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.
'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.
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