Overview of content related to 'search technology'

Editorial Introduction to Issue 57:Achieving the Balance

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Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 57.

In her second Get Tooled Up article on the subject of remote working Staying Connected: Technologies Supporting Remote Workers, Marieke Guy takes a look at the many technologies that support remote working, from broadband to Web 2.0 social networking tools. Readers may also be interested to read her blog on remote working which I am definitely finding interesting [1].

Europeana: An Infrastructure for Adding Local Content

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Rob Davies describes a Best Practice Network under the eContentPlus Programme to make available locally sourced digital content to the Europeana Service.

Get Tooled Up: Staying Connected: Technologies Supporting Remote Workers

editor — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

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.

A Selection of Social Media Search Engines

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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.

What Happens If I Click on This?': Experiences of the Archives Hub

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Jane Stevenson describes the results of usability testing for the Archives Hub Web site.

For online services, the importance of developing user-friendly and accessible Web sites is of paramount importance. This article is about user testing recently carried out by the Archives Hub [1], an online service run by Mimas [2], which is a national data centre that provides access to a whole range of online services for research, learning and teaching.

OAI-ORE, PRESERV2 and Digital Preservation

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Sally Rumsey and Ben O'Steen describe OAI-ORE and how it can contribute to digital preservation activities.

The new framework for the description and exchange of aggregations of Web resources, OAI-ORE, had its European release in April 2008 [1]. Amongst its practical uses, OAI-ORE has a role to play in digital preservation and continued access to files. This article describes the basic outline of the framework and how it can support the PRESERV2 project digital preservation model of provision of preservation services and interoperability for digital repositories.

Get Tooled Up: SeeAlso: A Simple Linkserver Protocol

editor — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Jakob Voss combines OpenSearch and unAPI to enrich catalogues.

In recent years the principle of Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) has grown increasingly important in digital library systems. More and more core functionalities are becoming available in the form of Web-based, standardised services which can be combined dynamically to operate across a broader environment [1].

CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group Annual Conference

editor — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Christina Claridge reports on the conference, held 3-5 September 2008, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland.

News and Events

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Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

Book Review: Website Optimization

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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.

Serendipity can be a wonderful thing. It was a Tuesday, over coffee, that the esteemed editor of this publication presented me with a copy of Website Optimization and asked if I would be interested in reviewing it. Two days later, at a regular team meeting for the Repositories Support Project [1] (RSP), we discussed (rather generally) how we might boost the search ranking and usage of the RSP Web site.

Book Review: Managing the Crowd - Rethinking Records Management for the Web 2.0 World

editor — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Marieke Guy reviews a text that could offer the blueprint for moving records management into the 21st century.

I'd like to start with a disclaimer: I am not a records manager nor have I ever been a records manager. My only official qualification in the field of records management is that I took a module in it whilst studying for my MSc in Information Management many moons ago. That said, this is not a book just for records managers. The overlaps with those working in other fields such as information management, librarianship, IT services, Web management, teaching, research etc. are many. Neither is it just a book for those interested in Web 2.0 and the applications involved.

Book Review: Pro Web 2.0 Mashups

editor — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Ralph LeVan looks at a comprehensive work on how to consume and repurpose Web services.

Raymond Yee has produced a comprehensive book on how to consume and repurpose Web services, even for Web sites that do not intentionally expose Web services. The book is broken into four sections; understanding how to use Web content, understanding Web services, combining the data from multiple services (mashups) and detailed examples of specific mashup opportunities.

Book Review: Against the Machine

editor — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Mahendra Mahey reviews a book which examines popular Internet culture and how it may be having negative effects on many of us.

As I spend a large part of my day (as I have for the last 12 years) in front of a computer screen connected to the Internet, I wondered what I was going to learn about a book that examines the effect that this technology has had on our culture, our minds and the way we socialise.