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The British Library is the library of the United Kingdom, and one of the world's largest libraries in terms of total number of items. The library is a major research library, holding over 150 million items from every country in the world, in virtually all known languages and in many formats, both print and digital: books, manuscripts, journals, newspapers, magazines, sound and music recordings, videos, play-scripts, patents, databases, maps, stamps, prints, drawings. The Library's collections include around 14 million books (second only to the USA's Library of Congress), along with substantial holdings of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 2000 BC. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: British Library)
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DCC Workshop on Persistent Identifiers |
Philip Hunter gives a personal view of this workshop held in Glasgow, 30 June - 1 July, supported by NISO, CETIS, ERPANET, UKOLN and the DCC. |
July 2005, issue44, event report |
A Tradition of Scholarly Documentation for Digital Objects: The Launch of the Digital Curation Centre |
Philip Hunter reports on the launch of the DCC at the National eScience Centre in Edinburgh, November 2004. |
January 2005, issue42, event report |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 35: The Art and Craft of Portalage |
Philip Hunter provides an editorial introduction to Ariadne 35. |
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News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
April 2003, issue35, news and events |
Hidden Treasures: The Impact of Moving Image and Sound Archives in the 21st Century |
Philip Hunter reports on the one day meeting on multimedia objects in the British Library, London, October 2002. |
January 2003, issue34, event report |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 29: Key Technologies for the Development of the Digital Library |
Philip Hunter with the editorial for Ariadne 29. |
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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. |
October 2001, issue29, event report |
Newsline: News You Can Use |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
June 2001, issue28, news and events |
The Future Is Hybrid: Edinburgh |
John MacColl and Philip Hunter report on 'The Future is Hybrid' project day in Edinburgh. |
March 2001, issue27, event report |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 26: New Landscapes |
Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne issue 26 with remarks about the new Director of the UKOLN, the eLib Programme, and the DNER. |
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Library Resource Sharing and Discovery: Catalogues for the 21st Century |
Ariadne reports on the highlights of the recent Glasgow CLUMPS one day conference |
June 2000, issue24, event report |
Newsline: News You Can Use |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
June 2000, issue24, news and events |
Catalogues for the 21st Century |
Ariadne reports on a one-day Workshop presented by the eLib Clump Projects at Goldsmiths College in London on the 3rd of March |
March 2000, issue23, event report |
Digitizing Wilfrid |
Philip Hunter talks to Stuart Lee about the prizewinning 'Wilfrid Owen Multimedia Digital Archive' and the JTAP 'Virtual Seminars on WW1'. |
September 1999, issue21, feature article |
Editorial Introduction to Ariadne Issue 20 |
Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne issue 20. |
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Newsline: News You Can Use |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
March 1998, issue14, news and events |
Newsline: News You Can Use |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
January 1998, issue13, news and events |
The British Libraries Private Finance Initiative |
The British Library's Digital Library Programme gives Ariadne an exclusive on its Private Finance Initiative. |
January 1997, issue7, regular column |
