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Carol Pitts Hawks - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Integrated Library System of the 1990s: The OhioLINK Experience
Library Resources & Technical Services, 1992Co-Authors: Carol Pitts HawksAbstract:The Integrated Library System of the 1990s: The OhioLINK Experience In a presentation in 1985, Richard De Gennaro stated that The standard keynote speech at library technology conferences begins by describing, in glowing terms, the wonders of the new information processing technology and then exhorts the assembled company to embrace that technology or be left behind on the ash heap of the technological revolution.[1] Visionary articles and futuristic papers on the prospects and promises of library technology have become a standard part of the library literature. Today, automation has become an integral part of the routine operations of many libraries. In this paper, the functional requirements of integrated library systems are examined. Many are currently within reach but not yet commonly available. Particular attention is devoted to the missing elements of library functionality, specifically concerning acquisitions, serials Control, circulation, Catalog maintenance, collection management, and the online public access Catalog (OPAC). The pace of technological change and innovation is phenomenal. De Gennaro indicates that "what might have been acceptable five years ago is inadequate today, and what looks advanced today will seem primitive in five years. As technology improves and costs go down, we librarians demand additional functions and capabilities and our requirements and expectations always exceed the offerings."[2] The request for proposal (RFP) process for acquiring a system continues to be the primary mechanism for ascertaining the functions available from automated systems. In this paper, eight integrated library systems are described as they existed or were planned in 1989, when the vendors responded to the RFP of the Ohio Library and Information Network (OhioLINK, formerly known as OLIS). Background - OhioLINK In 1986, the Ohio Board of Regents formed a Library Study Committee to address the problems of library space to house increased services and burgeoning collections. The board was reacting to a combined funding request from the state-assisted universities in the amount of $120 million for construction and renovation of libraries. The result of this committee's work was the OhioLINK Project, which as currently envisioned will: 1. link university libraries throughout the state so that they will appear to the user as a single resource of some nineteen million volumes. 2. be a gateway to the rapidly expanding world of information stored in electronic formats. 3. allow patrons to learn the status of those materials within minutes, with delivery of material provided by fax or truck within several days, and 4. have the option of managing the purchase of new books and journals in a significantly more efficient manner.[3] Work began in earnest in 1988 with the establishment of three committees concerned with the views of users, librarians, and systems managers. In turn, five subcommittees were formed to look at the specific functional needs of acquisitions and serials Control; Catalog creation and maintenance; the online public access Catalog; circulation, interlibrary loan (ILL), and document delivery; and collection development and management. OhioLINK's request for information (RFI) was released in February 1989 to more than sixty vendors with the purpose of soliciting information. As a result of information gleaned from this process, the OhioLINK RFP, consisting of more than 3,000 specifications, was released to approximately fifty vendors in August 1989. Eight vendors responded to the RFP by the October 20, 1989, deadline. Innovative Interfaces was selected for contract negotiation in June 1990. Contract signing occurred in May 1991, with system implementation at the first-phase universities beginning in July 1991. …
Tommi Kärkkäinen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Tailorable Representation of Security Control Catalog on Semantic Wiki
Cyber Security: Power and Technology, 2018Co-Authors: Riku Nykänen, Tommi KärkkäinenAbstract:Selection of security Controls to be implemented is an essential part of the information security management process in an organization. There exist a number of readily available information security management system standards, including Control Catalogs, that could be tailored by the organizations to meet their security objectives. Still, it has been noted that many organizations tend to lack even the implementation of the fundamental security Controls. At the same time, semantic wikis have become popular collaboration and information sharing platforms that have proven their strength as an effective way to distribute domain-specific information within an organization. This paper evaluates the adequacy of the semantic wiki as a security Control Catalog platform for building an information security knowledge base that would especially help small and medium-sized enterprises to develop and maintain their security baseline.
Joint Task Force Transformation Initiative - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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SP 800-53 Rev. 3. Recommended Security Controls for Federal Information Systems and Organizations
2009Co-Authors: Joint Task Force Transformation InitiativeAbstract:The objective of NIST SP 800-53 is to provide a set of security Controls that can satisfy the breadth and depth of security requirements levied on information systems and organizations and that is consistent with and complementary to other established information security standards. Revision 3 is the first major update since December 2005 and includes significant improvements to the security Control Catalog.
Riku Nykänen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Tailorable Representation of Security Control Catalog on Semantic Wiki
Cyber Security: Power and Technology, 2018Co-Authors: Riku Nykänen, Tommi KärkkäinenAbstract:Selection of security Controls to be implemented is an essential part of the information security management process in an organization. There exist a number of readily available information security management system standards, including Control Catalogs, that could be tailored by the organizations to meet their security objectives. Still, it has been noted that many organizations tend to lack even the implementation of the fundamental security Controls. At the same time, semantic wikis have become popular collaboration and information sharing platforms that have proven their strength as an effective way to distribute domain-specific information within an organization. This paper evaluates the adequacy of the semantic wiki as a security Control Catalog platform for building an information security knowledge base that would especially help small and medium-sized enterprises to develop and maintain their security baseline.
Joshua Lubell - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Integrating Top-down and Bottom-up Cybersecurity Guidance using XML.
Balisage series on markup technologies, 2016Co-Authors: Joshua LubellAbstract:This paper describes a markup-based approach for synthesizing disparate information sources and discusses a software implementation of the approach. The implementation makes it easier for people to use two complementary, but differently structured, guidance specifications together: the (top-down) Cybersecurity Framework and the (bottom-up) National Institute of Standards and Technology Special Publication 800-53 security Control Catalog. An example scenario demonstrates how the software implementation can help a security professional select the appropriate safeguards for restricting unauthorized access to an Industrial Control System. The implementation and example show the benefits of this approach and suggest its potential application to disciplines other than cybersecurity.
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XForms User Interfaces for Small Arcane Nontrivial Datasets
Proceedings of Balisage: The Markup Conference 2014, 1Co-Authors: Joshua LubellAbstract:Small Arcane Nontrivial Datasets (SANDs) are frequently complex enough to warrant custom software for access and editing, yet too small or specialized to justify a full-blown server-based database application. Such data is typically presented in tabular form within documents or as editable spreadsheets. To test the alternative of using XForms as a user interface for SANDs, an application was built for browsing a conformance test suite for Product and Manufacturing Information, a formal specification of a product's functional and behavioral requirements as they apply to production. XForms proved a much better match than tabulations for the underlying data model. To further test the concept, XForms was evaluated for use with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publication 800-53 security Control Catalog, which is a comprehensive Catalog of security Controls for managing cyber-risk, many parts of which are already available in extensible markup language (XML) form. The model-view-Controller (MVC) software pattern of XForms seems well-suited for creating specialized applications for tailoring and navigating this Catalog.