This article describes an example of modern identification technology implemented at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen (UWB) and its role in the university environment. Many information and communication technology ...

European universities are submitted to a high pressure coming from the political deciders as well as from the public opinion to develop rapidly the use of the new technologies of information (NTIC) in their curriculum. ...

The UNESCO guide on electronic theses and dissertations aims to develop standards and best practices for the creation/enhancement of Electronic theses and dissertations (ETD) projects all over the world, but particularly ...

The mathematical community has started the Math-Net initiative, an activity building up a distributed, efficient and user-driven information and communication system for mathematics. Math-Net is intended to organize and ...

OZ is a distance learning environment for lectures, seminaries, and exercises in computer science at Humboldt-University, where OZ means distributed in space (ortsverteilt) and independent of time (zeitversetzt). The ...

This paper presents the French universities national data warehouse project, which was begun in 1999. The Source databases are the administrative systems, and the target data base, or, data warehouse, is designed to be the ...

The pedagogical practice in universities is changing faster than is often perceived by the Faculty as a whole, due to the high level of autonomy individual professors enjoy. The paper discusses to what extent the existence ...

The use and availability of scientific literature information have increased significantly with the increased availability of the Internet. Many researchers, however, findit difficult to keep track of what is available and ...

With today s widespread availability of networked multimedia potentials embedded in an infrastructure of qualitative superior kind the distribution of professionally styled multimedia streams has fallen in the realm of ...

The FEIDHE project aims at specifying what it will take to implement a public key infrastructure (PKI) based identification system with smart cards in Finnish higher education. Main drivers of the project are data security, ...