- Keeping What We Know
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Newsline: News and events
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- The Institutional Repository
- Sally Rumsey recommends a new book about institutional
repositories.
- 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.
- The Virtual Reference Desk: Creating a Reference Future
- 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.
- The Successful Academic Librarian: Winning Strategies from Library Leaders
- 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.
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