Alex Ball reports on a one-day workshop on metadata supporting the citation of research data, held at the British Library, London, on 6 July 2012. <a href="/issue69">issue69</a> July 2012 <a href="/category/article-type/event-report">event report</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/919/author-info">alex ball</a> Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. <a href="/issue52">issue52</a> July 2007 <a href="/category/article-type/news-and-events">news and events</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/117/author-info">richard waller</a> Monica Duke reports on a two-day training seminar on persistent identifiers held by ERPANET in Cork, Ireland over 17-18 June 2004. <a href="/issue40">issue40</a> July 2004 <a href="/category/article-type/event-report">event report</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/737/author-info">monica duke</a> Michael Day reports on the Digital Preservation conference held in York in December 2000. <a href="/issue26">issue26</a> January 2001 <a href="/category/article-type/event-report">event report</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/407/author-info">michael day</a> Dianne Kennedy reports on the latest XML conference in Paris. <a href="/issue25">issue25</a> September 2000 <a href="/category/article-type/event-report">event report</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/606/author-info">dianne kennedy</a>