The Technological Challenges of Digital Reference

The challenges of technological innovation in HIV.

The current state of digital reference: validation of a general digital reference model through a survey of digital reference services

This paper describes a study conducted to determine the paths digital reference services take through a general process model of asynchronous digital reference. A survey based on the general process model was conducted; each decision point in this model provided the basis for at least one question. Common, uncommon, and wished-for practices are identified, as well as correlations between charac...

Technological Challenges for Transparent Conductors

Transparent conductors (TCs) have a variety of properties that can limit their performance in various applications. These properties include their optical and electronic behavior: optical transparency, electrical conductivity, plasma wavelength, ultraviolet absorption edge, work function, conductivity type; factors affecting device fabrication: synthesis temperature, thermal stability, resistan...

Overview of Technological Approaches to Digital Preservation and Challenges in Coming Years 1

The preservation of digital objects involves a variety of challenges, including policy questions, institutional roles and relationships, legal issues, intellectual property rights, and metadata. But behind or perhaps beneath such issues, there are substantial challenges at the empirical level. What does it mean to preserve digital objects? What purposes are served by preserving them? What are t...

Technological and Educational Challenges of Resilient Computing

The adjective resilient has been used in dependable computing essentially as a synonym of fault-tolerant, thus ignoring the unexpected aspect of the phenomena the systems may have to face. These phenomena are very relevant when moving to systems like the future large, networked, evolving systems constituting complex information infrastructures that are the emergence of the ubiquitous systems th...