Issue 50

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 50: Side-Stepping Babel

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne 50.

• A Dublin Core Application Profile for Scholarly Works

  Julie Allinson, Pete Johnston and Andy Powell describe a Dublin Core application profile for describing scholarly works that makes use of FRBR and the DCMI Abstract Model.

• Models of Early Adoption of ICT Innovations in Higher Education

  Melanie Bates, Sue Manuel and Charles Oppenheim provide an overview of some considerations for change agents attempting to introduce an innovative new information communication technology service into Higher Education institutions.

• 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.

• New Search Engines in 2006

  Phil Bradley takes a look at some of the search engines that he noticed in 2006 and provides quick assessments.

• ONIX for Licensing Terms: Standards for the Electronic Communication of Usage Terms

  Francis Cave, Brian Green and David Martin describe the purpose, development and potential of standards for the electronic communication of licensing terms between publishers, libraries and other licensees.

• Collecting Born Digital Archives at the Wellcome Library

  Chris Hilton and Dave Thompson discuss plans for work with born digital archival material at the Wellcome Library.

• Limits to Information Transfer: The Boundary Problem

  Jon E. Lervik, Mark Easterby-Smith, Kathryn Fahy and Carole Elliott discuss the challenges in integrating knowledge across boundaries between specialised knowledge communities within an organisation.

• 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'.

• Wikido: Exploiting the Potential of Wikis

  Marieke Guy reports on a one-day workshop, held in Birmingham in November 2006, which took a closer look at the potential of Wikis for educational institutions.

• JISC CETIS Conference, 2006

  Paul Walk reports on the third annual CETIS conference held in Salford, Manchester, over 14 -15 November 2006.

• 2nd International DCC Conference 2006: Digital Data Curation in Practice

  Alexander Ball and Manjula Patel provide an overview of the second annual conference of the Digital Curation Centre.

• Cultural Heritage Online: The Challenge of Accessibility and Preservation

  Alastair Dunning reports on a conference in Florence about the preservation and accessibility of cultural heritage material.

• Take a Peek Beneath the EPrints V3 Wrappers

  With v3 officially launched at the Open Repositories Conference in San Antonio last week, William Nixon and Peter Millington report on the EPrints 3 pre-launch briefing in London, 8 December 2006.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Book Review: Digital Libraries - Integrating Content and Systems

  Chris Awre finds a useful toolset to guide librarians and LIS students on the future use of IT to deliver their services.

• Book Review: Digital Preservation

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

• Book Review: Google Hacks

  Phil Bradley looks at a work offering programming 'know-how' to create resources that will do things with the search engine that might otherwise prove difficult or impossible.

• Book Review: Stephen Johnson on Digital Photography

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