Web portals are ubiquitous, but an operational portal containing sensitive electronic archival records has not existed in a public network due to security concerns; therefore, setting one up requires serious consideration of defensive security measures. The key topic of this paper is a security architecture for the protection of an experimental portal that provides its stakeholders with conveni...

NetMemex explores efficient network traffic archival without any loss of information. Unlike NetFlow-like aggregation, NetMemex allows retrieving the entire packet data including full payload, which makes it useful in forensic analysis, networked and distributed system research, and network administration. Different from packet trace dumps, NetMemex performs sophisticated data compression for s...

Archives are typically imagined as a file morgue, that dusty place to which papers, records, and other collections are deposited for permanent storage. The archivist is somewhat of a “person of mystery,” as archivists are not depicted in popular culture and the role of the archivist is not widely understood. This book fills in these gaps of knowledge, giving the reader insight into not only the...

The TIPR Project (Towards Interoperable Preservation Repositories) runs from October 2008 through September 2010. The aim of the project is to develop, test, and promote a standard format for exchanging information packages among OAIS-based repositories. This paper reviews the use cases for the transfer of information from one repository to another, reviews the Repository eXchange Format (RXP) ...

We present research showing the possibility of finding stories in a digital text archive through computational methods. Referring to the concept of "archival bond", we define stories as formed by documents that relate to a target activity. We developed a method called paragraph alignment to find such documents and an interactive visualization to discover connected stories in context with proven...

This paper results from a research project at Tilburg University in which organization, information and archival studies have been integrated. We argue that the archivistic concept of the record keeping system (RKS) can be used as an instrument for improving the performance of the document-flow in a business process, and, as a result, of the process. Archival documents contain information relat...

In this paper we are developing an algorithm to increase the security of using HMAC function (Key-Hashed Message Authentication) to insure data integrity for exchanging archival files. Hash function is a very strong tool used in information security. The algorithm we are developing is safe, quick and will allow the University of Tabuk (UT) authorities to be sure that data of archival document w...

An anthropological study of families and their children in the colonia of Ladrillera, located in the U.S.Mexico border town of Agua Prieta, Sonora, based on field research conducted during the summer of 2007 while taking part in WOU’s first ever U.S.-Mexico border field school. This paper utilizes the theories of underdevelopment and dependency to help us understand the experiences of children ...