With apologies for any cross-posting:
The Spring Issue of Ariadne was published 30 April 2006:
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue47/
Main Articles:
*Search Engines: Where We Were, Are Now, and Will Ever Be
- Phil Bradley takes a look at the development of search engines over the
lifetime of Ariadne and points to what we might anticipate in the years
to come.
* Digitising an Archive: The Factory Approach
- Duncan Burbidge describes a new approach to digitising an archive both
as a
future-proof substitute and for Web delivery.
* 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.
* 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.
* QMSearch: A Quality Metrics-aware Search Framework
- Aaron Krowne and Urvashi Gadi present a framework which improves
searching
in the context of scholarly digital libraries by taking a quality
metrics-aware approach.
* Metasearch: Building a Shared, Metadata-driven Knowledge Base System
- Terry Reese discusses the creation of a shared knowledge base system
within OSU's open-source metasearch development.
* Stargate: Exploring Static Repositories for Small Publishers
- R. John Robertson introduces a project examining the potential
benefits of
OAI-PMH Static Repositories as a means of enabling small publishers to
participate
more fully in the information environment.
* Folksonomies: The Fall and Rise of Plain-text Tagging
- Emma Tonkin suggests that rising new ideas are often on their second
circuit -
and none the worse for that.
* Serving Services in Web 2.0
- Theo van Veen shows with the help of an example, how standardised
descriptions
of services can help users control the integration of services from
different providers.
Workshop and Conference Reports: At the Event:
* The Rustle of Digital Curation: The JISC Annual Conference
- Julie Allinson, Marieke Guy and Maureen Pennock find themselves
contemplating e-frameworks, digital curation and repositories at the
JISC Annual Conference.
* 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.
* Digital Policy Management Workshop
- Neil Beagrie and Mark Bide report on a one-day invitational workshop on
Digital Policy Management sponsored by The British Library, JISC and UKOLN.
* 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.
* The Digital Library and its Services
Neil Beagrie and Rachel Bruce report on a two-day invitational
conference on The
Digital Library and its Services sponsored by The British Library, JISC
and UKOLN.
Ariadne Reviews
* The Institutional Repository
- Sally Rumsey recommends a new book about institutional repositories.
* Understanding and Communicating Social Informatics
- Sheila Corrall reviews a new landmark book which explains and promotes a
distinctive approach to information-related research spanning
traditional disciplinary
and professional boundaries.
* The Virtual Reference Desk: Creating a Reference Future
- Lina Coelho feels that digital reference has come of age and that this
work is one
of its adornments where reference information professionals are concerned.
*The Successful Academic Librarian: Winning Strategies from Library Leaders
- Stephen Town finds this US multi-author work may not meet the needs of
readers
in the UK, and offers some ideas which a UK version might incorporate.
- plus the Ariadne newsline of events and news items
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