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• Editorial: Ariadne Carries On

  The editor writes of the next coils in Ariadne's thread, and bids farewell.

• Developing a Prototype Library WebApp for Mobile Devices

  Jason Cooper and Gary Brewerton describe the development of a prototype WebApp to improve access to Library systems at Loughborough University for mobile devices.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Delivering Open Educational Resources for Engineering Design

  Mansur Darlington describes two methods for presenting online OERs for engineering design that were developed and explored as part of the Higher Education Academy/JISC-funded DelOREs (Delivering Open Educational Resources for Engineering Design) Project.

• 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.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 68

  The editor introduces readers to the content of Ariadne issue 68.

• Connecting Researchers at the University of Bath

  Jez Cope and Geraldine Jones describe a recent series of events introducing social media to research students at the University of Bath.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 67: Changes Afoot

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 67.

• MyMobileBristol

  Mike Jones, Simon Price, Nikki Rogers and Damian Steer describe the rationale, aims and progress of MyMobileBristol, highlighting some of the challenges and opportunities that have arisen during the project.

• Open Educational Resources Hack Day

  Kirsty Pitkin reports on a two-day practical hack event focusing on Open Educational Resources (OER), held by DevCSI and JISC CETIS in Manchester on 31 March - 1 April 2011.

• 10 Cheap and Easy Ways to Amplify Your Event

  Marieke Guy describes new tools and services that can help you get your event heard.

• 10 Years of Zetoc

  Jane Ronson looks at how Zetoc has developed and what the future holds for the service.

• Book Review: Blogging and RSS - A Librarian's Guide, 2nd Edition

  Elly Cope reviews the second edition of this book in which the author explains how RSS and blogging can be used by librarians and libraries.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 66: Sanity Check

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 66.

• Saving the Sounds of the UK in the UK SoundMap

  Maureen Pennock and Chris Clark introduce an innovative initiative from the British Library to map a 12-month soundscape of the UK.

• Internet Librarian International Conference 2010

  Claire Tylee, Katrin Flemming and Elly Cope report on the two-day Internet Librarian International Conference focusing on innovation and technology in the information profession, held in London on 14-15 October 2010.

• Repository Fringe 2010

  Martin Donnelly (and friends) report on the Repository Fringe "unconference" held at the National e-Science Centre in Edinburgh, Scotland, over 2-3 September 2010.

• 23 Things in Public Libraries

  Helen Leech describes a collaborative project to increase front-line staff's understanding and use of Web 2.0 in public libraries.

• Emerging Technologies in Academic Libraries (emtacl10)

  Andrew Walsh reports on a new international conference on emerging technologies within academic libraries organised by the library of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and held in Trondheim, Norway in April 2010.

• Institutional Web Management Workshop 2010

  Keith Doyle provides a personal perspective on a conference organised by UKOLN for those involved in the provision of institutional Web services.

• Trove: Innovation in Access to Information in Australia

  Rose Holley describes a major development in the Australian national digital information infrastructure.

• 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.

• 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.

• Intranet Management: Divine Comedy or Strategic Imperative?

  Martin White suggests that a failure to recognise the value of intranets is a symptom of a failure to recognise information as a strategic asset.

• Moving Targets: Web Preservation and Reference Management

  Richard Davis discusses the role of Web preservation in reference management. This article is based on a presentation given at the Innovations in Reference Management workshop, January 2010.

• 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.

• Book Review: Ajax in Oracle JDeveloper

  Pete Cliff finds aspects of this work useful and interesting, but he also expresses some serious reservations.

• Book Review: Information Tomorrow

  Lina Coelho is delighted by this pick-and-mix collection of reflections on the technological future of libraries.

• Search Engines: Real-time Search

  Phil Bradley looks at the concept of real-time search and points to some of the functionality that users can and should expect to find when exploring these engines.

• Collecting Evidence in a Web 2.0 Context

  Ann Chapman and Rosemary Russell describe the challenge of collecting evidence for a study of how Web 2.0 is being used in the UK HE sector.

• 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.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• dev8D: JISC Developer Happiness Days

  Julian Cheal reports on the 5-day JISC's Developer Happiness Days event held at Birckbeck College, London over 16 - 21 February 2009.

• A Selection of Social Media Search Engines

  Phil Bradley takes a look at how social media output is being indexed, sorted and made available for searching by looking at some representative samples.

• Book Review: Pro Web 2.0 Mashups

  Ralph LeVan looks at a comprehensive work on how to consume and repurpose Web services.

• Embedding Web Preservation Strategies Within Your Institution

  Christopher Eddie reports on the third one-day workshop of the JISC-PoWR (Preservation of Web Resources) Project held at the University of Manchester on 12 September 2008.

• Europeana: An Infrastructure for Adding Local Content

  Rob Davies describes a Best Practice Network under the eContentPlus Programme to make available locally sourced digital content to the Europeana Service.

• A Desk Too Far?: The Case for Remote Working

  Marieke Guy examines both the benefits and the pitfalls of working remotely from the standpoint of both employees and their organisation.

• Being Wired Or Being Tired: 10 Ways to Cope With Information Overload

  Sarah Houghton-Jan explores different strategies for managing and coping with various types of informational overload.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 56: More Light Than Heat

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 56.

• Institutional Web Management Workshop 2008: The Great Debate

  Adrian Tribe reports on a three-day conference designed for professionals involved in the provision of institutional Web services, organised by UKOLN and held at King's College, University of Aberdeen in July 2008.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• The 2008 Mashed Museum Day and UK Museums on the Web Conference

  Mia Ridge reports on the Mashed Museum day and the Museums Computer Group UK Museums on the Web Conference, held at the University of Leicester in June 2008.

• 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.

• Book Review: The Thriving Library

  Lina Coelho takes a look at this collection of winning strategies for success in public libraries during challenging times.

• 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.

• Libraries of the Future

  Michelle Pauli reports on the National e-textbook Debate and Libraries of the Future panel sessions held by JISC in Birmingham over 14-15 April 2008.

• The Librarian's Information Literacy Annual Conference (LILAC) 2008

  Keir Hopwood reports on three-day conference about current and future trends in the practice of information literacy teaching in Higher Education and beyond.

• Human-powered Search Engines: An Overview and Roundup

  Phil Bradley looks at the major contenders and discusses the value of this type of search engine.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Web 2.0 in U.S. LIS Schools: Are They Missing the Boat?

  Noa Aharony asks whether library and information science schools in the United States are underestimating the opportunities offered by Web 2.0 applications.

• 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.

• Newsline

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• 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.

• 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.

• Blogging from the Backroom

  Ann Chapman reports on a seminar on blogging, designed for those working in the traditional 'backroom' professions such as cataloguing and indexing, held by the CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group in London, on 8 June 2007.

• 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.

• The SPP Alerting Portlet: Delivering Personalised Updates

  Virginia Knight describes the open-source alerting portlet which has been developed as part of the SPP Subject Portals Project (SPP) and the results of user feedback.

• Book Review: Blogging and RSS - A Librarian's Guide

  Kara Jones reviews a practical guide to blogs and RSS written for librarians, packed with library-specific examples.

• Citeulike: A Researcher's Social Bookmarking Service

  Kevin Emamy and Richard Cameron describe a tool that helps researchers gather, collect and share papers.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 51: Democratising Cultural Heritage

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne 51.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Search Engines: Why Ask Me, and Does 'X' Mark the Spot?

  Phil Bradley takes a look at different versions of Ask to see how it is developing and looks at how it is emerging from its servant roots.

• Using Blogs for Formative Assessment and Interactive Teaching

  Lisa Foggo provides a case-study of using a blog for formative assessment. Its interactivity engaged participants and permitted measurement of student expectations and satisfaction with library sessions.

• Book Review: Digital Libraries - Integrating Content and Systems

  Chris Awre finds a useful toolset to guide librarians and LIS students on the future use of IT to deliver their services.

• 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.

• Search Engines: Is Google Building on Shaky Foundations?

  Phil Bradley takes an in-depth look at Google and its competition and wonders if things are looking slightly worrying for the search giant.

• 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.

• Workshop on E-Research, Digital Repositories and Portals

  Rob Allan, Rob Crouchley and Caroline Ingram report on a two-day workshop held at University of Lancaster over 6-7 September 2006

• e-Books for the Future: Here but Hiding?

  Brian Whalley outlines some developments in e-book technologies and links them to existing ways of presenting textbook information.

• Accoona: Super-Charged Super Target Searching

  Phil Bradley puts a relative newcomer through its paces and finds some very useful features together with potential for improvement.

• Book Review: The Librarian's Internet Survival Guide, 2nd Edition

  Re-visiting this work in its new and second edition for Ariadne, Lina Coelho finds it amply repays the effort.

• 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.

• Introducing UnAPI

  Dan Chudnov and a team of colleagues describe unAPI, a tiny HTTP API for serving information objects in next-generation Web applications.

• Library Systems: Synthesise, Specialise, Mobilise

  Robin Murray examines how the changing landscape for library systems is altering their service model.

• The Library Catalogue in the New Discovery Environment: Some Thoughts

  Lorcan Dempsey explores how the library catalogue will develop alongside evolving network discovery systems.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Stargate: Exploring Static Repositories for Small Publishers

  R. John Robertson introduces a project examining the potential benefits of OAI-PMH Static Repositories as a means of enabling small publishers to participate more fully in the information environment.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Web Focus: Must Email Die?

  Brian Kelly recently gave a talk on this subject at the Internet Librarian International 2005 conference. In this article he expands on the talk and revisits the question as to whether email really should disappear.

• IWMW 2005

  Miles Banbery reports on the 9th Institutional Web Management Workshop held at the University of Manchester, UK, over 6-8 July 2005.

• Mobile Blogs, Personal Reflections and Learning Environments: The RAMBLE Project

  Paul Trafford describes how mobile blogs for personal reflection may be related to institutional learning environments, drawing on experiences from the RAMBLE Project.

• Search Engines: Google and Search: Some of the Latest Developments

  Phil Bradley takes a look at some of the new developments at Google.

• Web Focus: The WWW 2005 Conference

  Brian Kelly provides his impressions including reports of areas of doubt and uncertainty - but also of an exciting new development.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Opening Up OpenURLs with Autodiscovery

  Daniel Chudnov, Richard Cameron, Jeremy Frumkin, Ross Singer and Raymond Yee demonstrate a 'gather locally, share globally' approach to OpenURLs and metadata autodiscovery in scholarly and non-scholarly environments.

• Planet-SOSIG

  Paul Ayres examines how the SOSIG Subject News blog is keeping users up to date and providing reusable site content at the same time.

• Beyond Email: Wikis, Blogs and Other Strange Beasts

  Robert Bristow reports on a one-day workshop 'Beyond Email: Strategies for Collaborative Working and Learning in the 21st Century'.

• Making the Case for a Wiki

  Emma Tonkin examines wikis and considers the feasibility of their deployment - and the danger of the 'tumbleweed' syndrome.

• EEVL News: EEVL Update

  Roddy MacLeod and Agnes Guyon look at some recent developments to the EEVL service.

• Improving Communications Within JISC through News Aggregation

  Paul Davey explains what JISC is doing to improve communications through more effective news promotion. Roddy MacLeod and Malcolm Moffat examine the technology EEVL has developed in this area.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• 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.

• Book Review: Net Effects

  Grant Young reviews a compilation of articles showcasing librarians' efforts to wrest control of new technologies and reassert some traditional values.

• News from BIOME

  Jenny Hall reports on recent news form BIOME, the Health and Life Sciences hub of the Resource Discovery Network.

• Public Libraries: Weblogs: Do They Belong in Libraries?

  Penny Garrod takes a look at weblogs and weblogging activities in libraries and considers some of the ways they can be used to support public library users.

• 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.

• World Wide Web Conference 2004

  Dave Beckett reports on the international WWW2004 conference held in New York, 19-21 May 2004.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• EEVL News

  Roddy MacLeod describes how EEVL is putting RSS to work.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 37: Monocultures Threaten More Than Species

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue issue 37.

• Towards a Typology for Portals

  Paul Miller looks at some of the services we call portals, and argues for better words to describe them.

• EEVL News and Enhancements

  Roddy MacLeod and Lesa Ng provide us with the news and developments from EEVL.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Planet SOSIG: Regarding Collaboration, Conferences and Courses

  Alejandro Fernandez introduces a new collaborative initiative between the RDN and LTSN, Emma Place reports from the BPS Annual Conference and Neil Jacobs presents a new course for social researchers in Government.

• 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.

• EEVL: Search Me!

  Roddy MacLeod supplies guidance on the large range of available EEVL search options.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Another Piece of Cake?

  Anders Ardö, Sigfrid Lundberg and Ann-Sofie Zettergren with an overview of the history of Netlab, now ten years old.

• EEVL

  Roddy Macleod on EEVL's engagement with RSS channels.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Web Focus: Guidelines for URI Naming Policies

  Brian Kelly with some guidelines For URI naming policies in his regular column.

• Content Management Systems: Who Needs Them?

  Paul Browning and Mike Lowndes explore the CMS concept and look at the available tools.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 29: Key Technologies for the Development of the Digital Library

  Philip Hunter with the editorial for Ariadne 29.

• 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.

• Planet SOSIG: What's New in Politics?

  Emma Place announces new training materials for the Web, Heather Dawson looks at at Web coverage of the recently run UK General Election and Chris Mitchell provides an update of activities from the Learning and Teaching Support Network Centre.

• 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.

• Web Focus: HTML is Dead!

  HTML is Dead: Brian Kelly explains why this is, and why it is a good thing.

• Planet SOSIG: Keeping Social Scientists Connected

  Debra Hiom and Emma Place discuss work to keep social scientists connected.

• 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.

• Web Focus: Institutional Web Management Workshop - The Joined Up Web

  Brian Kelly reports on the "Institutional Web Management Workshop: The Joined-Up Web" event, held in Bath.

• Web Focus: Reflections On WWW9

  Brian Kelly reports on the WWW9 conference, held in Amsterdam, in May 2000.