Buzz - Further Education
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Engaging Researchers with Social Media Tools: 25 Research Things@Huddersfield
Graham Stone and Ellen Collins investigate whether 25 Research Things, an innovative online learning programme, could help researchers understand the value of Web 2.0 tools.
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21st-century Scholarship and Wikipedia
Amber Thomas explores the ways in which emerging research practices and Wikipedia illustrate the changing boundaries of academic work.
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Seb Schmoller Replies
Stepping down from his pivotal role as CEO at ALT, Seb Schmoller kindly answers a few questions from Ariadne on his perspective on online learning.
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The ARK Project: Analysing Raptor at Kent
Leo Lyons describes how University of Kent librarians are benefitting from Raptor's ability to produce e-resource usage statistics and charts.
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Book Review: Implementing Technology in Libraries
Elizabeth McHugh reviews a first published work that she feels is a straightforward, jargon-free guide on how to implement technology solutions in libraries.
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Book Review: Information Need - A Theory Connecting Information Search to Knowledge Formation
Brian Whalley reviews a book about a new theory of ‘information need’ that builds upon the ideas of Allen and Taylor from the 1960s to provide a basis for information searching.
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Launching a New Community-owned Content Service
Caren Milloy describes some of the challenges overcome and lessons learned by JISC Collections during the development of JISC eCollections.
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Moving Ariadne: Migrating and Enriching Content with Drupal
Thom Bunting explains some of the technology behind the migration of Ariadne (including more than 1600 articles from its back issues archive) onto a Drupal content management platform. -
Wikipedia: Reflections on Use and Acceptance in Academic Environments
In the light of a workshop run by the Geological Society of London and Wikimedia UK, Brian Whalley reflects on the attitudes and practice of academia in respect of present-day Wikipedia content.
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Welsh Libraries and Social Media: A Survey
Alyson Tyler outlines the results of a survey of Welsh libraries, their access to, and use of, social media, and offers a sample business case.
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Book Review: University Libraries and Digital Learning Environments
Sylvie Lafortune reviews a collection of essays that examine the transformation of academic libraries as they become part of digital learning environments.
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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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Piloting Web Conferencing Software: Experiences and Challenges
Julian Prior and Marie Salter report on their experiences piloting Elluminate Live! at the University of Bath. -
10 Years of Zetoc
Jane Ronson looks at how Zetoc has developed and what the future holds for the service. -
Why UK Further and Higher Education Needs Local Software Developers
Mahendra Mahey and Paul Walk discuss the work of the Developer Community Supporting Innovation (DevCSI) Project which focuses on building capacity for software developers in UK Further and Higher Education to support innovation in the sector. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
A Research Revolution: The Impact of Digital Technologies
Dicky Maidment-Otlet and Judy Redfearn describe a new JISC activity to highlight how digital technologies are changing research. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
What Happens If I Click on This?': Experiences of the Archives Hub
Jane Stevenson describes the results of usability testing for the Archives Hub Web site. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 53: Unlocking Our Televisual Past
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 53. -
The Second Life of UK Academics
John Kirriemuir introduces a series of studies investigating how the Second Life environment is being used in UK Higher and Further Education. -
24 Hour Museum: From Past to Future
As 24 Hour Museum rebuilds and looks outwards to new partnerships, Jon Pratty looks at challenges faced over the last seven years. -
IWMW 2007: Next Steps for the Web Management Community
Shirley Keane reports on the wide range of presentations given at this year's Institutional Web Management Workshop. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
The JISC Annual Conference 2007
Philip Pothen and colleagues provide an overview of the proceedings of this Spring's JISC Annual Conference. -
Creative Commons Licences in Higher and Further Education: Do We Care?
Naomi Korn and Charles Oppenheim discuss the history and merits of using Creative Commons licences while questioning whether these licences are indeed a panacea. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 49: Technology Is Only Part of the Story
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 49. -
Wiki Or Won't He? A Tale of Public Sector Wikis
Marieke Guy revisits a topic receiving considerable attention these days and reflects on wiki use by public organisations. -
IWMW 2006: Quality Matters
Adrian Stevenson reports on the 10th Institutional Web Management Workshop held at the University of Bath over 14-16 June 2006. -
ShibboLEAP: Seven Libraries and a LEAP of Faith
Martin Moyle introduces the ShibboLEAP Project, a multi-institution Shibboleth adoption in London, and hopes that later adopters will benefit from its findings. -
Digital Policy Management Workshop
Neil Beagrie and Mark Bide report on a one-day invitational workshop on Digital Policy Management 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 24 April 2006. -
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. -
C21st Curation Summer 2005 Public Lecture Series
Neil Beagrie and Helen Forde report on the public lecture series 'C21st Curation: working with digital assets in the new Millennium - challenges and opportunities' held at University College London over May and June 2005, and on plans for a second series in 2006. -
Projects Into Services: The UK Experience
Peter Brophy reviews the experience of the UK academic sector in turning digital library projects into sustainable services. -
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 from BIOME
Jenny Hall reports on recent news from BIOME, the Health and Life Sciences hub of the Resource Discovery Network . -
Online Repositories for Learning Materials: The User Perspective
Amber Thomas and Andrew Rothery explore how online repositories are being used to store and share e-learning content, and show how taking the user perspective might challenge the emerging approaches to repository development. -
Book Review: Managing Suppliers and Partners for the Academic Library
Tony Kidd examines this study's view of the importance of partnerships in their widest context for the modern academic library. -
Integration and Impact: The JISC Annual Conference
Marieke Guy has collated reports on sessions from the JISC Annual Conference held in Birmingham. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Towards a Pragmatic Framework for Accessible E-Learning
Lawrie Phipps, Neil Witt and Brian Kelly while recognising the importance of accessibility in e-learning resources, query the universal applicability of the Web Accessibility Initiative's guidelines and describe a pragmatic framework which provides a broader context for their use. -
Digital Preservation: Best Practice and Its Dissemination
Neil Beagrie describes the development and subsequent use of a digital preservation handbook and future plans for expansion of its use in training and professional practice. -
EuroCAMP 2005
Masha Garibyan and Ann Borda report on the first Campus Architecture Middleware Planning workshop in Europe hosted by the Politecnico di Torino. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
News from BIOME
Jenny Hall reports on recent news form BIOME, the Health and Life Sciences hub of the Resource Discovery Network. -
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. -
Assessing the Impact of the Freedom of Information Act on the FE and HE Sectors
Steve Bailey describes how the FE and HE sectors have prepared for the implementation of the Freedom of Information Act and what challenges still lay ahead. -
Shibboleth Installation Workshop
James Sankar and Masha Garibyan report on the first ever Shibboleth Installation Workshop in the UK. -
Developing Portal Services and Evaluating How Users Want to Use Them: The CREE Project
Chris Awre, Matthew J Dovey, Jon Hunter, William Kilbride and Ian Dolphin describe the JISC-funded Contextual Resource Evaluation Environment (CREE) Project and its user and technical investigations to examine how users wish to use library search services. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
News from BIOME
Jenny Hall and Donald Mackay report on recent news form BIOME, the Health and Life Sciences hub of the Resource Discovery Network. -
Virtual Rooms, Real Meetings
Andy Powell takes a brief look at VRVS, a desktop video-conferencing tool that can be used to support collaborative activities between groups of geographically distributed researchers. -
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. -
EEVL News: What EEVL Users Really Want
Roddy MacLeod looks at the results of the recent questionnaire which surveyed opinions about the EEVL service. -
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. -
PALS Conference: Institutional Repositories and Their Impact on Publishing
Kurt Paulus describes for us the Publisher and Library/Learning Solutions (PALS) Conference held in London this June. -
Support Models for Open Source Deployment
Sebastian Rahtz and Randy Metcalfe report on OSS Watch's one-day conference on support models held in London in June 2004. -
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. -
Web Focus: The Web on Your TV
Brian Kelly takes a look at a digital TV box which provides Web and email access in your living room. -
EEVL News: EEVL, VLEs, Institutional and Library Portals
Malcolm Moffat discusses the use of EEVL functionality in VLEs and Portals. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
News from BIOME
Jenny Hall reports on recent news from BIOME, the Health and Life Sciences hub of the Resource Discovery Network. -
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. -
Developing and Publicising a Workable Accessibility Strategy
Lawrie Phipps, Sue Harrison, David Sloan and Betty Willder look at the increasing need for developers of institutional and educational Web sites to develop and follow a strategy for ensuring optimal accessibility of online content. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 38: The Quality of Metadata Is Not Strained
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 38. -
Further Education and BIOME
Donald Mackay gives an overview of BIOME, the hub for the health and life sciences in the context of its services for Further Education. -
How Altis Can Help the Further Education Sector
Steven Hewitt gives advice on finding quality Internet resources in hospitality, leisure, sport and tourism -
OSS Inaugural Conference: Open Source Deployment and Development
Sebastian Rahtz and Randy Metcalfe give an overview of the first conference of the Open Source Advisory Service. -
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. -
What the Resource Discovery Network Is Doing for Further Education
Mark Williams highlights some of the services that the RDN provides for the benefit of FE users. -
What's in Artifact for Further Education?
Jayne Everard writes about the areas covered by the new subject service Artifact and takes us through the facilities on offer to FE practitioners. -
What's in EEVL for Further Education
Roddy MacLeod gives an overview of the services and plans EEVL has for students and practitioners in the Further Education sector. -
What's in GEsource for Further Education?
John Blunden-Ellis provides a view of the material available to FE from GEsource, the RDN subject service for geography and environment. -
What's in Humbul for Further Education?
Randy Metcalfe provides an overview of the materials and services of use to humanities practitioners in the FE sector. -
What's in PSIgate for Further Education?
John Blunden-Ellis describes the materials and services available from the RDN subject service PSIgate in respect of students and practitioners in FE. -
What's in SOSIG for Further Education?
Emma Place gives an insight into the pitfalls that await new users of the Internet in their search for relevant and quality materials and explains how SOSIG has catered for the needs of both FE students and practitioners. -
Crime and Punishment: Protecting ICT Users and Their Information Against Computer Crime and Abuse
Andrew Charlesworth reports on a seminar seeking to protect ICT users and their information against computer crime and abuse. -
EEVL News
Roddy MacLeod describes how EEVL is putting RSS to work. -
Ebooks in UK Libraries: Where Are We Now?
Penny Garrod brings us up to date on developments in ebooks. -
Planet SOSIG
Anne Dimond and Angela Joyce send further news from the planet of social sciences. -
Updated JISC Guides Are Now Available
Emma Beer describes the new JISC Resource Guides. -
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. -
Developing the JISC Information Environment Service Registry
Verity Brack and Amanda Closier provide us with an overview of the aims and latest work in the development of the JISC IE Service Registry. -
EEVL News and Enhancements
Roddy MacLeod and Lesa Ng provide us with the news and developments from EEVL. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 36: This Time the Cavalry Showed Up
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 36. -
Framework for the Future: Access to Digital Skills and Services (Including e-Government)
Penny Garrod examines further this government blueprint and argues that some have to walk before they can run. -
Just a Distraction?: External Content in Institutional Portals
Ruth Martin and Liz Pearce reflect on stakeholders' views of external resources within institutional portals and highlight the findings of recent PORTAL Project research.
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MIMAS Ten Years on
Julia Chruszcz looks at the ten years of MIMAS as a JISC-designated national data centre. -
Mapping the JISC IE Service Landscape
Andy Powell provides a graphical representation of how some well-known services, projects and software applications fit within the JISC Information Environment technical architecture. -
Planet SOSIG
Debra Hiom highlights some new events, publications and services in the social sciences and Andy Hargrave introduces recent developments for FE in the Bized Service. -
The Intellectual Property Rights Workshop
William J. Nixon and Jessie Hey co-report on the JISC IPR workshop held in London, May 2003. -
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. -
Apart from the Weather, I Think It’s a Good Idea: Stakeholder Requirements for Institutional Portals
Liz Pearce takes a look at recent research from the PORTAL Project, which asked over 600 users what they might want from an institutional portal. -
Free Full-text E-journals and EEVL's Engineering E-journal Search Engine
Nicola Harrison and Roddy MacLeod describe what EEVL has to offer in the area of e-journals. -
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 -
EEVL: Search Me!
Roddy MacLeod supplies guidance on the large range of available EEVL search options. -
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. -
Planet SOSIG: Social Science Case Studies
Dave Boyd provides an update on SOSIG’s involvement in the new RDN FE case studies project, and on developments within the Geography and Environmental Sciences subject sections. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
EEVL: Resident EEVL
Roddy MacLeod provides an update on the EEVL project. Among other things he explains how the EEVL cross-search facility can be run from user pages. -
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. -
Public Libraries: United We Stand
Penny Garrod on current developments in the Public Library world. -
EEVL
Roddy Macleod on EEVL's engagement with RSS channels. -
Learning Objects and the Information Environment
Ian Dolphin and Paul Miller discuss the place of Learning Objects in the wider environment of learning. -
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. -
Web Focus: Report On The Sixth Institutional Web Management Workshop
Brian Kelly with a report on the Sixth Institutional International Web Management Workshop held this year at the University of Strathclyde. -
EEVL-ution to a Portal
Roddy Macleod on the hub's 'EEVL-ution' to a portal. -
News from the Resource Discovery Network
Simon Jennings and Philip Pothen on the new RDN workbook and extensions to the RDN Virtual Training Suite. -
Building ResourceFinder
Pete Cliff looks at how the RDN has utilised the OAI Metadata Harvesting Protocol. -
EEVL: Brand new EEVL service
Roddy Macleod introduces a new service. -
My Humbul: Humbul Gets Personal
Randy Metcalfe describes new functionality available for users of the Humbul Humanities Hub. -
News from the Resource Discovery Network
Simon Jennings and Philip Pothen with the latest on developments at the RDN. -
Newsline: News You Can Use
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
The JISC User Behaviour Monitoring and Evaluation Framework
Jenny Rowley introduces the JISC User Behaviour Monitoring and Evaluation Framework. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
The People's Network and the Learning Revolution: Building the NOF Digitize Programme
Susi Woodhouse brings us up to date with developments. -
EEVL Update
Roddy MacLeod and Linda Kerr provide news about the EEVL service -
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. -
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. -
Supporting Material for Database Training, or 'Here’s One I Prepared Earlier'
Alison McNab looks at the wealth of resources available for trainers provided by the information service and content providers within JISC-supported services. -
After the Big Bang: The Forces of Change and E-Learning
Pete Johnston examines what recent developments in the area of "e-learning" might mean for the custodians of the information resources required to support teaching and learning. -
EEVL
Roddy MacLeod and Lesa Ng with some useful tips on Shoestring Marketing for projects. -
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. -
The Digital Preservation Coalition
Neil Beagrie reports on proposals to establish a Digital Preservation Coalition in the UK. -
The Distributed National Electronic Resource and the Hybrid Library
Stephen Pinfield and Lorcan Dempsey with an overview of the DNER. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 24: Plumbing the Digital Library
Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne 24. -
In Vision: The Internet As a Resource for Visually Impaired People
Ann Chapman on the Internet as a resource for visually impaired people: a survey of accessible sites, resources, current research and software. -
JASPER Further Education Meeting
Martin Hamilton reports on the recent JASPER one day meeting on the expansion of JISC services to cover the FE community. -
Newsline: News You Can Use
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Web Cache: The National JANET Web Cache Progress Report
George Neisser discusses the plans of the National Caching Service. -
Looking Back in Anger: A Retrospective
Don Revill, former Head of Information Services at Liverpool John Moores University, offers a retrospective. -
Minotaur
Gordon Brewer re-examines the "convergence of services" issue. -
Down Your Way: Cyberworld Croydon
Lyndon Pugh took a trip to the cyberworld of Croydon, to see 'what was going down'. -
Dearing, IT and Information Services: Two Cheers (or One and a Half?)
Lyndon Pugh reviews a serious attempt to square a circle. -
Interface: Hymns Ancient and Modern
Lyndon Pugh talks to Mary Auckland, Chair, Committee on Electronic Information (CEI) Content Working Group. -
Public Libraries Corner: Soul and Song
Lorcan Dempsey writes about the recent report: New Library: the People's Network. -
The History of History
Stephen Smith explains the background to the relaunch of IHR-Info as HISTORY. -
NISS: National Information Services and Systems
Annette Lafford and Oren Stone talk us through NISS, one of the major sources of on-line information for academics and librarians -
CTI (Computers in Teaching Initiative)
The CTI, set up in 1989, offers a UK-wide service to academic staff in higher education institutions through its network of 24 subject-based centres. Joyce Martin, acting head of the CTI Support Service, describes this HEFCE funded initiative.