INTERNET AND DIGITAL ARCHIVE: PRACTICES, PECULIARITIES AND CHALLENGES

Digital Archive Policies and Trusted Digital Repositories

The MIT Libraries, the San Diego Supercomputer Center, and the University of California San Diego Libraries are conducting the PLEDGE Project to determine the set of policies that affect operational digital preservation archives and to develop standardized means of recording and enforcing them using rules engines. This has the potential to allow for automated assessment of “trustworthiness” of ...

Archive and Digital Asset Repository

Challenges and Peculiarities of Paediatric Imaging

Paediatric imaging therefore requires specific training and certification that gua rantees ap‐ plication of thorough knowledge, expertise and a variety of dedicated or adaptable equip‐ ment. This is hardly the case in many countries; where there may not be sub specialty training in paediatric imaging and practice may not have specific requirement except inter‐ est in children. Historically, the...

Internet marketing of neuroproducts: new practices and healthcare policy challenges.

Direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) of healthcare products refers to a variety of marketing practices based on a combination of information and promotion strategies directed at consumers through different media such as radio and television broadcasts, newspaper and magazine ads, and, more recently, through the Internet. The principal form of marketing used by the pharmaceutical industry is th...

File-Based Storage of Digital Objects and Constituent Datastreams: XMLtapes and Internet Archive ARC Files

This paper introduces the write-once/read-many XMLtape/ARC storage approach for Digital Objects and their constituent datastreams. The approach combines two interconnected file-based storage mechanisms that are made accessible in a protocol-based manner. First, XMLbased representations of multiple Digital Objects are concatenated into a single file named an XMLtape. An XMLtape is a valid XML fi...