The editor introduces readers to the content of Ariadne Issue 70. <a href="/issue70">issue70</a> November 2012 <a href="/category/article-type/editorial">editorial</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/117/author-info">richard waller</a> 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. <a href="/issue70">issue70</a> November 2012 <a href="/category/article-type/feature-article">feature article</a> <a href="/category/authors/richard-gartner">richard gartner</a> 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. <a href="/issue68">issue68</a> March 2012 <a href="/category/article-type/event-report">event report</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/973/author-info">sylvie lafortune</a> Emma Tonkin takes a look at a book on the work of the taxonomist and notes both merits and disappointments. <a href="/issue65">issue65</a> October 2010 <a href="/category/article-type/review">review</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/809/author-info">emma tonkin</a> Michael Day reviews a Festschrift celebrating the work of Professor Peter Brophy, founder of the Centre for Research in Library and Information Management. <a href="/issue64">issue64</a> July 2010 <a href="/category/article-type/review">review</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/407/author-info">michael day</a> Michael Day reviews an edited volume published to commemorate the founding of the Institute of Information Scientists in 1958. <a href="/issue63">issue63</a> April 2010 <a href="/category/article-type/review">review</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/407/author-info">michael day</a> Jane Stevenson gives a personal view of the recent UK conference organised by the International Society of Knowledge Organization. <a href="/issue60">issue60</a> July 2009 <a href="/category/article-type/event-report">event report</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/1004/author-info">jane stevenson</a> Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. <a href="/issue60">issue60</a> July 2009 <a href="/category/article-type/news-and-events">news and events</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/117/author-info">richard waller</a> Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. <a href="/category/issue-number/issue59">issue59</a> April 2009 <a href="/category/article-type/news-and-events">news and events</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/117/author-info">richard waller</a> Georg Eckes and Monika Segbert describe a Best Practice Network funded under the eContentplus Programme of the European Commission, which is building a portal for access to film archival resources in Europe. <a href="/issue58">issue58</a> January 2009 <a href="/category/article-type/feature-article">feature article</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/1020/author-info">georg eckes</a>, <a href="/category/authors/monika-elbert-0">monika elbert</a> Christina Claridge reports on the conference, held 3-5 September 2008, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. <a href="/category/issue-number/issue57">issue57</a> October 2008 <a href="/category/article-type/event-report">event report</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/1007/author-info">christina claridge</a> Tony Ross gives a personal reflection on his intellectual struggle to comprehend the JISC Information Environment. <a href="/category/issue-number/issue56">issue56</a> July 2008 <a href="/category/article-type/feature-article">feature article</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/996/author-info">tony ross</a> 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. <a href="/category/issue-number/issue56">issue56</a> July 2008 <a href="/category/article-type/event-report">event report</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/918/author-info">paul walk</a> Alexander Ball provides an overview of the Knowledge and Information Management Through Life Project Conference held in April, 2008. <a href="/issue55">issue55</a> April 2008 <a href="/category/article-type/event-report">event report</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/919/author-info">alex ball</a> Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. <a href="/issue55">issue55</a> April 2008 <a href="/category/article-type/news-and-events">news and events</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/117/author-info">richard waller</a> 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. <a href="/issue54">issue54</a> January 2008 <a href="/category/article-type/feature-article">feature article</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/967/author-info">andrea resmini</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/964/author-info">edward m. corrado</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/809/author-info">emma tonkin</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/968/author-info">heather d. pfeiffer</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/965/author-info">heather lea moulaison</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/966/author-info">margaret e. i. kipp</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/969/author-info">qiping zhang</a> Sophia Ananiadou describes NaCTeM and the main scientific challenges it helps to solve together with issues related to deployment, use and uptake of NaCTeM's text mining tools and services. <a href="/issue53">issue53</a> October 2007 <a href="/category/article-type/feature-article">feature article</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/805/author-info">sophia ananiadou</a> Ann Apps reports on DC2007, the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, held 27-31 August 2007 in Singapore. <a href="/issue53">issue53</a> October 2007 <a href="/category/article-type/event-report">event report</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/631/author-info">ann apps</a> 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. <a href="/issue53">issue53</a> October 2007 <a href="/category/article-type/event-report">event report</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/809/author-info">emma tonkin</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/879/author-info">mahendra mahey</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/952/author-info">robert john robertson</a> Conrad Taylor reports on the KIDMM knowledge community and its September 2007 one-day conference about data, information and knowledge management issues. <a href="/issue53">issue53</a> October 2007 <a href="/category/article-type/event-report">event report</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/953/author-info">conrad taylor</a> 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. <a href="/issue51">issue51</a> April 2007 <a href="/category/article-type/review">review</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/931/author-info">keith doyle</a> 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. <a href="/issue49">issue49</a> October 2006 <a href="/category/article-type/feature-article">feature article</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/900/author-info">yan han</a> 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. <a href="/issue49">issue49</a> October 2006 <a href="/category/article-type/event-report">event report</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/876/author-info">julie allinson</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/621/author-info">pete johnston</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/232/author-info">rachel heery</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/371/author-info">rosemary russell</a> David E. Bennett reports on the three day residential CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group Annual Conference, University of East Anglia, during September 2006. <a href="/issue49">issue49</a> October 2006 <a href="/category/article-type/event-report">event report</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/904/author-info">david e. bennett</a> Miguel Ferreira, Ana Alice Baptista and Jose Carlos Ramalho propose a Service-Oriented Architecture to help cultural heritage institutions to accomplish automatic digital preservation. <a href="/issue48">issue48</a> July 2006 <a href="/category/article-type/feature-article">feature article</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/887/author-info">ana alice baptista</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/888/author-info">jose carlos ramalho</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/886/author-info">miguel ferreira</a> Emma Tonkin suggests that rising new ideas are often on their second circuit - and none the worse for that. <a href="/issue47">issue47</a> April 2006 <a href="/category/article-type/feature-article">feature article</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/809/author-info">emma tonkin</a> Paul Trafford describes how mobile blogs for personal reflection may be related to institutional learning environments, drawing on experiences from the RAMBLE Project. <a href="/issue44">issue44</a> July 2005 <a href="/category/article-type/feature-article">feature article</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/840/author-info">paul trafford</a> Pete Johnston introduces the JISC Information Environment Metadata Schema Registry (IEMSR) Project and examines some of the challenges it is facing. <a href="/issue43">issue43</a> April 2005 <a href="/category/article-type/feature-article">feature article</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/621/author-info">pete johnston</a> Marieke Guy takes a look at a recent introduction to metadata for the information professional. <a href="/issue43">issue43</a> April 2005 <a href="/category/article-type/review">review</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/732/author-info">marieke guy</a> Sophia Ananiadou, Julia Chruszcz, John Keane, John McNaught and Paul Watry describe NaCTeM's plans to provide text mining services for UK academics. <a href="/issue42">issue42</a> January 2005 <a href="/category/article-type/feature-article">feature article</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/806/author-info">john keane</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/807/author-info">john mcnaught</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/725/author-info">julia chruszcz</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/808/author-info">paul watry</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/805/author-info">sophia ananiadou</a> 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. <a href="/issue42">issue42</a> January 2005 <a href="/category/article-type/feature-article">feature article</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/810/author-info">jane inman</a> 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. <a href="/issue42">issue42</a> January 2005 <a href="/category/article-type/event-report">event report</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/817/author-info">vanessa carr</a> Jean Godby assesses the customised subsets of metadata elements that have been defined by 35 projects using the LOM standard to describe e-learning resources. <a href="/issue41">issue41</a> October 2004 <a href="/category/article-type/feature-article">feature article</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/793/author-info">jean godby</a> Jenny Hall and Donald Mackay report on recent news form BIOME, the Health and Life Sciences hub of the Resource Discovery Network. <a href="/issue41">issue41</a> October 2004 <a href="/category/article-type/regular-column">regular column</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/726/author-info">donald mackay</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/728/author-info">jenny hall</a> Alison Baud and Ann Chapman describe the development of a database of archive, library and museum collections in Bath. <a href="/issue40">issue40</a> July 2004 <a href="/category/article-type/feature-article">feature article</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/776/author-info">alison baud</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/322/author-info">ann chapman</a> Paola Stillone reports on a three-day annual conference of the CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group (CIG), held at the University of Bath, 30 June - 2 July. <a href="/issue40">issue40</a> July 2004 <a href="/category/article-type/event-report">event report</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/781/author-info">paola stillone</a> Sarah Shreeves reports on a one-day workshop on current developments and future directions for JISC terminology services held in London, February 2004. <a href="/issue39">issue39</a> April 2004 <a href="/category/article-type/event-report">event report</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/765/author-info">sarah shreeves</a> 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. <a href="/issue38">issue38</a> January 2004 <a href="/category/article-type/feature-article">feature article</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/354/author-info">andy powell</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/732/author-info">marieke guy</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/407/author-info">michael day</a> Penny Garrod reports on the Public Library Web Managers workshop, November 2002, held in Bath. <a href="/issue34">issue34</a> January 2003 <a href="/category/article-type/event-report">event report</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/666/author-info">penny garrod</a> Pete Johnston reports on the New Directions in Metadata conference, 15-16 August, in Edinburgh <a href="/issue33">issue33</a> October 2002 <a href="/category/article-type/event-report">event report</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/621/author-info">pete johnston</a>