Overview of content related to 'authentication'

Richard Waller introduces Ariadne 51.

Andy Powell and David Recordon take a brief look at OpenID and ask what relevance it has to e-learning.

Marieke Guy reports on a one-day workshop, held in Birmingham in November 2006, which took a closer look at the potential of Wikis for educational institutions.

Marieke Guy revisits a topic receiving considerable attention these days and reflects on wiki use by public organisations.

Lorcan Dempsey explores how the library catalogue will develop alongside evolving network discovery systems.

Eileen Fenton outlines issues relating to the long-term preservation of digital resources and the characteristics of an archival entity responding to this need.

Neil Beagrie and Rachel Bruce report on a two-day invitational conference on The Digital Library and its Services sponsored by The British Library, JISC and UKOLN under the aegis of the British Library/JISC Partnership, held in the British Library Conference Centre on over 6-7 March 2006.

Lorcan Dempsey considers how the digital library environment has changed in the ten years since Ariadne was first published.

Amber Thomas and Andrew Rothery explore how online repositories are being used to store and share e-learning content, and show how taking the user perspective might challenge the emerging approaches to repository development.

John Gilby reports on the UKOLN/IESR two-day workshop at Scarman House, University of Warwick on 14-15 July 2005.

Paul Trafford describes how mobile blogs for personal reflection may be related to institutional learning environments, drawing on experiences from the RAMBLE Project.

Miles Banbery reports on the 9th Institutional Web Management Workshop held at the University of Manchester, UK, over 6-8 July 2005.

Simon McLeish describes the experience of Shibboleth installation in a Higher Education environment, and suggests ways to make this experience more user-friendly.

Sarah Pearson reports on the annual 3-day UK Serials Group (UKSG) conference recently held at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.

Emma Tonkin examines wikis and considers the feasibility of their deployment - and the danger of the 'tumbleweed' syndrome.

Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

Chris Awre reviews the JISC Information Environment Presentation Programme and offers an insight to the outcomes of recent studies.

Britta Woldering describes the findings of the recently completed EU Project The European Library, focusing on technical solutions and metadata development.

Ann Apps reports on a conference about current and future uses of the proposed OpenURL Framework Standard Z39.88-2004.