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Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) support United Kingdom post-16 and higher education and research by providing leadership in the use of ICT (Information and Communications Technology) in support of learning, teaching, research and administration. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: JISC)
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News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
February 2006, issue46, news and events |
Book Review: Developing the New Learning Environment |
Stephen Town welcomes this new text on a key issue for the future of academic librarians, and suggests some broader questions for consideration. |
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 45: Smaller Might Be Beautiful |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 45. |
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Putting the Library Into the Institution: Using JSR 168 and WSRP to Enable Search Within Portal Frameworks |
Chris Awre, Stewart Waller, Jon Allen, Matthew J Dovey, Jon Hunter and Ian Dolphin describe the investigations and technical development undertaken within the JISC-funded Contextual Resource Evaluation Environment (CREE) Project to enable the presentation of existing search tools within portal frameworks using the JSR 168 and WSRP portlet standards. |
October 2005, issue45, feature article |
Looking for More Than Text? |
Balviar Notay and Catherine Grout give an overview of developments in digitisation programmes, on-line delivery services and specialised search engines which cater for searching and locating still images and time-based media and consider the issues that surround their use, focusing particularly on JISC developments. |
October 2005, issue45, feature article |
Online Repositories for Learning Materials: The User Perspective |
Amber Thomas and Andrew Rothery explore how online repositories are being used to store and share e-learning content, and show how taking the user perspective might challenge the emerging approaches to repository development. |
October 2005, issue45, 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 |
DARE Project Chronology |
To accompany their main article, Martin Feijen and Annemiek van der Kuil provide a chronological overview of the DARE project. |
October 2005, issue45, 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 |
Repositories, Copyright and Creative Commons for Scholarly Communication |
Esther Hoorn considers ways librarians can support scholars in managing the demands of copyright so as to respond to the needs of scholarly communication. |
October 2005, issue45, feature article |
News from BIOME |
Jenny Hall reports on recent news from BIOME, the Health and Life Sciences hub of the Resource Discovery Network . |
October 2005, issue45, regular column |
Web Focus: Must Email Die? |
Brian Kelly recently gave a talk on this subject at the Internet Librarian International 2005 conference. In this article he expands on the talk and revisits the question as to whether email really should disappear. |
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Distributed Services Registry Workshop |
John Gilby reports on the UKOLN/IESR two-day workshop at Scarman House, University of Warwick on 14-15 July 2005. |
October 2005, issue45, event report |
Digital Curation: Where Do We Go from Here? |
Peter Kerr, Fiona Reddington and Max Wilkinson report on the 1st International Digital Curation Conference held in Bath in September 2005. |
October 2005, issue45, event report |
Building the Info Grid |
Wolfram Horstmann, Liv Fugl and Jessica Lindholm report on the two-day conference Building the Info Grid on trends and perspectives in digital library technology and services held in Copenhagen in September. |
October 2005, issue45, event report |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
October 2005, issue45, news and events |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 44: One Day We All Learn the Hard Way |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 44. |
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Towards a Pragmatic Framework for Accessible E-Learning |
Lawrie Phipps, Neil Witt and Brian Kelly while recognising the importance of accessibility in e-learning resources, query the universal applicability of the Web Accessibility Initiative's guidelines and describe a pragmatic framework which provides a broader context for their use. |
July 2005, issue44, feature article |
Virtual Research Environments: Overview and Activity |
Michael Fraser provides an overview of the virtual research environment (VRE) and introduces three JISC-funded projects in which Oxford University is participating. |
July 2005, issue44, feature article |
Mobile Blogs, Personal Reflections and Learning Environments: The RAMBLE Project |
Paul Trafford describes how mobile blogs for personal reflection may be related to institutional learning environments, drawing on experiences from the RAMBLE Project. |
July 2005, issue44, feature article |
Supporting Local Data Users in the UK Academic Community |
Luis Martinez and Stuart Macdonald discuss the differing areas of expertise within the UK data libraries with particular reference to their relationship with National Data Centres, the role of the Data Information Specialists Committee - UK (DISC-UK) and other information specialists. |
July 2005, issue44, feature article |
Planet-SOSIG |
Emma Place assesses the recent SOSIG Social Science Online seminars, Jacky Clake reports on the ESRC Social Science Week and Debra Hiom updates us on the virtual seminar run by SOSIG as part of Social Science Week. |
July 2005, issue44, regular column |
EEVL Xtra: The Hidden Web at Your Fingertips |
Roddy MacLeod looks at the latest service from EEVL. |
July 2005, issue44, regular column |
Integration and Impact: The JISC Annual Conference |
Marieke Guy has collated reports on sessions from the JISC Annual Conference held in Birmingham. |
July 2005, issue44, event report |
IWMW 2005 |
Miles Banbery reports on the 9th Institutional Web Management Workshop held at the University of Manchester, UK, over 6-8 July 2005. |
July 2005, issue44, event report |
Building Open Source Communities: 4th OSS Watch Conference |
Sebastian Rahtz and Randy Metcalfe report on a one-day conference on open source software development communities organised by OSS Watch held in Edinburgh on 4 July 2005. |
July 2005, issue44, event report |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
July 2005, issue44, news and events |
Book Review: Content and Workflow Management for Library Web Sites |
Martin White welcomes the detail but is concerned at the impact that the publishing process has had on the currency and utility of the content. |
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Book Review: Managing Suppliers and Partners for the Academic Library |
Tony Kidd examines this study's view of the importance of partnerships in their widest context for the modern academic library. |
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 43: When Technology Alone Is Not Enough |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 43. |
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Opening Up OpenURLs with Autodiscovery |
Daniel Chudnov, Richard Cameron, Jeremy Frumkin, Ross Singer and Raymond Yee demonstrate a 'gather locally, share globally' approach to OpenURLs and metadata autodiscovery in scholarly and non-scholarly environments. |
April 2005, issue43, feature article |
Supporting Digital Preservation and Asset Management in Institutions |
Leona Carpenter describes a JISC development programme tackling the organisational and technical challenges facing Higher and Further Education in the UK. |
April 2005, issue43, feature article |
Digital Preservation: Best Practice and Its Dissemination |
Neil Beagrie describes the development and subsequent use of a digital preservation handbook and future plans for expansion of its use in training and professional practice. |
April 2005, issue43, feature article |
What Are Your Terms? |
Pete Johnston introduces the JISC Information Environment Metadata Schema Registry (IEMSR) Project and examines some of the challenges it is facing. |
April 2005, issue43, feature article |
Planet-SOSIG |
Paul Ayres examines how the SOSIG Subject News blog is keeping users up to date and providing reusable site content at the same time. |
April 2005, issue43, regular column |
EEVL: New Hot Topic In-depth Reports Now Available |
Roddy MacLeod looks at some recent developments to the EEVL service. |
April 2005, issue43, regular column |
EuroCAMP 2005 |
Masha Garibyan and Ann Borda report on the first Campus Architecture Middleware Planning workshop in Europe hosted by the Politecnico di Torino. |
April 2005, issue43, event report |
Waking Up in the British Library |
Emma Beer reports on a one-day conference on using Early English Books Online in teaching and research in history and English literature. |
April 2005, issue43, event report |
United Kingdom Serials Group Conference 2005 |
Sarah Pearson reports on the annual 3-day UK Serials Group (UKSG) conference recently held at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. |
April 2005, issue43, event report |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
April 2005, issue43, news and events |
