- Side-Stepping Babel
- A Dublin Core Application Profile for Scholarly
Works
- Julie Allinson, Pete Johnston and Andy
Powell describe a Dublin Core application profile for describing
scholarly works that makes use of FRBR and the DCMI Abstract Model.
- Models of Early Adoption of ICT Innovations in
Higher Education
- Melanie Bates, Sue Manuel and Charles
Oppenheim provide an overview of some considerations for change agents
attempting to introduce an innovative new information communication technology
service into Higher Education institutions.
- Web Curator Tool
- Philip Beresford tells the story (from The British Library's
perspective) of the development of new software to aid all stages of harvesting
Web sites for preservation.
- New Search Engines in 2006
- Phil Bradley takes a look at some of the search engines
that he noticed in 2006 and provides quick assessments.
- ONIX for Licensing Terms: Standards for the Electronic
Communication of Usage Terms
- Francis Cave, Brian Green and David
Martin describe the purpose, development and potential of standards
for the electronic communication of licensing terms between publishers, libraries
and other licensees.
- Collecting Born Digital Archives at the Wellcome
Library
- Chris Hilton and Dave Thompson discuss
plans for work with born digital archival material at the Wellcome Library.
- Limits to Information Transfer: The Boundary Problem
- Jon E. Lervik, Mark Easterby-Smith, Kathryn
Fahy and Carole Elliott discuss the challenges in
integrating knowledge across boundaries between specialised knowledge communities
within an organisation.
- What Happens When We Mash the Library?
- Paul Miller looks at recent attempts to make library resources
more appealing, including the Talis competition to build library ‘mashups’.
- Wikido: Exploiting the Potential of Wikis
- Marieke Guy reports on a one-day workshop, held in Birmingham
in November 2006, which took a closer look at the potential of Wikis for educational
institutions.
- JISC CETIS Conference, 2006
- Paul Walk reports on the third annual CETIS conference
held in Salford, Manchester, over 14 -15 November 2006.
- 2nd International DCC Conference 2006: Digital
Data Curation in Practice
- Alexander Ball and Manjula Patel provide
an overview of the second annual conference of the Digital Curation Centre.
- Cultural Heritage Online: The Challenge
of Accessibility and Preservation
- Alastair Dunning reports on a conference in Florence about
the preservation and accessibility of cultural heritage material.
- Take a Peek Beneath the EPrints v3 Wrappers
- With v3 officially launched at the Open Repositories Conference in San Antonio
last week, William Nixon and Peter Millington
report on the EPrints 3 pre-launch briefing in London, 8 December 2006.
- Newsline: News and events
- Digital Libraries: Integrating Content and Systems
- Chris Awre finds a useful toolset to guide librarians and
LIS students on the future use of IT to deliver their services.
- Digital Preservation
- Maureen Pennock reviews a recent release in Facet's Digital
Futures series.
- Google Hacks
- Phil Bradley looks at a work offering programming ‘know-how’
to create resources that will do things with the search engine that might
otherwise prove difficult or impossible.
- Stephen Johnson on Digital Photography
- Nigel Goldsmith reviews a new book on digital photography by the accomplished American landscape photographer Stephen Johnson.
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