...Shadrack Katuu Purpose This paper aims to widen as well as deepen the discussion on standards and good practice guidelines beyond just local or regional efforts and include international developments. Design/methodology/approach An extensive review of literature was used to develop an outline...

...Daniel Earl Wilson Purpose – This paper aims to evaluate the website content of Alabama academic libraries to examine their services, content and compliance with design and accessibility standards. Design/methodology/approach – A content analysis was conducted on 24 academic library...

... Publishing Limited 2014 Quality Resources Standards Metadata Repositories Heery and Anderson (2005) define digital repositories as digital collections in which the content is deposited and organized in a database, either by the content creator or some third party. Such a repository...

...Thomas Zschocke; Jan Beniest Purpose The paper seeks to introduce a process for assuring the creation of quality educational metadata based on the ISO/IEC 19796‐1 standard to describe the agricultural learning resources in the repository of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural...

... that actually exists. Design/methodology/approach The current RFID standards are examined in the context of privacy and their limitations are weighed. Findings The paper finds that current standards do not offer a platform for secure RFID systems and have several vulnerabilities that may permit privacy...

... of product/technical information. Findings The interviews revealed varying opinions on the current state of the industry and even on the definition of the e‐book industry itself. Key issues identified include: standards, digital rights management, content availability, pricing, device/reader technology...

... for physical library as library and archive will continue to exist if only because of the overwhelming size of the legacy “analog” collection. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Digital libraries Modelling Information management Standards Data handling The great visionary...

..., in the absence of proper standards, professionals tried to romanize documents as computers used to accept only binary digits of roman script to represent the English language. Later, the development of a new technology, ISCII, which is an extended form of the ASCII values from 126 to 255, helped library...

...Magda El‐Sherbini; George Klim Metadata standards existing today range from very complex to very simple. Relative simplicity or complexity of metadata standards depends in large part on the resources for which they were created and the depth of description that is deemed necessary to make...

... to demonstrate leadership in knowledge management, making information accessible, no matter what its format or geographic location. Steps in planning the project are laid out. International standards for cataloguing electronic resources were not finalised, so the team adopted the best available for their purpose...

...; and that adaptive features that can be implemented by client‐side computing are relevant for e‐books, while more complex forms of adaptation requiring server‐side computations are not. Then, enhancements of the WWW standards (specifically of XML, XHTML, of the style‐sheet languages CSS and XSL, and of the linking...

...) Research Information services Electronic publishing Standards The field of library research is a growing one but not a widely advertised one. It is frequently difficult to establish what research is being carried out beyond ones immediate vicinity. This publication is one attempt to extend...

... union catalogue approach exemplified by COPAC. A way of integrating these two models of the union catalogue is suggested, which would allow effective service provision in the immediate future. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Catalogues Internet Standards Databases Virtual OPACs versus union...