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Ariadne Issue 55 is now available with articles on a wide range of topics including an application profile for images, an overview of current initiatives in standards for educational metadata, an Australian perspective on eResearch together with an article on developments in institutional repositories in South Africa. John MacColl considers the 'co-operative imperative' upon research libraries while Pete Williams, Katrina Dean, Ian Rowlands and Jeremy Leighton John provide insights into digital behaviours and developments in personal digital collections. There is also a description of current work in Intute's Integration Project; and how custom-built search engines can enhance the relevance of search results. Nick Lewis outlines the University of East Anglia’s experience of implementing a new search...
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Three vacancies have arisen at UKOLN: Research & Development Team Leader, Research Officer (Metadata Advocacy) and Systems Developer (Repositories Integration). Details can be found on UKOLN's vacancies page. The closing date for all three applications has been extended to 16 May 2008.
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Colin Neilson of UKOLN gave a presentation entitled "The DCC SCARP Project: Digital working and disciplinary factors in the definition of context and significance" at the recent JISC/BL/DPC workshop called "What to Preserve? Significant Properties of Digital Objects", held at the British Library Conference Centre. Slides from the presentation are now available.
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Pete Cliff of UKOLN gave a presentation entitled "FRBR and Metadata Application Profiles" at the recent VIF Version Identification Workshop at the Hatton, London. Slides from this presentation are now available.
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Ann Chapman of UKOLN gave a presentation entitled "RDA: cataloguing for the twenty-first century" at the recent Library Association of Ireland and CILIP Ireland Joint Annual Conference 2008, entitled "Future-proofing the Past". Slides from the presentation are now available.
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The call for papers for the 4th International Digital Curation Conference is now available. The conference will be held 1-3 December 2008 at the Grosvenor Hilton in Edinburgh.
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Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN, gave a presentation entitled "Virtual Research Environments: Into the Future" at the recent JISC Conference 2008: Enabling innovation. Slides from her presentation are now available.
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