (Deutsche Elektronen-Synchrotron), Hamburg, Germany, on 26-28 January 2008. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) Fall Meeting
Paul Walk reports on the Sun-PASIG winter meeting held in Baltimore, USA on 18-20 November 2008. -
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. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
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. -
Open Repositories 2008
Mahendra Mahey reports on the third international Open Repositories 2008 Conference, held at the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton in April 2008. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 55: Digital Lives, Digital Values
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 55. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
ECDL 2007
Mahendra Mahey, Emma Tonkin and Robert John Robertson report on the 2007 European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, held in Budapest, Hungary, over 16-22 September, 2007. -
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. -
Googlepository and the University Library
Sue Manuel and Charles Oppenheim discuss the concept of Google as a repository within the wider context of resource management and provision in Further and Higher Education. -
Newsline
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Progress Towards Addressing Digital Preservation Challenges
Helen Hockx-Yu reports on the 2nd Planets, CASPAR and DPE annual conference, held on 5-6 September 2007 in Lisbon, Portugal. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland
John MacColl reviews the first two volumes of this very substantial three-part work, covering the periods to 1640 and 1640-1850. -
Hold It, Hold It ... Start Again: The Perils of Project Video Production
It's not like writing a paper. Film production, when the camera points at you, can challenge all sorts of sensitivities. Steve Hitchcock survived the ordeal to tell the story of the Preserv Project video. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
The JISC Annual Conference 2007
Philip Pothen and colleagues provide an overview of the proceedings of this Spring's JISC Annual Conference. -
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. -
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. -
Book Review: Digital Preservation
Maureen Pennock reviews a release in Facet's Digital Futures series. -
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. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Workshop on E-Research, Digital Repositories and Portals
Rob Allan, Rob Crouchley and Caroline Ingram report on a two-day workshop held at University of Lancaster over 6-7 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. -
Digital Preservation Coalition Forum on Web Archiving
Maureen Pennock and Manjula Patel report on the Digital Preservation Coalition's second Web Archiving Forum which took place at the British Library in London on 12 June 2006. -
Email Curation: Practical Approaches for Long-term Preservation
Dave Thompson reports on a two-day conference on Email Curation organised by the Digital Curation Centre. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
The Digital Library and Its Services
Neil Beagrie and Rachel Bruce report on a two-day invitational conference on The Digital Library and its Services sponsored by The British Library, JISC and UKOLN under the aegis of the British Library/JISC Partnership, held in the British Library Conference Centre on over 6-7 March 2006. -
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. -
The Second Digital Repositories Programme Meeting
Julie Allinson and Mahendra Mahey report on a 2-day JISC Digital Repositories Meeting focusing on project clusters working together and other related issues held by JISC in Warwick, UK over 27-28 March 2006. -
Digital Curation and Preservation: Defining the Research Agenda for the Next Decade
Philip Pothen reports on this two-day conference at Warwick University over 7-8 November 2005. -
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. -
Excuse Me... Some Digital Preservation Fallacies?
Chris Rusbridge argues with himself about some of the assumptions behind digital preservation thinking. -
Joint Workshop on Future-proofing Institutional Websites
Maureen Pennock reports on a two-day workshop on Future-Proofing Web Sites, organised by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) and the Wellcome Library at the Wellcome Library, London, over 19-20 January 2006. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Research Libraries Engage the Digital World: A US-UK Comparative Examination of Recent History and Future Prospects
Clifford Lynch looks at how the emergence of e-research has changed our thinking about the future of research libraries on both sides of the Atlantic. -
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. -
Book Review: Cataloging and Organizing Digital Resources
Sarah Higgins learns how to incorporate online resources into a library catalogue using AACR2 and MARC, but wonders why the wider issue of organising and describing a full range of digital resources is not addressed. -
Digital Curation: Where Do We Go from Here?
Peter Kerr, Fiona Reddington and Max Wilkinson report on the 1st International Digital Curation Conference held in Bath in September 2005. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
DCC Workshop on Persistent Identifiers
Philip Hunter gives a personal view of this workshop held in Glasgow, 30 June - 1 July, supported by NISO, CETIS, ERPANET, UKOLN and the DCC. -
Integration and Impact: The JISC Annual Conference
Marieke Guy has collated reports on sessions from the JISC Annual Conference held in Birmingham. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Virtual Research Environments: Overview and Activity
Michael Fraser provides an overview of the virtual research environment (VRE) and introduces three JISC-funded projects in which Oxford University is participating. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
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. -
ECDL 2004: A Digital Librarian's Report
Jessie Hey reports on the 8th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries held at the University of Bath in September 2004. -
Sense of the South West Conference: Collaboration for Sustainability
Katie Lusty reports on a one-day conference on the sustainability of digitisation projects, held in Bath on 8 October 2004. -
Adding Value to the National Information Infrastructure: The EDINA Exchange Day, Edinburgh
John MacColl provides us with a report of EDINA's first general information event for the HE and FE communities held at the National E-Science Centre. -
ERPANET Seminar on Persistent Identifiers
Monica Duke reports on a two-day training seminar on persistent identifiers held by ERPANET in Cork, Ireland over 17-18 June 2004. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
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. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 30: Centering the Periphery - A New Equity in Information Access?
Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne issue 30.