Buzz - Drm

• 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.

• Product Review: The IPad and the Educator, First Impressions

  Brian Whalley reports on his initial impressions of the new Apple iPad in the first three weeks since its release in the USA and what it has to offer the mobile educator.

• 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.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 62: The Wisdom of Communities

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 62.

• eBooks: Tipping or Vanishing Point?

  Emma Tonkin investigates ebooks and takes a look at recent technological and business developments in this area.

• Internet Librarian International 2009

  Katherine Allen reports on Internet Librarian International 2009 which took place in London on 15 and 16 October 2009.

• 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.

• Book Review: Digital Copyright

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

• 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.

• Digital Policy Management Workshop

  Neil Beagrie and Mark Bide report on a one-day invitational workshop on Digital Policy Management sponsored by The British Library, JISC and UKOLN under the aegis of the British Library/JISC Partnership, held in the British Library Conference Centre on 24 April 2006.

• 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.

• 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.

• DCC Workshop on Persistent Identifiers

  Philip Hunter gives a personal view of this workshop held in Glasgow, 30 June - 1 July, supported by NISO, CETIS, ERPANET, UKOLN and the DCC.

• 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.

• 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.

• Ebooks in UK Libraries: Where Are We Now?

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

• The Intellectual Property Rights Workshop

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

• 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.

• 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.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.