The HathiTrust Federal Documents Program-Towards a Digital U.S. Federal Documents Library at Scale

Federal government documents: Dead or alive

Documents in the Digital Library

The document is a powerful entity of importance in many areas of information processing. Within areas such as electronic publishing, hypertext, and even software specification, the document represents a meaningful, moderately-sized unit of information, and serves as a useful abstraction in defining many kinds of manipulation operations. The components of a document can be assumed to be interrel...

Managing Personal Documents with a Digital Library

.This paper presents a desktop system for managing personal documents. The documents can be of many types—text, spreadsheets, images, multimedia—and are organized in a personal “digital library”. The interface supports browsing over a wide variety of document metadata, as well as full-text searching. This extensive browsing facility addresses a significant flaw in digital library and file manag...

The US Federal PKI and the Federal Bridge Certification Authority

The goals of the U.S. Federal PKI are to create a cross-governmental, ubiquitous, interoperable Public Key Infrastructure and the development and use of applications which employ that PKI in support of Agency business processes. In addition, the U.S. Federal PKI must interoperate with State governments and with other national governments. Our goals recognize that the purpose of deploying a PKI ...

Towards Identity Conditions for Digital Documents

By “identity conditions” we mean a method for determining whether an object x and an object y are the same object. Identity conditions are arguably an essential feature of any rigorously developed conceptual framework for information modeling. Surprisingly, the concept of same document, which is fundamental to many aspects of library and information science, and to digital libraries in particul...