Organisation - Kings College London

• Lost Words, Lost Worlds.

  Emma Tonkin discusses how the words we use, and where we use them, change over time, and how this can cause issues for digital preservation.

• 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.

• The LIPARM Project: A New Approach to Parliamentary Metadata

  Richard Gartner outlines a collaborative project which aims to link together the digitised UK Parliamentary record by providing a metadata scheme, controlled vocabularies and a Web-based interface.

• The CLIF Project: The Repository as Part of a Content Lifecycle

  Richard Green, Chris Awre and Simon Waddington describe how a digital repository can become part of the technical landscape within an institution and support digital content lifecycle management across systems. 

• 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.

• A Double-edged Sword: What Are the Implications of Freedom of Information for the HE Sector?

  Amy Gibbons reports on the second in a series of workshops organised by the Research Information Network to explore the impact of the Freedom of Information Act on the Higher Education sector, held at University College London on 1 April 2011.

• Don't You Know Who I Am?

  John Paschoud looks into identity and access management in the pre-digital and digital age, and describes how the JISC Identity Management Toolkit can help us manage identities better.

• 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 RSP Goes 'Back to School'

  Stephanie Taylor reports on the three-day residential school for repository managers run by the Repositories Support Project (RSP), held on 14-16 September 2009 in Northumberland.

• IMPACT Conference: Optical Character Recognition in Mass Digitisation

  Lieke Ploeger, Yola Park, Jeanna Nikolov-Ramirez Gaviria, Clemens Neudecker, Fedor Bochow and Michael Day report from the first IMPACT Conference, held in The Hague, Netherlands on 6-7 April, 2009.

• The REMAP Project: Steps Towards a Repository-enabled Information Environment

  Richard Green and Chris Awre investigate what role a repository can play in enabling and supporting the management and preservation of its own digital content.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• 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.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Newsline

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• 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.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Cultural Heritage Online: The Challenge of Accessibility and Preservation

  Alastair Dunning reports on a conference in Florence about the preservation and accessibility of cultural heritage material.

• Wikido: Exploiting the Potential of Wikis

  Marieke Guy reports on a one-day workshop, held in Birmingham in November 2006, which took a closer look at the potential of Wikis for educational institutions.

• Book Review: Evaluating the Impact of Your Library

  David Parkes reviews a new book, targeted at managers, which is both a tool to help evaluate your library and an analysis of Impact Evaluation methodology.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• ShibboLEAP: Seven Libraries and a LEAP of Faith

  Martin Moyle introduces the ShibboLEAP Project, a multi-institution Shibboleth adoption in London, and hopes that later adopters will benefit from its findings.

• The Tasks of the AHDS: Ten Years on

  Alastair Dunning reviews 10 years in the history of the Arts and Humanities Data Service.

• Retrospective on the RDN

  Debra Hiom, in the first of a two-part series on the Resource Discovery Network, looks back at the development of the RDN and its activities to date.

• Digital Curation and Preservation: Defining the Research Agenda for the Next Decade

  Philip Pothen reports on this two-day conference at Warwick University over 7-8 November 2005.

• What Users Want: An Academic 'Hybrid' Library Perspective

  Reg Carr reflects on the development of a user-centred approach in academic libraries over recent decades and into the era of the hybrid library.

• Web Focus: Must Email Die?

  Brian Kelly recently gave a talk on this subject at the Internet Librarian International 2005 conference. In this article he expands on the talk and revisits the question as to whether email really should disappear.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Supporting Digital Preservation and Asset Management in Institutions

  Leona Carpenter describes a JISC development programme tackling the organisational and technical challenges facing Higher and Further Education in the UK.

• Waking Up in the British Library

  Emma Beer reports on a one-day conference on using Early English Books Online in teaching and research in history and English literature.

• Tracing Help With Copyright: New AHDS Case Studies on Copyright Issues

  Alastair Dunning provides an overview of case studies published by the Arts and Humanities Data Service in that persistent minefield of respecting copyright.

• Digital Resources for the Humanities

  Alastair Dunning reviews for us this year's conference on Digital Resources in the Humanities held at the University of Newcastle over 5-8 September 2004.

• Improving Communications Within JISC through News Aggregation

  Paul Davey explains what JISC is doing to improve communications through more effective news promotion. Roddy MacLeod and Malcolm Moffat examine the technology EEVL has developed in this area.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• The AHDS Is Evolving: Changes at the Arts and Humanities Data Service

  Alastair Dunning describes the changes afoot at the AHDS and how it intends to adapt to the changes in both technology and the needs of its stakeholders.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Web Focus: Widening the Focus for the Future

  Brian Kelly reviews the history of the Web Focus post and describes funding changes which gives Web Focus a much wider remit.

• WebWatch: Surfing Historical UK University Web Sites

  Brian Kelly outlines strategies for choosing appropriate standards for building Web sites.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Web Watch: A Survey of Web Server Software Used by UK University Web Sites

  Brian Kelly with an update of his survey of server software used by central Web sites in UK Universities.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Web Watch: An Accessibility Analysis of UK University Entry Points

  Brian Kelly reports on the accessibility of entry points of UK University Web sites.

• Web Focus: Report On The Sixth Institutional Web Management Workshop

  Brian Kelly with a report on the Sixth Institutional International Web Management Workshop held this year at the University of Strathclyde.

• News from the Resource Discovery Network

  Simon Jennings and Philip Pothen on the new RDN workbook and extensions to the RDN Virtual Training Suite.

• The AIM25 Project

  Robert Baxter, Frances Blomeley and Rachel Kemsley present AIM25, a project providing electronic access to descriptions of archives held in various London institutions.

• The Distributed National Collection Access, and Cross-sectoral Collaboration: The Research Support Libraries Programme

  Ronald Milne, Director of the programme, with an overview of the objectives for the Research Support Libraries Programme.

• Web Watch: Update of a Survey of the Numbers of UK University Web Servers

  Brian Kelly updates a survey of the numbers of UK university Web servers.

• News from the Resource Discovery Network

  Simon Jennings and Philip Pothen with the latest on developments at the RDN.

• Web Focus: Report on the Fifth Institutional Web Management Workshop

  Brian Kelly, UK Web Focus, reports on the IWMW event in his regular column.

• Supporting Material for Database Training, or 'Here’s One I Prepared Earlier'

  Alison McNab looks at the wealth of resources available for trainers provided by the information service and content providers within JISC-supported services.

• The JOIN-UP Programme: Seminar on Linking Technologies

  Sandy Shaw reports on a seminar bringing together experts in the field of linking technology for JISC's JOIN-UP Programme.

• Virtual Training Suite Launch

  John Kirriemuir reports on the Edinburgh stage of the launch of the RDN's Virtual Training Suite.

• Web Watch: Size of Institutional Top Level Pages

  Web Watch: Brian Kelly looks at the size of institutional top level pages.

• The Digital Preservation Coalition

  Neil Beagrie reports on proposals to establish a Digital Preservation Coalition in the UK.

• Web Watch: What's Related to My Web Site?

  What's Related To My Web Site? Brian Kelly looks at Netscape's 'What's Related?' facility and reports on the service's findings for institutional Web servers.

• Travelling at the Speed of Discovery: The MALIBU Project's Most Valuable Lessons

  Valeda Dent with a newcomer's perspective on the MALIBU project.

• A Policy Context: eLib and the Emergence of the Subject Gateways

  Derek Law and Lorcan Dempsey outline some of the features of the policy environment which led to the setting up of the influential 'subject gateways' as part of the UK Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib).

• Web Focus: Institutional Web Management Workshop - The Joined Up Web

  Brian Kelly reports on the "Institutional Web Management Workshop: The Joined-Up Web" event, held in Bath.

• Web Watch: A Survey Of Web Server Software Used In UK University Web Sites

  Brian Kelly A Survey Of Web Server Software Used In UK University Web Sites.

• Web Watch: A Survey Of Numbers of UK University Web Servers

  How many web servers are there in the UK Higher Education community? Brian Kelly provides some answers.

• Planet SOSIG

  Justine Kitchen of the Resource Discovery Network Centre reports on the recent SOSIG relaunch, and Debra Hiom explores New Learning and Teaching Support Networks in the Social Sciences

• Web Watch: A Survey of Links to UK University Web Sites

  Brian Kelly reports on the number of links to University web sites.

• RDN: Resource Discovery Network

  Alistair Dunning reviews the launch of the RDN (Resource Discovery Network)

• 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."

• Web Watch: 404s, What's Missing?

  Brian Kelly discusses 404 'not found' messages, and why you don't always get the same one.

• The Web Editor: Institutional Troubleshooter

  Stephen Emmott describes his experiences of content management at King's College London.

• Hybrid Libraries

  Stephen Pinfield describes the role of Hybrid Libraries and Clumps

• Web Focus: The Role of the Web Editor

  Brian Kelly asks, does 'web editor' mean Unix guru or an HTML coder?

• Web Focus: Institutional Web Management

  Brian Kelly reports on the Netskills Institutional Web Management Workshop held in Newcastle.

• Electronic Access: Archives in the New Millennium

  Michael Day reports from Kew on the Public Record Office view of the Brave New World of online archives.

• Law Vs Jordan

  Stephen Gough discusses: Who makes the best manager of a converged service?

• Metadata Corner

  Michael Day reports from Tomar, Portugal, on the DELOS6 Workshop.

• Interface

  Derek Law talks to Lyndon Pugh about the print / electronic transition, networking, eLib and other matters.

• CINE: Cartoon Images for the Network Education (CINE)

  Frances Blomeley describes the Cartoon Images for the Network Education (CINE) eLib project.

• Web Focus Corner: Running an Institutional Web Service

  Brian Kelly reports on a workshop on running an institutional web service.

• Press Release – JISC / Caul Collaboration Agreement

  Kelly Russell outlines the collaboration between JISC and CAUL, and announces the appointment of the post of International Co-ordinator.

• Information Strategies Get Down to Business

  John MacColl on the JISC approach to Information Strategies.

• Serving the Arts and Humanities

  Dan Greenstein gives an extensive description of AHDS, the Arts and Humanities Data Service: its objectives, organisation, and how the data will be collected, preserved and described..

• Emma Tonkin

• Matthew Brack

• Paul Davey

• Philip Pothen

• Richard Gartner

• Sarah Lethwaite

• Sarah Lewthwaite

• Simon Waddington

• Tobias Blanke