Overview of content related to 'research'
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Research can be defined as the search for knowledge, or as any systematic investigation, with an open mind, to establish novel facts, usually using a scientific method. The primary purpose for basic research (as opposed to applied research) is discovering, interpreting, and the development of methods and systems for the advancement of human knowledge on a wide variety of scientific matters of our world and the universe. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Research)
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Review: Songs of Innocence and of Experience |
Philip Hunter reviews a CD-ROM edition of one of William Blake's most famous works. |
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 35: The Art and Craft of Portalage |
Philip Hunter provides an editorial introduction to Ariadne 35. |
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ePrints UK: Developing a National E-prints Archive |
Ruth Martin describes the technical work of the ePrints UK project, and outlines the non-technical issues that must also be addressed if the project is to deliver a national e-prints service |
April 2003, issue35, feature article |
Syndicated Content: It's More Than Just Some File Formats? |
Paul Miller takes a look at issues arising from the current enthusiasm for syndicating content to portals or other web sites, and offers some guidelines for good practice. |
April 2003, issue35, feature article |
Access Management: The Key to a Portal - The Experience of the Subject Portals Project |
Francisco Pinto and Michael Fraser report on the experience of the Subject Portals Project. |
April 2003, issue35, feature article |
Functionality in Digital Annotation: Imitating and Supporting Real-world Annotation |
Richard Waller looks at both pre-digital and digital concepts of annotation, with a view to how annotation tools might be used in the subject-gateway environment. |
April 2003, issue35, feature article |
What Features in a Portal? |
Geoff Butters analyses the features found in various types of portal, and includes a comparison with the planned features for the JISC Subject Portals. |
April 2003, issue35, feature article |
Apart from the Weather, I Think It’s a Good Idea: Stakeholder Requirements for Institutional Portals |
Liz Pearce takes a look at recent research from the PORTAL Project, which asked over 600 users what they might want from an institutional portal. |
April 2003, issue35, feature article |
Mandated Online RAE CVs Linked to University Eprint Archives: Enhancing UK Research Impact and Assessment |
Stevan Harnad, Les Carr, Tim Brody and Charles Oppenheim make a case for maximising the advantages and the UK's pre-eminence in the Research Assessment Exercise. |
April 2003, issue35, feature article |
Creating Websites for e-Citizens: the Public Library Web Managers Workshop 2002 |
In the first of a series of articles, Penny Garrod takes us through some of the choices confronting UK public libraries, and begins by looking at the ramifications of the DCMS report "Framework for the future". |
April 2003, issue35, regular column |
Planet SOSIG: Regarding Collaboration, Conferences and Courses |
Alejandro Fernandez introduces a new collaborative initiative between the RDN and LTSN, Emma Place reports from the BPS Annual Conference and Neil Jacobs presents a new course for social researchers in Government. |
April 2003, issue35, regular column |
Free Full-text E-journals and EEVL's Engineering E-journal Search Engine |
Nicola Harrison and Roddy MacLeod describe what EEVL has to offer in the area of e-journals. |
April 2003, issue35, regular column |
WebWatch: Surfing Historical UK University Web Sites |
Brian Kelly outlines strategies for choosing appropriate standards for building Web sites. |
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Collection Description Focus Showcase: Mapping the Information Landscape |
Verity Brack reports on this one-day showcase of Collection Description projects and services held at the British Library, London, 25 March 2003. |
April 2003, issue35, event report |
JISC 2003 Conference Report |
Philip Pothen reports on Secretary of State Charles Clarke's view of the importance of ICT in the education sector and the role of the JISC in its implementation. |
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Review: Do We Want to Keep Our Newspapers? |
Penny Garrod reviews a book on libraries published by Office for Humanities Communication Publications. |
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News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
April 2003, issue35, news and events |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 34: Cultivating Interoperability and Resource-Sharing |
Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne issue 34. |
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Cultural Heritage Language Technologies: Building an Infrastructure for Collaborative Digital Libraries in the Humanities |
Jeffrey Rydberg-Cox describes the work of the Cultural Heritage Language Technologies consortium, a research group funded by the European Comission Information Society Technologies program and the United States National Science Foundation Digital Libraries Initiative. |
January 2003, issue34, feature article |
Exposing Information Resources for E-learning |
Steve Richardson and Andy Powell on Harvesting and searching IMS metadata using both the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, and the Z39.50 Protocol. |
January 2003, issue34, feature article |
Exploring Charging Models for Digital Cultural Heritage |
Simon Tanner and Marilyn Deegan discuss charging models. |
January 2003, issue34, feature article |
DAEDALUS : Freeing Scholarly Communication at the University of Glasgow |
William J. Nixon presents a brief overview of the DAEDALUS Open Archives Project at the University of Glasgow. |
January 2003, issue34, feature article |
Public Libraries: Creating Websites for E-citizens -The Public Library Web Managers Workshop 2002 |
Penny Garrod reports on the Public Library Web Managers workshop, November 2002, held in Bath. |
January 2003, issue34, event report |
Planet SOSIG: Social Science Case Studies |
Dave Boyd provides an update on SOSIG’s involvement in the new RDN FE case studies project, and on developments within the Geography and Environmental Sciences subject sections. |
January 2003, issue34, regular column |
Web Watch: A Survey of Web Server Software Used by UK University Web Sites |
Brian Kelly with an update of his survey of server software used by central Web sites in UK Universities. |
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The 2nd Workshop on the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) |
William Nixon and Pauline Simpson report on the meeting held at CERN, Geneva, in October 2002. |
January 2003, issue34, event report |
Hidden Treasures: The Impact of Moving Image and Sound Archives in the 21st Century |
Philip Hunter reports on the one day meeting on multimedia objects in the British Library, London, October 2002. |
January 2003, issue34, event report |
The Personalisation of the Digital Library |
Michelle Perrott and Anne Ramsden report on the Joint Open University - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya Seminar on Personalisation and Digital Libraries hosted at the Open University, October 2002. |
January 2003, issue34, event report |
Review: The Digital Factor in Information and Library Services |
Book review by Bruce Royan. |
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Review: E-learning and Teaching in Library and Information Services |
Book review by John Paschoud |
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Book Review: The Library and Information Professional's Guide to Plug-ins and Other Web Browser Tools |
Book review by Ruth Martin. |
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Newsline: News You Can Use |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
January 2003, issue34, news and events |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 33: Exploring the Information Environment |
Philip Hunter with the editorial for Ariadne 33. |
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Utilizing E-books to Enhance Digital Library Offerings |
Shirley Hyatt and Lynn Silipigni Connaway, describe the rationale and background of OCLC's acquisition of netLibrary, the information environment that is being pursued, and the resulting benefits that libraries may experience. |
October 2002, issue33, feature article |
5 Step Guide to Becoming a Content Provider in the JISC Information Environment |
Andy Powell describes steps which content providers can take to integrate their resources into the JISC IE. |
October 2002, issue33, feature article |
Climbing the Scholarly Publishing Mountain With SHERPA |
John MacColl and Stephen Pinfield explore the SHERPA project, which is concentrating on making e-prints available online. |
October 2002, issue33, feature article |
Student Searching Behaviour in the JISC Information Environment |
Jill R. Griffiths and Peter Brophy report on work in progress and air some initial findings on the EDNER project, which undertakes evaluation of the developing JISC Information Environment. |
October 2002, issue33, feature article |
A Speaking Electronic Librarian |
Markos Dendrinos with a proposal for an interface system, based on speech recognition and synthesis technologies, for automatic library services. |
October 2002, issue33, feature article |
Public Libraries: United We Stand |
Penny Garrod on current developments in the Public Library world. |
October 2002, issue33, regular column |
Planet SOSIG: A Spring-clean for SOSIG: A Systematic Approach to Collection Management |
Lesly Huxley, Emma Place, David Boyd, and Phil Cross report on a spring-cleaning exercise for SOSIG using a systematic approach to collection management. |
October 2002, issue33, regular column |
