BACKGROUND An increasing number of clinical trials are conducted in primary care settings. Making better use of existing data in the electronic health records to identify eligible subjects can improve efficiency of such studies. Our study aims to quantify the proportion of eligibility criteria that can be addressed with data in electronic health records and to compare the content of eligibility...

Competitive environment in converging digital media industry is changing rapidly. This calls for tighter integration of creativity, business processes, and technologies. Media companies need flexible methods to manage electronic content production and delivery, and metadata is a key enabler in making this goal a reality. However, metadata is useful only if its nature is understood clearly and i...

Information Commerce is a business activity carried out among several parties in which information carries value and is treated as a product. The information may be content, it may be returned usage and marketing data, and it may be representative of financial transactions. In each of these cases the information is valuable and must be kept secure and private. Traditional approaches secure the ...

This paper outlines the results of the EBONI Project’s survey of lecturers’ use of and attitudes to electronic teaching and learning material, providing a snapshot of the current situation in UK Higher Education. Differences in the extent and type of e-content usage between academic disciplines are outlined, and lecturers’ intentions for the future are discussed. Based on an analysis of their h...

This memo defines a Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) content-type that may be used by a message transfer agent (MTA) or electronic mail gateway to report the result of an attempt to deliver a message to one or more recipients. This content-type is intended as a machine-processable replacement for the various types of delivery status notifications currently used in Internet electroni...

This memo defines a Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) content-type that may be used by a message transfer agent (MTA) or electronic mail gateway to report the result of an attempt to deliver a message to one or more recipients. This content-type is intended as a machine-processable replacement for the various types of delivery status notifications currently used in Internet electroni...

Over 90% of business records today are available in electronic form. With vast increases in electronic business content being generated and received daily, companies must now consider new approaches for organizing and categorizing their content (e.g. emails, documents, pdfs) to meet operational and compliance needs. Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Software has been suggested as a solution t...

With the development of information technology and the application of information technology jumped into popularity, the electronic document was used as a form of information transmission and data storage, more and more electronic documents are facing the risk of being illegally acquired and viewed. In order to solve this problem, this paper proposes a novel file content protection method, whic...

One of the main challenges facing web-based multimedia content creators today is the development of cost-effective digital media content for courseware that is reusable and interoperable. Given this, we propose the design and implementation of a model to manage the multimedia and metadata within a system of related topics in a course that is delivered via electronic lectures. This model not onl...