Buzz - Visualisation

• LinkedUp: Linking Open Data for Education

  Marieke Guy, Mathieu d’Aquin, Stefan Dietze, Hendrik Drachsler, Eelco Herder and Elisabetta Parodi describe the activities carried out by the LinkedUp Project looking at the promotion of open data in education.

• Book Review: Powering Search - The Role of Thesauri in New Information Environments

  Leonard Will reviews a comprehensive survey of the literature on the use of thesauri in information search processes and interfaces.

• Improving Evaluation of Resources through Injected Feedback Surveys

  Terry Reese suggests a novel approach for providing intercept survey functionality for librarians looking to simplify the gathering of user feedback for library-provided materials.

• The Performance-based Funding Model: Creating New Research Databases in Sweden and Norway

  Leif Eriksson describes how the introduction of Performance-based Research Funding Systems (PRFS) has created new forms of research databases in Sweden and Norway.

• The Potential of Learning Analytics and Big Data

  Patricia Charlton, Manolis Mavrikis and Demetra Katsifli discuss how the emerging trend of learning analytics and big data can support and empower learning and teaching.

• 23rd International CODATA Conference

  Alex Ball reports on a conference on ‘Open Data and Information for a Changing Planet’ held by the International Council for Science’s Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan on 28–31 October 2012.

• 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.

• euroCRIS Membership Meeting, Madrid

  Rosemary Russell and Brigitte Jörg report on the bi-annual euroCRIS membership and Task Groups meetings which took place in Madrid on 5-6 November 2012.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 69

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

• Making the Most of a Conference

  Stephanie Taylor writes about how she made the most of a conference to promote and inform the work of a project.

• 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.

• The Institutional Web Management Workshop (IWMW) 2012

  Kirsty Pitkin reports on the 16th Institutional Web Management Workshop held at the University of Edinburgh's Appleton Tower between 18 - 20 July 2012.

• Data Science Professionals: A Global Community of Sharing

  Sylvie Lafortune reports on the 37th annual conference of the International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology (IASSIST), held over 30 May – 3 June 2011 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

• The Future of the Past of the Web

  Matthew Brack reports on the one-day international workshop 'The Future of the Past of the Web' held at the British Library Conference Centre, London on 7 October, 2011.

• eSciDoc Days 2011: The Challenges for Collaborative eResearch Environments

  Ute Rusnak reports on the fourth in a series of two-day conferences called eSciDoc Days, organised by FIZ Karlsruhe and the Max Planck Digital Library in Berlin over 26-27 October 2011.

• Book Review: The Expert Library

  Sylvie Lafortune reviews a book taking a hard look at academic libraries, how they are being redefined and what skills will be required of the staff who will move them forward.

• Institutional Challenges in the Data Decade

  Marion Tattersall, Carmen O'Dell and John Lewis report on Institutional Challenges in the Data Decade, organised by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) in partnership with the White Rose University Consortium and held 1-3 March 2011 at the University of Sheffield.

• Open Educational Resources Hack Day

  Kirsty Pitkin reports on a two-day practical hack event focusing on Open Educational Resources (OER), held by DevCSI and JISC CETIS in Manchester on 31 March - 1 April 2011.

• Beyond the PDF

  Jodi Schneider reports on a three-day workshop about the future of scientific communication, held in San Diego CA, USA, in January 2011.

• Developments in Virtual 3D Imaging of Cultural Artefacts

  Richard Collmann describes how experience using a portable Virtual 3D Object Rig in cultural institutions has led to significant improvements in apparatus design and workflow.

• International Digital Curation Conference 2010

  Alex Ball reports on the 6th International Digital Curation Conference, held on 7-8 December 2010 in Chicago.

• Reading Van Gogh Online?

  Peter Boot shows how log analysis can be employed to assess a site's usability, usage, and users, using the Van Gogh letter edition as an example.

• Book Review: The Accidental Taxonomist

  Emma Tonkin takes a look at a book on the work of the taxonomist and notes both merits and disappointments.

• Developing Infrastructure for Research Data Management at the University of Oxford

  James A. J. Wilson, Michael A. Fraser, Luis Martinez-Uribe, Paul Jeffreys, Meriel Patrick, Asif Akram and Tahir Mansoori describe the approaches taken, findings, and issues encountered while developing research data management services and infrastructure at the University of Oxford.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 65: Ariadne in Search of Your Views

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 65.

• Moving Researchers across the EResearch Chasm

  Malcolm Wolski and Joanna Richardson outline an Australian initiative to address technology challenges within current research paradigms.

• Repository Fringe 2010

  Martin Donnelly (and friends) report on the Repository Fringe "unconference" held at the National e-Science Centre in Edinburgh, Scotland, over 2-3 September 2010.

• 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.

• Institutional Web Management Workshop 2010

  Keith Doyle provides a personal perspective on a conference organised by UKOLN for those involved in the provision of institutional Web services.

• Making Datasets Visible and Accessible: DataCite's First Summer Meeting

  Tom J Pollard and J Max Wilkinson report on DataCite's First Summer Meeting, a two-day event focused on making datasets visible and accessible, held in Hannover, Germany, in June 2010.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• 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.

• Volcanic Eruptions Fail to Thwart Digital Preservation - the Planets Way

  Matthew Barr, Amir Bernstein, Clive Billenness and Manfred Thaller report on the final Planets training event Digital Preservation - The Planets Way held in Rome over 19 - 21 April 2010.

• A Research Revolution: The Impact of Digital Technologies

  Dicky Maidment-Otlet and Judy Redfearn describe a new JISC activity to highlight how digital technologies are changing research.

• UK Institutional Repository Search: Innovation and Discovery

  Vic Lyte, Sophia Jones, Sophia Ananiadou and Linda Kerr describe an innovative tool to showcase UK research output through advanced discovery and retrieval facilities.

• E-Curator: A 3D Web-based Archive for Conservators and Curators

  Mona Hess, Graeme Were, Ian Brown, Sally MacDonald, Stuart Robson and Francesca Simon Millar describe a project which combines 3D colour laser scanning and e-Science technologies for capturing and sharing very large 3D scans and datasets about museum artefacts in a secure computing environment.

• Handshake Session at International Repositories Infrastructure Workshop, Amsterdam

  Adrian Stevenson highlights the Handshake Session which formed part of the International Repositories InfrastructureWorkshop, at the Radisson SAS Hotel, Amsterdam, held over 16-17 March 2009.

• 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.

• 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.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 56: More Light Than Heat

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 56.

• Lost in the JISC Information Environment

  Tony Ross gives a personal reflection on his intellectual struggle to comprehend the JISC Information Environment.

• New Schemas for Mapping Pedagogies and Technologies

  Grainne Conole reflects on the implications of Web 2.0 for education and offers two new schemas for thinking about harnessing the potential of technologies.

• The 2008 Mashed Museum Day and UK Museums on the Web Conference

  Mia Ridge reports on the Mashed Museum day and the Museums Computer Group UK Museums on the Web Conference, held at the University of Leicester in June 2008.

• Developing the Capability and Skills to Support EResearch

  Margaret Henty provides an Australian perspective on improving the environment in which eResearch is conducted through developing institutional capability and providing appropriate skills training.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Book Reviews: Digital Information and Knowledge Management, and Print Vs. Digital

  Sylvie Lafortune looks at two books edited by Sul H. Lee dealing with the impact of digital information on libraries, librarianship, information providers and library users.

• Newsline

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Progress Towards Addressing Digital Preservation Challenges

  Helen Hockx-Yu reports on the 2nd Planets, CASPAR and DPE annual conference, held on 5-6 September 2007 in Lisbon, Portugal.

• The DARE Chronicle: Open Access to Research Results and Teaching Material in the Netherlands

  Leo Waaijers reflects on four years of progress and also looks ahead.

• The National Centre for Text Mining: A Vision for the Future

  Sophia Ananiadou describes NaCTeM and the main scientific challenges it helps to solve together with issues related to deployment, use and uptake of NaCTeM's text mining tools and services.

• The Second Life of UK Academics

  John Kirriemuir introduces a series of studies investigating how the Second Life environment is being used in UK Higher and Further Education.

• Eduserv Foundation Symposium 2007: Virtual Worlds, Real Learning?

  Paul Walk reports on the Eduserv Foundation Symposium which took as its theme 'Virtual Worlds, Real Learning?' and which was primarily concerned with educational uses for Second Life.

• 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.

• KIM Project Conference: Knowledge and Information Management through Life

  Alex Ball provides an overview of the March 2007 KIM Project Conference.

• Using Blogs for Formative Assessment and Interactive Teaching

  Lisa Foggo provides a case-study of using a blog for formative assessment. Its interactivity engaged participants and permitted measurement of student expectations and satisfaction with library sessions.

• Limits to Information Transfer: The Boundary Problem

  Jon E. Lervik, Mark Easterby-Smith, Kathryn Fahy and Carole Elliott discuss the challenges in integrating knowledge across boundaries between specialised knowledge communities within an organisation.

• e-Collaboration Workshop: Access Grid, Portals and Other VREs for the Social Sciences

  Rob Allan, Rob Crouchley and Michael Daw cover a one-day workshop reporting on the latest developments in e-Collaboration technology and applications.

• CRIS2006: Enabling Interaction and Quality: Beyond the Hanseatic League

  Derek Sergeant and Jessie Hey report on this 3-day conference in Bergen, Norway, 11-13 May 2006.

• Email Curation: Practical Approaches for Long-term Preservation

  Dave Thompson reports on a two-day conference on Email Curation organised by the Digital Curation Centre.

• QMSearch: A Quality Metrics-aware Search Framework

  Aaron Krowne and Urvashi Gadi present a framework which improves searching in the context of scholarly digital libraries by taking a 'quality metrics-aware' approach.

• Book Review: ARIST 39 - Annual Review of Information Science and Technology

  Michael Day reviews another recent volume of this key annual publication on information science and technology.

• 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.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• 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.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Participate in Your Future: The IST2004 Event

  Gabriella Szabo reports on a three-day event addressing European policies, strategies and research activities in all areas of the Information Society held in The Hague.

• ECDL2004: 4th International Web Archiving Workshop, September 2004

  Michael Day reports on the 4th International Web Archiving Workshop held at the University of Bath in September as part of ECDL 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.

• Seeing Is Believing: The JISC Information Environment Presentation Programme

  Chris Awre reviews the JISC Information Environment Presentation Programme and offers an insight to the outcomes of recent studies.

• Web Focus: Towards Library Groupware With Personalised Link Routing

  Brian Kelly takes a look at the FOAF Semantic Web application and suggests it is time to start evaluating this technology.

• 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.

• Book Review: Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, Volume 36

  Michael Day takes a detailed look at the structure and content of this hardy annual.

• 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.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Web Focus: WWW 2003 Trip Report

  Brian Kelly writes on the recent WWW 2003 conference and outlines some of the latest Web developments.

• Cultural Heritage Language Technologies: Building an Infrastructure for Collaborative Digital Libraries in the Humanities

  Jeffrey Rydberg-Cox describes the work of the Cultural Heritage Language Technologies consortium, a research group funded by the European Comission Information Society Technologies program and the United States National Science Foundation Digital Libraries Initiative.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 34: Cultivating Interoperability and Resource-Sharing

  Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne issue 34.

• Multi-media and Image Handling: The future is Textless

  Marieke Napier on a DTI multimedia day in London in November 2001.

• ACM / IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

  John MacColl reports on a selection of the papers given at this conference in Roanoake, Virginia, June 24-28 2001.

• Knowledge Management in the Perseus Digital Library

  Jeffrey Rydberg-Cox on the Perseus Project's new knowledge management and digital delivery tools.

• Bringing Coherence to Networked Information for the New Century

  Gillian Austen reports on the JISC-CNI conference at Stratford, UK, 14-16 June 2000.

• Convergence of Electronic Entertainment and Information Systems

  John Kirriemuir explores the technology and impact of expanding internet access.

• Scientific, Industrial, and Cultural Heritage: A Shared Approach

  Lorcan Dempsey presents a research framework for libraries, archives and museums prepared for the European Commission.

• Web Focus: Report on the WWW 8 Conference

  Brian Kelly discusses WWW8 in Toronto, which took place in May 1999.

• UKOLUG

  Jacqueline Chelin reports on the UKOLUG 20th birthday conference.

• View from the Hill

  Lyndon Pugh interviews Anne Mumford, head of JISC ASSIST.

• Search Engines Corner: Moving Up the Ranks

  Tracey Stanley looks at how search engines rank their results.

• SIGIR '97

  David Nichols reports on the follow-on conference SIGIR '97.

• Web Focus Corner: Running an Institutional Web Service

  Brian Kelly reports on a workshop on running an institutional web service.

• Around the Table – Engineering

  Roddy MacLeod casts an EEVL eye over engineering resources.

• Data Archive at the University of Essex

  Denise Lievesley and Bridget Winstanley describe this national resource centre for computer-readable data in the social sciences and humanities.

• MIDAS: Manchester Information, Datasets and Associated Services

  Anne McCombe describes a service that provides a wide range of datasets to the wider communities.

• OMNI-Corner: Meeting the Visible Human

  Sue Welsh reports from the Visible Human Project Conference of October 1996, an event that brought together many of the people involved with one of the most high profile Internet-based medical resources.

• CTI (Computers in Teaching Initiative)

  The CTI, set up in 1989, offers a UK-wide service to academic staff in higher education institutions through its network of 24 subject-based centres. Joyce Martin, acting head of the CTI Support Service, describes this HEFCE funded initiative.

• Net Gains for Digital Researchers

  Amy Friedlander, the editor of D-Lib, looks at, and towards, some of the benefits of the Web and digital technology towards how we do and present research.

• Wire: Dave Beckett, Interviewed

  Dave Beckett is subjected to an interview via email.

• A Thread of Ariadnes

  One of my previous lecturers jokingly said that once you had a title, logo and an acronym for your project, 80% of the work was done. Except I'm not so sure she was joking, now. Ariadne took (relatively) little time to be decided on as a title, but as it turned out, many other projects around the world, and one in particular in the UK, shared this greek mythological name. This has caused problems; for example, lists of digital libraries/training projects occasionally get us mixed up with the Ariadne project at Lancaster. Dr. David Nichols from this Lancaster project gives a brief run-down of other projects that have taken the name Ariadne.

• Wire: Email Interview with Chris Lilley

  Chris Lilley submits to an interview by email.