Overview of content related to 'university of oxford'

Marieke Napier went to find out at the mda's 'Beyond the Museum' colloquium.

Ray Harper reports on a one-day conference which launched the DREaM Project, held by the Library and Information Science Research Coalition in London on 19 July 2011.

James A. J. Wilson, Michael A. Fraser, Luis Martinez-Uribe, Paul Jeffreys, Meriel Patrick, Asif Akram and Tahir Mansoori describe the approaches taken, findings, and issues encountered while developing research data management services and infrastructure at the University of Oxford.

Alex Ball reports on the 2nd UK User Group meeting for DataCite, held at the British Library in London, in April 2011.

William Y. Arms, D-Lib publisher and Amy Friedlander, the editor, describe this successful Web-based magazine that carries more technically-minded articles on all aspects of digital/electronic libraries research.

Charles Oppenheim answers copyright queries.

Chris Hilton and Dave Thompson discuss plans for work with born digital archival material at the Wellcome Library.

John MacColl and Stephen Pinfield explore the SHERPA project, which is concentrating on making e-prints available online.

Daniel Teruggi describes PrestoSpace, the new FP6 Integrated project for the preservation of our disappearing audio-visual heritage.

Ian Upton explores the achievements of this Windows NT server based project.

Selenay Aytac reviews a collection of essays on user studies and digital library development that provides a concise overview of a variety of digital library projects and examines major research trends relating to digital libraries.

Martin White reviews a very individual perspective on the extent to which the growth and structure of the World Wide Web is governed by the fundamental laws of physics and mathematics.

Emma Tonkin takes a look at a book on the work of the taxonomist and notes both merits and disappointments.

Brian Whalley reviews a book about a new theory of ‘information need’ that builds upon the ideas of Allen and Taylor from the 1960s to provide a basis for information searching.

Stuart Hannabuss picks another winner but wonders whether legal essentialism is enough for information professionals.

Pete Cliff hopes he'll not forget this marvellous book, even when the author seems to suggest it might be better if he did!

Michael Day reviews another recent volume of this key annual publication on information science and technology.

Pete Cliff finds aspects of this work useful and interesting, but he also expresses some serious reservations.

During a lifelong library career, 2 out of 5 librarians will face a major disaster in their library. Emma Blagg describes the design and evaluation of a HTML-based disaster control plan, used to provide the counter measures taken to minimise the effects of such a disaster.