Beyond digitization: access and preservation

Conservation, Preservation, and Digitization

Considerable attention has been focused recently on the problems of conservation and preservation of library materials. Particularly daunting are the scale of the problems and the enormous ongoing investment that will be required to address them. Currently proposed approaches include extensive microfilming of material, deacidification, and other repair measures. It is proposed that digital tech...

Educating future digitizers: The Illinois Digitization Institute's Basics and Beyond digitization training program

Este artículo proporciona una descripción detallada del programa de formación desarrollado por el Illinois Digitization Institute denominado Basics and Beyond. La idea de este programa es ofrecer a las instituciones que conservan materiales del patrimonio cultural, la posibilidad de acceder a diferentes modalidades de formación en digitalización de diversos precios y horas lectivas. La primera ...

Beyond Access

Electronic health records: beyond the digitization of medical files

In medicine, the first information technology wave to hit the art and science of healing was the digitization of medical files, now known as electronic health records (EHRs). The data contained in EHRs in combination with other sources have the potential to transform medical practice by leveraging data, technologies, and healthcare delivery to improve the overall efficiency and quality of care ...

Beyond Cryptographic Conditional Access

Conditional access (CA) systems manage chargeable content (e.g., movies). Traditional CA systems use a smartcard as a cryptographic component that decrypts broadcast content for authorized recipients. Since that approach protects content by protecting cryptographic keys, it has two inherent weaknesses: It relies on the smartcard to protect universal secrets (i.e., the broadcast keys); and it ca...