An Archival Roadmap

Towards an Archival

We propose a self-organizing archival Intermem-ory. That is, a noncommercial subscriber-provided distributed information storage service built on the existing Internet. Given an assumption of continued growth in the memory's total size, a subscriber's participation for only a nite time can nevertheless ensure archival preservation of the subscriber's data. Information disperses through the netw...

An open source pharma roadmap

In an Essay, Matthew Todd and colleagues discuss an open source approach to drug development.

Towards an EMC Technology Roadmap

This article expands earlier work on the concept of a technology roadmap for EMC technology.1 Just as a traditional terrestrial map helps insure that travelers arrive at their destination safely, a technology roadmap is a tool for attaining the optimum development within a sector of technology. Like all maps, an overarching perspective allows a view of the overall terrain including valuable res...

Discovering the insulin documents: an archival adventure.

Towards an Ontology for Describing Archival Resources

Several digital libraries and archives are emerging around the world due to the need to store, organize and make available on the Web a lot of resource collections. However, managing this information poses new challenges in order to overcome traditional data management and information browsing. Semantic Web technologies can improve digital libraries and archives by facilitating metadata storage...