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Multimedia is media and content that uses a combination of different content forms. The term can be used as a noun (a medium with multiple content forms) or as an adjective describing a medium as having multiple content forms. The term is used in contrast to media which only use traditional forms of printed or hand-produced material. Multimedia includes a combination of text, audio, still images, animation, video, and interactivity content forms. Multimedia is usually recorded and played, displayed or accessed by information content processing devices, such as computerized and electronic devices, but can also be part of a live performance. Multimedia (as an adjective) also describes electronic media devices used to store and experience multimedia content. Multimedia is distinguished from mixed media in fine art; by including audio, for example, it has a broader scope. The term "rich media" is synonymous for interactive multimedia. Hypermedia can be considered one particular multimedia application. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Multimedia)
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CTI (Computers in Teaching Initiative) |
The CTI, set up in 1989, offers a UK-wide service to academic staff in higher education institutions through its network of 24 subject-based centres. Joyce Martin, acting head of the CTI Support Service, describes this HEFCE funded initiative. |
September 1996, issue5, project update |
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. |
January 2003, issue34, feature article |
Cybercollege Scorecard: How Does Your University Score? |
Tony Durham, multimedia editor of the Times Higher Education Supplement, explains how to determine whether cultural change has affected your institute of learning. |
July 1997, issue10, feature article |
DAEDALUS: Initial Experiences With EPrints and DSpace at the University of Glasgow |
William Nixon provides an overview of the DAEDALUS initial experience with the GNU EPrints and DSpace software and the decision to employ both. |
October 2003, issue37, feature article |
DESIRE: Development of a European Service for Information on Research and Education |
Klaas Wierenga, the director of DESIRE, describes this pan-European project in which the academic network services of the UK have a large stake. |
September 1996, issue5, project update |
Developing and Publicising a Workable Accessibility Strategy |
Lawrie Phipps, Sue Harrison, David Sloan and Betty Willder look at the increasing need for developers of institutional and educational Web sites to develop and follow a strategy for ensuring optimal accessibility of online content. |
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Developing Infrastructure for Research Data Management at the University of Oxford |
James A. J. Wilson, Michael A. Fraser, Luis Martinez-Uribe, Paul Jeffreys, Meriel Patrick, Asif Akram and Tahir Mansoori describe the approaches taken, findings, and issues encountered while developing research data management services and infrastructure at the University of Oxford. |
October 2010, issue65, feature article |
Developments in Virtual 3D Imaging of Cultural Artefacts |
Richard Collmann describes how experience using a portable Virtual 3D Object Rig in cultural institutions has led to significant improvements in apparatus design and workflow. |
January 2011, issue66, feature article |
Digital Libraries '97 |
David Nichols reports on the important international conference: Digital Libraries '97. |
September 1997, issue11, event report |
Digital Libraries in China |
Liz Lyon reports on the International Digital Library Conference held in Beijing in July 2002. |
October 2002, issue33, event report |
Digital Museums: Braining Up Or Dumbing Down? |
Marieke Napier went to find out at the mda's 'Beyond the Museum' colloquium. |
June 2001, issue28, event report |
Digitising an Archive: The Factory Approach |
Duncan Burbidge describes a new approach to digitising an archive both as a future-proof substitute and for Web delivery. |
April 2006, issue47, feature article |
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 |
Disabil-IT? Conference |
Isobel Stark reports from the February 1997 Disabil-IT? conference, aimed at library and computing services staff to help raise awareness of issues related to IT provision for students with disabilities. |
March 1997, issue8, event report |
DISinHE: Web Content Accessibility |
Paul Booth discusses Web content accessibility. |
September 1999, issue21, regular column |
Domesday Redux: The Rescue of the BBC Domesday Project Videodiscs |
Jeffrey Darlington, Andy Finney and Adrian Pearce describe the groundbreaking BBC Domesday Project of 1986, and explain how its unique multimedia collection has been preserved. |
July 2003, issue36, feature article |
Down Your Way: Cyberworld Croydon |
Lyndon Pugh took a trip to the cyberworld of Croydon, to see 'what was going down'. |
March 1998, issue14, regular column |
Down Your Way: John Moores |
Isobel Stark visits one of the most prominent new university library buildings of recent years. |
November 1996, issue6, regular column |
Down Your Way: The Natural History Museum |
John Kirriemuir takes in megabytes of trilobites at the Natural History Museum. |
March 1997, issue8, regular column |
DRIVER: Building the Network for Accessing Digital Repositories Across Europe |
Martin Feijen, Wolfram Horstmann, Paolo Manghi, Mary Robinson and Rosemary Russell present an outline of the DRIVER Project and its achievements so far in supporting and enhancing digital repository development in Europe. |
October 2007, issue53, feature article |
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 |
E-Books for Students: EBONI |
Ruth Wilson on how the EBONI project will investigate the usability of e-books through user evaluations. |
March 2001, issue27, feature article |
e-Books for the Future: Here but Hiding? |
Brian Whalley outlines some developments in e-book technologies and links them to existing ways of presenting textbook information. |
October 2006, issue49, feature article |
e-Culture Horizons: from Digitisation to Creating Cultural Experiences |
Andreas Strasser reports on a two-day symposium hosted and organised by Salzburg Research in Salzburg, Austria, over 27-28 September 2004. |
October 2004, issue41, event report |
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. |
July 2009, issue60, feature article |
ECDL 2007 |
Mahendra Mahey, Emma Tonkin and Robert John Robertson report on the 2007 European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, held in Budapest, Hungary, over 16-22 September, 2007. |
October 2007, issue53, event report |
ECDL2004: 4th International Web Archiving Workshop, September 2004 |
Michael Day reports on the 4th International Web Archiving Workshop held at the University of Bath in September as part of ECDL 2004. |
October 2004, issue41, event report |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 21: Ariadne's Thread |
Introduction to Ariadne issue 21 by Philip Hunter. |
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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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Editorial Introduction to Issue 27: The Digital Library Jigsaw |
Philip Hunter opens the box and looks at some of the choicest pieces of Ariadne issue 27. |
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 56: More Light Than Heat |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 56. |
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 65: Ariadne in Search of Your Views |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 65. |
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 68 |
The editor introduces readers to the content of Ariadne issue 68. |
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Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib) Update |
Recently, a wave of new projects under the umbrella of the Electronic Libraries Programme was announced. A consequence of this is that a large majority of the HE institutions in the UK are involved in at least one eLib project (is yours?), as well as many non HE organisations and institutions. Here, we give brief details of some of these new projects. |
March 1996, issue2, feature article |
ELVIRA |
Tessa Bruce from the ResIDe eLib project describes the recent high profile electronic libraries conference hosted by De Montfort University. |
May 1996, issue3, event report |
ELVIRA 4 |
Claire Davies sets the scene for ELVIRA 4, the annual Electronic Library Visual Information Research Conference, May 1997 in Milton Keynes, UK. |
March 1997, issue8, event report |
Elvira 4: May 1997, Milton Keynes |
Ian Bloor reports on the recently held Elvira (Electronic Library and Visual Information Research) event. |
May 1997, issue9, event report |
ERCOMS |
The ERCOMS team explain the intricacies of their Electronic Reserve Copyright Management System project. |
July 1997, issue10, project update |
ERPANET Seminar on Persistent Identifiers |
Monica Duke reports on a two-day training seminar on persistent identifiers held by ERPANET in Cork, Ireland over 17-18 June 2004. |
July 2004, issue40, event report |
Evolution of Portable Electronic Books |
Ruth Wilson charts the development of portable electronic book hardware, from the first generation in 1980s to the range of handheld devices available today. |
October 2001, issue29, feature article |