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Issue 62 of Ariadne available
In this issue the main articles are as follows:
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue62/#main-articles
*Towards a Toolkit for Implementing Application Profiles
- Talat Chaudhri, Julian Cheal, Richard Jones, Mahendra Mahey and
Emma Tonkin propose a user-driven methodology for the iterative
development, testing and implementation of Dublin Core Application
Profiles in diverse repository software environments.
*Moving Targets: Web Preservation and Reference Management
- Richard Davis discusses the role of Web preservation in reference
management. in an article based on a presentation given at the
Innovations in Reference Management workshop, January 2010.
*'An attack on professionalism and scholarship'?: Democratising
Archives and the Production of Knowledge
- Andrew Flinn describes some recent developments in democratising
the archive and asks whether these developments really deserve to
be viewed as a threat to professional and academic standards.
*Get Tooled Up: Xerxes at Royal Holloway, University of London
- Anna Grigson, Peter Kiely, Graham Seaman and Tim Wales describe
the implementation of an open source front end to the MetaLib
federated search tool.
*Uncovering User Perceptions of Research Activity Data
- Cecilia Loureiro-Koechlin discusses the outcomes and lessons
learned from user tests performed on the Oxford Blue Pages, a tool
designed to display information about researchers and their
activities at the University of Oxford.
*A Research Revolution: The Impact of Digital Technologies
- Dicky Maidment-Otlet and Judy Redfearn describe a new JISC
activity to highlight how digital technologies are changing research.
*Abstract Modelling of Digital Identifiers
- Nick Nicholas, Nigel Ward and Kerry Blinco present an information
model of digital identifiers, to help bring clarity to the vocabulary
debates from which this field has suffered.
*eBooks: Tipping or Vanishing Point?
- Emma Tonkin investigates ebooks and takes a look at recent
technological and business developments in this area.
* Intranet Management: Divine Comedy or Strategic Imperative?
- Martin White suggests that a failure to recognise the value of
intranets is a symptom of a failure to recognise information as a
strategic asset.
At the Event reports:
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue62/#at-the-event
*Fedora UK & Ireland / EU Joint User Group Meeting
- Chris Awre reports on the first coming together of two regional
user groups for the Fedora digital repository system, hosted by the
University of Oxford in December 2009.
*The Future of Interoperability and Standards in Education:
A JISC CETIS Event
- Sarah Currier reports on an international working meeting
involving a range of educational interoperability standards bodies
and communities,
organised by JISC CETIS.
*The Digital Preservation Roadshow 2009-10: The Incomplete Diaries of
Optimistic Travellers
- William Kilbride and Malcolm Todd report on the Digital Preservation
Roadshow - an eleven-month tour of the UK and Ireland designed to provide
archivists and record managers with practical advice and support in
managing digital resources.
*Subject Repositories: European Collaboration in the
International Context
- Dave Puplett reports on the conference Subject Repositories: European
Collaboration in the International Context held at the British Library
in January 2010. The conference launched Economists Online (EO), an
innovative economics subject repository.
News and Reviews
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue62/#news
*Newsline: News and events
*Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age
- Pete Cliff hopes he'll not forget this marvellous book, even
when the author seems to suggest it might be better if he did!
*Copyright: Interpreting the law for libraries, archives and
information services
- Charles Oppenheim sees much to like in the new edition of
this work by a well-known authority but identifies one
potentially major drawback.
*My Word! Plagiarism and College Culture
- Brian Whalley reviews a look at this problem from an American
anthropologist and finds there is more in it than just a
consideration of plagiarism.
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