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The Autumn Issue (57) of Ariadne Web Magazine is now available with a wide range of articles on topics of interest to information professionals in archives, libraries and museums in all sectors. In this issue there is discussion of the tensions between copyright, the quest for prestige and cost control in open access publishing together with coverage of Europeana, a Best Practice Network under the eContentPlus Programme. We also offer the second part of Marieke Guy”s discussion of remote working in which she addresses the technologies that support it. Ariadne also provides articles on Implementing e-Legal Deposit from a British Library Perspective, How Metaphors from Ecology Can Articulate the Messy Details of Repository Interactions, A Selection of Social Media Search Engines, how Jakob Voss combines OpenSearch and unAPI to enrich catalogues through SeeAlso, A Simple Linkserver Protocol and a description of OAI-ORE and how it can contribute to digital preservation activities. Designers and developers will be interested to read Jane Stevenson”s coverage of the results of usability testing for the Archives Hub Web site. And more besides.

This workshop, jointly supported by OGF-Europe and DReSNeT, aims to address the specific requirements for digital repository curation service environments. It will take place in Edinburgh on 1 December prior to the 4th International Digital Curation Conference. As repositories become
part and parcel of e-Science environments in all disciplines, individual repositories are converging both technologically and organisationally into federations of multiple repositories, often offering external services for tasks such as print-on-demand and preservation as well as out-sourcing storage. This RECURSE workshop will focus on highlighting application
environments where both e-Science and repositories have much to gain,
coupled with the benefits of open standards. Principal discussion points
will include: benefits of digital curation for e-Science and user
requirements; interoperability of technologies; workflow integration;
views of long-term digital curation; benefits to user communities of the
adoption of distributed computing.

As part of its Capital Funding Programme, the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)has supported additional research to create a rich information environment within the learning and research communities. The Terminology Registry Scoping Study analyzed issues related to the potential delivery of a terminology registry as a shared infrastructure service within the UK”s further and Higher Education information environment (IE). The project has now ended and the dissemination documents, which include a conference poster and an ECDL NKOS presentation, as well as an excerpt on metadata are now online and available for comment; the final report is available on request.

Version 1.0 of the PoWR Handbook is now available. The Handbook is the main deliverable of the JISC Preservation of Web Resources project and offers valuable advice for those embarking on a Web resource preservation strategy or interested in issues related to improving long-term access to Web resources. The handbook includes case studies, scenarios and a glossary. It is available in PDF and from Web 2.0 services issuu and Scribd.

Editor of CILIP Update, Elspeth Hyams spoke with UKOLN Research Officer Peter Cliff to find out his opinions of developments and challenges faced by Institutional Repositories and has reported on them in the JISC supplement to the latest edition of CILIP update.