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Book Review: Powering Search - The Role of Thesauri in New Information Environments
Leonard Will reviews a comprehensive survey of the literature on the use of thesauri in information search processes and interfaces.
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Bring Your Own Policy: Why Accessibility Standards Need to Be Contextually Sensitive
Brian Kelly, Jonathan Hassell, David Sloan, Dominik Lukeš, E A Draffan and Sarah Lewthwaite argue that rather than having a universal standard for Web accessibility, standardisation of Web accessibility practices and policies needs to be sufficiently flexible to cater for the local context.
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International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL) 2012
Anna Mastora and Sarantos Kapidakis report on TPDL 2012 held at Paphos, Cyprus, over 23-27 September 2012.
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The Second British Library DataCite Workshop
Alex Ball reports on a one-day workshop on metadata supporting the citation of research data, held at the British Library, London, on 6 July 2012.
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The Future of the Past of the Web
Matthew Brack reports on the one-day international workshop 'The Future of the Past of the Web' held at the British Library Conference Centre, London on 7 October, 2011.
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Never Waste a Good Crisis: Innovation and Technology in Institutions
Tore Hoel reports on the CETIS 2010 Conference, 15 - 16 November 2010 at the National College for Leadership of Schools and Childrens' Services Conference Centre, Nottingham. -
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. -
Moving Researchers across the EResearch Chasm
Malcolm Wolski and Joanna Richardson outline an Australian initiative to address technology challenges within current research paradigms. -
Blue Ribbon Task Force Symposium on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access
Marieke Guy reports on a symposium which provided an opportunity for stakeholders to respond to the recent Blue Ribbon Task Force report on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 63: Consider the Users in the Field
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 63. -
Usability Inspection of Digital Libraries
Lorraine Paterson and Boon Low highlight findings from the usability inspection report conducted for the UX2.0 research project. -
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. -
eBooks: Tipping or Vanishing Point?
Emma Tonkin investigates ebooks and takes a look at recent technological and business developments in this area. -
Learning to YODL: Building York's Digital Library
Peri Stracchino and Yankui Feng describe a year's progress in building the digital library infrastructure outlined by Julie Allinson and Elizabeth Harbord in their article last issue. -
Missing Links: The Enduring Web
Alexandra Eveleigh reports on a workshop on Web archiving, organised by the DPC, JISC and UKWAC at the British Library on 21 July 2009. -
Spinning a Semantic Web for Metadata: Developments in the IEMSR
Emma Tonkin and Alexey Strelnikov reflect on the experience of developing components for the Information Environment Metadata Schema Registry. -
The European Film Gateway
Georg Eckes and Monika Segbert describe a Best Practice Network funded under the eContentplus Programme of the European Commission, which is building a portal for access to film archival resources in Europe. -
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. -
Open Repositories 2008
Mahendra Mahey reports on the third international Open Repositories 2008 Conference, held at the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton in April 2008. -
Persistent Identifiers: Considering the Options
Emma Tonkin looks at the current landscape of persistent identifiers, describes several current services, and examines the theoretical background behind their structure and use. -
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. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 55: Digital Lives, Digital Values
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 55. -
Metadata for Learning Resources: An Update on Standards Activity for 2008
Sarah Currier gives an overview of current initiatives in standards for educational metadata. -
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. -
DC 2007
Ann Apps reports on DC2007, the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, held 27-31 August 2007 in Singapore. -
Discussions from KIDMM Mash-up Day
In conjunction with his main article on The KIDMM Community's 'MetaKnowledge Mash-up, Conrad Taylor reports on discussions from KIDMM Mash-up Day. -
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 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. -
JASIG June 2007 Conference
Ian Dolphin and Robert Sherratt report on the JASIG Conference, which took place in Denver, Colorado over 24-27 June 2007. -
DC 2006: Metadata for Knowledge and Learning
Julie Allinson, Rachel Heery, Pete Johnston and Rosemary Russell report on DC 2006, the sixth international conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, held 3 - 6 October 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. -
Metasearch: Building a Shared, Metadata-driven Knowledge Base System
Terry Reese discusses the creation of a shared knowledge base system within OSU's open-source metasearch development. -
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. -
DC 2005
Robina Clayphan reports on the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications: Vocabularies in Practice held at the University of Carlos III, Madrid in September 2005. -
EEVL: Four Search Engines and a Plaque
Roddy MacLeod looks at some recent developments to the EEVL service. -
Freedom of Information in University College Dublin 2001-2004
Rena Lohan outlines how access rights conferred by FOI legislation have affected administrative operations in University College Dublin. -
ISBN-13: New Number on the Block
Ann Chapman outlines the planned changes to the ISBN standard and its impact on the information community and the book trade. -
ERPANET Seminar on Persistent Identifiers
Monica Duke reports on a two-day training seminar on persistent identifiers held by ERPANET in Cork, Ireland over 17-18 June 2004. -
Rights Management and Digital Library Requirements
Karen Coyle describes some aspects of rights expression languages favoured by the commercial content industries and how these may differ from the rights needs of digital libraries. -
A National Archive of Datasets
Jeffrey Darlington describes how structured datasets produced by UK Government departments and agencies are being archived and made available to users. -
ERPANET / CODATA Workshop, Lisbon
Michael Day gives us a detailed report on the ERPANET / CODATA Workshop held at the Biblioteca Nacional, Lisbon, 15-17 December 2003. -
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. -
DSpace Vs. ETD-db: Choosing Software to Manage Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Richard Jones examines the similarities and differences between DSpace and ETD-db to determine their applicability in a modern E-theses service. -
Unicode and Historic Scripts
Deborah Anderson provides us an overview of the progress made in bringing historic scripts to the Unicode Standard. -
The Bath Profile Four Years On: What's Being Done in the UK?
Fraser Nicolaides gives us his take on the conference to review the implementation of the Bath Profile in the UK, July 2003. -
Syndicated Content: It's More Than Just Some File Formats?
Paul Miller takes a look at issues arising from the current enthusiasm for syndicating content to portals or other web sites, and offers some guidelines for good practice. -
Web Focus: A Standards-Based Culture for Web Site Development
Brian Kelly outlines strategies for choosing appropriate standards for building Web sites.
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Digital Curation: Digital Archives, Libraries and e-Science Seminar
Neil Beagrie and Philip Pothen report on the Digital Preservation day in October 2001, held in London. -
Managing Digital Video Content
Manjula Patel reviews the two-day workshop on current and emerging standards for managing digital video content held in Atlanta, Georgia, 15-16 August 2001. -
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG): Vector Graphics for the Web
David Duce discusses the World Wide Web Consortium's Scalable Vector Graphics markup language for 2 dimensional graphics. -
E-Books for Students: EBONI
Ruth Wilson on how the EBONI project will investigate the usability of e-books through user evaluations. -
Metadata (1): Encoding OpenURLs in DC Metadata
Andy Powell and Ann Apps propose a mechanism for embedding machine parsable citations into Dublin Core (DC) metadata records. -
The Filling in the PIE: HeadLine's Resource Data Model
John Paschoud explains the concepts of representation and use of metadata in the Resource Data Model (RDM) that has been developed by the HeadLine project. -
Clumps Come Up Trumps
Helena Gillis, Verity Brack, John Gilby and Marian Hogg review the four eLib CLUMP projects now at the end of their funding periods. -
Agora: From Information Maze to Market
Bridget Robinson, David Palmer and Rosemary Russell outline the Agora cross-searching software project, and its technical background. -
Catalogues for the 21st Century
Ariadne reports on a one-day Workshop presented by the eLib Clump Projects at Goldsmiths College in London on the 3rd of March -
I Say What I Mean, but Do I Mean What I Say?
Paul Miller reports on the latest MODELS workshop, and looks at the need for controlled terminologies and thesauri. -
Electronic Publication of Ancient Near Eastern Texts
Charles E. Jones and David Schloen report on a Chicago conference which explored XML tagging for Ancient Near Eastern Texts on the Web. -
Metadata for Digital Preservation: An Update
Michael Day discusses 'Metadata for Digital Preservation'. -
Developing the Bath Profile
Paul Miller with details of the "Bath Profile" - a Z39.50 specification for Library Applications and Resource Discovery. -
Z39.50 for All
Paul Miller looks at the Z39.50 standard and attempts to extract some meaning from the mass of associated literature. -
Metadata: Workshop in Luxembourg
Michael Day and Andy Stone report on the Third Metadata Workshop in Luxembourg. -
Metadata: Image Retrieval
Michael Day reports on combining content-based and metadata-based approaches. -
SEAMLESS: Introduction to the Project
Mary Rowlatt describes SEAMLESS, the Essex-based project. -
Metadata: Cataloguing Theory and Internet Subject-based Information Gateways
Ann Chapman, Michael Day, and Debra Hiom compare library cataloguing concepts and ROADS Template creation. -
Metadiversity
Michael Day on a Biodiversity conference in the States interested in Metadata. -
ALA '98
Ian Winship reports on electronic library related activity at this year's American Library Association Conference in Washington D.C. -
ILL: Interlibrary Loan Protocol
Lyndon Pugh and Chris Rusbridge on the National Library of Australia's ILL utility. -
EDDIS
David Larbey writes about EDDIS, one of eLib’s document delivery projects. -
Metadata Corner: DC5 - the Search for Santa
Tony Gill and Paul Miller's report from the 5th Dublin Core metdata conference in Helsinki. -
Metadata Corner: Naming Names - Metadata Registries
Rachel Heery examines metadata issues. -
Internationalisation and the Web
Jon Knight looks at how the Web is currently undergoing the sometimes painful internationalization process required if it is to live up to its name of the World Wide Web. -
Web Focus: Report on the WWW 6 Conference
Brian Kelly describes the sixth International World Wide Web conference which took place in California from 7 – 11 April 1997. -
Formats for the Electronic Library
Judith Wusteman describes the document formats used in electronic serials. -
Unique Identifiers in a Digital World
Andy Powell reports on a seminar organised jointly by Book Industry Communication and the UKOLN on the use of unique identifiers in electronic publishing. -
Access V Holdings, Cranfield
Sarah Ashton reports on an event of interest to the Document Delivery community. -
Displaying SGML Documents on the World Wide Web
David Houghton discusses a method by which documents marked up using Standard Generalised Markup Language (SGML) can be used to generate a database for use in conjunction with the World Wide Web. -
SOSIG: Training to Support Social Science Teaching and Research
Lesly Huxley, the SOSIG Documentation and Training Officer, describes the workshops that SOSIG, one of the projects from the Access to Network Resource section, run. -
Metadata for the Masses
Paul Miller describes Dublin Core and several ideas for how it can be implemented. -
ADAM: Information Gateway to Resources on the Internet in Art, Design, Architecture and Media
Nearly half a year after the project’s official start date, ADAM has a fledgling information gateway to information on the Internet in art, design, architecture and media. Tony Gill, ADAM Project Leader, outlines what has been achieved so far, and some of the challenges that lie directly ahead. -
SEREN: Sharing of Educational Resources in an Electronic Network
Ian Lovecy from Bangor University describes SEREN, a project from the Electronic Document Delivery section of the eLib programme. SEREN aims to provide the software to enable the Welsh HE community to maximise use of the library resource-base in Wales before turning to BLDSC and other suppliers.