Buzz - Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
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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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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. -
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. -
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. -
Metadata for Learning Resources: An Update on Standards Activity for 2008
Sarah Currier gives an overview of current initiatives in standards for educational metadata. -
Towards an Application Profile for Images
Mick Eadie describes the development of the Dublin Core Images Application Profile project recently funded through the JISC. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
DC 2007
Ann Apps reports on DC2007, the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, held 27-31 August 2007 in Singapore. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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). -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
ERPANET Seminar on Persistent Identifiers
Monica Duke reports on a two-day training seminar on persistent identifiers held by ERPANET in Cork, Ireland over 17-18 June 2004. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
The Collection Description Schema Forum
Gordon Dunsire describes the one-day seminar on standard schemas for collection-level description held by UKOLN in February. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
Collection Description Focus: Spreading the Gospel
Bridget Robinson and Pete Johnston with an overview of CLD activities in the first year. -
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. -
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 (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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
Metadata: Workshop in Luxembourg
Michael Day and Andy Stone report on the Third Metadata Workshop in Luxembourg.