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• Developing Adaptable, Efficient Mobile Library Services: Librarians as Enablers

  Lizzie Caperon describes how library resources can be targeted towards effective mobile services as mobile devices become increasingly prevalent in Higher Education.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 73

  The Editor introduces Issue 73 and provides an update on the future of Ariadne.

• Mining the Archives: Metadata Development and Implementation

  Martin White looks through the Ariadne archive to track the development and implementation of metadata in a variety of settings.

• 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.

• The Value of Open Access Publishing to Health and Social Care Professionals in Ireland

  Aoife Lawton and Eimear Flynn discuss the value of open access publishing for allied health professions and their work in the health services with particular reference to Ireland.

• 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.

• Shared Repositories, Shared Benefits: Regional and Consortial Repositories in Japan

  Takeo Ozono, Daisuke Ueda and Fumiyo Ozaki describe the work of the ShaRe Project and its influence upon the development of consortial repositories and the benefits they have brought to Japanese institutions.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 71

  The editor introduces readers to the content of Ariadne Issue 71.

• 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.

• Augmented Reality in Education: The SCARLET+ Experience

  Laura Skilton, Matt Ramirez, Guyda Armstrong, Rose Lock, Jean Vacher and Marie-Therese Gramstadt describe augmented reality in education case studies from the University of Sussex and the University for the Creative Arts.

• 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.

• ECLAP 2013: Information Technologies for Performing Arts, Media Access and Entertainment

  Marieke Guy reports on the second international conference held by ECLAP, the e-library for performing arts.

• 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.

• 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.

• KAPTUR the Highlights: Exploring Research Data Management in the Visual Arts

  Leigh Garrett, Marie-Therese Gramstadt, Carlos Silva and Anne Spalding describe the exploration of the importance and nature of research data in the visual arts and requirements for their appropriate curation and preservation.

• Making Citation Work: A British Library DataCite Workshop

  Alex Ball reports on a workshop on practical data citation issues for institutions, held at the British Library, London, on 8 March 2013.

• 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.

• 21st-century Scholarship and Wikipedia

  Amber Thomas explores the ways in which emerging research practices and Wikipedia illustrate the changing boundaries of academic work.

• 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.

• Book Review: Information 2.0

  Milena Dobreva reviews the newly published book of Martin de Saulles which looks at the new models of information production, distribution and consumption.

• Book Review: User Studies for Digital Library Development

  Selenay Aytac reviews a collection of essays on user studies and digital library development that provides a concise overview of a variety of digital library projects and examines major research trends relating to digital libraries.

• 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.

• Case Studies in Web Sustainability

  Scott Turner describes issues around making Web resources sustainable.

• 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.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 70

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

• Hydra UK: Flexible Repository Solutions to Meet Varied Needs

  Chris Awre reports on the Hydra UK event held on 22 November 2012 at the Library of the London School of Economics.

• 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.

• 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.

• Mining the Archive: The Development of Electronic Journals

  Martin White looks through the Ariadne archive to trace the development of e-journals as a particular aspect of electronic service delivery and highlights material he considers as significant.

• 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.

• SUSHI: Delivering Major Benefits to JUSP

  Paul Meehan, Paul Needham and Ross MacIntyre explain the enormous time and cost benefits in using SUSHI to support rapid gathering of journal usage reports into the JUSP service.

• 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.

• The LIPARM Project: A New Approach to Parliamentary Metadata

  Richard Gartner outlines a collaborative project which aims to link together the digitised UK Parliamentary record by providing a metadata scheme, controlled vocabularies and a Web-based interface.

• Upskilling Liaison Librarians for Research Data Management

  Andrew Cox, Eddy Verbaan and Barbara Sen explore the design of a curriculum to train academic librarians in the competencies to support Research Data Management.

• 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’.

• Book Review: Managing Research Data

  Sally Rumsey reviews a book which describes and explains the topics of interest central to practitioners involved with research data management.

• 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.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 69

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Moving Ariadne: Migrating and Enriching Content with Drupal

  Thom Bunting explains some of the technology behind the migration of Ariadne (including more than 1600 articles from its back issues archive) onto a Drupal content management platform.

• Redeveloping the Loughborough Online Reading List System

  Jon Knight, Jason Cooper and Gary Brewerton describe the redevelopment of Loughborough University’s open source reading list system.

• 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.

• The Second British Library DataCite Workshop

  Alex Ball reports on a one-day workshop on metadata supporting the citation of research data, held at the British Library, London, on 6 July 2012.

• Adapting VuFind as a Front-end to a Commercial Discovery System

  Graham Seaman describes the adaptation of an open source discovery tool, VuFind, to local needs, discusses the decisions which needed to be made in the process, and considers the implications of this process for future library discovery systems.

• Data Citation and Publication by NERC’s Environmental Data Centres

  Sarah Callaghan, Roy Lowry, David Walton and members of the Natural Environment Research Council Science Information Strategy Data Citation and Publication Project team describe their work in NERC’s Environmental Data Centres.

• Kultivating Kultur: Increasing Arts Research Deposit

  Marie-Therese Gramstadt discusses how the JISC-funded Kultivate Project is encouraging arts research deposit in UK institutional repositories.

• 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.

• Perceptions of Public Libraries in Africa

  Monika Elbert, David Fuegi and Ugne Lipeikaite describe the principal findings of the study Perceptions of Public Libraries in Africa which served to provide evidence of how public libraries are perceived by their stakeholders.

• The CLIF Project: The Repository as Part of a Content Lifecycle

  Richard Green, Chris Awre and Simon Waddington describe how a digital repository can become part of the technical landscape within an institution and support digital content lifecycle management across systems. 

• 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: Being an Information Innovator

  John Paschoud reviews a book which formalises the processes of being what many of us would like to be within our information-based organisations - innovators and entrepreneurs of the Information Age.

• 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.

• Book Review: University Libraries and Digital Learning Environments

  Sylvie Lafortune reviews a collection of essays that examine the transformation of academic libraries as they become part of digital learning environments.

• 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.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 68

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

• 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.

• 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.

• eSciDoc Days 2011: The Challenges for Collaborative eResearch Environments

  Ute Rusnak reports on the fourth in a series of two-day conferences called eSciDoc Days, organised by FIZ Karlsruhe and the Max Planck Digital Library in Berlin over 26-27 October 2011.

• The Informatics Transform: Re-engineering Libraries for the Data Decade

  Liz Lyon proposes that libraries re-position, re-profile and ramp up their engagement with research data management, scholarly communications and citizen science.

• A Double-edged Sword: What Are the Implications of Freedom of Information for the HE Sector?

  Amy Gibbons reports on the second in a series of workshops organised by the Research Information Network to explore the impact of the Freedom of Information Act on the Higher Education sector, held at University College London on 1 April 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.

• Book Review: The Expert Library

  Sylvie Lafortune reviews a book taking a hard look at academic libraries, how they are being redefined and what skills will be required of the staff who will move them forward.

• DataCite UK User Group Meeting

  Alex Ball reports on the 2nd UK User Group meeting for DataCite, held at the British Library in London, in April 2011.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 67: Changes Afoot

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 67.

• From Link Rot to Web Sanctuary: Creating the Digital Educational Resource Archive (DERA)

  Bernard M Scaife describes how an innovative use of the EPrints repository software is helping to preserve official documents from the Web.

• Image 'Quotation' Using the C.I.T.E. Architecture

  Christopher Blackwell and Amy Hackney Blackwell describe with examples a digital library infrastructure that affords canonical citation for 'quoting' images, useful for creating commentaries, arguments, and teaching tools.

• Institutional Challenges in the Data Decade

  Marion Tattersall, Carmen O'Dell and John Lewis report on Institutional Challenges in the Data Decade, organised by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) in partnership with the White Rose University Consortium and held 1-3 March 2011 at the University of Sheffield.

• Retooling Special Collections Digitisation in the Age of Mass Scanning

  Constance Rinaldo, Judith Warnement, Tom Baione, Martin R. Kalfatovic and Susan Fraser describe results from a study to identify and develop a cost-effective and efficient large-scale digitisation workflow for special collections library materials.

• 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.

• 10 Cheap and Easy Ways to Amplify Your Event

  Marieke Guy describes new tools and services that can help you get your event heard.

• 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.

• Book Review: Introducing RDA

  Katrina Clifford reviews a work covering the long-heralded change in the cataloguing rule set - RDA (Resource Description and Access).

• Characterising and Preserving Digital Repositories: File Format Profiles

  Steve Hitchcock and David Tarrant show how file format profiles, the starting point for preservation plans and actions, can also be used to reveal the fingerprints of emerging types of institutional repositories.

• Developments in Virtual 3D Imaging of Cultural Artefacts

  Richard Collmann describes how experience using a portable Virtual 3D Object Rig in cultural institutions has led to significant improvements in apparatus design and workflow.

• 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.

• Reading Van Gogh Online?

  Peter Boot shows how log analysis can be employed to assess a site's usability, usage, and users, using the Van Gogh letter edition as an example.

• 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.

• Turning Off Tap Into Bath

  Ann Chapman describes the lifecycle of a demonstrator database and the development of a preservation policy for its content and software.

• Academic Liaison Librarianship: Curatorial Pedagogy or Pedagogical Curation?

  Allan Parsons presents a strategic view of the need to develop the academic liaison librarianship role.

• Book Review: Acquisitions in the New Information Universe

  Eilidh Mackay reviews a work which takes a concept-based approach to contemporary acquisitions practices.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• From Passive to Active Preservation of Electronic Records

  Heather Briston and Karen Estlund provide a narrative of the process adopted by the University of Oregon in order to integrate electronic records management into its staff's workflow.

• Internet Librarian International Conference 2010

  Claire Tylee, Katrin Flemming and Elly Cope report on the two-day Internet Librarian International Conference focusing on innovation and technology in the information profession, held in London on 14-15 October 2010.

• Locating Image Presentation Technology Within Pedagogic Practice

  Marie-Therese Gramstadt contextualises image presentation technology and methods within a pedagogic framework for the visual arts.

• Moving Researchers across the EResearch Chasm

  Malcolm Wolski and Joanna Richardson outline an Australian initiative to address technology challenges within current research paradigms.

• 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.

• Trust Me, I'm an Archivist

  Christopher Hilton, Dave Thompson and Natalie Walters describe some of the issues of engaging with donors when it comes to transferring born-digital material to the Library.

• 23 Things in Public Libraries

  Helen Leech describes a collaborative project to increase front-line staff's understanding and use of Web 2.0 in public libraries.

• Blue Ribbon Task Force Symposium on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access

  Marieke Guy reports on a symposium which provided an opportunity for stakeholders to respond to the recent Blue Ribbon Task Force report on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access.

• Book Review: Access, Delivery, Performance - The Future of Libraries Without Walls

  Michael Day reviews a Festschrift celebrating the work of Professor Peter Brophy, founder of the Centre for Research in Library and Information Management.

• Book Review: Digital Information - Order Or Anarchy?

  Muhammad Rafiq offers us a review of a work which examines the future of digital information and emerging patterns of scholarly communication.

• Data Services for the Sciences: A Needs Assessment

  Brian Westra describes a data services needs assessment for science research staff at the University of Oregon.

• E-books and E-content 2010: Data As Content

  Brian Whalley reports on a meeting dealing with academic data management and some JISC projects concerned with institutional responses to the need to manage research data more effectively.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 64: Supporting the Power of Research Data

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 64.

• Evidence, Value and Impact: The LIS Research Landscape in 2010

  Stephanie Kenna reports on the Library and Information Science Research Coalition conference, held at the British Library on 28 June 2010.

• Learning How to Play Nicely: Repositories and CRIS

  Nick Sheppard reports on the event examining integrated, systemic approaches to research information management organised by the Welsh Repository Network and supported by JISC and ARMA at Leeds Metropolitan University, in May 2010.

• Making Datasets Visible and Accessible: DataCite's First Summer Meeting

  Tom J Pollard and J Max Wilkinson report on DataCite's First Summer Meeting, a two-day event focused on making datasets visible and accessible, held in Hannover, Germany, in June 2010.

• Public Library 2.0: Culture Change?

  Sarah Hammond explores UK public libraries' growing participation in social media to reach their audiences online, with a focus on blogging.

• 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.

• Retooling Libraries for the Data Challenge

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

• Rewriting the Book: On the Move With the Library of Birmingham

  Brian Gambles presents the Library of Birmingham vision and strategy for addressing the challenge of mobile digital services.

• 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.

• Archives in Web 2.0: New Opportunities

  Marta Nogueira describes how three Web 2.0 applications (Facebook, Flickr, YouTube) can work as a virtual extension for archives and other cultural organisations, by identifying benefits obtained from the use of Web 2.0 applications.

• Balancing Stakeholder Needs: Archive 2.0 As Community-centred Design

  Jim Ridolfo, William Hart-Davidson and Michael McLeod present a case example on building a digital archive with cultural and scholarly stakeholder groups - to provide a model for balancing stakeholder needs.

• Don't You Know Who I Am?

  John Paschoud looks into identity and access management in the pre-digital and digital age, and describes how the JISC Identity Management Toolkit can help us manage identities better.

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

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 63.

• 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.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Planning the Future of the National Library of Mongolia

  Monika Segbert-Elbert and David Fuegi describe the National Library of Mongolia's plans to modernise its infrastructure and services.

• 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.

• 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.

• Volcanic Eruptions Fail to Thwart Digital Preservation - the Planets Way

  Matthew Barr, Amir Bernstein, Clive Billenness and Manfred Thaller report on the final Planets training event Digital Preservation - The Planets Way held in Rome over 19 - 21 April 2010.

• 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.

• An Attack on Professionalism and Scholarship? Democratising Archives and the Production of Knowledge

  Andrew Flinn describes some recent developments in democratising the archive and asks whether these developments really deserve to be viewed as a threat to professional and academic standards.

• Book Review: Copyright - Interpreting the Law for Libraries, Archives and Information Services

  Charles Oppenheim sees much to like in the new edition of this work by a well-known authority but identifies one potentially major drawback.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 62: The Wisdom of Communities

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 62.

• Moving Targets: Web Preservation and Reference Management

  Richard Davis discusses the role of Web preservation in reference management. This article is based on a presentation given at the Innovations in Reference Management workshop, January 2010.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• The Digital Preservation Roadshow 2009-10: The Incomplete Diaries of Optimistic Travellers

  William Kilbride and Malcolm Todd report on the Digital Preservation Roadshow - an eleven month tour of the UK and Ireland designed to provide archivists and record managers with practical advice and support in managing digital resources.

• The Future of Interoperability and Standards in Education: A JISC CETIS Event

  Sarah Currier reports on an international working meeting involving a range of educational interoperability standards bodies and communities, organised by JISC CETIS.

• Towards a Toolkit for Implementing Application Profiles

  Talat Chaudhri, Julian Cheal, Richard Jones, Mahendra Mahey and Emma Tonkin propose a user-driven methodology for the iterative development, testing and implementation of Dublin Core Application Profiles in diverse repository software environments.

• 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.

• Cautionary Tales: Archives 2.0 and the Diplomatic Historian

  Michael Kennedy discusses the value of Archives 2.0 to the online version of Ireland's 'Documents on Irish Foreign Policy' series.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 61: The Double-edged Web

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 61.

• 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.

• How to Publish Data Using Overlay Journals: The OJIMS Project

  Sarah Callaghan, Sam Pepler, Fiona Hewer, Paul Hardaker and Alan Gadian describe the implementation details that can be used to create overlay journals for data publishing in the meteorological sciences.

• 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.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Search Engines: Real-time Search

  Phil Bradley looks at the concept of real-time search and points to some of the functionality that users can and should expect to find when exploring these engines.

• Share. Collaborate. Innovate. Building an Organisational Approach to Web 2.0

  Paul Bevan outlines the National Library of Wales' development of a strategic approach to meeting user needs in a post-Web 2.0 world.

• The RSP Goes 'Back to School'

  Stephanie Taylor reports on the three-day residential school for repository managers run by the Repositories Support Project (RSP), held on 14-16 September 2009 in Northumberland.

• 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.

• Why Are Users So Useful? User Engagement and the Experience of the JISC Digitisation Programme

  Paola Marchionni discusses the importance of user engagement in the creation of digitised scholarly resources with case studies from the JISC Digitisation Programme.

• Archives 2.0: If We Build It, Will They Come?

  Joy Palmer discusses some of the opportunities and tensions emerging around Archives 2.0, crowd-sourcing, and archival authority.

• Collecting Evidence in a Web 2.0 Context

  Ann Chapman and Rosemary Russell describe the challenge of collecting evidence for a study of how Web 2.0 is being used in the UK HE sector.

• 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.

• E-Curator: A 3D Web-based Archive for Conservators and Curators

  Mona Hess, Graeme Were, Ian Brown, Sally MacDonald, Stuart Robson and Francesca Simon Millar describe a project which combines 3D colour laser scanning and e-Science technologies for capturing and sharing very large 3D scans and datasets about museum artefacts in a secure computing environment.

• Institutional Repositories for Creative and Applied Arts Research: The Kultur Project

  Andrew Gray discusses institutional repositories and the creative and applied arts specifically in relation to the JISC-funded Kultur Project.

• JISC Digital Content Conference 2009

  Michelle Pauli reports on a two-day conference on digital content held by JISC in South Cerney over 30 June - 1 July 2009.

• Missing Links: The Enduring Web

  Alexandra Eveleigh reports on a workshop on Web archiving, organised by the DPC, JISC and UKWAC at the British Library on 21 July 2009.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• 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.

• Overlay Journals and Data Publishing in the Meteorological Sciences

  Sarah Callaghan, Fiona Hewer, Sam Pepler, Paul Hardaker and Alan Gadian introduce the OJIMS Project and discuss the impact of overlay and data journals in the meteorological sciences.

• Research Data Preservation and Access: The Views of Researchers

  Neil Beagrie, Robert Beagrie and Ian Rowlands present findings from a UKRDS survey of researchers' views on and practices for preservation and dissemination of research data in four UK universities.

• SHERPA to YODL-ING: Digital Mountaineering at York

  Julie Allinson and Elizabeth Harbord describe the development of digital repositories for the University of York.

• The Historic Hospitals Admission Records Project

  Sue Hawkins and Andrea Tanner describe a ground-breaking Web site using children's hospital admission registers.

• The Norwegian National Digital Library

  Marianne Takle describes the National Library of Norway's digitisation strategy and how the National Library is taking on a key role in the country's digital library service.

• Book Review: Making Digital Cultures - Access, Interactivity, and Authenticity

  Lina Coelho finds this study of the cultural terrain of modern institutions, where digital and analogue objects co-exist, both challenging and thought-provoking.

• Book Review: Managing Electronic Government Information in Libraries

  Sylvie Lafortune reviews a book which addresses the following question: From e-government to t-government. How will libraries keep up?

• EThOS: from Project to Service

  Jill Russell describes the impact the new Electronic Theses Online Service is making on the availability of UK doctoral theses.

• 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.

• IMPACT Conference: Optical Character Recognition in Mass Digitisation

  Lieke Ploeger, Yola Park, Jeanna Nikolov-Ramirez Gaviria, Clemens Neudecker, Fedor Bochow and Michael Day report from the first IMPACT Conference, held in The Hague, Netherlands on 6-7 April, 2009.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• 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.

• The REMAP Project: Steps Towards a Repository-enabled Information Environment

  Richard Green and Chris Awre investigate what role a repository can play in enabling and supporting the management and preservation of its own digital content.

• Three Perspectives on the Evolving Infrastructure of Institutional Research Repositories in Europe

  Marjan Vernooy-Gerritsen, Gera Pronk and Maurits van der Graaf report on the most significant results from two surveys conducted to provide an overview of repositories with research output in the European Union.

• An Awfully Big Adventure: Strathclyde's Digital Library Plan

  Derek Law describes how the University of Strathclyde is choosing to give priority to e-content and services instead of a new building.

• Data Preservation and Long-term Analysis in High-Energy Physics

  Richard Mount reports on the First Workshop on Data Preservation and Long-Term Analysis in High-Energy Physics, held at DESY (Deutsche Elektronen-Synchrotron), Hamburg, Germany, on 26-28 January 2008.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 58: People Still Matter

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 58.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) Fall Meeting

  Paul Walk reports on the Sun-PASIG winter meeting held in Baltimore, USA on 18-20 November 2008.

• Preserving Local Archival Heritage for Ongoing Accessibility

  Frances Boyle, Alexandra Eveleigh and Heather Needham describe the recent digital preservation initiatives in the local authority archives sector.

• Supporting eResearch: The Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative

  Ann Borda reports on the Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative (VeRSI).

• 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.

• Time to Change Our Thinking: Dismantling the Silo Model of Digital Scholarship

  Stephen G. Nichols argues that humanists need to replace the silo model of digital scholarship with collaborative ventures based on interoperability and critical comparison of content.

• A Bug's Life?: How Metaphors from Ecology Can Articulate the Messy Details of Repository Interactions

  R. John Robertson, Mahendra Mahey and Phil Barker introduce work investigating an alternative model of repository and service interaction.

• CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group Annual Conference

  Christina Claridge reports on the conference, held 3-5 September 2008, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland.

• 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.

• Digital Preservation Planning: Principles, Examples and the Future With Planets

  Frances Boyle and Jane Humphreys report on the one-day workshop on digital preservation planning jointly organised by the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and Planets held at the British Library, on Tuesday 29 July 2008.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 57:Achieving the Balance

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 57.

• 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.

• Get Tooled Up: SeeAlso: A Simple Linkserver Protocol

  Jakob Voss combines OpenSearch and unAPI to enrich catalogues.

• Get Tooled Up: Staying Connected: Technologies Supporting Remote Workers

  Having considered organisational issues in her previous article, Marieke Guy takes a look at the many technologies that support remote working, from broadband to Web 2.0 social networking tools.

• Implementing E-Legal Deposit: A British Library Perspective

  Ronald Milne and John Tuck summarise progress towards implementation of the Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003 which extended provision to non-print materials. Particular reference is made to the British Library.

• 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.

• 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.

• eResearch Australasia 2008

  Tobias Blanke, Ann Borda, Gaby Bright and Bridget Soulsby report on the annual eResearch Australasia Conference, held in Melbourne, Australia, 29 September - 3 October, 2008.

• 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.

• Being Wired Or Being Tired: 10 Ways to Cope With Information Overload

  Sarah Houghton-Jan explores different strategies for managing and coping with various types of informational overload.

• Book Review: Copyright Compliance

  Stuart Hannabuss argues that the book's online big sister, Keeping Within the Law (KWtL), launched at the same time, is really the place to go and the source to buy.

• Institutional Web Management Workshop 2008: The Great Debate

  Adrian Tribe reports on a three-day conference designed for professionals involved in the provision of institutional Web services, organised by UKOLN and held at King's College, University of Aberdeen in July 2008.

• Integrating Journal Back Files Into an Existing Electronic Environment

  Jason Cooper describes how Loughborough University Library integrated a number of collections of journal back files into their existing electronic environment.

• New Schemas for Mapping Pedagogies and Technologies

  Grainne Conole reflects on the implications of Web 2.0 for education and offers two new schemas for thinking about harnessing the potential of technologies.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• 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.

• Persistent Identifiers: Considering the Options

  Emma Tonkin looks at the current landscape of persistent identifiers, describes several current services, and examines the theoretical background behind their structure and use.

• Preservation of Web Resources: Making a Start

  Stephen Emmott reports on a one-day workshop aimed at all those interested in issues relating to institutional Web resource preservation. The event was held by the JISC-PoWR team at the University of London in June 2008.

• Search Engines: Google Still Growing

  Phil Bradley finds it difficult to ignore some of the latest developments from Google - particularly the ones that are actually quite good.

• Sun Preservation and Archive Special Interest Group: May 2008 Meeting

  Vicky Mays and Ian Dolphin review the Sun Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) meeting held in San Francisco in May 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.

• Versioning in Repositories: Implementing Best Practice

  Jenny Brace explains why giving time to versioning within a repository is worthwhile and outlines the best practice to implement.

• Developing the Capability and Skills to Support EResearch

  Margaret Henty provides an Australian perspective on improving the environment in which eResearch is conducted through developing institutional capability and providing appropriate skills training.

• Digital Lives: Report of Interviews With the Creators of Personal Digital Collections

  Pete Williams, Ian Rowlands, Katrina Dean and Jeremy Leighton John describe initial findings of the AHRC-funded Digital Lives Research Project studying personal digital collections and their relationship with research repositories such as the British Library.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 55: Digital Lives, Digital Values

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 55.

• Future-Proofing the Past: LAI Joint Conference 2008

  Siobhan Fitzpatrick reports on the Annual Joint Conference of the Library Association of Ireland and Cilip IRELAND.

• KIM Project Conference 2008

  Alexander Ball provides an overview of the Knowledge and Information Management Through Life Project Conference held in April, 2008.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• 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.

• South African Repositories: Bridging Knowledge Divides

  Martie van Deventer and Heila Pienaar provide us with background to recent South African repository initiatives and detail an example of knowledge transfer from one institution to another.

• Towards an Application Profile for Images

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

• VIF: Version Identification Workshop

  Sarah Molloy reports on a half-day workshop on the use of the Version Identification Framework, held in Hatton Garden, London on 22 April 2008.

• Ancient Cultures Inside Modern Universes

  Edgardo Civallero writes on preservation and dissemination of intangible South American indigenous heritage and updating information using Web-based tools.

• Book Review: Digital Copyright

  Stuart Hannabuss looks at an interesting Nile cruise of a book about intellectual property.

• Book Reviews: Digital Information and Knowledge Management, and Print Vs. Digital

  Sylvie Lafortune looks at two books edited by Sul H. Lee dealing with the impact of digital information on libraries, librarianship, information providers and library users.

• E-Publication and Open Access in the Arts and Humanities in the UK

  Malcolm Heath, Michael Jubb and David Robey review recent UK discussions and evidence about e-publishing and open access, their impact and implications for researchers in the arts and humanities.

• 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.

• SWORD: Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit

  Julie Allinson, Sebastien Francois and Stuart Lewis describe the JISC-funded SWORD Project which has produced a lightweight protocol for repository deposit.

• We Do Not Know We Are Born (Digital)

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 54.

• Web 2.0 in U.S. LIS Schools: Are They Missing the Boat?

  Noa Aharony asks whether library and information science schools in the United States are underestimating the opportunities offered by Web 2.0 applications.

• Book Review: Mastering Regular Expressions, 3rd Edition

  Emma Tonkin and Greg Tourte take a look at the new edition of an O'Reilly classic.

• Book Review: The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland

  Lorcan Dempsey reviews Volume III of a landmark collection on the history of libraries in 'Britain and Ireland' from 1850 to 2000.

• DC 2007

  Ann Apps reports on DC2007, the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, held 27-31 August 2007 in Singapore.

• 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.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 53: Unlocking Our Televisual Past

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 53.

• Further Experiences in Collecting Born Digital Archives at the Wellcome Library

  Chris Hilton and Dave Thompson continue discussing plans for the engagement with born digital archival material at the Wellcome Library.

• 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.

• Knowledge by Networking: Digitising Culture in Germany and Europe

  Alastair Dunning reports on an international conference exploring the current state of digitisation in the worlds of culture and scholarship, held in Berlin over 21-22 June 2007.

• Newsline

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Progress Towards Addressing Digital Preservation Challenges

  Helen Hockx-Yu reports on the 2nd Planets, CASPAR and DPE annual conference, held on 5-6 September 2007 in Lisbon, Portugal.

• The DARE Chronicle: Open Access to Research Results and Teaching Material in the Netherlands

  Leo Waaijers reflects on four years of progress and also looks ahead.

• 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.

• The Video Active Consortium: Europe's Television History Online

  Johan Oomen and Vassilis Tzouvaras provide an insight into the background and development of the Video Active Portal which offers access to television heritage material from leading archives across Europe.

• V&A Core Systems Integration Project

  In conjunction with his main article on The KIDMM Community's 'MetaKnowledge Mash-up, Conrad Taylor provides more information on V&A Core Systems Integration Project.

• 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.

• ALPSP Conference

  Kara Jones reports on the ALPSP 'Publishing and the Library of the Future' one-day seminar held at St Anthony's College, Oxford, in July 2007.

• Access to Scientific Knowledge for Sustainable Development: Options for Developing Countries

  Barbara Kirsop, Leslie Chan and Subbiah Arunachalam consider the impact of donor access and open access to research publications on the sustainable development of science in developing countries.

• Blogging from the Backroom

  Ann Chapman reports on a seminar on blogging, designed for those working in the traditional 'backroom' professions such as cataloguing and indexing, held by the CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group in London, on 8 June 2007.

• Capacity Building: Spoken Word at Glasgow Caledonian University

  Iain Wallace, Graeme West and David Donald give an account of the origins, nature and establishment of Spoken Word Services at Glasgow Caledonian University.

• Change Management in Information Services

  Ian Lovecy examines change theories and strategies, and their application to creating a change culture in an information service.

• EThOSnet: Building a UK E-Theses Community

  Jill Russell outlines progress towards an e-theses service for the UK.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 52: The New Invisible Industry

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 52.

• IIPC Web Archiving Toolset Performance Testing at The British Library

  Jackson Pope and Philip Beresford pick up the threads from an initial contribution in issue 50 and report on progress at The British Library in installing and performance testing the Web Curator Tool.

• Institutional Repositories and Their 'Other' Users: Usability Beyond Authors

  Dana McKay summarises the literature on the usability of institutional repositories, and points to directions for future work.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Repositories Support Project Summer School

  Jackie Knowles reports on the RSP Summer School, a 48-hour intensive learning programme for new institutional repository administrators, organised by the Repositories Support Project Team.

• The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland

  John MacColl reviews the first two volumes of this very substantial three-part work, covering the periods to 1640 and 1640-1850.

• ARROW, DART and ARCHER: A Quiver Full of Research Repository and Related Projects

  Andrew Treloar and David Groenewegen describe three inter-related projects to support scholarly outputs and the e-research life cycle which have been funded by the Australian Commonwealth Government.

• Citeulike: A Researcher's Social Bookmarking Service

  Kevin Emamy and Richard Cameron describe a tool that helps researchers gather, collect and share papers.

• Developing a Virtual Research Environment in a Portal Framework: The EVIE Project

  Tracey Stanley provides an overview of the EVIE Project at the University of Leeds which was funded under the JISC Virtual Research Environments Programme.

• Hold It, Hold It ... Start Again: The Perils of Project Video Production

  It's not like writing a paper. Film production, when the camera points at you, can challenge all sorts of sensitivities. Steve Hitchcock survived the ordeal to tell the story of the Preserv Project video.

• KIM Project Conference: Knowledge and Information Management through Life

  Alex Ball provides an overview of the March 2007 KIM Project Conference.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Search Engines: Why Ask Me, and Does 'X' Mark the Spot?

  Phil Bradley takes a look at different versions of Ask to see how it is developing and looks at how it is emerging from its servant roots.

• Supporting Creativity in Networked Environments: The COINE Project

  Geoff Butters, Amanda Hulme and Peter Brophy describe an approach to enabling a wide range of users to create and share their own stories, thus contributing to the development of cultural heritage at the local level.

• The JISC Annual Conference 2007

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

• The W3C Technical Architecture Group

  Henry S. Thompson introduces the W3C Technical Architecture Group and its work.

• Using Blogs for Formative Assessment and Interactive Teaching

  Lisa Foggo provides a case-study of using a blog for formative assessment. Its interactivity engaged participants and permitted measurement of student expectations and satisfaction with library sessions.

• What Is an Open Repository?

  Julie Allinson, Jessie Hey, Chris Awre and Mahendra Mahey report on the Open Repositories 2007 conference, held in San Antonio, Texas between 23-26 January 2007.

• 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.

• 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.

• Book Review: Digital Preservation

  Maureen Pennock reviews a release in Facet's Digital Futures series.

• Collecting Born Digital Archives at the Wellcome Library

  Chris Hilton and Dave Thompson discuss plans for work with born digital archival material at the Wellcome Library.

• Cultural Heritage Online: The Challenge of Accessibility and Preservation

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

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 50: Side-Stepping Babel

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne 50.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Take a Peek Beneath the EPrints V3 Wrappers

  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.

• Web Curator Tool

  Philip Beresford tells the story (from The British Library's perspective) of the development of new software to aid all stages of harvesting Web sites for preservation.

• Book Review: Essential Law for Information Professionals

  Stuart Hannabuss picks another winner but wonders whether legal essentialism is enough for information professionals.

• Considering a Marketing and Communications Approach for an Institutional Repository

  Heleen Gierveld proposes a market-oriented approach to increase the rate of deposit to an institutional repository.

• Creative Commons Licences in Higher and Further Education: Do We Care?

  Naomi Korn and Charles Oppenheim discuss the history and merits of using Creative Commons licences while questioning whether these licences are indeed a panacea.

• DC 2006: Metadata for Knowledge and Learning

  Julie Allinson, Rachel Heery, Pete Johnston and Rosemary Russell report on DC 2006, the sixth international conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, held 3 - 6 October 2006.

• From Nought to a Thousand: The HUSCAP Project

  Masako Suziki and Shigeki Sugita describe Hokkaido University's efforts to populate its institutional repository with journal articles.

• GROW: Building a High-quality Civil Engineering Learning Object Repository and Portal

  Yan Han provides a general overview of the Geotechnical, Rock and Water Digital Library (GROW), a learning object repository and peer-reviewed civil engineering Web portal.

• 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.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• 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.

• Wiki Or Won't He? A Tale of Public Sector Wikis

  Marieke Guy revisits a topic receiving considerable attention these days and reflects on wiki use by public organisations.

• Workshop on E-Research, Digital Repositories and Portals

  Rob Allan, Rob Crouchley and Caroline Ingram report on a two-day workshop held at University of Lancaster over 6-7 September 2006

• 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.

• 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.

• Book Review: Evaluating the Impact of Your Library

  David Parkes reviews a new book, targeted at managers, which is both a tool to help evaluate your library and an analysis of Impact Evaluation methodology.

• C21st Curation Spring 2006 Public Lecture Series

  Neil Beagrie and Helen Forde report on the public lecture series 'C21st Curation: access and service delivery' held at University College London over April and May 2006.

• CRIS2006: Enabling Interaction and Quality: Beyond the Hanseatic League

  Derek Sergeant and Jessie Hey report on this 3-day conference in Bergen, Norway, 11-13 May 2006.

• Digital Preservation Coalition Forum on Web Archiving

  Maureen Pennock and Manjula Patel report on the Digital Preservation Coalition's second Web Archiving Forum which took place at the British Library in London on 12 June 2006.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 48: Extended Family Net Works

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne 48.

• Email Curation: Practical Approaches for Long-term Preservation

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

• 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.

• Introducing UnAPI

  Dan Chudnov and a team of colleagues describe unAPI, a tiny HTTP API for serving information objects in next-generation Web applications.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• The Tasks of the AHDS: Ten Years on

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

• UK Digital Preservation Needs Assessment: Where We Go from Here

  Najla Semple and Maggie Jones outline the background and findings of the Digital Preservation Coalition's UK Needs Assessment and the Mind the Gap report.

• Book Review: The Institutional Repository

  Sally Rumsey recommends a new book about institutional repositories.

• Digitising an Archive: The Factory Approach

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

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 47: Keeping What We Know

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne 47.

• 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.

• Preserving Electronic Scholarly Journals: Portico

  Eileen Fenton outlines issues relating to the long-term preservation of digital resources and the characteristics of an archival entity responding to this need.

• 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.

• 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.

• Stargate: Exploring Static Repositories for Small Publishers

  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.

• The Rustle of Digital Curation: The JISC Annual Conference

  Julie Allinson, Marieke Guy and Maureen Pennock find themselves contemplating e-frameworks, digital curation and repositories at the JISC Annual Conference.

• The Second Digital Repositories Programme Meeting

  Julie Allinson and Mahendra Mahey report on a 2-day JISC Digital Repositories Meeting focusing on project clusters working together and other related issues held by JISC in Warwick, UK over 27-28 March 2006.

• 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.

• Book Review: Managing Electronic Records

  Lise Foster finds much to think about in this wide-ranging collection of essays on the fast-developing field of electronic records management.

• Book Review: Memory Bytes - History, Technology, and Digital Culture

  Ingrid Mason takes a look at this collection of essays and analyses how these authors contribute to our understanding of digital culture by placing digital technology in an historical context.

• C21st Curation Summer 2005 Public Lecture Series

  Neil Beagrie and Helen Forde report on the public lecture series 'C21st Curation: working with digital assets in the new Millennium - challenges and opportunities' held at University College London over May and June 2005, and on plans for a second series in 2006.

• Delivering Open Access: From Promise to Practice

  Derek Law predicts how the open access agenda will develop over the next ten years.

• Digital Curation and Preservation: Defining the Research Agenda for the Next Decade

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

• Excuse Me... Some Digital Preservation Fallacies?

  Chris Rusbridge argues with himself about some of the assumptions behind digital preservation thinking.

• JISC and SURF International Workshop on Electronic Theses

  Neil Jacobs reports on a JISC-SURF-CURL-sponsored event at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, over 19-20 January 2006.

• Joint Workshop on Future-proofing Institutional Websites

  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.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Projects Into Services: The UK Experience

  Peter Brophy reviews the experience of the UK academic sector in turning digital library projects into sustainable services.

• Research Libraries Engage the Digital World: A US-UK Comparative Examination of Recent History and Future Prospects

  Clifford Lynch looks at how the emergence of e-research has changed our thinking about the future of research libraries on both sides of the Atlantic.

• 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.

• What Users Want: An Academic 'Hybrid' Library Perspective

  Reg Carr reflects on the development of a user-centred approach in academic libraries over recent decades and into the era of the hybrid library.

• A Recipe for Cream of Science: Special Content Recruitment for Dutch Institutional Repositories

  Martin Feijen and Annemiek van der Kuil describe the Cream of Science Project, part of the DARE Programme, which generated a Web site offering open access to almost 25,000 publications by 207 prominent scholars across the Netherlands.

• 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.

• DAEDALUS: Delivering the Glasgow EPrints Service

  Morag Greig and William Nixon describe the key aims and findings of the DAEDALUS Project and the Glasgow ePrints Service.

• Digital Curation: Where Do We Go from Here?

  Peter Kerr, Fiona Reddington and Max Wilkinson report on the 1st International Digital Curation Conference held in Bath in September 2005.

• Distributed Services Registry Workshop

  John Gilby reports on the UKOLN/IESR two-day workshop at Scarman House, University of Warwick on 14-15 July 2005.

• Looking for More Than Text?

  Balviar Notay and Catherine Grout give an overview of developments in digitisation programmes, on-line delivery services and specialised search engines which cater for searching and locating still images and time-based media and consider the issues that surround their use, focusing particularly on JISC developments.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Repositories, Copyright and Creative Commons for Scholarly Communication

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

• Web Focus: Must Email Die?

  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.

• Book Review: Disaster Management for Libraries and Archives

  Ian Lovecy looks at a useful consolidation of approaches to disaster management.

• Creative Archive

  Paul Gerhardt describes the origins and development of the Creative Archive Project at the BBC.

• EEVL Xtra: The Hidden Web at Your Fingertips

  Roddy MacLeod looks at the latest service from EEVL.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 44: One Day We All Learn the Hard Way

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 44.

• Integration and Impact: The JISC Annual Conference

  Marieke Guy has collated reports on sessions from the JISC Annual Conference held in Birmingham.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Planet-SOSIG

  Emma Place assesses the recent SOSIG Social Science Online seminars, Jacky Clake reports on the ESRC Social Science Week and Debra Hiom updates us on the virtual seminar run by SOSIG as part of Social Science Week.

• Revealing All

  Ann Chapman describes Revealweb, a Web site that brings together information about accessible resources for visually impaired people.

• Supporting Local Data Users in the UK Academic Community

  Luis Martinez and Stuart Macdonald discuss the differing areas of expertise within the UK data libraries with particular reference to their relationship with National Data Centres, the role of the Data Information Specialists Committee - UK (DISC-UK) and other information specialists.

• Web Accessibility Revealed: The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council Audit

  Marcus Weisen, Helen Petrie, Neil King and Fraser Hamilton describe a comprehensive Web accessibility audit involving extensive user testing as well as automatic testing of Web sites.

• 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.

• Book Review: Managing Digital Rights - A Practitioner's Guide

  Stuart Hannabuss likes the way this book reminds us that information professionals need to apply the law and not merely know it.

• Digital Preservation: Best Practice and Its Dissemination

  Neil Beagrie describes the development and subsequent use of a digital preservation handbook and future plans for expansion of its use in training and professional practice.

• E-Archiving: An Overview of Some Repository Management Software Tools

  Marion Prudlo discusses LOCKSS, EPrints, and DSpace in terms of who uses them, their cost, underlying technology, the required know-how, and functionalities.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 43: When Technology Alone Is Not Enough

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 43.

• Finding Someplace to Go: Reading and the Internet

  Marieke Guy takes a look at what the Internet has to offer the art of reading.

• Installing Shibboleth

  Simon McLeish describes the experience of Shibboleth installation in a Higher Education environment, and suggests ways to make this experience more user-friendly.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Opening Up OpenURLs with Autodiscovery

  Daniel Chudnov, Richard Cameron, Jeremy Frumkin, Ross Singer and Raymond Yee demonstrate a 'gather locally, share globally' approach to OpenURLs and metadata autodiscovery in scholarly and non-scholarly environments.

• 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.

• Supporting Digital Preservation and Asset Management in Institutions

  Leona Carpenter describes a JISC development programme tackling the organisational and technical challenges facing Higher and Further Education in the UK.

• 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.

• A Tradition of Scholarly Documentation for Digital Objects: The Launch of the Digital Curation Centre

  Philip Hunter reports on the launch of the DCC at the National eScience Centre in Edinburgh, November 2004.

• Advanced Collaboration With the Access Grid

  Michael Daw describes the Access Grid system and its claim to be an Advanced Collaboration Environment.

• Beyond Email: Wikis, Blogs and Other Strange Beasts

  Robert Bristow reports on a one-day workshop 'Beyond Email: Strategies for Collaborative Working and Learning in the 21st Century'.

• Book Review: Digital Libraries - Policy, Planning and Practice

  Bruce Royan considers the ironies of communicating the state of the art of digital libraries by means of a print publication.

• EEVL: Four Search Engines and a Plaque

  Roddy MacLeod looks at some recent developments to the EEVL service.

• Fast-Forward on the Green Road to Open Access: The Case Against Mixing Up Green and Gold

  Stevan Harnad provides a summary of his critique of Jean-Claude Guédon's views on the green and gold roads to Open Access.

• Freedom of Information and the Historian

  Stephen Twigge reports on a one-day conference on Freedom of Information and the Historian jointly hosted by The National Archives and the Institute of Historical Research.

• Making the Case for a Wiki

  Emma Tonkin examines wikis and considers the feasibility of their deployment - and the danger of the 'tumbleweed' syndrome.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• News from BIOME

  Jenny Hall reports on recent news form BIOME, the Health and Life Sciences hub of the Resource Discovery Network.

• Planet-SOSIG

  Humphrey Southall looks at a new Web site's Vision of Britain while Emma Place examines new changes to the RDN Virtual Training Suite.

• Recasting the Past: Digital Histories

  Vanessa Carr reports on a one day conference about digitising historical records, held jointly by the Association for History and Computing UK and the Royal Historical Society.

• Tap Into Bath Takes Off

  Stephanie Round covers the launch of a small but promising collaborative effort.

• 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.

• Tracing Help With Copyright: New AHDS Case Studies on Copyright Issues

  Alastair Dunning provides an overview of case studies published by the Arts and Humanities Data Service in that persistent minefield of respecting copyright.

• Book Review: Libraries Without Walls 5

  David Parkes reviews the fifth compilation of the biennial Library Without Walls Conference. He finds how far we have come and how far we have to go in delivering services to distributed learners.

• Developing Portal Services and Evaluating How Users Want to Use Them: The CREE Project

  Chris Awre, Matthew J Dovey, Jon Hunter, William Kilbride and Ian Dolphin describe the JISC-funded Contextual Resource Evaluation Environment (CREE) Project and its user and technical investigations to examine how users wish to use library search services.

• ECDL 2004: A Digital Librarian's Report

  Jessie Hey reports on the 8th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries held at the University of Bath in September 2004.

• ECDL2004: 4th International Web Archiving Workshop, September 2004

  Michael Day reports on the 4th International Web Archiving Workshop held at the University of Bath in September as part of ECDL 2004.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 41: Forces in Train

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne 41.

• How the Use of Standards Is Transforming Australian Digital Libraries

  Debbie Campbell explains how the exploitation of recent standards has allowed the National Library of Australia to digitise its collections and host federated search services and provide an improved service.

• 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.

• Sense of the South West Conference: Collaboration for Sustainability

  Katie Lusty reports on a one-day conference on the sustainability of digitisation projects, held in Bath on 8 October 2004.

• The Dawning of DARE: A Shared Experience

  Annemiek van der Kuil and Martin Feijen describe the first year of the DARE Project and its foundation of the OAI repositories of Dutch academic output.

• The Tapir: Adding E-Theses Functionality to DSpace

  Richard Jones demonstrates how the Theses Alive Plugin for Institutional Repositories (Tapir) has provided E-Theses functionality for DSpace.

• Web Focus: QA Focus Has Finished - Let's Start Embedding QA

  Brian Kelly reviews the JISC-funded QA Focus Project and argues that developers should be using quality assurance principles.

• 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.

• e-Culture Horizons: from Digitisation to Creating Cultural Experiences

  Andreas Strasser reports on a two-day symposium hosted and organised by Salzburg Research in Salzburg, Austria, over 27-28 September 2004.

• 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.

• Book Review: Information Architecture - Designing Information Environments for Purpose

  John Paschoud looks at this collection of articles and finds some good parts in a generally ineffective whole.

• Book Review: Net Effects

  Grant Young reviews a compilation of articles showcasing librarians' efforts to wrest control of new technologies and reassert some traditional values.

• Collection-level Description: Thinking Globally before Acting Locally

  Ann Chapman and Bridget Robinson write on the work of the Collection Description Focus and the links between Tap into Bath, Cornucopia and the Information Environment Service Registry.

• Cornucopia: An Open Collection Description Service

  Chris Turner describes the latest phase of Cornucopia development and the opportunities this is opening up for the future.

• EEVL News: What EEVL Users Really Want

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

• ERPANET Seminar on Persistent Identifiers

  Monica Duke reports on a two-day training seminar on persistent identifiers held by ERPANET in Cork, Ireland over 17-18 June 2004.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 40: Horses for Courses

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 40.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• PALS Conference: Institutional Repositories and Their Impact on Publishing

  Kurt Paulus describes for us the Publisher and Library/Learning Solutions (PALS) Conference held in London this June.

• 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.

• Tap Into Bath

  Alison Baud and Ann Chapman describe the development of a database of archive, library and museum collections in Bath.

• Targeting Academic Research With Southampton's Institutional Repository

  Jessie Hey describes how user needs have influenced the evolutionary development of 'e-Prints Soton' as the University of Southampton Research Repository.

• 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.

• The Information Environment Service Registry: Promoting the Use of Electronic Resources

  Amanda Hill outlines progress on the Information Environment Service Registry Project and explains what it will mean for service providers and portal developers.

• Towards Library Groupware With Personalised Link Routing

  Daniel Chudnov, Jeremy Frumkin, Jennifer Weintraub, Matthew Wilcox and Raymond Yee describe a potential groupware framework for integrating access to diverse information resources and distributed personal collection development.

• A National Archive of Datasets

  Jeffrey Darlington describes how structured datasets produced by UK Government departments and agencies are being archived and made available to users.

• At the Event: The EPrints UK Workshop

  Phil Cross, Debra Hiom and Emma Place report on this workshop which was held at the University of Bath in February 2004.

• Book Review: Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval

  Charles Oppenheim sees improvements in this second edition but has reservations about one of the few UK-based texts on this subject.

• 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.

• Editorial Introduction to Ariadne Issue 39: Humanity V Technology, Which Is in the Driving Seat?

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 39.

• Filling Institutional Repositories: Practical Strategies from the DAEDALUS Project

  Morag Mackie describes some strategies that can be used to help populate an institutional repository.

• IT for Me: Getting Personal in South Yorkshire Public Libraries

  Liz Pearce and Neil Smith introduce the IT for Me Project which aims to provide personalised access to online resources in South Yorkshire's public libraries.

• JISC Terminology Services Workshop

  Sarah Shreeves reports on a one-day workshop on current developments and future directions for JISC terminology services held in London, February 2004.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• News from BIOME

  Jenny Hall reports on recent news from BIOME, the Health and Life Sciences hub of the Resource Discovery Network.

• Planet-SOSIG: A Variety of Reports

  This month Neil Jacobs reports on updates to the Regard service, Martin Poulter introduces a new Economics Assessment Bank and Emma Place highlights the programme of training and outreach conducted by SOSIG this spring.

• RDN/LTSN Partnerships: Learning Resource Discovery Based on the LOM and the OAI-PMH

  Andy Powell and Phil Barker explore the technical collaboration currently underway between the RDN and the LTSN and describe the RDN/LTSN LOM Application Profile and its use to support resource discovery.

• The Biggest Digital Library Conference in the World

  John Paschoud reports on the International Conference on Digital Libraries held in New Delhi, India, 24-27 February 2004.

• 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.

• Book Review: Super Searchers Make It on Their Own

  Lina Coelho looks at the work and lives of independent information professionals prepared to share their secrets for starting and running a research business.

• Building OAI-PMH Harvesters With Net::OAI::Harvester

  Ed Summers describes Net::OAI::Harvester, the Perl package for easily interacting with OAI-PMH repositories as a metadata harvester. Ed provides examples of how to use Net::OAI::Harvester to write short programs which execute each of the 6 OAI-PMH verbs.

• DSpace Vs. ETD-db: Choosing Software to Manage Electronic Theses and Dissertations

  Richard Jones examines the similarities and differences between DSpace and ETD-db to determine their applicability in a modern E-theses service.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 38: The Quality of Metadata Is Not Strained

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 38.

• Improving the Quality of Metadata in Eprint Archives

  Marieke Guy, Andy Powell and Michael Day address the argument that the quality of service to end-users is markedly influenced by the quality of metadata being produced and provide suggestions.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Public Libraries: 2003, 2004: A Backward Glance and Thoughts on the Future

  Penny Garrod looks at some of the broader issues affecting public libraries and information professionals.

• 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.

• The AHDS Is Evolving: Changes at the Arts and Humanities Data Service

  Alastair Dunning describes the changes afoot at the AHDS and how it intends to adapt to the changes in both technology and the needs of its stakeholders.

• The European Library: Integrated Access to the National Libraries of Europe

  Britta Woldering describes the findings of the recently completed EU Project The European Library, focusing on technical solutions and metadata development.

• The JISC 5/99 Programme: What's in a Number?

  Rachel Bruce and Balviar Notay give an overview of the outputs and influences of the JISC 5/99 Learning and Teaching and Infrastructure Programme.

• The OpenURL and OpenURL Framework: Demystifying Link Resolution

  Ann Apps reports on a conference about current and future uses of the proposed OpenURL Framework Standard Z39.88-2004.

• What's in Artifact for Further Education?

  Jayne Everard writes about the areas covered by the new subject service Artifact and takes us through the facilities on offer to FE practitioners.

• DAEDALUS: Initial Experiences With EPrints and DSpace at the University of Glasgow

  William Nixon provides an overview of the DAEDALUS initial experience with the GNU EPrints and DSpace software and the decision to employ both.

• 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

• ECDL-2003 Conference Notes

  Lesly Huxley shares her notes on the European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries.

• ECDL-2003 Web Archiving

  Michael Day reports on the 3rd ECDL Workshop on Web Archives held in Trondheim, August 2003.

• Ebooks in UK Libraries: Where Are We Now?

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

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 37: Monocultures Threaten More Than Species

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue issue 37.

• News from BIOME

  Donald Mackay reports on BIOME participation in a major project to enhance interoperability between the BIOME core database and those projected by LTSN Subject Centres.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• OAI: The Fourth Open Archives Forum Workshop

  Manjula Patel provides us with an overview of the 4th Open Archives Forum Workshop.

• Public Libraries

  Penny Garrod gives her view of day two of the Public Library Authorities Conference 2003

• Towards a Typology for Portals

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

• Trends in Self-Posting of Research Material Online by Academic Staff

  Theo Andrew sheds some light on current trends in posting research material online with a case study from The University of Edinburgh.

• Updated JISC Guides Are Now Available

  Emma Beer describes the new JISC Resource Guides.

• Web Focus: Widening the Focus for the Future

  Brian Kelly reviews the history of the Web Focus post and describes funding changes which gives Web Focus a much wider remit.

• Developing the JISC Information Environment Service Registry

  Verity Brack and Amanda Closier provide us with an overview of the aims and latest work in the development of the JISC IE Service Registry.

• 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.

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

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 36.

• Framework for the Future: Access to Digital Skills and Services (Including e-Government)

  Penny Garrod examines further this government blueprint and argues that some have to walk before they can run.

• MIMAS Ten Years on

  Julia Chruszcz looks at the ten years of MIMAS as a JISC-designated national data centre.

• 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.

• Metadata Wanted for the Evanescent Library

  John MacColl reports on Schemas and Ontologies: Building a Semantic Infrastructure for the GRID and Digital Libraries: a one-day workshop at the e-Science Institute, May 2003.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Planet SOSIG

  Debra Hiom highlights some new events, publications and services in the social sciences and Andy Hargrave introduces recent developments for FE in the Bized Service.

• Review: Songs of Innocence and of Experience

  Philip Hunter reviews a CD-ROM edition of one of William Blake's most famous works.

• Search Engines: Weblog Search Engines

  Phil Bradley looks at the developments occurring with weblogs and how you can go about searching on or for them.

• The Intellectual Property Rights Workshop

  William J. Nixon and Jessie Hey co-report on the JISC IPR workshop held in London, May 2003.

• The RoMEO Project: Protecting Metadata in an Open Access Environment

  Elizabeth Gadd, Charles Oppenheim and Steve Probets describe how the RoMEO Project is seeking to safeguard freely available metadata disclosed and harvested under the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting.

• 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.

• Access Management: The Key to a Portal - The Experience of the Subject Portals Project

  Francisco Pinto and Michael Fraser report on the experience of the Subject Portals Project.

• Apart from the Weather, I Think It’s a Good Idea: Stakeholder Requirements for Institutional Portals

  Liz Pearce takes a look at recent research from the PORTAL Project, which asked over 600 users what they might want from an institutional portal.

• Collection Description Focus Showcase: Mapping the Information Landscape

  Verity Brack reports on this one-day showcase of Collection Description projects and services held at the British Library, London, 25 March 2003.

• DELOS CEE Event: Current Trends in Digitisation in Central and Eastern Europe

  Philip Hunter reports on this meeting held in snowbound Torun, Poland, 3-4 February 2003.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 35: The Art and Craft of Portalage

  Philip Hunter provides an editorial introduction to Ariadne 35.

• Free Full-text E-journals and EEVL's Engineering E-journal Search Engine

  Nicola Harrison and Roddy MacLeod describe what EEVL has to offer in the area of e-journals.

• Functionality in Digital Annotation: Imitating and Supporting Real-world Annotation

  Richard Waller looks at both pre-digital and digital concepts of annotation, with a view to how annotation tools might be used in the subject-gateway environment.

• Mandated Online RAE CVs Linked to University Eprint Archives: Enhancing UK Research Impact and Assessment

  Stevan Harnad, Les Carr, Tim Brody and Charles Oppenheim make a case for maximising the advantages and the UK's pre-eminence in the Research Assessment Exercise.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• 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.

• WebWatch: Surfing Historical UK University Web Sites

  Brian Kelly outlines strategies for choosing appropriate standards for building Web sites.

• What Features in a Portal?

  Geoff Butters analyses the features found in various types of portal, and includes a comparison with the planned features for the JISC Subject Portals.

• ePrints UK: Developing a National E-prints Archive

  Ruth Martin describes the technical work of the ePrints UK project, and outlines the non-technical issues that must also be addressed if the project is to deliver a national e-prints service

• 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.

• DAEDALUS : Freeing Scholarly Communication at the University of Glasgow

  William J. Nixon presents a brief overview of the DAEDALUS Open Archives Project at the University of Glasgow.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 34: Cultivating Interoperability and Resource-Sharing

  Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne issue 34.

• Exploring Charging Models for Digital Cultural Heritage

  Simon Tanner and Marilyn Deegan discuss charging models.

• Exposing Information Resources for E-learning

  Steve Richardson and Andy Powell on Harvesting and searching IMS metadata using both the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, and the Z39.50 Protocol.

• Hidden Treasures: The Impact of Moving Image and Sound Archives in the 21st Century

  Philip Hunter reports on the one day meeting on multimedia objects in the British Library, London, October 2002.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• 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.

• The 2nd Workshop on the Open Archives Initiative (OAI)

  William Nixon and Pauline Simpson report on the meeting held at CERN, Geneva, in October 2002.

• 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.

• Climbing the Scholarly Publishing Mountain With SHERPA

  John MacColl and Stephen Pinfield explore the SHERPA project, which is concentrating on making e-prints available online.

• Digital Libraries in China

  Liz Lyon reports on the International Digital Library Conference held in Beijing in July 2002.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 33: Exploring the Information Environment

  Philip Hunter with the editorial for Ariadne 33.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• OCLC-SCURL: Collaboration, Integration and Recombinant Potential

  Pete Johnston reports on the New Directions in Metadata conference, 15-16 August, in Edinburgh

• Public Libraries: United We Stand

  Penny Garrod on current developments in the Public Library world.

• 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.

• Web Focus: Let's Get Serious about HTML Standards

  Brian Kelly encourages authors to treat compliance with HTML standards seriously.

• Another Piece of Cake?

  Anders Ardö, Sigfrid Lundberg and Ann-Sofie Zettergren with an overview of the history of Netlab, now ten years old.

• Collection Description in Focus

  Clare McVeigh and Dierdre Wildy: A Report on the Collection Description Focus Workshops, Nov 2001-Mar 2002

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 32: The Grid -The Web Twenty Years On?

  Philip Hunter with the editorial for Ariadne issue 32.

• Electronic Theses and Dissertations: A Strategy for the UK

  by John MacColl considers a strategy for electronic theses and dissertations in the United Kingdom.

• First Impressions of Ex Libris's Metalib: Talking about a Revolution?

  Nick Lewis outlines key issues in the implementation of a cross-searching portal using Metalib.

• 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.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Open Archive Forum Workshop: Creating a European Forum on Open Archives

  Ariadne reports on the Open Archives Forum's First Workshop: Creating a European Forum on Open Archives. Pisa, 13-14 May 2002. CNR, Pisa.

• Planet SOSIG

  Debra Hiom with a report which covers: the launch of Citizenship Past; a new VTS Tutorial for European Studies; and an update on the SOSIG Portals Project.

• QA Focus

  Marieke Napier on Quality Assurance procedures in the Jisc 5/99 Programme.

• The Evolution of an Institutional E-prints Archive at the University of Glasgow

  William Nixon with some practical advice based on the Glasgow experience.

• The Information Grid

  Ariadne reports on a one-day workshop on 'an interoperable environment to support research, learning and teaching' held at the e-Science Institute in Edinburgh, April 30, 2002.

• WWW2002 Here

  Libby Miller sends notes from the WW2002 conference in Hawaii.

• Web-archiving: Managing and Archiving Online Documents and Records

  Neil Beagrie and Philip Pothen report on the Digital Preservation Coalition Forum held 25th March 2002.

• Collection Description Focus: Spreading the Gospel

  Bridget Robinson and Pete Johnston with an overview of CLD activities in the first year.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 31: An E-prints Revolution?

  Philip Hunter with the editorial for Ariadne issue 31.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Setting up an Institutional E-Print Archive

  Stephen Pinfield, Mike Gardner, and John MacColl with some practical advice on setting up an e-print archive.

• The AIM25 Project

  Robert Baxter, Frances Blomeley and Rachel Kemsley present AIM25, a project providing electronic access to descriptions of archives held in various London institutions.

• The Distributed National Collection Access, and Cross-sectoral Collaboration: The Research Support Libraries Programme

  Ronald Milne, Director of the programme, with an overview of the objectives for the Research Support Libraries Programme.

• 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.

• The Open Archives Forum

  Susanne Dobratz, Friederike Schimmelpfennig and Peter Schirmbacher introduce the new Open Archives Forum project to promote the ideas of the OAI in Europe.

• Access to Archives: England’s Contribution to the National Archive Network

  Caroline Thibeaud discusses the Archive 2 Archive project.

• Book Review: The Invisible Web

  Marieke Napier reviews the book: The Invisible Web.

• Building ResourceFinder

  Pete Cliff looks at how the RDN has utilised the OAI Metadata Harvesting Protocol.

• Content Management Systems: Who Needs Them?

  Paul Browning and Mike Lowndes explore the CMS concept and look at the available tools.

• Digital Curation: Digital Archives, Libraries and e-Science Seminar

  Neil Beagrie and Philip Pothen report on the Digital Preservation day in October 2001, held in London.

• Digitization: Do We Have a Strategy?

  David Pearson suggests that the library sector should find a mechanism to put digitisation high on the agenda.

• EEVL: Brand new EEVL service

  Roddy Macleod introduces a new service.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 30: Centering the Periphery - A New Equity in Information Access?

  Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne issue 30.

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

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

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Open Archiving Opportunities for Developing Countries: Towards Equitable Distribution of Global Knowledge

  Leslie Chan and Barbara Kirsop explore some of the implications of using the OAI Protocol.

• ACM / IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

  John MacColl reports on a selection of the papers given at this conference in Roanoake, Virginia, June 24-28 2001.

• Architects of the Information Age

  Paul Miller reports on a recent UKOLN-organised event at the Office of the e-Envoy, and explores the need for an architecture to scope what we build online.

• Collective Convergence: The Work of the Collection Description Focus

  Pete Johnston and Bridget Robinson outline the work of the Collection Description Focus.

• Developing an Agenda for Institutional E-Print Archives

  Philip Hunter, John MacColl and Marieke Napier report on a one day Open Archives conference on OAI compliant metadata and e-print issues. Held at the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, London. 11 July 2001.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 29: Key Technologies for the Development of the Digital Library

  Philip Hunter with the editorial for Ariadne 29.

• Establishing a Digital Library Centre

  John Kirriemuir outlines some of the issues for the establishment of digital library centres in UK Higher Education institutions.

• Managing Digital Video Content

  Manjula Patel reviews the two-day workshop on current and emerging standards for managing digital video content held in Atlanta, Georgia, 15-16 August 2001.

• Managing Electronic Library Services: Current Issues in UK Higher Education Institutions

  Stephen Pinfield surveys some of the key issues associated with delivering electronic library services.

• Migration: A Camileon Discussion Paper

  Paul Wheatley explores migration issues for the long-term preservation of digital materials.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Software Review: C4U

  Andrew Cox and Simon McLean review this web-monitoring software.

• 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 People's Network and the Learning Revolution: Building the NOF Digitize Programme

  Susi Woodhouse brings us up to date with developments.

• Web Watch: Carrying Out Your Own Web Watch Survey

  Brian Kelly describes how you can carry out your own WebWatch benchmarking survey across your own community.

• Accessibility: CHI 2001 and Beyond

  Leona Carpenter reports on the key issue of accessibility as covered at the Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) Conference held in Seattle, and also provides a round-up of sources of further information.

• Digital Museums: Braining Up Or Dumbing Down?

  Marieke Napier went to find out at the mda's 'Beyond the Museum' colloquium.

• Metadata: E-print Services and Long-term Access to the Record of Scholarly and Scientific Research

  Michael Day looks at the long-term preservation implications of one of the OAI protocol's potential applications - e-print services.

• Minotaur: A Comparison of Six Proposals for Freeing the Refereed Literature Online

  Stevan Harnad argues for the self-archiving alternative.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Personalization of Web Services: Opportunities and Challenges

  Monica Bonett gives an overview of personalization on the World Wide Web and discusses ideas for development within resource discovery systems.

• Project GOLD: Supporting Distance Learning Students

  Derek Morisson describes an e-learning project which was the antithesis of the current trend towards multifunction, and invariably expensive, Virtual Learning Environments and sophisticated Managed Learning Environments.

• Supporting Material for Database Training, or 'Here’s One I Prepared Earlier'

  Alison McNab looks at the wealth of resources available for trainers provided by the information service and content providers within JISC-supported services.

• 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.

• The Management of Content: Universities and the Electronic Publishing Revolution

  Philip Hunter attempts to throw some light on the low take up of content management systems (CMS) in the university sector.

• Web Focus: Hot News From WWW10

  Brian Kelly reports on the Tenth International World Wide Web Conference, held in Hong Kong on 1-5 May 2001.

• Web Watch: Size of Institutional Top Level Pages

  Web Watch: Brian Kelly looks at the size of institutional top level pages.

• After the Big Bang: The Forces of Change and E-Learning

  Pete Johnston examines what recent developments in the area of "e-learning" might mean for the custodians of the information resources required to support teaching and learning.

• Ancient World, Digital World: Excavation at Halif

  Paul Jacobs on how field and research strategies were impacted significantly by the use of digital technology in the 1999 field season at Tell Halif, Israel (the Lahav Research Project).

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 27: The Digital Library Jigsaw

  Philip Hunter opens the box and looks at some of the choicest pieces of Ariadne issue 27.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Review: From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure

  Michael Day reviews the book by Christine Borgman: From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure.

• The Digital Preservation Coalition

  Neil Beagrie reports on proposals to establish a Digital Preservation Coalition in the UK.

• The Future Is Hybrid: Edinburgh

  John MacColl and Philip Hunter report on 'The Future is Hybrid' project day in Edinburgh.

• The LEODIS Database

  Jonathan Kendal on the creation of LEODIS, a Public Libraries sector digitization and database project.

• Web Watch: What's Related to My Web Site?

  What's Related To My Web Site? Brian Kelly looks at Netscape's 'What's Related?' facility and reports on the service's findings for institutional Web servers.

• After eLib

  Chris Rusbridge, the former Director of the UK Electronic Libraries Programme, with an assessment of its achievements and legacy.

• Metadata: Preservation 2000

  Michael Day reports on the Digital Preservation conference held in York in December 2000.

• Planet SOSIG: Keeping Social Scientists Connected

  Debra Hiom and Emma Place discuss work to keep social scientists connected.

• Review of Digital Imaging: A Practical Handbook

  Philip Hunter and Marieke Napier review Stuart Lee's 'Digital Imaging' handbook.

• The Distributed National Electronic Resource and the Hybrid Library

  Stephen Pinfield and Lorcan Dempsey with an overview of the DNER.

• Travelling at the Speed of Discovery: The MALIBU Project's Most Valuable Lessons

  Valeda Dent with a newcomer's perspective on the MALIBU project.

• A Policy Context: eLib and the Emergence of the Subject Gateways

  Derek Law and Lorcan Dempsey outline some of the features of the policy environment which led to the setting up of the influential 'subject gateways' as part of the UK Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib).

• Cartoon

  New cartoon work by Malcolm Campbell.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 25: Beyond the Web Site

  Philip Hunter on the contents of Ariadne issue 25 and recent developments in the world of Digital Library initiatives.

• Electronic Homer

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

• Metadata: Towards the Intelligent Museum

  Paul Miller and Alice Grant explore CIMI: the collections standards organization which JISC has just joined.

• Review: The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization

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

• Agora: From Information Maze to Market

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

• Bringing Coherence to Networked Information for the New Century

  Gillian Austen reports on the JISC-CNI conference at Stratford, UK, 14-16 June 2000.

• Cartoon

  New cartoon work by Malcolm Campbell.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 24: Plumbing the Digital Library

  Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne 24.

• In Vision: The Internet As a Resource for Visually Impaired People

  Ann Chapman on the Internet as a resource for visually impaired people: a survey of accessible sites, resources, current research and software.

• Interoperability: What Is It and Why Should I Want It?

  Paul Miller explains what interoperability is and why you should want it.

• JSTOR Usage

  Alison Murphy reports on the JSTOR electronic journals project continuing success.

• LONGITUDE: The Users in the Digital Landscape

  Linda Berube on the Longitude project, designed to test a toolkit of qualitative survey methodologies to assess user needs in the digital library.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Planet SOSIG

  Heather Dawson with news of the recently merged Social Science Librarians Group.

• Broadband TV

  Philip Hunter links to broadband streaming video resources now emerging on the Internet.

• Catalogues for the 21st Century

  Ariadne reports on a one-day Workshop presented by the eLib Clump Projects at Goldsmiths College in London on the 3rd of March

• EEVL News Nuggets

  Brian Kelly reports on the use of third-party web services.

• EPRESS

  Stuart Peters on EPRESS text management software tools, currently in development.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 23: Ariadne's Thread

  Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne issue 23.

• I Say What I Mean, but Do I Mean What I Say?

  Paul Miller reports on the latest MODELS workshop, and looks at the need for controlled terminologies and thesauri.

• Railway Industry Resources on the Internet

  Review: The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization

• 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.

• Web Watch: A Survey of Links to UK University Web Sites

  Brian Kelly reports on the number of links to University web sites.

• Aerade

  John Harrington, Karyn Meaden and Emma Turner introduce Aerade, an EEVL-related service.

• Delivering the Electronic Library: The ARIADNE Reader

  John MacColl on the new ARIADNE Reader.

• Digitizing Intellectual Property: The Oxford Scoping Study

  Stuart Lee discusses the Mellon Digitization Scoping Study for Oxford University.

• Electronic Publication of Ancient Near Eastern Texts

  Charles E. Jones and David Schloen report on a Chicago conference which explored XML tagging for Ancient Near Eastern Texts on the Web.

• Metadata for Digital Preservation: An Update

  Michael Day discusses 'Metadata for Digital Preservation'.

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

  Adam Guy writes about the Question Bank service.

• RDN: Resource Discovery Network

  Alistair Dunning reviews the launch of the RDN (Resource Discovery Network)

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

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

• Tiny TV: Streaming Video on the Web

  Philip Hunter squints at the world through RealPlayer and MediaPlayer windows.

• Web Focus: Using the Web to Promote Your Web Site

  Brian Kelly expalins how to promote your web site.

• Web Mirrors: Building the UK Mirror Service

  Report on the UK Mirror Service by Mark Russell.

• 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.

• Digitizing Wilfrid

  Philip Hunter talks to Stuart Lee about the prizewinning 'Wilfrid Owen Multimedia Digital Archive' and the JTAP 'Virtual Seminars on WW1'.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 21: Ariadne's Thread

  Introduction to Ariadne issue 21 by Philip Hunter.

• The Scholarly Journal in Transition and the PubMed Central Proposal

  Michael Day discusses the scholarly journal in transition and the PubMed Central proposal.

• The Web Editor: 'Abzu and Beyond'

  Charles Jones muses on the history of the Internet presence of the University of Chicago Oriental Institute.

• Unix: What Is mod_perl?

  Ian Peacock explains mod_perl technology for supercharging the Apache Server.

• Web Focus: Report on "Institutional Web Management Next Steps" Workshop

  Brian Kelly reports on the latest "Institutional Web Management Workshop," this year called: "The Next Steps."

• WebWatch: UK University Search Engines

  Brian Kelly explores the search facilities used by UK university Web sites.

• JISC Content: NESLI Implications Outside the HE Community

  Alicia Wise discusses NESLI.

• Metadata: Workshop in Luxembourg

  Michael Day and Andy Stone report on the Third Metadata Workshop in Luxembourg.

• Milestone for Mailbase: Ten Years Value-Added Service to UK Higher Education

  Elaine Blair discusses Mailbase services ten years on.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Public Libraries: Virtual Library - False Dawn?

  Frank Webster and Lorcan Dempsey exchange views on virtual libraries.

• Web Mirror: The National Mirror Service

  Sally Hadland on the New National Mirror Service.

• Biz/Ed Bulletin

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

• EEVL Eye on Engineering

  The EEVL Team explore Internet Resources in Petroleum Engineering and Electronics, take a glance at engineering resources in Australia and South East Asia and give the latest news from the EEVL service.

• Metadata: Image Retrieval

  Michael Day reports on combining content-based and metadata-based approaches.

• OMNI Corner: Information or Hysteria, "Talking sensibly" in the Biomedical Field

  John Kirriemuir outlines current areas of concern in: Information or Hysteria? "Talking sensibly" in the biomedical field.

• Planet SOSIG: Internet Resources for Social Scientists

  Pete Maggs discusses finding high-quality Internet resources for social science and methodology, based on his experience as a SOSIG Section Editor.

• CATRIONA II Management Survey

  Dennis Nicholson and Martin Smith provide a summary report of selected results from the CATRIONA II survey on the University Management of Electronic Resources.

• CEDARS

  Kelly Russell explores the main deliverables of the CEDARS project: recommendations and guidelines, plus practical, robust and scaleable models for establishing distributed digital archives.

• JSTOR

  Daniel Holden reports on his trip to the United States to visit colleagues at JSTOR, a not-for-profit organisation creating a digital archive collection of scholarly journals

• Launching an Electronic Magazine: An Overview of Value-added Features and Services

  Bernadette Daly looks at a variety of electronic publications as part of the research phase in the delivery of a new Web magazine.

• Metadata: Cataloguing Theory and Internet Subject-based Information Gateways

  Ann Chapman, Michael Day, and Debra Hiom compare library cataloguing concepts and ROADS Template creation.

• Public Libraries Corner

  Sarah Ormes and David Potts shed light on the what exactly the Networked Policy Taskgroup does.

• The ExamNet Project at De Montfort University

  David James Houghton introduces the ExamNet Project, which offers access to past De Montfort University examination papers in electronic form.

• The Technical Advisory Service for Images (TASI)

  Karla Youngs describes what TASI is and the work that it is doing in building a common ‘Framework’ for digital imaging projects.

• Transatlantic Bandwidth: How to Save Money on Your Costs

  Sally Hadland, Information Officer at the Higher Education National Software Archive (HENSA), describes how using HENSA can save on transatlantic bandwidth.

• Web Focus: The Role of the Web Editor

  Brian Kelly asks, does 'web editor' mean Unix guru or an HTML coder?

• A New Publication for a New Challenge

  John MacColl and Lyndon Pugh discuss their proposal for a web and print magazine for Information and IT professionals in UK Higher Education.

• 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.

• Exploring Planet SOSIG: Law, Statistics and Demography

  Planet SOSIG: Exploring Planet SOSIG: Law, Statistics and Demography: Janette Cochrane, Sue Pettit and Wendy White. Planet SOSIG continues its review of the main SOSIG subject sections, highlighting the resources that the Internet can offer to those working in the different fields of the social sciences.

• Information Ecosystems

  John MacColl follows up last issue's breakdown of papers with his reflections on the UKOLN conference held in Bath University at the end of June.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• UKOLUG

  Jacqueline Chelin reports on the UKOLUG 20th birthday conference.

• Electronic Access: Archives in the New Millennium

  Michael Day reports from Kew on the Public Record Office view of the Brave New World of online archives.

• Information Landscapes

  Rosemary Russell, Sally Criddle and Sarah Ormes report on the UKOLN conference held in June 1998.

• Metadata Corner

  Michael Day reports from Tomar, Portugal, on the DELOS6 Workshop.

• Planet SOSIG

  Phil Cross presents the first of an occasional series of articles looking at individual subsections within SOSIG. Phil has been the section editor for Environmental Sciences for the past year and gives a description of the types of resources users can expect to find in this rapidly expanding field.

• Web Editorial: Introduction to Issue 16

  Philip Hunter and Bernadette Daly introduce Ariadne issue 16.

• A National Co-ordinating Body for Digital Archiving?

  David Haynes discusses one possible way forward for ensuring that potentially valued digital materials are preserved for future study and use.

• ROUTES Project

  Una O'Sullivan describes the Open University ROUTES project.

• Web Editorial: Ariadne Issue 15

  Web editor Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne 15.

• Copyright Corner

  Charles Oppenheim answers your copyright queries.

• MODELS

  Rosemary Russell reports on MODELS workshop, held on 5-6 February 1998.

• Minotaur

  Robin Alston replies to issue Ariadne 13's Minotaur, by Louis Schmier.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Public Libraries Corner: An Internet Open Day

  Sally Criddle describes a World Wide Web training event organised by UKOLN and the University of Bath for the 1997 National Libraries Week.

• Down Your Way: University of Ulster, Coleraine

  Isobel Stark investigates University of Ulster, Coleraine.

• Music Libraries Online

  Celia Duffy describes a virtual music catalogue.

• Planet SOSIG: Politically Correct - Editing the Politics Section of SOSIG

  Heather Dawson from The British Library of Political and Economic Science talks about her role as a SOSIG Section Editor.

• What Do National Libraries Do in the Age of the Internet?

  Maurice Line, previously a Director General of the British library, ponders upon the questions faced by national libraries.

• Are Print Journals Dinosaurs?

  Tony Kidd wonders if he and and his kind are palæontologists.

• Consortium and Site Licensing

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

• JournalsOnline: The Online Journal Solution

  Jane Henley and Sarah Thompson look at the BIDS JournalsOnline service and its commercial competitors.

• The History of History

  Stephen Smith explains the background to the relaunch of IHR-Info as HISTORY.

• The Lesser of Two EEVLs?

  Roddy MacLeod, EEVL Project Manager (Information), describes plans for EEVL.

• BULISC '97

  John Eyre reports on the Bournemouth University Library & Information Services Conference, New Tricks 2.

• Interface: All Pre-Prints Servers Are Not the Same

  Isobel Stark talks to Dan Fleming of the Formations project.

• Libtech '97

  Christine Dugdale & Jackie Chelin of the ResIDe project, University of the West of England, report on the seminar which took place at Libtech at the University of Hertfordshire.

• Metadata Corner: Naming Names - Metadata Registries

  Rachel Heery examines metadata issues.

• Parallel Publishing for Transactions (PPT)

  Hugo Brailsford introduces a parallel publication in Geography.

• Public Libraries Corner: A Public Library Metadata Initiative

  Sally Criddle introduces an initiative to extend current developments in the use of metadata to the public library community.

• The Librarian of Babel: for a Public Reading Right

  The Librarian, talking to Mike Holderness, considers the economics of gathering all human knowledge and proposes a Public Reading Right.

• Theses Unbound

  Alason Roberts looks at the use of theses in academic libraries.

• A Digital Library Showcase and Support Service - the Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE

  Roy Tennant describes a resource used to create digital libraries and services, and to help others do the same.

• Around the Table: Film and Cinema

  Frank Parry discusses some of the many possible sources for Internet information on film and cinema.

• BUBL : How BUBL Benefits Academic Librarians

  Alan Dawson and Jan Simpson take us through BUBL, an old service recently transformed from being Gopher-based to Web-based.

• Electronic Journals: Problem Or Panacea?

  Judith Edwards outlines some of the problems faced by academia in the acquisition and provision of electronic journals.

• 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.

• NISS: National Information Services and Systems

  Annette Lafford and Oren Stone talk us through NISS, one of the major sources of on-line information for academics and librarians

• Planet SOSIG: The New SOSIG Interface

  Tracey Hooper describes the new interface and features of SOSIG, the premier Web-based subject gateway for the Social Sciences.

• Search Engines Corner: Keyword Spamming - Cheat Your Way to the Top

  Tracey Stanley shows how metadata can be abused to enhance the search engine ranking of Web pages.

• View from the Hill: Chris Zielinski

  John MacColl meets Chris Zielinski, a champion of authors' rights.

• r·cade: Resource Centre for Access to Data on Europe

  Sharon Bolton describes r-cade, an interdisciplinary resource centre that helps researchers and analysts to identify and acquire data for the European Social Sciences.

• Around the Table: Social Sciences

  Debra Hiom from SOSIG takes us on a guided tour of major Internet-based Social Science resources.

• CAIN

  Martin Melaugh reports on a site devoted to the Northern Ireland conflict.

• Extending Metadata for Digital Preservation

  Michael Day suggests how the concept of metadata could be extended to provide information in the specific field of digital preservation.

• OMNI-Corner: Read All about It

  OMNI's Sue Welsh looks at the sites which keep you up to date in health and medicine.

• The NHS, the Internet and Libraries: The NHS Anglia and Oxford Internet Project

  Judy Palmer and Myles Chippendale describe an initiative that is using the Internet to connect widely dispersed health libraries.

• View from the Hill: Anne Dixon

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

• Wire: Interview Via Email With Jon Knight and Martin Hamilton

  In this interview we question Knight and Martin Hamilton and present their replies.

• A Glimpse at EEVLs' Evaluation

  A Glimpse at EEVLs' Evaluation: Malcolm Moffat, Database Officer for the Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library (EEVL) project, describes some findings from an initial evaluative study.

• Australian Co-operative Digitisation Project, 1840-45

  Ross Coleman describes a project which will create a unique research infrastructure in Australian studies through the digital conversion of Australian serials and fiction of the seminal period 1840-45.

• CEI Looks for Bold Response

  John MacColl describes the new call for proposals for further eLib programme work.

• Formats for the Electronic Library

  Judith Wusteman describes the document formats used in electronic serials.

• Introducing Web Focus

  UK Web Focus - a strange job title. What is it? What does it do? In this article Brian Kelly describes his role as UK Web Focus, his previous involvement with the Web and his work as the JISC representative on the World Wide Web Consortium.

• Late Night News: The Electronic Telegraph

  A night in the life of the Electronic Telegraph. Emma Worsfold sits in on the editors' shift at ET.

• MODELS: MOving to Distributed Environments for Library Services

  Rosemary Russell shows how MODELS are built from clumps.

• Performance and Security: Notes for System Administrators

  Performance and Security - Notes for System Administrators: Andy Powell offers some hints and tips on the performance and security aspects of running electronic library services on UNIX based machines.

• Preserving Oral History Recordings

  Colin Webb and Kevin Bradley look at some of the practical realities, and implications, of introducing digital technology into the sound preservation functions of the National Library of Australia.

• SETIS: Electronic Texts at the University of Sydney Library

  Creagh Cole describes a project dedicated to providing in-house access to a large number of electronic texts on CD-ROM.

• The Paper House of Cards (And Why It's Taking So Long to Collapse)

  In our previous issue, Fytton Rowland defended the continuation of print research journals into the networked age. Here, Stevan Harnad presents a different case.

• WoPEc: Electronic Working Papers in Economics Services

  Thomas Krichel describes WoPEc, a working papers project.

• Burnside Writes

  John Burnside on pornography and the Internet.

• Data Archive at the University of Essex

  Denise Lievesley and Bridget Winstanley describe this national resource centre for computer-readable data in the social sciences and humanities.

• Down Your Way: Durham

  Paul Miller travels to Durham and reports on a mammoth archival digitisation project.

• IPL: The Internet Public Library

  Schelle Simcox describes a Web-based public library, designed in many ways to mimic, and improve on, features of and within a real, large-scale library.

• Interface: Les Carr Interview

  Steve Hitchcock and Les Carr of the Open Journal Project link up with Ian Budden.

• MIDAS: Manchester Information, Datasets and Associated Services

  Anne McCombe describes a service that provides a wide range of datasets to the wider communities.

• Print Journals: Fit for the Future?

  Do authors choose to appear in print journals for the wrong reasons? Do print journals continue for the wrong reasons? In short, are print research journals a corrupt form of scholarly communication? We asked Fytton Rowland to provide a defence of the traditional scholarly journal. In our next journal we shall provide a perspective from the other side of the debate.

• SCRAN: A Taste of Scotland and Food for Thought

  Bruce Royan outlines an epic millennium project to digitise much of the culture and heritage of Scotland.

• Web Access for the Disabled

  Cathy Murtha outlines the problems that audio-visually impaired people encounter when trying to use network-based resources.

• 10th Annual Anglo-Nordic Seminar

  Kelly Russell from the eLib programme describes this seminar, which heavily featured speakers and current issues relevant to the UK digital libraries movement.

• British Library Corner: Setting Priorities for Digital Library Research, The Beginnings of a Process?

  Graham Jefcoate describes the background behind the recently announced British Library Research and Innovation Centre call for proposals in the field of digital library research.

• ILRT: The Institute for Learning and Research Technology

  Gillian Austen, External Relations Manager at the recently founded Institute for Learning and Research Technology at the University of Bristol, gives an overview of its structure and objectives.

• Intranets

  Jon Knight investigates what is meant by the current buzzword intranet and looks at how it may be applied in a library environment. A suggestion for a low cost entry level intranet solution is also given.

• MIDRIB

  Julian Cook describes a major database of medical images.

• Mailbase: Unique Electronic Discussion List Service for UK Higher Education Tops 100,000 Users

  Morna Findlay and Elaine Blair report on the passing of a milestone for UK academia's premier Mailing List resource.

• Networked Learner Support Current Practice Case Base

  Sarah Ashton describes the Current Practice Case Base, an index of links to sites that demonstrate a use of networked learner support.

• The Internet Resources Newsletter from Heriot-Watt University

  Roddy MacLeod describes a Web-based resources newsletter.

• Around the Table

  Around the Table: Sheona Farquhar looks at sites in science and engineering.

• BIDS Hits the Web

  Isobel Stark takes a look at the soon to be released trial BIDS web interface.

• British Library Corner: Text and the Internet

  Graham Jefcoate, a Research Analyst from the British Library Research and Innovation Centre will be writing this regular column for the remaining issues of Ariadne. In this issue, Graham gives us the text of his Libtech talk: Text and the Internet.

• HELIX

  Ruth Glynn outlines the HELIX project, one of the new Images projects from the eLib programme.

• Lotus Eaters On-Line: Forming an Alliance Between Groupware and the Web in a Pre-Prints System

  Dan Fleming, co-director of the eLib 'Formations' project and lecturer in media studies at the University of Ulster, looks at some of the issues involved in adding value to a pre-prints system by using groupware such as Lotus Notes.

• Net Gains for Digital Researchers

  Amy Friedlander, the editor of D-Lib, looks at, and towards, some of the benefits of the Web and digital technology towards how we do and present research.

• OMNI-corner: Patient Information on the Web – Doctor on Your Desktop?

  Sue Welsh, the OMNI maintainer, examines the perils of using the Internet as a substitute for your local family practitioner.

• PICK: Library and Information Science Resources on the Internet

  In 1995, the Thomas Parry Library, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, won funding for PICK, a project to build a gateway to quality resources in the LIS field. Here, Andrew Cox describes this gateway, and reviews the project's achievements at the end of the first year.

• Provenance

  Neal Chan describes Provenance, a Canadian-based Web magazine for Information Professionals.

• Putting the UK on the Map

  Peter Burden of the University of Wolverhampton's School of Computing and Information Technology describes the history behind his clickable maps of the UK, an essential and well established (though unfunded) resource for quickly locating academic and research Web sites.

• Web4Lib: The Library Web Manager's Electronic Discussion List

  Roy Tennant, Project Manager of the Digital Library Research & Development at the University of California, Berkeley, describes the Web4Lib mailing list, an electronic discussion forum for library Web managers.

• Around the Table

  Ian Budden points to resources for humanities scholars.

• Down Your Very Long Way Away

  J. Correia describes the use of the Internet in Macau.

• Interface

  John MacColl talks to Peter Nathan, acting president and distinguished professor of psychology at the University of Iowa.

• JUGL

  Emma Wright put on her woolies and went to Preston to report on the annual JUGL (JANET User Group for Libraries) conference.

• ResIDe: Electronic Reserve for UK Universities

  Tessa Bruce describes an electronic reserve system at the University of the West of England.

• Serving the Arts and Humanities

  Dan Greenstein gives an extensive description of AHDS, the Arts and Humanities Data Service: its objectives, organisation, and how the data will be collected, preserved and described..

• 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.

• AC/DC

  Dave Beckett and Neil Smith explain a search engine that only indexes sites in the .ac.uk domain.

• 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.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 3

  John Kirriemuir, Editor, introduces the Web version of Ariadne.

• Internet Archaeology

  Alan Vince, the managing editor of Internet Archaeology, describes an electronic journal that will apply the multimedia aspects of the Web to the field of archaeological research.

• Mailbase Reviewed

  Terry Hanson reviews the mother of academic mailing list systems in the UK.

• Mailing Lists: Keeping Up With eLib

  We point out the advantages of being on the lis-elib mailing list, and briefly describe the other public eLib mailing lists currently in use.

• Meta Detectors

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

• Wire: Dave Beckett, Interviewed

  Dave Beckett is subjected to an interview via email.

• E-print Archives: Key to Paperless Journals

  John MacColl on why electronic print archives are the key to paperless journals.

• Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib) Update

  Recently, a wave of new projects under the umbrella of the Electronic Libraries Programme was announced. A consequence of this is that a large majority of the HE institutions in the UK are involved in at least one eLib project (is yours?), as well as many non HE organisations and institutions. Here, we give brief details of some of these new projects.

• Netskills: A Major Training Programme

  The Netskills Team explain how the need for training has never been greater.

• The 4th WWW Conference in Boston

  Debra Hiom and John Kirriemuir provide an informal report from the "cutting edge" of Web development.

• What's Good and Bad about BUBL

  Traugott Koch reviews the Bulletin Board for Libraries (BUBL).

• Wire: Email Interview with Traugott Koch

  Traugott Koch submits to an interview by email.