Ariadne Issue 47 (April 2006) now available 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 Contributions to Ariadne issue 48 are being arranged and prepared; please send proposals for articles to me at our regular contact point: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kindly send books for review to the Editor's address (below). Best regards, Richard Waller Editor Ariadne UKOLN The Library University of Bath Bath BA2 7AY UK tel +44 (0) 1225 383570 fax +44 (0) 1225 386838 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/ _______________________________________________ Bib_virtual mailing list [email protected] https://listas.ibict.br/mailman/listinfo/bib_virtual
