Buzz - Shibboleth

• Implementing a Resource or Reading List Management System

  Gary Brewerton takes us step by step through the various stages of implementing a Resource or Reading List Management System for your institution.

• 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.

• The ARK Project: Analysing Raptor at Kent

  Leo Lyons describes how University of Kent librarians are benefitting from Raptor's ability to produce e-resource usage statistics and charts.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 69

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

• 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.

• 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.

• Repository Software Comparison: Building Digital Library Infrastructure at LSE

  Ed Fay presents a comparison of repository software that was carried out at LSE in support of digital library infrastructure development.

• Don't You Know Who I Am?

  John Paschoud looks into identity and access management in the pre-digital and digital age, and describes how the JISC Identity Management Toolkit can help us manage identities better.

• 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.

• Eduserv Symposium 2009: Evolution Or Revolution: The Future of Identity and Access Management for Research

  Shirley Williams reports on the Eduserv Foundation Symposium which took as its theme investigate the intersection between identity management, access management and scholarly research collaboration across institutional and geographic boundaries.

• Supporting eResearch: The Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative

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

• eResearch Australasia 2008

  Tobias Blanke, Ann Borda, Gaby Bright and Bridget Soulsby report on the annual eResearch Australasia Conference, held in Melbourne, Australia, 29 September - 3 October, 2008.

• 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.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• ARROW, DART and ARCHER: A Quiver Full of Research Repository and Related Projects

  Andrew Treloar and David Groenewegen describe three inter-related projects to support scholarly outputs and the e-research life cycle which have been funded by the Australian Commonwealth Government.

• Developing a Virtual Research Environment in a Portal Framework: The EVIE Project

  Tracey Stanley provides an overview of the EVIE Project at the University of Leeds which was funded under the JISC Virtual Research Environments Programme.

• OpenID: Decentralised Single Sign-on for the Web

  Andy Powell and David Recordon take a brief look at OpenID and ask what relevance it has to e-learning.

• Wikido: Exploiting the Potential of Wikis

  Marieke Guy reports on a one-day workshop, held in Birmingham in November 2006, which took a closer look at the potential of Wikis for educational institutions.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 48: Extended Family Net Works

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne 48.

• ShibboLEAP: Seven Libraries and a LEAP of Faith

  Martin Moyle introduces the ShibboLEAP Project, a multi-institution Shibboleth adoption in London, and hopes that later adopters will benefit from its findings.

• Building the Info Grid

  Wolfram Horstmann, Liv Fugl and Jessica Lindholm report on the two-day conference Building the Info Grid on trends and perspectives in digital library technology and services held in Copenhagen in September.

• IWMW 2005

  Miles Banbery reports on the 9th Institutional Web Management Workshop held at the University of Manchester, UK, over 6-8 July 2005.

• Integration and Impact: The JISC Annual Conference

  Marieke Guy has collated reports on sessions from the JISC Annual Conference held in Birmingham.

• Virtual Research Environments: Overview and Activity

  Michael Fraser provides an overview of the virtual research environment (VRE) and introduces three JISC-funded projects in which Oxford University is participating.

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

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 43.

• EuroCAMP 2005

  Masha Garibyan and Ann Borda report on the first Campus Architecture Middleware Planning workshop in Europe hosted by the Politecnico di Torino.

• Installing Shibboleth

  Simon McLeish describes the experience of Shibboleth installation in a Higher Education environment, and suggests ways to make this experience more user-friendly.

• Shibboleth Installation Workshop

  James Sankar and Masha Garibyan report on the first ever Shibboleth Installation Workshop in the UK.

• 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.

• Towards Library Groupware With Personalised Link Routing

  Daniel Chudnov, Jeremy Frumkin, Jennifer Weintraub, Matthew Wilcox and Raymond Yee describe a potential groupware framework for integrating access to diverse information resources and distributed personal collection development.

• 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.

• Access Management: The Key to a Portal - The Experience of the Subject Portals Project

  Francisco Pinto and Michael Fraser report on the experience of the Subject Portals Project.

• Internet 2 Spring Member Meeting

  John Paschoud reports on an Internet2 meeting, Arlington, Virginia, 6th – 8th May 2002, which discussed Networks, Applications and Middleware.

• Managed Learning?

  Nicole Harris on current developments towards Managed Learning Environments in the ANGEL project.