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The University of Chicago (U of C, UC, UChicago, or simply Chicago) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890. William Rainey Harper became the university's first president, in 1891, and the first classes were held in 1892. It has a reputation of devotion to academic scholarship and intellectualism and is affiliated with scores of Rhodes Scholars and 85 Nobel Prize laureates. The University is considered an "Ivy Plus" institution, denoting a school that competes academically among Ivy League universities (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: University of Chicago)
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Kultivating Kultur: Increasing Arts Research Deposit |
Marie-Therese Gramstadt discusses how the JISC-funded Kultivate Project is encouraging arts research deposit in UK institutional repositories. |
March 2012, issue68, feature article |
International Digital Curation Conference 2010 |
Alex Ball reports on the 6th International Digital Curation Conference, held on 7-8 December 2010 in Chicago. |
January 2011, issue66, event report |
eBooks: Tipping or Vanishing Point? |
Emma Tonkin investigates ebooks and takes a look at recent technological and business developments in this area. |
January 2010, issue62, feature article |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
January 2009, issue58, news and events |
Capacity Building: Spoken Word at Glasgow Caledonian University |
Iain Wallace, Graeme West and David Donald give an account of the origins, nature and establishment of Spoken Word Services at Glasgow Caledonian University. |
July 2007, issue52, feature article |
2nd International DCC Conference 2006: Digital Data Curation in Practice |
Alexander Ball and Manjula Patel provide an overview of the second annual conference of the Digital Curation Centre. |
January 2007, issue50, event report |
Preserving Electronic Scholarly Journals: Portico |
Eileen Fenton outlines issues relating to the long-term preservation of digital resources and the characteristics of an archival entity responding to this need. |
April 2006, issue47, feature article |
Book Review: Memory Bytes - History, Technology, and Digital Culture |
Ingrid Mason takes a look at this collection of essays and analyses how these authors contribute to our understanding of digital culture by placing digital technology in an historical context. |
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Unicode and Historic Scripts |
Deborah Anderson provides us an overview of the progress made in bringing historic scripts to the Unicode Standard. |
October 2003, issue37, feature article |
Electronic Homer |
Martin Mueller reads Homer electronically with the TLG, Perseus, and the Chicago Homer. |
September 2000, issue25, feature article |
Electronic Publication of Ancient Near Eastern Texts |
Charles E. Jones and David Schloen report on a Chicago conference which explored XML tagging for Ancient Near Eastern Texts on the Web. |
December 1999, issue22, feature article |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 21: Ariadne's Thread |
Introduction to Ariadne issue 21 by Philip Hunter. |
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The Web Editor: 'Abzu and Beyond' |
Charles Jones muses on the history of the Internet presence of the University of Chicago Oriental Institute. |
September 1999, issue21, regular column |
Metadata: Image Retrieval |
Michael Day reports on combining content-based and metadata-based approaches. |
March 1999, issue19, regular column |
Formats for the Electronic Library |
Judith Wusteman describes the document formats used in electronic serials. |
March 1997, issue8, feature article |
