Overview of content related to 'controlled vocabularies'
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Controlled vocabularies provide a way to organize knowledge for subsequent retrieval. They are used in subject indexing schemes, subject headings, thesauri and taxonomies. Controlled vocabulary schemes mandate the use of predefined, authorised terms that have been preselected by the designer of the vocabulary, in contrast to natural language vocabularies, where there is no restriction on the vocabulary. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Controlled vocabularies)
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A DRY CRIG Event for the IE Demonstrator |
Paul Walk reports on an 'unconference' for developers working in and around the JISC Information Environment and institutional systems, hosted by UKOLN at the University of Bath in June 2008. |
July 2008, issue56, event report |
A Foundation for Automatic Digital Preservation |
Miguel Ferreira, Ana Alice Baptista and Jose Carlos Ramalho propose a Service-Oriented Architecture to help cultural heritage institutions to accomplish automatic digital preservation. |
July 2006, issue48, feature article |
A Librarian's Experience of E-Government |
Jane Inman describes the route she has taken as a librarian through the expanding landscape of e-government and highlights the skills librarians can bring to this arena. |
January 2005, issue42, feature article |
Application Profiles: Mixing and Matching Metadata Schemas |
Rachel Heery and Manjula Patel introduce a means of establishing a common approach to sharing information between implementers and standards makers. |
September 2000, issue25, feature article |
Book Review: Access, Delivery, Performance - The Future of Libraries Without Walls |
Michael Day reviews a Festschrift celebrating the work of Professor Peter Brophy, founder of the Centre for Research in Library and Information Management. |
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Book Review: Information Architecture for the World Wide Web |
Keith Doyle reviews the 3rd edition of the primary reference book for practising in-house staff and consultants responsible for the development of institutional information architecture. |
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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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Book Review: Metadata for Information Management and Retrieval |
Marieke Guy takes a look at a recent introduction to metadata for the information professional. |
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Book Review: The Accidental Taxonomist |
Emma Tonkin takes a look at a book on the work of the taxonomist and notes both merits and disappointments. |
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Centre for Database Access Research (CEDAR): The Huddersfield Connection |
Steve Pollitt describes the history and research behind CEDAR, the Centre for Database Access Research, which specialises in work on the design of interfaces for information retrieval systems. |
July 1996, issue4, project update |
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 |
Collaborative and Social Tagging Networks |
Emma Tonkin, Edward M. Corrado, Heather Lea Moulaison, Margaret E. I. Kipp, Andrea Resmini, Heather D. Pfeiffer and Qiping Zhang gather a series of international perspectives on the practice of social tagging of documents within a community context. |
January 2008, issue54, feature article |
Content Architecture: Exploiting and Managing Diverse Resources |
Jane Stevenson gives a personal view of the recent UK conference organised by the International Society of Knowledge Organization. |
July 2009, issue60, event report |
Data Science Professionals: A Global Community of Sharing |
Sylvie Lafortune reports on the 37th annual conference of the International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology (IASSIST), held over 30 May – 3 June 2011 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. |
March 2012, issue68, event report |
DC 2006: Metadata for Knowledge and Learning |
Julie Allinson, Rachel Heery, Pete Johnston and Rosemary Russell report on DC 2006, the sixth international conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, held 3 - 6 October 2006. |
October 2006, issue49, event report |
DC 2007 |
Ann Apps reports on DC2007, the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, held 27-31 August 2007 in Singapore. |
October 2007, issue53, event report |
Dublin Comes to Europe |
Paul Miller discusses issues raised at a recent European Commission meeting on metadata for resource discovery. |
March 1998, issue14, 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 |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 70 |
The editor introduces readers to the content of Ariadne Issue 70. |
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Education-Line |
Sam Saunders reports on a pre-print project for education professionals. |
July 1997, issue10, project update |
Folksonomies: The Fall and Rise of Plain-text Tagging |
Emma Tonkin suggests that rising new ideas are often on their second circuit - and none the worse for that. |
April 2006, issue47, feature article |
GROW: Building a High-quality Civil Engineering Learning Object Repository and Portal |
Yan Han provides a general overview of the Geotechnical, Rock and Water Digital Library (GROW), a learning object repository and peer-reviewed civil engineering Web portal. |
October 2006, issue49, feature article |
I Say What I Mean, but Do I Mean What I Say? |
Paul Miller reports on the latest MODELS workshop, and looks at the need for controlled terminologies and thesauri. |
March 2000, issue23, feature article |
Immaculate Catalogues, Indexes and Monsters Too... |
David E. Bennett reports on the three day residential CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group Annual Conference, University of East Anglia, during September 2006. |
October 2006, issue49, event report |
Improving the Quality of Metadata in Eprint Archives |
Marieke Guy, Andy Powell and Michael Day address the argument that the quality of service to end-users is markedly influenced by the quality of metadata being produced and provide suggestions. |
January 2004, issue38, feature article |
JISC Terminology Services Workshop |
Sarah Shreeves reports on a one-day workshop on current developments and future directions for JISC terminology services held in London, February 2004. |
April 2004, issue39, event report |
KIM Project Conference 2008 |
Alexander Ball provides an overview of the Knowledge and Information Management Through Life Project Conference held in April, 2008. |
April 2008, issue55, event report |
Lost in the JISC Information Environment |
Tony Ross gives a personal reflection on his intellectual struggle to comprehend the JISC Information Environment. |
July 2008, issue56, feature article |
Mobile Blogs, Personal Reflections and Learning Environments: The RAMBLE Project |
Paul Trafford describes how mobile blogs for personal reflection may be related to institutional learning environments, drawing on experiences from the RAMBLE Project. |
July 2005, issue44, feature article |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
April 2008, issue55, news and events |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
April 2009, issue59, news and events |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
July 2009, issue60, news and events |
News from BIOME |
Jenny Hall and Donald Mackay report on recent news form BIOME, the Health and Life Sciences hub of the Resource Discovery Network. |
October 2004, issue41, regular column |
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 |
Personalization of Web Services: Opportunities and Challenges |
Monica Bonett gives an overview of personalization on the World Wide Web and discusses ideas for development within resource discovery systems. |
June 2001, issue28, feature article |
Public Libraries: Creating Websites for E-citizens -The Public Library Web Managers Workshop 2002 |
Penny Garrod reports on the Public Library Web Managers workshop, November 2002, held in Bath. |
January 2003, issue34, event report |
Recasting the Past: Digital Histories |
Vanessa Carr reports on a one day conference about digitising historical records, held jointly by the Association for History and Computing UK and the Royal Historical Society. |
January 2005, issue42, event report |
SEAMLESS: Introduction to the Project |
Mary Rowlatt describes SEAMLESS, the Essex-based project. |
March 1999, issue19, 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 |
Subject Portals |
Judith Clark describes a three-year project to develop a set of subject portals as part of the Distributed National Electronic Resource (DNER) development programme. |
October 2001, issue29, feature article |
