Overview of content related to 'digital archive'
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An archive refers to a collection of historical records, as well as the physical place they are located. Archives contain primary source documents that have accumulated over the course of an individual or organization's lifetime, and are kept to show the function of an organization. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Archive)
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Netskills |
Walter Scales from the Netskills project describes the trials and tribulations of putting together and presenting a Netskills talk |
May 1996, issue3, event report |
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 |
Newsline: News You Can Use |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
March 1998, issue14, news and events |
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 |
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 |
Web Editorial: Introduction to Issue 18 |
The web editors, Bernadette Daly and Philip Hunter, introduce Ariadne issue 18. |
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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 |
Metadata: Workshop in Luxembourg |
Michael Day and Andy Stone report on the Third Metadata Workshop in Luxembourg. |
June 1999, issue20, regular column |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 21: Ariadne's Thread |
Introduction to Ariadne issue 21 by Philip Hunter. |
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Digitizing Wilfrid |
Philip Hunter talks to Stuart Lee about the prizewinning 'Wilfrid Owen Multimedia Digital Archive' and the JTAP 'Virtual Seminars on WW1'. |
September 1999, issue21, feature article |
Metadata for Digital Preservation: An Update |
Michael Day discusses 'Metadata for Digital Preservation'. |
December 1999, issue22, regular column |
JSTOR Usage |
Alison Murphy reports on the JSTOR electronic journals project continuing success. |
June 2000, issue24, feature article |
Travelling at the Speed of Discovery: The MALIBU Project's Most Valuable Lessons |
Valeda Dent with a newcomer's perspective on the MALIBU project. |
January 2001, issue26, feature article |
Metadata: Preservation 2000 |
Michael Day reports on the Digital Preservation conference held in York in December 2000. |
January 2001, issue26, event report |
Digital Curation: Digital Archives, Libraries and e-Science Seminar |
Neil Beagrie and Philip Pothen report on the Digital Preservation day in October 2001, held in London. |
January 2002, issue30, event report |
The Open Archives Forum |
Susanne Dobratz, Friederike Schimmelpfennig and Peter Schirmbacher introduce the new Open Archives Forum project to promote the ideas of the OAI in Europe. |
April 2002, issue31, feature article |
The AIM25 Project |
Robert Baxter, Frances Blomeley and Rachel Kemsley present AIM25, a project providing electronic access to descriptions of archives held in various London institutions. |
April 2002, issue31, feature article |
Climbing the Scholarly Publishing Mountain With SHERPA |
John MacColl and Stephen Pinfield explore the SHERPA project, which is concentrating on making e-prints available online. |
October 2002, issue33, feature article |
The 2nd Workshop on the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) |
William Nixon and Pauline Simpson report on the meeting held at CERN, Geneva, in October 2002. |
January 2003, issue34, event report |
ECDL-2003 Web Archiving |
Michael Day reports on the 3rd ECDL Workshop on Web Archives held in Trondheim, August 2003. |
October 2003, issue37, event report |
A National Archive of Datasets |
Jeffrey Darlington describes how structured datasets produced by UK Government departments and agencies are being archived and made available to users. |
April 2004, issue39, feature article |
RDN/LTSN Partnerships: Learning Resource Discovery Based on the LOM and the OAI-PMH |
Andy Powell and Phil Barker explore the technical collaboration currently underway between the RDN and the LTSN and describe the RDN/LTSN LOM Application Profile and its use to support resource discovery. |
April 2004, issue39, 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 |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
July 2004, issue40, news and events |
How the Use of Standards Is Transforming Australian Digital Libraries |
Debbie Campbell explains how the exploitation of recent standards has allowed the National Library of Australia to digitise its collections and host federated search services and provide an improved service. |
October 2004, issue41, feature article |
Recasting the Past: Digital Histories |
Vanessa Carr reports on a one day conference about digitising historical records, held jointly by the Association for History and Computing UK and the Royal Historical Society. |
January 2005, issue42, event report |
A Tradition of Scholarly Documentation for Digital Objects: The Launch of the Digital Curation Centre |
Philip Hunter reports on the launch of the DCC at the National eScience Centre in Edinburgh, November 2004. |
January 2005, issue42, event report |
Supporting Digital Preservation and Asset Management in Institutions |
Leona Carpenter describes a JISC development programme tackling the organisational and technical challenges facing Higher and Further Education in the UK. |
April 2005, issue43, feature article |
The Tasks of the AHDS: Ten Years on |
Alastair Dunning reviews 10 years in the history of the Arts and Humanities Data Service. |
July 2006, issue48, feature article |
A Foundation for Automatic Digital Preservation |
Miguel Ferreira, Ana Alice Baptista and Jose Carlos Ramalho propose a Service-Oriented Architecture to help cultural heritage institutions to accomplish automatic digital preservation. |
July 2006, issue48, feature article |
DC 2006: Metadata for Knowledge and Learning |
Julie Allinson, Rachel Heery, Pete Johnston and Rosemary Russell report on DC 2006, the sixth international conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, held 3 - 6 October 2006. |
October 2006, issue49, event report |
Immaculate Catalogues, Indexes and Monsters Too... |
David E. Bennett reports on the three day residential CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group Annual Conference, University of East Anglia, during September 2006. |
October 2006, issue49, event report |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 50: Side-Stepping Babel |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne 50. |
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Web Curator Tool |
Philip Beresford tells the story (from The British Library's perspective) of the development of new software to aid all stages of harvesting Web sites for preservation. |
January 2007, issue50, feature article |
Collecting Born Digital Archives at the Wellcome Library |
Chris Hilton and Dave Thompson discuss plans for work with born digital archival material at the Wellcome Library. |
January 2007, issue50, feature article |
2nd International DCC Conference 2006: Digital Data Curation in Practice |
Alexander Ball and Manjula Patel provide an overview of the second annual conference of the Digital Curation Centre. |
January 2007, issue50, event report |
Access to Scientific Knowledge for Sustainable Development: Options for Developing Countries |
Barbara Kirsop, Leslie Chan and Subbiah Arunachalam consider the impact of donor access and open access to research publications on the sustainable development of science in developing countries. |
July 2007, issue52, feature article |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 53: Unlocking Our Televisual Past |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 53. |