Organisation - Oreilly
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Eduserv Symposium 2012: Big Data, Big Deal?
Marieke Guy attended the annual Eduserv Symposium on 10 May 2012 at the Royal College of Physicians, London to find out what are the implications of big data for Higher Education Institutions.
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Book Review: Making Software - What Really Works, and Why We Believe It
While acknowledging the genuine usefulness of much of its content, Emma Tonkin provides helpful pointers towards a second edition.
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Locating Image Presentation Technology Within Pedagogic Practice
Marie-Therese Gramstadt contextualises image presentation technology and methods within a pedagogic framework for the visual arts. -
Book Review: Access, Delivery, Performance - The Future of Libraries Without Walls
Michael Day reviews a Festschrift celebrating the work of Professor Peter Brophy, founder of the Centre for Research in Library and Information Management. -
Book Review: iPad - The Missing Manual
Brian Whalley reviews a manual to help support your use of an iPad - 'the book that should have been in the box'. -
Book Review: Approximately 97 Things
Pete Cliff learns something new in this 'Open Source' book every time he makes the tea. -
Usability Inspection of Digital Libraries
Lorraine Paterson and Boon Low highlight findings from the usability inspection report conducted for the UX2.0 research project. -
e-Framework Implements New Workplan
Ian Dolphin and Phil Nicholls describe recent and forthcoming developments from the e-Framework Partnership for Education and Research. -
Book Review: Website Optimization
Pete Cliff used to think 'Website Optimisation' simply meant compressing images and avoiding nested tables, but in this he book finds out how much more there is to it, even in the Age of Broadband. -
Book Review: Visualizing Data
Pete Cliff considers a new book on data visualisation and hopes one day to implement some of the interesting ideas presented in this work. -
The Librarian's Information Literacy Annual Conference (LILAC) 2008
Keir Hopwood reports on three-day conference about current and future trends in the practice of information literacy teaching in Higher Education and beyond. -
Web 2.0 in U.S. LIS Schools: Are They Missing the Boat?
Noa Aharony asks whether library and information science schools in the United States are underestimating the opportunities offered by Web 2.0 applications. -
Book Review: Mastering Regular Expressions, 3rd Edition
Emma Tonkin and Greg Tourte take a look at the new edition of an O'Reilly classic. -
Googlepository and the University Library
Sue Manuel and Charles Oppenheim discuss the concept of Google as a repository within the wider context of resource management and provision in Further and Higher Education. -
Book Review: Google Hacks
Phil Bradley looks at a work offering programming 'know-how' to create resources that will do things with the search engine that might otherwise prove difficult or impossible. -
Book Review: Ambient Findability
Emma Tonkin reviews a book with interesting content despite a few rough edges. -
Intute: The New Best of the Web
Caroline Williams describes Intute in the context of the online information environment and outlines aspirations for the future. -
Serving Services in Web 2.0
Theo van Veen shows with the help of an example, how standardised descriptions of services can help users control the integration of services from different providers. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 45: Smaller Might Be Beautiful
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 45. -
Web 2.0: Building the New Library
Paul Miller explores some of the recent buzz around the concept of 'Web 2.0' and asks what it means for libraries and related organisations. -
Book Review: The Accidental Webmaster
Andy Prue examines a guide aimed at inexperienced Webmasters. While the book covers some interesting and salient points, Andy raises questions as to the ideal audience. -
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. -
Unix: What Is mod_perl?
Ian Peacock explains mod_perl technology for supercharging the Apache Server. -
The Web Editor: From 'One Stop Shop' to Information Hierarchy
Rebecca Linford discusses the web editor role: from 'one stop shop' to information hierarchy. -
The Web Editor: Institutional Troubleshooter
Stephen Emmott describes his experiences of content management at King's College London. -
REDD: Regional Electronic Document Delivery Service
Chris Taylor provides details on an Australian electronic document delivery service that is based on standard Internet protocols. -
Sociological Research Online: Web-based Journal for the Social Sciences
Nigel Gilbert describes Sociological Research Online, a project from the Electronic Journals section of the Electronic Libraries Programme. SocResOnline is a (free) Web-based journal for people involved in Sociology and Sociology-related fields; it contains refereed articles, a substantial number of reviews and debating forums.