NOT SO PUBLIC: ACCESS TO COLLECTIONS

Developing Mobile Access to Digital Collections

One of the recent dominant topics in library technology has been the development of library mobile websites and services tailored to mobile users. While much has been written and discussed on the subject, very little of the conversation has focused on mobile access to digital collections. Libraries and museums spend significant resources in an effort to identify, digitize, ingest, describe, sto...

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How Do Librarians Prefer to Access Collections?

The University of Kansas (KU) Libraries first made the discovery tool, Primo (Ex Libris), available to their users in the fall of 2013. Since that time, in spite of many improvements and updates, librarians still prefer to use other resources. In an effort to facilitate open and honest discussion about the Primo discovery tool and to make recommendations to improve the functionality of the inst...

Mediated access to very large document collections

Mediation based on structured specialised collections is proposed as an approach to supporting the exploration of very large document collections such as the Web. The main techniques employed are statistical language modelling and document clustering. The paper discusses the new interaction model and presents experimental results obtained with a prototypical system. References to papers which d...

Biometrics, Access Control, Smart Cards: A not so Simple Combination

Although biometrics can be an useful component for access control, the security they procure is often overestimated, as if they were a magic tool whose simple use will automatically prevent each and every type of attack. Biometrics are not secure unless they are embedded in a strong cryptographic protocol, whose design pays special attention to their specificities. In particular, smart card rev...