Table of contents: issue47
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 47: Keeping What We Know |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne 47. |
Search Engines: Where We Were, Are Now, and Will Ever Be |
Phil Bradley takes a look at the development of search engines over the lifetime of Ariadne and points to what we might anticipate in the years to come. |
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Digitising an Archive: The Factory Approach |
Duncan Burbidge describes a new approach to digitising an archive both as a future-proof substitute and for Web delivery. |
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Preserving Electronic Scholarly Journals: Portico |
Eileen Fenton outlines issues relating to the long-term preservation of digital resources and the characteristics of an archival entity responding to this need. |
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Retrospective on the RDN |
Debra Hiom, in the first of a two-part series on the Resource Discovery Network, looks back at the development of the RDN and its activities to date. |
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RDN Timeline |
Debra Hiom provides a timeline of the RDN's development, which accompanies her main article. |
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QMSearch: A Quality Metrics-aware Search Framework |
Aaron Krowne and Urvashi Gadi present a framework which improves searching in the context of scholarly digital libraries by taking a 'quality metrics-aware' approach. |
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Metasearch: Building a Shared, Metadata-driven Knowledge Base System |
Terry Reese discusses the creation of a shared knowledge base system within OSU's open-source metasearch development. |
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Stargate: Exploring Static Repositories for Small Publishers |
R. John Robertson introduces a project examining the potential benefits of OAI-PMH Static Repositories as a means of enabling small publishers to participate more fully in the information environment. |
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Folksonomies: The Fall and Rise of Plain-text Tagging |
Emma Tonkin suggests that rising new ideas are often on their second circuit - and none the worse for that. |
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Serving Services in Web 2.0 |
Theo van Veen shows with the help of an example, how standardised descriptions of services can help users control the integration of services from different providers. |
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The Rustle of Digital Curation: The JISC Annual Conference |
Julie Allinson, Marieke Guy and Maureen Pennock find themselves contemplating e-frameworks, digital curation and repositories at the JISC Annual Conference. |
April 2006, issue47, event report |
Code4lib 2006 |
Jeremy Frumkin and Dan Chudnov report on the inaugural conference of the Code4lib community of programmers, hackers, and techies working in or with libraries and information systems. |
April 2006, issue47, event report |
Digital Policy Management Workshop |
Neil Beagrie and Mark Bide report on a one-day invitational workshop on Digital Policy Management sponsored by The British Library, JISC and UKOLN under the aegis of the British Library/JISC Partnership, held in the British Library Conference Centre on 24 April 2006. |
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The Second Digital Repositories Programme Meeting |
Julie Allinson and Mahendra Mahey report on a 2-day JISC Digital Repositories Meeting focusing on project clusters working together and other related issues held by JISC in Warwick, UK over 27-28 March 2006. |
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The Digital Library and Its Services |
Neil Beagrie and Rachel Bruce report on a two-day invitational conference on The Digital Library and its Services sponsored by The British Library, JISC and UKOLN under the aegis of the British Library/JISC Partnership, held in the British Library Conference Centre on over 6-7 March 2006. |
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News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
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Book Review: The Institutional Repository |
Sally Rumsey recommends a new book about institutional repositories. |
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Book Review: Understanding and Communicating Social Informatics |
Sheila Corrall reviews a new landmark book which explains and promotes a distinctive approach to information-related research spanning traditional disciplinary and professional boundaries. |
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Book Review: The Virtual Reference Desk |
Lina Coelho feels that digital reference has come of age and that this work is one of its adornments where reference information professionals are concerned. |
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Book Review: The Successful Academic Librarian |
Stephen Town finds this US multi-author work may not meet the needs of readers in the UK, and offers some ideas which a UK version might incorporate. |
