Buzz - Search Technology
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Automating Harvest and Ingest of the Medical Heritage Library
Christy Henshaw, Dave Thompson and João Baleia describe an automated process to harvest medical books and pamphlets from the Internet Archive into the Wellcome Library’s Digital Services environment.
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Developing Adaptable, Efficient Mobile Library Services: Librarians as Enablers
Lizzie Caperon describes how library resources can be targeted towards effective mobile services as mobile devices become increasingly prevalent in Higher Education.
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Internet Librarian International Conference 2014
Zoë Hurley and Garth Bradshaw report on the Internet Librarian Conference, held at the Olympia Conference Centre in London over 20-22 October 2014.
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Mining the Archives: Metadata Development and Implementation
Martin White looks through the Ariadne archive to track the development and implementation of metadata in a variety of settings.
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SUNCAT: Ten Years and Beyond
Celia Jenkins charts the beginnings of SUNCAT, its development over the last ten years and what the future holds for the service.
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The Value of Open Access Publishing to Health and Social Care Professionals in Ireland
Aoife Lawton and Eimear Flynn discuss the value of open access publishing for allied health professions and their work in the health services with particular reference to Ireland.
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Book Review: Digital Dieting - From Information Obesity to Intellectual Fitness
Kevin Sanders examines Tara Brabazon’s latest analytical work which investigates the proliferation of low-quality information in the digital realm and the issues of excessive reliance on social tools for learning.
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Digitisation and e-Delivery of Theses from ePrints Soton
Julian Ball and Christine Fowler describe the partnership between the University of Southampton’s Library Digitisation Unit and its institutional repository for digitising and hosting theses.
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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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Open Access and Research Conference 2013: Discovery, Impact and Innovation
Paula Callan, Stephanie Bradbury, Sarah Brown, Philippa Broadley, Emma Nelms and Christopher Hart report on Open Access and Research 2013 which focused on recent developments and the strategic advantages they bring to the research sector.
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Shared Repositories, Shared Benefits: Regional and Consortial Repositories in Japan
Takeo Ozono, Daisuke Ueda and Fumiyo Ozaki describe the work of the ShaRe Project and its influence upon the development of consortial repositories and the benefits they have brought to Japanese institutions.
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 71
The editor introduces readers to the content of Ariadne Issue 71.
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Hita-Hita: Open Access and Institutional Repositories in Japan Ten Years On
Ikuko Tsuchide, Yui Nishizono, Masako Suzuki, Shigeki Sugita, Kazuo Yamamoto and Hideki Uchijima introduce a number of ideas and projects that have enhanced the progress of the Open Access movement and institutional repositories in Japan over the last ten years.
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Augmented Reality in Education: The SCARLET+ Experience
Laura Skilton, Matt Ramirez, Guyda Armstrong, Rose Lock, Jean Vacher and Marie-Therese Gramstadt describe augmented reality in education case studies from the University of Sussex and the University for the Creative Arts.
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Book Review: Crisis Information Management
Emma Tonkin offers a review of a thought-provoking overview of crisis informatics.
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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: The New Digital Scholar - Exploring and Enriching the Research and Writing Practices of NextGen Students
Julia Robinson reviews a substantial and timely collection of essays related to the research and writing practices of NextGen students. Expressing a call for change in the way educators approach Information Literacy teaching, this book invites the reader to redefine, re-evaluate and reflect on what we think we know about students’ research practices today.
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DataFinder: A Research Data Catalogue for Oxford
Sally Rumsey and Neil Jefferies explain the context and the decisions guiding the development of DataFinder, a data catalogue for the University of Oxford.
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Mining the Archive: eBooks
Martin White looks through the Ariadne archive to track the development of ebooks.
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The Performance-based Funding Model: Creating New Research Databases in Sweden and Norway
Leif Eriksson describes how the introduction of Performance-based Research Funding Systems (PRFS) has created new forms of research databases in Sweden and Norway.
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The Potential of Learning Analytics and Big Data
Patricia Charlton, Manolis Mavrikis and Demetra Katsifli discuss how the emerging trend of learning analytics and big data can support and empower learning and teaching.
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The Wellcome Library, Digital
Christy Henshaw and Robert Kiley describe how the Wellcome Library has transformed its information systems to support mass digitisation of historic collections.
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eMargin: A Collaborative Textual Annotation Tool
Andrew Kehoe and Matt Gee describe their Jisc-funded eMargin collaborative textual annotation tool, showing how it has widened its focus through integration with Virtual Learning Environments.
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'Does He Take Sugar?': The Risks of Standardising Easy-to-read Language
Brian Kelly, Dominik Lukeš and Alistair McNaught highlight the risks of attempting to standardise easy-to-read language for online resources.
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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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23rd International CODATA Conference
Alex Ball reports on a conference on ‘Open Data and Information for a Changing Planet’ held by the International Council for Science’s Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan on 28–31 October 2012.
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Book Review: Information 2.0
Milena Dobreva reviews the newly published book of Martin de Saulles which looks at the new models of information production, distribution and consumption.
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Book Review: The Embedded Librarian
John Azzolini reviews a comprehensive overview of embedded librarianship, a new model of library service that promises to enhance the strategic value of contemporary knowledge work.
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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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Case Studies in Web Sustainability
Scott Turner describes issues around making Web resources sustainable.
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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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Editorial Introduction to Issue 70
The editor introduces readers to the content of Ariadne Issue 70.
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Hydra UK: Flexible Repository Solutions to Meet Varied Needs
Chris Awre reports on the Hydra UK event held on 22 November 2012 at the Library of the London School of Economics.
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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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Mining the Archive: The Development of Electronic Journals
Martin White looks through the Ariadne archive to trace the development of e-journals as a particular aspect of electronic service delivery and highlights material he considers as significant.
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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.
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Online Information 2012
Marieke Guy reports on the largest gathering of information professionals in Europe.
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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: 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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Book Review: Mob Rule Learning
Fiona MacLellan reviews a book which discusses the current unconference phenomenon and highlights the learning opportunities that these environments offer.
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 69
The editor introduces readers to the content of Ariadne Issue 69.
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Enhancing Collaboration and Interaction in a Post-graduate Research Programme
Tertia Coetsee describes a community of practice for post-graduate students where RefShare is deployed for digital storage and retrieval, alongside Blackboard for the purposes of communication. She also describes the role of the information specialist in the programme.
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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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Adapting VuFind as a Front-end to a Commercial Discovery System
Graham Seaman describes the adaptation of an open source discovery tool, VuFind, to local needs, discusses the decisions which needed to be made in the process, and considers the implications of this process for future library discovery systems.
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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.
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Kultivating Kultur: Increasing Arts Research Deposit
Marie-Therese Gramstadt discusses how the JISC-funded Kultivate Project is encouraging arts research deposit in UK institutional repositories. -
Perceptions of Public Libraries in Africa
Monika Elbert, David Fuegi and Ugne Lipeikaite describe the principal findings of the study Perceptions of Public Libraries in Africa which served to provide evidence of how public libraries are perceived by their stakeholders.
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The CLIF Project: The Repository as Part of a Content Lifecycle
Richard Green, Chris Awre and Simon Waddington describe how a digital repository can become part of the technical landscape within an institution and support digital content lifecycle management across systems.
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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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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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Developing Research Excellence and Methods (DREaM) Project Launch Conference
Ray Harper reports on a one-day conference which launched the DREaM Project, held by the Library and Information Science Research Coalition in London on 19 July 2011.
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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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The Future of the Past of the Web
Matthew Brack reports on the one-day international workshop 'The Future of the Past of the Web' held at the British Library Conference Centre, London on 7 October, 2011.
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The Third Annual edUi Conference 2011
Danielle Cooley reports on the third annual edUi Conference, held over 13-14 October 2011, in Richmond, Virginia, USA, an opportunity for Web professionals in colleges, universities, libraries, museums, etc to discuss the latest developments in Web trends and technologies.
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Book Review: Envisioning Future Academic Library Services
John Azzolini reviews a timely collection of essays that highlights the values of institutional leadership and resourcefulness in academic librarianship's engagements with Web 2.0. -
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. -
From Link Rot to Web Sanctuary: Creating the Digital Educational Resource Archive (DERA)
Bernard M Scaife describes how an innovative use of the EPrints repository software is helping to preserve official documents from the Web. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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: The Myths of Innovation
Lina Coelho takes a look at Scott Berkun's challenging view of what innovation and creativity really mean. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 66: Sanity Check
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 66. -
International Digital Curation Conference 2010
Alex Ball reports on the 6th International Digital Curation Conference, held on 7-8 December 2010 in Chicago. -
Never Waste a Good Crisis: Innovation and Technology in Institutions
Tore Hoel reports on the CETIS 2010 Conference, 15 - 16 November 2010 at the National College for Leadership of Schools and Childrens' Services Conference Centre, Nottingham. -
Reading Van Gogh Online?
Peter Boot shows how log analysis can be employed to assess a site's usability, usage, and users, using the Van Gogh letter edition as an example. -
RefShare: A Community of Practice to Enhance Research Collaboration
Tertia Coetsee describes a community of practice for postgraduate students in phytomedicine using RefShare, to enhance collaborative research. -
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. -
Turning Off Tap Into Bath
Ann Chapman describes the lifecycle of a demonstrator database and the development of a preservation policy for its content and software. -
Book Review: The Accidental Taxonomist
Emma Tonkin takes a look at a book on the work of the taxonomist and notes both merits and disappointments. -
CIG Conference 2010: Changes in Cataloguing in 'Interesting Times'
Rhiannon McLoughlin reports on a three-day conference on cataloguing in a time of financial stringency, held by the CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group at Exeter University, from 13-15 September 2010. -
Developing Infrastructure for Research Data Management at the University of Oxford
James A. J. Wilson, Michael A. Fraser, Luis Martinez-Uribe, Paul Jeffreys, Meriel Patrick, Asif Akram and Tahir Mansoori describe the approaches taken, findings, and issues encountered while developing research data management services and infrastructure at the University of Oxford. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 65: Ariadne in Search of Your Views
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 65. -
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. -
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. -
What Is a URI and Why Does It Matter?
Henry S. Thompson describes how recent developments in Web technology have affected the relationship between URI and resource representation and the related consequences. -
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. -
Book Review: iPad - The Missing Manual
Brian Whalley reviews a manual to help support your use of an iPad - 'the book that should have been in the box'. -
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. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 64: Supporting the Power of Research Data
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 64. -
Eduserv Symposium 2010: The Mobile University
Shailey Minocha reflects on the one-day symposium organised by Eduserv in May 2010. The aim of the event was to discuss whether and how mobile technology will play a significant role in the delivery of UK Higher Education in the future. -
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. -
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. -
FRBR in Practice
Wendy Taylor and Kathy Teague describe what they learnt about how FRBR is used at the Celia Library for the Visually Impaired in Helsinki, during their Ulverscroft/IFLA-funded visit. -
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. -
International UPA 2010 Conference User Experience Design for the World
Liza Zamboglou and Lorraine Paterson report on the Usability Professionals' Association's International Conference held in Munich, Germany in May 2010. -
Intute Reflections at the End of an Era
Angela Joyce, Linda Kerr, Tim Machin, Paul Meehan and Caroline Williams look back at the history and achievements of Intute, and reflect on lessons learned as the service enters its final year. -
Making Datasets Visible and Accessible: DataCite's First Summer Meeting
Tom J Pollard and J Max Wilkinson report on DataCite's First Summer Meeting, a two-day event focused on making datasets visible and accessible, held in Hannover, Germany, in June 2010. -
Open Repositories 2010
Philip Hunter and Robin Taylor report on the Open Repositories Conference held in Madrid between 6 -9 July 2010 at the Palacio de Congresos. -
Public Library 2.0: Culture Change?
Sarah Hammond explores UK public libraries' growing participation in social media to reach their audiences online, with a focus on blogging. -
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. -
Retooling Libraries for the Data Challenge
Dorothea Salo examines how library systems and procedures need to change to accommodate research data. -
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: Library Mashups
Aldalin Lyngdoh reviews a book on the basics of mashups and how they have been used in libraries worldwide. -
Don't You Know Who I Am?
John Paschoud looks into identity and access management in the pre-digital and digital age, and describes how the JISC Identity Management Toolkit can help us manage identities better. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 63: Consider the Users in the Field
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 63. -
Mobilising the Internet Detective
Diana Massam, Andrew Priest and Caroline Williams describe a recent project to adapt the online Internet Detective tutorial, to deliver a user-friendly mobile site which reflects their market research into user preferences for mobile content. -
Moving Towards Interoperability: Experiences of the Archives Hub
Jane Stevenson and Bethan Ruddock describe the work that the Archives Hub team has been doing to promote the sharing of content. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Planning the Future of the National Library of Mongolia
Monika Segbert-Elbert and David Fuegi describe the National Library of Mongolia's plans to modernise its infrastructure and services. -
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. -
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. -
Usability Inspection of Digital Libraries
Lorraine Paterson and Boon Low highlight findings from the usability inspection report conducted for the UX2.0 research project. -
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. -
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! -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 62: The Wisdom of Communities
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 62. -
Fedora UK & Ireland / EU Joint User Group Meeting
Chris Awre reports on the first coming together of two regional user groups for the Fedora digital repository system, hosted by the University of Oxford in December 2009. -
Get Tooled Up: Xerxes at Royal Holloway, University of London
Anna Grigson, Peter Kiely, Graham Seaman and Tim Wales describe the implementation of an open source front end to the MetaLib federated search tool. -
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. -
Subject Repositories: European Collaboration in the International Context
Dave Puplett reports on the conference Subject Repositories: European Collaboration in the International Context held at the British Library in January 2010. The conference launched Economists Online (EO), an innovative economics subject repository. -
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. -
Uncovering User Perceptions of Research Activity Data
Cecilia Loureiro-Koechlin discusses the outcomes and lessons learned from user tests performed on the Oxford Blue Pages, a tool designed to display information about researchers and their activities at the University of Oxford. -
eBooks: Tipping or Vanishing Point?
Emma Tonkin investigates ebooks and takes a look at recent technological and business developments in this area. -
Cautionary Tales: Archives 2.0 and the Diplomatic Historian
Michael Kennedy discusses the value of Archives 2.0 to the online version of Ireland's 'Documents on Irish Foreign Policy' series. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 61: The Double-edged Web
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 61. -
Enhancing Scientific Communication through Aggregated Publications
Arjan Hogenaar describes changes in the publication and communication process which will mean that the role of authors will become a more prominent one. -
How to Publish Data Using Overlay Journals: The OJIMS Project
Sarah Callaghan, Sam Pepler, Fiona Hewer, Paul Hardaker and Alan Gadian describe the implementation details that can be used to create overlay journals for data publishing in the meteorological sciences. -
Internet Librarian International 2009
Katherine Allen reports on Internet Librarian International 2009 which took place in London on 15 and 16 October 2009. -
Learning to YODL: Building York's Digital Library
Peri Stracchino and Yankui Feng describe a year's progress in building the digital library infrastructure outlined by Julie Allinson and Elizabeth Harbord in their article last issue. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
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. -
Share. Collaborate. Innovate. Building an Organisational Approach to Web 2.0
Paul Bevan outlines the National Library of Wales' development of a strategic approach to meeting user needs in a post-Web 2.0 world. -
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. -
Why Are Users So Useful? User Engagement and the Experience of the JISC Digitisation Programme
Paola Marchionni discusses the importance of user engagement in the creation of digitised scholarly resources with case studies from the JISC Digitisation Programme. -
Archives 2.0: If We Build It, Will They Come?
Joy Palmer discusses some of the opportunities and tensions emerging around Archives 2.0, crowd-sourcing, and archival authority. -
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. -
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. -
Content Architecture: Exploiting and Managing Diverse Resources
Jane Stevenson gives a personal view of the recent UK conference organised by the International Society of Knowledge Organization. -
JISC Digital Content Conference 2009
Michelle Pauli reports on a two-day conference on digital content held by JISC in South Cerney over 30 June - 1 July 2009. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Overlay Journals and Data Publishing in the Meteorological Sciences
Sarah Callaghan, Fiona Hewer, Sam Pepler, Paul Hardaker and Alan Gadian introduce the OJIMS Project and discuss the impact of overlay and data journals in the meteorological sciences. -
The Historic Hospitals Admission Records Project
Sue Hawkins and Andrea Tanner describe a ground-breaking Web site using children's hospital admission registers. -
The Norwegian National Digital Library
Marianne Takle describes the National Library of Norway's digitisation strategy and how the National Library is taking on a key role in the country's digital library service. -
EThOS: from Project to Service
Jill Russell describes the impact the new Electronic Theses Online Service is making on the availability of UK doctoral theses. -
Encouraging More Open Educational Resources With Southampton's EdShare
Debra Morris describes the EdSpace Institutional Exemplar Project and the early development of EdShare for sharing learning and teaching materials within and beyond the institution. -
From Cultural Heritage to Digital Knowledge: Building Infrastructures for a Global Knowledge Society
Astrid Recker reports on the 3rd IFLA Presidential Meeting, held by the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) in Berlin over 19-20 February 2009. -
IMPACT Conference: Optical Character Recognition in Mass Digitisation
Lieke Ploeger, Yola Park, Jeanna Nikolov-Ramirez Gaviria, Clemens Neudecker, Fedor Bochow and Michael Day report from the first IMPACT Conference, held in The Hague, Netherlands on 6-7 April, 2009. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
To VRE Or Not to VRE?: Do South African Malaria Researchers Need a Virtual Research Environment?
Heila Pienaar and Martie van Deventer identify the requirements of a Virtual Research Environment (VRE) for malaria researchers in South Africa. -
An Awfully Big Adventure: Strathclyde's Digital Library Plan
Derek Law describes how the University of Strathclyde is choosing to give priority to e-content and services instead of a new building. -
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. -
Data Preservation and Long-term Analysis in High-Energy Physics
Richard Mount reports on the First Workshop on Data Preservation and Long-Term Analysis in High-Energy Physics, held at DESY (Deutsche Elektronen-Synchrotron), Hamburg, Germany, on 26-28 January 2008. -
Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) Fall Meeting
Paul Walk reports on the Sun-PASIG winter meeting held in Baltimore, USA on 18-20 November 2008. -
The European Film Gateway
Georg Eckes and Monika Segbert describe a Best Practice Network funded under the eContentplus Programme of the European Commission, which is building a portal for access to film archival resources in Europe. -
The MrCute Repository: The Next Phase
Helen Brady describes the MrCute repository project and its potential impact on the digital learning object-sharing community. -
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: Against the Machine
Mahendra Mahey reviews a book which examines popular Internet culture and how it may be having negative effects on many of us. -
Book Review: Managing the Crowd - Rethinking Records Management for the Web 2.0 World
Marieke Guy reviews a text that could offer the blueprint for moving records management into the 21st century. -
Book Review: Pro Web 2.0 Mashups
Ralph LeVan looks at a comprehensive work on how to consume and repurpose Web services. -
Book Review: Website Optimization
Pete Cliff used to think 'Website Optimisation' simply meant compressing images and avoiding nested tables, but in this he book finds out how much more there is to it, even in the Age of Broadband. -
CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group Annual Conference
Christina Claridge reports on the conference, held 3-5 September 2008, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 57:Achieving the Balance
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 57. -
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. -
Get Tooled Up: SeeAlso: A Simple Linkserver Protocol
Jakob Voss combines OpenSearch and unAPI to enrich catalogues. -
Get Tooled Up: Staying Connected: Technologies Supporting Remote Workers
Having considered organisational issues in her previous article, Marieke Guy takes a look at the many technologies that support remote working, from broadband to Web 2.0 social networking tools. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
OAI-ORE, PRESERV2 and Digital Preservation
Sally Rumsey and Ben O'Steen describe OAI-ORE and how it can contribute to digital preservation activities. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
Book Review: Copyright Compliance
Stuart Hannabuss argues that the book's online big sister, Keeping Within the Law (KWtL), launched at the same time, is really the place to go and the source to buy. -
Book Review: Web Accessibility
Martin White reviews a book that provides advice for managers on how to ensure that Web sites, intranets and library services are fully compliant with guidelines and legislation on accessibility. -
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. -
Integrating Journal Back Files Into an Existing Electronic Environment
Jason Cooper describes how Loughborough University Library integrated a number of collections of journal back files into their existing electronic environment. -
Lost in the JISC Information Environment
Tony Ross gives a personal reflection on his intellectual struggle to comprehend the JISC Information Environment. -
New Schemas for Mapping Pedagogies and Technologies
Grainne Conole reflects on the implications of Web 2.0 for education and offers two new schemas for thinking about harnessing the potential of technologies. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
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. -
Search Engines: Google Still Growing
Phil Bradley finds it difficult to ignore some of the latest developments from Google - particularly the ones that are actually quite good. -
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. -
Versioning in Repositories: Implementing Best Practice
Jenny Brace explains why giving time to versioning within a repository is worthwhile and outlines the best practice to implement. -
Book Review: Information and Emotion
Stephanie Taylor finds in Information and Emotion: The Emergent Affective Paradigm in Information Behavior Research and Theory new ways to understand the emotions of users in a collection of work from the US information behaviour community. -
Book Review: The Thriving Library
Lina Coelho takes a look at this collection of winning strategies for success in public libraries during challenging times. -
Custom-built Search Engines
Phil Bradley reviews a means of enhancing the relevance of search results through the use of custom-built search engines. -
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. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 55: Digital Lives, Digital Values
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 55. -
Future-Proofing the Past: LAI Joint Conference 2008
Siobhan Fitzpatrick reports on the Annual Joint Conference of the Library Association of Ireland and Cilip IRELAND. -
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. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Research Libraries and the Power of the Co-operative
John MacColl considers the 'co-operative imperative' upon research libraries, and describes the work which the former Research Libraries Group is undertaking as part of OCLC. -
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. -
Towards an Application Profile for Images
Mick Eadie describes the development of the Dublin Core Images Application Profile project recently funded through the JISC. -
Book Review: The University of Google
Judy Reading reviews a work that may engender considerable debate in months to come. -
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. -
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. -
MCN 2007: Building Content, Building Community - 40 Years of Museum Information and Technology
Guenter Waibel and Jean Godby report on the Museum Computer Network annual meeting, held 7-10 November, 2007 in Chicago, Illinois. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
SWORD: Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit
Julie Allinson, Sebastien Francois and Stuart Lewis describe the JISC-funded SWORD Project which has produced a lightweight protocol for repository deposit. -
Version Identification: A Growing Problem
Dave Puplett outlines the issues associated with versions in institutional repositories, and discusses the solutions being developed by the Version Identification Framework (VIF) Project. -
We Do Not Know We Are Born (Digital)
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 54. -
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: Mastering Regular Expressions, 3rd Edition
Emma Tonkin and Greg Tourte take a look at the new edition of an O'Reilly classic. -
Book Review: The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland
Lorcan Dempsey reviews Volume III of a landmark collection on the history of libraries in 'Britain and Ireland' from 1850 to 2000. -
Book Review: The Cult of the Amateur
Stephanie Taylor tries to curb her enthusiasm for Web 2.0 by investigating the dark side of social networking. -
DRIVER: Building the Network for Accessing Digital Repositories Across Europe
Martin Feijen, Wolfram Horstmann, Paolo Manghi, Mary Robinson and Rosemary Russell present an outline of the DRIVER Project and its achievements so far in supporting and enhancing digital repository development in Europe. -
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. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 53: Unlocking Our Televisual Past
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 53. -
Further Information on SNOMED-CT
In conjunction with his main article on The KIDMM Community's 'MetaKnowledge Mash-up, Conrad Taylor provides further information on SNOMED-CT. -
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. -
Knowledge by Networking: Digitising Culture in Germany and Europe
Alastair Dunning reports on an international conference exploring the current state of digitisation in the worlds of culture and scholarship, held in Berlin over 21-22 June 2007. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
ALPSP Conference
Kara Jones reports on the ALPSP 'Publishing and the Library of the Future' one-day seminar held at St Anthony's College, Oxford, in July 2007. -
Access to Scientific Knowledge for Sustainable Development: Options for Developing Countries
Barbara Kirsop, Leslie Chan and Subbiah Arunachalam consider the impact of donor access and open access to research publications on the sustainable development of science in developing countries. -
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. -
DRIVER: Seven Items on a European Agenda for Digital Repositories
Maurits van der Graaf provides results and conclusions from the DRIVER inventory study. -
Digital Repositories: Dealing With the Digital Deluge
Pete Cliff gives an overall view of the multi-stranded JISC conference held in Manchester over 5-6 June 2007. -
EThOSnet: Building a UK E-Theses Community
Jill Russell outlines progress towards an e-theses service for the UK. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 52: The New Invisible Industry
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 52. -
IIPC Web Archiving Toolset Performance Testing at The British Library
Jackson Pope and Philip Beresford pick up the threads from an initial contribution in issue 50 and report on progress at The British Library in installing and performance testing the Web Curator Tool. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
Book Review: Information Architecture for the World Wide Web
Keith Doyle reviews the 3rd edition of the primary reference book for practising in-house staff and consultants responsible for the development of institutional information architecture. -
Book Review: Teaching Web Search Skills
Verity Brack takes a look at this book for Web trainers, teachers and instructors. -
Citeulike: A Researcher's Social Bookmarking Service
Kevin Emamy and Richard Cameron describe a tool that helps researchers gather, collect and share papers. -
Developing a Virtual Research Environment in a Portal Framework: The EVIE Project
Tracey Stanley provides an overview of the EVIE Project at the University of Leeds which was funded under the JISC Virtual Research Environments Programme. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 51: Democratising Cultural Heritage
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne 51. -
KIM Project Conference: Knowledge and Information Management through Life
Alex Ball provides an overview of the March 2007 KIM Project Conference. -
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. -
Supporting Creativity in Networked Environments: The COINE Project
Geoff Butters, Amanda Hulme and Peter Brophy describe an approach to enabling a wide range of users to create and share their own stories, thus contributing to the development of cultural heritage at the local level. -
The JISC Annual Conference 2007
Philip Pothen and colleagues provide an overview of the proceedings of this Spring's JISC Annual Conference. -
The W3C Technical Architecture Group
Henry S. Thompson introduces the W3C Technical Architecture Group and its work. -
Towards Virtualisation: A New Approach in Server Management
Eddie Young provides an account of trials and implementations carried out here after Matt Thrower gives us the background and benefits of employing virtualisation. -
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. -
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. -
Book Review: Google Hacks
Phil Bradley looks at a work offering programming 'know-how' to create resources that will do things with the search engine that might otherwise prove difficult or impossible. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 50: Side-Stepping Babel
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne 50. -
New Search Engines in 2006
Phil Bradley takes a look at some of the search engines that he noticed in 2006 and provides quick assessments. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
ONIX for Licensing Terms: Standards for the Electronic Communication of Usage Terms
Francis Cave, Brian Green and David Martin describe the purpose, development and potential of standards for the electronic communication of licensing terms between publishers, libraries and other licensees. -
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. -
Web Curator Tool
Philip Beresford tells the story (from The British Library's perspective) of the development of new software to aid all stages of harvesting Web sites for preservation. -
Book Review: Ambient Findability
Emma Tonkin reviews a book with interesting content despite a few rough edges. -
Considering a Marketing and Communications Approach for an Institutional Repository
Heleen Gierveld proposes a market-oriented approach to increase the rate of deposit to an institutional repository. -
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. -
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. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 49: Technology Is Only Part of the Story
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 49. -
From Nought to a Thousand: The HUSCAP Project
Masako Suziki and Shigeki Sugita describe Hokkaido University's efforts to populate its institutional repository with journal articles. -
GROW: Building a High-quality Civil Engineering Learning Object Repository and Portal
Yan Han provides a general overview of the Geotechnical, Rock and Water Digital Library (GROW), a learning object repository and peer-reviewed civil engineering Web portal. -
Immaculate Catalogues, Indexes and Monsters Too...
David E. Bennett reports on the three day residential CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group Annual Conference, University of East Anglia, during September 2006. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
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). -
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. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 48: Extended Family Net Works
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne 48. -
Fedora Users Conference
Chris Awre and Richard Green report from the Fedora Users Conference, a two-day meeting for users of the open source Fedora repository system held at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, over 19-20 June 2006. -
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. -
Intute: The New Best of the Web
Caroline Williams describes Intute in the context of the online information environment and outlines aspirations for the future. -
JISC/CNI Conference, York 2006
Najla Semple and Robin Rice were at the JISC / CNI conference 'Envisioning future challenges in networked information'. -
Library Systems: Synthesise, Specialise, Mobilise
Robin Murray examines how the changing landscape for library systems is altering their service model. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
The Library Catalogue in the New Discovery Environment: Some Thoughts
Lorcan Dempsey explores how the library catalogue will develop alongside evolving network discovery systems. -
The Tasks of the AHDS: Ten Years on
Alastair Dunning reviews 10 years in the history of the Arts and Humanities Data Service. -
Code4lib 2006
Jeremy Frumkin and Dan Chudnov report on the inaugural conference of the Code4lib community of programmers, hackers, and techies working in or with libraries and information systems. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 47: Keeping What We Know
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne 47. -
Folksonomies: The Fall and Rise of Plain-text Tagging
Emma Tonkin suggests that rising new ideas are often on their second circuit - and none the worse for that. -
Metasearch: Building a Shared, Metadata-driven Knowledge Base System
Terry Reese discusses the creation of a shared knowledge base system within OSU's open-source metasearch development. -
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. -
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. -
Search Engines: Where We Were, Are Now, and Will Ever Be
Phil Bradley takes a look at the development of search engines over the lifetime of Ariadne and points to what we might anticipate in the years to come. -
Serving Services in Web 2.0
Theo van Veen shows with the help of an example, how standardised descriptions of services can help users control the integration of services from different providers. -
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 Rustle of Digital Curation: The JISC Annual Conference
Julie Allinson, Marieke Guy and Maureen Pennock find themselves contemplating e-frameworks, digital curation and repositories at the JISC Annual Conference. -
The Second Digital Repositories Programme Meeting
Julie Allinson and Mahendra Mahey report on a 2-day JISC Digital Repositories Meeting focusing on project clusters working together and other related issues held by JISC in Warwick, UK over 27-28 March 2006. -
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. -
Delivering Digital Services: A Handbook for Public Libraries and Learning Centres
Towards the end of the Pantomime season, Bruce Royan finds a golden egg among the goose droppings. -
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. -
Google Challenges for Academic Libraries
John MacColl analyses the reactions many academic libraries may be having to the range of tools Google is currently rolling out and outlines a strategy for institutions in the face of such potentially radical developments. -
JISC and SURF International Workshop on Electronic Theses
Neil Jacobs reports on a JISC-SURF-CURL-sponsored event at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, over 19-20 January 2006. -
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. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Research Libraries Engage the Digital World: A US-UK Comparative Examination of Recent History and Future Prospects
Clifford Lynch looks at how the emergence of e-research has changed our thinking about the future of research libraries on both sides of the Atlantic. -
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. -
What Users Want: An Academic 'Hybrid' Library Perspective
Reg Carr reflects on the development of a user-centred approach in academic libraries over recent decades and into the era of the hybrid library. -
A Recipe for Cream of Science: Special Content Recruitment for Dutch Institutional Repositories
Martin Feijen and Annemiek van der Kuil describe the Cream of Science Project, part of the DARE Programme, which generated a Web site offering open access to almost 25,000 publications by 207 prominent scholars across the Netherlands. -
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. -
Building the Info Grid
Wolfram Horstmann, Liv Fugl and Jessica Lindholm report on the two-day conference Building the Info Grid on trends and perspectives in digital library technology and services held in Copenhagen in September. -
DAEDALUS: Delivering the Glasgow EPrints Service
Morag Greig and William Nixon describe the key aims and findings of the DAEDALUS Project and the Glasgow ePrints Service. -
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. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 45: Smaller Might Be Beautiful
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 45. -
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 and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
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. -
Putting the Library Into the Institution: Using JSR 168 and WSRP to Enable Search Within Portal Frameworks
Chris Awre, Stewart Waller, Jon Allen, Matthew J Dovey, Jon Hunter and Ian Dolphin describe the investigations and technical development undertaken within the JISC-funded Contextual Resource Evaluation Environment (CREE) Project to enable the presentation of existing search tools within portal frameworks using the JSR 168 and WSRP portlet standards. -
Repositories, Copyright and Creative Commons for Scholarly Communication
Esther Hoorn considers ways librarians can support scholars in managing the demands of copyright so as to respond to the needs of scholarly communication. -
Search Engines
Phil Bradley casts his eye over image search engines. -
Web 2.0: Building the New Library
Paul Miller explores some of the recent buzz around the concept of 'Web 2.0' and asks what it means for libraries and related organisations. -
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. -
Accessibility: The Current Situation and New Directions
Kevin Carey describes accessibility by disabled people to digital information systems across broadcasting, telecommunications and the Internet, looks into the future and makes recommendations. -
Book Review: Content and Workflow Management for Library Web Sites
Martin White welcomes the detail but is concerned at the impact that the publishing process has had on the currency and utility of the content. -
Creative Archive
Paul Gerhardt describes the origins and development of the Creative Archive Project at the BBC. -
EEVL Xtra: The Hidden Web at Your Fingertips
Roddy MacLeod looks at the latest service from EEVL. -
Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility With Firefox
Patrick Lauke outlines how Mozilla Firefox can be used in conjunction with the Web Developer Toolbar to carry out a preliminary accessibility review. -
Integration and Impact: The JISC Annual Conference
Marieke Guy has collated reports on sessions from the JISC Annual Conference held in Birmingham. -
Involving Users in the Development of a Web Accessibility Tool
Jenny Craven and Mikael Snaprud describe how the EC-funded European Internet Accessibility Observatory Project is involving users in the development of a Web accessibility checking and monitoring tool. -
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. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Planet-SOSIG
Emma Place assesses the recent SOSIG Social Science Online seminars, Jacky Clake reports on the ESRC Social Science Week and Debra Hiom updates us on the virtual seminar run by SOSIG as part of Social Science Week. -
Revealing All
Ann Chapman describes Revealweb, a Web site that brings together information about accessible resources for visually impaired people. -
Search Engines: Google and Search: Some of the Latest Developments
Phil Bradley takes a look at some of the new developments at Google. -
Supporting Local Data Users in the UK Academic Community
Luis Martinez and Stuart Macdonald discuss the differing areas of expertise within the UK data libraries with particular reference to their relationship with National Data Centres, the role of the Data Information Specialists Committee - UK (DISC-UK) and other information specialists. -
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. -
E-Archiving: An Overview of Some Repository Management Software Tools
Marion Prudlo discusses LOCKSS, EPrints, and DSpace in terms of who uses them, their cost, underlying technology, the required know-how, and functionalities. -
EEVL: New Hot Topic In-depth Reports Now Available
Roddy MacLeod looks at some recent developments to the EEVL service. -
Installing Shibboleth
Simon McLeish describes the experience of Shibboleth installation in a Higher Education environment, and suggests ways to make this experience more user-friendly. -
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. -
Search Engines: Using the Right Search Engine at the Right Time
Phil Bradley takes a look at which search engines to use depending on what you need to find.. -
Waking Up in the British Library
Emma Beer reports on a one-day conference on using Early English Books Online in teaching and research in history and English literature. -
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. -
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. -
EEVL: Four Search Engines and a Plaque
Roddy MacLeod looks at some recent developments to the EEVL service. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 42: Less Could Mean More
Richard Waller provides an editorial introduction to Ariadne issue 42. -
Fast-Forward on the Green Road to Open Access: The Case Against Mixing Up Green and Gold
Stevan Harnad provides a summary of his critique of Jean-Claude Guédon's views on the green and gold roads to Open Access.
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Freedom of Information in University College Dublin 2001-2004
Rena Lohan outlines how access rights conferred by FOI legislation have affected administrative operations in University College Dublin. -
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. -
Looking for a Google Box?
Sebastian Rahtz gives us his evaluation of the Google Search Appliance. -
Making the Case for a Wiki
Emma Tonkin examines wikis and considers the feasibility of their deployment - and the danger of the 'tumbleweed' syndrome. -
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. -
Recasting the Past: Digital Histories
Vanessa Carr reports on a one day conference about digitising historical records, held jointly by the Association for History and Computing UK and the Royal Historical Society. -
Search Engines: No Longer about Search
Phil Bradley asks 'Is your choice of search engine based on how good it is, or on what else you use?' -
Tap Into Bath Takes Off
Stephanie Round covers the launch of a small but promising collaborative effort. -
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. -
Tracing Help With Copyright: New AHDS Case Studies on Copyright Issues
Alastair Dunning provides an overview of case studies published by the Arts and Humanities Data Service in that persistent minefield of respecting copyright. -
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. -
Book Review: Libraries Without Walls 5
David Parkes reviews the fifth compilation of the biennial Library Without Walls Conference. He finds how far we have come and how far we have to go in delivering services to distributed learners. -
Book Review: The Information Society - A Study of Continuity and Change
Lise Foster finds this a useful scene setter for the novice and valuable reminder for the professional of the challenges facing today's librarian. -
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. -
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. -
EEVL News: EEVL Update
Roddy MacLeod and Agnes Guyon look at some recent developments to the EEVL service. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
Planet-SOSIG
Angela Joyce shares her personal impressions from the recent European Digital Libraries Conference in Bath; Emma Place introduces a new seminar series to support online information seeking in the social sciences. -
Search Engines: New and Developing Search Engines
Phil Bradley looks at some existing search engines and also some new ones to bring you up to date on what is happening in the world of Internet search engines. -
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. -
The Tapir: Adding E-Theses Functionality to DSpace
Richard Jones demonstrates how the Theses Alive Plugin for Institutional Repositories (Tapir) has provided E-Theses functionality for DSpace. -
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. -
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. -
Cornucopia: An Open Collection Description Service
Chris Turner describes the latest phase of Cornucopia development and the opportunities this is opening up for the future. -
EEVL News: What EEVL Users Really Want
Roddy MacLeod looks at the results of the recent questionnaire which surveyed opinions about the EEVL service. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 40: Horses for Courses
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 40. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
Search Engines: A Mixed Bag - A Review of Some New Search Engines
Phil Bradley takes a look at some new search engines to see if they are up to challenging the top dogs. -
Tap Into Bath
Alison Baud and Ann Chapman describe the development of a database of archive, library and museum collections in Bath. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
Towards Library Groupware With Personalised Link Routing
Daniel Chudnov, Jeremy Frumkin, Jennifer Weintraub, Matthew Wilcox and Raymond Yee describe a potential groupware framework for integrating access to diverse information resources and distributed personal collection development. -
WebWatch: Testing Web Page Design Concepts for Usability
Dey Alexander and Derek Brown demonstrate how the layout of a Web page has a direct influence upon users' capacity and willingness to engage with a Web site. -
World Wide Web Conference 2004
Dave Beckett reports on the international WWW2004 conference held in New York, 19-21 May 2004. -
A National Archive of Datasets
Jeffrey Darlington describes how structured datasets produced by UK Government departments and agencies are being archived and made available to users. -
Book Review: Extreme Searchers' Internet Handbook
Verity Brack reviews a book on Internet resources and finds it a useful volume for Internet beginners and Google-centric searchers. -
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. -
ERPANET / CODATA Workshop, Lisbon
Michael Day gives us a detailed report on the ERPANET / CODATA Workshop held at the Biblioteca Nacional, Lisbon, 15-17 December 2003. -
JISC Terminology Services Workshop
Sarah Shreeves reports on a one-day workshop on current developments and future directions for JISC terminology services held in London, February 2004. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Planet-SOSIG: A Variety of Reports
This month Neil Jacobs reports on updates to the Regard service, Martin Poulter introduces a new Economics Assessment Bank and Emma Place highlights the programme of training and outreach conducted by SOSIG this spring. -
Public Libraries: The Changing Face of the Public Library
Penny Garrod looks at developments in Hampshire and comments on the shape of things to come. -
Search Engines: The Google Backlash
Phil Bradley reviews and analyses recent criticisms of the giant and takes an objective view from a broader perspective. -
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. -
Towards the Digital Aquifer: Introducing the Common Information Environment
Paul Miller discusses current efforts by UK agencies to collaborate on a Common Information Environment that meets the diverse needs of current and future consumers of digital content and services. -
Book Review: Super Searchers Make It on Their Own
Lina Coelho looks at the work and lives of independent information professionals prepared to share their secrets for starting and running a research business. -
DSpace Vs. ETD-db: Choosing Software to Manage Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Richard Jones examines the similarities and differences between DSpace and ETD-db to determine their applicability in a modern E-theses service. -
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 -
Improving the Quality of Metadata in Eprint Archives
Marieke Guy, Andy Powell and Michael Day address the argument that the quality of service to end-users is markedly influenced by the quality of metadata being produced and provide suggestions. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Reaching Out to Your Community: Policies and Practice for Public Library Service
Fiona Leslie gives an overview of this seminar which covered a variety of topics of interest to public library professionals. -
Search Engines: The Year 2003 in Perspective
Phil Bradley takes us through the major trends and highlights in the world of search engines over the course of the past year. -
The AHDS Is Evolving: Changes at the Arts and Humanities Data Service
Alastair Dunning describes the changes afoot at the AHDS and how it intends to adapt to the changes in both technology and the needs of its stakeholders. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
The Portole Project: Supporting E-learning
Tracey Stanley, Mina Sotiriou and Matthew Dovey provide an overview of a project to produce tools to discover information resources and deploy them within a university VLE. -
Towards a User-Centred Approach to Digital Libraries
Ken Eason reports on the five themes in the Digilib Conference, Espoo, Finland. -
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 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. -
DAEDALUS: Initial Experiences With EPrints and DSpace at the University of Glasgow
William Nixon provides an overview of the DAEDALUS initial experience with the GNU EPrints and DSpace software and the decision to employ both. -
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 -
ECDL-2003 Conference Notes
Lesly Huxley shares her notes on the European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. -
ECDL-2003 Web Archiving
Michael Day reports on the 3rd ECDL Workshop on Web Archives held in Trondheim, August 2003. -
Experiences of Harvesting Web Resources in Engineering Using Automatic Classification
Kjell Jansson, Jessica Lindholm and Tomas Schoenthal describe the work in setting up a Web index that uses automatic classification as a means for the selection of resources. -
News from BIOME
Donald Mackay reports on BIOME participation in a major project to enhance interoperability between the BIOME core database and those projected by LTSN Subject Centres. -
Newsline: News You Can Use
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
OAI: The Fourth Open Archives Forum Workshop
Manjula Patel provides us with an overview of the 4th Open Archives Forum Workshop. -
Search Engines: Would All New Search Engines Take One Step Forward!
Phil Bradley gives us an overview of emerging, new and newly discovered search engines that we might want to keep an eye on as they develop. -
Towards a Typology for Portals
Paul Miller looks at some of the services we call portals, and argues for better words to describe them. -
Book Review: Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, Volume 36
Michael Day takes a detailed look at the structure and content of this hardy annual. -
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. -
Domesday Redux: The Rescue of the BBC Domesday Project Videodiscs
Jeffrey Darlington, Andy Finney and Adrian Pearce describe the groundbreaking BBC Domesday Project of 1986, and explain how its unique multimedia collection has been preserved. -
EEVL News and Enhancements
Roddy MacLeod and Lesa Ng provide us with the news and developments from EEVL. -
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. -
Metadata Wanted for the Evanescent Library
John MacColl reports on Schemas and Ontologies: Building a Semantic Infrastructure for the GRID and Digital Libraries: a one-day workshop at the e-Science Institute, May 2003. -
Newsline: News You Can Use
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Review: Naked in Cyberspace
Marieke Guy taps into our increasing collective paranoia about privacy with a review that explores the use of personal information in the Cyber Age. -
Search Engines: Weblog Search Engines
Phil Bradley looks at the developments occurring with weblogs and how you can go about searching on or for them. -
Six MLEs: More Similar Than Different
Paul Browning offers a technical review of the systems developed by the JISC 'Building MLEs in HE' (7/99) Programme -
The Bath Profile Four Years On: What's Being Done in the UK?
Fraser Nicolaides gives us his take on the conference to review the implementation of the Bath Profile in the UK, July 2003. -
WebWatch: An Update on Search Engines Used in UK University Web Sites
Brian Kelly provides an update of his survey of search engines used in UK Universities. -
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. -
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. -
Book Review: The Librarian's Internet Survival Guide
Lina Coelho reviews a practical guide to the Internet. -
Collection Description Focus Showcase: Mapping the Information Landscape
Verity Brack reports on this one-day showcase of Collection Description projects and services held at the British Library, London, 25 March 2003. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 35: The Art and Craft of Portalage
Philip Hunter provides an editorial introduction to Ariadne 35. -
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. -
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. -
Mandated Online RAE CVs Linked to University Eprint Archives: Enhancing UK Research Impact and Assessment
Stevan Harnad, Les Carr, Tim Brody and Charles Oppenheim make a case for maximising the advantages and the UK's pre-eminence in the Research Assessment Exercise. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Search Engines: Many Movements in Mere Months
Phil Bradley looks at various developments that have occurred recently in the ever-shifting scene of the search engine. -
WebWatch: Surfing Historical UK University Web Sites
Brian Kelly outlines strategies for choosing appropriate standards for building Web sites. -
What Features in a Portal?
Geoff Butters analyses the features found in various types of portal, and includes a comparison with the planned features for the JISC Subject Portals. -
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 -
Book Review: The Library and Information Professional's Guide to Plug-ins and Other Web Browser Tools
Book review by Ruth Martin. -
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. -
DAEDALUS : Freeing Scholarly Communication at the University of Glasgow
William J. Nixon presents a brief overview of the DAEDALUS Open Archives Project at the University of Glasgow. -
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. -
Hidden Treasures: The Impact of Moving Image and Sound Archives in the 21st Century
Philip Hunter reports on the one day meeting on multimedia objects in the British Library, London, October 2002. -
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. -
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. -
The 2nd Workshop on the Open Archives Initiative (OAI)
William Nixon and Pauline Simpson report on the meeting held at CERN, Geneva, in October 2002. -
Web Focus: Interfaces to Web Testing Tools
Brian Kelly looks at interfaces to Web testing tools, and in particular at Bookmarklets - simple extensions to browsers which enhance functionality. -
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. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 33: Exploring the Information Environment
Philip Hunter with the editorial for Ariadne 33. -
Newsline: News You Can Use
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Planet SOSIG: A Spring-clean for SOSIG: A Systematic Approach to Collection Management
Lesly Huxley, Emma Place, David Boyd, and Phil Cross report on a spring-cleaning exercise for SOSIG using a systematic approach to collection management. -
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. -
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. -
Utilizing E-books to Enhance Digital Library Offerings
Shirley Hyatt and Lynn Silipigni Connaway, describe the rationale and background of OCLC's acquisition of netLibrary, the information environment that is being pursued, and the resulting benefits that libraries may experience. -
Windows Explorer: The Index Server Companion
Brett Burridge describes the Index Server Companion, an application he has created that allows Microsoft Index Server to index content from remote websites and ODBC databases. -
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. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 32: The Grid -The Web Twenty Years On?
Philip Hunter with the editorial for Ariadne issue 32. -
Electronic Theses and Dissertations: A Strategy for the UK
by John MacColl considers a strategy for electronic theses and dissertations in the United Kingdom. -
First Impressions of Ex Libris's Metalib: Talking about a Revolution?
Nick Lewis outlines key issues in the implementation of a cross-searching portal using Metalib. -
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. -
Oxford Reference Online
A user review of the Oxford University Press reference site by Pete Dowdell. -
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. -
Search Engines: The New Kids on the Block - Copying Or Competing?
Search Engines: Phil Bradley The new kids on the block - copying or competing? This article looks at who is providing the competition for Google and Ixquick, and provides some food for thought for those who use these two search engines. -
The Evolution of an Institutional E-prints Archive at the University of Glasgow
William Nixon with some practical advice based on the Glasgow experience. -
WWW2002 Here
Libby Miller sends notes from the WW2002 conference in Hawaii. -
Book Review: Building an Electronic Resource Collection
Penny Garrod reviews a practical guide to electronic resource collection. -
EEVL-ution to a Portal
Roddy Macleod on the hub's 'EEVL-ution' to a portal. -
Oxford Puts Its Reference Works Online
Dave Swarbrick on the new Oxford University Press reference Web site. -
Search Engines
Phil Bradley's regular column on search engine technology. -
Setting up an Institutional E-Print Archive
Stephen Pinfield, Mike Gardner, and John MacColl with some practical advice on setting up an e-print archive. -
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. -
The Distributed National Collection Access, and Cross-sectoral Collaboration: The Research Support Libraries Programme
Ronald Milne, Director of the programme, with an overview of the objectives for the Research Support Libraries Programme. -
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. -
The Open Archives Forum
Susanne Dobratz, Friederike Schimmelpfennig and Peter Schirmbacher introduce the new Open Archives Forum project to promote the ideas of the OAI in Europe. -
Web Focus: Guidelines for URI Naming Policies
Brian Kelly with some guidelines For URI naming policies in his regular column. -
Web Watch: Update of a Survey of the Numbers of UK University Web Servers
Brian Kelly updates a survey of the numbers of UK university Web servers. -
Access to Archives: England’s Contribution to the National Archive Network
Caroline Thibeaud discusses the Archive 2 Archive project. -
Book Review: The Invisible Web
Marieke Napier reviews the book: The Invisible Web. -
Building ResourceFinder
Pete Cliff looks at how the RDN has utilised the OAI Metadata Harvesting Protocol. -
Content Management Systems: Who Needs Them?
Paul Browning and Mike Lowndes explore the CMS concept and look at the available tools. -
Development of Digital Libraries for Blind and Visually Impaired People
Jennie Craven reports on the IFLA/SLB conference in Washington in August 2001. -
Digitization: Do We Have a Strategy?
David Pearson suggests that the library sector should find a mechanism to put digitisation high on the agenda. -
EEVL: Brand new EEVL service
Roddy Macleod introduces a new service. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 30: Centering the Periphery - A New Equity in Information Access?
Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne issue 30. -
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. -
Public Libraries
Penny Garrod's first outing in Ariadne as Public Libraries Focus. -
Reference Books on the Web
Adam Hodgkin explores the range of electronic reference tools. -
Search Engines: Goodbye Alta Vista, Hallo AllTheWeb
Phil Bradley's regular column. -
The Concept of the Portal
Paul Miller gives his personal view of the portal and its varieties, both in the wild and on the drawing board. -
The JISC User Behaviour Monitoring and Evaluation Framework
Jenny Rowley introduces the JISC User Behaviour Monitoring and Evaluation Framework. -
Web Watch: An Update On Search Engines Used In UK Universities
Brian Kelly with an Update On Search Engines Used In UK Universities. -
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. -
An Introduction to Web Services
Tracy Gardner introduces web services: self-describing applications, which can be discovered and accessed over the web by other applications. -
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. -
Country and Regional Search Engines
Phil Bradley looks at Country and Regional Search Engines. -
Evolution of Portable Electronic Books
Ruth Wilson charts the development of portable electronic book hardware, from the first generation in 1980s to the range of handheld devices available today. -
Managing Digital Video Content
Manjula Patel reviews the two-day workshop on current and emerging standards for managing digital video content held in Atlanta, Georgia, 15-16 August 2001. -
Managing Electronic Library Services: Current Issues in UK Higher Education Institutions
Stephen Pinfield surveys some of the key issues associated with delivering electronic library services. -
Migration: A Camileon Discussion Paper
Paul Wheatley explores migration issues for the long-term preservation of digital materials. -
Software Review: C4U
Andrew Cox and Simon McLean review this web-monitoring software. -
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. -
Web Focus: Report on the Fifth Institutional Web Management Workshop
Brian Kelly, UK Web Focus, reports on the IWMW event in his regular column. -
Web Watch: Carrying Out Your Own Web Watch Survey
Brian Kelly describes how you can carry out your own WebWatch benchmarking survey across your own community. -
BIOME: Progressing through Partnerships
Paula Manning reports on recent collaborations. -
Digital Museums: Braining Up Or Dumbing Down?
Marieke Napier went to find out at the mda's 'Beyond the Museum' colloquium. -
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. -
OpenResolver: A Simple OpenURL Resolver
Andy Powell describes UKOLN's OpenResolver, a freely available demonstration OpenURL resolver. -
Project GOLD: Supporting Distance Learning Students
Derek Morisson describes an e-learning project which was the antithesis of the current trend towards multifunction, and invariably expensive, Virtual Learning Environments and sophisticated Managed Learning Environments. -
Search Engines: Ask Jeeves
Phil Bradley looks at Ask Jeeves. -
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. -
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. -
The Secondary Homepages in Mathematics Initiative
Greig Fratus, MathGate Manager, supplies information about the Secondary Homepages in Mathematics initiative set up by Math-Net. -
The eLib Hybrid Library Projects
Michael Breaks provides an overview of BUILDER, AGORA, MALIBU, HeadLine and HyLife -
Using the Web for Academic Research: The Reading Experience Database Project
Alexis Weedon gives us some insight into a new web-based project designed to collate evidence for changing reading habits through history. -
BIOME
Paula Manning reports on feedback received on the BIOME Service and how the service will develop in response. -
Distributed Computing: The Seti@home Project
Eddie Young and Pete Cliff look at a particularly successful example of a distributed solution to a very large number crunching problem. -
E-Books for Students: EBONI
Ruth Wilson on how the EBONI project will investigate the usability of e-books through user evaluations. -
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. -
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. -
Planet SOSIG
Debra Hiom and Angela Joyce provide more updates on the Social Sciences Gateway, including a new range of European sites. -
Review: From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure
Michael Day reviews the book by Christine Borgman: From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure. -
Search Engines: Robots, Spiders and Your Website
Phil Bradley looks at the effect these have on your site's vital statistics. -
The Filling in the PIE: HeadLine's Resource Data Model
John Paschoud explains the concepts of representation and use of metadata in the Resource Data Model (RDM) that has been developed by the HeadLine project. -
The Future Is Hybrid: Edinburgh
John MacColl and Philip Hunter report on 'The Future is Hybrid' project day in Edinburgh. -
The LEODIS Database
Jonathan Kendal on the creation of LEODIS, a Public Libraries sector digitization and database project. -
Web Watch: What's Related to My Web Site?
What's Related To My Web Site? Brian Kelly looks at Netscape's 'What's Related?' facility and reports on the service's findings for institutional Web servers. -
AGORA: The Hybrid Library from a User's Perspective
Bridget Robinson and David Palmer look at the Agora user studies. -
Building on BUILDER
Ian Upton explores the achievements of this Windows NT server based project. -
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. -
EEVL
Roddy Macleod manager of the EEVL project explains the new profile, new office: and coming soon: a new service. -
It's the End of the World As We Know It (and I Feel Fine), Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the E-Book
Sarah Ormes explores the e-book from a Public Libraries perspective. -
NT Explorer
Brett Burridge Looks at Microsoft's Site Server 3.0 Commerce Edition. -
Planet SOSIG: Keeping Social Scientists Connected
Debra Hiom and Emma Place discuss work to keep social scientists connected. -
Public Libraries: Managing the Virtual Branch
Sarah Ormes reports on the recent Public Libraries Web Managers Workshop held in the University of Bath. -
The Distributed National Electronic Resource and the Hybrid Library
Stephen Pinfield and Lorcan Dempsey with an overview of the DNER. -
Travelling at the Speed of Discovery: The MALIBU Project's Most Valuable Lessons
Valeda Dent with a newcomer's perspective on the MALIBU project. -
Understanding the Searching Process for Visually Impaired Users of the Web (NoVA)
Jenny Craven gives an overview of the Resource funded NoVA project (Non-visual access to the digital library). -
Web Focus: The Web On Your Phone and TV
Brian Kelly looks at the Web Beyond the PC. -
Web Watch: WebWatching eLib Project Web Sites
Brian Kelly is WebWatching the eLib Project Sites. -
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. -
DECOMATE II
Leona Carpenter gives a personal view of the 'Logged into Economics' conference in Barcelona in June. -
EEVL Backs a Winner
Roddy MacLeod and the team celebrate their 5th birthday with a day at the races, and supply some EEVL News Nuggets. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 25: Beyond the Web Site
Philip Hunter on the contents of Ariadne issue 25 and recent developments in the world of Digital Library initiatives. -
Electronic Homer
Martin Mueller reads Homer electronically with the TLG, Perseus, and the Chicago Homer. -
Metadata: Towards the Intelligent Museum
Paul Miller and Alice Grant explore CIMI: the collections standards organization which JISC has just joined. -
Planet SOSIG: Internet Training for the Social Sciences
Debra Hiom and Emma Place announce the RDN virtual training suite. -
Search Engines: Finding Images on the Internet
Phil Bradley offers his latest look at the search engine marketplace. -
ZOPE: Swiss Army Knife for the Web?
Paul Browning looks at this multiple authoring environment. -
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. -
Agora: From Information Maze to Market
Bridget Robinson, David Palmer and Rosemary Russell outline the Agora cross-searching software project, and its technical background. -
BIOME
Paula Manning reports on recent developments within BIOME, the health and life sciences hub of the Resource Discovery Network. -
EEVL News Nuggets
Roddy MacLeod and Linda Kerr with news relating to the EMC Hubs. -
How the Oxford English Dictionary Went Online
Laura Elliot explains the use of SGML in the management of the OED text. -
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. -
Interoperability: What Is It and Why Should I Want It?
Paul Miller explains what interoperability is and why you should want it. -
JSTOR Usage
Alison Murphy reports on the JSTOR electronic journals project continuing success. -
Library Resource Sharing and Discovery: Catalogues for the 21st Century
Ariadne reports on the highlights of the recent Glasgow CLUMPS one day conference -
Search Engines: The Relevance of Underpants to Searching the Web
Phil Bradley explores search engine ranking techniques. -
Text Encoding for Interchange: A New Consortium
Lou Burnard on the creation of the TEI Consortium which has been created to take the TEI Guidelines into the XML world. -
Web Focus: Reflections On WWW9
Brian Kelly reports on the WWW9 conference, held in Amsterdam, in May 2000. -
Web Watch: A Survey Of Numbers of UK University Web Servers
How many web servers are there in the UK Higher Education community? Brian Kelly provides some answers. -
A Wired Honduran Christmas
Eddie Young hooks up to the global network, with some improvised electrical plumbing -
Catalogues for the 21st Century
Ariadne reports on a one-day Workshop presented by the eLib Clump Projects at Goldsmiths College in London on the 3rd of March -
Convergence of Electronic Entertainment and Information Systems
John Kirriemuir explores the technology and impact of expanding internet access. -
EEVL News Nuggets
Brian Kelly reports on the use of third-party web services. -
EPRESS
Stuart Peters on EPRESS text management software tools, currently in development. -
I Say What I Mean, but Do I Mean What I Say?
Paul Miller reports on the latest MODELS workshop, and looks at the need for controlled terminologies and thesauri. -
Planet SOSIG
Justine Kitchen of the Resource Discovery Network Centre reports on the recent SOSIG relaunch, and Debra Hiom explores New Learning and Teaching Support Networks in the Social Sciences -
Railway Industry Resources on the Internet
Review: The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization -
Review: Online Searching (Library Association)
Pete Cliff reviews the Library Association's guide: Online Searching. -
Review: The Oxford English Dictionary Online
Pete Cliff previewed the electronic version of this standard reference, and gives a user's verdict. -
Search Engines: 'Ixquick', a Multi-Search Engine With a Difference
Phil Bradley describes how Ixquick stacks up against the competition. -
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. -
The World's Greatest Dictionary' Goes Online
Juliet New explains the background to the electronic version of the Oxford English Dictionary, launched on the 14 March 2000. -
Web Focus: The Use of Third-Party Web Services
Brian Kelly discusses the use of third-party web services. -
Web Watch: A Survey of Links to UK University Web Sites
Brian Kelly reports on the number of links to University web sites. -
What Have the CLUMPs Ever Done for Us?
Peter Stubley puts the CLUMPs in perspective. -
Clumping Towards a UK National Catalogue?
Dennis Nicholson argues in favour of the distributed approach to cataloguing. -
Clumps As Catalogues
Peter Stubley asks whether CLUMPS as catalogues are 'virtual success or failure?' -
EEVL: Round the World
Roddy MacLeod considers Southern African engineering resources. -
Planet SOSIG: Asking Questions - The CASS Social Survey Question Bank
Adam Guy writes about the Question Bank service. -
Public Libraries and Community Networks: Linking Futures Together?
Malabika Das argues public libraries and community networks have a future together. -
RDN: Resource Discovery Network
Alistair Dunning reviews the launch of the RDN (Resource Discovery Network) -
Scientific, Industrial, and Cultural Heritage: A Shared Approach
Lorcan Dempsey presents a research framework for libraries, archives and museums prepared for the European Commission. -
Search Engines: The Altavista Relaunch, Personalised Search Engines
Phil Bradley on the Altavista relaunch, and Personalised Search Engines. -
The ResIDe Electronic Library: An Evolving Library Service
Christine Dugdale looks at the progress of this project to a functional service. -
Web Focus: Using the Web to Promote Your Web Site
Brian Kelly expalins how to promote your web site. -
Web Mirrors: Building the UK Mirror Service
Report on the UK Mirror Service by Mark Russell. -
Web Watch: A Survey of Institutional Web Gateways
Brian Kelly surveys institutional web gateways. -
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. -
Biz/ed Bulletin on Business and Economics
Libby Miller looks at recent changes to Biz/ed and describes some new sites. -
Developing the Bath Profile
Paul Miller with details of the "Bath Profile" - a Z39.50 specification for Library Applications and Resource Discovery. -
Digitizing Wilfrid
Philip Hunter talks to Stuart Lee about the prizewinning 'Wilfrid Owen Multimedia Digital Archive' and the JTAP 'Virtual Seminars on WW1'. -
ECMS: Technology Issues and Electronic Copyright Management Systems
Pedro Isaias looks at the relevant ECMS e-Commerce technology. -
EEVL: 'Not a Success'
Roddy Macleod embarks on a tendentious argument. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 21: Ariadne's Thread
Introduction to Ariadne issue 21 by Philip Hunter. -
Planet SOSIG: Welfare Reform Digest
Jennie Grimshaw gives a personal account of the creation of the Welfare reform digest. -
Search Engines: FAST, the Biggest and Best Yet?
Phil Bradley explains how 'FAST' has recently been launched as the most comprehensive of the search engines, and this article compares the FAST results with those of AltaVista and Northern Light. -
The Scholarly Journal in Transition and the PubMed Central Proposal
Michael Day discusses the scholarly journal in transition and the PubMed Central proposal. -
The Web Editor: 'Abzu and Beyond'
Charles Jones muses on the history of the Internet presence of the University of Chicago Oriental Institute. -
Unix: What Is mod_perl?
Ian Peacock explains mod_perl technology for supercharging the Apache Server. -
Web Cache: Clashing with Caching?
Ruth Jenkins explores some cache related issues for Library and Information Services -
Web Focus: Report on "Institutional Web Management Next Steps" Workshop
Brian Kelly reports on the latest "Institutional Web Management Workshop," this year called: "The Next Steps." -
WebWatch: UK University Search Engines
Brian Kelly explores the search facilities used by UK university Web sites. -
Windows NT Explorer
Brett Burridge on Internet Information Server (IIS 4.0) -
Z39.50 for All
Paul Miller looks at the Z39.50 standard and attempts to extract some meaning from the mass of associated literature. -
Biz/Ed Bulletin: What Do You Want to Know?
Chris Mitchell and Martin Poulter introduce the Advice and Answers section of the CTI Economics Web site; and Kate Sharp explores Green Resources on the Web for Economics and Business -
CLUMPS in the Real World
Juliet Dye and Jane Harrington look into evaluation procedures for the CLUMPS projects. -
EEVL Eye on Engineering
The EEVL Team explore patent information web sites, the latest EEVL news, etc. -
Editorial Introduction to Ariadne Issue 20
Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne issue 20. -
IMS Workshop
Tracy Gardner reports on a meeting held in March in the Francis Hotel, Bath. -
OMNI: Accessing the Internet
John Kirriemuir writes about an informal survey of Internet Access in the NHS. -
Practical Clumping: Mick Ridley on the BOPAC System
Mick Ridley discusses the BOPAC system. -
Search Engines: 'Finding Me, Finding You'
Phil Bradley looks at the search engines that can be used to trace people. -
The Web Editor: From 'One Stop Shop' to Information Hierarchy
Rebecca Linford discusses the web editor role: from 'one stop shop' to information hierarchy. -
Tolimac: 'Smart Card People Are Happy People'
Sally Rumsey explains a pilot electronic document delivery service at the University of Surrey Library. -
Web Focus: Report on the WWW 8 Conference
Brian Kelly discusses WWW8 in Toronto, which took place in May 1999. -
Web Watch: 404s, What's Missing?
Brian Kelly discusses 404 'not found' messages, and why you don't always get the same one. -
Windows NT Explorer
Brett Burridge discusses Active Server Pages (ASP) - one of the most useful facilities provided by Windows NT server. -
Biz/Ed Bulletin
Kate Sharp and Libby Miller describe Business and Economics Resources on the Internet. -
EEVL Eye on Engineering
The EEVL Team explore Internet Resources in Petroleum Engineering and Electronics, take a glance at engineering resources in Australia and South East Asia and give the latest news from the EEVL service. -
Editorial introduction to Issue 19: Ariadne's Thread
Philip Hunter and Bernadette Daly introduce the articles for Ariadne issue 19. -
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. -
OMNI Corner: Information or Hysteria, "Talking sensibly" in the Biomedical Field
John Kirriemuir outlines current areas of concern in: Information or Hysteria? "Talking sensibly" in the biomedical field. -
SEAMLESS: Introduction to the Project
Mary Rowlatt describes SEAMLESS, the Essex-based project. -
Search Engine Corner
Phil Bradley reviews recent developments with search engines. -
Web Research: Browsing Video Content
Peter Thomas, UWE, and Peter Macer of Hewlett Packard Research Laboratories describe automated techniques for browsing video content. -
What Is Apache?
Eddie Young gives the essentials of "Apache", the widely used Unix-based web server software. -
Windows NT Explorer
Brett Burridge introduces his regular column on Windows NT with a description of Site Server's search facility. -
BIDS Begets Ingenta
The University of Bath concluded an agreement to sign over the ownership of BIDS to a new organisation known as ingenta ltd, while still retaining a substantial share. Terry Morrow looks at the implications of the change, and reviews the latest developments in the services offered. -
CATRIONA II Management Survey
Dennis Nicholson and Martin Smith provide a summary report of selected results from the CATRIONA II survey on the University Management of Electronic Resources. -
DiLIS
Debbie Lock introduces a new service, Distance Learners Information Service (DiLIS), from the University of Surrey Library and Information Services. -
Hybrid Libraries
Stephen Pinfield describes the role of Hybrid Libraries and Clumps -
Internet Detective: BA Students Get on the Case
Emma Worsfold and Debra Hiom introduce their "Internet Detective" online tutorial, and BA students from the final year Information Management BA at Queen Margaret College, Edinburgh, review the site. -
JSTOR
Daniel Holden reports on his trip to the United States to visit colleagues at JSTOR, a not-for-profit organisation creating a digital archive collection of scholarly journals -
Knowledge Management
Sheila Corrall asks if 'knowledge management' is a new phrase in place of 'information management', or a new concept altogether. -
Launching an Electronic Magazine: An Overview of Value-added Features and Services
Bernadette Daly looks at a variety of electronic publications as part of the research phase in the delivery of a new Web magazine. -
Metadata: Cataloguing Theory and Internet Subject-based Information Gateways
Ann Chapman, Michael Day, and Debra Hiom compare library cataloguing concepts and ROADS Template creation. -
Metadiversity
Michael Day on a Biodiversity conference in the States interested in Metadata. -
Search Engines
Walter Scales responds to Dave Beckett's article on search engines in issue 16. -
The ExamNet Project at De Montfort University
David James Houghton introduces the ExamNet Project, which offers access to past De Montfort University examination papers in electronic form. -
The Technical Advisory Service for Images (TASI)
Karla Youngs describes what TASI is and the work that it is doing in building a common ‘Framework’ for digital imaging projects. -
Transatlantic Bandwidth: How to Save Money on Your Costs
Sally Hadland, Information Officer at the Higher Education National Software Archive (HENSA), describes how using HENSA can save on transatlantic bandwidth. -
Web Editorial: Introduction to Issue 18
The web editors, Bernadette Daly and Philip Hunter, introduce Ariadne issue 18. -
Web Focus: The Role of the Web Editor
Brian Kelly asks, does 'web editor' mean Unix guru or an HTML coder? -
ALA '98
Ian Winship reports on electronic library related activity at this year's American Library Association Conference in Washington D.C. -
Exploring Planet SOSIG: Law, Statistics and Demography
Planet SOSIG: Exploring Planet SOSIG: Law, Statistics and Demography: Janette Cochrane, Sue Pettit and Wendy White. Planet SOSIG continues its review of the main SOSIG subject sections, highlighting the resources that the Internet can offer to those working in the different fields of the social sciences. -
Information Ecosystems
John MacColl follows up last issue's breakdown of papers with his reflections on the UKOLN conference held in Bath University at the end of June. -
Search Engines
Tracey Stanley writes about "Ask Jeeves", a search engine which processes natural language enquiries. -
Teleworking from Home
Nicola Harrison, Project Assistant at Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library (EEVL), describes her experience of teleworking. -
UKOLUG
Jacqueline Chelin reports on the UKOLUG 20th birthday conference. -
VERITY
Panayiotis Periorellis and Walter Scales writes about the VERITY European Telematics Project. -
Web Editorial: Introduction to Issue 17
The web editors, Philip Hunter and Bernadette Daly, introduce Ariadne issue 17. -
Hacking the Net
David Nicholas looks at the Internet phenomenon from the point of view of the Media. -
ILL: Interlibrary Loan Protocol
Lyndon Pugh and Chris Rusbridge on the National Library of Australia's ILL utility. -
Information Landscapes
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Planet SOSIG
Phil Cross presents the first of an occasional series of articles looking at individual subsections within SOSIG. Phil has been the section editor for Environmental Sciences for the past year and gives a description of the types of resources users can expect to find in this rapidly expanding field. -
Search Engines Corner
Dave Beckett discusses the best of the search engine features. -
The Good, the Bad and the Useless
Judith Edwards evaluates Internet resources. -
Web Editorial: Introduction to Issue 16
Philip Hunter and Bernadette Daly introduce Ariadne issue 16. -
Planet SOSIG
Lesly Huxley writes about a new Internet service for social scientists. -
ROUTES Project
Una O'Sullivan describes the Open University ROUTES project. -
Search Engines Corner
Tracey Stanley reviews 'Northern Light', which offers features not available elsewhere. -
Showing Robots the Door
Ian Peacock explains how web robot access to your site can be controlled. -
The Access Catalogue Gateway to Resources
Terry Hanson explores how libraries might develop effective ways of indicating their access arrangements to their users. -
Web Editorial: Ariadne Issue 15
Web editor Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne 15. -
Web Focus: The 7th World Wide Web Conference
Brian Kelly is interviewed about the 7th World Wide Web Conference upon his return from Brisbane. -
What Is XML?
Brian Kelly elucidates another infuriating three letter acronym: XML. -
An End User's View
Oliver de Peyer with his personal view of what it is like being on the other side of the the metaphorical electronic issue desk. -
EDDIS
David Larbey writes about EDDIS, one of eLib’s document delivery projects. -
Electronic Resource Creation and Management at Scottish Universities
Dennis Nicholson and Martin Smith describe the Catriona II project. -
Internet Resources for Older People
Internet resources for older people: Monica Blake describes some findings from the Internet and Older People Project, funded by The British Library Research and Innovation Centre Digital Library Research Programme. -
MODELS
Rosemary Russell reports on MODELS workshop, held on 5-6 February 1998. -
Metadata Corner: CrossROADS and Interoperability
Michael Day, Rachel Heery and Andy Powell report on work in progress on enhancements to the ROADS software. -
Newsline: News You Can Use
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Planet SOSIG: Regard
Sue Timmis introduces REGARD, a new research database now available on the World Wide Web. -
Search Engines Corner: Meta-search Engines
Tracey Stanley discusses the next level up from conventional search engines in the 'information food chain', which provide a sophisticated approach to searching across a number of databases. -
Superjournal Update
Christine Baldwin describes work so far on the Superjournal project which set out to study factors which make e-journals successful and useful to academia. -
Web Editorial: Introduction to Issue 14
The Web editors, Philip Hunter and Isobel Stark, introduce Ariadne issue 14. -
Down Your Way: University of Ulster, Coleraine
Isobel Stark investigates University of Ulster, Coleraine. -
HEADLINE (HYBRID Electronic Access and Delivery in the Library Networked Environment)
Maureen Wade introduces HEADLINE (HYBRID Electronic Access and Delivery in the Library Networked Environment). -
M25 Link
Jean Sykes discusses M25 Link, a virtual clump for London. -
Planet SOSIG: Politically Correct - Editing the Politics Section of SOSIG
Heather Dawson from The British Library of Political and Economic Science talks about her role as a SOSIG Section Editor. -
The Online Exhibition: The OMNI Perspective
Lisa Gray investigates the Online 1997 exhibtion for medical information. -
View from the Hill
Ruth Jenkins looks at BIPEx, Bowker Information Professionals' Exchange and meets some of the people behind it. -
Are Print Journals Dinosaurs?
Tony Kidd wonders if he and and his kind are palæontologists. -
Dotting the I
Walter Scales examines everyone's favourite Education Gateway, NISS. -
JournalsOnline: The Online Journal Solution
Jane Henley and Sarah Thompson look at the BIDS JournalsOnline service and its commercial competitors. -
Metadata Corner: DC5 - the Search for Santa
Tony Gill and Paul Miller's report from the 5th Dublin Core metdata conference in Helsinki. -
Planet SOSIG: DESIRE Training for the Distributed Internet Cataloguing Model
Lesly Huxley looks at the work of the project DESIRE: Training for the Distributed Internet Cataloguing Model. -
Search Engines Corner: Moving Up the Ranks
Tracey Stanley looks at how search engines rank their results. -
The Glass of Fashion and the Mould of Form
Annette Lafford reports on the new image for NISS's WWW site. -
The History of History
Stephen Smith explains the background to the relaunch of IHR-Info as HISTORY. -
The Lesser of Two EEVLs?
Roddy MacLeod, EEVL Project Manager (Information), describes plans for EEVL. -
Web Editorial: Introduction to Issue 12
Philip Hunter and Isobel Stark introduce Ariadne, in its Web Version. -
Web Focus: WebWatching UK Universities and Colleges
Brian Kelly describes the WebWatch project. -
BULISC '97
John Eyre reports on the Bournemouth University Library & Information Services Conference, New Tricks 2. -
Change and Uncertainty in Academic Libraries
Catherine Edwards highlights the impact and issues surrounding organisational change in academic libraries. -
Digital Libraries '97
David Nichols reports on the important international conference: Digital Libraries '97. -
Electronic Document Delivery: A Trial in an Academic Library
In part two of this report, Fiona Williams describes the trials of various electronic document delivery systems in University of Bath Library and Learning Centre over the last few years. -
Knight's Tale: The Hybrid Library - Books and Bytes
Jon Knight gives his personal view on the fashionable concept of a 'hybrid library'. -
Metadata Corner: Naming Names - Metadata Registries
Rachel Heery examines metadata issues. -
Minotaur
Librarian at Kirriemuir Library, Angus, wonders if public libraries will ever go to the ball. -
Planet SOSIG: ALISS and IRISS
Debra Hiom on recent developments and happenings with ALISS, IRISS, and SOSIG. -
Public Libraries Corner: A Public Library Metadata Initiative
Sally Criddle introduces an initiative to extend current developments in the use of metadata to the public library community. -
SIGIR '97
David Nichols reports on the follow-on conference SIGIR '97. -
Search Engines Corner: Finding UK and European Resources on the Web
Tracey Stanley looks at how to keep your search results coming from within particular geographic areas and thus save on bandwidth. -
The Librarian of Babel: for a Public Reading Right
The Librarian, talking to Mike Holderness, considers the economics of gathering all human knowledge and proposes a Public Reading Right. -
York Information Connections: An Attempt to Catalogue the Internet
Christine Ellwood and Sarah Thompson outline the rationale behind the approach of the University of York Library to cataloguing Internet resources. -
A Digital Library Showcase and Support Service - the Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE
Roy Tennant describes a resource used to create digital libraries and services, and to help others do the same. -
Access to Newspapers and Journals for Visually Impaired People: The Talking Newspaper Association of the UK
Neil H. McLachlan describes the work and electronic products of the Talking Newspaper Assocation (TNAUK). -
Around the Table: Film and Cinema
Frank Parry discusses some of the many possible sources for Internet information on film and cinema. -
BUBL : How BUBL Benefits Academic Librarians
Alan Dawson and Jan Simpson take us through BUBL, an old service recently transformed from being Gopher-based to Web-based. -
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. -
Dublin Core Management
Andy Powell presents three models for the way in which metadata can be managed across a Web site and describes some of the tools that are beginning to be used at UKOLN to embed Dublin Core metadata into Web pages. -
Education-Line
Sam Saunders reports on a pre-print project for education professionals. -
Electronic Document Delivery: A Trial in an Academic Library
In the first of a two-part article, Fiona Williams describes the trials of various electronic document delivery systems in University of Bath Library and Learning Centre over the last few years. A review of the latest trial, between BL Urgent Action Service and TU DELFT, as well as an overall comparison with the Blackwell's Uncover Service will be given in the next issue of Ariadne. -
Electronic Journals: Problem Or Panacea?
Judith Edwards outlines some of the problems faced by academia in the acquisition and provision of electronic journals. -
Interface: Dennis Nicholson
Chris Bailey finds a crusader at Strathclyde: Dennis Nicholson. -
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. -
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 -
Planet SOSIG: The New SOSIG Interface
Tracey Hooper describes the new interface and features of SOSIG, the premier Web-based subject gateway for the Social Sciences. -
Print Editorial: Introduction to Issue 10
John MacColl with the editorial from issue 10 of the print version. -
Search Engines Corner: Keyword Spamming - Cheat Your Way to the Top
Tracey Stanley shows how metadata can be abused to enhance the search engine ranking of Web pages. -
The Librarian of Babel: The Self-Citation Machine
The Librarian, talking to Mike Holderness, uncovers the true purpose of the World-Wide Web. -
Web Editorial: Goodbyeee
The Web editor, John Kirriemuir bows out after ten Ariadne issues. -
Around the Table: Social Sciences
Debra Hiom from SOSIG takes us on a guided tour of major Internet-based Social Science resources. -
EEVL
Linda Kerr introduces a project from the Access to Network Resources section of the eLib programme which takes a holistic approach to providing access to high quality on-line engineering resources. -
Elvira 4: May 1997, Milton Keynes
Ian Bloor reports on the recently held Elvira (Electronic Library and Visual Information Research) event. -
Eurotext
In these days of European integration, Freda Carroll, Eurotext project co- ordinator, describes a project that will make European Union documents accessible online. -
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. -
From Aberystwyth to ADAM: Using the Skills Acquired on a Library School Course in the Real World
Rebecca Bradshaw reflects on how the skills and knowledge she acquired when a library school student are relevant (or not) to her current role, developing a network-based subject gateway. -
Indian Ocean Rim Region Virtual Library Project
Susan Lutley describes a prototype virtual library, built as part of a co-operative venture focusing on broad issues in Social Development within the Indian Ocean Rim Region. -
MIDRIB: Beyond Clip Art for Medicine
Betsy Anagnostelis and Sue Welsh describe the recent launch of the MIDRIB (Medical Images Digitised Reference Information Bank) project, and describe the medical image resource the project will create. -
Metadata, PICS and Quality
Chris Armstrong looks at the possibility of a PICS application acting as a quality filter. -
Monash University Library Electronic Resources Directory
Lisa Smith describes a system which can be used to help people locate the electronic resources of Monash University Library -
Never Mind the Quality, Check the Badge-Width!
Alison McNab, Betsy Anagnostelis and Alison Cooke compare and contrast the methods used to identify and indicate which Internet-based resources are of high "quality". -
OMNI-Corner: Read All about It
OMNI's Sue Welsh looks at the sites which keep you up to date in health and medicine. -
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. -
Search Engines Corner: Alta Vista LiveTopics
Tracey Stanley looks at Live Topics, a more flexible and user-controlled way of searching the Alta Vista Web Page index. -
The Australian Museums on Line Project
Louise Douglas and Stephen Hall describe the Australian Museums On Line (AMOL) project, which aims to dramatically increase access to the cultural resources of Australian museums via the Internet by 2001 through the AMOL World Wide Web site. -
The Future of Digitising at the State Library of Victoria, Australia
Catherine Herman and Indra Kurzeme discuss the multimedia source project, set within the context of the pro-multimedia State of Victora, Australia. -
The Librarian of Babel: The Key to the Stacks
The Librarian, ably assisted by Mike Holderness, considers one of the obstacles to the unhindered dissemination of human knowledge, and makes a modest proposal. -
Web Focus: Report on the WWW 6 Conference
Brian Kelly describes the sixth International World Wide Web conference which took place in California from 7 – 11 April 1997. -
Wire: Interview Via Email With Jon Knight and Martin Hamilton
In this interview we question Knight and Martin Hamilton and present their replies. -
A Glimpse at EEVLs' Evaluation
A Glimpse at EEVLs' Evaluation: Malcolm Moffat, Database Officer for the Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library (EEVL) project, describes some findings from an initial evaluative study. -
COPAC: The New Nationally Accessible Union Catalogue
Shirley Cousins introduces COPAC and discusses some of the issues involved in the ongoing development of a consolidated union OPAC. -
Down Your Way: The Natural History Museum
John Kirriemuir takes in megabytes of trilobites at the Natural History Museum. -
From MERCI to DESIRE: European Digital Library Projects
Dave Hartland writes the Netskills Corner column for this edition. In it, he provides a brief overview of some of the EU-funded Telematics for Research projects. -
INFOMINE
Steve Mitchell describes INFOMINE, an impressive attempt to build a Web-based virtual library for the academic community. -
Late Night News: The Electronic Telegraph
A night in the life of the Electronic Telegraph. Emma Worsfold sits in on the editors' shift at ET. -
Monash University Electronic Reserve Project
Hans W. Groenewegen, Debbie Hedger and Iris Radulescu describe Monash University's Electronic Reserve Project which is at the core of the electronic library project at the University's new Berwick campus. -
Public Libraries Corner
In the Public Libraries Corner for this issue, a guest writer, Catherine Wrathall, writes about the current provision of Internet-based community information in public libraries. -
RUDI: Resource for Urban Design Information Services
Alan Reeve maps out a new site in urban design. -
Reaching the OPAC: Java Telnet
Bill Drew writes about accessing his library's OPAC within a web page using Java Telnet. He looks at the need, implementation, problems, and opportunities. -
SETIS: Electronic Texts at the University of Sydney Library
Creagh Cole describes a project dedicated to providing in-house access to a large number of electronic texts on CD-ROM. -
Search Engine Corner
Tracey Stanley looks at 'Push', where a network-based service 'pushes' information to your machine, rather than you 'pulling' information from the service. -
The Paper House of Cards (And Why It's Taking So Long to Collapse)
In our previous issue, Fytton Rowland defended the continuation of print research journals into the networked age. Here, Stevan Harnad presents a different case. -
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. -
Unique Identifiers in a Digital World
Andy Powell reports on a seminar organised jointly by Book Industry Communication and the UKOLN on the use of unique identifiers in electronic publishing. -
Wire: Interview with Icarus Sparry
In his own words, Icarus Sparry tells us how what he is doing at the University of Bath, as well as revealing his own opinions on various aspects of networking, such as firewalls and network charging. -
WoPEc: Electronic Working Papers in Economics Services
Thomas Krichel describes WoPEc, a working papers project. -
Around the Table: Health and Medicine - What Can Medics Get Out of the Internet?
Sue Welsh of the eLib OMNI project visits some of the medical sites. -
Burnside Writes
John Burnside on pornography and the Internet. -
Creating Models for Electronic Citations
Andrew Harnack and Eugene Kleppinger outline the case for better referencing of electronic sources. -
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. -
Down Your Way: Durham
Paul Miller travels to Durham and reports on a mammoth archival digitisation project. -
Handling MARC With PERL
Jon Knight investigates the inner workings of the MARC record's binary distribution format and presents the first cut at a Perl module to read and write MARC records. -
IPL: The Internet Public Library
Schelle Simcox describes a Web-based public library, designed in many ways to mimic, and improve on, features of and within a real, large-scale library. -
Intelligent Searching Agents on the Web
Tracey Stanley describes Web-based Intelligent Searching Agents, and takes a closer look at a few examples you may wish to play with. -
Interface: Les Carr Interview
Steve Hitchcock and Les Carr of the Open Journal Project link up with Ian Budden. -
MCF: Will Dublin Form the Apple Core
Jon Knight looks at how Dublin Core and Apple's new MCF metadata file format might make useful and interesting bed fellows. -
Mind the Gap!
Sheila and Robert Harden describe the making of their public library Web pages. -
Minotaur
In Minotaur, the collective voice of Internet enthusiasts is countered by words of scepticism or caution. In this issue, Mike Holderness gives a few worrying examples of how much people outside the western hemisphere are behind us in terms of on-line resources. -
Networking Moving Images
Anne Mumford summarises the meeting organised by the British Universities Film and Video Council at the National Film Theatre on 18 December 1996, which looked into the problems and issues surrounding using academic networks for multimedia applications. -
OMNI Seminar
Debra Hiom reports from the second annual OMNI seminar. -
Web Access for the Disabled
Cathy Murtha outlines the problems that audio-visually impaired people encounter when trying to use network-based resources. -
Wire: Interview with Nick Gibbins
Nick Gibbins is put under the virtual spotlight to answer a few questions via email. -
10th Annual Anglo-Nordic Seminar
Kelly Russell from the eLib programme describes this seminar, which heavily featured speakers and current issues relevant to the UK digital libraries movement. -
Access V Holdings, Cranfield
Sarah Ashton reports on an event of interest to the Document Delivery community. -
Allerton 1996
Clare Davies reports on this years event in an annual conference series addressing user-centred aspects of library and information science. -
An Investigation Into World Wide Web Search Engine Use from within the UK: Preliminary Findings
Simon Stobart and Susan Kerridge give some of the preliminary results of a JISC- funded investigation into the use of Search Engines such as Alta Vista and Lycos within the UK. -
Around the Table
Many legal resources are ideal for searching online. Noel Whitty highlights some sites for lawyers. -
Copyright Battles: The Shetland News
Charles Oppenheim takes a look at the Shetland Times versus Shetland News copyright case, and its implications for users of the World Wide Web. -
Displaying SGML Documents on the World Wide Web
David Houghton discusses a method by which documents marked up using Standard Generalised Markup Language (SGML) can be used to generate a database for use in conjunction with the World Wide Web. -
EDINA: WWW, Z39.50 and All That!
Peter Burnhill gives a briefing note on what EDINA and the Data Library are doing about the World Wide Web (W) and the Z39.50 Protocol (Z). -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 6
The editor introduces Ariadne issue 6. -
ILRT: The Institute for Learning and Research Technology
Gillian Austen, External Relations Manager at the recently founded Institute for Learning and Research Technology at the University of Bristol, gives an overview of its structure and objectives. -
Infopolecon
John Lindsay comments on the evolution of the UK network infrastructure, and the problems arguably generated along the way. -
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. -
MIDRIB
Julian Cook describes a major database of medical images. -
Mailbase: Unique Electronic Discussion List Service for UK Higher Education Tops 100,000 Users
Morna Findlay and Elaine Blair report on the passing of a milestone for UK academia's premier Mailing List resource. -
Minotaur: Nick Gibbins
In Minotaur, the collective voice of Internet enthusiasts is countered by words of scepticism or caution. In this issue, Nick Gibbins gives an overview of some of the potential features that the Web does not contain, but a more functional successor to it might. -
Review of Where the Wild Things Are: Librarian's Guide to the Best Information on the Net
Marylaine Block describes the construction of Where the Wild Things Are: Librarian's Guide to the Best Information on the Net. -
SOSIG: Training to Support Social Science Teaching and Research
Lesly Huxley, the SOSIG Documentation and Training Officer, describes the workshops that SOSIG, one of the projects from the Access to Network Resource section, run. -
The BNBMARC Currency Survey
Ann Chapman describes the BNBMARC Currency Survey, a performance measurement survey on the supply of bibliographic records. -
The Internet Resources Newsletter from Heriot-Watt University
Roddy MacLeod describes a Web-based resources newsletter. -
Ticer Summer School on the Digital Library at Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Robert van der Zwan describes a two week summer school in digital library developments at one of Europe's main research centres in this field. -
View from the Hill: John Hatt
Alison Kilgour meets John Hatt, traveller's companion turned virtual tourist. -
Wire: Interview with Glen Monks
Glen Monks is put under the virtual spotlight to answer a few questions via email. -
Yahoo: UK and Ireland
Tracey Stanley takes a good look at a new version of an old index, Yahoo, which is aimed at the UK and Ireland. -
Around the Table
Around the Table: Sheona Farquhar looks at sites in science and engineering. -
BIDS Hits the Web
Isobel Stark takes a look at the soon to be released trial BIDS web interface. -
British Library Corner: Text and the Internet
Graham Jefcoate, a Research Analyst from the British Library Research and Innovation Centre will be writing this regular column for the remaining issues of Ariadne. In this issue, Graham gives us the text of his Libtech talk: Text and the Internet. -
CAUSE / EFFECT
Julia A. Rudy, Cause/Effect Editor and Director of Publications at CAUSE, an international, nonprofit professional association for managers and users of information resources on college and university campuses, describes CAUSE/EFFECT. -
Copyright Info on the Net
Charles Oppenheim takes a look at some of the Web sites and Bulletin Boards that contain information on copyright issues. -
DESIRE: Development of a European Service for Information on Research and Education
Klaas Wierenga, the director of DESIRE, describes this pan-European project in which the academic network services of the UK have a large stake. -
ELVIRA 4: The 4th UK Digital Libraries Conference (Electronic Library and Visual Information Research) Milton Keynes, 6-8 May 1997
Clare Davies announces the fourth in this series of annual Electronic Library research conferences. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 5
The editor introduces Ariadne issue 5. -
InfoSeek Ultra: (Yet Another) Web Search Engine
Tracey Stanley looks at InfoSeek Ultra, a new search engine which claims to allow searching on a index of 50 million Web pages. -
MC Journal: The Journal of Academic Media Librarianship
Lori Widzinski, the editor, describes the evolution of MC Journal: The Journal of Academic Media Librarianship. -
Metadata for the Masses
Paul Miller describes Dublin Core and several ideas for how it can be implemented. -
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. -
PICK: Library and Information Science Resources on the Internet
In 1995, the Thomas Parry Library, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, won funding for PICK, a project to build a gateway to quality resources in the LIS field. Here, Andrew Cox describes this gateway, and reviews the project's achievements at the end of the first year. -
The 1996 UKOLUG State of the Art Conference
Melanie Lawes describes the 1996 UKOLUG (UK On-Line Users Group) Annual Conference, held in Warwick last July. -
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. -
The SURF Foundation
Jaqueline Pieters describes the evolution of the SURF Foundation, a major IT co-ordination service for the Dutch academic sector. -
Wire: Interview with Jasper Tredgold
Jasper Tredgold is put under the virtual spotlight to answer a few questions via email. -
Are They Being Served?
Lynne Brindley, Chair of JISC's new committee on electronic information, writes on the fundamental issue of networked information user's needs. -
Around the Table
Ian Budden points to resources for humanities scholars. -
Cashing in on Caching
Jon Knight and Martin Hamilton describe Caching, possibly the most crucial tool available to frequent Web users, and point out why libraries should be aware of it. -
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. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 4: Changes to Ariadne and How to Read the Web Version
The editor explains changes in Ariadne format. -
Libtech '96: eLib goes to Libtech '96
John Kirriemuir gives a brief overview of the eLib presence at the Libtech '96 event. -
NHS Libraries: At Home on the Web
Ben Toth describes the establishment and maintenance of a regional Health Web site. -
Serving the Arts and Humanities
Dan Greenstein gives an extensive description of AHDS, the Arts and Humanities Data Service: its objectives, organisation, and how the data will be collected, preserved and described.. -
TAPin: Training and Awareness Programme in Networks
Kay Flatten outlines the training and awareness project that focuses on universities in the Midlands area. -
The Importance of Advanced Communications Technologies and Services (ACTS): The European Connection
David Kay describes ACTS, the Advanced Communications Technologies and Services, a programme under the European Community 4th Framework Research & Technology Development Programme, consisting of around 120 projects. -
AC/DC
Dave Beckett and Neil Smith explain a search engine that only indexes sites in the .ac.uk domain. -
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. -
Anoraks and cardigans (2): New Text Search Engines, Bath, April 1996
Nigel Ford, who gave the summary address, gives us his impressions of the April 1996 Infonortics conference n Bath on text retrieval. -
Burnside Writes
John Burnside has a quick look at poetry on the Net. -
CURL OPAC launch
Andrew Cooper describes the CURL OPAC launch in Manchester. -
Copyright Corner
Charles Oppenheim on the copyright issues that all eLib (and many other projects) should be aware of. -
Downtime
Ariadne offers its readers a cartoon, poem, and caption competition. -
ELVIRA
Tessa Bruce from the ResIDe eLib project describes the recent high profile electronic libraries conference hosted by De Montfort University. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 3
John Kirriemuir, Editor, introduces the Web version of Ariadne. -
Electronic Journals, Evolutionary Niches
Brian Whalley describes what academics want from their journals and shows how these criteria can be met by an on-line journal. -
FIDDO: Focused Investigation of Document Delivery Options
Anne Morris, project manager, describes a project from the Supporting Studies area of the eLib programme. -
From the Trenches: Networking (Notworking?) CD-ROMS
Jon Knight on the perils and problems of networking CD ROMs. -
Interface: George H Brett II, in Interview
An interview with George H. Brett II, International Library and Networking consultant. -
Internet Archaeology
Alan Vince, the managing editor of Internet Archaeology, describes an electronic journal that will apply the multimedia aspects of the Web to the field of archaeological research. -
Link: A New Beginning for BUBL
Dennis Nicholson and Joanne Gold present an overview of 'daughter of BUBL'. -
Mailbase Reviewed
Terry Hanson reviews the mother of academic mailing list systems in the UK. -
Mailing Lists: Keeping Up With eLib
We point out the advantages of being on the lis-elib mailing list, and briefly describe the other public eLib mailing lists currently in use. -
Meta Detectors
Lorcan Dempsey talks about metadata and the development of resource discovery services in the UK. -
Minotaur (Sceptics Column)
Mary Hope doubts the wisdom of children using the Internet at school. -
Public Libraries Corner: Internet Activity in Public Libraries
Sarah Ormes on Internet activity in the Public Libraries domain. -
ROADS: Resource Organisation and Discovery in Subject-Based Services
Rachel Heery, the ROADS Research Officer, describes this project from the Access to Network Resources area of the Electronic Libraries Programme. The deliverables of this project will constitute a large portion of the underlying software for most of the other projects in the same programme area, as well as other eLib and non-eLib projects, and therefore is one of the more crucial facets of the overall programme. -
Short Loan Projects
John MacColl discusses some of the issues involved in the digitisation of short loan collections. -
Sideline
Sheona Farquhar makes the mistake of thinking that any conference held outside Aberdeen has to be warmer. -
Sociological Research Online: Web-based Journal for the Social Sciences
Nigel Gilbert describes Sociological Research Online, a project from the Electronic Journals section of the Electronic Libraries Programme. SocResOnline is a (free) Web-based journal for people involved in Sociology and Sociology-related fields; it contains refereed articles, a substantial number of reviews and debating forums. -
UC and R Study Conference: Access versus Holdings - A Virtual Impossibility?
Jim Huntingford listens to the 'access verses holdings' debate at the Library Association's University, College and Research group conference. -
URL Monitoring Software and Services
Paul Hollands describes and compares tools to help you notice when a Web-based resource has been updated. -
View from the Hill: Rob Ainsley
Rob Ainsley, editor of a clutch of Internet-based classical music journals, expounds on the dynamics of ejournals on the Internet. -
Wire: Dave Beckett, Interviewed
Dave Beckett is subjected to an interview via email. -
A Thread of Ariadnes
One of my previous lecturers jokingly said that once you had a title, logo and an acronym for your project, 80% of the work was done. Except I'm not so sure she was joking, now. Ariadne took (relatively) little time to be decided on as a title, but as it turned out, many other projects around the world, and one in particular in the UK, shared this greek mythological name. This has caused problems; for example, lists of digital libraries/training projects occasionally get us mixed up with the Ariadne project at Lancaster. Dr. David Nichols from this Lancaster project gives a brief run-down of other projects that have taken the name Ariadne. -
Alta Vista Vs. Lycos
Tracey Stanley presents the results of a detailed comparison of the two main search engines of today, Lycos and Alta Vista. -
Copyright Corner
Charles Oppenheim details some of the legal issues associated with electronic copyright management systems. -
Down Your Very Long Way Away
We take a look at the library and networking facilities in more remote places around the world; in this issue, we feature the Faroe Islands. -
Down Your Way
Alison Kilgour takes a look at the networking facilities inside Glasgow University Library. -
From the Trenches: Network Services on a Shoestring
Jon Knight describes how Linux is a cheap and useful operating system for library systems units and the like. -
Netskills eLib Project Launch
John Kirriemuir on the Netskills eLib project launch. -
Netskills: A Major Training Programme
The Netskills Team explain how the need for training has never been greater. -
SEREN: Sharing of Educational Resources in an Electronic Network
Ian Lovecy from Bangor University describes SEREN, a project from the Electronic Document Delivery section of the eLib programme. SEREN aims to provide the software to enable the Welsh HE community to maximise use of the library resource-base in Wales before turning to BLDSC and other suppliers. -
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. -
Spotlight on BIDS
BIDS is put under the spotlight by Isobel Stark, a BIDS trainer amongst other things, who gives us her thoughts on one of the UK's most well-known networking services. Linked from this article are responses from BIDS people. -
Down Your Way
Loughborough University has a reputation for technological excellence. Its Information Service was revamped last year, and is becoming increasingly dependent upon the Internet. Alison Kilgour reports. -
Interface
Interview with Paul Evan Peters, director of the US Coalition for Networked Information. -
Netskills Corner
Netskills corner - Brian Kelly, Senior Trainer at Netskills, reviews Internet Explorer, Microsoft's Browser for Windows 95. -
What's Good and Bad about BUBL
Traugott Koch reviews the Bulletin Board for Libraries (BUBL). -
Wire: Email Interview with Traugott Koch
Traugott Koch submits to an interview by email.