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Digital preservation is the active management of digital information over time to ensure its accessibility. Preservation of digital information is widely considered to require more constant and ongoing attention than preservation of other media. This constant input of effort, time, and money to handle rapid technological and organizational advance is considered a major stumbling block for preserving digital information. Indeed, while we are still able to read our written heritage from several thousand years ago, the digital information created merely a decade ago is in serious danger of being lost, creating a digital Dark Age. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Digital preservation)
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The 4th WWW Conference in Boston |
Debra Hiom and John Kirriemuir provide an informal report from the "cutting edge" of Web development. |
January 1996, issue1, feature article |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 4: Changes to Ariadne and How to Read the Web Version |
The editor explains changes in Ariadne format. |
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Serving the Arts and Humanities |
Dan Greenstein gives an extensive description of AHDS, the Arts and Humanities Data Service: its objectives, organisation, and how the data will be collected, preserved and described.. |
July 1996, issue4, feature article |
The International Institute for Electronic Library Research: A New Kid on the Block |
Marilyn Deegan describes the International Institute for Electronic Library Research, a significant new centre of research based at De Montfort University. |
September 1996, issue5, project update |
The 1996 UKOLUG State of the Art Conference |
Melanie Lawes describes the 1996 UKOLUG (UK On-Line Users Group) Annual Conference, held in Warwick last July. |
September 1996, issue5, event report |
British Academy Symposium: Information Technology and Scholarly Disciplines |
Seamus Ross provides the programme for a symposium which seeks to explore how information technology has affected research in the humanities and social sciences. |
September 1996, issue5, news and events |
Print Journals: Fit for the Future? |
Do authors choose to appear in print journals for the wrong reasons? Do print journals continue for the wrong reasons? In short, are print research journals a corrupt form of scholarly communication? We asked Fytton Rowland to provide a defence of the traditional scholarly journal. In our next journal we shall provide a perspective from the other side of the debate. |
January 1997, issue7, feature article |
Data Archive at the University of Essex |
Denise Lievesley and Bridget Winstanley describe this national resource centre for computer-readable data in the social sciences and humanities. |
January 1997, issue7, project update |
CEI Looks for Bold Response |
John MacColl describes the new call for proposals for further eLib programme work. |
March 1997, issue8, feature article |
Preserving Oral History Recordings |
Colin Webb and Kevin Bradley look at some of the practical realities, and implications, of introducing digital technology into the sound preservation functions of the National Library of Australia. |
March 1997, issue8, project update |
Australian Co-operative Digitisation Project, 1840-45 |
Ross Coleman describes a project which will create a unique research infrastructure in Australian studies through the digital conversion of Australian serials and fiction of the seminal period 1840-45. |
March 1997, issue8, project update |
Down Your Way: The Natural History Museum |
John Kirriemuir takes in megabytes of trilobites at the Natural History Museum. |
March 1997, issue8, regular column |
The Future of Digitising at the State Library of Victoria, Australia |
Catherine Herman and Indra Kurzeme discuss the multimedia source project, set within the context of the pro-multimedia State of Victora, Australia. |
May 1997, issue9, project update |
Extending Metadata for Digital Preservation |
Michael Day suggests how the concept of metadata could be extended to provide information in the specific field of digital preservation. |
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Beyond the Web: The Potential Uses of HTML in Library Disaster Control Planning |
During a lifelong library career, 2 out of 5 librarians will face a major disaster in their library. Emma Blagg describes the design and evaluation of a HTML-based disaster control plan, used to provide the counter measures taken to minimise the effects of such a disaster. |
July 1997, issue10, feature article |
A Digital Library Showcase and Support Service - the Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE |
Roy Tennant describes a resource used to create digital libraries and services, and to help others do the same. |
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r·cade: Resource Centre for Access to Data on Europe |
Sharon Bolton describes r-cade, an interdisciplinary resource centre that helps researchers and analysts to identify and acquire data for the European Social Sciences. |
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Metadata Corner: Working Meeting on Electronic Records Research |
Michael Day reports from the Working Meeting on Electronic Records Research, held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania May 29-31, 1997. |
July 1997, issue10, regular column |
Around the Table: Film and Cinema |
Frank Parry discusses some of the many possible sources for Internet information on film and cinema. |
July 1997, issue10, regular column |
Parallel Publishing for Transactions (PPT) |
Hugo Brailsford introduces a parallel publication in Geography. |
September 1997, issue11, project update |
Public Libraries Corner: Soul and Song |
Lorcan Dempsey writes about the recent report: New Library: the People's Network. |
November 1997, issue12, regular column |
What Do National Libraries Do in the Age of the Internet? |
Maurice Line, previously a Director General of the British library, ponders upon the questions faced by national libraries. |
January 1998, issue13, feature article |
Task Force Meeting |
Kelly Russell reports on the US CNI Conference. |
March 1998, issue14, event report |
Web Editorial: Ariadne Issue 15 |
Web editor Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne 15. |
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A National Co-ordinating Body for Digital Archiving? |
David Haynes discusses one possible way forward for ensuring that potentially valued digital materials are preserved for future study and use. |
May 1998, issue15, feature article |
Web Editorial: Introduction to Issue 16 |
Philip Hunter and Bernadette Daly introduce Ariadne issue 16. |
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Metadata Corner |
Michael Day reports from Tomar, Portugal, on the DELOS6 Workshop. |
July 1998, issue16, regular column |
Electronic Access: Archives in the New Millennium |
Michael Day reports from Kew on the Public Record Office view of the Brave New World of online archives. |
July 1998, issue16, event report |
Newsline: News You Can Use |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
July 1998, issue16, news and events |
UKOLUG |
Jacqueline Chelin reports on the UKOLUG 20th birthday conference. |
September 1998, issue17, event report |
Web Editorial: Introduction to Issue 18 |
The web editors, Bernadette Daly and Philip Hunter, introduce Ariadne issue 18. |
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JSTOR |
Daniel Holden reports on his trip to the United States to visit colleagues at JSTOR, a not-for-profit organisation creating a digital archive collection of scholarly journals |
December 1998, issue18, feature article |
The Technical Advisory Service for Images (TASI) |
Karla Youngs describes what TASI is and the work that it is doing in building a common ‘Framework’ for digital imaging projects. |
December 1998, issue18, feature article |
CEDARS |
Kelly Russell explores the main deliverables of the CEDARS project: recommendations and guidelines, plus practical, robust and scaleable models for establishing distributed digital archives. |
December 1998, issue18, project update |
Newsline: News You Can Use |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
December 1998, issue18, news and events |
EEVL Eye on Engineering |
The EEVL Team explore Internet Resources in Petroleum Engineering and Electronics, take a glance at engineering resources in Australia and South East Asia and give the latest news from the EEVL service. |
March 1999, issue19, regular column |
Metadata: Image Retrieval |
Michael Day reports on combining content-based and metadata-based approaches. |
March 1999, issue19, regular column |
Information Ecologies: Report of the eLib Conference |
Philip Hunter reports on the eLib conference in York in December 1998, which explored a number of hybrid library, subject Gateway and copyright control issues. |
March 1999, issue19, event report |
Metadata: Workshop in Luxembourg |
Michael Day and Andy Stone report on the Third Metadata Workshop in Luxembourg. |
June 1999, issue20, regular column |
The Scholarly Journal in Transition and the PubMed Central Proposal |
Michael Day discusses the scholarly journal in transition and the PubMed Central proposal. |
September 1999, issue21, feature article |