Organisation - University of Bristol

• Automating Harvest and Ingest of the Medical Heritage Library

  Christy Henshaw, Dave Thompson and João Baleia describe an automated process to harvest medical books and pamphlets from the Internet Archive into the Wellcome Library’s Digital Services environment.

• 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.

• SUNCAT: Ten Years and Beyond

  Celia Jenkins charts the beginnings of SUNCAT, its development over the last ten years and what the future holds for the service.

• Book Review: Crisis Information Management

  Emma Tonkin offers a review of a thought-provoking overview of crisis informatics.

• Making Citation Work: A British Library DataCite Workshop

  Alex Ball reports on a workshop on practical data citation issues for institutions, held at the British Library, London, on 8 March 2013.

• Eduserv Symposium 2012: Big Data, Big Deal?

  Marieke Guy attended the annual Eduserv Symposium on 10 May 2012 at the Royal College of Physicians, London to find out what are the implications of big data for Higher Education Institutions.

• The Second British Library DataCite Workshop

  Alex Ball reports on a one-day workshop on metadata supporting the citation of research data, held at the British Library, London, on 6 July 2012.

• Kultivating Kultur: Increasing Arts Research Deposit

  Marie-Therese Gramstadt discusses how the JISC-funded Kultivate Project is encouraging arts research deposit in UK institutional repositories.

• MyMobileBristol

  Mike Jones, Simon Price, Nikki Rogers and Damian Steer describe the rationale, aims and progress of MyMobileBristol, highlighting some of the challenges and opportunities that have arisen during the project.

• Piloting Web Conferencing Software: Experiences and Challenges

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

• Never Waste a Good Crisis: Innovation and Technology in Institutions

  Tore Hoel reports on the CETIS 2010 Conference, 15 - 16 November 2010 at the National College for Leadership of Schools and Childrens' Services Conference Centre, Nottingham.

• 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.

• 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.

• Intute Reflections at the End of an Era

  Angela Joyce, Linda Kerr, Tim Machin, Paul Meehan and Caroline Williams look back at the history and achievements of Intute, and reflect on lessons learned as the service enters its final year.

• Don't You Know Who I Am?

  John Paschoud looks into identity and access management in the pre-digital and digital age, and describes how the JISC Identity Management Toolkit can help us manage identities better.

• The Fourth DCC-RIN Research Data Management Forum

  Martin Donnelly and Graham Pryor report on the fourth Research Data Management Forum event, on the theme "Dealing with Sensitive Data: Managing Ethics, Security and Trust," organised by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) and Research Information Network (RIN) in Manchester, England, over 10 - 11 March, 2010.

• 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.

• Digital Lives: Report of Interviews With the Creators of Personal Digital Collections

  Pete Williams, Ian Rowlands, Katrina Dean and Jeremy Leighton John describe initial findings of the AHRC-funded Digital Lives Research Project studying personal digital collections and their relationship with research repositories such as the British Library.

• Intute Integration

  Angela Joyce, Jackie Wickham, Phil Cross and Chris Stephens describe Intute's ongoing Integration Project, which is promoting and developing integration of Intute content in the UK academic library community.

• Book Review: Mastering Regular Expressions, 3rd Edition

  Emma Tonkin and Greg Tourte take a look at the new edition of an O'Reilly classic.

• Newsline

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• The SPP Alerting Portlet: Delivering Personalised Updates

  Virginia Knight describes the open-source alerting portlet which has been developed as part of the SPP Subject Portals Project (SPP) and the results of user feedback.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Book Review: Stephen Johnson on Digital Photography

  Nigel Goldsmith reviews a new book on digital photography by the accomplished American landscape photographer Stephen Johnson.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Digital Preservation Coalition Forum on Web Archiving

  Maureen Pennock and Manjula Patel report on the Digital Preservation Coalition's second Web Archiving Forum which took place at the British Library in London on 12 June 2006.

• Intute: The New Best of the Web

  Caroline Williams describes Intute in the context of the online information environment and outlines aspirations for the future.

• Retrospective on the RDN

  Debra Hiom, in the first of a two-part series on the Resource Discovery Network, looks back at the development of the RDN and its activities to date.

• Digital Curation: Where Do We Go from Here?

  Peter Kerr, Fiona Reddington and Max Wilkinson report on the 1st International Digital Curation Conference held in Bath in September 2005.

• Planet-SOSIG

  Flora Watson introduces a new podcasting service from Biz/ed and Angela Joyce reports on the latest developments in the Eurostudies section of SOSIG.

• Planet-SOSIG

  Paul Ayres examines how the SOSIG Subject News blog is keeping users up to date and providing reusable site content at the same time.

• What Are Your Terms?

  Pete Johnston introduces the JISC Information Environment Metadata Schema Registry (IEMSR) Project and examines some of the challenges it is facing.

• Beyond Email: Wikis, Blogs and Other Strange Beasts

  Robert Bristow reports on a one-day workshop 'Beyond Email: Strategies for Collaborative Working and Learning in the 21st Century'.

• Planet-SOSIG

  Humphrey Southall looks at a new Web site's Vision of Britain while Emma Place examines new changes to the RDN Virtual Training Suite.

• Planet-SOSIG

  Angela Joyce shares her personal impressions from the recent European Digital Libraries Conference in Bath; Emma Place introduces a new seminar series to support online information seeking in the social sciences.

• Book Review: Net Effects

  Grant Young reviews a compilation of articles showcasing librarians' efforts to wrest control of new technologies and reassert some traditional values.

• Planet-SOSIG

  This month Neil Jacobs introduces a new book for information professionals in the social sciences and Heta Virnes describes her experience of running virtual helpdesks for SOSIG.

• 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.

• World Wide Web Conference 2004

  Dave Beckett reports on the international WWW2004 conference held in New York, 19-21 May 2004.

• At the Event: The EPrints UK Workshop

  Phil Cross, Debra Hiom and Emma Place report on this workshop which was held at the University of Bath in February 2004.

• Through the Web Authoring Tools

  Paul Browning offers a technical review of new approaches to Web publishing.

• OSS Inaugural Conference: Open Source Deployment and Development

  Sebastian Rahtz and Randy Metcalfe give an overview of the first conference of the Open Source Advisory Service.

• Towards a User-Centred Approach to Digital Libraries

  Ken Eason reports on the five themes in the Digilib Conference, Espoo, Finland.

• What's in SOSIG for Further Education?

  Emma Place gives an insight into the pitfalls that await new users of the Internet in their search for relevant and quality materials and explains how SOSIG has catered for the needs of both FE students and practitioners.

• Crime and Punishment: Protecting ICT Users and Their Information Against Computer Crime and Abuse

  Andrew Charlesworth reports on a seminar seeking to protect ICT users and their information against computer crime and abuse.

• 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

• ECDL-2003 Conference Notes

  Lesly Huxley shares her notes on the European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries.

• Planet SOSIG

  Anne Dimond and Angela Joyce send further news from the planet of social sciences.

• Six MLEs: More Similar Than Different

  Paul Browning offers a technical review of the systems developed by the JISC 'Building MLEs in HE' (7/99) Programme

• The 7th Institutional Web Management Workshop

  Catherine Ewart gives us her view of IWMW 2003, University of Kent, June 2003.

• Planet SOSIG: Regarding Collaboration, Conferences and Courses

  Alejandro Fernandez introduces a new collaborative initiative between the RDN and LTSN, Emma Place reports from the BPS Annual Conference and Neil Jacobs presents a new course for social researchers in Government.

• Planet SOSIG: Social Science Case Studies

  Dave Boyd provides an update on SOSIG’s involvement in the new RDN FE case studies project, and on developments within the Geography and Environmental Sciences subject sections.

• Public Libraries: Creating Websites for E-citizens -The Public Library Web Managers Workshop 2002

  Penny Garrod reports on the Public Library Web Managers workshop, November 2002, held in Bath.

• 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.

• Portals, Portals Everywhere

  Ian Dolphin, Paul Miller and Robert Sherratt report on two conferences over the summer which explored the progress being made in deploying institutional portals of various forms.

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

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

• 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.

• QA Focus

  Marieke Napier on Quality Assurance procedures in the Jisc 5/99 Programme.

• WWW2002 Here

  Libby Miller sends notes from the WW2002 conference in Hawaii.

• Web Focus: Report On The Sixth Institutional Web Management Workshop

  Brian Kelly with a report on the Sixth Institutional International Web Management Workshop held this year at the University of Strathclyde.

• News from the Resource Discovery Network

  Simon Jennings and Philip Pothen on the new RDN workbook and extensions to the RDN Virtual Training Suite.

• Content Management Systems: Who Needs Them?

  Paul Browning and Mike Lowndes explore the CMS concept and look at the available tools.

• Establishing a Digital Library Centre

  John Kirriemuir outlines some of the issues for the establishment of digital library centres in UK Higher Education institutions.

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

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

• Planet SOSIG: What's New in Politics?

  Emma Place announces new training materials for the Web, Heather Dawson looks at at Web coverage of the recently run UK General Election and Chris Mitchell provides an update of activities from the Learning and Teaching Support Network Centre.

• Planet SOSIG

  Debra Hiom and Angela Joyce provide more updates on the Social Sciences Gateway, including a new range of European sites.

• Planet SOSIG: Keeping Social Scientists Connected

  Debra Hiom and Emma Place discuss work to keep social scientists connected.

• A Policy Context: eLib and the Emergence of the Subject Gateways

  Derek Law and Lorcan Dempsey outline some of the features of the policy environment which led to the setting up of the influential 'subject gateways' as part of the UK Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib).

• Planet SOSIG: Internet Training for the Social Sciences

  Debra Hiom and Emma Place announce the RDN virtual training suite.

• Web Focus: Institutional Web Management Workshop - The Joined Up Web

  Brian Kelly reports on the "Institutional Web Management Workshop: The Joined-Up Web" event, held in Bath.

• ZOPE: Swiss Army Knife for the Web?

  Paul Browning looks at this multiple authoring environment.

• Planet SOSIG

  Heather Dawson with news of the recently merged Social Science Librarians Group.

• Web Focus: Reflections On WWW9

  Brian Kelly reports on the WWW9 conference, held in Amsterdam, in May 2000.

• 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 Institutional Web Gateways

  Brian Kelly surveys institutional web gateways.

• Biz/ed Bulletin on Business and Economics

  Libby Miller looks at recent changes to Biz/ed and describes some new sites.

• Planet SOSIG: Welfare Reform Digest

  Jennie Grimshaw gives a personal account of the creation of the Welfare reform digest.

• Biz/Ed Bulletin: What Do You Want to Know?

  Chris Mitchell and Martin Poulter introduce the Advice and Answers section of the CTI Economics Web site; and Kate Sharp explores Green Resources on the Web for Economics and Business

• JISC ASSIST

  Jane Williams on the JISC awareness unit.

• Metadata: Workshop in Luxembourg

  Michael Day and Andy Stone report on the Third Metadata Workshop in Luxembourg.

• Planet SOSIG

  Karen Ford examines The Resource Guide, which aims to provide staff and students in HE with an overview of electronic services.

• Web Focus: Report on the WWW 8 Conference

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

• Biz/Ed Bulletin

  Kate Sharp and Libby Miller describe Business and Economics Resources on the Internet.

• Metadata: Image Retrieval

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

• Exploring Planet SOSIG: Sociology

  In this edition, Stuart Macwilliam, the section editor for Sociology, gives an overview of the resources likely to be found in his section. This is preceded by news of some 'mutual mirroring' across the Atlantic, involving SOSIG and the Internet Scout Project.

• Internet Detective: BA Students Get on the Case

  Emma Worsfold and Debra Hiom introduce their "Internet Detective" online tutorial, and BA students from the final year Information Management BA at Queen Margaret College, Edinburgh, review the site.

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

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

• The Technical Advisory Service for Images (TASI)

  Karla Youngs describes what TASI is and the work that it is doing in building a common ‘Framework’ for digital imaging projects.

• Exploring Planet SOSIG: Law, Statistics and Demography

  Planet SOSIG: Exploring Planet SOSIG: Law, Statistics and Demography: Janette Cochrane, Sue Pettit and Wendy White. Planet SOSIG continues its review of the main SOSIG subject sections, highlighting the resources that the Internet can offer to those working in the different fields of the social sciences.

• Web Focus: Institutional Web Management

  Brian Kelly reports on the Netskills Institutional Web Management Workshop held in Newcastle.

• RDF Seminar

  Matthew Dovey reports on the RDF seminar held in the Stakis Hotel, Bath.

• Planet SOSIG: Regard

  Sue Timmis introduces REGARD, a new research database now available on the World Wide Web.

• Planet SOSIG: Politically Correct - Editing the Politics Section of SOSIG

  Heather Dawson from The British Library of Political and Economic Science talks about her role as a SOSIG Section Editor.

• Planet SOSIG: DESIRE Training for the Distributed Internet Cataloguing Model

  Lesly Huxley looks at the work of the project DESIRE: Training for the Distributed Internet Cataloguing Model.

• Elvira 4: May 1997, Milton Keynes

  Ian Bloor reports on the recently held Elvira (Electronic Library and Visual Information Research) event.

• MIDRIB: Beyond Clip Art for Medicine

  Betsy Anagnostelis and Sue Welsh describe the recent launch of the MIDRIB (Medical Images Digitised Reference Information Bank) project, and describe the medical image resource the project will create.

• Late Night News: The Electronic Telegraph

  A night in the life of the Electronic Telegraph. Emma Worsfold sits in on the editors' shift at ET.

• ILRT: The Institute for Learning and Research Technology

  Gillian Austen, External Relations Manager at the recently founded Institute for Learning and Research Technology at the University of Bristol, gives an overview of its structure and objectives.

• DESIRE: Development of a European Service for Information on Research and Education

  Klaas Wierenga, the director of DESIRE, describes this pan-European project in which the academic network services of the UK have a large stake.

• Wire: Interview with Jasper Tredgold

  Jasper Tredgold is put under the virtual spotlight to answer a few questions via email.

• MIDRIB

  Julian Cook describes a project that deals with the storage and access of medical images.

• ELVIRA

  Tessa Bruce from the ResIDe eLib project describes the recent high profile electronic libraries conference hosted by De Montfort University.

• 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.

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• Grant Young

• Greg Tourte

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• Kate Sharp

• Lesly Huxley

• Libby Miller

• Mike Jones author posts

• Nigel Goldsmith

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• Paul Ayres

• Paul Browning

• Phil Cross

• Robert Bristow

• Simon Price

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