David Nichols reports on the important international conference: Digital Libraries '97. <a href="/issue11">issue11</a> September 1997 <a href="/category/article-type/event-report">event report</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/224/author-info">david nichols</a> David Nichols reports on the follow-on conference SIGIR '97. <a href="/issue11">issue11</a> September 1997 <a href="/category/article-type/event-report">event report</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/224/author-info">david nichols</a> One of my previous lecturers jokingly said that once you had a title, logo and an acronym for your project, 80% of the work was done. Except I'm not so sure she was joking, now. Ariadne took (relatively) little time to be decided on as a title, but as it turned out, many other projects around the world, and one in particular in the UK, shared this greek mythological name. This has caused problems; for example, lists of digital libraries/training projects occasionally get us mixed up with the Ariadne project at Lancaster. Dr. David Nichols from this Lancaster project gives a brief run-down of other projects that have taken the name Ariadne. <a href="/issue2">issue2</a> March 1996 <a href="/category/article-type/odds-and-ends">odds and ends</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/224/author-info">david nichols</a>