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• Internet Librarian International Conference 2014

  Zoë Hurley and Garth Bradshaw report on the Internet Librarian Conference, held at the Olympia Conference Centre in London over 20-22 October 2014.

• Digitisation and e-Delivery of Theses from ePrints Soton

  Julian Ball and Christine Fowler describe the partnership between the University of Southampton’s Library Digitisation Unit and its institutional repository for digitising and hosting theses.

• Open Access and Research Conference 2013: Discovery, Impact and Innovation

  Paula Callan, Stephanie Bradbury, Sarah Brown, Philippa Broadley, Emma Nelms and Christopher Hart report on Open Access and Research 2013 which focused on recent developments and the strategic advantages they bring to the research sector.

• Realising the Potential of Altmetrics within Institutions

  Jean Liu and Euan Adie of Altmetric take a look at the growing presence of altmetrics in universities, and consider some of the potential applications.

• DataFinder: A Research Data Catalogue for Oxford

  Sally Rumsey and Neil Jefferies explain the context and the decisions guiding the development of DataFinder, a data catalogue for the University of Oxford.

• 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.

• The Performance-based Funding Model: Creating New Research Databases in Sweden and Norway

  Leif Eriksson describes how the introduction of Performance-based Research Funding Systems (PRFS) has created new forms of research databases in Sweden and Norway.

• eMargin: A Collaborative Textual Annotation Tool

  Andrew Kehoe and Matt Gee describe their Jisc-funded eMargin collaborative textual annotation tool, showing how it has widened its focus through integration with Virtual Learning Environments.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 70

  The editor introduces readers to the content of Ariadne Issue 70.

• 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.

• 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.

• euroCRIS Membership Meeting, Madrid

  Rosemary Russell and Brigitte Jörg report on the bi-annual euroCRIS membership and Task Groups meetings which took place in Madrid on 5-6 November 2012.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 69

  The editor introduces readers to the content of Ariadne Issue 69.

• Launching a New Community-owned Content Service

  Caren Milloy describes some of the challenges overcome and lessons learned by JISC Collections during the development of JISC eCollections.

• Delivering Open Educational Resources for Engineering Design

  Mansur Darlington describes two methods for presenting online OERs for engineering design that were developed and explored as part of the Higher Education Academy/JISC-funded DelOREs (Delivering Open Educational Resources for Engineering Design) Project.

• 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.

• Book Review: Making Software - What Really Works, and Why We Believe It

  While acknowledging the genuine usefulness of much of its content, Emma Tonkin provides helpful pointers towards a second edition.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 68

  The editor introduces readers to the content of Ariadne issue 68.

• 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.

• 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.

• Open Educational Resources Hack Day

  Kirsty Pitkin reports on a two-day practical hack event focusing on Open Educational Resources (OER), held by DevCSI and JISC CETIS in Manchester on 31 March - 1 April 2011.

• 10 Years of Zetoc

  Jane Ronson looks at how Zetoc has developed and what the future holds for the service.

• 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.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 66: Sanity Check

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 66.

• International Digital Curation Conference 2010

  Alex Ball reports on the 6th International Digital Curation Conference, held on 7-8 December 2010 in Chicago.

• CIG Conference 2010: Changes in Cataloguing in 'Interesting Times'

  Rhiannon McLoughlin reports on a three-day conference on cataloguing in a time of financial stringency, held by the CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group at Exeter University, from 13-15 September 2010.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 65: Ariadne in Search of Your Views

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 65.

• Europeana Open Culture 2010

  David Fuegi and Monika Segbert-Elbert report on the annual Europeana Conference, held at the Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam in October 2010.

• 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.

• 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.

• What Is a URI and Why Does It Matter?

  Henry S. Thompson describes how recent developments in Web technology have affected the relationship between URI and resource representation and the related consequences.

• Repository Software Comparison: Building Digital Library Infrastructure at LSE

  Ed Fay presents a comparison of repository software that was carried out at LSE in support of digital library infrastructure development.

• Trove: Innovation in Access to Information in Australia

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

• A Pragmatic Approach to Preferred File Formats for Acquisition

  Dave Thompson sets out the pragmatic approach to preferred file formats for long-term preservation used at the Wellcome Library.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 63: Consider the Users in the Field

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 63.

• Mobilising the Internet Detective

  Diana Massam, Andrew Priest and Caroline Williams describe a recent project to adapt the online Internet Detective tutorial, to deliver a user-friendly mobile site which reflects their market research into user preferences for mobile content.

• Moving Towards Interoperability: Experiences of the Archives Hub

  Jane Stevenson and Bethan Ruddock describe the work that the Archives Hub team has been doing to promote the sharing of content.

• Turning on the Lights for the User: NISO Discovery to Delivery Forum

  Laura Akerman and Kim Durante report on Discovery to Delivery, Creating a First-Class User Experience, a NISO Forum on today's information seekers and current standards developments held in March 2010 at the Georgia Tech Global Learning Center.

• Abstract Modelling of Digital Identifiers

  Nick Nicholas, Nigel Ward and Kerry Blinco present an information model of digital identifiers, to help bring clarity to the vocabulary debates from which this field has suffered.

• Uncovering User Perceptions of Research Activity Data

  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.

• Enhancing Scientific Communication through Aggregated Publications

  Arjan Hogenaar describes changes in the publication and communication process which will mean that the role of authors will become a more prominent one.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• UK Institutional Repository Search: Innovation and Discovery

  Vic Lyte, Sophia Jones, Sophia Ananiadou and Linda Kerr describe an innovative tool to showcase UK research output through advanced discovery and retrieval facilities.

• Open Repositories 2009

  Adrian Stevenson reports on the four-day annual Open Repositories conference held at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, GA, USA over 18 - 21 May 2009.

• From Cultural Heritage to Digital Knowledge: Building Infrastructures for a Global Knowledge Society

  Astrid Recker reports on the 3rd IFLA Presidential Meeting, held by the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) in Berlin over 19-20 February 2009.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Publish and Cherish With Non-proprietary Peer Review Systems

  Leo Waaijers urges Open Access-mandating research funders to extend OA publishing conditions by stimulating the market.

• Spinning a Semantic Web for Metadata: Developments in the IEMSR

  Emma Tonkin and Alexey Strelnikov reflect on the experience of developing components for the Information Environment Metadata Schema Registry.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• The European Film Gateway

  Georg Eckes and Monika Segbert describe a Best Practice Network funded under the eContentplus Programme of the European Commission, which is building a portal for access to film archival resources in Europe.

• Copyright Angst, Lust for Prestige and Cost Control: What Institutions Can Do to Ease Open Access

  Leo Waaijers writes about copyright, prestige and cost control in the world of open access while in two appendices Bas Savenije and Michel Wesseling compare the costs of open access publishing and subscriptions/licences for their respective institutions.

• Embedding Web Preservation Strategies Within Your Institution

  Christopher Eddie reports on the third one-day workshop of the JISC-PoWR (Preservation of Web Resources) Project held at the University of Manchester on 12 September 2008.

• Europeana: An Infrastructure for Adding Local Content

  Rob Davies describes a Best Practice Network under the eContentPlus Programme to make available locally sourced digital content to the Europeana Service.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• OAI-ORE, PRESERV2 and Digital Preservation

  Sally Rumsey and Ben O'Steen describe OAI-ORE and how it can contribute to digital preservation activities.

• iPRES 2008

  Frances Boyle and Adam Farquhar report on the two-day international conference which was the fifth in the series on digital preservation of digital objects held at the British Library, on 29 - 30 September 2008.

• Open Repositories 2008

  Mahendra Mahey reports on the third international Open Repositories 2008 Conference, held at the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton in April 2008.

• The 2008 Mashed Museum Day and UK Museums on the Web Conference

  Mia Ridge reports on the Mashed Museum day and the Museums Computer Group UK Museums on the Web Conference, held at the University of Leicester in June 2008.

• The Networked Library Service Layer: Sharing Data for More Effective Management and Cooperation

  Janifer Gatenby identifies criteria for determining which data in various library systems could be more beneficially shared and managed at a network level.

• Book Review: Digital Information Culture

  Stuart Hannabuss analyses a very useful addition to the realm of information, knowledge and library studies.

• Libraries of the Future

  Michelle Pauli reports on the National e-textbook Debate and Libraries of the Future panel sessions held by JISC in Birmingham over 14-15 April 2008.

• Research Libraries and the Power of the Co-operative

  John MacColl considers the 'co-operative imperative' upon research libraries, and describes the work which the former Research Libraries Group is undertaking as part of OCLC.

• Towards an Application Profile for Images

  Mick Eadie describes the development of the Dublin Core Images Application Profile project recently funded through the JISC.

• Collaborative and Social Tagging Networks

  Emma Tonkin, Edward M. Corrado, Heather Lea Moulaison, Margaret E. I. Kipp, Andrea Resmini, Heather D. Pfeiffer and Qiping Zhang gather a series of international perspectives on the practice of social tagging of documents within a community context.

• MCN 2007: Building Content, Building Community - 40 Years of Museum Information and Technology

  Guenter Waibel and Jean Godby report on the Museum Computer Network annual meeting, held 7-10 November, 2007 in Chicago, Illinois.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Version Identification: A Growing Problem

  Dave Puplett outlines the issues associated with versions in institutional repositories, and discusses the solutions being developed by the Version Identification Framework (VIF) Project.

• DRIVER: Building the Network for Accessing Digital Repositories Across Europe

  Martin Feijen, Wolfram Horstmann, Paolo Manghi, Mary Robinson and Rosemary Russell present an outline of the DRIVER Project and its achievements so far in supporting and enhancing digital repository development in Europe.

• ECDL 2007

  Mahendra Mahey, Emma Tonkin and Robert John Robertson report on the 2007 European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, held in Budapest, Hungary, over 16-22 September, 2007.

• Googlepository and the University Library

  Sue Manuel and Charles Oppenheim discuss the concept of Google as a repository within the wider context of resource management and provision in Further and Higher Education.

• 24 Hour Museum: From Past to Future

  As 24 Hour Museum rebuilds and looks outwards to new partnerships, Jon Pratty looks at challenges faced over the last seven years.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Book Review: Blogging and RSS - A Librarian's Guide

  Kara Jones reviews a practical guide to blogs and RSS written for librarians, packed with library-specific examples.

• The JISC Annual Conference 2007

  Philip Pothen and colleagues provide an overview of the proceedings of this Spring's JISC Annual Conference.

• A Dublin Core Application Profile for Scholarly Works

  Julie Allinson, Pete Johnston and Andy Powell describe a Dublin Core application profile for describing scholarly works that makes use of FRBR and the DCMI Abstract Model.

• Immaculate Catalogues, Indexes and Monsters Too...

  David E. Bennett reports on the three day residential CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group Annual Conference, University of East Anglia, during September 2006.

• Search Engines: Is Google Building on Shaky Foundations?

  Phil Bradley takes an in-depth look at Google and its competition and wonders if things are looking slightly worrying for the search giant.

• e-Books for the Future: Here but Hiding?

  Brian Whalley outlines some developments in e-book technologies and links them to existing ways of presenting textbook information.

• Fedora Users Conference

  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.

• IWMW 2006: Quality Matters

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

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• The Library Catalogue in the New Discovery Environment: Some Thoughts

  Lorcan Dempsey explores how the library catalogue will develop alongside evolving network discovery systems.

• Metasearch: Building a Shared, Metadata-driven Knowledge Base System

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

• QMSearch: A Quality Metrics-aware Search Framework

  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.

• Retrospective on the RDN

  Debra Hiom, in the first of a two-part series on the Resource Discovery Network, looks back at the development of the RDN and its activities to date.

• Search Engines: Where We Were, Are Now, and Will Ever Be

  Phil Bradley takes a look at the development of search engines over the lifetime of Ariadne and points to what we might anticipate in the years to come.

• The (Digital) Library Environment: Ten Years After

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

• Book Review: Cataloging and Organizing Digital Resources

  Sarah Higgins learns how to incorporate online resources into a library catalogue using AACR2 and MARC, but wonders why the wider issue of organising and describing a full range of digital resources is not addressed.

• Online Repositories for Learning Materials: The User Perspective

  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.

• Putting the Library Into the Institution: Using JSR 168 and WSRP to Enable Search Within Portal Frameworks

  Chris Awre, Stewart Waller, Jon Allen, Matthew J Dovey, Jon Hunter and Ian Dolphin describe the investigations and technical development undertaken within the JISC-funded Contextual Resource Evaluation Environment (CREE) Project to enable the presentation of existing search tools within portal frameworks using the JSR 168 and WSRP portlet standards.

• Accessibility: The Current Situation and New Directions

  Kevin Carey describes accessibility by disabled people to digital information systems across broadcasting, telecommunications and the Internet, looks into the future and makes recommendations.

• Mobile Blogs, Personal Reflections and Learning Environments: The RAMBLE Project

  Paul Trafford describes how mobile blogs for personal reflection may be related to institutional learning environments, drawing on experiences from the RAMBLE Project.

• Virtual Research Environments: Overview and Activity

  Michael Fraser provides an overview of the virtual research environment (VRE) and introduces three JISC-funded projects in which Oxford University is participating.

• Web Focus: The WWW 2005 Conference

  Brian Kelly provides his impressions including reports of areas of doubt and uncertainty - but also of an exciting new development.

• Book Review: Building an Electronic Resource Collection

  Sarah Pearson considers whether the 2nd edition of this practical guide for building an electronic resource collection can satisfy the needs of both new and experienced practitioners.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Planet-SOSIG

  Paul Ayres examines how the SOSIG Subject News blog is keeping users up to date and providing reusable site content at the same time.

• United Kingdom Serials Group Conference 2005

  Sarah Pearson reports on the annual 3-day UK Serials Group (UKSG) conference recently held at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.

• What Are Your Terms?

  Pete Johnston introduces the JISC Information Environment Metadata Schema Registry (IEMSR) Project and examines some of the challenges it is facing.

• Book Review: Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing

  Mike Fraser asks whether a recent book on open source software licences will help him answer a few questions.

• Hyper Clumps, Mini Clumps and National Catalogues: Resource Discovery for the 21st Century

  John Gilby reports on a one-day conference about resource discovery, held at the British Library Conference Centre, London in November.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 41: Forces in Train

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne 41.

• Improving Communications Within JISC through News Aggregation

  Paul Davey explains what JISC is doing to improve communications through more effective news promotion. Roddy MacLeod and Malcolm Moffat examine the technology EEVL has developed in this area.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• What Do Application Profiles Reveal about the Learning Object Metadata Standard?

  Jean Godby assesses the customised subsets of metadata elements that have been defined by 35 projects using the LOM standard to describe e-learning resources.

• EEVL News: What EEVL Users Really Want

  Roddy MacLeod looks at the results of the recent questionnaire which surveyed opinions about the EEVL service.

• The Future of Cataloguing: Cataloguing and Indexing Group Conference

  Paola Stillone reports on a three-day annual conference of the CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group (CIG), held at the University of Bath, 30 June - 2 July.

• Towards the Digital Aquifer: Introducing the Common Information Environment

  Paul Miller discusses current efforts by UK agencies to collaborate on a Common Information Environment that meets the diverse needs of current and future consumers of digital content and services.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Reaching Out to Your Community: Policies and Practice for Public Library Service

  Fiona Leslie gives an overview of this seminar which covered a variety of topics of interest to public library professionals.

• Delivering OAI Records As RSS: An IMesh Toolkit Module for Facilitating Resource Sharing

  Monica Duke provides an overview of a means of providing records in RSS through the use of an IMesh Toolkit module that supports resource sharing. The content of this article was presented at the 4th Open Archives Forum Workshop

• Ebooks in UK Libraries: Where Are We Now?

  Penny Garrod brings us up to date on developments in ebooks.

• Towards a Typology for Portals

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

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 36: This Time the Cavalry Showed Up

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 36.

• Mapping the JISC IE Service Landscape

  Andy Powell provides a graphical representation of how some well-known services, projects and software applications fit within the JISC Information Environment technical architecture.

• eBank UK: Building the Links Between Research Data, Scholarly Communication and Learning

  Liz Lyon describes some new digital library development activities and considers the implications of linking research and learning outputs in an environment of assured data provenance.

• Syndicated Content: It's More Than Just Some File Formats?

  Paul Miller takes a look at issues arising from the current enthusiasm for syndicating content to portals or other web sites, and offers some guidelines for good practice.

• Sharing History of Science and Medicine Gateway Metadata Using OAI-PMH

  David Little outlines the resource sharing arrangements between the MedHist gateway and the Humbul hub, using the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, and some of the issues it has raised.

• 5 Step Guide to Becoming a Content Provider in the JISC Information Environment

  Andy Powell describes steps which content providers can take to integrate their resources into the JISC IE.

• Portals, Portals Everywhere

  Ian Dolphin, Paul Miller and Robert Sherratt report on two conferences over the summer which explored the progress being made in deploying institutional portals of various forms.

• Utilizing E-books to Enhance Digital Library Offerings

  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.

• NetLab's Digital Library Gâteau

  Jessica Lindholm reports from the conference "NetLab and friends: Tribute and outlook after 10 years of digital library development". The conference was held in Lund, Sweden 10-12 April 2002.

• The JISC Information Environment and Web Services

  Andy Powell and Liz Lyon look at possible relationships between the Web Services idea and earlier ideas about seamless access to information.

• Reference Books on the Web

  Adam Hodgkin explores the range of electronic reference tools.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Subject Portals

  Judith Clark describes a three-year project to develop a set of subject portals as part of the Distributed National Electronic Resource (DNER) development programme.

• The JOIN-UP Programme: Seminar on Linking Technologies

  Sandy Shaw reports on a seminar bringing together experts in the field of linking technology for JISC's JOIN-UP Programme.

• Metadata (2): Towards Consensus on Educational Metadata

  Paul Miller describes the work of the UK's new cross-sectoral Metadata for Education Group (MEG) and calls for widespread support of their first deliverable: the MEG Concord.

• Review: The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization

  Maurice Line reviews Elaine Svenonius' 'The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization', published by MIT Press.

• The Klearinghouse: An Inventory of Knowledge Technologies

  George Brett discusses part of a model of distributed user support, The Klearinghouse. The National Laboratory for Applied Network Research (NLANR) has been actively supporting high performance applications and networking for the past five years. The Klearinghouse is a next generation effort of the Advanced Applications Clearinghouse which is in the Distributed Applications Support Team of the NLANR.

• Agora: From Information Maze to Market

  Bridget Robinson, David Palmer and Rosemary Russell outline the Agora cross-searching software project, and its technical background.

• How the Oxford English Dictionary Went Online

  Laura Elliot explains the use of SGML in the management of the OED text.

• JASPER Further Education Meeting

  Martin Hamilton reports on the recent JASPER one day meeting on the expansion of JISC services to cover the FE community.

• Web Focus: Reflections On WWW9

  Brian Kelly reports on the WWW9 conference, held in Amsterdam, in May 2000.

• Scientific, Industrial, and Cultural Heritage: A Shared Approach

  Lorcan Dempsey presents a research framework for libraries, archives and museums prepared for the European Commission.

• An Overview of Subject Gateway Activities in Australia

  Debbie Campbell looks at how the original criteria proposed for an IMesh map against these Australian initiatives.

• Hybrid Libraries

  Stephen Pinfield describes the role of Hybrid Libraries and Clumps

• Building on Shifting Sands: Information Age Organisations

  Clive Field draws on his experience at the University of Birmingham to explore the issue of creating a flexible organisation.

• Task Force Meeting

  Kelly Russell reports on the US CNI Conference.

• Consortium and Site Licensing

  Jim Huntingford reports from the Consortium and Site Licensing Seminar organised by the United Kingdom Serials Group.

• Metadata Corner: Working Meeting on Electronic Records Research

  Michael Day reports from the Working Meeting on Electronic Records Research, held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania May 29-31, 1997.

• View from the Hill: Anne Dixon

  Amy Tucker peers into the future of Physics journal publishing with Anne Dixon

• Meta Detectors

  Lorcan Dempsey talks about metadata and the development of resource discovery services in the UK.