Buzz - Digital Library
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Automating Harvest and Ingest of the Medical Heritage Library
Christy Henshaw, Dave Thompson and João Baleia describe an automated process to harvest medical books and pamphlets from the Internet Archive into the Wellcome Library’s Digital Services environment.
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 71
The editor introduces readers to the content of Ariadne Issue 71.
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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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Mining the Archive: eBooks
Martin White looks through the Ariadne archive to track the development of ebooks.
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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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eMargin: A Collaborative Textual Annotation Tool
Andrew Kehoe and Matt Gee describe their Jisc-funded eMargin collaborative textual annotation tool, showing how it has widened its focus through integration with Virtual Learning Environments.
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Book Review: Information 2.0
Milena Dobreva reviews the newly published book of Martin de Saulles which looks at the new models of information production, distribution and consumption.
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Book Review: The Embedded Librarian
John Azzolini reviews a comprehensive overview of embedded librarianship, a new model of library service that promises to enhance the strategic value of contemporary knowledge work.
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Book Review: User Studies for Digital Library Development
Selenay Aytac reviews a collection of essays on user studies and digital library development that provides a concise overview of a variety of digital library projects and examines major research trends relating to digital libraries.
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Gold Open Access: Counting the Costs
Theo Andrew presents new data on the cost of Gold OA publishing at the University of Edinburgh.
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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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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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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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Motivations for the Development of a Web Resource Synchronisation Framework
Stuart Lewis, Richard Jones and Simeon Warner explain some of the motivations behind the development of the ResourceSync Framework.
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Online Information 2012
Marieke Guy reports on the largest gathering of information professionals in Europe.
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SUSHI: Delivering Major Benefits to JUSP
Paul Meehan, Paul Needham and Ross MacIntyre explain the enormous time and cost benefits in using SUSHI to support rapid gathering of journal usage reports into the JUSP service.
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The LIPARM Project: A New Approach to Parliamentary Metadata
Richard Gartner outlines a collaborative project which aims to link together the digitised UK Parliamentary record by providing a metadata scheme, controlled vocabularies and a Web-based interface.
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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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Book Review: I, Digital – A History Devoid of the Personal?
Chris Rusbridge reviews an edited volume that aims to fill a gap in ‘literature designed specifically to guide archivists’ thinking about personal digital materials’.
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Making the Most of a Conference
Stephanie Taylor writes about how she made the most of a conference to promote and inform the work of a project.
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Redeveloping the Loughborough Online Reading List System
Jon Knight, Jason Cooper and Gary Brewerton describe the redevelopment of Loughborough University’s open source reading list system.
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Perceptions of Public Libraries in Africa
Monika Elbert, David Fuegi and Ugne Lipeikaite describe the principal findings of the study Perceptions of Public Libraries in Africa which served to provide evidence of how public libraries are perceived by their stakeholders.
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Book Review: The Future of Archives and Recordkeeping
John Azzolini reviews an anthology of perceptive essays on the challenges presented to archival thought and practice by Web 2.0, postmodern perspectives, and cross-disciplinary interchanges.
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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.
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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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eSciDoc Days 2011: The Challenges for Collaborative eResearch Environments
Ute Rusnak reports on the fourth in a series of two-day conferences called eSciDoc Days, organised by FIZ Karlsruhe and the Max Planck Digital Library in Berlin over 26-27 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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Book Review: Envisioning Future Academic Library Services
John Azzolini reviews a timely collection of essays that highlights the values of institutional leadership and resourcefulness in academic librarianship's engagements with Web 2.0. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 67: Changes Afoot
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 67. -
Image 'Quotation' Using the C.I.T.E. Architecture
Christopher Blackwell and Amy Hackney Blackwell describe with examples a digital library infrastructure that affords canonical citation for 'quoting' images, useful for creating commentaries, arguments, and teaching tools. -
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. -
Retooling Special Collections Digitisation in the Age of Mass Scanning
Constance Rinaldo, Judith Warnement, Tom Baione, Martin R. Kalfatovic and Susan Fraser describe results from a study to identify and develop a cost-effective and efficient large-scale digitisation workflow for special collections library materials. -
Book Review: Practical Open Source Software for Libraries
Muhammad Rafiq takes a look at a work on the open source community and open source software. -
International Digital Curation Conference 2010
Alex Ball reports on the 6th International Digital Curation Conference, held on 7-8 December 2010 in Chicago. -
Reading Van Gogh Online?
Peter Boot shows how log analysis can be employed to assess a site's usability, usage, and users, using the Van Gogh letter edition as an example. -
Book Review: Introductory Concepts in Information Science
Charles Oppenheim takes a look at an introduction to Information Science but fails to be impressed. -
Europeana Open Culture 2010
David Fuegi and Monika Segbert-Elbert report on the annual Europeana Conference, held at the Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam in October 2010. -
Internet Librarian International Conference 2010
Claire Tylee, Katrin Flemming and Elly Cope report on the two-day Internet Librarian International Conference focusing on innovation and technology in the information profession, held in London on 14-15 October 2010. -
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. -
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. -
Book Review: Access, Delivery, Performance - The Future of Libraries Without Walls
Michael Day reviews a Festschrift celebrating the work of Professor Peter Brophy, founder of the Centre for Research in Library and Information Management. -
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. -
International UPA 2010 Conference User Experience Design for the World
Liza Zamboglou and Lorraine Paterson report on the Usability Professionals' Association's International Conference held in Munich, Germany in May 2010. -
Open Repositories 2010
Philip Hunter and Robin Taylor report on the Open Repositories Conference held in Madrid between 6 -9 July 2010 at the Palacio de Congresos. -
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. -
Retooling Libraries for the Data Challenge
Dorothea Salo examines how library systems and procedures need to change to accommodate research data. -
Book Review: Information Science in Transition
Michael Day reviews an edited volume published to commemorate the founding of the Institute of Information Scientists in 1958. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 63: Consider the Users in the Field
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 63. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
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. -
Turning on the Lights for the User: NISO Discovery to Delivery Forum
Laura Akerman and Kim Durante report on Discovery to Delivery, Creating a First-Class User Experience, a NISO Forum on today's information seekers and current standards developments held in March 2010 at the Georgia Tech Global Learning Center. -
Usability Inspection of Digital Libraries
Lorraine Paterson and Boon Low highlight findings from the usability inspection report conducted for the UX2.0 research project. -
eBooks: Tipping or Vanishing Point?
Emma Tonkin investigates ebooks and takes a look at recent technological and business developments in this area. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 61: The Double-edged Web
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 61. -
Learning to YODL: Building York's Digital Library
Peri Stracchino and Yankui Feng describe a year's progress in building the digital library infrastructure outlined by Julie Allinson and Elizabeth Harbord in their article last issue. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
UK Institutional Repository Search: Innovation and Discovery
Vic Lyte, Sophia Jones, Sophia Ananiadou and Linda Kerr describe an innovative tool to showcase UK research output through advanced discovery and retrieval facilities. -
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. -
JISC Digital Content Conference 2009
Michelle Pauli reports on a two-day conference on digital content held by JISC in South Cerney over 30 June - 1 July 2009. -
Open Repositories 2009
Adrian Stevenson reports on the four-day annual Open Repositories conference held at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, GA, USA over 18 - 21 May 2009. -
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. -
SHERPA to YODL-ING: Digital Mountaineering at York
Julie Allinson and Elizabeth Harbord describe the development of digital repositories for the University of York. -
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. -
IMPACT Conference: Optical Character Recognition in Mass Digitisation
Lieke Ploeger, Yola Park, Jeanna Nikolov-Ramirez Gaviria, Clemens Neudecker, Fedor Bochow and Michael Day report from the first IMPACT Conference, held in The Hague, Netherlands on 6-7 April, 2009. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
e-Framework Implements New Workplan
Ian Dolphin and Phil Nicholls describe recent and forthcoming developments from the e-Framework Partnership for Education and Research. -
An Awfully Big Adventure: Strathclyde's Digital Library Plan
Derek Law describes how the University of Strathclyde is choosing to give priority to e-content and services instead of a new building. -
Book Review: Making Sense With Metadata
Emma Tonkin takes a look at an impressive new book on the topic of metadata design, implementation and evaluation in theory and practice. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 58: People Still Matter
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 58. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
The European Film Gateway
Georg Eckes and Monika Segbert describe a Best Practice Network funded under the eContentplus Programme of the European Commission, which is building a portal for access to film archival resources in Europe. -
Time to Change Our Thinking: Dismantling the Silo Model of Digital Scholarship
Stephen G. Nichols argues that humanists need to replace the silo model of digital scholarship with collaborative ventures based on interoperability and critical comparison of content. -
A Bug's Life?: How Metaphors from Ecology Can Articulate the Messy Details of Repository Interactions
R. John Robertson, Mahendra Mahey and Phil Barker introduce work investigating an alternative model of repository and service interaction. -
CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group Annual Conference
Christina Claridge reports on the conference, held 3-5 September 2008, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 57:Achieving the Balance
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 57. -
Europeana: An Infrastructure for Adding Local Content
Rob Davies describes a Best Practice Network under the eContentPlus Programme to make available locally sourced digital content to the Europeana Service. -
Get Tooled Up: SeeAlso: A Simple Linkserver Protocol
Jakob Voss combines OpenSearch and unAPI to enrich catalogues. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
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. -
A DRY CRIG Event for the IE Demonstrator
Paul Walk reports on an 'unconference' for developers working in and around the JISC Information Environment and institutional systems, hosted by UKOLN at the University of Bath in June 2008. -
Lost in the JISC Information Environment
Tony Ross gives a personal reflection on his intellectual struggle to comprehend the JISC Information Environment. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Persistent Identifiers: Considering the Options
Emma Tonkin looks at the current landscape of persistent identifiers, describes several current services, and examines the theoretical background behind their structure and use. -
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. -
The 2008 Mashed Museum Day and UK Museums on the Web Conference
Mia Ridge reports on the Mashed Museum day and the Museums Computer Group UK Museums on the Web Conference, held at the University of Leicester in June 2008. -
The Networked Library Service Layer: Sharing Data for More Effective Management and Cooperation
Janifer Gatenby identifies criteria for determining which data in various library systems could be more beneficially shared and managed at a network level. -
Developing the Capability and Skills to Support EResearch
Margaret Henty provides an Australian perspective on improving the environment in which eResearch is conducted through developing institutional capability and providing appropriate skills training. -
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. -
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. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
South African Repositories: Bridging Knowledge Divides
Martie van Deventer and Heila Pienaar provide us with background to recent South African repository initiatives and detail an example of knowledge transfer from one institution to another. -
Towards an Application Profile for Images
Mick Eadie describes the development of the Dublin Core Images Application Profile project recently funded through the JISC. -
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. -
Book Review: Digital Copyright
Stuart Hannabuss looks at an interesting Nile cruise of a book about intellectual property. -
Book Reviews: Digital Information and Knowledge Management, and Print Vs. Digital
Sylvie Lafortune looks at two books edited by Sul H. Lee dealing with the impact of digital information on libraries, librarianship, information providers and library users. -
Collaborative and Social Tagging Networks
Emma Tonkin, Edward M. Corrado, Heather Lea Moulaison, Margaret E. I. Kipp, Andrea Resmini, Heather D. Pfeiffer and Qiping Zhang gather a series of international perspectives on the practice of social tagging of documents within a community context. -
MCN 2007: Building Content, Building Community - 40 Years of Museum Information and Technology
Guenter Waibel and Jean Godby report on the Museum Computer Network annual meeting, held 7-10 November, 2007 in Chicago, Illinois. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
SWORD: Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit
Julie Allinson, Sebastien Francois and Stuart Lewis describe the JISC-funded SWORD Project which has produced a lightweight protocol for repository deposit. -
Book Review: Mastering Regular Expressions, 3rd Edition
Emma Tonkin and Greg Tourte take a look at the new edition of an O'Reilly classic. -
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. -
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. -
Knowledge by Networking: Digitising Culture in Germany and Europe
Alastair Dunning reports on an international conference exploring the current state of digitisation in the worlds of culture and scholarship, held in Berlin over 21-22 June 2007. -
Newsline
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
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 National Centre for Text Mining: A Vision for the Future
Sophia Ananiadou describes NaCTeM and the main scientific challenges it helps to solve together with issues related to deployment, use and uptake of NaCTeM's text mining tools and services. -
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. -
Capacity Building: Spoken Word at Glasgow Caledonian University
Iain Wallace, Graeme West and David Donald give an account of the origins, nature and establishment of Spoken Word Services at Glasgow Caledonian University. -
Institutional Repositories and Their 'Other' Users: Usability Beyond Authors
Dana McKay summarises the literature on the usability of institutional repositories, and points to directions for future work. -
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. -
ARROW, DART and ARCHER: A Quiver Full of Research Repository and Related Projects
Andrew Treloar and David Groenewegen describe three inter-related projects to support scholarly outputs and the e-research life cycle which have been funded by the Australian Commonwealth Government. -
KIM Project Conference: Knowledge and Information Management through Life
Alex Ball provides an overview of the March 2007 KIM Project Conference. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Search Engines: Why Ask Me, and Does 'X' Mark the Spot?
Phil Bradley takes a look at different versions of Ask to see how it is developing and looks at how it is emerging from its servant roots. -
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 Libraries - Integrating Content and Systems
Chris Awre finds a useful toolset to guide librarians and LIS students on the future use of IT to deliver their services. -
Book Review: Digital Preservation
Maureen Pennock reviews a release in Facet's Digital Futures series. -
Cultural Heritage Online: The Challenge of Accessibility and Preservation
Alastair Dunning reports on a conference in Florence about the preservation and accessibility of cultural heritage material. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 50: Side-Stepping Babel
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne 50. -
ONIX for Licensing Terms: Standards for the Electronic Communication of Usage Terms
Francis Cave, Brian Green and David Martin describe the purpose, development and potential of standards for the electronic communication of licensing terms between publishers, libraries and other licensees. -
Take a Peek Beneath the EPrints V3 Wrappers
With v3 officially launched at the Open Repositories Conference in San Antonio last week, William Nixon and Peter Millington report on the EPrints 3 pre-launch briefing in London, 8 December 2006. -
Considering a Marketing and Communications Approach for an Institutional Repository
Heleen Gierveld proposes a market-oriented approach to increase the rate of deposit to an institutional repository. -
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. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 49: Technology Is Only Part of the Story
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 49. -
GROW: Building a High-quality Civil Engineering Learning Object Repository and Portal
Yan Han provides a general overview of the Geotechnical, Rock and Water Digital Library (GROW), a learning object repository and peer-reviewed civil engineering Web portal. -
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. -
e-Books for the Future: Here but Hiding?
Brian Whalley outlines some developments in e-book technologies and links them to existing ways of presenting textbook information. -
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. -
Fedora Users Conference
Chris Awre and Richard Green report from the Fedora Users Conference, a two-day meeting for users of the open source Fedora repository system held at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, over 19-20 June 2006. -
Introducing UnAPI
Dan Chudnov and a team of colleagues describe unAPI, a tiny HTTP API for serving information objects in next-generation Web applications. -
Intute: The New Best of the Web
Caroline Williams describes Intute in the context of the online information environment and outlines aspirations for the future. -
JISC/CNI Conference, York 2006
Najla Semple and Robin Rice were at the JISC / CNI conference 'Envisioning future challenges in networked information'. -
The Tasks of the AHDS: Ten Years on
Alastair Dunning reviews 10 years in the history of the Arts and Humanities Data Service. -
Book Review: The Institutional Repository
Sally Rumsey recommends a new book about institutional repositories. -
Code4lib 2006
Jeremy Frumkin and Dan Chudnov report on the inaugural conference of the Code4lib community of programmers, hackers, and techies working in or with libraries and information systems. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 47: Keeping What We Know
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne 47. -
Metasearch: Building a Shared, Metadata-driven Knowledge Base System
Terry Reese discusses the creation of a shared knowledge base system within OSU's open-source metasearch development. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Preserving Electronic Scholarly Journals: Portico
Eileen Fenton outlines issues relating to the long-term preservation of digital resources and the characteristics of an archival entity responding to this need. -
QMSearch: A Quality Metrics-aware Search Framework
Aaron Krowne and Urvashi Gadi present a framework which improves searching in the context of scholarly digital libraries by taking a 'quality metrics-aware' approach. -
Retrospective on the RDN
Debra Hiom, in the first of a two-part series on the Resource Discovery Network, looks back at the development of the RDN and its activities to date. -
Stargate: Exploring Static Repositories for Small Publishers
R. John Robertson introduces a project examining the potential benefits of OAI-PMH Static Repositories as a means of enabling small publishers to participate more fully in the information environment. -
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. -
Book Review: ARIST 39 - Annual Review of Information Science and Technology
Michael Day reviews another recent volume of this key annual publication on information science and technology. -
Delivering Open Access: From Promise to Practice
Derek Law predicts how the open access agenda will develop over the next ten years. -
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. -
Google Challenges for Academic Libraries
John MacColl analyses the reactions many academic libraries may be having to the range of tools Google is currently rolling out and outlines a strategy for institutions in the face of such potentially radical developments. -
JISC and SURF International Workshop on Electronic Theses
Neil Jacobs reports on a JISC-SURF-CURL-sponsored event at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, over 19-20 January 2006. -
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. -
Projects Into Services: The UK Experience
Peter Brophy reviews the experience of the UK academic sector in turning digital library projects into sustainable services. -
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: Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 2004 (Volume 38)
Michael Day reviews a recent volume of this key annual publication on information science and technology. -
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. -
Building the Info Grid
Wolfram Horstmann, Liv Fugl and Jessica Lindholm report on the two-day conference Building the Info Grid on trends and perspectives in digital library technology and services held in Copenhagen in September. -
Distributed Services Registry Workshop
John Gilby reports on the UKOLN/IESR two-day workshop at Scarman House, University of Warwick on 14-15 July 2005. -
Looking for More Than Text?
Balviar Notay and Catherine Grout give an overview of developments in digitisation programmes, on-line delivery services and specialised search engines which cater for searching and locating still images and time-based media and consider the issues that surround their use, focusing particularly on JISC developments. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Search Engines
Phil Bradley casts his eye over image search engines. -
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. -
Involving Users in the Development of a Web Accessibility Tool
Jenny Craven and Mikael Snaprud describe how the EC-funded European Internet Accessibility Observatory Project is involving users in the development of a Web accessibility checking and monitoring tool. -
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. -
Book Review: Building an Electronic Resource Collection
Sarah Pearson considers whether the 2nd edition of this practical guide for building an electronic resource collection can satisfy the needs of both new and experienced practitioners. -
Book Review: Digital Libraries - Principles and Practice in a Global Environment
Chris Awre welcomes a useful overview of the global digital library scene that will help both those coming new to this area and those wishing to broaden their appreciation of what is involved in developing a digital library. -
E-Archiving: An Overview of Some Repository Management Software Tools
Marion Prudlo discusses LOCKSS, EPrints, and DSpace in terms of who uses them, their cost, underlying technology, the required know-how, and functionalities. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 43: When Technology Alone Is Not Enough
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 43. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Opening Up OpenURLs with Autodiscovery
Daniel Chudnov, Richard Cameron, Jeremy Frumkin, Ross Singer and Raymond Yee demonstrate a 'gather locally, share globally' approach to OpenURLs and metadata autodiscovery in scholarly and non-scholarly environments. -
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. -
Book Review: Digital Libraries - Policy, Planning and Practice
Bruce Royan considers the ironies of communicating the state of the art of digital libraries by means of a print publication. -
Hyper Clumps, Mini Clumps and National Catalogues: Resource Discovery for the 21st Century
John Gilby reports on a one-day conference about resource discovery, held at the British Library Conference Centre, London in November. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Planet-SOSIG
Humphrey Southall looks at a new Web site's Vision of Britain while Emma Place examines new changes to the RDN Virtual Training Suite. -
The National Centre for Text Mining: Aims and Objectives
Sophia Ananiadou, Julia Chruszcz, John Keane, John McNaught and Paul Watry describe NaCTeM's plans to provide text mining services for UK academics. -
Book Review: Libraries Without Walls 5
David Parkes reviews the fifth compilation of the biennial Library Without Walls Conference. He finds how far we have come and how far we have to go in delivering services to distributed learners. -
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. -
ECDL2004: 4th International Web Archiving Workshop, September 2004
Michael Day reports on the 4th International Web Archiving Workshop held at the University of Bath in September as part of ECDL 2004. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 41: Forces in Train
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne 41. -
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. -
Planet-SOSIG
Angela Joyce shares her personal impressions from the recent European Digital Libraries Conference in Bath; Emma Place introduces a new seminar series to support online information seeking in the social sciences. -
The Dawning of DARE: A Shared Experience
Annemiek van der Kuil and Martin Feijen describe the first year of the DARE Project and its foundation of the OAI repositories of Dutch academic output. -
Web Focus: QA Focus Has Finished - Let's Start Embedding QA
Brian Kelly reviews the JISC-funded QA Focus Project and argues that developers should be using quality assurance principles. -
What Do Application Profiles Reveal about the Learning Object Metadata Standard?
Jean Godby assesses the customised subsets of metadata elements that have been defined by 35 projects using the LOM standard to describe e-learning resources. -
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. -
An Introduction to the Search/Retrieve URL Service (SRU)
Eric Lease Morgan describes sibling Web Service protocols designed to define a standard form for Internet search queries as well as the structure of the responses. -
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. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 40: Horses for Courses
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 40. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Planet-SOSIG
This month Neil Jacobs introduces a new book for information professionals in the social sciences and Heta Virnes describes her experience of running virtual helpdesks for SOSIG. -
Public Libraries: Weblogs: Do They Belong in Libraries?
Penny Garrod takes a look at weblogs and weblogging activities in libraries and considers some of the ways they can be used to support public library users. -
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. -
Targeting Academic Research With Southampton's Institutional Repository
Jessie Hey describes how user needs have influenced the evolutionary development of 'e-Prints Soton' as the University of Southampton Research Repository. -
The Future of Cataloguing: Cataloguing and Indexing Group Conference
Paola Stillone reports on a three-day annual conference of the CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group (CIG), held at the University of Bath, 30 June - 2 July. -
Towards Library Groupware With Personalised Link Routing
Daniel Chudnov, Jeremy Frumkin, Jennifer Weintraub, Matthew Wilcox and Raymond Yee describe a potential groupware framework for integrating access to diverse information resources and distributed personal collection development. -
Book Review: Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval
Charles Oppenheim sees improvements in this second edition but has reservations about one of the few UK-based texts on this subject. -
Editorial Introduction to Ariadne Issue 39: Humanity V Technology, Which Is in the Driving Seat?
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 39. -
JISC Terminology Services Workshop
Sarah Shreeves reports on a one-day workshop on current developments and future directions for JISC terminology services held in London, February 2004. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Public Libraries: The Changing Face of the Public Library
Penny Garrod looks at developments in Hampshire and comments on the shape of things to come. -
Seeing Is Believing: The JISC Information Environment Presentation Programme
Chris Awre reviews the JISC Information Environment Presentation Programme and offers an insight to the outcomes of recent studies. -
The Biggest Digital Library Conference in the World
John Paschoud reports on the International Conference on Digital Libraries held in New Delhi, India, 24-27 February 2004. -
The Collection Description Schema Forum
Gordon Dunsire describes the one-day seminar on standard schemas for collection-level description held by UKOLN in February. -
DSpace Vs. ETD-db: Choosing Software to Manage Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Richard Jones examines the similarities and differences between DSpace and ETD-db to determine their applicability in a modern E-theses service. -
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. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Search Engines: The Year 2003 in Perspective
Phil Bradley takes us through the major trends and highlights in the world of search engines over the course of the past year. -
The JISC 5/99 Programme: What's in a Number?
Rachel Bruce and Balviar Notay give an overview of the outputs and influences of the JISC 5/99 Learning and Teaching and Infrastructure Programme. -
The OpenURL and OpenURL Framework: Demystifying Link Resolution
Ann Apps reports on a conference about current and future uses of the proposed OpenURL Framework Standard Z39.88-2004. -
The Portole Project: Supporting E-learning
Tracey Stanley, Mina Sotiriou and Matthew Dovey provide an overview of a project to produce tools to discover information resources and deploy them within a university VLE. -
Towards a User-Centred Approach to Digital Libraries
Ken Eason reports on the five themes in the Digilib Conference, Espoo, Finland. -
Web Focus: Improving the Quality of Your HTML
Brian Kelly outlines a strategy for fixing the most important HTML resources on a Web site. -
Delivering OAI Records As RSS: An IMesh Toolkit Module for Facilitating Resource Sharing
Monica Duke provides an overview of a means of providing records in RSS through the use of an IMesh Toolkit module that supports resource sharing. The content of this article was presented at the 4th Open Archives Forum Workshop -
ECDL-2003 Conference Notes
Lesly Huxley shares her notes on the European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. -
ECDL-2003 Web Archiving
Michael Day reports on the 3rd ECDL Workshop on Web Archives held in Trondheim, August 2003. -
Ebooks in UK Libraries: Where Are We Now?
Penny Garrod brings us up to date on developments in ebooks. -
Experiences of Harvesting Web Resources in Engineering Using Automatic Classification
Kjell Jansson, Jessica Lindholm and Tomas Schoenthal describe the work in setting up a Web index that uses automatic classification as a means for the selection of resources. -
Metadata and Interoperability in a Complex World
Pete Johnston reflects on the 2003 Dublin Core conference, held in Seattle, Washington. -
OAI: The Fourth Open Archives Forum Workshop
Manjula Patel provides us with an overview of the 4th Open Archives Forum Workshop. -
Planet SOSIG
Anne Dimond and Angela Joyce send further news from the planet of social sciences. -
Unicode and Historic Scripts
Deborah Anderson provides us an overview of the progress made in bringing historic scripts to the Unicode Standard. -
Web Focus: Widening the Focus for the Future
Brian Kelly reviews the history of the Web Focus post and describes funding changes which gives Web Focus a much wider remit. -
Book Review: Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, Volume 36
Michael Day takes a detailed look at the structure and content of this hardy annual. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 36: This Time the Cavalry Showed Up
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 36. -
Metadata Wanted for the Evanescent Library
John MacColl reports on Schemas and Ontologies: Building a Semantic Infrastructure for the GRID and Digital Libraries: a one-day workshop at the e-Science Institute, May 2003. -
News from BIOME
Donald Mackay, Rod Ward and Jenny Hall provide us with the first of a series of bulletins on developments within the BIOME area of activity. -
Newsline: News You Can Use
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
eBank UK: Building the Links Between Research Data, Scholarly Communication and Learning
Liz Lyon describes some new digital library development activities and considers the implications of linking research and learning outputs in an environment of assured data provenance. -
Access Management: The Key to a Portal - The Experience of the Subject Portals Project
Francisco Pinto and Michael Fraser report on the experience of the Subject Portals Project. -
Functionality in Digital Annotation: Imitating and Supporting Real-world Annotation
Richard Waller looks at both pre-digital and digital concepts of annotation, with a view to how annotation tools might be used in the subject-gateway environment. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Cultural Heritage Language Technologies: Building an Infrastructure for Collaborative Digital Libraries in the Humanities
Jeffrey Rydberg-Cox describes the work of the Cultural Heritage Language Technologies consortium, a research group funded by the European Comission Information Society Technologies program and the United States National Science Foundation Digital Libraries Initiative. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 34: Cultivating Interoperability and Resource-Sharing
Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne issue 34. -
Exploring Charging Models for Digital Cultural Heritage
Simon Tanner and Marilyn Deegan discuss charging models. -
Hidden Treasures: The Impact of Moving Image and Sound Archives in the 21st Century
Philip Hunter reports on the one day meeting on multimedia objects in the British Library, London, October 2002. -
Review: E-learning and Teaching in Library and Information Services
Book review by John Paschoud -
Review: The Digital Factor in Information and Library Services
Book review by Bruce Royan. -
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. -
The Personalisation of the Digital Library
Michelle Perrott and Anne Ramsden report on the Joint Open University - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya Seminar on Personalisation and Digital Libraries hosted at the Open University, October 2002. -
A Speaking Electronic Librarian
Markos Dendrinos with a proposal for an interface system, based on speech recognition and synthesis technologies, for automatic library services. -
Digital Libraries in China
Liz Lyon reports on the International Digital Library Conference held in Beijing in July 2002. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 33: Exploring the Information Environment
Philip Hunter with the editorial for Ariadne 33. -
OCLC-SCURL: Collaboration, Integration and Recombinant Potential
Pete Johnston reports on the New Directions in Metadata conference, 15-16 August, in Edinburgh -
Portals, Portals Everywhere
Ian Dolphin, Paul Miller and Robert Sherratt report on two conferences over the summer which explored the progress being made in deploying institutional portals of various forms. -
Utilizing E-books to Enhance Digital Library Offerings
Shirley Hyatt and Lynn Silipigni Connaway, describe the rationale and background of OCLC's acquisition of netLibrary, the information environment that is being pursued, and the resulting benefits that libraries may experience. -
Another Piece of Cake?
Anders Ardö, Sigfrid Lundberg and Ann-Sofie Zettergren with an overview of the history of Netlab, now ten years old. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 32: The Grid -The Web Twenty Years On?
Philip Hunter with the editorial for Ariadne issue 32. -
Electronic Theses and Dissertations: A Strategy for the UK
by John MacColl considers a strategy for electronic theses and dissertations in the United Kingdom. -
Internet 2 Spring Member Meeting
John Paschoud reports on an Internet2 meeting, Arlington, Virginia, 6th – 8th May 2002, which discussed Networks, Applications and Middleware. -
NetLab's Digital Library Gâteau
Jessica Lindholm reports from the conference "NetLab and friends: Tribute and outlook after 10 years of digital library development". The conference was held in Lund, Sweden 10-12 April 2002. -
Newsline: News You Can Use
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Planet SOSIG
Debra Hiom with a report which covers: the launch of Citizenship Past; a new VTS Tutorial for European Studies; and an update on the SOSIG Portals Project. -
The Evolution of an Institutional E-prints Archive at the University of Glasgow
William Nixon with some practical advice based on the Glasgow experience. -
The Information Grid
Ariadne reports on a one-day workshop on 'an interoperable environment to support research, learning and teaching' held at the e-Science Institute in Edinburgh, April 30, 2002. -
Setting up an Institutional E-Print Archive
Stephen Pinfield, Mike Gardner, and John MacColl with some practical advice on setting up an e-print archive. -
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. -
eVALUEd: An Evaluation Model for e-Library Developments
Becky Hartland-Fox and Pete Dalton on a project to develop a transferable model for e-library evaluation. -
Development of Digital Libraries for Blind and Visually Impaired People
Jennie Craven reports on the IFLA/SLB conference in Washington in August 2001. -
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. -
Digitization: Do We Have a Strategy?
David Pearson suggests that the library sector should find a mechanism to put digitisation high on the agenda. -
ACM / IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
John MacColl reports on a selection of the papers given at this conference in Roanoake, Virginia, June 24-28 2001. -
An Introduction to Web Services
Tracy Gardner introduces web services: self-describing applications, which can be discovered and accessed over the web by other applications. -
Digital Developments Amidst the Tulips and Windmills
Christine Dugdale reports on the Digital Library course run as part of the annual Summer School at the Tilburg Innovation Centre for Electronic Resources (TICER B.V.). Netherlands, August 2001. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 29: Key Technologies for the Development of the Digital Library
Philip Hunter with the editorial for Ariadne 29. -
Establishing a Digital Library Centre
John Kirriemuir outlines some of the issues for the establishment of digital library centres in UK Higher Education institutions. -
Evolution of Portable Electronic Books
Ruth Wilson charts the development of portable electronic book hardware, from the first generation in 1980s to the range of handheld devices available today. -
Managing Electronic Library Services: Current Issues in UK Higher Education Institutions
Stephen Pinfield surveys some of the key issues associated with delivering electronic library services. -
Subject Portals
Judith Clark describes a three-year project to develop a set of subject portals as part of the Distributed National Electronic Resource (DNER) development programme. -
EEVL Update
Roddy MacLeod and Linda Kerr provide news about the EEVL service -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 28: Ariadne's Thread
Marieke Napier reviews recent developments on the cultural front and the contents of issue 28. -
INSPIRAL: Digital Libraries and Virtual Learning Environments
Sarah Currier introduces the JISC project INSPIRAL, which is investigating what's involved in joining digital libraries and VLEs to create a fully integrated online learning experience. -
Information Skills and the DNER: The INHALE Project
Margaret Weaver describes the work of the Information for Nursing and Health in a Learning Environment (INHALE) Project team. -
Metadata: E-print Services and Long-term Access to the Record of Scholarly and Scientific Research
Michael Day looks at the long-term preservation implications of one of the OAI protocol's potential applications - e-print services. -
Newsline: News You Can Use
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Personalization of Web Services: Opportunities and Challenges
Monica Bonett gives an overview of personalization on the World Wide Web and discusses ideas for development within resource discovery systems. -
The JOIN-UP Programme: Seminar on Linking Technologies
Sandy Shaw reports on a seminar bringing together experts in the field of linking technology for JISC's JOIN-UP Programme. -
E-Books for Students: EBONI
Ruth Wilson on how the EBONI project will investigate the usability of e-books through user evaluations. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 27: The Digital Library Jigsaw
Philip Hunter opens the box and looks at some of the choicest pieces of Ariadne issue 27. -
Review: From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure
Michael Day reviews the book by Christine Borgman: From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure. -
After eLib
Chris Rusbridge, the former Director of the UK Electronic Libraries Programme, with an assessment of its achievements and legacy. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 26: New Landscapes
Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne issue 26 with remarks about the new Director of the UKOLN, the eLib Programme, and the DNER. -
Metadata: Preservation 2000
Michael Day reports on the Digital Preservation conference held in York in December 2000. -
The Distributed National Electronic Resource and the Hybrid Library
Stephen Pinfield and Lorcan Dempsey with an overview of the DNER. -
Travelling at the Speed of Discovery: The MALIBU Project's Most Valuable Lessons
Valeda Dent with a newcomer's perspective on the MALIBU project. -
Understanding the Searching Process for Visually Impaired Users of the Web (NoVA)
Jenny Craven gives an overview of the Resource funded NoVA project (Non-visual access to the digital library). -
Application Profiles: Mixing and Matching Metadata Schemas
Rachel Heery and Manjula Patel introduce a means of establishing a common approach to sharing information between implementers and standards makers. -
DECOMATE II
Leona Carpenter gives a personal view of the 'Logged into Economics' conference in Barcelona in June. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 25: Beyond the Web Site
Philip Hunter on the contents of Ariadne issue 25 and recent developments in the world of Digital Library initiatives. -
Electronic Homer
Martin Mueller reads Homer electronically with the TLG, Perseus, and the Chicago Homer. -
Knowledge Management in the Perseus Digital Library
Jeffrey Rydberg-Cox on the Perseus Project's new knowledge management and digital delivery tools. -
Review: The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization
Maurice Line reviews Elaine Svenonius' 'The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization', published by MIT Press. -
Agora: From Information Maze to Market
Bridget Robinson, David Palmer and Rosemary Russell outline the Agora cross-searching software project, and its technical background. -
Bringing Coherence to Networked Information for the New Century
Gillian Austen reports on the JISC-CNI conference at Stratford, UK, 14-16 June 2000. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 24: Plumbing the Digital Library
Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne 24. -
LONGITUDE: The Users in the Digital Landscape
Linda Berube on the Longitude project, designed to test a toolkit of qualitative survey methodologies to assess user needs in the digital library. -
Library Resource Sharing and Discovery: Catalogues for the 21st Century
Ariadne reports on the highlights of the recent Glasgow CLUMPS one day conference -
Newsline: News You Can Use
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Text Encoding for Interchange: A New Consortium
Lou Burnard on the creation of the TEI Consortium which has been created to take the TEI Guidelines into the XML world. -
Web Focus: Reflections On WWW9
Brian Kelly reports on the WWW9 conference, held in Amsterdam, in May 2000. -
Convergence of Electronic Entertainment and Information Systems
John Kirriemuir explores the technology and impact of expanding internet access. -
I Say What I Mean, but Do I Mean What I Say?
Paul Miller reports on the latest MODELS workshop, and looks at the need for controlled terminologies and thesauri. -
Clumping Towards a UK National Catalogue?
Dennis Nicholson argues in favour of the distributed approach to cataloguing. -
Digitizing Intellectual Property: The Oxford Scoping Study
Stuart Lee discusses the Mellon Digitization Scoping Study for Oxford University. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 22: Ariadne's Thread
Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne issue 22, looks at Ariadne's web accesses for the past year, and previews the Distributed National Electronic Resource (DNER). -
Electronic Publication of Ancient Near Eastern Texts
Charles E. Jones and David Schloen report on a Chicago conference which explored XML tagging for Ancient Near Eastern Texts on the Web. -
Public Libraries and Community Networks: Linking Futures Together?
Malabika Das argues public libraries and community networks have a future together. -
Scientific, Industrial, and Cultural Heritage: A Shared Approach
Lorcan Dempsey presents a research framework for libraries, archives and museums prepared for the European Commission. -
ECMS: Technology Issues and Electronic Copyright Management Systems
Pedro Isaias looks at the relevant ECMS e-Commerce technology. -
The Scholarly Journal in Transition and the PubMed Central Proposal
Michael Day discusses the scholarly journal in transition and the PubMed Central proposal. -
WebWatch: UK University Search Engines
Brian Kelly explores the search facilities used by UK university Web sites. -
Z39.50 for All
Paul Miller looks at the Z39.50 standard and attempts to extract some meaning from the mass of associated literature. -
Bibliotecas Universitarias Consorcio
Agnès Guyon reports on a seminar in Aveiro, Portugal, 26th and 27th April 1999. -
ECMS: Electronic Copyright Management Systems
Pedro Isaias considers Electronic Copyright Management Systems (ECMS). -
Newsline: News You Can Use
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Planet SOSIG
Karen Ford examines The Resource Guide, which aims to provide staff and students in HE with an overview of electronic services. -
The Web Editor: From 'One Stop Shop' to Information Hierarchy
Rebecca Linford discusses the web editor role: from 'one stop shop' to information hierarchy. -
Web Focus: Report on the WWW 8 Conference
Brian Kelly discusses WWW8 in Toronto, which took place in May 1999. -
Information Ecologies: Report of the eLib Conference
Philip Hunter reports on the eLib conference in York in December 1998, which explored a number of hybrid library, subject Gateway and copyright control issues. -
Instructional Management Systems
John MacColl explores the IMS concept in the context of the SELLIC project. -
Metadata: Image Retrieval
Michael Day reports on combining content-based and metadata-based approaches. -
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. -
Down Your Way: University of Abertay Dundee Library
Ariadne visits the University of Abertay Dundee's new library. -
Launching an Electronic Magazine: An Overview of Value-added Features and Services
Bernadette Daly looks at a variety of electronic publications as part of the research phase in the delivery of a new Web magazine. -
Metadiversity
Michael Day on a Biodiversity conference in the States interested in Metadata. -
Of Arms and the Man We Sing
John MacColl talks to Chris Rusbridge about the eLib programme. -
Subject-Based Information Gateways
Linda Kerr and Roddy MacLeod attended the recent CEI meeting at the Policy Studies Institute, London. -
Teams
Lyndon Pugh argues there are signs we are hung up on multi-skilling... -
The ExamNet Project at De Montfort University
David James Houghton introduces the ExamNet Project, which offers access to past De Montfort University examination papers in electronic form. -
Down Your Way
Kathryn Arnold on the electronic university and the virtual campus. -
VERITY
Panayiotis Periorellis and Walter Scales writes about the VERITY European Telematics Project. -
Information Landscapes
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Metadata Corner
Michael Day reports from Tomar, Portugal, on the DELOS6 Workshop. -
Minotaur: Widening Access
Lyndon Pugh argues that there must be much more to widening access than changing rules and regulations. -
Supporting Learners at a Distance
Alan MacDougall on cost effective ways of widening access. -
View from the Hill: Birkbeck
Ariadne interview with Philippa Dolphin at Birkbeck, about how IT issues are tackled there. -
Minotaur
Gordon Brewer re-examines the "convergence of services" issue. -
Project Patron
Elizabeth Lyon and Jon Maslin describe this JISC eLib Programme project (Performing Arts Teaching Resources Online). -
Metadata Corner: CrossROADS and Interoperability
Michael Day, Rachel Heery and Andy Powell report on work in progress on enhancements to the ROADS software. -
Minotaur
Robin Alston replies to issue Ariadne 13's Minotaur, by Louis Schmier. -
Newsline: News You Can Use
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
View from the Hill: Mel Collier
Lyndon Pugh talks to Mel Collier, previously Director of the International Institute for Electronic Library Research at De Montfort University and now Director of Strategic and Operational Planning at Dawson Holdings plc. -
Newsline: News You Can Use
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
The British Library's Digital Libraries Programme
Lyndon Pugh meets with Sue Howley to discuss the British Library's digital research programme. -
Public Libraries Corner: Soul and Song
Lorcan Dempsey writes about the recent report: New Library: the People's Network. -
Conference Goes One Step Beyond
John MacColl reports on Beyond the Beginning: The Global Digital Library. -
Digital Libraries '97
David Nichols reports on the important international conference: Digital Libraries '97. -
Knight's Tale: The Hybrid Library - Books and Bytes
Jon Knight gives his personal view on the fashionable concept of a 'hybrid library'. -
Metadata Corner: Naming Names - Metadata Registries
Rachel Heery examines metadata issues. -
SIGIR '97
David Nichols reports on the follow-on conference SIGIR '97. -
Theses Unbound
Alason Roberts looks at the use of theses in academic libraries. -
York Information Connections: An Attempt to Catalogue the Internet
Christine Ellwood and Sarah Thompson outline the rationale behind the approach of the University of York Library to cataloguing Internet resources. -
A Digital Library Showcase and Support Service - the Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE
Roy Tennant describes a resource used to create digital libraries and services, and to help others do the same. -
Metadata Corner: Working Meeting on Electronic Records Research
Michael Day reports from the Working Meeting on Electronic Records Research, held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania May 29-31, 1997. -
Press Release – JISC / Caul Collaboration Agreement
Kelly Russell outlines the collaboration between JISC and CAUL, and announces the appointment of the post of International Co-ordinator. -
Public Libraries Corner: Stories from the Web
Sarah Ormes talks about an exciting new BLRIC funded children's library project. -
Setting Priorities for Digital Library Research
Graham Jefcoate outlines the rationale of the British Library Research and Innovation Centre's Digital Library Research Programme. -
The Horse That Isn't There: 1997 US Digital Libraries Initiative Meeting
Chris Rusbridge reports from the June 1997 US Digital Libraries initiative (DLi) meeting in Pittsburgh. -
Web Editorial: Goodbyeee
The Web editor, John Kirriemuir bows out after ten Ariadne issues. -
Extending Metadata for Digital Preservation
Michael Day suggests how the concept of metadata could be extended to provide information in the specific field of digital preservation. -
The Future of Digitising at the State Library of Victoria, Australia
Catherine Herman and Indra Kurzeme discuss the multimedia source project, set within the context of the pro-multimedia State of Victora, Australia. -
Australian Co-operative Digitisation Project, 1840-45
Ross Coleman describes a project which will create a unique research infrastructure in Australian studies through the digital conversion of Australian serials and fiction of the seminal period 1840-45. -
Beyond the Beginning: The Global Digital Library
Hazel Gott introduces a major Digital Library event, taking place this June in London. -
ELVIRA 4
Claire Davies sets the scene for ELVIRA 4, the annual Electronic Library Visual Information Research Conference, May 1997 in Milton Keynes, UK. -
Formats for the Electronic Library
Judith Wusteman describes the document formats used in electronic serials. -
Survey Results
John MacColl presents a selection of the comments arising from the first Ariadne readership survey [1]. This article appears in only the Web version of Ariadne. -
Web Editorial: Introduction to Issue 8
John Kirriemuir with the editorial for the Web version of Ariadne issue 8. -
IPL: The Internet Public Library
Schelle Simcox describes a Web-based public library, designed in many ways to mimic, and improve on, features of and within a real, large-scale library. -
Public Libraries, Public Support? the Mission Behind Buildings, Books and Bytes
Laura Weiss outlines a major American survey that looked at the disparity between key librarians views of the future, and what the public who used those libraries really wanted. -
The British Libraries Private Finance Initiative
The British Library's Digital Library Programme gives Ariadne an exclusive on its Private Finance Initiative. -
Web Access for the Disabled
Cathy Murtha outlines the problems that audio-visually impaired people encounter when trying to use network-based resources. -
10th Annual Anglo-Nordic Seminar
Kelly Russell from the eLib programme describes this seminar, which heavily featured speakers and current issues relevant to the UK digital libraries movement. -
Allerton 1996
Clare Davies reports on this years event in an annual conference series addressing user-centred aspects of library and information science. -
British Library Corner: Setting Priorities for Digital Library Research, The Beginnings of a Process?
Graham Jefcoate describes the background behind the recently announced British Library Research and Innovation Centre call for proposals in the field of digital library research. -
Infopolecon
John Lindsay comments on the evolution of the UK network infrastructure, and the problems arguably generated along the way. -
Ticer Summer School on the Digital Library at Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Robert van der Zwan describes a two week summer school in digital library developments at one of Europe's main research centres in this field. -
British Library Corner: Text and the Internet
Graham Jefcoate, a Research Analyst from the British Library Research and Innovation Centre will be writing this regular column for the remaining issues of Ariadne. In this issue, Graham gives us the text of his Libtech talk: Text and the Internet. -
CAUSE / EFFECT
Julia A. Rudy, Cause/Effect Editor and Director of Publications at CAUSE, an international, nonprofit professional association for managers and users of information resources on college and university campuses, describes CAUSE/EFFECT. -
D-Lib
William Y. Arms, D-Lib publisher and Amy Friedlander, the editor, describe this successful Web-based magazine that carries more technically-minded articles on all aspects of digital/electronic libraries research. -
ELVIRA 4: The 4th UK Digital Libraries Conference (Electronic Library and Visual Information Research) Milton Keynes, 6-8 May 1997
Clare Davies announces the fourth in this series of annual Electronic Library research conferences. -
Libtech 96
John Kirriemuir and Isobel Stark with some notes and pictures from the main annual UK library exhibition: Libtech 96. -
Net Gains for Digital Researchers
Amy Friedlander, the editor of D-Lib, looks at, and towards, some of the benefits of the Web and digital technology towards how we do and present research. -
The International Institute for Electronic Library Research: A New Kid on the Block
Marilyn Deegan describes the International Institute for Electronic Library Research, a significant new centre of research based at De Montfort University. -
Web4Lib: The Library Web Manager's Electronic Discussion List
Roy Tennant, Project Manager of the Digital Library Research & Development at the University of California, Berkeley, describes the Web4Lib mailing list, an electronic discussion forum for library Web managers. -
Are They Being Served?
Lynne Brindley, Chair of JISC's new committee on electronic information, writes on the fundamental issue of networked information user's needs. -
Charging Ahead?
Ruth Jenkins summarises Richard Lucier's Follett Lecture Series talk on charging in HE Libraries. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 4: Changes to Ariadne and How to Read the Web Version
The editor explains changes in Ariadne format. -
Research Elsewhere
John Kirriemuir gives calls attention to articles describing research of interest elsewhere. -
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.. -
Copyright Corner
Charles Oppenheim on the copyright issues that all eLib (and many other projects) should be aware of. -
ELVIRA
Tessa Bruce from the ResIDe eLib project describes the recent high profile electronic libraries conference hosted by De Montfort University. -
A Thread of Ariadnes
One of my previous lecturers jokingly said that once you had a title, logo and an acronym for your project, 80% of the work was done. Except I'm not so sure she was joking, now. Ariadne took (relatively) little time to be decided on as a title, but as it turned out, many other projects around the world, and one in particular in the UK, shared this greek mythological name. This has caused problems; for example, lists of digital libraries/training projects occasionally get us mixed up with the Ariadne project at Lancaster. Dr. David Nichols from this Lancaster project gives a brief run-down of other projects that have taken the name Ariadne.