Buzz - Openurl

• 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.

• SUSHI: Delivering Major Benefits to JUSP

  Paul Meehan, Paul Needham and Ross MacIntyre explain the enormous time and cost benefits in using SUSHI to support rapid gathering of journal usage reports into the JUSP service.

• 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.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 68

  The editor introduces readers to the content of Ariadne issue 68.

• Looking for the Link Between Library Usage and Student Attainment

  Graham Stone, Bryony Ramsden and Dave Pattern introduce the JISC-funded Library Impact Data Project (LIDP).

• 10 Years of Zetoc

  Jane Ronson looks at how Zetoc has developed and what the future holds for the service.

• 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.

• Abstract Modelling of Digital Identifiers

  Nick Nicholas, Nigel Ward and Kerry Blinco present an information model of digital identifiers, to help bring clarity to the vocabulary debates from which this field has suffered.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 57:Achieving the Balance

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 57.

• Get Tooled Up: SeeAlso: A Simple Linkserver Protocol

  Jakob Voss combines OpenSearch and unAPI to enrich catalogues.

• Integrating Journal Back Files Into an Existing Electronic Environment

  Jason Cooper describes how Loughborough University Library integrated a number of collections of journal back files into their existing electronic environment.

• Persistent Identifiers: Considering the Options

  Emma Tonkin looks at the current landscape of persistent identifiers, describes several current services, and examines the theoretical background behind their structure and use.

• The Networked Library Service Layer: Sharing Data for More Effective Management and Cooperation

  Janifer Gatenby identifies criteria for determining which data in various library systems could be more beneficially shared and managed at a network level.

• 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.

• Book Review: Digital Libraries - Integrating Content and Systems

  Chris Awre finds a useful toolset to guide librarians and LIS students on the future use of IT to deliver their services.

• From Nought to a Thousand: The HUSCAP Project

  Masako Suziki and Shigeki Sugita describe Hokkaido University's efforts to populate its institutional repository with journal articles.

• Introducing UnAPI

  Dan Chudnov and a team of colleagues describe unAPI, a tiny HTTP API for serving information objects in next-generation Web applications.

• Library Systems: Synthesise, Specialise, Mobilise

  Robin Murray examines how the changing landscape for library systems is altering their service model.

• Metasearch: Building a Shared, Metadata-driven Knowledge Base System

  Terry Reese discusses the creation of a shared knowledge base system within OSU's open-source metasearch development.

• Serving Services in Web 2.0

  Theo van Veen shows with the help of an example, how standardised descriptions of services can help users control the integration of services from different providers.

• Google Challenges for Academic Libraries

  John MacColl analyses the reactions many academic libraries may be having to the range of tools Google is currently rolling out and outlines a strategy for institutions in the face of such potentially radical developments.

• Projects Into Services: The UK Experience

  Peter Brophy reviews the experience of the UK academic sector in turning digital library projects into sustainable services.

• The (Digital) Library Environment: Ten Years After

  Lorcan Dempsey considers how the digital library environment has changed in the ten years since Ariadne was first published.

• Distributed Services Registry Workshop

  John Gilby reports on the UKOLN/IESR two-day workshop at Scarman House, University of Warwick on 14-15 July 2005.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• 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.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 43: When Technology Alone Is Not Enough

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 43.

• Finding Someplace to Go: Reading and the Internet

  Marieke Guy takes a look at what the Internet has to offer the art of reading.

• Opening Up OpenURLs with Autodiscovery

  Daniel Chudnov, Richard Cameron, Jeremy Frumkin, Ross Singer and Raymond Yee demonstrate a 'gather locally, share globally' approach to OpenURLs and metadata autodiscovery in scholarly and non-scholarly environments.

• Developing Portal Services and Evaluating How Users Want to Use Them: The CREE Project

  Chris Awre, Matthew J Dovey, Jon Hunter, William Kilbride and Ian Dolphin describe the JISC-funded Contextual Resource Evaluation Environment (CREE) Project and its user and technical investigations to examine how users wish to use library search services.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• The Dawning of DARE: A Shared Experience

  Annemiek van der Kuil and Martin Feijen describe the first year of the DARE Project and its foundation of the OAI repositories of Dutch academic output.

• The JIBS Workshop on Resource/Reading List Software - the Reality

  Frances Boyle reports on the one-day workshop on the current state of play in the Resource/Reading List software market, held at the SaÔd Business School, University of Oxford, on 9 September 2004.

• Adding Value to the National Information Infrastructure: The EDINA Exchange Day, Edinburgh

  John MacColl provides us with a report of EDINA's first general information event for the HE and FE communities held at the National E-Science Centre.

• ERPANET Seminar on Persistent Identifiers

  Monica Duke reports on a two-day training seminar on persistent identifiers held by ERPANET in Cork, Ireland over 17-18 June 2004.

• The Information Environment Service Registry: Promoting the Use of Electronic Resources

  Amanda Hill outlines progress on the Information Environment Service Registry Project and explains what it will mean for service providers and portal developers.

• RDN/LTSN Partnerships: Learning Resource Discovery Based on the LOM and the OAI-PMH

  Andy Powell and Phil Barker explore the technical collaboration currently underway between the RDN and the LTSN and describe the RDN/LTSN LOM Application Profile and its use to support resource discovery.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• The European Library: Integrated Access to the National Libraries of Europe

  Britta Woldering describes the findings of the recently completed EU Project The European Library, focusing on technical solutions and metadata development.

• The JISC 5/99 Programme: What's in a Number?

  Rachel Bruce and Balviar Notay give an overview of the outputs and influences of the JISC 5/99 Learning and Teaching and Infrastructure Programme.

• The OpenURL and OpenURL Framework: Demystifying Link Resolution

  Ann Apps reports on a conference about current and future uses of the proposed OpenURL Framework Standard Z39.88-2004.

• The Portole Project: Supporting E-learning

  Tracey Stanley, Mina Sotiriou and Matthew Dovey provide an overview of a project to produce tools to discover information resources and deploy them within a university VLE.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 37: Monocultures Threaten More Than Species

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue issue 37.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• OpenURL Meeting

  Linda Humphreys Frances Boyle and Andy Powell give us a description of the OpenURL Meeting held in London, September 2003.

• Mapping the JISC IE Service Landscape

  Andy Powell provides a graphical representation of how some well-known services, projects and software applications fit within the JISC Information Environment technical architecture.

• 5 Step Guide to Becoming a Content Provider in the JISC Information Environment

  Andy Powell describes steps which content providers can take to integrate their resources into the JISC IE.

• Electronic Theses and Dissertations: A Strategy for the UK

  by John MacColl considers a strategy for electronic theses and dissertations in the United Kingdom.

• The JISC Information Environment and Web Services

  Andy Powell and Liz Lyon look at possible relationships between the Web Services idea and earlier ideas about seamless access to information.

• 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.

• OpenResolver: A Simple OpenURL Resolver

  Andy Powell describes UKOLN's OpenResolver, a freely available demonstration OpenURL resolver.

• The JOIN-UP Programme: Seminar on Linking Technologies

  Sandy Shaw reports on a seminar bringing together experts in the field of linking technology for JISC's JOIN-UP Programme.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 27: The Digital Library Jigsaw

  Philip Hunter opens the box and looks at some of the choicest pieces of Ariadne issue 27.

• Metadata (1): Encoding OpenURLs in DC Metadata

  Andy Powell and Ann Apps propose a mechanism for embedding machine parsable citations into Dublin Core (DC) metadata records.