Digital evidence – do not confuse digital archiving with backups

Do not confuse anti-LW autoantibodies with anti-D

DOI: 10.5581/1516-8484.20130042 Even though the anti-LW antibody has little clinical importance, the present report aims at demonstrating that one must be careful about its possible identification. The weak anti-LW may be confused with anti-D autoor allo-antibodies and differentiating them is important particularly in women during the fertile period, and in RhDpregnant women, due to the possibi...

Digital Picture Archiving and Cot

The major challenge now facing the medical imaging community does not involve the process of imaging per se but rather the management of images once they have been acquired. Our goal with this special issue is to highlight ongoing developments in medical image management and perhaps stimulate specialists in local area networking and image database management to focus their attention on some of ...

Viewpoints on digital library issues Digital libraries: economics and archiving

Digital Signatures Do Not Guarantee Exclusive Ownership

Digital signature systems provide a way to transfer trust from the public key to the signed data; this is used extensively within PKIs. However, some applications need a transfer of trust in the other direction, from the signed data to the public key. Such a transfer is cryptographically robust only if the signature scheme has a property which we name exclusive ownership. In this article, we sh...

Preserving information long-term: digital archiving

A panel discussion regarding digital archiving efforts by the U.S. Library of Congress (LC). In December 2000 Congress authorized LC to develop and execute a plan for a National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP). LC developed a plan, in collaboration with other federal and nonfederal entities, to build a national network of organizations with responsibilities ...