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Issue 53 of Ariadne Web Magazine http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/
contains the following articles:
   Main Articles:

*The National Centre for Text Mining: A Vision for the Future
-Sophia Ananiadou describes NaCTeM and the main scientific challenges
it helps to solve together with issues related to deployment, use and
uptake of NaCTeM's text mining tools and services.

*The Video Active Consortium: Europe's Television History Online
-Johan Ooman and Vassilis Tzouvaras provide an insight into the
background and development of the Video Active Portal which offers 
access to television heritage material from leading archives across Europe.

*DRIVER: Building the Network for Accessing Digital Repositories across
Europe
-Martin Feijen, Wolfram Horstmann, Paolo Manghi, Mary Robinson and
Rosemary Russell present an outline of the DRIVER Project and its
achievements so far in supporting and enhancing digital repository
development in Europe.

*The DARE Chronicle: Open Access to Research Results and Teaching 
Material in the Netherlands
-Leo Waaijers reflects on four years of progress and also looks ahead.

*Further Experiences in Collecting Born Digital Archives at the Wellcome
Library
-Chris Hilton and Dave Thompson continue discussing plans for the
engagement with born digital archival material at the Wellcome Library.

*Googlepository and the University Library
-Sue Manuel and Charles Oppenheim discuss the concept of Google as a
repository within the wider context of resource management and provision
in Further and Higher Education.

*The Second Life of UK Academics
-John Kirriemuir introduces a series of studies investigating how the
Second Life environment is being used in UK Higher and Further Education.

At the Event reports:

*DC 2007
-Ann Apps reports on DC2007, the International Conference on Dublin
Core and Metadata Applications, held 27-31 August 2007 in Singapore.

*Knowledge by Networking: Digitising Culture in Germany and Europe
-Alastair Dunning reports on an international conference exploring the
current state of digitisation in the worlds of culture and scholarship,
held in Berlin over 21-22 June 2007.

*Progress towards Addressing Digital Preservation Challenges
-Helen Hockx-Yu reports on the 2nd Planets, CASPAR and DPE annual
conference, held on 5-6 September 2007 in Lisbon, Portugal.

*ECDL 2007
-Mahendra Mahey, Emma Tonkin and Robert John Robertson report on the
2007 European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital
Libraries, held in Budapest, Hungary, over 16-22 September, 2007.

*The KIDMM Community's 'MetaKnowledge Mash-up'
-Conrad Taylor reports on the KIDMM knowledge community and its
September 2007 one-day conference about data, information and knowledge
management issues.

News and Reviews:

*The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland
-Lorcan Dempsey reviews Volume III of a landmark collection on the
history of libraries in 'Britain and Ireland' from 1850 to 2000.

*Principles of Data Management: Facilitating Information Sharing
-Pete Cliff takes a look at a new book from the British Computer
Society that aims to help readers understand the importance, issues and
benefits of data management across an enterprise.

*Listen Up!: Podcasting for Schools and Libraries
-Elizabeth McHugh looks at how podcasting has the potential to take
library services and activities to new audiences.

*The Cult of the Amateur
-Stephanie Taylor tries to curb her enthusiasm for Web 2.0 by
investigating the dark side of social networking.

*Mastering Regular Expressions, 3rd Edition
-Emma Tonkin and Greg Tourte take a look at the new edition of an
O'Reilly classic.

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