- Editorial: The Wisdom of Communities
- Readers Survey
- Towards a Toolkit for Implementing Application Profiles
- Talat Chaudhri, Julian Cheal, Richard Jones, Mahendra Mahey and Emma Tonkin propose a user-driven methodology for the iterative development, testing and implementation of Dublin Core Application Profiles in diverse repository software environments.
- Moving Targets: Web Preservation and Reference Management
- Richard Davis discusses the role of Web preservation in reference management. in an article based on a presentation given at the Innovations in Reference Management workshop, January 2010.
- 'An attack on professionalism and scholarship'?: Democratising Archives and the Production of Knowledge
- Andrew Flinn describes some recent developments in democratising the archive and asks whether these developments really deserve to be viewed as a threat to professional and academic standards.
- Get Tooled Up: Xerxes at Royal Holloway, University of London
- Anna Grigson, Peter Kiely, Graham
Seaman and Tim Wales describe the implementation
of an open source front end to the MetaLib federated search tool.
- Uncovering User Perceptions of Research Activity Data
- Cecilia Loureiro-Koechlin discusses the outcomes and lessons learned from user
tests performed on the Oxford Blue Pages, a tool designed to display information
about researchers and their activities at the University of Oxford.
- A Research Revolution: The Impact of Digital Technologies
- Dicky Maidment-Otlet and Judy Redfearn describe a new JISC activity to highlight how digital technologies are changing research.
- Abstract Modelling of Digital Identifiers
- Nick Nicholas, Nigel Ward and Kerry
Blinco present an information model of digital identifiers, to help
bring clarity to the vocabulary debates from which this field has suffered.
- eBooks: Tipping or Vanishing Point?
- Emma Tonkin investigates ebooks and takes a look at recent
technological and business developments in this area.
- Intranet Management: Divine Comedy or Strategic Imperative?
- Martin White suggests that a failure to recognise the value
of intranets is a symptom of a failure to recognise information as a strategic
asset.
- Fedora UK & Ireland / EU Joint User Group Meeting
- Chris Awre reports on the first coming together of two
regional user groups for the Fedora digital repository system, hosted by the
University of Oxford in December 2009.
- The Future of Interoperability and Standards in Education: A JISC CETIS Event
- Sarah Currier reports on an international working meeting
involving a range of educational interoperability standards bodies and communities,
organised by JISC CETIS.
- The Digital Preservation Roadshow 2009-10: The Incomplete
Diaries of Optimistic Travellers
- William Kilbride and Malcolm Todd report
on the Digital Preservation Roadshow - an eleven month tour of the UK and
Ireland designed to provide archivists and record managers with practical
advice and support in managing digital resources.
- Subject Repositories: European Collaboration in the International Context
- Dave Puplett reports on the conference Subject Repositories:
European Collaboration in the International Context held at the British Library
in January 2010. The conference launched Economists Online (EO), an innovative
economics subject repository.
- Newsline: News and events
- Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age
- Peter Cliff hopes he'll not forget this marvellous book, even when the author seems to suggest it might be better if he did!
- Copyright: Interpreting the law for libraries, archives and information services
- Charles Oppenheim sees much to like in the new edition of this work by a well-known authority but identifies one potentially major drawback.
- My Word! Plagiarism and College Culture
- Brian Whalley reviews a look at this problem from an American anthropologist and finds there is more in it than just a consideration of plagiarism.
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