Overview of content related to 'metadata'

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

Adrian Stevenson reports on the 10th Institutional Web Management Workshop held at the University of Bath over 14-16 June 2006.

Dave Thompson reports on a two-day conference on Email Curation organised by the Digital Curation Centre.

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.

Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

Duncan Burbidge describes a new approach to digitising an archive both as a future-proof substitute and for Web delivery.

Aaron Krowne and Urvashi Gadi present a framework which improves searching in the context of scholarly digital libraries by taking a 'quality metrics-aware' approach.

R. John Robertson introduces a project examining the potential benefits of OAI-PMH Static Repositories as a means of enabling small publishers to participate more fully in the information environment.

Theo van Veen shows with the help of an example, how standardised descriptions of services can help users control the integration of services from different providers.

Jeremy Frumkin and Dan Chudnov report on the inaugural conference of the Code4lib community of programmers, hackers, and techies working in or with libraries and information systems.

Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

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

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

Maureen Pennock reports on a two-day workshop on Future-Proofing Web Sites, organised by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) and the Wellcome Library at the Wellcome Library, London, over 19-20 January 2006.

Michael Day reviews another recent volume of this key annual publication on information science and technology.

Amber Thomas and Andrew Rothery explore how online repositories are being used to store and share e-learning content, and show how taking the user perspective might challenge the emerging approaches to repository development.

To accompany their main article, Martin Feijen and Annemiek van der Kuil provide a chronological overview of the DARE project.

Esther Hoorn considers ways librarians can support scholars in managing the demands of copyright so as to respond to the needs of scholarly communication.

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.