Overview of content related to 'search technology'

Heleen Gierveld proposes a market-oriented approach to increase the rate of deposit to an institutional repository.

Yan Han provides a general overview of the Geotechnical, Rock and Water Digital Library (GROW), a learning object repository and peer-reviewed civil engineering Web portal.

Ann Chapman describes work on the new cataloguing code, Resource Description and Access (RDA), based on the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR).

Julie Allinson, Rachel Heery, Pete Johnston and Rosemary Russell report on DC 2006, the sixth international conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, held 3 - 6 October 2006.

Rob Allan, Rob Crouchley and Caroline Ingram report on a two-day workshop held at University of Lancaster over 6-7 September 2006

Emma Tonkin reviews a book with interesting content despite a few rough edges.

Robin Murray examines how the changing landscape for library systems is altering their service model.

Dan Chudnov and a team of colleagues describe unAPI, a tiny HTTP API for serving information objects in next-generation Web applications.

Phil Bradley puts a relative newcomer through its paces and finds some very useful features together with potential for improvement.

Adrian Stevenson reports on the 10th Institutional Web Management Workshop held at the University of Bath over 14-16 June 2006.

Chris Awre and Richard Green report from the Fedora Users Conference, a two-day meeting for users of the open source Fedora repository system held at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, over 19-20 June 2006.

Re-visiting this work in its new and second edition for Ariadne, Lina Coelho finds it amply repays the effort.

Phil Bradley takes a look at the development of search engines over the lifetime of Ariadne and points to what we might anticipate in the years to come.

Aaron Krowne and Urvashi Gadi present a framework which improves searching in the context of scholarly digital libraries by taking a 'quality metrics-aware' approach.

R. John Robertson introduces a project examining the potential benefits of OAI-PMH Static Repositories as a means of enabling small publishers to participate more fully in the information environment.

Theo van Veen shows with the help of an example, how standardised descriptions of services can help users control the integration of services from different providers.

Jeremy Frumkin and Dan Chudnov report on the inaugural conference of the Code4lib community of programmers, hackers, and techies working in or with libraries and information systems.

Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

Reg Carr reflects on the development of a user-centred approach in academic libraries over recent decades and into the era of the hybrid library.