David Dawson
Senior Policy Adviser (Digital Futures)
Museums, Libraries and Archives Council
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From: JISC Electronic Libraries Programme [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Richard Waller
Sent: 03 November 2006 14:35
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Subject: Re: Autumn Issue 2006 of Ariadne now available
With apologies for any cross-posting:
The Autumn Issue no.49 of Ariadne is now available: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/
Main Articles in Issue 49:
*Creative Commons Licences in Higher and Further Education:
Do We Care?
-Naomi Korn and Charles Oppenheim discuss the history and merits of using Creative Commons licences while questioning whether these licences are indeed a panacea.
*From Nought to a Thousand: The HUSCAP Project
-SUZUKI Masako and SUGITA Shigeki describe Hokkaido University's efforts to populate its institutional repository with journal articles.
*Considering a Marketing and Communications Approach for an Institutional Repository -Heleen Gierveld proposes a market-oriented approach to increase the rate of deposit to an institutional repository.
*e-Books for the Future: Here but Hiding?
-Brian Whalley outlines some developments in e-book technologies and links them to existing ways of presenting textbook information.
*GROW: Building a High-quality Civil Engineering Learning Object Repository and Portal -Yan Han provides a general overview of the Geotechnical, Rock and Water Digital Library (GROW), a learning object repository and peer-reviewed civil engineering Web portal.
*Wiki or Won't He? A Tale of Public Sector Wikis
-Marieke Guy revisits a topic receiving considerable attention these days and reflects on wiki use by public organisations.
*Video Streaming of Events
-Greg Tourte and Emma Tonkin describe the set-up and use of video streaming technology at the IWMW 2006 event.
*RDA: A New International Standard
-Ann Chapman describes work on the new cataloguing code, Resource Description and Access (RDA), based on the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR).
*Search Engines: Is Google Building on Shaky Foundations?
-Phil Bradley takes an in-depth look at Google and its competition and wonders if things are looking slightly worrying for the search giant.
Workshop and Conference Reports: At the Event:
*DC 2006: Metadata for Knowledge and Learning
-Julie Allinson, Rachel Heery, Pete Johnston and Rosemary Russell report on DC 2006, the sixth international conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, held 3 - 6 October 2006.
*e-Collaboration Workshop: Access Grid, Portals and other VREs for the Social Sciences -Rob Allan, Rob Crouchley and Michael Daw cover a one-day workshop reporting on the latest developments in e-Collaboration technology and applications.
*Immaculate Catalogues, Indexes and Monsters Too..
-David E. Bennett reports on the three day residential CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group Annual Conference, University of East Anglia, during September 2006.
*Workshop on e-Research, Digital Repositories and Portals
-Rob Allan, Rob Crouchley and Caroline Ingram report on a two-day workshop held at University of Lancaster over 6-7 September 2006.
Ariadne Reviews:
*Essential Law for Information Professionals
-Stuart Hannabuss picks another winner but wonders whether legal essentialism is enough for information professionals.
*Ambient Findability
-Emma Tonkin reviews a book with interesting content despite a few rough edges.
*Teach Beyond Your Reach
-Lina Coelho looks at this Instructor's guide to developing and running successful distance learning classes, workshops, training sessions and more.
- plus the Ariadne newsline of events and news items.
Note that since issue 47 the content of the current issue is also available as an RSS feed.
Contributions to Ariadne issue 50 are being arranged and prepared; please send proposals for articles to me at our regular contact point:
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Kindly send books for review to the Editor's address (below). Best regards,
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Richard Waller
Editor Ariadne
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