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Editorial Introduction to Issue 50: Side-Stepping Babel

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Richard Waller introduces Ariadne 50.

With Dyson and parts of Burberry disappearing points east, leaving their design departments behind them [1] [2], there are possible grounds for arguing that the (previously) industrialised countries must live by their wits and the emerging knowledge economy.

A Dublin Core Application Profile for Scholarly Works

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Julie Allinson, Pete Johnston and Andy Powell describe a Dublin Core application profile for describing scholarly works that makes use of FRBR and the DCMI Abstract Model.

In May 2006, the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) [1] approached UKOLN [2] and the Eduserv Foundation [3] to collaborate on the development of a metadata specification for describing eprints (alternatively referred to as scholarly works, research papers or scholarly research texts) [4].

Web Curator Tool

editor — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Philip Beresford tells the story (from The British Library's perspective) of the development of new software to aid all stages of harvesting Web sites for preservation.

In September 2006 The National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, The British Library and Sytec, announced the successful development of a Web harvesting management system.

The system, known as Web Curator Tool, is designed to assist curators of digital archives in collecting Web-published material for storage and preservation.

Collecting Born Digital Archives at the Wellcome Library

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Chris Hilton and Dave Thompson discuss plans for work with born digital archival material at the Wellcome Library.

Take a Peek Beneath the EPrints V3 Wrappers

editor — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000

With v3 officially launched at the Open Repositories Conference in San Antonio last week, William Nixon and Peter Millington report on the EPrints 3 pre-launch briefing in London, 8 December 2006.

News and Events

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Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

Technical Advisory Service for Images (TASI) Training Programme

Either: Birmingham, Bristol or London, 8 February to 27 April 2007
http://www.tasi.ac.uk/training/

The TASI programme of practical hands-on training includes three brand new workshops: