Best practices, standards and techniques for digitizing library materials: a snapshot of library digitization practices in the USAYan Quan Liu
2004 Online Information Review
doi: 10.1108/14684520410564262
This study investigates current practice in digitizing library materials in the USA. Building a good digital collection has been a common task, pervasive in all types of libraries. Digitization becomes more and more crucial, affecting libraries while they work towards becoming digital. Researchers and practitioners would like to know what practices have been developed to deal with the challenges that pose the most significant problems or concerns for libraries in digitization. Through probing some widespread issues on what materials to digitize, and the associated standards and technologies in digitization in US libraries, this survey of current literature reveals a number of prominent library digitization practices, methods and challenges, and highlights the best practices, trends and interests in library digitization pertaining to both policy and technology marketplace issues.
Exploring the trust factor in e‐medicineAlan D. Smith; Dean R. Manna
2004 Online Information Review
doi: 10.1108/14684520410564271
The increasing presence of the Internet in the medicine market is making it necessary to examine the ethics and privacy issues related to dispensing medical advice and information on the Web. In order to successfully regulate e‐medicine practices, a comprehensive set of regulations must be established to supplement existing corporate attempts at self‐regulation. This paper details some of major factors that must be present to achieve acceptable levels of e‐privacy/e‐security at the B2C (business‐to‐customer) level and manage the confidentially and trust afforded to e‐clinicians. One of the most important issues among Web‐enabled medicine providers is how to secure trust and loyalty among customers. This can be accomplished by providing reliable and accurate information, while safeguarding an individual's private information from third‐party collaboration and loss of integrity. Various examples and a conceptual model using basic concepts of reliability theory and the resource‐based view of the firm were used to identify the factors necessary to achieve privacy and ethics in an e‐medicine environment.
E‐mail viruses: how organizations can protect their e‐mailsDong‐Her Shih; Hsiu‐Sen Chiang
2004 Online Information Review
doi: 10.1108/14684520410564280
An e‐mail virus is an e‐mail that can infect other programs by modifying them to include a replication of itself. When the infected e‐mails are opened, the e‐mail virus spreads itself to others. Today's society has seen a dramatic increase in the use of e‐mails. As a result, organizations must take even more precautions to guard against the introduction of e‐mail viruses into their systems. This paper discusses how organizations can protect their e‐mails from the intrusion of e‐mail virus and how to develop their own e‐mail virus security plan.
The development of the China Networked Digital Library of Theses and DissertationsYi Jin
2004 Online Information Review
doi: 10.1108/14684520410564299
The importance of electronic theses and dissertations and the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations has been widely realized by Chinese academic libraries in recent years. This paper introduces the China Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations project initiated by the China Academic Library and Information System and current research into related technologies, including metadata standards, OAI metadata harvesting protocol, standard document format and intellectual property protection. Research work on multilingual and cross‐lingual searching, personalization and knowledge organization is also described. The goals of the China Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations are to establish electronic theses and dissertations collections for Chinese academic universities, to provide services to access them efficiently, and to ensure the seamless organization of distributed electronic theses and dissertations collections.