Open Authentication Systems For The Web

A paper on "Open Authentication Systems For The Web", written by Brian Kelly and Peter Lister (ex-Cranfield University), was published in a special issue of Vine on electronic data security in library systems (published in August 1999, issue 112).

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Call for Papers

The original call for paper follows.

ELECTRONIC DATA SECURITY FOR LIBRARIES : Call for papers

VINE, published quartely by the Library Information Technology Centre (LITC) in London, is Europe's premier journal for library systems professionals, providing timely and definitive overviews of the hottest topics in the field. VINEs intention is to publish informative, well-researched wrting that will be of immediate practical use to its busy, influential readership.

For a forthcoming special issue of VINE, authors are invited to submit short papers (2000-5000 words) on any aspect of the provision of secure networked access to electronic information sources by European libraries and information services.

Here, electronic information sources is intended to cover: OPACs; networked CD-ROMs, bibliographic, full-text and multimedia databases; electronic journals, newspapers and newsletters; Web pages; FTP archives; and any other stores of digital information to which networked access is provided by libraries or information services.

Potential themes for papers include:

• user authentication : ID and password administration; IP address filtering; cryptographic certificates
• user authorisation : access to confidential or sensitive information; Internet access management systems; filtering software; acceptable use policies
• LAN/intranet protection : routers, firewalls, network monitoring tools; anti-viral solutions
• data integrity: server, document and code authentication; encryption, hashing, digital time-stamping, digital signatures, digital image watermarking; metadata, PICS, RDF
• preservation of digital archives.

Possible approaches include:

• product-specific reviews
• site-specific reports of innovative installations by individual libraries or information services
• overviews of funded research projects
• reviews of emerging national or international standards
• reviews of policies adopted by individual or collaborating institutions
• general surveys of tools, techniques and technologies for guaranteeing secure access to electronic information sources