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• SUNCAT: Ten Years and Beyond

  Celia Jenkins charts the beginnings of SUNCAT, its development over the last ten years and what the future holds for the service.

• 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.

• The Potential of Learning Analytics and Big Data

  Patricia Charlton, Manolis Mavrikis and Demetra Katsifli discuss how the emerging trend of learning analytics and big data can support and empower learning and teaching.

• 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.

• 'Does He Take Sugar?': The Risks of Standardising Easy-to-read Language

  Brian Kelly, Dominik Lukeš and Alistair McNaught highlight the risks of attempting to standardise easy-to-read language for online resources.

• 23rd International CODATA Conference

  Alex Ball reports on a conference on ‘Open Data and Information for a Changing Planet’ held by the International Council for Science’s Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan on 28–31 October 2012.

• EMTACL12 (Emerging Technologies in Academic Libraries)

  Sarah Rayner and Olivia Walsby report on a three-day conference on Emerging Technologies in Academic Libraries, hosted by NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) in Trondheim, Norway over 1 - 3 October 2012.

• Online Information 2012

  Marieke Guy reports on the largest gathering of information professionals in Europe.

• 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.

• Wikipedia: Reflections on Use and Acceptance in Academic Environments

  In the light of a workshop run by the Geological Society of London and Wikimedia UK, Brian Whalley reflects on the attitudes and practice of academia in respect of present-day Wikipedia content.

• 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.

• Peculiarities of Digitising Materials from the Collections of the National Academy of Sciences, Armenia

  Alan Hopkinson and Tigran Zargaryan give an overview of their experience of digitising paper-based materials in the Fundamental Scientific Library of the National Academy of Sciences, Armenia including some of the obstacles encountered during image processing and optical character recognition.

• 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.

• Data Science Professionals: A Global Community of Sharing

  Sylvie Lafortune reports on the 37th annual conference of the International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology (IASSIST), held over 30 May – 3 June 2011 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

• 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.

• Book Review: Preparing Collections for Digitization

  Michael Day reviews a recently published book on the selection and preparation of archive and library collections for digitisation.

• Developing Infrastructure for Research Data Management at the University of Oxford

  James A. J. Wilson, Michael A. Fraser, Luis Martinez-Uribe, Paul Jeffreys, Meriel Patrick, Asif Akram and Tahir Mansoori describe the approaches taken, findings, and issues encountered while developing research data management services and infrastructure at the University of Oxford.

• 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.

• Retooling Libraries for the Data Challenge

  Dorothea Salo examines how library systems and procedures need to change to accommodate research data.

• The Fourth DCC-RIN Research Data Management Forum

  Martin Donnelly and Graham Pryor report on the fourth Research Data Management Forum event, on the theme "Dealing with Sensitive Data: Managing Ethics, Security and Trust," organised by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) and Research Information Network (RIN) in Manchester, England, over 10 - 11 March, 2010.

• Learning to YODL: Building York's Digital Library

  Peri Stracchino and Yankui Feng describe a year's progress in building the digital library infrastructure outlined by Julie Allinson and Elizabeth Harbord in their article last issue.

• 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.

• Content Architecture: Exploiting and Managing Diverse Resources

  Jane Stevenson gives a personal view of the recent UK conference organised by the International Society of Knowledge Organization.

• 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.

• To VRE Or Not to VRE?: Do South African Malaria Researchers Need a Virtual Research Environment?

  Heila Pienaar and Martie van Deventer identify the requirements of a Virtual Research Environment (VRE) for malaria researchers in South Africa.

• Book Review: Patent Failure - How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk

  Stuart Hannabuss reviews a work which debunks some key assumptions about IPR and contends that current patent arrangements are ineffective.

• 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.

• What Happens If I Click on This?': Experiences of the Archives Hub

  Jane Stevenson describes the results of usability testing for the Archives Hub Web site.

• 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.

• Implementing Ex Libris's PRIMO at the University of East Anglia

  Nick Lewis outlines the University of East Anglia's experience of implementing Ex Libris's Primo, a new search and retrieval interface for presenting the library catalogue and institutional databases and e-resources.

• Book Review: Programming Collective Intelligence

  Pete Cliff tries to remember A-level mathematics as he dives into the fascinating world of machine learning and statistics and how to apply these techniques to Web-accessible datasets.

• Human-powered Search Engines: An Overview and Roundup

  Phil Bradley looks at the major contenders and discusses the value of this type of search engine.

• 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.

• The KIDMM Community's 'MetaKnowledge Mash-up'

  Conrad Taylor reports on the KIDMM knowledge community and its September 2007 one-day conference about data, information and knowledge management issues.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

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

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

• New Search Engines in 2006

  Phil Bradley takes a look at some of the search engines that he noticed in 2006 and provides quick assessments.

• 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.

• Video Streaming of Events

  Greg Tourte and Emma Tonkin describe the set-up and use of video streaming technology at the IWMW 2006 event.

• A Foundation for Automatic Digital Preservation

  Miguel Ferreira, Ana Alice Baptista and Jose Carlos Ramalho propose a Service-Oriented Architecture to help cultural heritage institutions to accomplish automatic digital preservation.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Folksonomies: The Fall and Rise of Plain-text Tagging

  Emma Tonkin suggests that rising new ideas are often on their second circuit - and none the worse for that.

• 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.

• Serving Services in Web 2.0

  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.

• Book Review: ARIST 39 - Annual Review of Information Science and Technology

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

• Google Challenges for Academic Libraries

  John MacColl analyses the reactions many academic libraries may be having to the range of tools Google is currently rolling out and outlines a strategy for institutions in the face of such potentially radical developments.

• Book Review: Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 2004 (Volume 38)

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

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Search Engines: Google and Search: Some of the Latest Developments

  Phil Bradley takes a look at some of the new developments at Google.

• Book Review: Metadata for Information Management and Retrieval

  Marieke Guy takes a look at a recent introduction to metadata for the information professional.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• The National Centre for Text Mining: Aims and Objectives

  Sophia Ananiadou, Julia Chruszcz, John Keane, John McNaught and Paul Watry describe NaCTeM's plans to provide text mining services for UK academics.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Search Engines: New and Developing Search Engines

  Phil Bradley looks at some existing search engines and also some new ones to bring you up to date on what is happening in the world of Internet search engines.

• Adding Value to the National Information Infrastructure: The EDINA Exchange Day, Edinburgh

  John MacColl provides us with a report of EDINA's first general information event for the HE and FE communities held at the National E-Science Centre.

• Rights Management and Digital Library Requirements

  Karen Coyle describes some aspects of rights expression languages favoured by the commercial content industries and how these may differ from the rights needs of digital libraries.

• World Wide Web Conference 2004

  Dave Beckett reports on the international WWW2004 conference held in New York, 19-21 May 2004.

• Can We Save Our Audio-visual Heritage?

  Daniel Teruggi describes PrestoSpace, the new FP6 Integrated project for the preservation of our disappearing audio-visual heritage.

• ERPANET / CODATA Workshop, Lisbon

  Michael Day gives us a detailed report on the ERPANET / CODATA Workshop held at the Biblioteca Nacional, Lisbon, 15-17 December 2003.

• The Portole Project: Supporting E-learning

  Tracey Stanley, Mina Sotiriou and Matthew Dovey provide an overview of a project to produce tools to discover information resources and deploy them within a university VLE.

• Experiences of Harvesting Web Resources in Engineering Using Automatic Classification

  Kjell Jansson, Jessica Lindholm and Tomas Schoenthal describe the work in setting up a Web index that uses automatic classification as a means for the selection of resources.

• Book Review: Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, Volume 36

  Michael Day takes a detailed look at the structure and content of this hardy annual.

• Domesday Redux: The Rescue of the BBC Domesday Project Videodiscs

  Jeffrey Darlington, Andy Finney and Adrian Pearce describe the groundbreaking BBC Domesday Project of 1986, and explain how its unique multimedia collection has been preserved.

• Cultural Heritage Language Technologies: Building an Infrastructure for Collaborative Digital Libraries in the Humanities

  Jeffrey Rydberg-Cox describes the work of the Cultural Heritage Language Technologies consortium, a research group funded by the European Comission Information Society Technologies program and the United States National Science Foundation Digital Libraries Initiative.

• A Speaking Electronic Librarian

  Markos Dendrinos with a proposal for an interface system, based on speech recognition and synthesis technologies, for automatic library services.

• Multi-media and Image Handling: The future is Textless

  Marieke Napier on a DTI multimedia day in London in November 2001.

• Reference Books on the Web

  Adam Hodgkin explores the range of electronic reference tools.

• Web Focus: Mobile E-Book Readers

  Brian Kelly, UK Web Focus, writes about Mobile E-Book Readers in his regular column.

• Distributed Computing: The Seti@home Project

  Eddie Young and Pete Cliff look at a particularly successful example of a distributed solution to a very large number crunching problem.

• DECOMATE II

  Leona Carpenter gives a personal view of the 'Logged into Economics' conference in Barcelona in June.

• Electronic Homer

  Martin Mueller reads Homer electronically with the TLG, Perseus, and the Chicago Homer.

• Search Engines: The Relevance of Underpants to Searching the Web

  Phil Bradley explores search engine ranking techniques.

• Search Engines: 'Ixquick', a Multi-Search Engine With a Difference

  Phil Bradley describes how Ixquick stacks up against the competition.

• So You Want to Build a Union Catalogue?

  Matthew Dovey looks at various models of virtual union catalogues in addition to those adopted by the clump projects, and other models of physical catalogues.

• Planet SOSIG: Asking Questions - The CASS Social Survey Question Bank

  Adam Guy writes about the Question Bank service.

• 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.

• ECMS: Technology Issues and Electronic Copyright Management Systems

  Pedro Isaias looks at the relevant ECMS e-Commerce technology.

• Web Focus: Report on the WWW 8 Conference

  Brian Kelly discusses WWW8 in Toronto, which took place in May 1999.

• Biz/Ed Bulletin

  Kate Sharp and Libby Miller describe Business and Economics Resources on the Internet.

• Web Research: Browsing Video Content

  Peter Thomas, UWE, and Peter Macer of Hewlett Packard Research Laboratories describe automated techniques for browsing video content.

• Metadata: BIBLINK.Checksum

  Ian Peacock and Andy Powell describe a proposed algorithm for calculating a checksum for Web pages.

• VERITY

  Panayiotis Periorellis and Walter Scales writes about the VERITY European Telematics Project.

• Web Editorial: Introduction to Issue 17

  The web editors, Philip Hunter and Bernadette Daly, introduce Ariadne issue 17.

• Search Engines Corner

  Dave Beckett discusses the best of the search engine features.

• Web Focus: Ways of Exploiting New Technologies

  Brian Kelly discusses Intermediaries: Ways Of Exploiting New Technologies.

• Digital Libraries '97

  David Nichols reports on the important international conference: Digital Libraries '97.

• SIGIR '97

  David Nichols reports on the follow-on conference SIGIR '97.

• Elvira 4: May 1997, Milton Keynes

  Ian Bloor reports on the recently held Elvira (Electronic Library and Visual Information Research) event.

• COPAC: The New Nationally Accessible Union Catalogue

  Shirley Cousins introduces COPAC and discusses some of the issues involved in the ongoing development of a consolidated union OPAC.

• Monash University Electronic Reserve Project

  Hans W. Groenewegen, Debbie Hedger and Iris Radulescu describe Monash University's Electronic Reserve Project which is at the core of the electronic library project at the University's new Berwick campus.

• JISC Projects Ahead

  John MacColl outlines some of the key points in JISCÆs five year strategy document.

• Securing HTML FORMs

  Jon Knight discusses some of the options available to the designers and implementors of HTML FORMs for providing authentication of users in a library environment.

• Wire: Brian Kelly

  Brian Kelly is put under the virtual spotlight to answer a few questions via email on his past, present, and thoughts on matters networking.

• ADAM: Information Gateway to Resources on the Internet in Art, Design, Architecture and Media

  Nearly half a year after the project’s official start date, ADAM has a fledgling information gateway to information on the Internet in art, design, architecture and media. Tony Gill, ADAM Project Leader, outlines what has been achieved so far, and some of the challenges that lie directly ahead.

• CLIC: An Electronic Chemistry Journal

  CLIC is a project from the Electronic Journals area of the Electronic Libraries Programme. Henry Rzepa, from the Chemistry Department at Imperial College, explains the need for journals in the field of Chemistry that use leading edge technology for molecular information storage, retrieval and manipulation.