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Guide to Secure Web Services: Recommendations of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (Note: PDF)

From the NIST website

This publication seeks to assist organisations in understanding the challenges in integrating information security practices into Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) design and development based on Web services. It also provides practical, real-world guidance on current and emerging standards applicable to Web services, as well as background information on the most common security threats to SOAs based on Web services.


Digital Prosperity: Understanding the Economic Benefits of the Information Technology Revolution (Note: PDF)

From the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation website

The economic impact of ICT has always been a matter of concern with policy makers and ICT development workers. The ITIF, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank has examined the impact of ICT in five key areas: Productivity; Employment; More Efficient Markets; Higher Quality Goods and Services; Innovation & New Products and Services. The report lays out five key public policy principles for driving digital prosperity: Give the digital economy its due; Actively encourage digital innovation and transformation of economic sectors; Use the tax code to spur IT investment; Encourage universal digital literacy and adoption; Do no harm.


Scan This Book!

From the Library Journal

In the race to digitize the public domain, is the future of the library at stake? An interview with the Open Content Alliance's Brewster Kahle.


Inheritance and loss? A brief survey of Google Books

From First Monday website

The Google Books Project has drawn a great deal of attention, offering the prospect of the library of the future and rendering many other library and digitising projects apparently superfluous. The quality assurance seems to come primarily through inheritance, drawing on the reputation of the libraries and publishers involved. Lawrence Sterne’s 'Tristram Shandy', which proved a difficult challenge for Project Gutenberg, evidently challenged Google’s approach, suggesting that quality is not automatically inherited.