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CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group Annual Conference
Christina Claridge reports on the conference, held 3-5 September 2008, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. -
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. -
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. -
DC 2005
Robina Clayphan reports on the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications: Vocabularies in Practice held at the University of Carlos III, Madrid in September 2005. -
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. -
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. -
EEVL News Nuggets
Roddy MacLeod and Linda Kerr with news relating to the EMC Hubs. -
Planet SOSIG: Welfare Reform Digest
Jennie Grimshaw gives a personal account of the creation of the Welfare reform digest. -
Practical Clumping: Mick Ridley on the BOPAC System
Mick Ridley discusses the BOPAC system. -
Metadata: Cataloguing Theory and Internet Subject-based Information Gateways
Ann Chapman, Michael Day, and Debra Hiom compare library cataloguing concepts and ROADS Template creation. -
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 -
INFOMINE
Steve Mitchell describes INFOMINE, an impressive attempt to build a Web-based virtual library for the academic community.