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A blog (a blend of the term web log) is a type of website or part of a website. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. Blog can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Blog)
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 57:Achieving the Balance |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 57. |
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Get Tooled Up: Staying Connected: Technologies Supporting Remote Workers |
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. |
October 2008, issue57, feature article |
A Bug's Life?: How Metaphors from Ecology Can Articulate the Messy Details of Repository Interactions |
R. John Robertson, Mahendra Mahey and Phil Barker introduce work investigating an alternative model of repository and service interaction. |
October 2008, issue57, feature article |
A Selection of Social Media Search Engines |
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. |
October 2008, issue57, feature article |
Get Tooled Up: SeeAlso: A Simple Linkserver Protocol |
Jakob Voss combines OpenSearch and unAPI to enrich catalogues. |
October 2008, issue57, feature article |
Embedding Web Preservation Strategies Within Your Institution |
Christopher Eddie reports on the third one-day workshop of the JISC-PoWR (Preservation of Web Resources) Project held at the University of Manchester on 12 September 2008. |
October 2008, issue57, event report |
iPRES 2008 |
Frances Boyle and Adam Farquhar report on the two-day international conference which was the fifth in the series on digital preservation of digital objects held at the British Library, on 29 - 30 September 2008. |
October 2008, issue57, event report |
Book Review: Managing the Crowd - Rethinking Records Management for the Web 2.0 World |
Marieke Guy reviews a text that could offer the blueprint for moving records management into the 21st century. |
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Book Review: Pro Web 2.0 Mashups |
Ralph LeVan looks at a comprehensive work on how to consume and repurpose Web services. |
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Book Review: Against the Machine |
Mahendra Mahey reviews a book which examines popular Internet culture and how it may be having negative effects on many of us. |
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New Schemas for Mapping Pedagogies and Technologies |
Grainne Conole reflects on the implications of Web 2.0 for education and offers two new schemas for thinking about harnessing the potential of technologies. |
July 2008, issue56, feature article |
The Networked Library Service Layer: Sharing Data for More Effective Management and Cooperation |
Janifer Gatenby identifies criteria for determining which data in various library systems could be more beneficially shared and managed at a network level. |
July 2008, issue56, feature article |
A Desk Too Far?: The Case for Remote Working |
Marieke Guy examines both the benefits and the pitfalls of working remotely from the standpoint of both employees and their organisation. |
July 2008, issue56, feature article |
Being Wired Or Being Tired: 10 Ways to Cope With Information Overload |
Sarah Houghton-Jan explores different strategies for managing and coping with various types of informational overload. |
July 2008, issue56, feature article |
Lost in the JISC Information Environment |
Tony Ross gives a personal reflection on his intellectual struggle to comprehend the JISC Information Environment. |
July 2008, issue56, feature article |
Search Engines: Google Still Growing |
Phil Bradley finds it difficult to ignore some of the latest developments from Google - particularly the ones that are actually quite good. |
July 2008, issue56, feature article |
Persistent Identifiers: Considering the Options |
Emma Tonkin looks at the current landscape of persistent identifiers, describes several current services, and examines the theoretical background behind their structure and use. |
July 2008, issue56, feature article |
Institutional Web Management Workshop 2008: The Great Debate |
Adrian Tribe reports on a three-day conference designed for professionals involved in the provision of institutional Web services, organised by UKOLN and held at King's College, University of Aberdeen in July 2008. |
July 2008, issue56, event report |
The 2008 Mashed Museum Day and UK Museums on the Web Conference |
Mia Ridge reports on the Mashed Museum day and the Museums Computer Group UK Museums on the Web Conference, held at the University of Leicester in June 2008. |
July 2008, issue56, event report |
A DRY CRIG Event for the IE Demonstrator |
Paul Walk reports on an 'unconference' for developers working in and around the JISC Information Environment and institutional systems, hosted by UKOLN at the University of Bath in June 2008. |
July 2008, issue56, event report |
Sun Preservation and Archive Special Interest Group: May 2008 Meeting |
Vicky Mays and Ian Dolphin review the Sun Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) meeting held in San Francisco in May 2008. |
July 2008, issue56, event report |
Open Repositories 2008 |
Mahendra Mahey reports on the third international Open Repositories 2008 Conference, held at the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton in April 2008. |
July 2008, issue56, event report |
Book Review: Information Literacy Meets Library 2.0 |
Emma Delaney considers the effects of Web 2.0 on delivering information literacy to library students and end-users. |
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Book Review: Copyright Compliance |
Stuart Hannabuss argues that the book's online big sister, Keeping Within the Law (KWtL), launched at the same time, is really the place to go and the source to buy. |
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Blended Learning and Online Tutoring: Planning Learner Support and Activity Design |
Lyn Parker does not consider that the second edition has changed considerably from the first edition despite the publishers' blurb to the contrary. Nonetheless, she feels there is much of value. |
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Custom-built Search Engines |
Phil Bradley reviews a means of enhancing the relevance of search results through the use of custom-built search engines. |
April 2008, issue55, feature article |
Metadata for Learning Resources: An Update on Standards Activity for 2008 |
Sarah Currier gives an overview of current initiatives in standards for educational metadata. |
April 2008, issue55, feature article |
Intute Integration |
Angela Joyce, Jackie Wickham, Phil Cross and Chris Stephens describe Intute's ongoing Integration Project, which is promoting and developing integration of Intute content in the UK academic library community. |
April 2008, issue55, feature article |
Research Libraries and the Power of the Co-operative |
John MacColl considers the 'co-operative imperative' upon research libraries, and describes the work which the former Research Libraries Group is undertaking as part of OCLC. |
April 2008, issue55, feature article |
Digital Lives: Report of Interviews With the Creators of Personal Digital Collections |
Pete Williams, Ian Rowlands, Katrina Dean and Jeremy Leighton John describe initial findings of the AHRC-funded Digital Lives Research Project studying personal digital collections and their relationship with research repositories such as the British Library. |
April 2008, issue55, feature article |
The Librarian's Information Literacy Annual Conference (LILAC) 2008 |
Keir Hopwood reports on three-day conference about current and future trends in the practice of information literacy teaching in Higher Education and beyond. |
April 2008, issue55, event report |
Libraries of the Future |
Michelle Pauli reports on the National e-textbook Debate and Libraries of the Future panel sessions held by JISC in Birmingham over 14-15 April 2008. |
April 2008, issue55, event report |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
April 2008, issue55, news and events |
Book Review: The Thriving Library |
Lina Coelho takes a look at this collection of winning strategies for success in public libraries during challenging times. |
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Book Review: Digital Information Culture |
Stuart Hannabuss analyses a very useful addition to the realm of information, knowledge and library studies. |
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Web 2.0 in U.S. LIS Schools: Are They Missing the Boat? |
Noa Aharony asks whether library and information science schools in the United States are underestimating the opportunities offered by Web 2.0 applications. |
January 2008, issue54, feature article |
SWORD: Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit |
Julie Allinson, Sebastien Francois and Stuart Lewis describe the JISC-funded SWORD Project which has produced a lightweight protocol for repository deposit. |
January 2008, issue54, feature article |
Ancient Cultures Inside Modern Universes |
Edgardo Civallero writes on preservation and dissemination of intangible South American indigenous heritage and updating information using Web-based tools. |
January 2008, issue54, feature article |
Collaborative and Social Tagging Networks |
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. |
January 2008, issue54, feature article |
Saving Energy in the Workplace |
Eddie Young outlines some of the issues faced by a Systems Administrator when trying to save energy in the workplace. |
January 2008, issue54, feature article |