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The University of Edinburgh, founded in 1583, is a world renowned centre for teaching and research in Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The university is deeply embedded in the fabric of the city, with many of the iconic buildings in the historic Old Town belonging to the university. It was the fourth university to be established in Scotland and is widely regarded as one of the most prestigious universities in Europe, the top rated in Scotland according to the QS rankings, and has been consistently placed amongst the leading universities in the world. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: University of Edinburgh)
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Supporting Local Data Users in the UK Academic Community |
Luis Martinez and Stuart Macdonald discuss the differing areas of expertise within the UK data libraries with particular reference to their relationship with National Data Centres, the role of the Data Information Specialists Committee - UK (DISC-UK) and other information specialists. |
July 2005, issue44, feature article |
Building Open Source Communities: 4th OSS Watch Conference |
Sebastian Rahtz and Randy Metcalfe report on a one-day conference on open source software development communities organised by OSS Watch held in Edinburgh on 4 July 2005. |
July 2005, issue44, event report |
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 |
The Tapir: Adding E-Theses Functionality to DSpace |
Richard Jones demonstrates how the Theses Alive Plugin for Institutional Repositories (Tapir) has provided E-Theses functionality for DSpace. |
October 2004, issue41, feature article |
Developing Portal Services and Evaluating How Users Want to Use Them: The CREE Project |
Chris Awre, Matthew J Dovey, Jon Hunter, William Kilbride and Ian Dolphin describe the JISC-funded Contextual Resource Evaluation Environment (CREE) Project and its user and technical investigations to examine how users wish to use library search services. |
October 2004, issue41, feature article |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
October 2004, issue41, news and events |
Targeting Academic Research With Southampton's Institutional Repository |
Jessie Hey describes how user needs have influenced the evolutionary development of 'e-Prints Soton' as the University of Southampton Research Repository. |
July 2004, issue40, feature article |
Adding Value to the National Information Infrastructure: The EDINA Exchange Day, Edinburgh |
John MacColl provides us with a report of EDINA's first general information event for the HE and FE communities held at the National E-Science Centre. |
July 2004, issue40, event report |
DSpace Vs. ETD-db: Choosing Software to Manage Electronic Theses and Dissertations |
Richard Jones examines the similarities and differences between DSpace and ETD-db to determine their applicability in a modern E-theses service. |
January 2004, issue38, feature article |
Trends in Self-Posting of Research Material Online by Academic Staff |
Theo Andrew sheds some light on current trends in posting research material online with a case study from The University of Edinburgh. |
October 2003, issue37, 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 |
OAI: The Fourth Open Archives Forum Workshop |
Manjula Patel provides us with an overview of the 4th Open Archives Forum Workshop. |
October 2003, issue37, event report |
Metadata Wanted for the Evanescent Library |
John MacColl reports on Schemas and Ontologies: Building a Semantic Infrastructure for the GRID and Digital Libraries: a one-day workshop at the e-Science Institute, May 2003. |
July 2003, issue36, event report |
DAEDALUS : Freeing Scholarly Communication at the University of Glasgow |
William J. Nixon presents a brief overview of the DAEDALUS Open Archives Project at the University of Glasgow. |
January 2003, issue34, feature article |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 33: Exploring the Information Environment |
Philip Hunter with the editorial for Ariadne 33. |
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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. |
October 2002, issue33, feature article |
OCLC-SCURL: Collaboration, Integration and Recombinant Potential |
Pete Johnston reports on the New Directions in Metadata conference, 15-16 August, in Edinburgh |
October 2002, issue33, event report |
Collection Description in Focus |
Clare McVeigh and Dierdre Wildy: A Report on the Collection Description Focus Workshops, Nov 2001-Mar 2002 |
July 2002, issue32, feature article |
Electronic Theses and Dissertations: A Strategy for the UK |
by John MacColl considers a strategy for electronic theses and dissertations in the United Kingdom. |
July 2002, issue32, feature article |
Setting up an Institutional E-Print Archive |
Stephen Pinfield, Mike Gardner, and John MacColl with some practical advice on setting up an e-print archive. |
April 2002, issue31, feature article |
ACM / IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries |
John MacColl reports on a selection of the papers given at this conference in Roanoake, Virginia, June 24-28 2001. |
October 2001, issue29, event report |
Beyond the Online Tutorial |
Ariadne reports on a one day JISC workshop in Edinburgh on pedagogical issues for projects developing resources for the DNER. (30 August) |
October 2001, issue29, event report |
EEVL Update |
Roddy MacLeod and Linda Kerr provide news about the EEVL service |
June 2001, issue28, regular column |
Virtual Training Suite Launch |
John Kirriemuir reports on the Edinburgh stage of the launch of the RDN's Virtual Training Suite. |
June 2001, issue28, event report |
The JOIN-UP Programme: Seminar on Linking Technologies |
Sandy Shaw reports on a seminar bringing together experts in the field of linking technology for JISC's JOIN-UP Programme. |
June 2001, issue28, event report |
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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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. |
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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 |
Planet SOSIG: Internet Training for the Social Sciences |
Debra Hiom and Emma Place announce the RDN virtual training suite. |
September 2000, issue25, regular column |
Adaptive Developments for Learning in the Hybrid Library |
Wilma Alexander on the SELLIC Project and its aim to support the use of electronic resources in teaching science and engineering. |
June 2000, issue24, feature article |
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 |
WebWatch: UK University Search Engines |
Brian Kelly explores the search facilities used by UK university Web sites. |
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EEVL Eye on Engineering |
The EEVL Team explore patent information web sites, the latest EEVL news, etc. |
June 1999, issue20, regular column |
Web Focus: Report on the WWW 8 Conference |
Brian Kelly discusses WWW8 in Toronto, which took place in May 1999. |
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Instructional Management Systems |
John MacColl explores the IMS concept in the context of the SELLIC project. |
March 1999, issue19, feature article |
Web Focus: The Role of the Web Editor |
Brian Kelly asks, does 'web editor' mean Unix guru or an HTML coder? |
December 1998, issue18, regular column |
Newsline: News You Can Use |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
September 1998, issue17, news and events |
Search Engines Corner |
Tracey Stanley reviews 'Northern Light', which offers features not available elsewhere. |
May 1998, issue15, regular column |
Planet SOSIG: Regard |
Sue Timmis introduces REGARD, a new research database now available on the World Wide Web. |
March 1998, issue14, regular column |
