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Twitter is a social networking and microblogging website, based in San Francisco, California, also having servers and offices in San Antonio, Texas, Boston, Massachusetts, and Salt Lake City, Utah. Twitter, Inc. was originally incorporated in California, but has been incorporated in the jurisdiction of Delaware since 2007. Since being created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launching that July, the website has gained popularity worldwide and is estimated to have more than 200 million active users, generating 65 million tweets a day and handling over 800,000 search queries per day. It is sometimes described as the "SMS of the Internet". (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Twitter)
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Editorial: Ariadne Carries On |
The editor writes of the next coils in Ariadne's thread, and bids farewell. |
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 71 |
The editor introduces readers to the content of Ariadne Issue 71. |
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Hita-Hita: Open Access and Institutional Repositories in Japan Ten Years On |
Ikuko Tsuchide, Yui Nishizono, Masako Suzuki, Shigeki Sugita, Kazuo Yamamoto and Hideki Uchijima introduce a number of ideas and projects that have enhanced the progress of the Open Access movement and institutional repositories in Japan over the last ten years. |
July 2013, issue71, feature article |
The Wellcome Library, Digital |
Christy Henshaw and Robert Kiley describe how the Wellcome Library has transformed its information systems to support mass digitisation of historic collections. |
July 2013, issue71, feature article |
Engaging Researchers with Social Media Tools: 25 Research Things@Huddersfield |
Graham Stone and Ellen Collins investigate whether 25 Research Things, an innovative online learning programme, could help researchers understand the value of Web 2.0 tools. |
July 2013, issue71, feature article |
JABES 2013 |
Marlène Delhaye reports on the two-day annual conference organised by the French Agence Bibliographique de l’Enseignement Supérieur (ABES) held in Montpellier, France over 14-15 May 2013. |
July 2013, issue71, event report |
Book Review: Crisis Information Management |
Emma Tonkin offers a review of a thought-provoking overview of crisis informatics. |
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Motivations for the Development of a Web Resource Synchronisation Framework |
Stuart Lewis, Richard Jones and Simeon Warner explain some of the motivations behind the development of the ResourceSync Framework. |
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Seb Schmoller Replies |
Stepping down from his pivotal role as CEO at ALT, Seb Schmoller kindly answers a few questions from Ariadne on his perspective on online learning. |
November 2012, issue70, feature article |
Case Studies in Web Sustainability |
Scott Turner describes issues around making Web resources sustainable. |
November 2012, issue70, feature article |
CURATEcamp iPres 2012 |
Mark Jordan, Courtney Mumma, Nick Ruest and the participants of CURATEcamp iPres 2012 report on this unconference for digital curation practitioners and researchers, held on 2 October 2012 in Toronto. |
November 2012, issue70, event report |
IFLA World Library and Information Congress 2012 |
Marieke Guy reports on the 78th IFLA General Conference and Assembly held in Helsinki, Finland over 11-17 August 2012. |
November 2012, issue70, event report |
International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL) 2012 |
Anna Mastora and Sarantos Kapidakis report on TPDL 2012 held at Paphos, Cyprus, over 23-27 September 2012. |
November 2012, issue70, event report |
Online Information 2012 |
Marieke Guy reports on the largest gathering of information professionals in Europe. |
November 2012, issue70, event report |
Enhancing Collaboration and Interaction in a Post-graduate Research Programme |
Tertia Coetsee describes a community of practice for post-graduate students where RefShare is deployed for digital storage and retrieval, alongside Blackboard for the purposes of communication. She also describes the role of the information specialist in the programme. |
July 2012, issue69, feature article |
Making the Most of a Conference |
Stephanie Taylor writes about how she made the most of a conference to promote and inform the work of a project. |
July 2012, issue69, feature article |
Eduserv Symposium 2012: Big Data, Big Deal? |
Marieke Guy attended the annual Eduserv Symposium on 10 May 2012 at the Royal College of Physicians, London to find out what are the implications of big data for Higher Education Institutions. |
July 2012, issue69, event report |
The Institutional Web Management Workshop (IWMW) 2012 |
Kirsty Pitkin reports on the 16th Institutional Web Management Workshop held at the University of Edinburgh's Appleton Tower between 18 - 20 July 2012. |
July 2012, issue69, event report |
Book Review: Mob Rule Learning |
Fiona MacLellan reviews a book which discusses the current unconference phenomenon and highlights the learning opportunities that these environments offer. |
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Book Review: I, Digital – A History Devoid of the Personal? |
Chris Rusbridge reviews an edited volume that aims to fill a gap in ‘literature designed specifically to guide archivists’ thinking about personal digital materials’. |
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Collaborations Workshop 2012: Software, Sharing and Collaboration in Oxford |
Simon Choppin reports on a two-day software workshop held at The Queen’s College, Oxford over 21 - 22 March 2012. |
April 2012, issue68, event report |
Has Second Life Lived up to Expectations? |
Paul Gorman examines to what degree Second Life has justified the claims made for it by its evangelists with particular regard to education. |
March 2012, issue68, feature article |
Welsh Libraries and Social Media: A Survey |
Alyson Tyler outlines the results of a survey of Welsh libraries, their access to, and use of, social media, and offers a sample business case. |
March 2012, issue68, feature article |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 68 |
The editor introduces readers to the content of Ariadne issue 68. |
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The Future of the Past of the Web |
Matthew Brack reports on the one-day international workshop 'The Future of the Past of the Web' held at the British Library Conference Centre, London on 7 October, 2011. |
March 2012, issue68, event report |
The Third Annual edUi Conference 2011 |
Danielle Cooley reports on the third annual edUi Conference, held over 13-14 October 2011, in Richmond, Virginia, USA, an opportunity for Web professionals in colleges, universities, libraries, museums, etc to discuss the latest developments in Web trends and technologies. |
March 2012, issue68, event report |
IMPACT Final Conference 2011 |
Marieke Guy reports on the two-day conference looking at the results of the IMPACT Project in making digitisation and OCR better, faster and cheaper. |
March 2012, issue68, event report |
Book Review: The Future of Archives and Recordkeeping |
John Azzolini reviews an anthology of perceptive essays on the challenges presented to archival thought and practice by Web 2.0, postmodern perspectives, and cross-disciplinary interchanges. |
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 67: Changes Afoot |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 67. |
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Connecting Researchers at the University of Bath |
Jez Cope and Geraldine Jones describe a recent series of events introducing social media to research students at the University of Bath. |
July 2011, issue67, feature article |
Looking for the Link Between Library Usage and Student Attainment |
Graham Stone, Bryony Ramsden and Dave Pattern introduce the JISC-funded Library Impact Data Project (LIDP). |
July 2011, issue67, feature article |
UK Reading Experience Database |
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. |
July 2011, issue67, event report |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 66: Sanity Check |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 66. |
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10 Cheap and Easy Ways to Amplify Your Event |
Marieke Guy describes new tools and services that can help you get your event heard. |
January 2011, issue66, feature article |
Saving the Sounds of the UK in the UK SoundMap |
Maureen Pennock and Chris Clark introduce an innovative initiative from the British Library to map a 12-month soundscape of the UK. |
January 2011, issue66, feature article |
International Digital Curation Conference 2010 |
Alex Ball reports on the 6th International Digital Curation Conference, held on 7-8 December 2010 in Chicago. |
January 2011, issue66, event report |
Beyond the PDF |
Jodi Schneider reports on a three-day workshop about the future of scientific communication, held in San Diego CA, USA, in January 2011. |
January 2011, issue66, event report |
Book Review: Blogging and RSS - A Librarian's Guide, 2nd Edition |
Elly Cope reviews the second edition of this book in which the author explains how RSS and blogging can be used by librarians and libraries. |
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Repository Fringe 2010 |
Martin Donnelly (and friends) report on the Repository Fringe "unconference" held at the National e-Science Centre in Edinburgh, Scotland, over 2-3 September 2010. |
October 2010, issue65, event report |
Survive or Thrive |
Ed Fay reports on a two-day conference organised by UKOLN on behalf of JISC to consider growth and use of digital content on the Web, which was held in Manchester in June 2010. |
October 2010, issue65, event report |
