Organisation - Carnegie Mellon University

• Realising the Potential of Altmetrics within Institutions

  Jean Liu and Euan Adie of Altmetric take a look at the growing presence of altmetrics in universities, and consider some of the potential applications.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• A Foundation for Automatic Digital Preservation

  Miguel Ferreira, Ana Alice Baptista and Jose Carlos Ramalho propose a Service-Oriented Architecture to help cultural heritage institutions to accomplish automatic digital preservation.

• The Klearinghouse: An Inventory of Knowledge Technologies

  George Brett discusses part of a model of distributed user support, The Klearinghouse. The National Laboratory for Applied Network Research (NLANR) has been actively supporting high performance applications and networking for the past five years. The Klearinghouse is a next generation effort of the Advanced Applications Clearinghouse which is in the Distributed Applications Support Team of the NLANR.

• ECMS: Technology Issues and Electronic Copyright Management Systems

  Pedro Isaias looks at the relevant ECMS e-Commerce technology.

• Metadata: Image Retrieval

  Michael Day reports on combining content-based and metadata-based approaches.

• The Good, the Bad and the Useless

  Judith Edwards evaluates Internet resources.

• Digital Libraries '97

  David Nichols reports on the important international conference: Digital Libraries '97.

• Interface Miriam Drake: A Rainy Night in Georgia?

  The Library is still busy, as Miriam Drake explains to Alison Kilgour.