http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/75/ Recent content in Issue 75 on Ariadne Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb Sun, 17 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/75/editorial/ Sun, 17 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/75/editorial/ Back in 1994 the UK Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib) was set up by the JISC, paid for by the UK's funding councils. One of the many projects funded by eLib was an experimental magazine that could help document the changes under way and give the researchers working on eLib projects a means to communicate with one another and their user communities. That magazine was called Ariadne. Originally produced in both print and web versions, it outlived the project that gave birth to it. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/75/editorsreview/ Sun, 17 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/75/editorsreview/ Ariadne is 20 years old this week and some editorial board members thought it might be useful to look back at how it came to be, how digital library offerings have changed over the years, and maybe also peer into the near future. To do this, we’ve enlisted the help of several of the past editors of Ariadne who have marshalled their memories and crystal balls. Back to the beginning. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/75/tonkin/ Sat, 16 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/75/tonkin/       'Now let's take this parsnip in.'       'Parsnip?'       'Parsnip, coffee. Perrin, Wellbourne. What does it matter what we call things?'       – David Nobbs, The Fall And Rise of Reginald Perrin Introduction What does it matter what we call things? David Nobbs' fictional character Reggie Perrin suggests in the quote above that it doesn't matter at all. Yet we should keep in mind that Reggie tells us this after almost three hundred pages of tragicomic confusion brought on by his habit of arbitrarily replacing nouns with others such as 'parsnip' or 'earwig' ('When I say earwig, I mean your wife') and his serial adoption of half-a-dozen new identities. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/75/roper-et-al/ Tue, 12 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/75/roper-et-al/ Introduction Twitter chats offer a new way to undertake professional development and networking online.  A Twitter chat takes place at a pre-arranged time, uses a hashtag to organise and aggregate tweets, and usually tackles an agenda of numbered questions.  Increasingly popular, a number of opportunities for clinicians to chats via Twitter now exist, for example, in the UK, those held under the #wecommunities[i] banner. Library-related chats in Britain include #chartership[ii] chat for candidates for CILIP chartership, #radlibchat[iii] from the Radical Librarians collective and #uklibchat[iv], whose chats take place under the strapline Instant Ideas and Collaboration. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/75/kirriemuir/ Tue, 12 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/75/kirriemuir/ In the beginning was the Jisc­-funded buffet Ariadne was conceived between Lorcan Dempsey and John MacColl [n0], gestated in UKOLN and the University of Abertay in Dundee through the autumn of 1995, and was born, on a dark and stormy night [n1], in January 1996. Richard Dawes [n2], the IT manager for the University of North London Learning Centre where the launch party and online demonstration were held, recalls the technical hiccups and the joy of launching under Windows 3. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/75/hamilton/ Tue, 12 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/75/hamilton/ 19thJanuary 1996, and founding editor John Kirriemuir is about to hit “publish” on the first edition of Ariadne magazine. In a bunker somewhere in the East Midlands, Jon Knight waits with trepidation to see what the Ariadne editorial process will make of the first in what would prove to be a long running series of From the Trenches articles. Little realising that twenty years later he would himself be a member of the editorial cabal. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/75/campbell/ Tue, 12 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/75/campbell/ In April 2016 the University of Edinburgh will host the international Open Educational Resources Conference, OER16, which is coming to Scotland for the first time in its seven-year history.  The OER Conferences have their roots in the Jisc/HEA Open Educational Resources Programmes (UKOER) which were funded by HEFCE between 2009 and 2012.  Since the conclusion of the UKOER Programmes, the conference has gone from strength to strength and now attracts a diverse range of international speakers, delegates and keynotes. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/75/cole/ Thu, 17 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/75/cole/ Researchers (particularly those in the University sector) have a lot of demands placed upon them. The process of actually doing research has changed over the last few decades and one of the latest changes is an expectation that researchers actively manage the research data they use and create as part of their work. Many, if not all, researchers will have always managed data. However, the standards to which that data was managed would have varied across disciplines, departments, and individuals. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/75/brewerton/ Mon, 07 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/75/brewerton/ Figshare [1] is a cloud-hosted repository where users can upload their various research outputs (e.g. figures, datasets, presentations, etc.) and make them publically available so they are discoverable, shareable and citable. Earlier this year they launched an institutional offering which aims to ease compliance with open data mandates, measure the impact of research outputs and act as a showcase for an institution’s entire spectrum of research. figshare fest 2015 was the first event to bring together institutional customers, advocates and friends of figshare to talk not only about the repository but about open data in general. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/75/guy/ Mon, 07 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/75/guy/ The Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) is the independent body entrusted with monitoring, and advising on, standards and quality in UK higher education.? The scale, shape, structure and purpose of learning provision are continually changing in the UK and around the world. The QAA has a very important role in anticipating and responding to these changes in order to safeguard the reputation of UK higher education, support economic opportunity for the UK, and provide assurance to those who invest in and undertake learning.