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Feature articles in Ariadne are written by subject-matter experts invited to address topics of interest to information professionals.
- Total number of 'feature article' items in all Ariadne issues: 545
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Article summary | Date |
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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. |
November 2012, issue70, feature article |
10 Cheap and Easy Ways to Amplify Your Event |
Marieke Guy describes new tools and services that can help you get your event heard. |
January 2011, issue66, feature article |
10 Years of Zetoc |
Jane Ronson looks at how Zetoc has developed and what the future holds for the service. |
January 2011, issue66, feature article |
21st-century Scholarship and Wikipedia |
Amber Thomas explores the ways in which emerging research practices and Wikipedia illustrate the changing boundaries of academic work. |
November 2012, issue70, feature article |
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. |
July 2010, issue64, feature article |
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. |
July 2007, issue52, feature article |
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. |
October 2002, issue33, feature article |
A Brief History of the American Library Association Web Site |
A brief history of the American Library Association Web Site: Rob Carlson, Internet Coordinator of the ALA, introduces us to the acclaimed Web site of the largest Library Association in the World. |
January 1997, issue7, feature article |
A Bug's Life?: How Metaphors from Ecology Can Articulate the Messy Details of Repository Interactions |
R. John Robertson, Mahendra Mahey and Phil Barker introduce work investigating an alternative model of repository and service interaction. |
October 2008, issue57, feature article |
A Desk Too Far?: The Case for Remote Working |
Marieke Guy examines both the benefits and the pitfalls of working remotely from the standpoint of both employees and their organisation. |
July 2008, issue56, feature article |
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. |
January 2007, issue50, feature article |
A Foundation for Automatic Digital Preservation |
Miguel Ferreira, Ana Alice Baptista and Jose Carlos Ramalho propose a Service-Oriented Architecture to help cultural heritage institutions to accomplish automatic digital preservation. |
July 2006, issue48, feature article |
A Free ISP from the British Library |
Brian Kefford outlines the services available from the British Library. |
December 1999, issue22, feature article |
A Librarian's Experience of E-Government |
Jane Inman describes the route she has taken as a librarian through the expanding landscape of e-government and highlights the skills librarians can bring to this arena. |
January 2005, issue42, feature article |
A MAN for All Reasons? |
Derek Law, the Director of Information Services and Systems at Kings College and chair of JISC's ISSC, details his vision of the cooperation between the library sectors blossoming through the use of Metropolitan Area Networks. |
March 1996, issue2, feature article |
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. |
April 2004, issue39, feature article |
A National Co-ordinating Body for Digital Archiving? |
David Haynes discusses one possible way forward for ensuring that potentially valued digital materials are preserved for future study and use. |
May 1998, issue15, feature article |
A New Publication for a New Challenge |
John MacColl and Lyndon Pugh discuss their proposal for a web and print magazine for Information and IT professionals in UK Higher Education. |
September 1998, issue17, feature article |
A Policy Context: eLib and the Emergence of the Subject Gateways |
Derek Law and Lorcan Dempsey outline some of the features of the policy environment which led to the setting up of the influential 'subject gateways' as part of the UK Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib). |
September 2000, issue25, feature article |
A Pragmatic Approach to Preferred File Formats for Acquisition |
Dave Thompson sets out the pragmatic approach to preferred file formats for long-term preservation used at the Wellcome Library. |
April 2010, issue63, feature article |
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. |
October 2005, issue45, feature article |
A Research Revolution: The Impact of Digital Technologies |
Dicky Maidment-Otlet and Judy Redfearn describe a new JISC activity to highlight how digital technologies are changing research. |
January 2010, issue62, feature article |
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. |
October 2008, issue57, feature article |
A Speaking Electronic Librarian |
Markos Dendrinos with a proposal for an interface system, based on speech recognition and synthesis technologies, for automatic library services. |
October 2002, issue33, feature article |
A Support Framework for Remote Workers |
Marieke Guy follows up on her two previous articles for Ariadne with an overview of an evolving structure to provide consistent support to UKOLN colleagues who work remotely. |
April 2009, issue59, feature article |
A Wired Honduran Christmas |
Eddie Young hooks up to the global network, with some improvised electrical plumbing |
March 2000, issue23, feature article |
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. |
January 2010, issue62, feature article |
AC/DC |
Dave Beckett and Neil Smith explain a search engine that only indexes sites in the .ac.uk domain. |
May 1996, issue3, feature article |
Academic Liaison Librarianship: Curatorial Pedagogy Or Pedagogical Curation? |
Allan Parsons presents a strategic view of the need to develop the academic liaison librarianship role. |
October 2010, issue65, feature article |
Access Management: The Key to a Portal - The Experience of the Subject Portals Project |
Francisco Pinto and Michael Fraser report on the experience of the Subject Portals Project. |
April 2003, issue35, feature article |
Access to Archives: England’s Contribution to the National Archive Network |
Caroline Thibeaud discusses the Archive 2 Archive project. |
January 2002, issue30, feature article |
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. |
July 2007, issue52, feature article |
Accessibility: CHI 2001 and Beyond |
Leona Carpenter reports on the key issue of accessibility as covered at the Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) Conference held in Seattle, and also provides a round-up of sources of further information. |
June 2001, issue28, feature article |
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. |
July 2005, issue44, feature article |
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. |
July 2006, issue48, feature article |
Acrobat a High Flyer: John MacColl Discusses the Success of Adobe Acrobat and PDF |
Acrobat a High Flyer: John MacColl discusses the success of Adobe Acrobat and PDF. |
January 1997, issue7, feature article |
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. |
June 2000, issue24, feature article |
Advanced Collaboration With the Access Grid |
Michael Daw describes the Access Grid system and its claim to be an Advanced Collaboration Environment. |
January 2005, issue42, feature article |
Aerade |
John Harrington, Karyn Meaden and Emma Turner introduce Aerade, an EEVL-related service. |
December 1999, issue22, feature article |
After eLib |
Chris Rusbridge, the former Director of the UK Electronic Libraries Programme, with an assessment of its achievements and legacy. |
January 2001, issue26, feature article |