Organisation - University of Cambridge
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SUNCAT: Ten Years and Beyond
Celia Jenkins charts the beginnings of SUNCAT, its development over the last ten years and what the future holds for the service.
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Book Review: Digital Dieting - From Information Obesity to Intellectual Fitness
Kevin Sanders examines Tara Brabazon’s latest analytical work which investigates the proliferation of low-quality information in the digital realm and the issues of excessive reliance on social tools for learning.
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Seb Schmoller Replies
Stepping down from his pivotal role as CEO at ALT, Seb Schmoller kindly answers a few questions from Ariadne on his perspective on online learning.
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Book Review: Getting Started with Cloud Computing
Martin White reviews a collection of essays on cloud computing that attempts to clarify the technology and its applications for librarians and information professionals.
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Book Review: Information Need - A Theory Connecting Information Search to Knowledge Formation
Brian Whalley reviews a book about a new theory of ‘information need’ that builds upon the ideas of Allen and Taylor from the 1960s to provide a basis for information searching.
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Enhancing Collaboration and Interaction in a Post-graduate Research Programme
Tertia Coetsee describes a community of practice for post-graduate students where RefShare is deployed for digital storage and retrieval, alongside Blackboard for the purposes of communication. She also describes the role of the information specialist in the programme.
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The Institutional Web Management Workshop (IWMW) 2012
Kirsty Pitkin reports on the 16th Institutional Web Management Workshop held at the University of Edinburgh's Appleton Tower between 18 - 20 July 2012.
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Developing Research Excellence and Methods (DREaM) Project Launch Conference
Ray Harper reports on a one-day conference which launched the DREaM Project, held by the Library and Information Science Research Coalition in London on 19 July 2011.
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Retooling Special Collections Digitisation in the Age of Mass Scanning
Constance Rinaldo, Judith Warnement, Tom Baione, Martin R. Kalfatovic and Susan Fraser describe results from a study to identify and develop a cost-effective and efficient large-scale digitisation workflow for special collections library materials. -
International Digital Curation Conference 2010
Alex Ball reports on the 6th International Digital Curation Conference, held on 7-8 December 2010 in Chicago. -
Internet Librarian International Conference 2010
Claire Tylee, Katrin Flemming and Elly Cope report on the two-day Internet Librarian International Conference focusing on innovation and technology in the information profession, held in London on 14-15 October 2010. -
Repository Fringe 2010
Martin Donnelly (and friends) report on the Repository Fringe "unconference" held at the National e-Science Centre in Edinburgh, Scotland, over 2-3 September 2010. -
Book Review: The Art of Community - Building the New Age of Participation
Ed Bremner reviews a work on building and supporting online communities. -
Institutional Web Management Workshop 2010
Keith Doyle provides a personal perspective on a conference organised by UKOLN for those involved in the provision of institutional Web services. -
Book Review: Information Science in Transition
Michael Day reviews an edited volume published to commemorate the founding of the Institute of Information Scientists in 1958. -
Internet Librarian International 2009
Katherine Allen reports on Internet Librarian International 2009 which took place in London on 15 and 16 October 2009. -
UK Institutional Repository Search: Innovation and Discovery
Vic Lyte, Sophia Jones, Sophia Ananiadou and Linda Kerr describe an innovative tool to showcase UK research output through advanced discovery and retrieval facilities. -
Content Architecture: Exploiting and Managing Diverse Resources
Jane Stevenson gives a personal view of the recent UK conference organised by the International Society of Knowledge Organization. -
E-Curator: A 3D Web-based Archive for Conservators and Curators
Mona Hess, Graeme Were, Ian Brown, Sally MacDonald, Stuart Robson and Francesca Simon Millar describe a project which combines 3D colour laser scanning and e-Science technologies for capturing and sharing very large 3D scans and datasets about museum artefacts in a secure computing environment. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
The Second International M-Libraries Conference
Keren Mills reports on a two-day conference exploring and sharing delivery of services and resources to users 'on the move,' via mobile and hand-held devices. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
The Librarians' Information Literacy Annual Conference (LILAC) 2009
Rosie Jones reports on a three-day conference about Information Literacy held by CILIP CSG Information Literacy Group at Cardiff University over 30 March - 1 April 2009. -
Time to Change Our Thinking: Dismantling the Silo Model of Digital Scholarship
Stephen G. Nichols argues that humanists need to replace the silo model of digital scholarship with collaborative ventures based on interoperability and critical comparison of content. -
Implementing E-Legal Deposit: A British Library Perspective
Ronald Milne and John Tuck summarise progress towards implementation of the Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003 which extended provision to non-print materials. Particular reference is made to the British Library. -
Open Repositories 2008
Mahendra Mahey reports on the third international Open Repositories 2008 Conference, held at the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton in April 2008. -
KIM Project Conference 2008
Alexander Ball provides an overview of the Knowledge and Information Management Through Life Project Conference held in April, 2008. -
Collaborative and Social Tagging Networks
Emma Tonkin, Edward M. Corrado, Heather Lea Moulaison, Margaret E. I. Kipp, Andrea Resmini, Heather D. Pfeiffer and Qiping Zhang gather a series of international perspectives on the practice of social tagging of documents within a community context. -
E-Publication and Open Access in the Arts and Humanities in the UK
Malcolm Heath, Michael Jubb and David Robey review recent UK discussions and evidence about e-publishing and open access, their impact and implications for researchers in the arts and humanities. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 53: Unlocking Our Televisual Past
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 53. -
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. -
Newsline
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
24 Hour Museum: From Past to Future
As 24 Hour Museum rebuilds and looks outwards to new partnerships, Jon Pratty looks at challenges faced over the last seven years. -
ALPSP Conference
Kara Jones reports on the ALPSP 'Publishing and the Library of the Future' one-day seminar held at St Anthony's College, Oxford, in July 2007. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 52: The New Invisible Industry
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 52. -
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. -
Institutional Repositories and Their 'Other' Users: Usability Beyond Authors
Dana McKay summarises the literature on the usability of institutional repositories, and points to directions for future work. -
Repositories Support Project Summer School
Jackie Knowles reports on the RSP Summer School, a 48-hour intensive learning programme for new institutional repository administrators, organised by the Repositories Support Project Team. -
The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland
John MacColl reviews the first two volumes of this very substantial three-part work, covering the periods to 1640 and 1640-1850. -
KIM Project Conference: Knowledge and Information Management through Life
Alex Ball provides an overview of the March 2007 KIM Project Conference. -
The W3C Technical Architecture Group
Henry S. Thompson introduces the W3C Technical Architecture Group and its work. -
Towards Virtualisation: A New Approach in Server Management
Eddie Young provides an account of trials and implementations carried out here after Matt Thrower gives us the background and benefits of employing virtualisation. -
2nd International DCC Conference 2006: Digital Data Curation in Practice
Alexander Ball and Manjula Patel provide an overview of the second annual conference of the Digital Curation Centre. -
Limits to Information Transfer: The Boundary Problem
Jon E. Lervik, Mark Easterby-Smith, Kathryn Fahy and Carole Elliott discuss the challenges in integrating knowledge across boundaries between specialised knowledge communities within an organisation. -
What Happens When We Mash the Library?
Paul Miller looks at recent attempts to make library resources more appealing, including the Talis competition to build library 'mashups'. -
e-Collaboration Workshop: Access Grid, Portals and Other VREs for the Social Sciences
Rob Allan, Rob Crouchley and Michael Daw cover a one-day workshop reporting on the latest developments in e-Collaboration technology and applications. -
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. -
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. -
Book Review: Memory Bytes - History, Technology, and Digital Culture
Ingrid Mason takes a look at this collection of essays and analyses how these authors contribute to our understanding of digital culture by placing digital technology in an historical context. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
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. -
EEVL Xtra: The Hidden Web at Your Fingertips
Roddy MacLeod looks at the latest service from EEVL. -
Integration and Impact: The JISC Annual Conference
Marieke Guy has collated reports on sessions from the JISC Annual Conference held in Birmingham. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
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. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Recasting the Past: Digital Histories
Vanessa Carr reports on a one day conference about digitising historical records, held jointly by the Association for History and Computing UK and the Royal Historical Society. -
The National Centre for Text Mining: Aims and Objectives
Sophia Ananiadou, Julia Chruszcz, John Keane, John McNaught and Paul Watry describe NaCTeM's plans to provide text mining services for UK academics. -
EEVL News: EEVL Update
Roddy MacLeod and Agnes Guyon look at some recent developments to the EEVL service. -
Ebooks in UK Libraries: Where Are We Now?
Penny Garrod brings us up to date on developments in ebooks. -
OAI: The Fourth Open Archives Forum Workshop
Manjula Patel provides us with an overview of the 4th Open Archives Forum Workshop. -
Newsline: News You Can Use
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Review: Do We Want to Keep Our Newspapers?
Penny Garrod reviews a book on libraries published by Office for Humanities Communication Publications. -
WebWatch: Surfing Historical UK University Web Sites
Brian Kelly outlines strategies for choosing appropriate standards for building Web sites. -
Cultural Heritage Language Technologies: Building an Infrastructure for Collaborative Digital Libraries in the Humanities
Jeffrey Rydberg-Cox describes the work of the Cultural Heritage Language Technologies consortium, a research group funded by the European Comission Information Society Technologies program and the United States National Science Foundation Digital Libraries Initiative. -
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. -
A Speaking Electronic Librarian
Markos Dendrinos with a proposal for an interface system, based on speech recognition and synthesis technologies, for automatic library services. -
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. -
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 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. -
Digitization: Do We Have a Strategy?
David Pearson suggests that the library sector should find a mechanism to put digitisation high on the agenda. -
Web Focus: Report on the Fifth Institutional Web Management Workshop
Brian Kelly, UK Web Focus, reports on the IWMW event in his regular column. -
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. -
The Management of Content: Universities and the Electronic Publishing Revolution
Philip Hunter attempts to throw some light on the low take up of content management systems (CMS) in the university sector. -
Using the Web for Academic Research: The Reading Experience Database Project
Alexis Weedon gives us some insight into a new web-based project designed to collate evidence for changing reading habits through history. -
Web Watch: Size of Institutional Top Level Pages
Web Watch: Brian Kelly looks at the size of institutional top level pages. -
Review: From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure
Michael Day reviews the book by Christine Borgman: From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure. -
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. -
Metadata: Preservation 2000
Michael Day reports on the Digital Preservation conference held in York in December 2000. -
Metadata: Towards the Intelligent Museum
Paul Miller and Alice Grant explore CIMI: the collections standards organization which JISC has just joined. -
Review: The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization
Maurice Line reviews Elaine Svenonius' 'The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization', published by MIT Press. -
Virtual Universities: Institutional Issues for Information Professionals
Jonathan Foster examines the institutional implications of networked approaches to learning for information professionals. -
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. -
Review: Building Community Information Networks
Pete Cliff reviews 'Building community information networks: strategies and experiences,' edited by Sheila Pantry. -
Theory and Practice of the Virtual University
Neil Pollock and James Cornford report on UK universities use of new technologies. -
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. -
Web Watch: A Survey of Links to UK University Web Sites
Brian Kelly reports on the number of links to University web sites. -
Metadata for Digital Preservation: An Update
Michael Day discusses 'Metadata for Digital Preservation'. -
An Overview of Subject Gateway Activities in Australia
Debbie Campbell looks at how the original criteria proposed for an IMesh map against these Australian initiatives. -
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." -
WebWatch: UK University Search Engines
Brian Kelly explores the search facilities used by UK university Web sites. -
Metadata: Image Retrieval
Michael Day reports on combining content-based and metadata-based approaches. -
Knowledge Management
Sheila Corrall asks if 'knowledge management' is a new phrase in place of 'information management', or a new concept altogether. -
Metadiversity
Michael Day on a Biodiversity conference in the States interested in Metadata. -
The Online Exhibition: The OMNI Perspective
Lisa Gray investigates the Online 1997 exhibtion for medical information. -
Beyond the Web: The Potential Uses of HTML in Library Disaster Control Planning
During a lifelong library career, 2 out of 5 librarians will face a major disaster in their library. Emma Blagg describes the design and evaluation of a HTML-based disaster control plan, used to provide the counter measures taken to minimise the effects of such a disaster. -
EEVL
Linda Kerr introduces a project from the Access to Network Resources section of the eLib programme which takes a holistic approach to providing access to high quality on-line engineering resources. -
Extending Metadata for Digital Preservation
Michael Day suggests how the concept of metadata could be extended to provide information in the specific field of digital preservation. -
COPAC: The New Nationally Accessible Union Catalogue
Shirley Cousins introduces COPAC and discusses some of the issues involved in the ongoing development of a consolidated union OPAC. -
Public Libraries Corner
In the Public Libraries Corner for this issue, a guest writer, Catherine Wrathall, writes about the current provision of Internet-based community information in public libraries. -
The Paper House of Cards (And Why It's Taking So Long to Collapse)
In our previous issue, Fytton Rowland defended the continuation of print research journals into the networked age. Here, Stevan Harnad presents a different case. -
Print Journals: Fit for the Future?
Do authors choose to appear in print journals for the wrong reasons? Do print journals continue for the wrong reasons? In short, are print research journals a corrupt form of scholarly communication? We asked Fytton Rowland to provide a defence of the traditional scholarly journal. In our next journal we shall provide a perspective from the other side of the debate. -
Wire: Interview with Nick Gibbins
Nick Gibbins is put under the virtual spotlight to answer a few questions via email. -
Information Strategies Get Down to Business
John MacColl on the JISC approach to Information Strategies. -
OMNI-Corner: Meeting the Visible Human
Sue Welsh reports from the Visible Human Project Conference of October 1996, an event that brought together many of the people involved with one of the most high profile Internet-based medical resources. -
The BNBMARC Currency Survey
Ann Chapman describes the BNBMARC Currency Survey, a performance measurement survey on the supply of bibliographic records. -
British Academy Symposium: Information Technology and Scholarly Disciplines
Seamus Ross provides the programme for a symposium which seeks to explore how information technology has affected research in the humanities and social sciences. -
Open Peer Review & Argumentation: Loosening the Paper Chains on Journals
Tamara Sumner and Simon Buckingham Shum of the Knowledge Media Institute of the Open University, describe the design and implementation of the Journal of Interactive Media in Education, and some of the issues behind the approach that this journal takes to the process of scholarly review. -
Putting the UK on the Map
Peter Burden of the University of Wolverhampton's School of Computing and Information Technology describes the history behind his clickable maps of the UK, an essential and well established (though unfunded) resource for quickly locating academic and research Web sites. -
NHS Libraries: At Home on the Web
Ben Toth describes the establishment and maintenance of a regional Health Web site. -
Sideline: Skinheads in Cambridge
In Sideline, people give an alternative view of conference attendance. Jim Huntingford is Subject Librarian for Accountancy, Management and Law at The University of Abertay, Dundee. -
Public Libraries Corner: Internet Activity in Public Libraries
Sarah Ormes on Internet activity in the Public Libraries domain. -
UC and R Study Conference: Access versus Holdings - A Virtual Impossibility?
Jim Huntingford listens to the 'access verses holdings' debate at the Library Association's University, College and Research group conference. -
CLIC: An Electronic Chemistry Journal
CLIC is a project from the Electronic Journals area of the Electronic Libraries Programme. Henry Rzepa, from the Chemistry Department at Imperial College, explains the need for journals in the field of Chemistry that use leading edge technology for molecular information storage, retrieval and manipulation. -
Wire: Email Interview with Traugott Koch
Traugott Koch submits to an interview by email.