Buzz - Unicode

• IMPACT Final Conference 2011

  Marieke Guy reports on the two-day conference looking at the results of the IMPACT Project in making digitisation and OCR better, faster and cheaper.

• 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.

• 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.

• Immaculate Catalogues, Indexes and Monsters Too...

  David E. Bennett reports on the three day residential CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group Annual Conference, University of East Anglia, during September 2006.

• 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.

• A National Archive of Datasets

  Jeffrey Darlington describes how structured datasets produced by UK Government departments and agencies are being archived and made available to users.

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

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue issue 37.

• Unicode and Historic Scripts

  Deborah Anderson provides us an overview of the progress made in bringing historic scripts to the Unicode Standard.

• Metadata Wanted for the Evanescent Library

  John MacColl reports on Schemas and Ontologies: Building a Semantic Infrastructure for the GRID and Digital Libraries: a one-day workshop at the e-Science Institute, May 2003.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 25: Beyond the Web Site

  Philip Hunter on the contents of Ariadne issue 25 and recent developments in the world of Digital Library initiatives.

• XML 2000: New Tools, New Vendors

  Dianne Kennedy reports on the latest XML conference in Paris.

• Electronic Publication of Ancient Near Eastern Texts

  Charles E. Jones and David Schloen report on a Chicago conference which explored XML tagging for Ancient Near Eastern Texts on the Web.

• Internationalisation and the Web

  Jon Knight looks at how the Web is currently undergoing the sometimes painful internationalization process required if it is to live up to its name of the World Wide Web.

• 10th Annual Anglo-Nordic Seminar

  Kelly Russell from the eLib programme describes this seminar, which heavily featured speakers and current issues relevant to the UK digital libraries movement.

• Netskills Corner: Fifth WWW Conference, Paris

  Brian Kelly undertakes the arduous task of attending the 5th WWW Conference in Paris (is there a 'smiley' for 'green with envy'?).