Overview of content related to 'data'

Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 57.

Having considered organisational issues in her previous article, Marieke Guy takes a look at the many technologies that support remote working, from broadband to Web 2.0 social networking tools.

Phil Bradley takes a look at how social media output is being indexed, sorted and made available for searching by looking at some representative samples.

Sally Rumsey and Ben O'Steen describe OAI-ORE and how it can contribute to digital preservation activities.

Christina Claridge reports on the conference, held 3-5 September 2008, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland.

Christopher Eddie reports on the third one-day workshop of the JISC-PoWR (Preservation of Web Resources) Project held at the University of Manchester on 12 September 2008.

Frances Boyle and Adam Farquhar report on the two-day international conference which was the fifth in the series on digital preservation of digital objects held at the British Library, on 29 - 30 September 2008.

Marieke Guy reviews a text that could offer the blueprint for moving records management into the 21st century.

Ralph LeVan looks at a comprehensive work on how to consume and repurpose Web services.

Jenny Brace explains why giving time to versioning within a repository is worthwhile and outlines the best practice to implement.

Jason Cooper describes how Loughborough University Library integrated a number of collections of journal back files into their existing electronic environment.

Marieke Guy examines both the benefits and the pitfalls of working remotely from the standpoint of both employees and their organisation.

Tony Ross gives a personal reflection on his intellectual struggle to comprehend the JISC Information Environment.

Emma Tonkin looks at the current landscape of persistent identifiers, describes several current services, and examines the theoretical background behind their structure and use.

Mia Ridge reports on the Mashed Museum day and the Museums Computer Group UK Museums on the Web Conference, held at the University of Leicester in June 2008.

Stephen Emmott reports on a one-day workshop aimed at all those interested in issues relating to institutional Web resource preservation. The event was held by the JISC-PoWR team at the University of London in June 2008.

Mahendra Mahey reports on the third international Open Repositories 2008 Conference, held at the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton in April 2008.

Pete Cliff considers a new book on data visualisation and hopes one day to implement some of the interesting ideas presented in this work.

Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 55.