Document Management, Digital Libraries and the Web
If online information resources are to be as useful as libraries of books and stacks, a number of tasks that are simple in the real-world libraries need to be made simpler in the online world.
Archives: Expert Predictions
Document Management, Digital Libraries and the Web
As enterprises grow their document management needs, the need for cross-domain authentication mechanisms grows. Likewise, the Web will need richer methods for expressing access control and authorization than most Web services currently provide. One common issue in all of the systems is detecting the boundary of the item to which a particular authorization might apply. Access control and authorization might need to apply to a different granularity of object than is denoted with a single identifier.
Document Management, Digital Libraries and the Web
The most serious issue is the design of an authorization scheme that will scale to the size of “all users on the Internet,” given the enormous international scope.
Document Management, Digital Libraries and the Web
The entire body of copyright law and practice is being examined in light of the ease of copying and distribution in the electronic age. In any case, it is clear that digital library systems will need to address issues of copyright and intellectual property rights before they can be widely deployed.
The Global Health Network
We propose to train people who are skilled in both public health and telecommunications so that before emergencies they can set up the telecommunications backbone, and during the emergency they can interconnect all “stake” holders in the emergency. We would hope to establish a core of these individuals worldwide and transport them into emergency situations.
The Global Health Network
Paper journals will die in the next few years … If we listen closely we hear the death knoll of biomedical journals.
The Global Health Network
We can [start] a global health university.
The Global Health Network
We should be able to monitor and forecast diseases as well as we monitor the weather if we take on new technologies. Having an Internet backbone to national and global disease monitoring can yield accurate and timely information concerning disease conditions.
The Global Health Network
Integrating prevention with telecommunications can … be the key to the next renaissance of health … The concept of the global health network is that the new networking technologies improve information transfer a million-fold.
The Global Health Network
The information superhighway can markedly improve public health … There should be a national and global commitment to tele-preventive medicine as the integration of telecommunication systems with public health has the greatest promise for improvement of health of our children, and ourselves.