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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: 555
| Title | Article summary | Date |
|---|---|---|
ARROW and the RQF: Meeting the Needs of the Research Quality Framework Using an Institutional Research Repository |
David Groenewegen and Andrew Treloar describe the role of repositories in the forthcoming Australian Research Quality Framework (RQF) and the responses of the ARROW Project to the needs of the RQF. |
July 2007, issue52, 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 |
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. |
July 2007, issue52, feature article |
Repository Thrills and Spills |
Sue Manuel and Charles Oppenheim take a look at recent developments in the digital repositories field and present a light-hearted project narrative. |
July 2007, issue52, feature article |
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. |
July 2007, issue52, 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 |
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. |
July 2007, issue52, feature article |
EThOSnet: Building a UK E-Theses Community |
Jill Russell outlines progress towards an e-theses service for the UK. |
July 2007, issue52, feature article |
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. |
July 2007, issue52, feature article |
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. |
April 2007, issue51, feature article |
The W3C Technical Architecture Group |
Henry S. Thompson introduces the W3C Technical Architecture Group and its work. |
April 2007, issue51, feature article |
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. |
April 2007, issue51, feature article |
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. |
April 2007, issue51, feature article |
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. |
April 2007, issue51, feature article |
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. |
April 2007, issue51, feature article |
Citeulike: A Researcher's Social Bookmarking Service |
Kevin Emamy and Richard Cameron describe a tool that helps researchers gather, collect and share papers. |
April 2007, issue51, feature article |
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. |
April 2007, issue51, feature article |
Hold It, Hold It ... Start Again: The Perils of Project Video Production |
It's not like writing a paper. Film production, when the camera points at you, can challenge all sorts of sensitivities. Steve Hitchcock survived the ordeal to tell the story of the Preserv Project video. |
April 2007, issue51, feature article |
OpenID: Decentralised Single Sign-on for the Web |
Andy Powell and David Recordon take a brief look at OpenID and ask what relevance it has to e-learning. |
April 2007, issue51, 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 |
Models of Early Adoption of ICT Innovations in Higher Education |
Melanie Bates, Sue Manuel and Charles Oppenheim provide an overview of some considerations for change agents attempting to introduce an innovative new information communication technology service into Higher Education institutions. |
January 2007, issue50, feature article |
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. |
January 2007, issue50, feature article |
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. |
January 2007, issue50, feature article |
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. |
January 2007, issue50, feature article |
Collecting Born Digital Archives at the Wellcome Library |
Chris Hilton and Dave Thompson discuss plans for work with born digital archival material at the Wellcome Library. |
January 2007, issue50, feature article |
Limits to Information Transfer: The Boundary Problem |
Jon E. Lervik, Mark Easterby-Smith, Kathryn Fahy and Carole Elliott discuss the challenges in integrating knowledge across boundaries between specialised knowledge communities within an organisation. |
January 2007, issue50, feature article |
What Happens When We Mash the Library? |
Paul Miller looks at recent attempts to make library resources more appealing, including the Talis competition to build library 'mashups'. |
January 2007, issue50, feature article |
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. |
October 2006, issue49, feature article |
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. |
October 2006, issue49, feature article |
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. |
October 2006, issue49, feature article |
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. |
October 2006, issue49, feature article |
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. |
October 2006, issue49, feature article |
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. |
October 2006, issue49, feature article |
Video Streaming of Events |
Greg Tourte and Emma Tonkin describe the set-up and use of video streaming technology at the IWMW 2006 event. |
October 2006, issue49, feature article |
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). |
October 2006, issue49, feature article |
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. |
October 2006, issue49, feature article |
Library Systems: Synthesise, Specialise, Mobilise |
Robin Murray examines how the changing landscape for library systems is altering their service model. |
July 2006, issue48, feature article |
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. |
July 2006, issue48, feature article |
Introducing UnAPI |
Dan Chudnov and a team of colleagues describe unAPI, a tiny HTTP API for serving information objects in next-generation Web applications. |
July 2006, issue48, feature article |
The Library Catalogue in the New Discovery Environment: Some Thoughts |
Lorcan Dempsey explores how the library catalogue will develop alongside evolving network discovery systems. |
July 2006, issue48, feature article |