Overview of content related to 'archives'

Charles Jones muses on the history of the Internet presence of the University of Chicago Oriental Institute.

Marjan Vernooy-Gerritsen, Gera Pronk and Maurits van der Graaf report on the most significant results from two surveys conducted to provide an overview of repositories with research output in the European Union.

Philip Hunter squints at the world through RealPlayer and MediaPlayer windows.

Paul Miller looks at some of the services we call portals, and argues for better words to describe them.

Daniel Chudnov, Jeremy Frumkin, Jennifer Weintraub, Matthew Wilcox and Raymond Yee describe a potential groupware framework for integrating access to diverse information resources and distributed personal collection development.

Alastair Dunning provides an overview of case studies published by the Arts and Humanities Data Service in that persistent minefield of respecting copyright.

Valeda Dent with a newcomer's perspective on the MALIBU project.

Rose Holley describes a major development in the Australian national digital information infrastructure.

Ann Chapman describes the lifecycle of a demonstrator database and the development of a preservation policy for its content and software.

Najla Semple and Maggie Jones outline the background and findings of the Digital Preservation Coalition's UK Needs Assessment and the Mind the Gap report.

Bethan Ruddock reports from the launch event for the UK Reading Experience Database, held at the Betty Boothroyd Library, the Open University, Milton Keynes, on 24 February 2011.

Cecilia Loureiro-Koechlin discusses the outcomes and lessons learned from user tests performed on the Oxford Blue Pages, a tool designed to display information about researchers and their activities at the University of Oxford.

Ian Peacock explains mod_perl technology for supercharging the Apache Server.

Andrew Cox, Eddy Verbaan and Barbara Sen explore the design of a curriculum to train academic librarians in the competencies to support Research Data Management.

Shirley Hyatt and Lynn Silipigni Connaway, describe the rationale and background of OCLC's acquisition of netLibrary, the information environment that is being pursued, and the resulting benefits that libraries may experience.

Jenny Brace explains why giving time to versioning within a repository is worthwhile and outlines the best practice to implement.

John MacColl meets Chris Zielinski, a champion of authors' rights.

Matthew Barr, Amir Bernstein, Clive Billenness and Manfred Thaller report on the final Planets training event Digital Preservation - The Planets Way held in Rome over 19 - 21 April 2010.

Noa Aharony asks whether library and information science schools in the United States are underestimating the opportunities offered by Web 2.0 applications.