- Achieving the Balance
- Europeana: An Infrastructure for Adding Local Content
- Rob Davies describes a Best Practice Network under the
eContentPlus Programme to make available locally sourced digital content to
the Europeana Service.
- Copyright Angst, Lust for Prestige and Cost Control: What Institutions Can
Do to Ease Open Access
- Leo Waaijers writes about copyright, prestige and cost
control in the world of open access while in two appendices Bas Savenije
and Michel Wesseling compare the costs of open access publishing
and subscriptions/licences for their respective institutions.
- Get Tooled Up: Staying Connected: Technologies Supporting Remote Workers
- Having considered organisational issues in her previous article, Marieke
Guy takes a look at the many technologies that support remote working,
from broadband to Web 2.0 social networking tools.
- Implementing e-Legal Deposit: A British Library Perspective
- Ronald Milne and John Tuck summarise progress towards implementation of the Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003 which extended provision to non-print materials. Particular reference is made to the British Library.
- A Bug's Life?: How Metaphors from Ecology Can
Articulate the Messy Details of Repository Interactions
- R. John Robertson, Mahendra Mahey and Phil Barker introduce
work investigating an alternative model of repository and service interaction.
- A Selection of Social Media Search Engines
- Phil Bradley takes a look at how social media output is
being indexed, sorted and made available for searching by looking at some
representative samples.
- 'What Happens If I Click on This?': Experiences of the Archives Hub
- Jane Stevenson describes the results of usability testing for the Archives Hub Web site.
- OAI-ORE, PRESERV2 and Digital Preservation
- Sally Rumsey and Ben O'Steen describe
OAI-ORE and how it can contribute to digital preservation activities.
- Get Tooled Up: SeeAlso: A Simple Linkserver Protocol
- Jakob Voss combines OpenSearch and unAPI to enrich catalogues.
- CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group Annual Conference
- Christina Claridge reports on the conference, held 3-5
September 2008, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland.
- Digital Preservation Planning: Principles, Examples and the Future with Planets
- Frances Boyle and Jane Humphreys report
on the one-day workshop on digital preservation planning jointly organised
by the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and Planets held at the British
Library, on Tuesday 29 July 2008.
- Embedding Web Preservation Strategies Within Your Institution
- Christopher Eddie reports on the third one-day workshop
of the JISC-PoWR (Preservation of Web Resources) Project held at the University
of Manchester on 12 September 2008.
- eResearch Australasia 2008
- Tobias Blanke, Ann Borda, Gaby
Bright and Bridget Soulsby report on the annual
eResearch Australasia Conference, held in Melbourne, Australia, 29 September
- 3 October, 2008.
- iPRES 2008
- Frances Boyle and Adam Farquhar report
on the two-day international conference which was the fifth in the series
on digital preservation of digital objects held at the British Library, on
29 – 30 September 2008.
- Newsline: News and events
- Website Optimization
- Pete Cliff used to think 'Website Optimisation' simply
meant compressing images and avoiding nested tables, but in this he book finds
out how much more there is to it, even in the Age of Broadband.
- Managing the Crowd: Rethinking records management for
the Web 2.0 world
- Marieke Guy reviews a text that could offer the blueprint
for moving records management into the 21st century.
- Patent Failure: How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers
Put Innovators at Risk
- Stuart Hannabuss reviews a work which debunks some key
assumptions about IPR and contends that current patent arrangements are ineffective.
- Pro Web 2.0 Mashups: Remixing Data and Web Services
- Ralph LeVan looks at a comprehensive work on how to consume
and repurpose Web services.
- Against the Machine: Being Human in the Era of the
Electronic Mob
- Mahendra Mahey reviews a book which examines popular Internet
culture and how it may be having negative effects on many of us.
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