Buzz - Dublin Core
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Mining the Archives: Metadata Development and Implementation
Martin White looks through the Ariadne archive to track the development and implementation of metadata in a variety of settings.
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SUNCAT: Ten Years and Beyond
Celia Jenkins charts the beginnings of SUNCAT, its development over the last ten years and what the future holds for the service.
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Book Review: Crisis Information Management
Emma Tonkin offers a review of a thought-provoking overview of crisis informatics.
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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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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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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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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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euroCRIS Membership Meeting, Madrid
Rosemary Russell and Brigitte Jörg report on the bi-annual euroCRIS membership and Task Groups meetings which took place in Madrid on 5-6 November 2012.
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JISC Research Information Management: CERIF Workshop
Rosemary Russell reports on a two-day workshop on research information management and CERIF held in Bristol over 27-28 June 2012.
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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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Walk-in Access to e-Resources at the University of Bath
Kate Robinson, Lizz Jennings and Laurence Lockton outline a low-cost solution to walk-in (visitor) access to licensed e-journals, drawing on their practice at the University of Bath with a wiki ERM and OPAC terminals.
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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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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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The CLIF Project: The Repository as Part of a Content Lifecycle
Richard Green, Chris Awre and Simon Waddington describe how a digital repository can become part of the technical landscape within an institution and support digital content lifecycle management across systems.
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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. -
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. -
Developments in Virtual 3D Imaging of Cultural Artefacts
Richard Collmann describes how experience using a portable Virtual 3D Object Rig in cultural institutions has led to significant improvements in apparatus design and workflow. -
Turning Off Tap Into Bath
Ann Chapman describes the lifecycle of a demonstrator database and the development of a preservation policy for its content and software. -
Academic Liaison Librarianship: Curatorial Pedagogy or Pedagogical Curation?
Allan Parsons presents a strategic view of the need to develop the academic liaison librarianship role. -
Moving Researchers across the EResearch Chasm
Malcolm Wolski and Joanna Richardson outline an Australian initiative to address technology challenges within current research paradigms. -
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. -
Retooling Libraries for the Data Challenge
Dorothea Salo examines how library systems and procedures need to change to accommodate research data. -
Trove: Innovation in Access to Information in Australia
Rose Holley describes a major development in the Australian national digital information infrastructure. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
RDA: Resource Description and Access
Wendy Taylor and Helen Williams report on CILIP's Executive Briefings on RDA : Resource Description and Access held at CILIP on 23 March 2010 and repeated at the Bloomsbury Hotel on 30 March 2010. -
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. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 62: The Wisdom of Communities
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 62. -
The Future of Interoperability and Standards in Education: A JISC CETIS Event
Sarah Currier reports on an international working meeting involving a range of educational interoperability standards bodies and communities, organised by JISC CETIS. -
Towards a Toolkit for Implementing Application Profiles
Talat Chaudhri, Julian Cheal, Richard Jones, Mahendra Mahey and Emma Tonkin propose a user-driven methodology for the iterative development, testing and implementation of Dublin Core Application Profiles in diverse repository software environments. -
How to Publish Data Using Overlay Journals: The OJIMS Project
Sarah Callaghan, Sam Pepler, Fiona Hewer, Paul Hardaker and Alan Gadian describe the implementation details that can be used to create overlay journals for data publishing in the meteorological sciences. -
Spinning a Semantic Web for Metadata: Developments in the IEMSR
Emma Tonkin and Alexey Strelnikov reflect on the experience of developing components for the Information Environment Metadata Schema Registry. -
The REMAP Project: Steps Towards a Repository-enabled Information Environment
Richard Green and Chris Awre investigate what role a repository can play in enabling and supporting the management and preservation of its own digital content. -
Assessing FRBR in Dublin Core Application Profiles
Talat Chaudhri makes a detailed assessment of the FRBR structure of the Dublin Core Application Profiles funded by JISC. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 57:Achieving the Balance
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 57. -
Integrating Journal Back Files Into an Existing Electronic Environment
Jason Cooper describes how Loughborough University Library integrated a number of collections of journal back files into their existing electronic environment. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Versioning in Repositories: Implementing Best Practice
Jenny Brace explains why giving time to versioning within a repository is worthwhile and outlines the best practice to implement. -
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. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 55: Digital Lives, Digital Values
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 55. -
Future-Proofing the Past: LAI Joint Conference 2008
Siobhan Fitzpatrick reports on the Annual Joint Conference of the Library Association of Ireland and Cilip IRELAND. -
Implementing Ex Libris's PRIMO at the University of East Anglia
Nick Lewis outlines the University of East Anglia's experience of implementing Ex Libris's Primo, a new search and retrieval interface for presenting the library catalogue and institutional databases and e-resources. -
Intute Integration
Angela Joyce, Jackie Wickham, Phil Cross and Chris Stephens describe Intute's ongoing Integration Project, which is promoting and developing integration of Intute content in the UK academic library community. -
KIM Project Conference 2008
Alexander Ball provides an overview of the Knowledge and Information Management Through Life Project Conference held in April, 2008. -
Metadata for Learning Resources: An Update on Standards Activity for 2008
Sarah Currier gives an overview of current initiatives in standards for educational metadata. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Research Libraries and the Power of the Co-operative
John MacColl considers the 'co-operative imperative' upon research libraries, and describes the work which the former Research Libraries Group is undertaking as part of OCLC. -
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. -
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. -
Version Identification: A Growing Problem
Dave Puplett outlines the issues associated with versions in institutional repositories, and discusses the solutions being developed by the Version Identification Framework (VIF) Project. -
DC 2007
Ann Apps reports on DC2007, the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, held 27-31 August 2007 in Singapore. -
DRIVER: Building the Network for Accessing Digital Repositories Across Europe
Martin Feijen, Wolfram Horstmann, Paolo Manghi, Mary Robinson and Rosemary Russell present an outline of the DRIVER Project and its achievements so far in supporting and enhancing digital repository development in Europe. -
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. -
The DARE Chronicle: Open Access to Research Results and Teaching Material in the Netherlands
Leo Waaijers reflects on four years of progress and also looks ahead. -
The KIDMM Community's 'MetaKnowledge Mash-up'
Conrad Taylor reports on the KIDMM knowledge community and its September 2007 one-day conference about data, information and knowledge management issues. -
The Video Active Consortium: Europe's Television History Online
Johan Oomen and Vassilis Tzouvaras provide an insight into the background and development of the Video Active Portal which offers access to television heritage material from leading archives across Europe. -
V&A Core Systems Integration Project
In conjunction with his main article on The KIDMM Community's 'MetaKnowledge Mash-up, Conrad Taylor provides more information on V&A Core Systems Integration Project. -
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. -
Repositories Support Project Summer School
Jackie Knowles reports on the RSP Summer School, a 48-hour intensive learning programme for new institutional repository administrators, organised by the Repositories Support Project Team. -
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. -
A Dublin Core Application Profile for Scholarly Works
Julie Allinson, Pete Johnston and Andy Powell describe a Dublin Core application profile for describing scholarly works that makes use of FRBR and the DCMI Abstract Model. -
Collecting Born Digital Archives at the Wellcome Library
Chris Hilton and Dave Thompson discuss plans for work with born digital archival material at the Wellcome Library. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 50: Side-Stepping Babel
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne 50. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
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. -
Web Curator Tool
Philip Beresford tells the story (from The British Library's perspective) of the development of new software to aid all stages of harvesting Web sites for preservation. -
Book Review: Essential Law for Information Professionals
Stuart Hannabuss picks another winner but wonders whether legal essentialism is enough for information professionals. -
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. -
From Nought to a Thousand: The HUSCAP Project
Masako Suziki and Shigeki Sugita describe Hokkaido University's efforts to populate its institutional repository with journal articles. -
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. -
RDA: A New International Standard
Ann Chapman describes work on the new cataloguing code, Resource Description and Access (RDA), based on the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR). -
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. -
Introducing UnAPI
Dan Chudnov and a team of colleagues describe unAPI, a tiny HTTP API for serving information objects in next-generation Web applications. -
Folksonomies: The Fall and Rise of Plain-text Tagging
Emma Tonkin suggests that rising new ideas are often on their second circuit - and none the worse for that. -
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. -
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. -
Serving Services in Web 2.0
Theo van Veen shows with the help of an example, how standardised descriptions of services can help users control the integration of services from different providers. -
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. -
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. -
DAEDALUS: Delivering the Glasgow EPrints Service
Morag Greig and William Nixon describe the key aims and findings of the DAEDALUS Project and the Glasgow ePrints Service. -
DARE Project Chronology
To accompany their main article, Martin Feijen and Annemiek van der Kuil provide a chronological overview of the DARE project. -
DC 2005
Robina Clayphan reports on the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications: Vocabularies in Practice held at the University of Carlos III, Madrid in September 2005. -
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. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Book Review: Metadata for Information Management and Retrieval
Marieke Guy takes a look at a recent introduction to metadata for the information professional. -
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. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
What Are Your Terms?
Pete Johnston introduces the JISC Information Environment Metadata Schema Registry (IEMSR) Project and examines some of the challenges it is facing. -
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. -
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. -
ISBN-13: New Number on the Block
Ann Chapman outlines the planned changes to the ISBN standard and its impact on the information community and the book trade. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
The Information Environment Service Registry: Promoting the Use of Electronic Resources
Amanda Hill outlines progress on the Information Environment Service Registry Project and explains what it will mean for service providers and portal developers. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
RDN/LTSN Partnerships: Learning Resource Discovery Based on the LOM and the OAI-PMH
Andy Powell and Phil Barker explore the technical collaboration currently underway between the RDN and the LTSN and describe the RDN/LTSN LOM Application Profile and its use to support resource discovery. -
The Collection Description Schema Forum
Gordon Dunsire describes the one-day seminar on standard schemas for collection-level description held by UKOLN in February. -
Building OAI-PMH Harvesters With Net::OAI::Harvester
Ed Summers describes Net::OAI::Harvester, the Perl package for easily interacting with OAI-PMH repositories as a metadata harvester. Ed provides examples of how to use Net::OAI::Harvester to write short programs which execute each of the 6 OAI-PMH verbs. -
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. -
The European Library: Integrated Access to the National Libraries of Europe
Britta Woldering describes the findings of the recently completed EU Project The European Library, focusing on technical solutions and metadata development. -
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. -
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 -
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. -
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. -
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. -
WebWatch: An Update on Search Engines Used in UK University Web Sites
Brian Kelly provides an update of his survey of search engines used in UK Universities. -
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. -
Collection Description Focus Showcase: Mapping the Information Landscape
Verity Brack reports on this one-day showcase of Collection Description projects and services held at the British Library, London, 25 March 2003. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Syndicated Content: It's More Than Just Some File Formats?
Paul Miller takes a look at issues arising from the current enthusiasm for syndicating content to portals or other web sites, and offers some guidelines for good practice. -
Web Focus: A Standards-Based Culture for Web Site Development
Brian Kelly outlines strategies for choosing appropriate standards for building Web sites.
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ePrints UK: Developing a National E-prints Archive
Ruth Martin describes the technical work of the ePrints UK project, and outlines the non-technical issues that must also be addressed if the project is to deliver a national e-prints service -
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. -
Exposing Information Resources for E-learning
Steve Richardson and Andy Powell on Harvesting and searching IMS metadata using both the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, and the Z39.50 Protocol. -
Newsline: News You Can Use
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Public Libraries: Creating Websites for E-citizens -The Public Library Web Managers Workshop 2002
Penny Garrod reports on the Public Library Web Managers workshop, November 2002, held in Bath. -
Sharing History of Science and Medicine Gateway Metadata Using OAI-PMH
David Little outlines the resource sharing arrangements between the MedHist gateway and the Humbul hub, using the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, and some of the issues it has raised. -
Web Focus: Interfaces to Web Testing Tools
Brian Kelly looks at interfaces to Web testing tools, and in particular at Bookmarklets - simple extensions to browsers which enhance functionality. -
5 Step Guide to Becoming a Content Provider in the JISC Information Environment
Andy Powell describes steps which content providers can take to integrate their resources into the JISC IE. -
A Speaking Electronic Librarian
Markos Dendrinos with a proposal for an interface system, based on speech recognition and synthesis technologies, for automatic library services. -
Climbing the Scholarly Publishing Mountain With SHERPA
John MacColl and Stephen Pinfield explore the SHERPA project, which is concentrating on making e-prints available online. -
Student Searching Behaviour in the JISC Information Environment
Jill R. Griffiths and Peter Brophy report on work in progress and air some initial findings on the EDNER project, which undertakes evaluation of the developing JISC Information Environment. -
Another Piece of Cake?
Anders Ardö, Sigfrid Lundberg and Ann-Sofie Zettergren with an overview of the history of Netlab, now ten years old. -
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. -
Open Archive Forum Workshop: Creating a European Forum on Open Archives
Ariadne reports on the Open Archives Forum's First Workshop: Creating a European Forum on Open Archives. Pisa, 13-14 May 2002. CNR, Pisa. -
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. -
WWW2002 Here
Libby Miller sends notes from the WW2002 conference in Hawaii. -
Collection Description Focus: Spreading the Gospel
Bridget Robinson and Pete Johnston with an overview of CLD activities in the first year. -
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 JISC Information Environment and Web Services
Andy Powell and Liz Lyon look at possible relationships between the Web Services idea and earlier ideas about seamless access to information. -
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. -
Access to Archives: England’s Contribution to the National Archive Network
Caroline Thibeaud discusses the Archive 2 Archive project. -
Building ResourceFinder
Pete Cliff looks at how the RDN has utilised the OAI Metadata Harvesting Protocol. -
Content Management Systems: Who Needs Them?
Paul Browning and Mike Lowndes explore the CMS concept and look at the available tools. -
Development of Digital Libraries for Blind and Visually Impaired People
Jennie Craven reports on the IFLA/SLB conference in Washington in August 2001. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 30: Centering the Periphery - A New Equity in Information Access?
Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne issue 30. -
My Humbul: Humbul Gets Personal
Randy Metcalfe describes new functionality available for users of the Humbul Humanities Hub. -
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. -
Architects of the Information Age
Paul Miller reports on a recent UKOLN-organised event at the Office of the e-Envoy, and explores the need for an architecture to scope what we build online. -
Collective Convergence: The Work of the Collection Description Focus
Pete Johnston and Bridget Robinson outline the work of the Collection Description Focus. -
Developing an Agenda for Institutional E-Print Archives
Philip Hunter, John MacColl and Marieke Napier report on a one day Open Archives conference on OAI compliant metadata and e-print issues. Held at the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, London. 11 July 2001. -
Managing Digital Video Content
Manjula Patel reviews the two-day workshop on current and emerging standards for managing digital video content held in Atlanta, Georgia, 15-16 August 2001. -
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. -
Newsline: News You Can Use
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
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. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 28: Ariadne's Thread
Marieke Napier reviews recent developments on the cultural front and the contents of issue 28. -
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. -
Newsline: News You Can Use
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG): Vector Graphics for the Web
David Duce discusses the World Wide Web Consortium's Scalable Vector Graphics markup language for 2 dimensional graphics. -
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. -
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. -
Metadata (1): Encoding OpenURLs in DC Metadata
Andy Powell and Ann Apps propose a mechanism for embedding machine parsable citations into Dublin Core (DC) metadata records. -
Metadata (2): Towards Consensus on Educational Metadata
Paul Miller describes the work of the UK's new cross-sectoral Metadata for Education Group (MEG) and calls for widespread support of their first deliverable: the MEG Concord. -
The LEODIS Database
Jonathan Kendal on the creation of LEODIS, a Public Libraries sector digitization and database project. -
After eLib
Chris Rusbridge, the former Director of the UK Electronic Libraries Programme, with an assessment of its achievements and legacy. -
Exam Papers Online
Sally Rumsey on an innovative system for providing electronic access to examination papers. -
Metadata: Preservation 2000
Michael Day reports on the Digital Preservation conference held in York in December 2000. -
Review of Digital Imaging: A Practical Handbook
Philip Hunter and Marieke Napier review Stuart Lee's 'Digital Imaging' handbook. -
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. -
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. -
Metadata: Towards the Intelligent Museum
Paul Miller and Alice Grant explore CIMI: the collections standards organization which JISC has just joined. -
Adaptive Developments for Learning in the Hybrid Library
Wilma Alexander on the SELLIC Project and its aim to support the use of electronic resources in teaching science and engineering. -
BIOME
Paula Manning reports on recent developments within BIOME, the health and life sciences hub of the Resource Discovery Network. -
Interoperability: What Is It and Why Should I Want It?
Paul Miller explains what interoperability is and why you should want it. -
Search Engines: The Relevance of Underpants to Searching the Web
Phil Bradley explores search engine ranking techniques. -
Web Focus: Reflections On WWW9
Brian Kelly reports on the WWW9 conference, held in Amsterdam, in May 2000. -
EPRESS
Stuart Peters on EPRESS text management software tools, currently in development. -
Metadata for Digital Preservation: An Update
Michael Day discusses 'Metadata for Digital Preservation'. -
Planet SOSIG: Asking Questions - The CASS Social Survey Question Bank
Adam Guy writes about the Question Bank service. -
Public Libraries and Community Networks: Linking Futures Together?
Malabika Das argues public libraries and community networks have a future together. -
Web Focus: Using the Web to Promote Your Web Site
Brian Kelly expalins how to promote your web site. -
An Overview of Subject Gateway Activities in Australia
Debbie Campbell looks at how the original criteria proposed for an IMesh map against these Australian initiatives. -
Z39.50 for All
Paul Miller looks at the Z39.50 standard and attempts to extract some meaning from the mass of associated literature. -
Biz/Ed Bulletin: What Do You Want to Know?
Chris Mitchell and Martin Poulter introduce the Advice and Answers section of the CTI Economics Web site; and Kate Sharp explores Green Resources on the Web for Economics and Business -
IMS Workshop
Tracy Gardner reports on a meeting held in March in the Francis Hotel, Bath. -
Metadata: Workshop in Luxembourg
Michael Day and Andy Stone report on the Third Metadata Workshop in Luxembourg. -
Newsline: News You Can Use
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Metadata: Image Retrieval
Michael Day reports on combining content-based and metadata-based approaches. -
SEAMLESS: Introduction to the Project
Mary Rowlatt describes SEAMLESS, the Essex-based project. -
WebWatch: Conclusions from the WebWatch Project
Brian Kelly sums up conclusions from the WebWatch Project. -
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. -
Metadata: Cataloguing Theory and Internet Subject-based Information Gateways
Ann Chapman, Michael Day, and Debra Hiom compare library cataloguing concepts and ROADS Template creation. -
Metadiversity
Michael Day on a Biodiversity conference in the States interested in Metadata. -
Subject-Based Information Gateways
Linda Kerr and Roddy MacLeod attended the recent CEI meeting at the Policy Studies Institute, London. -
ALA '98
Ian Winship reports on electronic library related activity at this year's American Library Association Conference in Washington D.C. -
Metadata: BIBLINK.Checksum
Ian Peacock and Andy Powell describe a proposed algorithm for calculating a checksum for Web pages. -
Information Landscapes
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RDF Seminar
Matthew Dovey reports on the RDF seminar held in the Stakis Hotel, Bath. -
The Access Catalogue Gateway to Resources
Terry Hanson explores how libraries might develop effective ways of indicating their access arrangements to their users. -
Web Focus: The 7th World Wide Web Conference
Brian Kelly is interviewed about the 7th World Wide Web Conference upon his return from Brisbane. -
Dublin Comes to Europe
Paul Miller discusses issues raised at a recent European Commission meeting on metadata for resource discovery. -
Electronic Resource Creation and Management at Scottish Universities
Dennis Nicholson and Martin Smith describe the Catriona II project. -
Task Force Meeting
Kelly Russell reports on the US CNI Conference. -
What Is RDF?
Rachel Heery explains RDF (Resource Description Framework) -
HEADLINE (HYBRID Electronic Access and Delivery in the Library Networked Environment)
Maureen Wade introduces HEADLINE (HYBRID Electronic Access and Delivery in the Library Networked Environment). -
Metadata Corner: DC5 - the Search for Santa
Tony Gill and Paul Miller's report from the 5th Dublin Core metdata conference in Helsinki. -
Minotaur: We Must Not Be Driven by IT
Ray Lester says IT is not just a tool in an information strategy. -
Web Editorial: Introduction to Issue 12
Philip Hunter and Isobel Stark introduce Ariadne, in its Web Version. -
Web Focus: WebWatching UK Universities and Colleges
Brian Kelly describes the WebWatch project. -
Cataloguing Electronic Sources
Jackie Hwang, Team Leader, Bibliographic Services, surveys progress so far at Information Services, University of Birmingham. -
Interface: All Pre-Prints Servers Are Not the Same
Isobel Stark talks to Dan Fleming of the Formations project. -
Metadata Corner: Naming Names - Metadata Registries
Rachel Heery examines metadata issues. -
Public Libraries Corner: A Public Library Metadata Initiative
Sally Criddle introduces an initiative to extend current developments in the use of metadata to the public library community. -
Web Focus Corner: Running an Institutional Web Service
Brian Kelly reports on a workshop on running an institutional web service. -
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. -
BUBL : How BUBL Benefits Academic Librarians
Alan Dawson and Jan Simpson take us through BUBL, an old service recently transformed from being Gopher-based to Web-based. -
Clifford Lynch in Interview
Clifford Lynch, the Executive Director of CNI, was interviewed by John Kirriemuir at the Metadata: What Is It? workshop on 18 June 1997. Clifford shares some views on mirroring, caching, metadata, Z39.50 and how he sees his role in CNI. -
Dublin Core Management
Andy Powell presents three models for the way in which metadata can be managed across a Web site and describes some of the tools that are beginning to be used at UKOLN to embed Dublin Core metadata into Web pages. -
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. -
OMNI-Corner: LA 97: 'I Don't Think We're in Kansas Anymore, Toto!'
Sue Welsh, the globe-trotting OMNI project manager, presents a report of the 97th Annual Meeting of the Medical Library Association of the U.S.A, held in Seattle from 24 – 28 May, 1997. -
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. -
MIDRIB: Beyond Clip Art for Medicine
Betsy Anagnostelis and Sue Welsh describe the recent launch of the MIDRIB (Medical Images Digitised Reference Information Bank) project, and describe the medical image resource the project will create. -
Metadata, PICS and Quality
Chris Armstrong looks at the possibility of a PICS application acting as a quality filter. -
Public Libraries Corner: MODELS 5 Workshop Report and Futures
Sarah Ormes gives a report on the recent MODELS 5 workshop and its outcomes. -
Down Under With the Dublin Core
Paul Miller and Tony Gill offer a view of the recent Dublin Core metadata workshop in the Australian capital, Canberra. -
INFOMINE
Steve Mitchell describes INFOMINE, an impressive attempt to build a Web-based virtual library for the academic community. -
Making a MARC With Dublin Core
Jon Knight revisits his Perl module for processing MARC records that was introduced in the last issue and adds UNIMARC, USMARC and a script that converts Dublin Core metadata into USMARC records. -
The Paper House of Cards (And Why It's Taking So Long to Collapse)
In our previous issue, Fytton Rowland defended the continuation of print research journals into the networked age. Here, Stevan Harnad presents a different case. -
The Resource Discovery Project
As Renato Iannella shows, the Resource Discovery project at the DSTC in Australia is investigating issues to do with information discovery and access across large heterogeneous networks. -
Handling MARC With PERL
Jon Knight investigates the inner workings of the MARC record's binary distribution format and presents the first cut at a Perl module to read and write MARC records. -
MCF: Will Dublin Form the Apple Core
Jon Knight looks at how Dublin Core and Apple's new MCF metadata file format might make useful and interesting bed fellows. -
OMNI Seminar
Debra Hiom reports from the second annual OMNI seminar. -
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. -
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. -
Elib Technical Issues Concertation Day
Clare McClean describes a day given over to the more technical issues arising from the Electronic Libraries Programme. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 5
The editor introduces Ariadne issue 5. -
Metadata for the Masses
Paul Miller describes Dublin Core and several ideas for how it can be implemented. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 4: Changes to Ariadne and How to Read the Web Version
The editor explains changes in Ariadne format. -
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.. -
AC/DC
Dave Beckett and Neil Smith explain a search engine that only indexes sites in the .ac.uk domain. -
ADAM: Information Gateway to Resources on the Internet in Art, Design, Architecture and Media
Nearly half a year after the project’s official start date, ADAM has a fledgling information gateway to information on the Internet in art, design, architecture and media. Tony Gill, ADAM Project Leader, outlines what has been achieved so far, and some of the challenges that lie directly ahead. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 3
John Kirriemuir, Editor, introduces the Web version of Ariadne. -
ROADS: Resource Organisation and Discovery in Subject-Based Services
Rachel Heery, the ROADS Research Officer, describes this project from the Access to Network Resources area of the Electronic Libraries Programme. The deliverables of this project will constitute a large portion of the underlying software for most of the other projects in the same programme area, as well as other eLib and non-eLib projects, and therefore is one of the more crucial facets of the overall programme. -
Wire: Dave Beckett, Interviewed
Dave Beckett is subjected to an interview via email. -
What's Good and Bad about BUBL
Traugott Koch reviews the Bulletin Board for Libraries (BUBL).