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Service-oriented Architecture Delivers Greater Returns from Web Services

Although smart companies are using Web services to improve the way they do business, firms have even more to gain by changing the way they think about their infrastructure. According to a new research report, Chief Information Officers (CIO) that adopt the discipline of service-oriented architecture are positioning their firms for [...]

DOI (digital object identifier): A Dynamic Tool For Browsers

With the whole issue of accreditation and requests for senior researchers are starting to familiarize with various concepts documentaries. Concepts such as quality indicators, impact factors or indexing databases are common currency and even in those areas where it sounded like Chinese four days ago.
One of the common questions is whether teachers [...]

Future of Domains

DNS is the short term for Domain Name System. In plain English: Giving information location that has a number a name. DNS is an internet related invention, which will expand the next 5 years to other areas of digital communication. Visual phone numbers and bank numbers will soon be a curiosity of the past. Everything [...]

Building the Digital Branch: Guidelines for Transforming Your Library Website

In the past fifteen years, the World Wide Web has become such a major part of the library world that most libraries now have some presence on the Web. This issue of Library Technology Reports explores the idea of the digital branch—a library website that is a vital, functional resource for patrons and enhances the [...]

Hispanic National Archives and information management of their web sites

By Celia Chaín and Navarro Amalia More Bleda
Abstract:
In this paper we want to find out, on the one hand, the characteristics of the Latin American national archives (mainly referring to installation, deposits and resources), and the other hand, the current situation Relating to the creation, development and maintenance of these institutions. For [...]

VIRTUAL CORPORATIONS: THE PROMISE AND THE PERIL

BY
*Kevin R. Coulson, Ph.D.
coulsonk@emporia.edu
S. Prasad Kantamneni, Ph.D.
kantamnp@emporia.edu
*Please address all correspondence to the first author at: Department of Marketing, School of Business, Emporia State University, 1200 Commercial Dr., Emporia, KS 66801
ABSTRACT
While the idea of virtual corporation as a strategy has been given a lot of attention to date, very little work has been done to address [...]

US Library of Congress’ Digital Collection One of World’s Largest

The U.S. Library of Congress is well known for being the world’s largest library. That is, in the traditional, paper format. Now, the library is on the way to hosting the largest digital collection in the world with more than 700 terabytes of data.
Converting holdings to a digital format
This is the new look of the [...]

UNESCO’s free software for developing countries

UNESCO’s CDS/ISIS for Microcomputers is one of the most widely used information retrieval packages not only in Bangladesh but also in the world. UNESCO provides the software to the developing countries free of cost.
In the developing countries like India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Uganda, Kenya, Argentina and Brazil CDS/ISIS have played the major role of carrying [...]