Organisation - Oclc

• Mining the Archives: Metadata Development and Implementation

  Martin White looks through the Ariadne archive to track the development and implementation of metadata in a variety of settings.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 71

  The editor introduces readers to the content of Ariadne Issue 71.

• Book Review: The Information Society - A Study of Continuity and Change

  Muhammad Rafiq offers us a detailed review of a work, now in its sixth edition, which examines the information society, its origin, development, its associated issues and the current landscape.

• 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.

• 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.

• Mining the Archive: eBooks

  Martin White looks through the Ariadne archive to track the development of ebooks.

• Motivations for the Development of a Web Resource Synchronisation Framework

  Stuart Lewis, Richard Jones and Simeon Warner explain some of the motivations behind the development of the ResourceSync Framework.

• Online Information 2012

  Marieke Guy reports on the largest gathering of information professionals in Europe.

• Book Review: Getting Started with Cloud Computing

  Martin White reviews a collection of essays on cloud computing that attempts to clarify the technology and its applications for librarians and information professionals.

• Perceptions of Public Libraries in Africa

  Monika Elbert, David Fuegi and Ugne Lipeikaite describe the principal findings of the study Perceptions of Public Libraries in Africa which served to provide evidence of how public libraries are perceived by their stakeholders.

• Retooling Special Collections Digitisation in the Age of Mass Scanning

  Constance Rinaldo, Judith Warnement, Tom Baione, Martin R. Kalfatovic and Susan Fraser describe results from a study to identify and develop a cost-effective and efficient large-scale digitisation workflow for special collections library materials.

• Moving Researchers across the EResearch Chasm

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

• Blue Ribbon Task Force Symposium on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access

  Marieke Guy reports on a symposium which provided an opportunity for stakeholders to respond to the recent Blue Ribbon Task Force report on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access.

• Emerging Technologies in Academic Libraries (emtacl10)

  Andrew Walsh reports on a new international conference on emerging technologies within academic libraries organised by the library of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and held in Trondheim, Norway in April 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.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• 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.

• Archives 2.0: If We Build It, Will They Come?

  Joy Palmer discusses some of the opportunities and tensions emerging around Archives 2.0, crowd-sourcing, and archival authority.

• The Second International M-Libraries Conference

  Keren Mills reports on a two-day conference exploring and sharing delivery of services and resources to users 'on the move,' via mobile and hand-held devices.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Book Review: Pro Web 2.0 Mashups

  Ralph LeVan looks at a comprehensive work on how to consume and repurpose Web services.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• 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.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 55: Digital Lives, Digital Values

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 55.

• 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.

• Libraries of the Future

  Michelle Pauli reports on the National e-textbook Debate and Libraries of the Future panel sessions held by JISC in Birmingham over 14-15 April 2008.

• Research Libraries and the Power of the Co-operative

  John MacColl considers the 'co-operative imperative' upon research libraries, and describes the work which the former Research Libraries Group is undertaking as part of OCLC.

• Exploiting the Potential of Blogs and Social Networks

  Gill Ferrell reports on a one-day workshop about Blogs and Social Networks, held in Birmingham in November 2007.

• MCN 2007: Building Content, Building Community - 40 Years of Museum Information and Technology

  Guenter Waibel and Jean Godby report on the Museum Computer Network annual meeting, held 7-10 November, 2007 in Chicago, Illinois.

• SWORD: Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit

  Julie Allinson, Sebastien Francois and Stuart Lewis describe the JISC-funded SWORD Project which has produced a lightweight protocol for repository deposit.

• Web 2.0 in U.S. LIS Schools: Are They Missing the Boat?

  Noa Aharony asks whether library and information science schools in the United States are underestimating the opportunities offered by Web 2.0 applications.

• Book Review: The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland

  Lorcan Dempsey reviews Volume III of a landmark collection on the history of libraries in 'Britain and Ireland' from 1850 to 2000.

• DC 2007

  Ann Apps reports on DC2007, the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, held 27-31 August 2007 in Singapore.

• Newsline

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Institutional Repositories and Their 'Other' Users: Usability Beyond Authors

  Dana McKay summarises the literature on the usability of institutional repositories, and points to directions for future work.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• What Happens When We Mash the Library?

  Paul Miller looks at recent attempts to make library resources more appealing, including the Talis competition to build library 'mashups'.

• 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.

• Wiki Or Won't He? A Tale of Public Sector Wikis

  Marieke Guy revisits a topic receiving considerable attention these days and reflects on wiki use by public organisations.

• A Foundation for Automatic Digital Preservation

  Miguel Ferreira, Ana Alice Baptista and Jose Carlos Ramalho propose a Service-Oriented Architecture to help cultural heritage institutions to accomplish automatic digital preservation.

• Book Review: Blended Learning and Online Tutoring

  Lyn Parker considers that this book meets its aim of providing practical advice for tutors and staff developers engaged in online activities and blended learning.

• IWMW 2006: Quality Matters

  Adrian Stevenson reports on the 10th Institutional Web Management Workshop held at the University of Bath over 14-16 June 2006.

• Library Systems: Synthesise, Specialise, Mobilise

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

• The Library Catalogue in the New Discovery Environment: Some Thoughts

  Lorcan Dempsey explores how the library catalogue will develop alongside evolving network discovery systems.

• Code4lib 2006

  Jeremy Frumkin and Dan Chudnov report on the inaugural conference of the Code4lib community of programmers, hackers, and techies working in or with libraries and information systems.

• Preserving Electronic Scholarly Journals: Portico

  Eileen Fenton outlines issues relating to the long-term preservation of digital resources and the characteristics of an archival entity responding to this need.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 46: Ten Years of Pathfinding

  John MacColl, Lorcan Dempsey and John Kirriemuir reflect in turn on the rationale and history of the founding of Ariadne.

• 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.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Projects Into Services: The UK Experience

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

• Research Libraries Engage the Digital World: A US-UK Comparative Examination of Recent History and Future Prospects

  Clifford Lynch looks at how the emergence of e-research has changed our thinking about the future of research libraries on both sides of the Atlantic.

• 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.

• What Users Want: An Academic 'Hybrid' Library Perspective

  Reg Carr reflects on the development of a user-centred approach in academic libraries over recent decades and into the era of the hybrid library.

• 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.

• DCC Workshop on Persistent Identifiers

  Philip Hunter gives a personal view of this workshop held in Glasgow, 30 June - 1 July, supported by NISO, CETIS, ERPANET, UKOLN and the DCC.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• 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.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• ECDL 2004: A Digital Librarian's Report

  Jessie Hey reports on the 8th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries held at the University of Bath in September 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.

• What Do Application Profiles Reveal about the Learning Object Metadata Standard?

  Jean Godby assesses the customised subsets of metadata elements that have been defined by 35 projects using the LOM standard to describe e-learning resources.

• 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.

• An Introduction to the Search/Retrieve URL Service (SRU)

  Eric Lease Morgan describes sibling Web Service protocols designed to define a standard form for Internet search queries as well as the structure of the responses.

• 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 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.

• 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.

• JISC Terminology Services Workshop

  Sarah Shreeves reports on a one-day workshop on current developments and future directions for JISC terminology services held in London, February 2004.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• The Collection Description Schema Forum

  Gordon Dunsire describes the one-day seminar on standard schemas for collection-level description held by UKOLN in February.

• Ebooks in UK Libraries: Where Are We Now?

  Penny Garrod brings us up to date on developments in ebooks.

• 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.

• 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.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• ePrints UK: Developing a National E-prints Archive

  Ruth Martin describes the technical work of the ePrints UK project, and outlines the non-technical issues that must also be addressed if the project is to deliver a national e-prints service

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Climbing the Scholarly Publishing Mountain With SHERPA

  John MacColl and Stephen Pinfield explore the SHERPA project, which is concentrating on making e-prints available online.

• Digital Libraries in China

  Liz Lyon reports on the International Digital Library Conference held in Beijing in July 2002.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 33: Exploring the Information Environment

  Philip Hunter with the editorial for Ariadne 33.

• OCLC-SCURL: Collaboration, Integration and Recombinant Potential

  Pete Johnston reports on the New Directions in Metadata conference, 15-16 August, in Edinburgh

• Utilizing E-books to Enhance Digital Library Offerings

  Shirley Hyatt and Lynn Silipigni Connaway, describe the rationale and background of OCLC's acquisition of netLibrary, the information environment that is being pursued, and the resulting benefits that libraries may experience.

• First Impressions of Ex Libris's Metalib: Talking about a Revolution?

  Nick Lewis outlines key issues in the implementation of a cross-searching portal using Metalib.

• NetLab's Digital Library Gâteau

  Jessica Lindholm reports from the conference "NetLab and friends: Tribute and outlook after 10 years of digital library development". The conference was held in Lund, Sweden 10-12 April 2002.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• 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.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 29: Key Technologies for the Development of the Digital Library

  Philip Hunter with the editorial for Ariadne 29.

• 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.

• Subject Portals

  Judith Clark describes a three-year project to develop a set of subject portals as part of the Distributed National Electronic Resource (DNER) development programme.

• 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.

• Continuity and Collaboration: The Online Bach Bibliography

  Yo Tomita introduces the single most important online resource for the study of the composer J.S. Bach.

• Metadata: Preservation 2000

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

• The Distributed National Electronic Resource and the Hybrid Library

  Stephen Pinfield and Lorcan Dempsey with an overview of the DNER.

• Adaptive Developments for Learning in the Hybrid Library

  Wilma Alexander on the SELLIC Project and its aim to support the use of electronic resources in teaching science and engineering.

• Library Resource Sharing and Discovery: Catalogues for the 21st Century

  Ariadne reports on the highlights of the recent Glasgow CLUMPS one day conference

• I Say What I Mean, but Do I Mean What I Say?

  Paul Miller reports on the latest MODELS workshop, and looks at the need for controlled terminologies and thesauri.

• So You Want to Build a Union Catalogue?

  Matthew Dovey looks at various models of virtual union catalogues in addition to those adopted by the clump projects, and other models of physical catalogues.

• What Have the CLUMPs Ever Done for Us?

  Peter Stubley puts the CLUMPs in perspective.

• The Web Editor: 'Abzu and Beyond'

  Charles Jones muses on the history of the Internet presence of the University of Chicago Oriental Institute.

• Metadata: Cataloguing Theory and Internet Subject-based Information Gateways

  Ann Chapman, Michael Day, and Debra Hiom compare library cataloguing concepts and ROADS Template creation.

• What Is a URI?

  Ian Peacock explains 'URI' in plain English.

• ALA '98

  Ian Winship reports on electronic library related activity at this year's American Library Association Conference in Washington D.C.

• Minotaur

  Robin Alston replies to issue Ariadne 13's Minotaur, by Louis Schmier.

• Task Force Meeting

  Kelly Russell reports on the US CNI Conference.

• Are Print Journals Dinosaurs?

  Tony Kidd wonders if he and and his kind are palæontologists.

• JournalsOnline: The Online Journal Solution

  Jane Henley and Sarah Thompson look at the BIDS JournalsOnline service and its commercial competitors.

• Metadata Corner: DC5 - the Search for Santa

  Tony Gill and Paul Miller's report from the 5th Dublin Core metdata conference in Helsinki.

• Cataloguing Electronic Sources

  Jackie Hwang, Team Leader, Bibliographic Services, surveys progress so far at Information Services, University of Birmingham.

• Metadata Corner: Naming Names - Metadata Registries

  Rachel Heery examines metadata issues.

• SIGIR '97

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

• Theses Unbound

  Alason Roberts looks at the use of theses in academic libraries.

• York Information Connections: An Attempt to Catalogue the Internet

  Christine Ellwood and Sarah Thompson outline the rationale behind the approach of the University of York Library to cataloguing Internet resources.

• A Digital Library Showcase and Support Service - the Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE

  Roy Tennant describes a resource used to create digital libraries and services, and to help others do the same.

• Clifford Lynch in Interview

  Clifford Lynch, the Executive Director of CNI, was interviewed by John Kirriemuir at the Metadata: What Is It? workshop on 18 June 1997. Clifford shares some views on mirroring, caching, metadata, Z39.50 and how he sees his role in CNI.

• Electronic Journals: Problem Or Panacea?

  Judith Edwards outlines some of the problems faced by academia in the acquisition and provision of electronic journals.

• NISS: National Information Services and Systems

  Annette Lafford and Oren Stone talk us through NISS, one of the major sources of on-line information for academics and librarians

• Extending Metadata for Digital Preservation

  Michael Day suggests how the concept of metadata could be extended to provide information in the specific field of digital preservation.

• Wire: Interview Via Email With Jon Knight and Martin Hamilton

  In this interview we question Knight and Martin Hamilton and present their replies.

• 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.

• Formats for the Electronic Library

  Judith Wusteman describes the document formats used in electronic serials.

• MODELS: MOving to Distributed Environments for Library Services

  Rosemary Russell shows how MODELS are built from clumps.

• Promoting the Internet to Staff at a UK University

  Paul Hollands is the human part of a project to promote the use of Internet based information services among teaching and research staff at the university; in his own words, this is how the project has progressed to date.

• 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.

• EDINA: WWW, Z39.50 and All That!

  Peter Burnhill gives a briefing note on what EDINA and the Data Library are doing about the World Wide Web (W) and the Z39.50 Protocol (Z).

• Interface Miriam Drake: A Rainy Night in Georgia?

  The Library is still busy, as Miriam Drake explains to Alison Kilgour.

• The BNBMARC Currency Survey

  Ann Chapman describes the BNBMARC Currency Survey, a performance measurement survey on the supply of bibliographic records.

• Metadata for the Masses

  Paul Miller describes Dublin Core and several ideas for how it can be implemented.

• Serving the Arts and Humanities

  Dan Greenstein gives an extensive description of AHDS, the Arts and Humanities Data Service: its objectives, organisation, and how the data will be collected, preserved and described..

• Meta Detectors

  Lorcan Dempsey talks about metadata and the development of resource discovery services in the UK.

• 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'?).

• ROADS: Resource Organisation and Discovery in Subject-Based Services

  Rachel Heery, the ROADS Research Officer, describes this project from the Access to Network Resources area of the Electronic Libraries Programme. The deliverables of this project will constitute a large portion of the underlying software for most of the other projects in the same programme area, as well as other eLib and non-eLib projects, and therefore is one of the more crucial facets of the overall programme.

• Down Your Way

  Alison Kilgour takes a look at the networking facilities inside Glasgow University Library.

• Down Your Way

  Loughborough University has a reputation for technological excellence. Its Information Service was revamped last year, and is becoming increasingly dependent upon the Internet. Alison Kilgour reports.

• The 4th WWW Conference in Boston

  Debra Hiom and John Kirriemuir provide an informal report from the "cutting edge" of Web development.

• What's Good and Bad about BUBL

  Traugott Koch reviews the Bulletin Board for Libraries (BUBL).

• Wire: Email Interview with Traugott Koch

  Traugott Koch submits to an interview by email.

• Ed Summers

• Günter Waibel

• Janifer Gatenby

• Jean Godby

• John MacColl

• Lorcan Dempsey

• Ralph LeVan

• Robin Murray