Overview of content related to 'search technology'

We Do Not Know We Are Born (Digital)

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Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 54.

In his article Ancient Cultures Inside Modern Universes Edgardo Civallero teases out for us the relationship between notions such as cultural heritage, cultural identity and what he terms intangible cultural heritage, in the context of indigenous peoples.

Web 2.0 in U.S. LIS Schools: Are They Missing the Boat?

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Noa Aharony asks whether library and information science schools in the United States are underestimating the opportunities offered by Web 2.0 applications.

Library and information science (LIS) programmes prepare students for performing traditional information tasks such as indexing, retrieval and library management [1][2][3]. The increased importance and centrality of information has moved LIS schools to offer new curricula that combine traditional librarianship and archiving with technological and social aspects of information.

SWORD: Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit

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Julie Allinson, Sebastien Francois and Stuart Lewis describe the JISC-funded SWORD Project which has produced a lightweight protocol for repository deposit.

Human-powered Search Engines: An Overview and Roundup

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Phil Bradley looks at the major contenders and discusses the value of this type of search engine.

Version Identification: A Growing Problem

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Dave Puplett outlines the issues associated with versions in institutional repositories, and discusses the solutions being developed by the Version Identification Framework (VIF) Project.

Collaborative and Social Tagging Networks

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Emma Tonkin, Edward M. Corrado, Heather Lea Moulaison, Margaret E. I. Kipp, Andrea Resmini, Heather D. Pfeiffer and Qiping Zhang gather a series of international perspectives on the practice of social tagging of documents within a community context.

Social tagging, which is also known as collaborative tagging, social classification, and social indexing, allows ordinary users to assign keywords, or tags, to items. Typically these items are Web-based resources and the tags become immediately available for others to see and use. Unlike traditional classification, social tagging keywords are typically freely chosen instead of using a controlled vocabulary.

MCN 2007: Building Content, Building Community - 40 Years of Museum Information and Technology

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Guenter Waibel and Jean Godby report on the Museum Computer Network annual meeting, held 7-10 November, 2007 in Chicago, Illinois.

The Museum Computer Network (MCN) celebrated its 40th anniversary during its annual meeting, this year held at the Holiday Inn Chicago Mart Plaza. In 1967, museum professionals in New York City gathered to discuss the utility of computers in museum settings. This initial meeting provided the seed for what would become the Museum Computer Network [1]. 40 years later, 310 delegates from 14 countries and 32 states in the US gathered to take stock of successes and issues in the networked museum.

News and Events

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Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

UkeiG Course: Information Law for Information Professionals

Information Law for Information Professionals:
What you need to know about Copyright, Data Protection, Freedom of Information and Accessibility and Disability Discrimination Laws

CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE
19 February 2008, 9.30-16.30

Course outline

Book Review: The University of Google

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Judy Reading reviews a work that may engender considerable debate in months to come.

This book has generated a lot of discussion on the Internet which seems mostly to focus on Tara Brabazon's comments such as: 'Google offers easy answers to difficult questions. But students do not know how to tell if they come from serious, refereed work or are merely composed of shallow ideas, superficial surfing and fleeting commitments.' [1].

It is easy to find this discussion – just Google the author and/or title! [1][2]