Apologies for cross-posting: Issue 53 of Ariadne Web Magazine http://www.ariadne.ac.uk contains the following articles:
Main Articles: 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. 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. 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. 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. Plus News and Events from the Ariadne Newsline Contributions to Ariadne issue 54 are being arranged and prepared; please send proposals for articles to me at our regular contact point: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kindly send books and ideas for review to the Editor's address (below). Please note that an RSS feed for Ariadne is available. See http://www.ariadne.ac.uk 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 web http://www.ukoln.ac.uk web http://www.ariadne.ac.uk _______________________________________________ Bib_virtual mailing list [email protected] https://listas.ibict.br/mailman/listinfo/bib_virtual
