Buzz - Document Format
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Peculiarities of Digitising Materials from the Collections of the National Academy of Sciences, Armenia
Alan Hopkinson and Tigran Zargaryan give an overview of their experience of digitising paper-based materials in the Fundamental Scientific Library of the National Academy of Sciences, Armenia including some of the obstacles encountered during image processing and optical character recognition.
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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. -
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. -
eBooks: Tipping or Vanishing Point?
Emma Tonkin investigates ebooks and takes a look at recent technological and business developments in this area. -
Book Review: Principles of Data Management
Pete Cliff takes a look at a new book from the British Computer Society that aims to help readers understand the importance, issues and benefits of data management across an enterprise. -
Discussions from KIDMM Mash-up Day
In conjunction with his main article on The KIDMM Community's 'MetaKnowledge Mash-up, Conrad Taylor reports on discussions from KIDMM Mash-up Day. -
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. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Accessibility: The Current Situation and New Directions
Kevin Carey describes accessibility by disabled people to digital information systems across broadcasting, telecommunications and the Internet, looks into the future and makes recommendations. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
WebWatch: How Accessible Are Australian University Web Sites?
Dey Alexander reports on a recent study of the accessibility of Australian university Web sites. -
ECDL-2003 Web Archiving
Michael Day reports on the 3rd ECDL Workshop on Web Archives held in Trondheim, August 2003. -
Creating Websites for e-Citizens: the Public Library Web Managers Workshop 2002
In the first of a series of articles, Penny Garrod takes us through some of the choices confronting UK public libraries, and begins by looking at the ramifications of the DCMS report "Framework for the future". -
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. -
Review: From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure
Michael Day reviews the book by Christine Borgman: From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure. -
Knowledge Management in the Perseus Digital Library
Jeffrey Rydberg-Cox on the Perseus Project's new knowledge management and digital delivery tools. -
Planet SOSIG: Asking Questions - The CASS Social Survey Question Bank
Adam Guy writes about the Question Bank service. -
The Scholarly Journal in Transition and the PubMed Central Proposal
Michael Day discusses the scholarly journal in transition and the PubMed Central proposal. -
SEAMLESS: Introduction to the Project
Mary Rowlatt describes SEAMLESS, the Essex-based project. -
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. -
What Is XML?
Brian Kelly elucidates another infuriating three letter acronym: XML. -
Parallel Publishing for Transactions (PPT)
Hugo Brailsford introduces a parallel publication in Geography. -
Formats for the Electronic Library
Judith Wusteman describes the document formats used in electronic serials. -
Acrobat a High Flyer: John MacColl Discusses the Success of Adobe Acrobat and PDF
Acrobat a High Flyer: John MacColl discusses the success of Adobe Acrobat and PDF. -
ACORN
Paula Kingston outlines the ACORN project, which aims to develop a transferable model for the whole process of providing electronic access to short loan journal articles. -
Elib Technical Issues Concertation Day
Clare McClean describes a day given over to the more technical issues arising from the Electronic Libraries Programme.