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Editorial Introduction to Issue 71
The editor introduces readers to the content of Ariadne Issue 71.
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Mining the Archive: eBooks
Martin White looks through the Ariadne archive to track the development of ebooks.
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eMargin: A Collaborative Textual Annotation Tool
Andrew Kehoe and Matt Gee describe their Jisc-funded eMargin collaborative textual annotation tool, showing how it has widened its focus through integration with Virtual Learning Environments.
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Book Review: Information 2.0
Milena Dobreva reviews the newly published book of Martin de Saulles which looks at the new models of information production, distribution and consumption.
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Case Studies in Web Sustainability
Scott Turner describes issues around making Web resources sustainable.
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 70
The editor introduces readers to the content of Ariadne Issue 70.
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Online Information 2012
Marieke Guy reports on the largest gathering of information professionals in Europe.
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Book Review: Implementing Technology in Libraries
Elizabeth McHugh reviews a first published work that she feels is a straightforward, jargon-free guide on how to implement technology solutions in libraries.
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Eduserv Symposium 2012: Big Data, Big Deal?
Marieke Guy attended the annual Eduserv Symposium on 10 May 2012 at the Royal College of Physicians, London to find out what are the implications of big data for Higher Education Institutions.
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Wikipedia: Reflections on Use and Acceptance in Academic Environments
In the light of a workshop run by the Geological Society of London and Wikimedia UK, Brian Whalley reflects on the attitudes and practice of academia in respect of present-day Wikipedia content.
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Characterising and Preserving Digital Repositories: File Format Profiles
Steve Hitchcock and David Tarrant show how file format profiles, the starting point for preservation plans and actions, can also be used to reveal the fingerprints of emerging types of institutional repositories. -
Internet Librarian International Conference 2010
Claire Tylee, Katrin Flemming and Elly Cope report on the two-day Internet Librarian International Conference focusing on innovation and technology in the information profession, held in London on 14-15 October 2010. -
Book Review: Digital Information - Order Or Anarchy?
Muhammad Rafiq offers us a review of a work which examines the future of digital information and emerging patterns of scholarly communication. -
Book Review: iPad - The Missing Manual
Brian Whalley reviews a manual to help support your use of an iPad - 'the book that should have been in the box'. -
Emerging Technologies in Academic Libraries (emtacl10)
Andrew Walsh reports on a new international conference on emerging technologies within academic libraries organised by the library of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and held in Trondheim, Norway in April 2010. -
Rewriting the Book: On the Move With the Library of Birmingham
Brian Gambles presents the Library of Birmingham vision and strategy for addressing the challenge of mobile digital services.
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Trove: Innovation in Access to Information in Australia
Rose Holley describes a major development in the Australian national digital information infrastructure. -
Turning on the Lights for the User: NISO Discovery to Delivery Forum
Laura Akerman and Kim Durante report on Discovery to Delivery, Creating a First-Class User Experience, a NISO Forum on today's information seekers and current standards developments held in March 2010 at the Georgia Tech Global Learning Center. -
eBooks: Tipping or Vanishing Point?
Emma Tonkin investigates ebooks and takes a look at recent technological and business developments in this area. -
Book Review: M-Libraries
Simon Speight reviews a collection of papers from the First International M-Libraries Conference, which examined potential library uses of mobile phones and other portable technology. -
Live Blogging @ IWMW 2009
Kirsty McGill provides a live blogger perspective on the three-day Institutional Web Managers Workshop, held by UKOLN at the University of Essex, Colchester, in July 2009. -
Archives 2.0: If We Build It, Will They Come?
Joy Palmer discusses some of the opportunities and tensions emerging around Archives 2.0, crowd-sourcing, and archival authority. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
e-Framework Implements New Workplan
Ian Dolphin and Phil Nicholls describe recent and forthcoming developments from the e-Framework Partnership for Education and Research. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) Fall Meeting
Paul Walk reports on the Sun-PASIG winter meeting held in Baltimore, USA on 18-20 November 2008. -
CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group Annual Conference
Christina Claridge reports on the conference, held 3-5 September 2008, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. -
Book Review: Visualizing Data
Pete Cliff considers a new book on data visualisation and hopes one day to implement some of the interesting ideas presented in this work. -
Sun Preservation and Archive Special Interest Group: May 2008 Meeting
Vicky Mays and Ian Dolphin review the Sun Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) meeting held in San Francisco in May 2008. -
The Networked Library Service Layer: Sharing Data for More Effective Management and Cooperation
Janifer Gatenby identifies criteria for determining which data in various library systems could be more beneficially shared and managed at a network level. -
Implementing Ex Libris's PRIMO at the University of East Anglia
Nick Lewis outlines the University of East Anglia's experience of implementing Ex Libris's Primo, a new search and retrieval interface for presenting the library catalogue and institutional databases and e-resources. -
Intute Integration
Angela Joyce, Jackie Wickham, Phil Cross and Chris Stephens describe Intute's ongoing Integration Project, which is promoting and developing integration of Intute content in the UK academic library community. -
Libraries of the Future
Michelle Pauli reports on the National e-textbook Debate and Libraries of the Future panel sessions held by JISC in Birmingham over 14-15 April 2008. -
Research Libraries and the Power of the Co-operative
John MacColl considers the 'co-operative imperative' upon research libraries, and describes the work which the former Research Libraries Group is undertaking as part of OCLC. -
Ancient Cultures Inside Modern Universes
Edgardo Civallero writes on preservation and dissemination of intangible South American indigenous heritage and updating information using Web-based tools. -
Collaborative and Social Tagging Networks
Emma Tonkin, Edward M. Corrado, Heather Lea Moulaison, Margaret E. I. Kipp, Andrea Resmini, Heather D. Pfeiffer and Qiping Zhang gather a series of international perspectives on the practice of social tagging of documents within a community context. -
Book Review: 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. -
Book Review: The Cult of the Amateur
Stephanie Taylor tries to curb her enthusiasm for Web 2.0 by investigating the dark side of social networking. -
IWMW 2007: Next Steps for the Web Management Community
Shirley Keane reports on the wide range of presentations given at this year's Institutional Web Management Workshop. -
Book Review: Blogging and RSS - A Librarian's Guide
Kara Jones reviews a practical guide to blogs and RSS written for librarians, packed with library-specific examples. -
Citeulike: A Researcher's Social Bookmarking Service
Kevin Emamy and Richard Cameron describe a tool that helps researchers gather, collect and share papers. -
KIM Project Conference: Knowledge and Information Management through Life
Alex Ball provides an overview of the March 2007 KIM Project Conference. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Search Engines: Why Ask Me, and Does 'X' Mark the Spot?
Phil Bradley takes a look at different versions of Ask to see how it is developing and looks at how it is emerging from its servant roots. -
The JISC Annual Conference 2007
Philip Pothen and colleagues provide an overview of the proceedings of this Spring's JISC Annual Conference. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 50: Side-Stepping Babel
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne 50. -
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'. -
C21st Curation Spring 2006 Public Lecture Series
Neil Beagrie and Helen Forde report on the public lecture series 'C21st Curation: access and service delivery' held at University College London over April and May 2006. -
IWMW 2006: Quality Matters
Adrian Stevenson reports on the 10th Institutional Web Management Workshop held at the University of Bath over 14-16 June 2006. -
Introducing UnAPI
Dan Chudnov and a team of colleagues describe unAPI, a tiny HTTP API for serving information objects in next-generation Web applications. -
Library Systems: Synthesise, Specialise, Mobilise
Robin Murray examines how the changing landscape for library systems is altering their service model. -
The Library Catalogue in the New Discovery Environment: Some Thoughts
Lorcan Dempsey explores how the library catalogue will develop alongside evolving network discovery systems. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
Google Challenges for Academic Libraries
John MacColl analyses the reactions many academic libraries may be having to the range of tools Google is currently rolling out and outlines a strategy for institutions in the face of such potentially radical developments. -
The (Digital) Library Environment: Ten Years After
Lorcan Dempsey considers how the digital library environment has changed in the ten years since Ariadne was first published. -
Book Review: Managing Acquisitions in Library and Information Services
Bruce Royan welcomes a new edition of the standard text in the acquisitions field. -
Web 2.0: Building the New Library
Paul Miller explores some of the recent buzz around the concept of 'Web 2.0' and asks what it means for libraries and related organisations. -
Integration and Impact: The JISC Annual Conference
Marieke Guy has collated reports on sessions from the JISC Annual Conference held in Birmingham. -
Hyper Clumps, Mini Clumps and National Catalogues: Resource Discovery for the 21st Century
John Gilby reports on a one-day conference about resource discovery, held at the British Library Conference Centre, London in November. -
Book Review: The Web Library
Lina Coelho looks at a book she feels is destined to repay its purchase price even if you never manage to read it all. -
News from BIOME
Jenny Hall and Donald Mackay report on recent news form BIOME, the Health and Life Sciences hub of the Resource Discovery Network. -
Search Engines: New and Developing Search Engines
Phil Bradley looks at some existing search engines and also some new ones to bring you up to date on what is happening in the world of Internet search engines. -
The Institutional Web Management Workshop 2004
Tracey Stanley reports on the 8th Institutional Web Management Workshop at the University of Birmingham over 27-29 July. The theme of this year's workshop was Transforming the Organisation. -
EEVL News: What EEVL Users Really Want
Roddy MacLeod looks at the results of the recent questionnaire which surveyed opinions about the EEVL service. -
Search Engines: A Mixed Bag - A Review of Some New Search Engines
Phil Bradley takes a look at some new search engines to see if they are up to challenging the top dogs. -
Towards Library Groupware With Personalised Link Routing
Daniel Chudnov, Jeremy Frumkin, Jennifer Weintraub, Matthew Wilcox and Raymond Yee describe a potential groupware framework for integrating access to diverse information resources and distributed personal collection development. -
World Wide Web Conference 2004
Dave Beckett reports on the international WWW2004 conference held in New York, 19-21 May 2004. -
Planet-SOSIG: A Variety of Reports
This month Neil Jacobs reports on updates to the Regard service, Martin Poulter introduces a new Economics Assessment Bank and Emma Place highlights the programme of training and outreach conducted by SOSIG this spring. -
Seeing Is Believing: The JISC Information Environment Presentation Programme
Chris Awre reviews the JISC Information Environment Presentation Programme and offers an insight to the outcomes of recent studies. -
Public Libraries: 2003, 2004: A Backward Glance and Thoughts on the Future
Penny Garrod looks at some of the broader issues affecting public libraries and information professionals. -
Search Engines: The Year 2003 in Perspective
Phil Bradley takes us through the major trends and highlights in the world of search engines over the course of the past year. -
Mapping the JISC IE Service Landscape
Andy Powell provides a graphical representation of how some well-known services, projects and software applications fit within the JISC Information Environment technical architecture. -
Functionality in Digital Annotation: Imitating and Supporting Real-world Annotation
Richard Waller looks at both pre-digital and digital concepts of annotation, with a view to how annotation tools might be used in the subject-gateway environment. -
The Personalisation of the Digital Library
Michelle Perrott and Anne Ramsden report on the Joint Open University - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya Seminar on Personalisation and Digital Libraries hosted at the Open University, October 2002. -
EEVL: Resident EEVL
Roddy MacLeod provides an update on the EEVL project. Among other things he explains how the EEVL cross-search facility can be run from user pages. -
OCLC-SCURL: Collaboration, Integration and Recombinant Potential
Pete Johnston reports on the New Directions in Metadata conference, 15-16 August, in Edinburgh -
Public Libraries: United We Stand
Penny Garrod on current developments in the Public Library world. -
NetLab's Digital Library Gâteau
Jessica Lindholm reports from the conference "NetLab and friends: Tribute and outlook after 10 years of digital library development". The conference was held in Lund, Sweden 10-12 April 2002. -
Public Libraries: Building Better Library Services
Penny Garrod on the recently published Audit Commission Report: Building Better Library Services. -
Search Engines
Phil Bradley's regular column on search engine technology. -
ACM / IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
John MacColl reports on a selection of the papers given at this conference in Roanoake, Virginia, June 24-28 2001. -
Evolution of Portable Electronic Books
Ruth Wilson charts the development of portable electronic book hardware, from the first generation in 1980s to the range of handheld devices available today. -
OpenResolver: A Simple OpenURL Resolver
Andy Powell describes UKOLN's OpenResolver, a freely available demonstration OpenURL resolver. -
Personalization of Web Services: Opportunities and Challenges
Monica Bonett gives an overview of personalization on the World Wide Web and discusses ideas for development within resource discovery systems. -
Planet SOSIG: What's New in Politics?
Emma Place announces new training materials for the Web, Heather Dawson looks at at Web coverage of the recently run UK General Election and Chris Mitchell provides an update of activities from the Learning and Teaching Support Network Centre. -
The eLib Hybrid Library Projects
Michael Breaks provides an overview of BUILDER, AGORA, MALIBU, HeadLine and HyLife -
Public Libraries: Lights Out and Silver Boots on
Sarah Ormes with her predictions for the future of Public Libraries and the Internet. -
AGORA: The Hybrid Library from a User's Perspective
Bridget Robinson and David Palmer look at the Agora user studies. -
E-Commerce in Higher Education: Can We Afford to Do Nothing?
Andrew Aird on the impact of e-commerce on the non-commercial sector. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 26: New Landscapes
Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne issue 26 with remarks about the new Director of the UKOLN, the eLib Programme, and the DNER. -
It's the End of the World As We Know It (and I Feel Fine), Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the E-Book
Sarah Ormes explores the e-book from a Public Libraries perspective. -
NT Explorer
Brett Burridge Looks at Microsoft's Site Server 3.0 Commerce Edition. -
Metadata: I Am a Name and a Number
Paul Miller on Digital Object Identifiers. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 23: Ariadne's Thread
Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne issue 23. -
Search Engines: FAST, the Biggest and Best Yet?
Phil Bradley explains how 'FAST' has recently been launched as the most comprehensive of the search engines, and this article compares the FAST results with those of AltaVista and Northern Light. -
Web Focus: Report on "Institutional Web Management Next Steps" Workshop
Brian Kelly reports on the latest "Institutional Web Management Workshop," this year called: "The Next Steps." -
WebWatch: UK University Search Engines
Brian Kelly explores the search facilities used by UK university Web sites. -
Public Libraries: Virtual Library - False Dawn?
Frank Webster and Lorcan Dempsey exchange views on virtual libraries.