Buzz - Drupal

• Migrating Ariadne from Drupal to a Static Site

  Jason Cooper describes how the Ariadne journal has recently been moved from a Drupal based site, to a static site managed by Hugo and git.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 69

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

• 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.

• 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.

• Editorial: Welcome to New Ariadne

  The editor introduces readers to the new Ariadne.

• Open Educational Resources Hack Day

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

• Book Review: Practical Open Source Software for Libraries

  Muhammad Rafiq takes a look at a work on the open source community and open source software.

• 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.

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

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 64.

• Retooling Libraries for the Data Challenge

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

• Intranet Management: Divine Comedy or Strategic Imperative?

  Martin White suggests that a failure to recognise the value of intranets is a symptom of a failure to recognise information as a strategic asset.