Organisation - Open University

• Internet Librarian International Conference 2014

  Zoë Hurley and Garth Bradshaw report on the Internet Librarian Conference, held at the Olympia Conference Centre in London over 20-22 October 2014.

• 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.

• The Tablet Symposium

  Ryan Burns reports on a one-day symposium on tablet computers, e-readers and other new media objects held at the University of Sussex on 10 April 2013.

• 21st-century Scholarship and Wikipedia

  Amber Thomas explores the ways in which emerging research practices and Wikipedia illustrate the changing boundaries of academic work.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Piloting Web Conferencing Software: Experiences and Challenges

  Julian Prior and Marie Salter report on their experiences piloting Elluminate Live! at the University of Bath.

• UK Reading Experience Database

  Bethan Ruddock reports from the launch event for the UK Reading Experience Database, held at the Betty Boothroyd Library, the Open University, Milton Keynes, on 24 February 2011.

• Academic Liaison Librarianship: Curatorial Pedagogy or Pedagogical Curation?

  Allan Parsons presents a strategic view of the need to develop the academic liaison librarianship role.

• Internet Librarian International Conference 2010

  Claire Tylee, Katrin Flemming and Elly Cope report on the two-day Internet Librarian International Conference focusing on innovation and technology in the information profession, held in London on 14-15 October 2010.

• 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.

• Book Review: Access, Delivery, Performance - The Future of Libraries Without Walls

  Michael Day reviews a Festschrift celebrating the work of Professor Peter Brophy, founder of the Centre for Research in Library and Information Management.

• Eduserv Symposium 2010: The Mobile University

  Shailey Minocha reflects on the one-day symposium organised by Eduserv in May 2010. The aim of the event was to discuss whether and how mobile technology will play a significant role in the delivery of UK Higher Education in the future.

• Intranet Management: Divine Comedy or Strategic Imperative?

  Martin White suggests that a failure to recognise the value of intranets is a symptom of a failure to recognise information as a strategic asset.

• The RSP Goes 'Back to School'

  Stephanie Taylor reports on the three-day residential school for repository managers run by the Repositories Support Project (RSP), held on 14-16 September 2009 in Northumberland.

• JISC Digital Content Conference 2009

  Michelle Pauli reports on a two-day conference on digital content held by JISC in South Cerney over 30 June - 1 July 2009.

• 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.

• dev8D: JISC Developer Happiness Days

  Julian Cheal reports on the 5-day JISC's Developer Happiness Days event held at Birckbeck College, London over 16 - 21 February 2009.

• Blended Learning and Online Tutoring: Planning Learner Support and Activity Design

  Lyn Parker does not consider that the second edition has changed considerably from the first edition despite the publishers' blurb to the contrary. Nonetheless, she feels there is much of value.

• 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.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Metadata for Learning Resources: An Update on Standards Activity for 2008

  Sarah Currier gives an overview of current initiatives in standards for educational metadata.

• Discussions from KIDMM Mash-up Day

  In conjunction with his main article on The KIDMM Community's 'MetaKnowledge Mash-up, Conrad Taylor reports on discussions from KIDMM Mash-up Day.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 50: Side-Stepping Babel

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne 50.

• 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'.

• Creative Commons Licences in Higher and Further Education: Do We Care?

  Naomi Korn and Charles Oppenheim discuss the history and merits of using Creative Commons licences while questioning whether these licences are indeed a panacea.

• 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.

• The Second Digital Repositories Programme Meeting

  Julie Allinson and Mahendra Mahey report on a 2-day JISC Digital Repositories Meeting focusing on project clusters working together and other related issues held by JISC in Warwick, UK over 27-28 March 2006.

• Building Open Source Communities: 4th OSS Watch Conference

  Sebastian Rahtz and Randy Metcalfe report on a one-day conference on open source software development communities organised by OSS Watch held in Edinburgh on 4 July 2005.

• Creative Archive

  Paul Gerhardt describes the origins and development of the Creative Archive Project at the BBC.

• Integration and Impact: The JISC Annual Conference

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

• Recasting the Past: Digital Histories

  Vanessa Carr reports on a one day conference about digitising historical records, held jointly by the Association for History and Computing UK and the Royal Historical Society.

• Book Review: Libraries Without Walls 5

  David Parkes reviews the fifth compilation of the biennial Library Without Walls Conference. He finds how far we have come and how far we have to go in delivering services to distributed learners.

• The JIBS Workshop on Resource/Reading List Software - the Reality

  Frances Boyle reports on the one-day workshop on the current state of play in the Resource/Reading List software market, held at the SaÔd Business School, University of Oxford, on 9 September 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.

• Support Models for Open Source Deployment

  Sebastian Rahtz and Randy Metcalfe report on OSS Watch's one-day conference on support models held in London in June 2004.

• Book Review: Implementing Digital Reference Services

  Ben Wynne reviews a collection of papers from the Third Annual Virtual Reference Desk Conference.

• Domesday Redux: The Rescue of the BBC Domesday Project Videodiscs

  Jeffrey Darlington, Andy Finney and Adrian Pearce describe the groundbreaking BBC Domesday Project of 1986, and explain how its unique multimedia collection has been preserved.

• The Intellectual Property Rights Workshop

  William J. Nixon and Jessie Hey co-report on the JISC IPR workshop held in London, May 2003.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• WebWatch: Surfing Historical UK University Web Sites

  Brian Kelly outlines strategies for choosing appropriate standards for building Web sites.

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

  Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne issue 34.

• The Personalisation of the Digital Library

  Michelle Perrott and Anne Ramsden report on the Joint Open University - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya Seminar on Personalisation and Digital Libraries hosted at the Open University, October 2002.

• Web Watch: A Survey of Web Server Software Used by UK University Web Sites

  Brian Kelly with an update of his survey of server software used by central Web sites in UK Universities.

• Web Watch: An Accessibility Analysis of UK University Entry Points

  Brian Kelly reports on the accessibility of entry points of UK University Web sites.

• Web Focus: Report on the Fifth Institutional Web Management Workshop

  Brian Kelly, UK Web Focus, reports on the IWMW event in his regular column.

• Using the Web for Academic Research: The Reading Experience Database Project

  Alexis Weedon gives us some insight into a new web-based project designed to collate evidence for changing reading habits through history.

• Web Watch: Size of Institutional Top Level Pages

  Web Watch: Brian Kelly looks at the size of institutional top level pages.

• Web Watch: What's Related to My Web Site?

  What's Related To My Web Site? Brian Kelly looks at Netscape's 'What's Related?' facility and reports on the service's findings for institutional Web servers.

• Virtual Universities: Institutional Issues for Information Professionals

  Jonathan Foster examines the institutional implications of networked approaches to learning for information professionals.

• Convergence of Electronic Entertainment and Information Systems

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

• Planet SOSIG

  Justine Kitchen of the Resource Discovery Network Centre reports on the recent SOSIG relaunch, and Debra Hiom explores New Learning and Teaching Support Networks in the Social Sciences

• Web Watch: A Survey of Links to UK University Web Sites

  Brian Kelly reports on the number of links to University web sites.

• ECMS: Technology Issues and Electronic Copyright Management Systems

  Pedro Isaias looks at the relevant ECMS e-Commerce technology.

• Web Focus: Report on "Institutional Web Management Next Steps" Workshop

  Brian Kelly reports on the latest "Institutional Web Management Workshop," this year called: "The Next Steps."

• ECMS: Electronic Copyright Management Systems

  Pedro Isaias considers Electronic Copyright Management Systems (ECMS).

• Instructional Management Systems

  John MacColl explores the IMS concept in the context of the SELLIC project.

• Metadata: Image Retrieval

  Michael Day reports on combining content-based and metadata-based approaches.

• CATRIONA II Management Survey

  Dennis Nicholson and Martin Smith provide a summary report of selected results from the CATRIONA II survey on the University Management of Electronic Resources.

• Knowledge Management

  Sheila Corrall asks if 'knowledge management' is a new phrase in place of 'information management', or a new concept altogether.

• Newsline: News You Can Use

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Supporting Learners at a Distance

  Alan MacDougall on cost effective ways of widening access.

• Print Editorial: Introduction to Issue 15

  The Managing Editor, Lyndon Pugh, introduces the print edition of Ariadne issue 15.

• ROUTES Project

  Una O'Sullivan describes the Open University ROUTES project.

• Minotaur

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

• View from the Hill: David VandeLinde

  Isobel Stark interviewed Professor David VandeLinde about the Dearing Report.

• Edbank

  Hilary Nunn describes this project to create, maintain and run a database of digitised teaching materials to support remote (off campus) students in teacher training, based at the Open University Library.

• ERCOMS

  The ERCOMS team explain the intricacies of their Electronic Reserve Copyright Management System project.

• Netskills Corner: The 2nd International Symposium on Networked Learner Support (NLS)

  Walter Scales summarises the 2nd International Symposium on Networked Learner Support (NLS), held on the 23rd and 24th June 1997 in Sheffield.

• Disabil-IT? Conference

  Isobel Stark reports from the February 1997 Disabil-IT? conference, aimed at library and computing services staff to help raise awareness of issues related to IT provision for students with disabilities.

• Mailbase: Unique Electronic Discussion List Service for UK Higher Education Tops 100,000 Users

  Morna Findlay and Elaine Blair report on the passing of a milestone for UK academia's premier Mailing List resource.

• Ticer Summer School on the Digital Library at Tilburg University, The Netherlands

  Robert van der Zwan describes a two week summer school in digital library developments at one of Europe's main research centres in this field.

• Open Peer Review & Argumentation: Loosening the Paper Chains on Journals

  Tamara Sumner and Simon Buckingham Shum of the Knowledge Media Institute of the Open University, describe the design and implementation of the Journal of Interactive Media in Education, and some of the issues behind the approach that this journal takes to the process of scholarly review.

• Down Your Very Long Way Away

  J. Correia describes the use of the Internet in Macau.

• Netlinks Symposium

  Sarah Ashton reports from the Netlinks Symposium, organised by the Netlinks eLib project and the Department of Information Studies in the University of Sheffield.

• Grainne Conole

• Keren Mills

• Mathieu d’Aquin

• Shailey Minocha