Overview of content related to 'digital library'
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A digital library is a library in which collections are stored in digital formats (as opposed to print, microform, or other media) and accessible by computers. The digital content may be stored locally, or accessed remotely via computer networks. A digital library is a type of information retrieval system. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Digital library)
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Book Review: Access, Delivery, Performance - The Future of Libraries Without Walls |
Michael Day reviews a Festschrift celebrating the work of Professor Peter Brophy, founder of the Centre for Research in Library and Information Management. |
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 63: Consider the Users in the Field |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 63. |
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Usability Inspection of Digital Libraries |
Lorraine Paterson and Boon Low highlight findings from the usability inspection report conducted for the UX2.0 research project. |
April 2010, issue63, feature article |
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. |
April 2010, issue63, feature article |
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. |
April 2010, issue63, event report |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
April 2010, issue63, news and events |
Book Review: Information Science in Transition |
Michael Day reviews an edited volume published to commemorate the founding of the Institute of Information Scientists in 1958. |
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eBooks: Tipping or Vanishing Point? |
Emma Tonkin investigates ebooks and takes a look at recent technological and business developments in this area. |
January 2010, issue62, feature article |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 61: The Double-edged Web |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 61. |
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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. |
October 2009, issue61, feature article |
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. |
October 2009, issue61, feature article |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
October 2009, issue61, news and events |
SHERPA to YODL-ING: Digital Mountaineering at York |
Julie Allinson and Elizabeth Harbord describe the development of digital repositories for the University of York. |
July 2009, issue60, feature article |
Research Data Preservation and Access: The Views of Researchers |
Neil Beagrie, Robert Beagrie and Ian Rowlands present findings from a UKRDS survey of researchers' views on and practices for preservation and dissemination of research data in four UK universities. |
July 2009, issue60, feature article |
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. |
July 2009, issue60, feature article |
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. |
July 2009, issue60, feature article |
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. |
July 2009, issue60, event report |
Open Repositories 2009 |
Adrian Stevenson reports on the four-day annual Open Repositories conference held at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, GA, USA over 18 - 21 May 2009. |
July 2009, issue60, event report |
e-Framework Implements New Workplan |
Ian Dolphin and Phil Nicholls describe recent and forthcoming developments from the e-Framework Partnership for Education and Research. |
April 2009, issue59, feature article |
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. |
April 2009, issue59, event report |
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. |
April 2009, issue59, event report |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
April 2009, issue59, news and events |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 58: People Still Matter |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 58. |
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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. |
January 2009, issue58, feature article |
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. |
January 2009, issue58, feature article |
Time to Change Our Thinking: Dismantling the Silo Model of Digital Scholarship |
Stephen G. Nichols argues that humanists need to replace the silo model of digital scholarship with collaborative ventures based on interoperability and critical comparison of content. |
January 2009, issue58, feature article |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
January 2009, issue58, news and events |
Book Review: Making Sense With Metadata |
Emma Tonkin takes a look at an impressive new book on the topic of metadata design, implementation and evaluation in theory and practice. |
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 57:Achieving the Balance |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 57. |
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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. |
October 2008, issue57, 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 |
Get Tooled Up: SeeAlso: A Simple Linkserver Protocol |
Jakob Voss combines OpenSearch and unAPI to enrich catalogues. |
October 2008, issue57, feature article |
CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group Annual Conference |
Christina Claridge reports on the conference, held 3-5 September 2008, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. |
October 2008, issue57, event report |
eResearch Australasia 2008 |
Tobias Blanke, Ann Borda, Gaby Bright and Bridget Soulsby report on the annual eResearch Australasia Conference, held in Melbourne, Australia, 29 September - 3 October, 2008. |
October 2008, issue57, event report |
iPRES 2008 |
Frances Boyle and Adam Farquhar report on the two-day international conference which was the fifth in the series on digital preservation of digital objects held at the British Library, on 29 - 30 September 2008. |
October 2008, issue57, event report |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
October 2008, issue57, news and events |
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. |
July 2008, issue56, feature article |
Lost in the JISC Information Environment |
Tony Ross gives a personal reflection on his intellectual struggle to comprehend the JISC Information Environment. |
July 2008, issue56, feature article |
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. |
July 2008, issue56, feature article |
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. |
July 2008, issue56, event report |
