Digital library security

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Article which contrasts two technologies: secure connections and secure packages, which allow transactions to take place between content owners and users. Concludes that secure packages are more appropriate to digital library requirements.
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Managing access to online information is a broad problem, which occurs in a wide range of different applications. Managers of online information wish to implement policies about who can access the information, under what terms and conditions. This paper describes a general approach to this problem and experience in applying it in digital libraries.
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Article outlining a proposed model for the development of digital library research. Covers a number of themes such as accessibility, user support, requirements and behaviour, structural issues, navigation and search tools, metadata, information retrieval, interface design, functionality, security, and sustainability.
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Study undertaken to identify the real, business-led requirements for information security within UK HE, and to recommend solutions or approaches to address those requirements. The findings from the study confirmed the need for institutions to adopt a more substantial information security position and identified security issues covering both management and technical solutions.
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Provides recommendations on how JISC might act to improve the security of UK HE networking. Suggests seven necessary actions including, facilitating the development of a support infrastructure for local IT management, encouraging and supporting institutions in the development of network security strategies and defining a common framework for local access schemes.
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Examination of digital watermarking looking at applications and explaining different techniques including visible image watermarks, reversible visible watermarks, fragile image watermarks and robust image watermarks.
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Presents the findings of a consultation exercise to understand the nature and scope of the security requirements within UK higher education.
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Article discussing the use of intermediate software (middleware) to support distributed applications, using the provision of digital library services by universities as an example of a domain that poses many of the problems typical to this area.
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