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This European project is an IST Support Measure (IST-2001-34898) that monitors technologies for cultural and scientific heritage preservation. Topics of discussion include national policies and initiatives and organizational change and trends and analysis in these technology areas. The ultimate aim is to provide a vision of how cultural heritage technologies will or could develop in the near future (until 2006). Also available on the site are publications and an events database.
Offers industry perspective on program planning and implementation of Next Generation Internet R&D. Critiques the federal R&D programs that support the development of the Next Generation Internet. Offers recommendations and research areas that should be pursued.
Federal information technology issues, spending, infrastructure, and staffing are discussed. Much of the spending increases in federal government IT are going to personnel systems and Y2K compliance. Use of services is also expanding. The shift from the mainframe to LANs and WANs and desktop computers continues. Challenges and other trends are identified.
The Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council is a combination of academia and industry. It monitors and promotes the health of computer science and technology in order to fuel development. The emphasis is on core research. The organization of the CST is described, along with recent projects and publications, including True in Cyberspace.
The general philosophy and components of the CapNet digital library being developed to support the legislative process in Congress is described. It is based on an open systems, object-oriented architecture. Standards are important, with different media stored as data fragments and then integrated. Integration of commercial systems is also important. The five components of a digital library -- workflow, the network, object management information, the object content repository, and text indexing -- are described. Future plans are discussed.
XIWT is a multi-industry coalition defining the architecture and key technical requirements for a powerful, sustainable information infrastructure. Offers calendar of upcoming events, membership information, and papers and reports. Lists member companies and institutions. The goals and bylaws or the group are also included.
This site provides links to large-scale digital preservation initiatives and projects, standards, and technologies. It is a high-level introduction to third-party directories and sites which will provide exhaustive coverage.
In 1998, the Council on Library and Information Resources asked Cornell University Library to undertake a risk assessment of migrating a small number of common file formats. This report resulting from their invesitgation is meant to be a practical guide to assessing the risks associated with the migration of various formats and to making informed preservation decisions on the basis of that assessment. The process of file migration is presented in a workbook. Two case studies involving image files and numeric files are also given.
This Web site provides access to OCLC's Annual Review of Research which covers OCLC Internet Services, PURLS, Digital Libraries, Copyright and a host of other library related research topics. Back issues of these reports are available from 1994.
ITAA is a trade organization with over 26,000 members from a broad spectrum of the U.S. IT industry. The Web site focuses on information about the IT industry, its issues, association programs, publications, reports, new developments, electronic commerce, ASP, information security, and NextGen as well as many other topics.
This report is the third annual report by the US Department of Commerce which measures the economic performance of the information technology (IT) revolution. The following points were highlighted: dramatic cost and price reductions in computers and their peripherals; increased electronic connectivity; increased movement to online supply networks and sales channels by businesses; low US inflation due to falling prices of IT goods and services; IT industries are a major source of new R&D investment which are helping to generate higher rates of US labor productivity growth; and the IT industry is characterized by rapid technological innovation. Despite all these positive points, the US regularly runs large trade deficits in IT goods because American IT firms service foreign customers with sales from their overseas affiliates rather than by exports from their US operations. In conclusion, the report suggests that the US economy has "crossed into a new period of higher, sustainable economic growth and higher, sustainable productivity gains."
This GAO report reviews the use of enterprise architecture (EA) in the federal government. The report includes a checklist of enterprise architecture activities and describes the five stages of EA maturity that form the framework against which agencies can assess their EA efforts.
Sun Microsystems provided support in developing this white paper describing information technology advances used in libraries. The paper is divided into four chapters that cover libraries and information technology; library industry standards; the Sun advantage for libraries, and Sun library resources. An appendix listing Sun library solution partners is also included.
This report by the IMLS investigates current trends in libraries and museums regarding the use of digitization and other technologies. This is done by examing the results of several surveys.
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