• Is academic ready for web 2.0:?

    As part of its development, the Pre-Raphaelite Resource digitisation project recently commissioned an audience research study to consult users about whether the inclusion of Web 2.0 features on a resource of this type would be useful or important to the education community. The report indicated that: “there is some readiness among the education community for…

  • Metadata in a nutshell

    Metadata is sometimes defined literally as ‘data about data,’ but the term is normally understood to mean structured data about resources that can be used to help support a wide range of operations. These might include, for example, resource description and discovery, the management of information resources and their long-term preservation (link).

  • Workshop at eResearch Australasia: e-Research in the Arts, Humanities and Cultural Heritage

    Friday 3rd October, 2008 The workshop aims to stimulate discussions between the UK and Australasian arts, humanities and cultural heritage communities about the use of e-Research infrastructures, services, technologies and methodologies. To this end, it is soliciting contributions (both presentations and papers) on topics relevant to e-Research in an arts, humanities and cultural heritage context.…

  • Adding value to data – Digital Repositories in the e-Science world

    Special Session at the 4th IEEE International Conference on e-Science (http://escience2008.iu.edu/) December 7-12, 2008, Indianapolis, USA An Initiative of DReSNet: Digital Repositories in e-Science Network (http://www.dresnet.net <http://www.dresnet.net/>) There is a great, untapped potential for synergies between grid/e-science technologies and a cluster of related systems addressing the management of digital assets in digital libraries and repositories.…

  • Digital copyright: it’s all wrong

    A draft treaty proposes draconian measures to protect copyright. THE forces of reaction are fighting back. As they often do, they are carrying out their planning in secret, in the knowledge that if more people knew of their activities they would not be allowed to get away with it (link)

  • Project Bamboo

    Bamboo is a multi-institutional, interdisciplinary, and inter-organizational effort that brings together researchers in arts and humanities, computer scientists, information scientists, librarians, and campus information technologists to tackle the question: How can we advance arts and humanities research through the development of shared technology services? (link)