Table of contents: issue40

PALS Conference: Institutional Repositories and Their Impact on Publishing

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Kurt Paulus describes for us the Publisher and Library/Learning Solutions (PALS) Conference held in London this June.

PALS [1] is the ongoing collaboration between UK publishers (ALPSP [2] and the Publishers Association [3]), and Higher/Further Education (JISC). PALS aims to foster mutual understanding and work collaboratively towards the solution of issues arising from electronic publication.

World Wide Web Conference 2004

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Dave Beckett reports on the international WWW2004 conference held in New York, 19-21 May 2004.

WWW2004 [1] was the 13th conference in the series of international World Wide Web conferences organised by the IW3C2 (International World Wide Web Conference Committee). This was the annual gathering of Web researchers and technologists to present the latest work on the Web and Web standardisation at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

The Future of Cataloguing: Cataloguing and Indexing Group Conference

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Paola Stillone reports on a three-day annual conference of the CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group (CIG), held at the University of Bath, 30 June - 2 July.

The conference was aimed at information professionals interested in looking at issues that are changing cataloguing and indexing. The latest international developments in metadata standards, cataloguing codes, taxonomies and controlled languages unlock new opportunities for cataloguers' involvement. They also raise complex interoperability issues which go beyond traditional cataloguing and highlight the need for the acquisition of new skills in the digital information environment.

Support Models for Open Source Deployment

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Sebastian Rahtz and Randy Metcalfe report on OSS Watch's one-day conference on support models held in London in June 2004.

OSS Watch's [1] second national conference focused on an often articulated anxiety concerning how an institution will answer the question of support when considering the deployment of open source software. OSS Watch is a pilot advisory service set up by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) to provide UK Higher and Further Education with neutral and authoritative guidance about free and open source software.

Adding Value to the National Information Infrastructure: The EDINA Exchange Day, Edinburgh

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John MacColl provides us with a report of EDINA's first general information event for the HE and FE communities held at the National E-Science Centre.

EDINA [1] held its first general information event for the Higher and Further Education communities on Tuesday 11 May 2004. EDINA Exchange took place in the National E-Science Centre at the University of Edinburgh.

ERPANET Seminar on Persistent Identifiers

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Monica Duke reports on a two-day training seminar on persistent identifiers held by ERPANET in Cork, Ireland over 17-18 June 2004.

Day One

Introduction
Welcome and Keynote
Overview of Persistent Identifier initiatives
URN
OpenURL - The Rough Guide
Info URIs
The DCMI Persistent Identifier Working Group
The CENDI Report
ARK
PURLs
Overview of the Handle System
DOI