Buzz - Frbr

• 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.

• 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.

• Book Review: Introducing RDA

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

• 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.

• 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.

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

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 64.

• FRBR in Practice

  Wendy Taylor and Kathy Teague describe what they learnt about how FRBR is used at the Celia Library for the Visually Impaired in Helsinki, during their Ulverscroft/IFLA-funded visit.

• RDA: Resource Description and Access

  Wendy Taylor and Helen Williams report on CILIP's Executive Briefings on RDA : Resource Description and Access held at CILIP on 23 March 2010 and repeated at the Bloomsbury Hotel on 30 March 2010.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 62: The Wisdom of Communities

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 62.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Assessing FRBR in Dublin Core Application Profiles

  Talat Chaudhri makes a detailed assessment of the FRBR structure of the Dublin Core Application Profiles funded by JISC.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 58: People Still Matter

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 58.

• 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.

• 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.

• CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group Annual Conference

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

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• 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.

• 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.

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

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 55.

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

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

• Towards an Application Profile for Images

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

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• 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.

• 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.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 49: Technology Is Only Part of the Story

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 49.

• 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).

• The Library Catalogue in the New Discovery Environment: Some Thoughts

  Lorcan Dempsey explores how the library catalogue will develop alongside evolving network discovery systems.

• Book Review: Cataloging and Organizing Digital Resources

  Sarah Higgins learns how to incorporate online resources into a library catalogue using AACR2 and MARC, but wonders why the wider issue of organising and describing a full range of digital resources is not addressed.

• DC 2005

  Robina Clayphan reports on the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications: Vocabularies in Practice held at the University of Carlos III, Madrid in September 2005.

• Book Review: Metadata for Information Management and Retrieval

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

• 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.

• ECDL-2003 Web Archiving

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

• 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.

• Metadata: I Am a Name and a Number

  Paul Miller on Digital Object Identifiers.