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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A Bug's Life?: How Metaphors from Ecology Can Articulate the Messy Details of Repository Interactions |
R. John Robertson, Mahendra Mahey and Phil Barker introduce work investigating an alternative model of repository and service interaction. |
October 2008, issue57, feature article |
A Selection of Social Media Search Engines |
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. |
October 2008, issue57, feature article |
Book Review: Against the Machine |
Mahendra Mahey reviews a book which examines popular Internet culture and how it may be having negative effects on many of us. |
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Book Review: Managing the Crowd - Rethinking Records Management for the Web 2.0 World |
Marieke Guy reviews a text that could offer the blueprint for moving records management into the 21st century. |
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Book Review: Pro Web 2.0 Mashups |
Ralph LeVan looks at a comprehensive work on how to consume and repurpose Web services. |
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Book Review: Website Optimization |
Pete Cliff used to think 'Website Optimisation' simply meant compressing images and avoiding nested tables, but in this he book finds out how much more there is to it, even in the Age of Broadband. |
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CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group Annual Conference |
Christina Claridge reports on the conference, held 3-5 September 2008, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. |
October 2008, issue57, event report |
Copyright Angst, Lust for Prestige and Cost Control: What Institutions Can Do to Ease Open Access |
Leo Waaijers writes about copyright, prestige and cost control in the world of open access while in two appendices Bas Savenije and Michel Wesseling compare the costs of open access publishing and subscriptions/licences for their respective institutions. |
October 2008, issue57, feature article |
Digital Preservation Planning: Principles, Examples and the Future With Planets |
Frances Boyle and Jane Humphreys report on the one-day workshop on digital preservation planning jointly organised by the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and Planets held at the British Library, on Tuesday 29 July 2008. |
October 2008, issue57, event report |
Embedding Web Preservation Strategies Within Your Institution |
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. |
October 2008, issue57, event report |
eResearch Australasia 2008 |
Tobias Blanke, Ann Borda, Gaby Bright and Bridget Soulsby report on the annual eResearch Australasia Conference, held in Melbourne, Australia, 29 September - 3 October, 2008. |
October 2008, issue57, event report |
Europeana: An Infrastructure for Adding Local Content |
Rob Davies describes a Best Practice Network under the eContentPlus Programme to make available locally sourced digital content to the Europeana Service. |
October 2008, issue57, feature article |
Get Tooled Up: Staying Connected: Technologies Supporting Remote Workers |
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. |
October 2008, issue57, feature article |
Implementing E-Legal Deposit: A British Library Perspective |
Ronald Milne and John Tuck summarise progress towards implementation of the Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003 which extended provision to non-print materials. Particular reference is made to the British Library. |
October 2008, issue57, feature article |
iPRES 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. |
October 2008, issue57, event report |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
October 2008, issue57, news and events |
OAI-ORE, PRESERV2 and Digital Preservation |
Sally Rumsey and Ben O'Steen describe OAI-ORE and how it can contribute to digital preservation activities. |
October 2008, issue57, feature article |
What Happens If I Click on This?': Experiences of the Archives Hub |
Jane Stevenson describes the results of usability testing for the Archives Hub Web site. |
October 2008, issue57, feature article |
