- Unlocking Our Televisual Past
- The National Centre for Text Mining: A Vision for the Future
- Sophia Ananiadou describes NaCTeM and the main scientific
challenges it helps to solve together with issues related to deployment, use
and uptake of NaCTeM's text mining tools and services.
- The Video Active Consortium: Europe's Television
History Online
- Johan Oomen and Vassilis Tzouvaras provide
an insight into the background and development of the Video Active Portal
which offers access to television heritage material from leading archives
across Europe.
- DRIVER: Building the Network for Accessing Digital
Repositories across Europe
- Martin Feijen, Wolfram Horstmann, Paolo
Manghi, Mary Robinson and Rosemary Russell
present an outline of the DRIVER Project and its achievements so far in supporting
and enhancing digital repository development in Europe.
- The DARE Chronicle: Open Access to Research Results and Teaching Material in the Netherlands
- Leo Waaijers reflects on four years of progress and also looks ahead.
- Further Experiences in Collecting Born Digital
Archives at the Wellcome Library
- Chris Hilton and Dave Thompson continue
discussing plans for the engagement with born digital archival material at
the Wellcome Library.
- Googlepository and the University Library
- Sue Manuel and Charles Oppenheim discuss
the concept of Google as a repository within the wider context of resource
management and provision in Further and Higher Education.
- The Second Life of UK Academics
- John Kirriemuir introduces a series of studies investigating
how the Second Life environment is being used in UK Higher and Further Education.
- DC 2007
- Ann Apps reports on DC2007, the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, held 27-31 August 2007 in Singapore.
- Knowledge by Networking: Digitising Culture in Germany and Europe
- Alastair Dunning reports on an international conference exploring the current state of digitisation in the worlds of culture and scholarship, held in Berlin over 21-22 June 2007.
- Progress towards Addressing Digital Preservation
Challenges
- Helen Hockx-Yu reports on the 2nd Planets, CASPAR and DPE
annual conference, held on 5-6 September 2007 in Lisbon, Portugal.
- ECDL 2007
- Mahendra Mahey, Emma Tonkin and Robert John Robertson
report on the 2007 European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, held in Budapest, Hungary,
over 16-22 September, 2007.
- The KIDMM Community's 'MetaKnowledge Mash-up'
- Conrad Taylor reports on the KIDMM knowledge community
and its September 2007 one-day conference about data, information and knowledge
management issues.
- Newsline: News and events
- The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain
and Ireland
- Lorcan Dempsey reviews Volume III of a landmark collection
on the history of libraries in 'Britain and Ireland' from 1850 to 2000.
- Principles of Data Management: Facilitating Information
Sharing
- Pete Cliff takes a look at a new book from the British
Computer Society that aims to help readers understand the importance, issues
and benefits of data management across an enterprise.
- Listen Up!: Podcasting for Schools and Libraries
- Elizabeth McHugh looks at how podcasting has the potential
to take library services and activities to new audiences.
- The Cult of the Amateur
- Stephanie Taylor tries to curb her enthusiasm for Web 2.0 by
investigating the dark side of social networking.
- Mastering Regular Expressions, 3rd Edition
- Emma Tonkin and Greg Tourte take a look
at the new edition of an O'Reilly classic.
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