Buzz - Persistent Identifier
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Making Citation Work: A British Library DataCite Workshop
Alex Ball reports on a workshop on practical data citation issues for institutions, held at the British Library, London, on 8 March 2013.
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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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Beyond the PDF
Jodi Schneider reports on a three-day workshop about the future of scientific communication, held in San Diego CA, USA, in January 2011. -
International Digital Curation Conference 2010
Alex Ball reports on the 6th International Digital Curation Conference, held on 7-8 December 2010 in Chicago. -
Repository Software Comparison: Building Digital Library Infrastructure at LSE
Ed Fay presents a comparison of repository software that was carried out at LSE in support of digital library infrastructure development. -
Trove: Innovation in Access to Information in Australia
Rose Holley describes a major development in the Australian national digital information infrastructure. -
Abstract Modelling of Digital Identifiers
Nick Nicholas, Nigel Ward and Kerry Blinco present an information model of digital identifiers, to help bring clarity to the vocabulary debates from which this field has suffered. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 62: The Wisdom of Communities
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 62. -
Three Perspectives on the Evolving Infrastructure of Institutional Research Repositories in Europe
Marjan Vernooy-Gerritsen, Gera Pronk and Maurits van der Graaf report on the most significant results from two surveys conducted to provide an overview of repositories with research output in the European Union. -
A DRY CRIG Event for the IE Demonstrator
Paul Walk reports on an 'unconference' for developers working in and around the JISC Information Environment and institutional systems, hosted by UKOLN at the University of Bath in June 2008. -
Open Repositories 2008
Mahendra Mahey reports on the third international Open Repositories 2008 Conference, held at the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton in April 2008. -
Persistent Identifiers: Considering the Options
Emma Tonkin looks at the current landscape of persistent identifiers, describes several current services, and examines the theoretical background behind their structure and use. -
ARROW and the RQF: Meeting the Needs of the Research Quality Framework Using an Institutional Research Repository
David Groenewegen and Andrew Treloar describe the role of repositories in the forthcoming Australian Research Quality Framework (RQF) and the responses of the ARROW Project to the needs of the RQF. -
ARROW, DART and ARCHER: A Quiver Full of Research Repository and Related Projects
Andrew Treloar and David Groenewegen describe three inter-related projects to support scholarly outputs and the e-research life cycle which have been funded by the Australian Commonwealth Government. -
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. -
Joint Workshop on Future-proofing Institutional Websites
Maureen Pennock reports on a two-day workshop on Future-Proofing Web Sites, organised by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) and the Wellcome Library at the Wellcome Library, London, over 19-20 January 2006. -
DCC Workshop on Persistent Identifiers
Philip Hunter gives a personal view of this workshop held in Glasgow, 30 June - 1 July, supported by NISO, CETIS, ERPANET, UKOLN and the DCC. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 41: Forces in Train
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne 41. -
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. -
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. -
ECDL-2003 Web Archiving
Michael Day reports on the 3rd ECDL Workshop on Web Archives held in Trondheim, August 2003. -
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. -
Metadata: I Am a Name and a Number
Paul Miller on Digital Object Identifiers. -
What Is a URI?
Ian Peacock explains 'URI' in plain English.