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Wikipedia is a free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its 18 million articles (over 3.6 million in English) have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world, and almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the site. Wikipedia was launched in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger and has become the largest and most popular general reference work on the Internet, ranking around seventh among all websites on Alexa and having 365 million readers. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Wikipedia)
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Making the Case for a Wiki |
Emma Tonkin examines wikis and considers the feasibility of their deployment - and the danger of the 'tumbleweed' syndrome. |
January 2005, issue42, feature article |
Web Focus: Experiences of Using a Wiki for Note-taking at a Workshop |
Brian Kelly describes how the Wikalong Wiki tool was used to support note-taking at a workshop. |
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Web 2.0: Building the New Library |
Paul Miller explores some of the recent buzz around the concept of 'Web 2.0' and asks what it means for libraries and related organisations. |
October 2005, issue45, feature article |
Putting the Library Into the Institution: Using JSR 168 and WSRP to Enable Search Within Portal Frameworks |
Chris Awre, Stewart Waller, Jon Allen, Matthew J Dovey, Jon Hunter and Ian Dolphin describe the investigations and technical development undertaken within the JISC-funded Contextual Resource Evaluation Environment (CREE) Project to enable the presentation of existing search tools within portal frameworks using the JSR 168 and WSRP portlet standards. |
October 2005, issue45, feature article |
Book Review: Memory Bytes - History, Technology, and Digital Culture |
Ingrid Mason takes a look at this collection of essays and analyses how these authors contribute to our understanding of digital culture by placing digital technology in an historical context. |
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IWMW 2006: Quality Matters |
Adrian Stevenson reports on the 10th Institutional Web Management Workshop held at the University of Bath over 14-16 June 2006. |
July 2006, issue48, event report |
C21st Curation Spring 2006 Public Lecture Series |
Neil Beagrie and Helen Forde report on the public lecture series 'C21st Curation: access and service delivery' held at University College London over April and May 2006. |
July 2006, issue48, event report |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 49: Technology Is Only Part of the Story |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 49. |
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Creative Commons Licences in Higher and Further Education: Do We Care? |
Naomi Korn and Charles Oppenheim discuss the history and merits of using Creative Commons licences while questioning whether these licences are indeed a panacea. |
October 2006, issue49, feature article |
e-Books for the Future: Here but Hiding? |
Brian Whalley outlines some developments in e-book technologies and links them to existing ways of presenting textbook information. |
October 2006, issue49, feature article |
GROW: Building a High-quality Civil Engineering Learning Object Repository and Portal |
Yan Han provides a general overview of the Geotechnical, Rock and Water Digital Library (GROW), a learning object repository and peer-reviewed civil engineering Web portal. |
October 2006, issue49, feature article |
Wiki Or Won't He? A Tale of Public Sector Wikis |
Marieke Guy revisits a topic receiving considerable attention these days and reflects on wiki use by public organisations. |
October 2006, issue49, feature article |
Video Streaming of Events |
Greg Tourte and Emma Tonkin describe the set-up and use of video streaming technology at the IWMW 2006 event. |
October 2006, issue49, feature article |
Book Review: Ambient Findability |
Emma Tonkin reviews a book with interesting content despite a few rough edges. |
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New Search Engines in 2006 |
Phil Bradley takes a look at some of the search engines that he noticed in 2006 and provides quick assessments. |
January 2007, issue50, feature article |
What Happens When We Mash the Library? |
Paul Miller looks at recent attempts to make library resources more appealing, including the Talis competition to build library 'mashups'. |
January 2007, issue50, feature article |
Wikido: Exploiting the Potential of Wikis |
Marieke Guy reports on a one-day workshop, held in Birmingham in November 2006, which took a closer look at the potential of Wikis for educational institutions. |
January 2007, issue50, event report |
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 |
Citeulike: A Researcher's Social Bookmarking Service |
Kevin Emamy and Richard Cameron describe a tool that helps researchers gather, collect and share papers. |
April 2007, issue51, feature article |
OpenID: Decentralised Single Sign-on for the Web |
Andy Powell and David Recordon take a brief look at OpenID and ask what relevance it has to e-learning. |
April 2007, issue51, feature article |
ARROW and the RQF: Meeting the Needs of the Research Quality Framework Using an Institutional Research Repository |
David Groenewegen and Andrew Treloar describe the role of repositories in the forthcoming Australian Research Quality Framework (RQF) and the responses of the ARROW Project to the needs of the RQF. |
July 2007, issue52, feature article |
24 Hour Museum: From Past to Future |
As 24 Hour Museum rebuilds and looks outwards to new partnerships, Jon Pratty looks at challenges faced over the last seven years. |
July 2007, issue52, feature article |
IIPC Web Archiving Toolset Performance Testing at The British Library |
Jackson Pope and Philip Beresford pick up the threads from an initial contribution in issue 50 and report on progress at The British Library in installing and performance testing the Web Curator Tool. |
July 2007, issue52, feature article |
Capacity Building: Spoken Word at Glasgow Caledonian University |
Iain Wallace, Graeme West and David Donald give an account of the origins, nature and establishment of Spoken Word Services at Glasgow Caledonian University. |
July 2007, issue52, feature article |
IWMW 2007: Next Steps for the Web Management Community |
Shirley Keane reports on the wide range of presentations given at this year's Institutional Web Management Workshop. |
July 2007, issue52, event report |
Digital Repositories: Dealing With the Digital Deluge |
Pete Cliff gives an overall view of the multi-stranded JISC conference held in Manchester over 5-6 June 2007. |
July 2007, issue52, event report |
The Second Life of UK Academics |
John Kirriemuir introduces a series of studies investigating how the Second Life environment is being used in UK Higher and Further Education. |
October 2007, issue53, feature article |
The KIDMM Community's 'MetaKnowledge Mash-up' |
Conrad Taylor reports on the KIDMM knowledge community and its September 2007 one-day conference about data, information and knowledge management issues. |
October 2007, issue53, event report |
Book Review: Listen Up! Podcasting for Schools and Libraries |
Elizabeth McHugh looks at how podcasting has the potential to take library services and activities to new audiences. |
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Human-powered Search Engines: An Overview and Roundup |
Phil Bradley looks at the major contenders and discusses the value of this type of search engine. |
January 2008, issue54, feature article |
Ancient Cultures Inside Modern Universes |
Edgardo Civallero writes on preservation and dissemination of intangible South American indigenous heritage and updating information using Web-based tools. |
January 2008, issue54, 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 |
MCN 2007: Building Content, Building Community - 40 Years of Museum Information and Technology |
Guenter Waibel and Jean Godby report on the Museum Computer Network annual meeting, held 7-10 November, 2007 in Chicago, Illinois. |
January 2008, issue54, event report |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
January 2008, issue54, news and events |
Book Review: The University of Google |
Judy Reading reviews a work that may engender considerable debate in months to come. |
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The Librarian's Information Literacy Annual Conference (LILAC) 2008 |
Keir Hopwood reports on three-day conference about current and future trends in the practice of information literacy teaching in Higher Education and beyond. |
April 2008, issue55, event report |
A Desk Too Far?: The Case for Remote Working |
Marieke Guy examines both the benefits and the pitfalls of working remotely from the standpoint of both employees and their organisation. |
July 2008, issue56, 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 |
The 2008 Mashed Museum Day and UK Museums on the Web Conference |
Mia Ridge reports on the Mashed Museum day and the Museums Computer Group UK Museums on the Web Conference, held at the University of Leicester in June 2008. |
July 2008, issue56, event report |
Book Review: Information Literacy Meets Library 2.0 |
Emma Delaney considers the effects of Web 2.0 on delivering information literacy to library students and end-users. |