Buzz - Dvd

• 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.

• 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.

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

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

• Book Review: From Lending to Learning

  Tim Davies reviews a spirited defence of public libraries, which tries to define their core purpose and which argues for a re-positioning of their place in society.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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?

• 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.

• RDA: A New International Standard

  Ann Chapman describes work on the new cataloguing code, Resource Description and Access (RDA), based on the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR).

• Video Streaming of Events

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

• Delivering Open Access: From Promise to Practice

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

• Accessibility: The Current Situation and New Directions

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

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Convergence of Electronic Entertainment and Information Systems

  John Kirriemuir explores the technology and impact of expanding internet access.