Issue 57 (Autumn 2008) of Ariadne Web Magazine available
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Issue 57 of Ariadne Web Magazine http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/
contains the following articles:
Main Articles:
*Get Tooled Up: SeeAlso: A Simple Linkserver Protocol
- Jakob Voss combines OpenSearch and unAPI to enrich catalogues.
*Implementing e-Legal Deposit: A British Library Perspective
- Ronald Milne and John Tuck summarise progress towards implementation
of the Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003 which extended provision to
non-print materials. Particular reference is made to the British Library.
*Europeana: An Infrastructure for Adding Local Content
- Rob Davies describes a Best Practice Network under the eContentPlus
Programme to make available locally sourced digital content to the
Europeana Service.
*OAI-ORE, PRESERV2 and Digital Preservation
- Sally Rumsey and Ben O'Steen describe OAI-ORE and how it can
contribute to digital preservation activities.
*A Bug's Life?: How Metaphors from Ecology Can Articulate the Messy
Details of Repository Interactions
- R. John Robertson, Mahendra Mahey and Phil Barker introduce work
investigating an alternative model of repository and service interaction.
*Copyright Angst, Lust for Prestige and Cost Control: What
Institutions Can Do to Ease Open Access
- Leo Waaijers writes about copyright, prestige and cost control in
the world of open access while in two appendices Bas Savenije and
Michel Wesseling compare the costs of open access publishing and
subscriptions/licences for their respective institutions.
*Get Tooled Up: Staying Connected: Technologies Supporting Remote Workers
- Having considered organisational issues in her previous article,
Marieke Guy takes a look at the many technologies that support remote
working, from broadband to Web 2.0 social networking tools.
*A Selection of Social Media Search Engines
- Phil Bradley takes a look at how social media output is being indexed,
sorted and made available for searching by looking at some
representative samples.
*'What Happens If I Click on This?': Experiences of the Archives Hub
- Jane Stevenson describes the results of usability testing for the
Archives Hub Web site.
At the Event reports:
*iPRES 2008
- Frances Boyle and Adam Farquhar report on the two-day international
conference which was the fifth in the series on digital preservation of
digital objects held at the British Library, in September 2008.
*Embedding Web Preservation Strategies Within Your Institution
- Christopher Eddie reports on the third one-day workshop of the
JISC-PoWR (Preservation of Web Resources) Project held at the University
of Manchester in September 2008.
*CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group Annual Conference
- Christina Claridge reports on the conference, held 3-5 September 2008,
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland.
*Digital Preservation Planning: Principles, Examples and the Future
with Planets
- Frances Boyle and Jane Humphreys report on the one-day workshop on
digital preservation planning jointly organised by the Digital
Preservation Coalition (DPC) and Planets held at the British Library, in
July 2008.
*eResearch Australasia 2008
- Tobias Blanke, Ann Borda, Gaby Bright and Bridget Soulsby report on
the annual eResearch Australasia Conference, held in Melbourne,
Australia, 29 September - 3 October, 2008.
News and Reviews:
*Newsline: News and events
*Website Optimization
- Pete Cliff used to think 'Website Optimisation' simply
meant compressing images and avoiding nested tables, but
in this he book finds out how much more there is to it,
even in the Age of Broadband.
*Managing the Crowd: Rethinking records management for the Web 2.0 world
- Marieke Guy reviews a text that could offer the blueprint for moving
records management into the 21st century.
*Patent Failure: How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk
- Stuart Hannabuss reviews a work which debunks some key assumptions
about IPR and contends that current patent arrangements are ineffective.
*Pro Web 2.0 Mashups: Remixing Data and Web Services
- Ralph LeVan looks at a comprehensive work on how to consume and
repurpose Web services.
*Against the Machine: Being Human in the Era of the Electronic Mob
- Mahendra Mahey reviews a book which examines popular Internet culture
and how it may be having negative effects on many of us.
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