Organisation - University of Leeds

• 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.

• Developing Adaptable, Efficient Mobile Library Services: Librarians as Enablers

  Lizzie Caperon describes how library resources can be targeted towards effective mobile services as mobile devices become increasingly prevalent in Higher Education.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 73

  The Editor introduces Issue 73 and provides an update on the future of Ariadne.

• ECLAP 2013: Information Technologies for Performing Arts, Media Access and Entertainment

  Marieke Guy reports on the second international conference held by ECLAP, the e-library for performing arts.

• 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.

• CIG Conference 2010: Changes in Cataloguing in 'Interesting Times'

  Rhiannon McLoughlin reports on a three-day conference on cataloguing in a time of financial stringency, held by the CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group at Exeter University, from 13-15 September 2010.

• How to Publish Data Using Overlay Journals: The OJIMS Project

  Sarah Callaghan, Sam Pepler, Fiona Hewer, Paul Hardaker and Alan Gadian describe the implementation details that can be used to create overlay journals for data publishing in the meteorological sciences.

• Overlay Journals and Data Publishing in the Meteorological Sciences

  Sarah Callaghan, Fiona Hewer, Sam Pepler, Paul Hardaker and Alan Gadian introduce the OJIMS Project and discuss the impact of overlay and data journals in the meteorological sciences.

• The Librarians' Information Literacy Annual Conference (LILAC) 2009

  Rosie Jones reports on a three-day conference about Information Literacy held by CILIP CSG Information Literacy Group at Cardiff University over 30 March - 1 April 2009.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Versioning in Repositories: Implementing Best Practice

  Jenny Brace explains why giving time to versioning within a repository is worthwhile and outlines the best practice to implement.

• 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.

• KIM Project Conference 2008

  Alexander Ball provides an overview of the Knowledge and Information Management Through Life Project Conference held in April, 2008.

• VIF: Version Identification Workshop

  Sarah Molloy reports on a half-day workshop on the use of the Version Identification Framework, held in Hatton Garden, London on 22 April 2008.

• E-Publication and Open Access in the Arts and Humanities in the UK

  Malcolm Heath, Michael Jubb and David Robey review recent UK discussions and evidence about e-publishing and open access, their impact and implications for researchers in the arts and humanities.

• 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.

• Version Identification: A Growing Problem

  Dave Puplett outlines the issues associated with versions in institutional repositories, and discusses the solutions being developed by the Version Identification Framework (VIF) Project.

• 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.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 51: Democratising Cultural Heritage

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne 51.

• KIM Project Conference: Knowledge and Information Management through Life

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

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Workshop on E-Research, Digital Repositories and Portals

  Rob Allan, Rob Crouchley and Caroline Ingram report on a two-day workshop held at University of Lancaster over 6-7 September 2006

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• The Institutional Web Management Workshop 2004

  Tracey Stanley reports on the 8th Institutional Web Management Workshop at the University of Birmingham over 27-29 July. The theme of this year's workshop was Transforming the Organisation.

• 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.

• The Portole Project: Supporting E-learning

  Tracey Stanley, Mina Sotiriou and Matthew Dovey provide an overview of a project to produce tools to discover information resources and deploy them within a university VLE.

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• My Humbul: Humbul Gets Personal

  Randy Metcalfe describes new functionality available for users of the Humbul Humanities Hub.

• Developing an Agenda for Institutional E-Print Archives

  Philip Hunter, John MacColl and Marieke Napier report on a one day Open Archives conference on OAI compliant metadata and e-print issues. Held at the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, London. 11 July 2001.

• Migration: A Camileon Discussion Paper

  Paul Wheatley explores migration issues for the long-term preservation of digital materials.

• Planet SOSIG: Internet Training for the Social Sciences

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

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

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

• RDN: Resource Discovery Network

  Alistair Dunning reviews the launch of the RDN (Resource Discovery Network)

• Web Watch: A Survey of Institutional Web Gateways

  Brian Kelly surveys institutional web gateways.

• WebWatch: UK University Search Engines

  Brian Kelly explores the search facilities used by UK university Web sites.

• Practical Clumping: Mick Ridley on the BOPAC System

  Mick Ridley discusses the BOPAC system.

• 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.

• Knowledge Management

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

• Web Focus: The Role of the Web Editor

  Brian Kelly asks, does 'web editor' mean Unix guru or an HTML coder?

• Search Engines

  Tracey Stanley writes about "Ask Jeeves", a search engine which processes natural language enquiries.

• Information Landscapes

  Rosemary Russell, Sally Criddle and Sarah Ormes report on the UKOLN conference held in June 1998.

• Search Engines Corner

  Tracey Stanley reviews 'Northern Light', which offers features not available elsewhere.

• Search Engines Corner: Meta-search Engines

  Tracey Stanley discusses the next level up from conventional search engines in the 'information food chain', which provide a sophisticated approach to searching across a number of databases.

• Search Engines Corner: Moving Up the Ranks

  Tracey Stanley looks at how search engines rank their results.

• Search Engines Corner: Finding UK and European Resources on the Web

  Tracey Stanley looks at how to keep your search results coming from within particular geographic areas and thus save on bandwidth.

• Education-Line

  Sam Saunders reports on a pre-print project for education professionals.

• Search Engines Corner: Keyword Spamming - Cheat Your Way to the Top

  Tracey Stanley shows how metadata can be abused to enhance the search engine ranking of Web pages.

• Web Focus: Technical Aspects of Copyright and the Web

  Brian Kelly reports on the TALiSMAN seminar: Copyright and the Web.

• Elvira 4: May 1997, Milton Keynes

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

• Search Engines Corner: Alta Vista LiveTopics

  Tracey Stanley looks at Live Topics, a more flexible and user-controlled way of searching the Alta Vista Web Page index.

• COPAC: The New Nationally Accessible Union Catalogue

  Shirley Cousins introduces COPAC and discusses some of the issues involved in the ongoing development of a consolidated union OPAC.

• From MERCI to DESIRE: European Digital Library Projects

  Dave Hartland writes the Netskills Corner column for this edition. In it, he provides a brief overview of some of the EU-funded Telematics for Research projects.

• Introducing Web Focus

  UK Web Focus - a strange job title. What is it? What does it do? In this article Brian Kelly describes his role as UK Web Focus, his previous involvement with the Web and his work as the JISC representative on the World Wide Web Consortium.

• Search Engine Corner

  Tracey Stanley looks at 'Push', where a network-based service 'pushes' information to your machine, rather than you 'pulling' information from the service.

• Intelligent Searching Agents on the Web

  Tracey Stanley describes Web-based Intelligent Searching Agents, and takes a closer look at a few examples you may wish to play with.

• Displaying SGML Documents on the World Wide Web

  David Houghton discusses a method by which documents marked up using Standard Generalised Markup Language (SGML) can be used to generate a database for use in conjunction with the World Wide Web.

• British Academy Symposium: Information Technology and Scholarly Disciplines

  Seamus Ross provides the programme for a symposium which seeks to explore how information technology has affected research in the humanities and social sciences.

• Centre for Database Access Research (CEDAR): The Huddersfield Connection

  Steve Pollitt describes the history and research behind CEDAR, the Centre for Database Access Research, which specialises in work on the design of interfaces for information retrieval systems.

• Charging Ahead?

  Ruth Jenkins summarises Richard Lucier's Follett Lecture Series talk on charging in HE Libraries.

• ILEJ: Internet Library of Early Journals

  Hugh Wellesley-Smith turns back the clock with a description of the Internet Library for early journals digitisation project.

• JUGL

  Emma Wright put on her woolies and went to Preston to report on the annual JUGL (JANET User Group for Libraries) conference.

• Wire: Brian Kelly

  Brian Kelly is put under the virtual spotlight to answer a few questions via email on his past, present, and thoughts on matters networking.

• CURL OPAC launch

  Andrew Cooper describes the CURL OPAC launch in Manchester.

• Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib) Update

  Recently, a wave of new projects under the umbrella of the Electronic Libraries Programme was announced. A consequence of this is that a large majority of the HE institutions in the UK are involved in at least one eLib project (is yours?), as well as many non HE organisations and institutions. Here, we give brief details of some of these new projects.

• Netskills eLib Project Launch

  John Kirriemuir on the Netskills eLib project launch.

• Alan Gadian

• Lizzie Caperon

• Malcolm Heath