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ECLAP 2013: Information Technologies for Performing Arts, Media Access and Entertainment
Marieke Guy reports on the second international conference held by ECLAP, the e-library for performing arts.
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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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Book Review: Managing Research Data
Sally Rumsey reviews a book which describes and explains the topics of interest central to practitioners involved with research data management.
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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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From Passive to Active Preservation of Electronic Records
Heather Briston and Karen Estlund provide a narrative of the process adopted by the University of Oregon in order to integrate electronic records management into its staff's workflow.
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Repository Software Comparison: Building Digital Library Infrastructure at LSE
Ed Fay presents a comparison of repository software that was carried out at LSE in support of digital library infrastructure development. -
Volcanic Eruptions Fail to Thwart Digital Preservation - the Planets Way
Matthew Barr, Amir Bernstein, Clive Billenness and Manfred Thaller report on the final Planets training event Digital Preservation - The Planets Way held in Rome over 19 - 21 April 2010. -
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. -
iPRES 2008
Frances Boyle and Adam Farquhar report on the two-day international conference which was the fifth in the series on digital preservation of digital objects held at the British Library, on 29 - 30 September 2008. -
Towards an Application Profile for Images
Mick Eadie describes the development of the Dublin Core Images Application Profile project recently funded through the JISC. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Newsline
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Progress Towards Addressing Digital Preservation Challenges
Helen Hockx-Yu reports on the 2nd Planets, CASPAR and DPE annual conference, held on 5-6 September 2007 in Lisbon, Portugal. -
Book Review: Digital Preservation
Maureen Pennock reviews a release in Facet's Digital Futures series. -
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. -
Fedora Users Conference
Chris Awre and Richard Green report from the Fedora Users Conference, a two-day meeting for users of the open source Fedora repository system held at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, over 19-20 June 2006. -
The Tasks of the AHDS: Ten Years on
Alastair Dunning reviews 10 years in the history of the Arts and Humanities Data Service. -
UK Digital Preservation Needs Assessment: Where We Go from Here
Najla Semple and Maggie Jones outline the background and findings of the Digital Preservation Coalition's UK Needs Assessment and the Mind the Gap report. -
The Second Digital Repositories Programme Meeting
Julie Allinson and Mahendra Mahey report on a 2-day JISC Digital Repositories Meeting focusing on project clusters working together and other related issues held by JISC in Warwick, UK over 27-28 March 2006. -
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. -
Excuse Me... Some Digital Preservation Fallacies?
Chris Rusbridge argues with himself about some of the assumptions behind digital preservation thinking. -
JISC and SURF International Workshop on Electronic Theses
Neil Jacobs reports on a JISC-SURF-CURL-sponsored event at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, over 19-20 January 2006. -
Book Review: Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 2004 (Volume 38)
Michael Day reviews a recent volume of this key annual publication on information science and technology. -
Book Review: Metadata for Information Management and Retrieval
Marieke Guy takes a look at a recent introduction to metadata for the information professional. -
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. -
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. -
Climbing the Scholarly Publishing Mountain With SHERPA
John MacColl and Stephen Pinfield explore the SHERPA project, which is concentrating on making e-prints available online. -
OCLC-SCURL: Collaboration, Integration and Recombinant Potential
Pete Johnston reports on the New Directions in Metadata conference, 15-16 August, in Edinburgh -
Setting up an Institutional E-Print Archive
Stephen Pinfield, Mike Gardner, and John MacColl with some practical advice on setting up an e-print archive. -
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. -
Developing an Agenda for Institutional E-Print Archives
Philip Hunter, John MacColl and Marieke Napier report on a one day Open Archives conference on OAI compliant metadata and e-print issues. Held at the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, London. 11 July 2001. -
Migration: A Camileon Discussion Paper
Paul Wheatley explores migration issues for the long-term preservation of digital materials. -
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. -
Metadata: Preservation 2000
Michael Day reports on the Digital Preservation conference held in York in December 2000. -
Metadata for Digital Preservation: An Update
Michael Day discusses 'Metadata for Digital Preservation'. -
Metadata: Workshop in Luxembourg
Michael Day and Andy Stone report on the Third Metadata Workshop in Luxembourg. -
CEDARS
Kelly Russell explores the main deliverables of the CEDARS project: recommendations and guidelines, plus practical, robust and scaleable models for establishing distributed digital archives.