Overview of content related to 'search technology'

Overlay Journals and Data Publishing in the Meteorological Sciences

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Sarah Callaghan, Fiona Hewer, Sam Pepler, Paul Hardaker and Alan Gadian introduce the OJIMS Project and discuss the impact of overlay and data journals in the meteorological sciences.

Historically speaking, scientific publishing has focused on publicising the methodology that the scientist uses to analyse a dataset, and the conclusions that the scientist can draw from that analysis, as this is the information that can be easily published in text format with supporting diagrams. Datasets do not lend themselves easily to normal hard copy publication, even if the size of the dataset were small enough to allow this, and datasets are more useful stored in digital media.

Collecting Evidence in a Web 2.0 Context

editor — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:00:00 +0000

Ann Chapman and Rosemary Russell describe the challenge of collecting evidence for a study of how Web 2.0 is being used in the UK HE sector.

The Historic Hospitals Admission Records Project

editor — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:00:00 +0000

Sue Hawkins and Andrea Tanner describe a ground-breaking Web site using children's hospital admission registers.

The Historic Hospitals Admission Records Project (HHARP) is a digitisation and indexing project that covers the Victorian and Edwardian admission registers for the London children's hospitals Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), the Evelina Children's Hospital in Southwark and the Alexandra Hip Hospital in Bloomsbury, together with Yorkhill Children's Hospital in Glasgow.

Archives 2.0: If We Build It, Will They Come?

editor — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:00:00 +0000

Joy Palmer discusses some of the opportunities and tensions emerging around Archives 2.0, crowd-sourcing, and archival authority.

The Norwegian National Digital Library

editor — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:00:00 +0000

Marianne Takle describes the National Library of Norway's digitisation strategy and how the National Library is taking on a key role in the country's digital library service.

JISC Digital Content Conference 2009

editor — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:00:00 +0000

Michelle Pauli reports on a two-day conference on digital content held by JISC in South Cerney over 30 June - 1 July 2009.

Content Architecture: Exploiting and Managing Diverse Resources

editor — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:00:00 +0000

Jane Stevenson gives a personal view of the recent UK conference organised by the International Society of Knowledge Organization.

News and Events

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Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

JISC Digital Media Course: Introduction to Image Metadata

ILRT, 8-10 Berkeley Square, Bristol, BS8 1HH
Wednesday 9 December 2009
Full-day course: 10.00 - 16.30
http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/training/courses/introduction-to-image-metadata/

Book Review: Digital Consumers - Reshaping the Information Professions

editor — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:00:00 +0000

Muhammad Rafiq offers us a detailed review of a work which examines digital consumers from both an historical and future perspective.

This book is a collection of articles by the members of the Centre for Information Behaviour and the Evaluation of Research (CIBER), at University College London (UCL) and associates, such as Dr Tom Dobrowolski of Warsaw University, Professor Michael Moss of the University of Glasgow, Professor Barrie Gunter of the University of Leicester.