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Feature articles in Ariadne are written by subject-matter experts invited to address topics of interest to information professionals.
- Total number of 'feature article' items in all Ariadne issues: 545
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Article summary | Date |
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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 |
Research Libraries Engage the Digital World: A US-UK Comparative Examination of Recent History and Future Prospects |
Clifford Lynch looks at how the emergence of e-research has changed our thinking about the future of research libraries on both sides of the Atlantic. |
February 2006, issue46, feature article |
Retooling Libraries for the Data Challenge |
Dorothea Salo examines how library systems and procedures need to change to accommodate research data. |
July 2010, issue64, feature article |
Retooling Special Collections Digitisation in the Age of Mass Scanning |
Constance Rinaldo, Judith Warnement, Tom Baione, Martin R. Kalfatovic and Susan Fraser describe results from a study to identify and develop a cost-effective and efficient large-scale digitisation workflow for special collections library materials. |
July 2011, issue67, feature article |
Retrospective on the RDN |
Debra Hiom, in the first of a two-part series on the Resource Discovery Network, looks back at the development of the RDN and its activities to date. |
April 2006, issue47, feature article |
Revealing All |
Ann Chapman describes Revealweb, a Web site that brings together information about accessible resources for visually impaired people. |
July 2005, issue44, feature article |
Review: The Oxford English Dictionary Online |
Pete Cliff previewed the electronic version of this standard reference, and gives a user's verdict. |
March 2000, issue23, feature article |
Revolutionaries and Captives in the Information Society |
Trevor Haywood on the shackles that bind us to the information revolution. |
July 1997, issue10, feature article |
Rewriting the Book: On the Move With the Library of Birmingham |
Brian Gambles presents the Library of Birmingham vision and strategy for addressing the challenge of mobile digital services. |
July 2010, issue64, feature article |
Rights Management and Digital Library Requirements |
Karen Coyle describes some aspects of rights expression languages favoured by the commercial content industries and how these may differ from the rights needs of digital libraries. |
July 2004, issue40, feature article |
ROUTES Project |
Una O'Sullivan describes the Open University ROUTES project. |
May 1998, issue15, 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 |
Saving the Sounds of the UK in the UK SoundMap |
Maureen Pennock and Chris Clark introduce an innovative initiative from the British Library to map a 12-month soundscape of the UK. |
January 2011, issue66, feature article |
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG): Vector Graphics for the Web |
David Duce discusses the World Wide Web Consortium's Scalable Vector Graphics markup language for 2 dimensional graphics. |
June 2001, issue28, feature article |
Scientific, Industrial, and Cultural Heritage: A Shared Approach |
Lorcan Dempsey presents a research framework for libraries, archives and museums prepared for the European Commission. |
December 1999, issue22, feature article |
SCRAN: A Taste of Scotland and Food for Thought |
Bruce Royan outlines an epic millennium project to digitise much of the culture and heritage of Scotland. |
January 1997, issue7, feature article |
SEAMLESS: Introduction to the Project |
Mary Rowlatt describes SEAMLESS, the Essex-based project. |
March 1999, issue19, 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 |
Search Engines: Is Google Building on Shaky Foundations? |
Phil Bradley takes an in-depth look at Google and its competition and wonders if things are looking slightly worrying for the search giant. |
October 2006, issue49, feature article |
Search Engines: Real-time Search |
Phil Bradley looks at the concept of real-time search and points to some of the functionality that users can and should expect to find when exploring these engines. |
October 2009, issue61, feature article |
Search Engines: Where We Were, Are Now, and Will Ever Be |
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. |
April 2006, issue47, feature article |
Search Engines: Why Ask Me, and Does 'X' Mark the Spot? |
Phil Bradley takes a look at different versions of Ask to see how it is developing and looks at how it is emerging from its servant roots. |
April 2007, issue51, feature article |
Seb Schmoller Replies |
Stepping down from his pivotal role as CEO at ALT, Seb Schmoller kindly answers a few questions from Ariadne on his perspective on online learning. |
November 2012, issue70, feature article |
Seeing Is Believing: The JISC Information Environment Presentation Programme |
Chris Awre reviews the JISC Information Environment Presentation Programme and offers an insight to the outcomes of recent studies. |
April 2004, issue39, feature article |
Serving Services in Web 2.0 |
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. |
April 2006, issue47, feature article |
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 |
Setting Priorities for Digital Library Research |
Graham Jefcoate outlines the rationale of the British Library Research and Innovation Centre's Digital Library Research Programme. |
July 1997, issue10, feature article |
Setting up an Institutional E-Print Archive |
Stephen Pinfield, Mike Gardner, and John MacColl with some practical advice on setting up an e-print archive. |
April 2002, issue31, feature article |
Share. Collaborate. Innovate. Building an Organisational Approach to Web 2.0 |
Paul Bevan outlines the National Library of Wales' development of a strategic approach to meeting user needs in a post-Web 2.0 world. |
October 2009, issue61, feature article |
Sharing History of Science and Medicine Gateway Metadata Using OAI-PMH |
David Little outlines the resource sharing arrangements between the MedHist gateway and the Humbul hub, using the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, and some of the issues it has raised. |
January 2003, issue34, feature article |
SHERPA to YODL-ING: Digital Mountaineering at York |
Julie Allinson and Elizabeth Harbord describe the development of digital repositories for the University of York. |
July 2009, issue60, feature article |
ShibboLEAP: Seven Libraries and a LEAP of Faith |
Martin Moyle introduces the ShibboLEAP Project, a multi-institution Shibboleth adoption in London, and hopes that later adopters will benefit from its findings. |
July 2006, issue48, feature article |
Short Loan Projects |
John MacColl discusses some of the issues involved in the digitisation of short loan collections. |
May 1996, issue3, feature article |
Six MLEs: More Similar Than Different |
Paul Browning offers a technical review of the systems developed by the JISC 'Building MLEs in HE' (7/99) Programme |
July 2003, issue36, feature article |
So You Want to Build a Union Catalogue? |
Matthew Dovey looks at various models of virtual union catalogues in addition to those adopted by the clump projects, and other models of physical catalogues. |
March 2000, issue23, feature article |
Software Choice: Decision-making in a Mixed Economy |
Randy Metcalfe considers the role of free and open source software in UK Further and Higher Education. |
January 2005, issue42, feature article |
SOSIG: Training to Support Social Science Teaching and Research |
Lesly Huxley, the SOSIG Documentation and Training Officer, describes the workshops that SOSIG, one of the projects from the Access to Network Resource section, run. |
November 1996, issue6, feature article |
South African Repositories: Bridging Knowledge Divides |
Martie van Deventer and Heila Pienaar provide us with background to recent South African repository initiatives and detail an example of knowledge transfer from one institution to another. |
April 2008, issue55, feature article |
Spinning a Semantic Web for Metadata: Developments in the IEMSR |
Emma Tonkin and Alexey Strelnikov reflect on the experience of developing components for the Information Environment Metadata Schema Registry. |
April 2009, issue59, feature article |
Spotlight on BIDS |
BIDS is put under the spotlight by Isobel Stark, a BIDS trainer amongst other things, who gives us her thoughts on one of the UK's most well-known networking services. Linked from this article are responses from BIDS people. |
March 1996, issue2, feature article |