Eileen Fenton outlines issues relating to the long-term preservation of digital resources and the characteristics of an archival entity responding to this need. <a href="/issue47">issue47</a> April 2006 <a href="/category/article-type/feature-article">feature article</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/870/author-info">eileen fenton</a> Debra Hiom, in the first of a two-part series on the Resource Discovery Network, looks back at the development of the RDN and its activities to date. <a href="/issue47">issue47</a> April 2006 <a href="/category/article-type/feature-article">feature article</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/193/author-info">debra hiom</a> Debra Hiom provides a timeline of the RDN's development, which accompanies her main article. <a href="/issue47">issue47</a> April 2006 <a href="/category/article-type/feature-article">feature article</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/193/author-info">debra hiom</a> Aaron Krowne and Urvashi Gadi present a framework which improves searching in the context of scholarly digital libraries by taking a 'quality metrics-aware' approach. <a href="/issue47">issue47</a> April 2006 <a href="/category/article-type/feature-article">feature article</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/871/author-info">aaron krowne</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/872/author-info">urvashi gadi</a> Terry Reese discusses the creation of a shared knowledge base system within OSU's open-source metasearch development. <a href="/issue47">issue47</a> April 2006 <a href="/category/article-type/feature-article">feature article</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/873/author-info">terry reese</a> R. John Robertson introduces a project examining the potential benefits of OAI-PMH Static Repositories as a means of enabling small publishers to participate more fully in the information environment. <a href="/issue47">issue47</a> April 2006 <a href="/category/article-type/feature-article">feature article</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/874/author-info">r. john robertson</a> Emma Tonkin suggests that rising new ideas are often on their second circuit - and none the worse for that. <a href="/issue47">issue47</a> April 2006 <a href="/category/article-type/feature-article">feature article</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/809/author-info">emma tonkin</a> Julie Allinson, Marieke Guy and Maureen Pennock find themselves contemplating e-frameworks, digital curation and repositories at the JISC Annual Conference. <a href="/issue47">issue47</a> April 2006 <a href="/category/article-type/event-report">event report</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/876/author-info">julie allinson</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/732/author-info">marieke guy</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/865/author-info">maureen pennock</a> Jeremy Frumkin and Dan Chudnov report on the inaugural conference of the Code4lib community of programmers, hackers, and techies working in or with libraries and information systems. <a href="/issue47">issue47</a> April 2006 <a href="/category/article-type/event-report">event report</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/877/author-info">dan chudnov</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/770/author-info">jeremy frumkin</a> Neil Beagrie and Mark Bide report on a one-day invitational workshop on Digital Policy Management sponsored by The British Library, JISC and UKOLN under the aegis of the British Library/JISC Partnership, held in the British Library Conference Centre on 24 April 2006. <a href="/issue47">issue47</a> April 2006 <a href="/category/article-type/event-report">event report</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/878/author-info">mark bide</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/623/author-info">neil beagrie</a> Julie Allinson and Mahendra Mahey report on a 2-day JISC Digital Repositories Meeting focusing on project clusters working together and other related issues held by JISC in Warwick, UK over 27-28 March 2006. <a href="/issue47">issue47</a> April 2006 <a href="/category/article-type/event-report">event report</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/876/author-info">julie allinson</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/879/author-info">mahendra mahey</a> Neil Beagrie and Rachel Bruce report on a two-day invitational conference on The Digital Library and its Services sponsored by The British Library, JISC and UKOLN under the aegis of the British Library/JISC Partnership, held in the British Library Conference Centre on over 6-7 March 2006. <a href="/issue47">issue47</a> April 2006 <a href="/category/article-type/event-report">event report</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/623/author-info">neil beagrie</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/744/author-info">rachel bruce</a> Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. <a href="/issue47">issue47</a> April 2006 <a href="/category/article-type/news-and-events">news and events</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/117/author-info">richard waller</a> Sally Rumsey recommends a new book about institutional repositories. <a href="/issue47">issue47</a> April 2006 <a href="/category/article-type/review">review</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/545/author-info">sally rumsey</a> Sheila Corrall reviews a new landmark book which explains and promotes a distinctive approach to information-related research spanning traditional disciplinary and professional boundaries. <a href="/issue47">issue47</a> April 2006 <a href="/category/article-type/review">review</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/516/author-info">sheila corrall</a> Lina Coelho feels that digital reference has come of age and that this work is one of its adornments where reference information professionals are concerned. <a href="/issue47">issue47</a> April 2006 <a href="/category/article-type/review">review</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/716/author-info">lina coelho</a> Stephen Town finds this US multi-author work may not meet the needs of readers in the UK, and offers some ideas which a UK version might incorporate. <a href="/issue47">issue47</a> April 2006 <a href="/category/article-type/review">review</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/766/author-info">stephen town</a>