Overview of content related to 'eprints'

Editorial Introduction to Issue 50: Side-Stepping Babel

editor — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Richard Waller introduces Ariadne 50.

With Dyson and parts of Burberry disappearing points east, leaving their design departments behind them [1] [2], there are possible grounds for arguing that the (previously) industrialised countries must live by their wits and the emerging knowledge economy.

A Dublin Core Application Profile for Scholarly Works

editor — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Julie Allinson, Pete Johnston and Andy Powell describe a Dublin Core application profile for describing scholarly works that makes use of FRBR and the DCMI Abstract Model.

In May 2006, the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) [1] approached UKOLN [2] and the Eduserv Foundation [3] to collaborate on the development of a metadata specification for describing eprints (alternatively referred to as scholarly works, research papers or scholarly research texts) [4].

Take a Peek Beneath the EPrints V3 Wrappers

editor — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000

With v3 officially launched at the Open Repositories Conference in San Antonio last week, William Nixon and Peter Millington report on the EPrints 3 pre-launch briefing in London, 8 December 2006.