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Editorial Introduction to Issue 30: Centering the Periphery - A New Equity in Information Access?

editor — Fri, 25 Jan 2002 00:00:00 +0000

Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne issue 30.

Welcome to the December/January issue of Ariadne.

Open Archiving Opportunities for Developing Countries: Towards Equitable Distribution of Global Knowledge

editor — Fri, 25 Jan 2002 00:00:00 +0000

Leslie Chan and Barbara Kirsop explore some of the implications of using the OAI Protocol.

Although the World Wide Web is less than a decade old, it already has had a profound impact on scientific publishing and scholarly communication. In particular, open standards and low-cost networking tools are opening many possibilities for reducing and even eliminating entirely the cost barriers to scientific publications. (1)

Building ResourceFinder

editor — Fri, 25 Jan 2002 00:00:00 +0000

Pete Cliff looks at how the RDN has utilised the OAI Metadata Harvesting Protocol.

Newsline: News You Can Use

editor — Fri, 25 Jan 2002 00:00:00 +0000

Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

Multimedia Archive Preservation - a practical workshop

Organised by IASA, FIAT, PRESTO, ECPA ... and more!

22-24 May 2002 in London, UK

Overview:

80% of audio and video archive content is at risk, according to the results of EC project PRESTO. Unless preservation procedures are funded and implemented - quickly - unique heritage and commercially valuable material will be lost. This workshop will provide, in a concentrated three days, the combined experience of ten major European broadcast archives, and the new technology developed by PRESTO.