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A national library is a library specifically established by the government of a country to serve as the preeminent repository of information for that country. Unlike public libraries, these rarely allow citizens to borrow books. Often, they include numerous rare, valuable, or significant works. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: National library)
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The LIPARM Project: A New Approach to Parliamentary Metadata |
Richard Gartner outlines a collaborative project which aims to link together the digitised UK Parliamentary record by providing a metadata scheme, controlled vocabularies and a Web-based interface. |
November 2012, issue70, feature article |
Motivations for the Development of a Web Resource Synchronisation Framework |
Stuart Lewis, Richard Jones and Simeon Warner explain some of the motivations behind the development of the ResourceSync Framework. |
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Book Review: User Studies for Digital Library Development |
Selenay Aytac reviews a collection of essays on user studies and digital library development that provides a concise overview of a variety of digital library projects and examines major research trends relating to digital libraries. |
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Perceptions of Public Libraries in Africa |
Monika Elbert, David Fuegi and Ugne Lipeikaite describe the principal findings of the study Perceptions of Public Libraries in Africa which served to provide evidence of how public libraries are perceived by their stakeholders. |
March 2012, issue68, feature article |
Peculiarities of Digitising Materials from the Collections of the National Academy of Sciences, Armenia |
Alan Hopkinson and Tigran Zargaryan give an overview of their experience of digitising paper-based materials in the Fundamental Scientific Library of the National Academy of Sciences, Armenia including some of the obstacles encountered during image processing and optical character recognition. |
March 2012, issue68, feature article |
Adapting VuFind as a Front-end to a Commercial Discovery System |
Graham Seaman describes the adaptation of an open source discovery tool, VuFind, to local needs, discusses the decisions which needed to be made in the process, and considers the implications of this process for future library discovery systems. |
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IMPACT Final Conference 2011 |
Marieke Guy reports on the two-day conference looking at the results of the IMPACT Project in making digitisation and OCR better, faster and cheaper. |
March 2012, issue68, event report |
From Link Rot to Web Sanctuary: Creating the Digital Educational Resource Archive (DERA) |
Bernard M Scaife describes how an innovative use of the EPrints repository software is helping to preserve official documents from the Web. |
July 2011, issue67, feature article |
DataCite UK User Group Meeting |
Alex Ball reports on the 2nd UK User Group meeting for DataCite, held at the British Library in London, in April 2011. |
July 2011, issue67, event report |
10 Years of Zetoc |
Jane Ronson looks at how Zetoc has developed and what the future holds for the service. |
January 2011, issue66, feature article |
International Digital Curation Conference 2010 |
Alex Ball reports on the 6th International Digital Curation Conference, held on 7-8 December 2010 in Chicago. |
January 2011, issue66, event report |
Moving Researchers across the EResearch Chasm |
Malcolm Wolski and Joanna Richardson outline an Australian initiative to address technology challenges within current research paradigms. |
October 2010, issue65, feature article |
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. |
October 2010, issue65, event report |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 64: Supporting the Power of Research Data |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 64. |
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Repository Software Comparison: Building Digital Library Infrastructure at LSE |
Ed Fay presents a comparison of repository software that was carried out at LSE in support of digital library infrastructure development. |
July 2010, issue64, feature article |
Trove: Innovation in Access to Information in Australia |
Rose Holley describes a major development in the Australian national digital information infrastructure. |
July 2010, issue64, feature article |
FRBR in Practice |
Wendy Taylor and Kathy Teague describe what they learnt about how FRBR is used at the Celia Library for the Visually Impaired in Helsinki, during their Ulverscroft/IFLA-funded visit. |
July 2010, issue64, feature article |
Blue Ribbon Task Force Symposium on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access |
Marieke Guy reports on a symposium which provided an opportunity for stakeholders to respond to the recent Blue Ribbon Task Force report on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access. |
July 2010, issue64, event report |
E-books and E-content 2010: Data As Content |
Brian Whalley reports on a meeting dealing with academic data management and some JISC projects concerned with institutional responses to the need to manage research data more effectively. |
July 2010, issue64, event report |
Book Review: Digital Information - Order Or Anarchy? |
Muhammad Rafiq offers us a review of a work which examines the future of digital information and emerging patterns of scholarly communication. |
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 63: Consider the Users in the Field |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 63. |
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Archives in Web 2.0: New Opportunities |
Marta Nogueira describes how three Web 2.0 applications (Facebook, Flickr, YouTube) can work as a virtual extension for archives and other cultural organisations, by identifying benefits obtained from the use of Web 2.0 applications. |
April 2010, issue63, feature article |
Planning the Future of the National Library of Mongolia |
Monika Segbert-Elbert and David Fuegi describe the National Library of Mongolia's plans to modernise its infrastructure and services. |
April 2010, issue63, feature article |
Volcanic Eruptions Fail to Thwart Digital Preservation - the Planets Way |
Matthew Barr, Amir Bernstein, Clive Billenness and Manfred Thaller report on the final Planets training event Digital Preservation - The Planets Way held in Rome over 19 - 21 April 2010. |
April 2010, issue63, event report |
RDA: Resource Description and Access |
Wendy Taylor and Helen Williams report on CILIP's Executive Briefings on RDA : Resource Description and Access held at CILIP on 23 March 2010 and repeated at the Bloomsbury Hotel on 30 March 2010. |
April 2010, issue63, event report |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
April 2010, issue63, news and events |
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. |
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The Digital Preservation Roadshow 2009-10: The Incomplete Diaries of Optimistic Travellers |
William Kilbride and Malcolm Todd report on the Digital Preservation Roadshow - an eleven month tour of the UK and Ireland designed to provide archivists and record managers with practical advice and support in managing digital resources. |
January 2010, issue62, event report |
Subject Repositories: European Collaboration in the International Context |
Dave Puplett reports on the conference Subject Repositories: European Collaboration in the International Context held at the British Library in January 2010. The conference launched Economists Online (EO), an innovative economics subject repository. |
January 2010, issue62, event report |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 61: The Double-edged Web |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 61. |
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Share. Collaborate. Innovate. Building an Organisational Approach to Web 2.0 |
Paul Bevan outlines the National Library of Wales' development of a strategic approach to meeting user needs in a post-Web 2.0 world. |
October 2009, issue61, feature article |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
October 2009, issue61, news and events |
The Norwegian National Digital Library |
Marianne Takle describes the National Library of Norway's digitisation strategy and how the National Library is taking on a key role in the country's digital library service. |
July 2009, issue60, feature article |
Open Repositories 2009 |
Adrian Stevenson reports on the four-day annual Open Repositories conference held at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, GA, USA over 18 - 21 May 2009. |
July 2009, issue60, event report |
IMPACT Conference: Optical Character Recognition in Mass Digitisation |
Lieke Ploeger, Yola Park, Jeanna Nikolov-Ramirez Gaviria, Clemens Neudecker, Fedor Bochow and Michael Day report from the first IMPACT Conference, held in The Hague, Netherlands on 6-7 April, 2009. |
April 2009, issue59, event report |
From Cultural Heritage to Digital Knowledge: Building Infrastructures for a Global Knowledge Society |
Astrid Recker reports on the 3rd IFLA Presidential Meeting, held by the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) in Berlin over 19-20 February 2009. |
April 2009, issue59, event report |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
January 2009, issue58, news and events |
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. |
October 2008, issue57, feature article |
CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group Annual Conference |
Christina Claridge reports on the conference, held 3-5 September 2008, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. |
October 2008, issue57, event report |
iPRES 2008 |
Frances Boyle and Adam Farquhar report on the two-day international conference which was the fifth in the series on digital preservation of digital objects held at the British Library, on 29 - 30 September 2008. |
October 2008, issue57, event report |