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• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Trove: Innovation in Access to Information in Australia

  Rose Holley describes a major development in the Australian national digital information infrastructure.

• 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.

• Get Tooled Up: Xerxes at Royal Holloway, University of London

  Anna Grigson, Peter Kiely, Graham Seaman and Tim Wales describe the implementation of an open source front end to the MetaLib federated search tool.

• Supporting eResearch: The Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative

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

• Book Review: Visualizing Data

  Pete Cliff considers a new book on data visualisation and hopes one day to implement some of the interesting ideas presented in this work.

• Intute Integration

  Angela Joyce, Jackie Wickham, Phil Cross and Chris Stephens describe Intute's ongoing Integration Project, which is promoting and developing integration of Intute content in the UK academic library community.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Fedora Users Conference

  Chris Awre and Richard Green report from the Fedora Users Conference, a two-day meeting for users of the open source Fedora repository system held at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, over 19-20 June 2006.

• 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.

• 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.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• 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.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Tap Into Bath

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Windows Explorer: The Index Server Companion

  Brett Burridge describes the Index Server Companion, an application he has created that allows Microsoft Index Server to index content from remote websites and ODBC databases.

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

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

• 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.

• Building ResourceFinder

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

• 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.

• 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.

• EEVL Update

  Roddy MacLeod and Linda Kerr provide news about the EEVL service

• Web Focus: Institutional Web Management Workshop - The Joined Up Web

  Brian Kelly reports on the "Institutional Web Management Workshop: The Joined-Up Web" event, held in Bath.

• ZOPE: Swiss Army Knife for the Web?

  Paul Browning looks at this multiple authoring environment.

• Unix: What Is mod_perl?

  Ian Peacock explains mod_perl technology for supercharging the Apache Server.