Overview of content related to 'intute'

Editorial Introduction to Issue 55: Digital Lives, Digital Values

editor — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:00:00 +0000

Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 55.

As far back as a work reviewed in Ariadne Issue 41 [1], the notion of personal collections was not exactly novel, but as Pete Williams, Katrina Dean, Ian Rowlands and Jeremy Leighton John remark in Digital Lives: Report of Interviews with the Creators of Personal Digital Collections 'the inexorable march of technological innovation' has served to encourage people to amass increasingly large and diverse personal collections of information about themselves and t

Towards an Application Profile for Images

editor — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:00:00 +0000

Mick Eadie describes the development of the Dublin Core Images Application Profile project recently funded through the JISC.

Following on from the project to develop an application profile for scholarly works (SWAP)[1], the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has recently funded through its Repositories and Preservation Programme, a series of projects to establish Application Profiles in the areas of images, time-based media, geospatial data and learning objects [2].

Intute Integration

editor — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:00:00 +0000

Angela Joyce, Jackie Wickham, Phil Cross and Chris Stephens describe Intute's ongoing Integration Project, which is promoting and developing integration of Intute content in the UK academic library community.

The evolution of the Web has changed the way that people access information. Web 2.0 technologies have allowed information providers to integrate their services in people's existing online spaces, and users expect to be able to synthesise, edit and customise content for their own specific purposes. Intute, the JISC-funded service that aims to offer the best of the Web for Higher and Further Education, has responded to these changes by developing a variety of integration services which offer flexible ways of delivering its content to users.

News and Events

editor — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:00:00 +0000

Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

UKeiG Courses over May – October 2008

Searching the Internet: Google and Beyond

Karen Blakeman
Friday 16 May 2008
University of Liverpool
http://www.ukeig.org.uk/training/2008/May/beyondgoogle.html

Searching the Internet: Google and Beyond

Karen Blakeman
Wednesday 11 June 2008
King's College London, Guy's Campus
http://www.ukeig.org.uk/training/2008/June/beyondgoogle.html