Buzz - Information Retrieval
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LinkedUp: Linking Open Data for Education
Marieke Guy, Mathieu d’Aquin, Stefan Dietze, Hendrik Drachsler, Eelco Herder and Elisabetta Parodi describe the activities carried out by the LinkedUp Project looking at the promotion of open data in education.
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Book Review: Information Consulting - Guide to good practice
Martin White reviews a book written by three experienced consultants that seeks to support information professionals in setting themselves up as consultants.
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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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Book Review: Understanding Information and Computation
Martin White reviews a very individual perspective on the extent to which the growth and structure of the World Wide Web is governed by the fundamental laws of physics and mathematics.
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EMTACL12 (Emerging Technologies in Academic Libraries)
Sarah Rayner and Olivia Walsby report on a three-day conference on Emerging Technologies in Academic Libraries, hosted by NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) in Trondheim, Norway over 1 - 3 October 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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Book Review: Getting Started with Cloud Computing
Martin White reviews a collection of essays on cloud computing that attempts to clarify the technology and its applications for librarians and information professionals.
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Book Review: From Lending to Learning
Tim Davies reviews a spirited defence of public libraries, which tries to define their core purpose and which argues for a re-positioning of their place in society.
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Book Review: Innovations in Information Retrieval
Martin White reviews a collection of essays on a wide range of current topics and challenges in information retrieval.
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 68
The editor introduces readers to the content of Ariadne issue 68.
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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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Towards Interoperabilty of European Language Resources
Sophia Ananiadou and colleagues describe an ambitious new initiative to accelerate Europe-wide language technology research, helped by their work on promoting interoperability of language resources. -
Book Review: Introducing RDA
Katrina Clifford reviews a work covering the long-heralded change in the cataloguing rule set - RDA (Resource Description and Access). -
Book Review: Introductory Concepts in Information Science
Charles Oppenheim takes a look at an introduction to Information Science but fails to be impressed. -
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. -
E-books and E-content 2010: Data As Content
Brian Whalley reports on a meeting dealing with academic data management and some JISC projects concerned with institutional responses to the need to manage research data more effectively. -
Evidence, Value and Impact: The LIS Research Landscape in 2010
Stephanie Kenna reports on the Library and Information Science Research Coalition conference, held at the British Library on 28 June 2010. -
Rewriting the Book: On the Move With the Library of Birmingham
Brian Gambles presents the Library of Birmingham vision and strategy for addressing the challenge of mobile digital services.
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Archives in Web 2.0: New Opportunities
Marta Nogueira describes how three Web 2.0 applications (Facebook, Flickr, YouTube) can work as a virtual extension for archives and other cultural organisations, by identifying benefits obtained from the use of Web 2.0 applications. -
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. -
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. -
Book Review: Delete - The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age
Pete Cliff hopes he'll not forget this marvellous book, even when the author seems to suggest it might be better if he did! -
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. -
Book Review: Digital Consumers - Reshaping the Information Professions
Muhammad Rafiq offers us a detailed review of a work which examines digital consumers from both an historical and future perspective. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
The Librarians' Information Literacy Annual Conference (LILAC) 2009
Rosie Jones reports on a three-day conference about Information Literacy held by CILIP CSG Information Literacy Group at Cardiff University over 30 March - 1 April 2009. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
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. -
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. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
Enabling Knowledge Communities
In conjunction with his main article on The KIDMM Community's 'MetaKnowledge Mash-up, Conrad Taylor provides further information about enabling knowledge communities. -
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. -
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 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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
Book Review: The History and Heritage of Scientific and Technological Information Systems
Charles Oppenheim takes a look at this series of personal and researched historical analyses of the history of computerised information retrieval systems, and finds it makes fascinating reading if you are interested in such things. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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: Metadata for Information Management and Retrieval
Marieke Guy takes a look at a recent introduction to metadata for the information professional. -
Book Review: How to Find Information
Verity Brack reviews a new practical guide for researchers wanting to improve their information skills and finds it a very useful addition. -
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. -
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: Information Representation and Retrieval in the Digital Age
Chris Awre finds a useful if limited introduction for those coming new to the field of information representation and retrieval, but is unconvinced by its overall coverage and depth. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
EEVL News: EEVL, VLEs, Institutional and Library Portals
Malcolm Moffat discusses the use of EEVL functionality in VLEs and Portals. -
IT for Me: Getting Personal in South Yorkshire Public Libraries
Liz Pearce and Neil Smith introduce the IT for Me Project which aims to provide personalised access to online resources in South Yorkshire's public libraries. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Book Review: Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, Volume 37, 2003
Colin Harris declares himself a veteran reader of the ARIST, assesses the kinds of reviewing it performs and balances the strengths and weaknesses of this long-standing publication. -
Newsline: News You Can Use
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
The AIM25 Project
Robert Baxter, Frances Blomeley and Rachel Kemsley present AIM25, a project providing electronic access to descriptions of archives held in various London institutions. -
Access to Archives: England’s Contribution to the National Archive Network
Caroline Thibeaud discusses the Archive 2 Archive project. -
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. -
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. -
Clumps Come Up Trumps
Helena Gillis, Verity Brack, John Gilby and Marian Hogg review the four eLib CLUMP projects now at the end of their funding periods. -
Continuity and Collaboration: The Online Bach Bibliography
Yo Tomita introduces the single most important online resource for the study of the composer J.S. Bach. -
Knowledge Management in the Perseus Digital Library
Jeffrey Rydberg-Cox on the Perseus Project's new knowledge management and digital delivery tools. -
Managing Technostress in UK Libraries: A Realistic Guide
Stephen Harper analyses in detail a familiar disease. -
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. -
So You Want to Build a Union Catalogue?
Matthew Dovey looks at various models of virtual union catalogues in addition to those adopted by the clump projects, and other models of physical catalogues. -
Clumping Towards a UK National Catalogue?
Dennis Nicholson argues in favour of the distributed approach to cataloguing. -
Public Libraries and Community Networks: Linking Futures Together?
Malabika Das argues public libraries and community networks have a future together. -
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. -
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. -
SEAMLESS: Introduction to the Project
Mary Rowlatt describes SEAMLESS, the Essex-based project. -
Hybrid Libraries
Stephen Pinfield describes the role of Hybrid Libraries and Clumps -
Teams
Lyndon Pugh argues there are signs we are hung up on multi-skilling... -
UKOLUG
Jacqueline Chelin reports on the UKOLUG 20th birthday conference. -
VERITY
Panayiotis Periorellis and Walter Scales writes about the VERITY European Telematics Project. -
Metadata Corner
Michael Day reports from Tomar, Portugal, on the DELOS6 Workshop. -
Supporting Learners at a Distance
Alan MacDougall on cost effective ways of widening access. -
Newsline: News You Can Use
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Down Your Way: University of Ulster, Coleraine
Isobel Stark investigates University of Ulster, Coleraine. -
The Impact of IMPEL
Jim Huntingford reviews IMPEL, an eLib project. -
The Lesser of Two EEVLs?
Roddy MacLeod, EEVL Project Manager (Information), describes plans for EEVL. -
Down Your Way: Queen's University Library
Isobel Stark visits the Victorian and 20th-century splendours of the Queen's Univerity, Belfast. -
SIGIR '97
David Nichols reports on the follow-on conference SIGIR '97. -
Beyond the Web: The Potential Uses of HTML in Library Disaster Control Planning
During a lifelong library career, 2 out of 5 librarians will face a major disaster in their library. Emma Blagg describes the design and evaluation of a HTML-based disaster control plan, used to provide the counter measures taken to minimise the effects of such a disaster. -
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. -
Minotaur: Metadata -To Be, Or Not to Be (Catalogued)
Gordon Dunsire thinks that all is not rosy in the garden that is metadata, and wonders how it can assist cataloguing in a real-world sense. -
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. -
Planet SOSIG: A New Internet Role for Europe's Librarians
Emma Worsfold describes the role and purpose of SOSIG, and launches a scheme where European Librarians can participate in adding relevant, quality content to this Social Science Gateway. -
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. -
Data Archive at the University of Essex
Denise Lievesley and Bridget Winstanley describe this national resource centre for computer-readable data in the social sciences and humanities. -
ERIMS
Catherine Hanratty issues a call to ERIMS. -
Wire: Interview with Nick Gibbins
Nick Gibbins is put under the virtual spotlight to answer a few questions via email. -
ADAM: Bits and Pieces
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Allerton 1996
Clare Davies reports on this years event in an annual conference series addressing user-centred aspects of library and information science. -
Interface Miriam Drake: A Rainy Night in Georgia?
The Library is still busy, as Miriam Drake explains to Alison Kilgour. -
Lessons Learned from Developing and Delivering the BORGES Information Filtering Tool
Alan Smeaton discusses the development and implementation of BORGES, an information filtering service for WWW pages and USENET news. -
Down Your Way: Edge Hill University
Alison Kilgour checks out the network facilities at Edge Hill College. -
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. -
Centre for Database Access Research (CEDAR): The Huddersfield Connection
Steve Pollitt describes the history and research behind CEDAR, the Centre for Database Access Research, which specialises in work on the design of interfaces for information retrieval systems. -
Research Elsewhere
John Kirriemuir gives calls attention to articles describing research of interest elsewhere. -
TLTP: Teaching and Learning Technology Programme
Joanna Tiley describes TLTP. The Teaching and Learning Technology Programme, funded by the UK Higher Education Funding Councils of the UK, is a collection of 70+ projects aimed to 'make teaching and learning more productive and efficient by harnessing modern technology'. -
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. -
ELVIRA
Tessa Bruce from the ResIDe eLib project describes the recent high profile electronic libraries conference hosted by De Montfort University. -
SOSIG: Social Science Information Gateway
SOSIG was established with funding from the Economics and Social Research Council (ESRC). The Electronic Libraries' Programme (eLib) funds a Documentation and Training Officer, Lesly Huxley, under the Access to Networked Resources umbrella to raise awareness of - and train people to use - SOSIG. Here Lesly provides background to the service and describes the Internet for Social Scientists workshops she is running at Universities around the country. -
CLIC: An Electronic Chemistry Journal
CLIC is a project from the Electronic Journals area of the Electronic Libraries Programme. Henry Rzepa, from the Chemistry Department at Imperial College, explains the need for journals in the field of Chemistry that use leading edge technology for molecular information storage, retrieval and manipulation. -
Wire: Email Interview with Traugott Koch
Traugott Koch submits to an interview by email.