http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/taxonomy/term/1563/all?article-type=&term=&organisation=&project=&author=&issue=issue38 RSS feed with Ariadne content related to specified tag en http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue38/ahds <div class="field field-type-text field-field-teaser-article"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <p><a href="/issue38/ahds#author1">Alastair Dunning</a> describes the changes afoot at the AHDS and how it intends to adapt to the changes in both technology and the needs of its stakeholders.</p> </div> </div> </div> <p>Established in 1995, the <a href="http://ahds.ac.uk/">Arts and Humanities Data Service</a> [<a href="#1">1</a>] was created with the objective of developing an infrastructure to manage the growing number of digital resources being created within the arts and humanities.</p> <p>One medium for discussing this initial development was Ariadne, and Daniel Greenstein and Jennifer Trant's 1996 article [<a href="#2">2</a>] gave a detailed account of the aims and organisation of the AHDS.</p> <p><a href="http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue38/ahds" target="_blank">read more</a></p> issue38 feature article alastair dunning ahds jisc kings college london surrey institute of art & design university of essex university of glasgow university of oxford university of york archives cataloguing data data set database framework ict infrastructure preservation research search technology standardisation Fri, 30 Jan 2004 00:00:00 +0000 editor 1002 at http://www.ariadne.ac.uk http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue38/5-99 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-teaser-article"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <p><a href="/issue38/5-99#author1">Rachel Bruce</a> and <a href="/issue38/5-99#author2">Balviar Notay</a> give an overview of the outputs and influences of the JISC 5/99 Learning and Teaching and Infrastructure Programme.</p> </div> </div> </div> <p>The 5/99 Programme, as it became known, was funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (<a href="http://www.jisc.ac.uk">JISC</a>) [<a href="#1">1</a>] in the year 2000. Quite simply the name, 5/99, refers to the number of a JISC circular letter. It was the fifth circular issued by the JISC in 1999. So the name is pretty meaningless to those outside the JISC or not involved in one of 54 projects that were funded via the circular. The majority of the projects have now completed, the programme end date was July 2003.</p> <p><a href="http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue38/5-99" target="_blank">read more</a></p> issue38 feature article balviar notay rachel bruce british library bufvc cerlim edina jisc jisc collections mimas oai surrey institute of art & design ukoln university college london university of liverpool university of oxford university of strathclyde chcc dner eevl elib iconex iesr inspiral jafer jisc information environment jorum patois sosig subject portals project trilt xgrain zetoc accessibility archives authentication authorisation service cataloguing data data set database digital library e-learning ejournal framework further education geospatial data gis higher education infrastructure infrastructure service internet explorer interoperability java jstor learning objects licence metadata open archives initiative open source openurl portal repositories research resource discovery rslp search technology service registry sfx software standards usability video visualisation z39.50 Fri, 30 Jan 2004 00:00:00 +0000 editor 1003 at http://www.ariadne.ac.uk http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue38/guy <div class="field field-type-text field-field-teaser-article"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <p><a href="/issue38/guy#author1">Marieke Guy</a>, <a href="/issue38/guy#author2">Andy Powell</a> and <a href="/issue38/guy#author3">Michael Day</a> address the argument that the quality of service to end-users is markedly influenced by the quality of metadata being produced and provide suggestions.</p> </div> </div> </div> <p>Throughout the eprints community there is an increasing awareness of the need for improvement in the quality of metadata and in associated quality assurance mechanisms. Some [<a href="#1">1</a>] feel that recent discussion of the cultural and institutional barriers to self-archiving, which have so far limited the proliferation of eprint archives in the UK, have meant that anything that is perceived as a barrier between academics and their parent institutions needs to be played down.</p> <p><a href="http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue38/guy" target="_blank">read more</a></p> issue38 feature article andy powell marieke guy michael day andrew w mellon foundation jisc oai ukoln university of southampton eprints uk gnu subject portals project application profile archives cataloguing collection description controlled vocabularies data digital library dublin core eprints html interoperability learning objects metadata oai-pmh open archives initiative research rslp schema search technology semantic web simple dublin core software usability vocabularies Fri, 30 Jan 2004 00:00:00 +0000 editor 1004 at http://www.ariadne.ac.uk http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue38/portole <div class="field field-type-text field-field-teaser-article"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <p><a href="/issue38/portole#author1">Tracey Stanley</a>, <a href="/issue38/portole#author2">Mina Sotiriou</a> and <a href="/issue38/portole#author3">Matthew Dovey</a> provide an overview of a project to produce tools to discover information resources and deploy them within a university VLE.</p> </div> </div> </div> <p><!--<br /> <h3 id="Abstract">Abstract</h3> </p><p>The PORTOLE (Providing Online Resources To Online Learning Environments) Project was a JISC-funded project which sought to produce a range of tools for tutors which could be used to enable them to discover information resources and to embed these into their course modules from within a University Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). The VLE in use at the Universities of Leeds and Oxford is the Bodington system. A key deliverable of the project was to produce tools that were designed with the ease of incorporation into other VLE environments in mind.</p> <p><a href="http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue38/portole" target="_blank">read more</a></p> issue38 feature article matthew dovey mina sotiriou tracey stanley google ims jisc microsoft university of leeds university of oxford dner jafer jisc information environment portole algorithm bibliographic data cataloguing data database digital library dublin core e-learning google search html information architecture infrastructure internet explorer java marc marc21 metadata multimedia open source openurl portal resource discovery schema scripting language search technology software sql sql server standards subject gateway vle web resources xml xml schema xslt z39.50 Fri, 30 Jan 2004 00:00:00 +0000 editor 1006 at http://www.ariadne.ac.uk http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue38/woldering <div class="field field-type-text field-field-teaser-article"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <p><a href="/issue38/woldering#author1">Britta Woldering</a> describes the findings of the recently completed EU Project The European Library, focusing on technical solutions and metadata development.</p> </div> </div> </div> <p>The European Library (<a href="http://www.europeanlibrary.org ">TEL</a>) Project [<a href="#1">1</a>] completed at the end of January 2004. The key aim of TEL was to investigate the feasibility of establishing a new Pan-European service which would ultimately give access to the combined resources of the national libraries of Europe [<a href="#2">2</a>]. The project was partly funded by the European Commission as an accompanying measure under the cultural heritage applications area of Key Action 3 of the Information Societies Technology (IST) research programme.</p> <p><a href="http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue38/woldering" target="_blank">read more</a></p> issue38 feature article britta woldering oai application profile archives authentication bibliographic data browser cataloguing collection description copyright data database dcmi dublin core dublin core metadata initiative e-business html hypertext identifier infrastructure interoperability javascript metadata metadata model namespace national library oai-pmh open archives initiative open source openurl portal python research rslp search technology soap software sru srw url web browser web services xhtml xml xsl z39.50 Fri, 30 Jan 2004 00:00:00 +0000 editor 1007 at http://www.ariadne.ac.uk http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue38/jones <div class="field field-type-text field-field-teaser-article"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <p><a href="/issue38/jones#author1">Richard Jones</a> examines the similarities and differences between DSpace and ETD-db to determine their applicability in a modern E-theses service.</p> </div> </div> </div> <p>The <a href="http://www.thesesalive.ac.uk/">Theses Alive!</a> [<a href="#1">1</a>] Project, based at Edinburgh University Library and funded under the JISC Fair Programme [<a href="#2">2</a>], is aiming to produce, among other things, a software solution for institutions in the UK to implement their own E-theses or Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) online submission system and repository. In order to achieve this it has been necessary to examine existing packages that may provide all or part of the solution we desire before considering what extra development we may need to do.</p> <p><a href="http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue38/jones" target="_blank">read more</a></p> issue38 feature article richard jones hewlett-packard iso jisc massachusetts institute of technology oai sun microsystems university of edinburgh university of glasgow university of southampton daedalus apache archives authentication copyright data database digital library digital preservation document management dspace dublin core electronic theses eprints file format ftp identifier infrastructure institutional repository interoperability java licence linux lucene metadata mysql oai-pmh open archives initiative open source passwords perl preservation programming language repositories research schema scripting language search technology software standards tomcat Fri, 30 Jan 2004 00:00:00 +0000 editor 1008 at http://www.ariadne.ac.uk http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue38/williams <div class="field field-type-text field-field-teaser-article"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <p><a href="/issue38/williams#author1">Mark Williams</a> highlights some of the services that the RDN provides for the benefit of FE users.</p> </div> </div> </div> <p>The Further Education sector has put significant resources into the development of managed learning environments to support their learners, but however good the technical infrastructure, the learner experience will only be as good as the resources they can access. This is where the <a href="http://www.rdn.ac.uk/">RDN</a> [<a href="#1">1</a>] can help.</p> <p><a href="http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue38/williams" target="_blank">read more</a></p> issue38 feature article mark williams jisc university of glamorgan eevl sosig cataloguing further education higher education infrastructure resource discovery search technology software vle web resources Fri, 30 Jan 2004 00:00:00 +0000 editor 1009 at http://www.ariadne.ac.uk http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue38/altis <div class="field field-type-text field-field-teaser-article"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <p><a href="/issue38/altis#author1">Steven Hewitt</a> gives advice on finding quality Internet resources in hospitality, leisure, sport and tourism</p> </div> </div> </div> <p>Anyone who uses the Internet on a regular basis is only too aware of the problem of finding good quality, reliable information using commercial search engines such as Google and Alta Vista. For students and teachers, short on time to complete assignments or prepare lessons, sifting through thousands of search results to find relevant information can be daunting.</p> <p><a href="http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue38/altis" target="_blank">read more</a></p> issue38 feature article steven hewitt google university of birmingham cataloguing further education research search technology web resources Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:16:11 +0000 admin 1676 at http://www.ariadne.ac.uk http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue38/artifact <div class="field field-type-text field-field-teaser-article"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <p><a href="/issue38/artifact#author1">Jayne Everard</a> writes about the areas covered by the new subject service Artifact and takes us through the facilities on offer to FE practitioners.</p> </div> </div> </div> <p><a href="http://www.artifact.ac.uk/">Artifact</a> [<a href="#1">1</a>] is the arts and creative industries hub of the Resource Discovery Network (<a href="http://www.rdn.ac.uk/">RDN</a>) [<a href="#2">2</a>] providing free searchable access to high-quality resources on the Web in the following subjects: Architecture, Art, Communications and Media, Culture, Design, Fashion and Beauty, Performing Arts and a range of general subjects such as business advice, events and exhibitions, funding, training and employment opportunities, and much more.</p> <p><a href="http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue38/artifact" target="_blank">read more</a></p> issue38 feature article jayne everard jisc manchester metropolitan university archives cataloguing further education research resource discovery search technology web resources Fri, 30 Jan 2004 20:46:17 +0000 admin 1678 at http://www.ariadne.ac.uk http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue38/biome <div class="field field-type-text field-field-teaser-article"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <p><a href="#author1"><strong>Donald Mackay</strong></a> gives an overview of BIOME, the hub for the health and life sciences in the context of its services for Further Education.</p> </div> </div> </div> <p>BIOME is a free service from the Resource Discovery Network that offers free access to an easy-to-use and searchable catalogue of high-quality Internet resources covering the health and life sciences.</p> <div align="center"><img alt="Figure 1 BIOME logo (14KB)" src="http://ariadne-media.ukoln.info/grfx/img/issue38-biome/biome-logo.jpg" /></div> <p>The Internet holds a plethora of information and is a key source of material to support health and life science teaching and learning in Further Education. It can be, however, difficult to find high-quality and relevant materials.</p> <p><a href="http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue38/biome" target="_blank">read more</a></p> issue38 feature article donald mackay nmap cataloguing further education resource discovery search technology software Fri, 30 Jan 2004 20:57:36 +0000 admin 1679 at http://www.ariadne.ac.uk http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue38/eevl <div class="field field-type-text field-field-teaser-article"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <p><a href="#author1"><strong>Roddy MacLeod</strong></a> gives<br /> an overview of the services and plans EEVL has for students and practitioners<br /> in the Further Education sector.</p> </div> </div> </div> <p>"Indispensible, much better than using Google" was a comment about <a href="http://www.eevl.ac.uk/">EEVL</a>, the Internet guide to engineering, mathematics and computing, from one FE Tutor who attended an RSC (Regional Support Centre) event last year. It is not surprising that he was enthusiastic as there is a great deal of content in EEVL of interest to staff and students in Further Education (FE). In fact, EEVL has a surprisingly wide appeal, as was recognised recently by <a href="http://www.schoolzone.co.uk/">Schoolzone</a>, a service which features Web sites reviewed by UK teachers.</p> <p><a href="http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue38/eevl" target="_blank">read more</a></p> issue38 feature article roddy macleod bbc google heriot-watt university institute of physics jisc eevl cataloguing data database e-learning ejournal further education ict perl portal research resource discovery rss search technology software Fri, 30 Jan 2004 21:21:06 +0000 admin 1680 at http://www.ariadne.ac.uk http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue38/humbul <div class="field field-type-text field-field-teaser-article"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <p><a href="#author1"><strong>Randy Metcalfe</strong></a> provides an overview of the materials and services of use to humanities practitioners in the FE sector.</p> </div> </div> </div> <p><a href="http://www.humbul.ac.uk/">Humbul</a> [<a href="#1">1</a>] is the humanities hub of the Resource Discovery Network (<a href="http://www.rdn.ac.uk/">RDN</a>) [<a href="#2">2</a>] and represents a sound starting point for finding quality resources in this subject area.</p> <p><a href="http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue38/humbul" target="_blank">read more</a></p> issue38 feature article randy metcalfe google jisc university of oxford cataloguing further education metadata personalisation research resource discovery search technology Fri, 30 Jan 2004 21:49:58 +0000 admin 1682 at http://www.ariadne.ac.uk http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue38/gesource <div class="field field-type-text field-field-teaser-article"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <p><a href="#author1">John Blunden-Ellis</a> provides a view of the material available to FE from GEsource, the RDN subject service for geography and environment.</p> </div> </div> </div> <p><a href="http://www.gesource.ac.uk/">GEsource</a> [<a href="#1">1</a>] is the geography and environment hub of the RDN and provides free access to a fully searchable catalogue of high-quality resources on general geography, human geography, physical geography, environment, and techniques and approaches.</p> <p>Below is a selection of resources in GEsource that will be relevant to learning and teaching in FE:</p> <p><a href="http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue38/gesource" target="_blank">read more</a></p> issue38 feature article john blunden-ellis sosig cataloguing data database further education research search technology Fri, 30 Jan 2004 21:32:59 +0000 admin 1681 at http://www.ariadne.ac.uk http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue38/sosig <div class="field field-type-text field-field-teaser-article"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <p><a href="#author1"><strong>Emma Place</strong></a> gives an insight into the pitfalls that await new users of the Internet in their search for relevant and quality materials and explains how SOSIG has catered for the needs of both FE students and practitioners.</p> </div> </div> </div> <p>The Internet holds great potential for supporting education at FE level, but it can be fraught with difficulty. Lecturers often have very little time to spend surfing the 'Net to find useful resources for course materials and teaching, or to help their students develop Internet skills. Students can lack the skills, confidence or ability to use the Internet effectively for their study, especially given that the Internet is not exclusively about education, containing many materials that are completely inappropriate for coursework or study.</p> <p><a href="http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue38/sosig" target="_blank">read more</a></p> issue38 feature article emma place british library google ilrt jisc university of bristol sosig cataloguing database e-learning ebook further education higher education ict research resource discovery search technology software subject heading Fri, 30 Jan 2004 22:02:16 +0000 admin 1684 at http://www.ariadne.ac.uk http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue38/search-engines <div class="field field-type-text field-field-teaser-article"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <p><a href="/issue38/search-engines#author1">Phil Bradley</a> takes us through the major trends and highlights in the world of search engines over the course of the past year.</p> </div> </div> </div> <p>Since 2003 is now drawing to a close, (or at least it is while I'm writing this - I suspect that when you get to read it 2004 will have dawned bright and early), I thought that it might be interesting to take a look back at a few of the things that happened in the search engine industry over the past year. This isn't designed to be an inclusive month by month, blow by blow account, but is just a few of the trends and interesting things that I've noticed.</p> <p><a href="http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue38/search-engines" target="_blank">read more</a></p> issue38 regular column phil bradley amazon google microsoft adobe blog browser database digital library operating system search technology standards Fri, 30 Jan 2004 00:00:00 +0000 editor 1011 at http://www.ariadne.ac.uk http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue38/apps-rpt <div class="field field-type-text field-field-teaser-article"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <p><a href="/issue38/apps-rpt#author1">Ann Apps</a> reports on a conference about current and future uses of the proposed OpenURL Framework Standard Z39.88-2004.</p> </div> </div> </div> <h2 id="The_Event_at_a_Glance">The Event at a Glance</h2> <ul> <li><a href="#a">Welcome - Pat Harris</a></li> <li><a href="#b">The OpenURL Framework for Context-Sensitive Services Standard - Eric Van de Velde</a></li> <li><a href="#c">The Promise and History of the OpenURL - Oliver Pesch</a></li> <li><a href="#d">Related Linking Standards: CrossRef and DOI - Ed Pentz</a></li> <li><a href="#e">Why Should Publishers Implement the OpenURL Framework?<br /> </a></li></ul><p><a href="http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue38/apps-rpt" target="_blank">read more</a></p> issue38 tooled up ann apps ansi british library editeur google microsoft mimas niso oai university of manchester zetoc archives authentication cookie data database digital library digital object identifier doi dublin core ejournal framework identifier infrastructure internet explorer interoperability knowledge base metadata oai-pmh open archives initiative open source openurl personalisation portfolio repositories research rss schema search technology semantic web sfx shibboleth simple dublin core soap software standardisation standards syndication usability xml xml schema z39.88 Fri, 30 Jan 2004 00:00:00 +0000 editor 1015 at http://www.ariadne.ac.uk http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue38/espoo-rpt <div class="field field-type-text field-field-teaser-article"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <p><a href="/issue38/espoo-rpt#author1">Ken Eason</a> reports on the five themes in the Digilib Conference, Espoo, Finland.</p> </div> </div> </div> <p>The National Library of Finland led the organisation of this conference to bring together librarians and researchers from around the world to discuss progress with digital libraries. The aims were to explore how users were responding to digital services and to examine how services could be made more 'user-centred'. The conference was attended by 200 delegates from 23 countries.</p> <p><a href="http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue38/espoo-rpt" target="_blank">read more</a></p> issue38 event report ken eason british library google jisc loughborough university lund university mimas national library of finland northumbria university university of bristol university of queensland sosig zetoc bibliographic data database digital library ejournal free software information society national library open access open source portal research search technology standards url usability web resources Fri, 30 Jan 2004 00:00:00 +0000 editor 1016 at http://www.ariadne.ac.uk http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue38/talis-rpt <div class="field field-type-text field-field-teaser-article"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <p><a href="/issue38/talis-rpt#author1">Fiona Leslie</a> gives an overview of this seminar which covered a variety of topics of interest to public library professionals.</p> </div> </div> </div> <p>The day's <a href="http://www.talis.com/latestnews/seminar7-10-03.htm">programme</a> [<a href="#1">1</a>] started with an introduction by Ken Chad, sales director at Talis who welcomed delegates.</p> <p><a href="http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue38/talis-rpt" target="_blank">read more</a></p> issue38 event report fiona leslie nhs talis aggregation archives blog cataloguing digitisation e-government e-learning flash framework higher education ict infrastructure mobile mobile learning multimedia portal research search technology video wireless Fri, 30 Jan 2004 00:00:00 +0000 editor 1019 at http://www.ariadne.ac.uk http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue38/newsline <div class="field field-type-text field-field-teaser-article"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <p>Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.</p> </div> </div> </div> <p><a name="1"></a></p> <h2 id="Slide_Libraries_and_The_Digital_Future">Slide Libraries and The Digital Future</h2> <p>Wednesday 24th March, Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London, SW7 2EU. For more information and for booking details contact <a href="mailto:laura.valentine@royalacademy.org.uk">laura.valentine@royalacademy.org.uk</a>. Booking closes on 3 March 2004.</p> <p>AUDIENCE: UK Slide Librarians in HE and those responsible for visual collections</p> <p><a href="http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue38/newsline" target="_blank">read more</a></p> issue38 news and events richard waller cilip edina ibm jisc national e-science centre niso royal college of art the national archives ukoln university of bath eprints uk aggregation archives bibliographic data blog content management data data management database digital library digital preservation e-learning e-science ebook eprints file format framework higher education ict infrastructure jstor knowledge management metadata mis mobile openurl operating system preservation repositories research search technology software standards usability web development web services wiki wireless Fri, 30 Jan 2004 00:00:00 +0000 editor 1020 at http://www.ariadne.ac.uk http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue38/coelho-rvw <div class="field field-type-text field-field-teaser-article"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <p><a href="/issue38/coelho-rvw#author1">Lina Coelho</a> looks at the work and lives of independent information professionals prepared to share their secrets for starting and running a research business.</p> </div> </div> </div> <p>If you love Boolean logic, online research and would like to work from home - this book is for you. But before you get carried away - just a reminder that you need more than a computer and a phone line to make it on your own as an independent information professional.</p> <p><a href="http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue38/coelho-rvw" target="_blank">read more</a></p> issue38 review lina coelho british medical association archives database research search technology Fri, 30 Jan 2004 00:00:00 +0000 editor 1021 at http://www.ariadne.ac.uk