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, ...

The amount of information potentially available for the biomedical researcher has grown exponentially in recent years. Most of this information is available on-line, but efficient and exhaustive use of it is rendered ...

The University of the Free State library like all the university libraries have been reinventing itself to meet the needs of the faculties and students. It has to respond to new educational models, changing modes of teaching, ...

One of the objectives of the project is to explore the possibility of using XML as a format for long-term preservation. For this reason, we evaluated the practical use of XML in different parts of the system before deciding ...

As service requirements of applications grow continuously, the term Quality of Service (QoS), denoting the performance provided by a network, more and more comes into the focus of interest. There are several approaches ...

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 ...

JISC, the Joint Information Systems Committee, established a User Behaviour Monitoring and Evaluation Framework to investigate and profile the use of electronic information services within higher education in the United ...

It made sense for Caltech, the California Institute of Technology (a private, technically focused, U.S. university, http://www.caltech.edu), to go electronic when it comes to theses. It took three years: From March 1999 ...