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The GNU Project is a free software, mass collaboration project, announced on September 27, 1983, by Richard Stallman at MIT. It initiated GNU operating system development in January, 1984. The founding goal of the project was, in the words of its initial announcement, to develop "a sufficient body of free software [...] to get along without any software that is not free." To make this happen, the GNU Project began working on an operating system called GNU ("GNU" is a recursive acronym that stands for "GNU's Not Unix"). This goal of making a free software operating system was achieved in 1992 when the last gap in the GNU system, a kernel, was filled by the third-party Linux kernel being released as Free Software, under version 2 of the GNU GPL. Current work of the GNU Project includes software development, awareness building, political campaigning and sharing of the new material. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: GNU)
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Moving Ariadne: Migrating and Enriching Content with Drupal |
Thom Bunting explains some of the technology behind the migration of Ariadne (including more than 1600 articles from its back issues archive) onto a Drupal content management platform. |
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Redeveloping the Loughborough Online Reading List System |
Jon Knight, Jason Cooper and Gary Brewerton describe the redevelopment of Loughborough University’s open source reading list system. |
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Image 'Quotation' Using the C.I.T.E. Architecture |
Christopher Blackwell and Amy Hackney Blackwell describe with examples a digital library infrastructure that affords canonical citation for 'quoting' images, useful for creating commentaries, arguments, and teaching tools. |
July 2011, issue67, feature article |
Towards a Toolkit for Implementing Application Profiles |
Talat Chaudhri, Julian Cheal, Richard Jones, Mahendra Mahey and Emma Tonkin propose a user-driven methodology for the iterative development, testing and implementation of Dublin Core Application Profiles in diverse repository software environments. |
January 2010, issue62, feature article |
Get Tooled Up: Xerxes at Royal Holloway, University of London |
Anna Grigson, Peter Kiely, Graham Seaman and Tim Wales describe the implementation of an open source front end to the MetaLib federated search tool. |
January 2010, issue62, feature article |
Three Perspectives on the Evolving Infrastructure of Institutional Research Repositories in Europe |
Marjan Vernooy-Gerritsen, Gera Pronk and Maurits van der Graaf report on the most significant results from two surveys conducted to provide an overview of repositories with research output in the European Union. |
April 2009, issue59, feature article |
Book Review: Visualizing Data |
Pete Cliff considers a new book on data visualisation and hopes one day to implement some of the interesting ideas presented in this work. |
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DRIVER: Seven Items on a European Agenda for Digital Repositories |
Maurits van der Graaf provides results and conclusions from the DRIVER inventory study. |
July 2007, issue52, 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 |
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 |
DAEDALUS: Delivering the Glasgow EPrints Service |
Morag Greig and William Nixon describe the key aims and findings of the DAEDALUS Project and the Glasgow ePrints Service. |
October 2005, issue45, feature article |
E-Archiving: An Overview of Some Repository Management Software Tools |
Marion Prudlo discusses LOCKSS, EPrints, and DSpace in terms of who uses them, their cost, underlying technology, the required know-how, and functionalities. |
April 2005, issue43, feature article |
Software Choice: Decision-making in a Mixed Economy |
Randy Metcalfe considers the role of free and open source software in UK Further and Higher Education. |
January 2005, issue42, feature article |
The National Centre for Text Mining: Aims and Objectives |
Sophia Ananiadou, Julia Chruszcz, John Keane, John McNaught and Paul Watry describe NaCTeM's plans to provide text mining services for UK academics. |
January 2005, issue42, feature article |
Book Review: Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing |
Mike Fraser asks whether a recent book on open source software licences will help him answer a few questions. |
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News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
October 2004, issue41, news and events |
Targeting Academic Research With Southampton's Institutional Repository |
Jessie Hey describes how user needs have influenced the evolutionary development of 'e-Prints Soton' as the University of Southampton Research Repository. |
July 2004, issue40, feature article |
At the Event: The EPrints UK Workshop |
Phil Cross, Debra Hiom and Emma Place report on this workshop which was held at the University of Bath in February 2004. |
April 2004, issue39, event report |
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 |
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 |
DAEDALUS: Initial Experiences With EPrints and DSpace at the University of Glasgow |
William Nixon provides an overview of the DAEDALUS initial experience with the GNU EPrints and DSpace software and the decision to employ both. |
October 2003, issue37, feature article |
Mandated Online RAE CVs Linked to University Eprint Archives: Enhancing UK Research Impact and Assessment |
Stevan Harnad, Les Carr, Tim Brody and Charles Oppenheim make a case for maximising the advantages and the UK's pre-eminence in the Research Assessment Exercise. |
April 2003, issue35, feature article |
DAEDALUS : Freeing Scholarly Communication at the University of Glasgow |
William J. Nixon presents a brief overview of the DAEDALUS Open Archives Project at the University of Glasgow. |
January 2003, issue34, feature article |
EEVL: Search Me! |
Roddy MacLeod supplies guidance on the large range of available EEVL search options. |
January 2003, issue34, regular column |
Web Watch: A Survey of Web Server Software Used by UK University Web Sites |
Brian Kelly with an update of his survey of server software used by central Web sites in UK Universities. |
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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 |
OpenResolver: A Simple OpenURL Resolver |
Andy Powell describes UKOLN's OpenResolver, a freely available demonstration OpenURL resolver. |
June 2001, issue28, feature article |
Web Watch: A Survey Of Web Server Software Used In UK University Web Sites |
Brian Kelly A Survey Of Web Server Software Used In UK University Web Sites. |
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WebWatch: UK University Search Engines |
Brian Kelly explores the search facilities used by UK university Web sites. |
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The Unix Column: 'Sandboxes Using Chroot' |
Ian Peacock explains how the proliferation of network software brings increasing concerns about security, which can be countered by 'restricted perspectives'. |
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What Is Apache? |
Eddie Young gives the essentials of "Apache", the widely used Unix-based web server software. |
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Transatlantic Bandwidth: How to Save Money on Your Costs |
Sally Hadland, Information Officer at the Higher Education National Software Archive (HENSA), describes how using HENSA can save on transatlantic bandwidth. |
December 1998, issue18, feature article |
Reaching the OPAC: Java Telnet |
Bill Drew writes about accessing his library's OPAC within a web page using Java Telnet. He looks at the need, implementation, problems, and opportunities. |
March 1997, issue8, 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 |
Wire: Dave Beckett, Interviewed |
Dave Beckett is subjected to an interview via email. |
May 1996, issue3, regular column |
