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• LinkedUp: Linking Open Data for Education

  Marieke Guy, Mathieu d’Aquin, Stefan Dietze, Hendrik Drachsler, Eelco Herder and Elisabetta Parodi describe the activities carried out by the LinkedUp Project looking at the promotion of open data in education.

• MyMobileBristol

  Mike Jones, Simon Price, Nikki Rogers and Damian Steer describe the rationale, aims and progress of MyMobileBristol, highlighting some of the challenges and opportunities that have arisen during the project.

• Survive or Thrive

  Ed Fay reports on a two-day conference organised by UKOLN on behalf of JISC to consider growth and use of digital content on the Web, which was held in Manchester in June 2010.

• A DRY CRIG Event for the IE Demonstrator

  Paul Walk reports on an 'unconference' for developers working in and around the JISC Information Environment and institutional systems, hosted by UKOLN at the University of Bath in June 2008.

• Future-Proofing the Past: LAI Joint Conference 2008

  Siobhan Fitzpatrick reports on the Annual Joint Conference of the Library Association of Ireland and Cilip IRELAND.

• The KIDMM Community's 'MetaKnowledge Mash-up'

  Conrad Taylor reports on the KIDMM knowledge community and its September 2007 one-day conference about data, information and knowledge management issues.

• 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.

• Adding Value to the National Information Infrastructure: The EDINA Exchange Day, Edinburgh

  John MacColl provides us with a report of EDINA's first general information event for the HE and FE communities held at the National E-Science Centre.

• 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.

• Domesday Redux: The Rescue of the BBC Domesday Project Videodiscs

  Jeffrey Darlington, Andy Finney and Adrian Pearce describe the groundbreaking BBC Domesday Project of 1986, and explain how its unique multimedia collection has been preserved.

• Architects of the Information Age

  Paul Miller reports on a recent UKOLN-organised event at the Office of the e-Envoy, and explores the need for an architecture to scope what we build online.

• After eLib

  Chris Rusbridge, the former Director of the UK Electronic Libraries Programme, with an assessment of its achievements and legacy.

• Interoperability: What Is It and Why Should I Want It?

  Paul Miller explains what interoperability is and why you should want it.

• Metadata for the Masses

  Paul Miller describes Dublin Core and several ideas for how it can be implemented.

• ResIDe: Electronic Reserve for UK Universities

  Tessa Bruce describes an electronic reserve system at the University of the West of England.

• Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib) Update

  Recently, a wave of new projects under the umbrella of the Electronic Libraries Programme was announced. A consequence of this is that a large majority of the HE institutions in the UK are involved in at least one eLib project (is yours?), as well as many non HE organisations and institutions. Here, we give brief details of some of these new projects.