The security of information is important to protect top secret documents for government and private organisations alike. For this reason, many methods have been developed to enforce security and protect access to documents, computers and networks. Some of these methods include policies and procedures. These policies and procedures are compiled according to an Information Security Architecture (...

Developing countries are increasingly coming under pressure to improve their delivery of veterinary services as a prerequisite for entering the competitive arena of international trade in animals and animal products. The demands placed on developing countries by predominantly developed countries to comply with international disease prevention standards have also resulted in increasing demands o...

The Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC) was established in September 2005 at an international workshop in Cambridge, United Kingdom, which had and still has as its primary goal the creation of richer descriptions of our collections of genomes and metagenomes through the development of standards and tools for supporting compliance and exchange of contextual information [1]. Members of the GSC inc...

Software engineering standards determine practices that`compliant' software processes shall follow. Standards generally deene practices in terms of constraints that must hold for documents. The document types identiied by standards include typical development products, such as user requirements, and also process-oriented documents, such as progress reviews and management reports. The degree of ...