Overview of content related to 'infrastructure'

Chris Awre finds a useful toolset to guide librarians and LIS students on the future use of IT to deliver their services.

Greg Tourte and Emma Tonkin describe the set-up and use of video streaming technology at the IWMW 2006 event.

Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

Caroline Williams describes Intute in the context of the online information environment and outlines aspirations for the future.

Alastair Dunning reviews 10 years in the history of the Arts and Humanities Data Service.

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.

Najla Semple and Robin Rice were at the JISC / CNI conference 'Envisioning future challenges in networked information'.

Chris Awre and Richard Green report from the Fedora Users Conference, a two-day meeting for users of the open source Fedora repository system held at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, over 19-20 June 2006.

Terry Reese discusses the creation of a shared knowledge base system within OSU's open-source metasearch development.

Neil Beagrie and Mark Bide report on a one-day invitational workshop on Digital Policy Management sponsored by The British Library, JISC and UKOLN under the aegis of the British Library/JISC Partnership, held in the British Library Conference Centre on 24 April 2006.

Lorcan Dempsey considers how the digital library environment has changed in the ten years since Ariadne was first published.

Clifford Lynch looks at how the emergence of e-research has changed our thinking about the future of research libraries on both sides of the Atlantic.

Philip Pothen reports on this two-day conference at Warwick University over 7-8 November 2005.

Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

Elizabeth McHugh learns about the importance of locally produced e-metrics and how they could be produced using available technologies.

Martin Feijen and Annemiek van der Kuil describe the Cream of Science Project, part of the DARE Programme, which generated a Web site offering open access to almost 25,000 publications by 207 prominent scholars across the Netherlands.

Brian Kelly recently gave a talk on this subject at the Internet Librarian International 2005 conference. In this article he expands on the talk and revisits the question as to whether email really should disappear.

Robina Clayphan reports on the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications: Vocabularies in Practice held at the University of Carlos III, Madrid in September 2005.

Wolfram Horstmann, Liv Fugl and Jessica Lindholm report on the two-day conference Building the Info Grid on trends and perspectives in digital library technology and services held in Copenhagen in September.