Table of contents: issue50

Wikido: Exploiting the Potential of Wikis

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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.

JISC CETIS Conference, 2006

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Paul Walk reports on the third annual CETIS conference held in Salford, Manchester, over 14 -15 November 2006.

2nd International DCC Conference 2006: Digital Data Curation in Practice

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Alexander Ball and Manjula Patel provide an overview of the second annual conference of the Digital Curation Centre.

The International Digital Curation Conference is held annually by the Digital Curation Centre [1] to bring together researchers in the field and promote discussion of policy and strategy. The second conference in this series [2], with the theme 'digital data curation in practice', was held between 21-22 November 2006 in Glasgow.

Cultural Heritage Online: The Challenge of Accessibility and Preservation

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Alastair Dunning reports on a conference in Florence about the preservation and accessibility of cultural heritage material.

Hosting a conference next to Florence's Uffizi Gallery and the sculpture-studded Piazza dei Signori is not a bad place for a conference on preservation and access to digital cultural heritage. And the condition of the courtyards, palaces, frescoes around the city show that someone has done a pretty good job at old-style preservation - give or take the occasional flood. But could the same be said of the preservation of digital culture being created in the present?

Take a Peek Beneath the EPrints V3 Wrappers

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With v3 officially launched at the Open Repositories Conference in San Antonio last week, William Nixon and Peter Millington report on the EPrints 3 pre-launch briefing in London, 8 December 2006.