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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Editorial Introduction to Ariadne Issue 39: Humanity V Technology, Which Is in the Driving Seat? |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 39. |
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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. |
April 2004, issue39, feature article |
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. |
April 2004, issue39, regular column |
The Collection Description Schema Forum |
Gordon Dunsire describes the one-day seminar on standard schemas for collection-level description held by UKOLN in February. |
April 2004, issue39, event report |
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. |
April 2004, issue39, event report |
The Biggest Digital Library Conference in the World |
John Paschoud reports on the International Conference on Digital Libraries held in New Delhi, India, 24-27 February 2004. |
April 2004, issue39, event report |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
April 2004, issue39, news and events |
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. |
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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. |
January 2004, issue38, feature article |
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. |
January 2004, issue38, feature article |
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. |
January 2004, issue38, feature article |
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. |
January 2004, issue38, feature article |
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. |
January 2004, issue38, regular column |
Web Focus: Improving the Quality of Your HTML |
Brian Kelly outlines a strategy for fixing the most important HTML resources on a Web site. |
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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. |
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Towards a User-Centred Approach to Digital Libraries |
Ken Eason reports on the five themes in the Digilib Conference, Espoo, Finland. |
January 2004, issue38, event report |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
January 2004, issue38, news and events |
Unicode and Historic Scripts |
Deborah Anderson provides us an overview of the progress made in bringing historic scripts to the Unicode Standard. |
October 2003, issue37, feature article |
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 |
October 2003, issue37, feature article |
Ebooks in UK Libraries: Where Are We Now? |
Penny Garrod brings us up to date on developments in ebooks. |
October 2003, issue37, feature article |
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. |
October 2003, issue37, feature article |
Planet SOSIG |
Anne Dimond and Angela Joyce send further news from the planet of social sciences. |
October 2003, issue37, regular column |
Web Focus: Widening the Focus for the Future |
Brian Kelly reviews the history of the Web Focus post and describes funding changes which gives Web Focus a much wider remit. |
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ECDL-2003 Conference Notes |
Lesly Huxley shares her notes on the European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. |
October 2003, issue37, event report |
ECDL-2003 Web Archiving |
Michael Day reports on the 3rd ECDL Workshop on Web Archives held in Trondheim, August 2003. |
October 2003, issue37, event report |
OAI: The Fourth Open Archives Forum Workshop |
Manjula Patel provides us with an overview of the 4th Open Archives Forum Workshop. |
October 2003, issue37, event report |
Metadata and Interoperability in a Complex World |
Pete Johnston reflects on the 2003 Dublin Core conference, held in Seattle, Washington. |
October 2003, issue37, event report |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 36: This Time the Cavalry Showed Up |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 36. |
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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. |
July 2003, issue36, feature article |
News from BIOME |
Donald Mackay, Rod Ward and Jenny Hall provide us with the first of a series of bulletins on developments within the BIOME area of activity. |
July 2003, issue36, regular column |
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. |
July 2003, issue36, event report |
Newsline: News You Can Use |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
July 2003, issue36, news and events |
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. |
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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 |
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. |
April 2003, issue35, feature article |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
April 2003, issue35, news and events |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 34: Cultivating Interoperability and Resource-Sharing |
Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne issue 34. |
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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. |
January 2003, issue34, feature article |
Exploring Charging Models for Digital Cultural Heritage |
Simon Tanner and Marilyn Deegan discuss charging models. |
January 2003, issue34, feature article |
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. |
January 2003, issue34, event report |
