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International Digital Curation Conference 2010

editor — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Alex Ball reports on the 6th International Digital Curation Conference, held on 7-8 December 2010 in Chicago.

The International Digital Curation Conference has been held annually by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) [1] since 2005, quickly establishing a reputation for high-quality presentations and papers. So much so that, as co-chair Allen Renear explained in his opening remarks, after attending the 2006 Conference in Glasgow [2] delegates from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) offered to bring the event to Chicago.

Developing the Capability and Skills to Support EResearch

editor — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:00:00 +0000

Margaret Henty provides an Australian perspective on improving the environment in which eResearch is conducted through developing institutional capability and providing appropriate skills training.

The growing capacity of ICT to contribute to research of all kinds has excited researchers the world over as they invent new ways of conducting research and enjoy the benefits of bigger and more sophisticated computers and communications systems to support measurement, analysis, collaboration and publishing. The expanding rate of ICT development is matched by the numbers of people wanting to join in this funfest, by growth in the amount of data being generated, and by demands for new and improved hardware, software, networks, and data storage.

GROW: Building a High-quality Civil Engineering Learning Object Repository and Portal

editor — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Book Review: ARIST 39 - Annual Review of Information Science and Technology

editor — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Michael Day reviews another recent volume of this key annual publication on information science and technology.

The Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) is an important annual publication containing review articles on many topics of relevance to library and information science, published on behalf of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST). Since volume 36 (2002), the editor of ARIST has been Professor Blaise Cronin of Indiana University, Bloomington.

Book Review: Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 2004 (Volume 38)

editor — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 23:00:00 +0000

Michael Day reviews a recent volume of this key annual publication on information science and technology.

The Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) is an important annual publication containing review articles on many topics of relevance to library and information science, published on behalf of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST). Since volume 36, the editor of ARIST has been Professor Blaise Cronin of Indiana University, Bloomington.

The twelve chapters in volume 38 are divided into three sections, dealing with theory, technology, and policy.

The Biggest Digital Library Conference in the World

editor — Thu, 29 Apr 2004 23:00:00 +0000

John Paschoud reports on the International Conference on Digital Libraries held in New Delhi, India, 24-27 February 2004.

An amazing event, in an amazing place

India is an amazing place, and one that broadens the experience of any Western first-time visitor. I was no exception, and my personal conceptual scales for many things have been extended way beyond where they ended before. (I thought that South Londoners, Parisians and Milanese would be obvious contenders for the world championships in dangerous urban driving - until I tried the Delhi rush-hour in a 3-wheel taxi!)

Digital Libraries in China

editor — Wed, 09 Oct 2002 23:00:00 +0000

Liz Lyon reports on the International Digital Library Conference held in Beijing in July 2002.

I was indeed fortunate to be invited to China to speak at the International Digital Library Conference [1] in Beijing in July 2002. The 3-day event was held at the Friendship Hotel, a large and splendid establishment built in traditional garden style and which retained some of the architectural character of times past. The conference was sponsored by the Ministry of Culture with support from other government departments and organized by the National Library of China NLC [2].

WebWatch: UK University Search Engines

editor — Wed, 22 Sep 1999 23:00:00 +0000

Brian Kelly explores the search facilities used by UK university Web sites.

In the previous issue of Ariadne an analysis of 404 error messages provided on UK University web sites was carried out [1]. In this issue an analysis of indexing software used to provide searches on UK University web sites is given.

Although the WebWatch project [2] has finished, UKOLN will continue to carry out occasional surveys across UK HE web sites and publish reports in Ariadne. This will enable trends to be observed and documented. We hope the reports will be of interest to managers of institutional web sites.

Web Focus: Report on the WWW 8 Conference

editor — Mon, 21 Jun 1999 23:00:00 +0000

Brian Kelly discusses WWW8 in Toronto, which took place in May 1999.

The Eighth World Wide Web Conference (WWW8) was on a smaller scale than in the past few years. The numbers of delegates seemed to be down, and there was no accompanying exhibition. The conference appeared to be refocussing on the web research community, with delegates from commercial companies more likely to be software developers than marketing types. This refocussing also seemed to be reflected in the conference papers, which, as a number of people commented, seemed to be of a higher quality this year.

ALA '98

editor — Fri, 18 Sep 1998 23:00:00 +0000

Ian Winship reports on electronic library related activity at this year's American Library Association Conference in Washington D.C.

Digital Libraries '97

editor — Thu, 18 Sep 1997 23:00:00 +0000

David Nichols reports on the important international conference: Digital Libraries '97.

The ACM conference on Digital Libraries is, despite its short life, the premier conference for the field. This year the computer scientists, librarians and all those in-between travelled to Philadelphia in Pennsylvania for ACM Digital Libraries '97 [1]. The conference, from 23-26 July, took place in the Doubletree Hotel [2] in downtown Philly and was co-located with the more technical SIGIR '97 [3].