Organisation - National Academy of Sciences
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23rd International CODATA Conference
Alex Ball reports on a conference on ‘Open Data and Information for a Changing Planet’ held by the International Council for Science’s Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan on 28–31 October 2012.
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Peculiarities of Digitising Materials from the Collections of the National Academy of Sciences, Armenia
Alan Hopkinson and Tigran Zargaryan give an overview of their experience of digitising paper-based materials in the Fundamental Scientific Library of the National Academy of Sciences, Armenia including some of the obstacles encountered during image processing and optical character recognition.
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 68
The editor introduces readers to the content of Ariadne issue 68.
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Image 'Quotation' Using the C.I.T.E. Architecture
Christopher Blackwell and Amy Hackney Blackwell describe with examples a digital library infrastructure that affords canonical citation for 'quoting' images, useful for creating commentaries, arguments, and teaching tools. -
Preserving Electronic Scholarly Journals: Portico
Eileen Fenton outlines issues relating to the long-term preservation of digital resources and the characteristics of an archival entity responding to this need. -
Book Review: ARIST 39 - Annual Review of Information Science and Technology
Michael Day reviews another recent volume of this key annual publication on information science and technology. -
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. -
Metadata: E-print Services and Long-term Access to the Record of Scholarly and Scientific Research
Michael Day looks at the long-term preservation implications of one of the OAI protocol's potential applications - e-print services.