| Digital library security and D Guide - Resources and Review
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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