Organisation - National Library of Australia

• JABES 2013

  Marlène Delhaye reports on the two-day annual conference organised by the French Agence Bibliographique de l’Enseignement Supérieur (ABES) held in Montpellier, France over 14-15 May 2013.

• Book Review: User Studies for Digital Library Development

  Selenay Aytac reviews a collection of essays on user studies and digital library development that provides a concise overview of a variety of digital library projects and examines major research trends relating to digital libraries.

• Book Review: I, Digital – A History Devoid of the Personal?

  Chris Rusbridge reviews an edited volume that aims to fill a gap in ‘literature designed specifically to guide archivists’ thinking about personal digital materials’.

• 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.

• From Link Rot to Web Sanctuary: Creating the Digital Educational Resource Archive (DERA)

  Bernard M Scaife describes how an innovative use of the EPrints repository software is helping to preserve official documents from the Web.

• International Digital Curation Conference 2010

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

• Moving Researchers across the EResearch Chasm

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

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 64: Supporting the Power of Research Data

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 64.

• Trove: Innovation in Access to Information in Australia

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

• IMPACT Conference: Optical Character Recognition in Mass Digitisation

  Lieke Ploeger, Yola Park, Jeanna Nikolov-Ramirez Gaviria, Clemens Neudecker, Fedor Bochow and Michael Day report from the first IMPACT Conference, held in The Hague, Netherlands on 6-7 April, 2009.

• iPRES 2008

  Frances Boyle and Adam Farquhar report on the two-day international conference which was the fifth in the series on digital preservation of digital objects held at the British Library, on 29 - 30 September 2008.

• Open Repositories 2008

  Mahendra Mahey reports on the third international Open Repositories 2008 Conference, held at the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton in April 2008.

• ARROW and the RQF: Meeting the Needs of the Research Quality Framework Using an Institutional Research Repository

  David Groenewegen and Andrew Treloar describe the role of repositories in the forthcoming Australian Research Quality Framework (RQF) and the responses of the ARROW Project to the needs of the RQF.

• 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.

• Book Review: Digital Preservation

  Maureen Pennock reviews a release in Facet's Digital Futures series.

• 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.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Stargate: Exploring Static Repositories for Small Publishers

  R. John Robertson introduces a project examining the potential benefits of OAI-PMH Static Repositories as a means of enabling small publishers to participate more fully in the information environment.

• Joint Workshop on Future-proofing Institutional Websites

  Maureen Pennock reports on a two-day workshop on Future-Proofing Web Sites, organised by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) and the Wellcome Library at the Wellcome Library, London, over 19-20 January 2006.

• 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.

• 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.

• How the Use of Standards Is Transforming Australian Digital Libraries

  Debbie Campbell explains how the exploitation of recent standards has allowed the National Library of Australia to digitise its collections and host federated search services and provide an improved service.

• Delivering OAI Records As RSS: An IMesh Toolkit Module for Facilitating Resource Sharing

  Monica Duke provides an overview of a means of providing records in RSS through the use of an IMesh Toolkit module that supports resource sharing. The content of this article was presented at the 4th Open Archives Forum Workshop

• Digital Curation: Digital Archives, Libraries and e-Science Seminar

  Neil Beagrie and Philip Pothen report on the Digital Preservation day in October 2001, held in London.

• Metadata: Preservation 2000

  Michael Day reports on the Digital Preservation conference held in York in December 2000.

• Catalogues for the 21st Century

  Ariadne reports on a one-day Workshop presented by the eLib Clump Projects at Goldsmiths College in London on the 3rd of March

• Metadata for Digital Preservation: An Update

  Michael Day discusses 'Metadata for Digital Preservation'.

• An Overview of Subject Gateway Activities in Australia

  Debbie Campbell looks at how the original criteria proposed for an IMesh map against these Australian initiatives.

• CEDARS

  Kelly Russell explores the main deliverables of the CEDARS project: recommendations and guidelines, plus practical, robust and scaleable models for establishing distributed digital archives.

• ILL: Interlibrary Loan Protocol

  Lyndon Pugh and Chris Rusbridge on the National Library of Australia's ILL utility.

• Metadata Corner

  Michael Day reports from Tomar, Portugal, on the DELOS6 Workshop.

• Web Editorial: Introduction to Issue 16

  Philip Hunter and Bernadette Daly introduce Ariadne issue 16.

• A National Co-ordinating Body for Digital Archiving?

  David Haynes discusses one possible way forward for ensuring that potentially valued digital materials are preserved for future study and use.

• Australian Co-operative Digitisation Project, 1840-45

  Ross Coleman describes a project which will create a unique research infrastructure in Australian studies through the digital conversion of Australian serials and fiction of the seminal period 1840-45.

• Down Under With the Dublin Core

  Paul Miller and Tony Gill offer a view of the recent Dublin Core metadata workshop in the Australian capital, Canberra.

• JEDDS: Joint Electronic Document Delivery Software Project

  Kerry Blinco provides details of a global electronic document delivery project.

• Preserving Oral History Recordings

  Colin Webb and Kevin Bradley look at some of the practical realities, and implications, of introducing digital technology into the sound preservation functions of the National Library of Australia.

• PICK: Library and Information Science Resources on the Internet

  In 1995, the Thomas Parry Library, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, won funding for PICK, a project to build a gateway to quality resources in the LIS field. Here, Andrew Cox describes this gateway, and reviews the project's achievements at the end of the first year.

• Debbie Campbell

• Rose Holley