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The Internet Name Game And The Nonprofit Solution, Roger A. Lohmann
The Internet Name Game And The Nonprofit Solution, Roger A. Lohmann
Faculty & Staff Scholarship
This paper is a case study of the campaign to create a new internet names authority to handle the assignment of internet domain names. Almost everyone knows by now that the Internet was originally a defense research project, which morphed into a research network for scientists and then into a tool of higher education and eventually into the commercial and general household utility we know today. In terms familiar to nonprofit research community what began in the state sector, expanded into the third sector and then into the market and household sectors and the consumer economy. There is a second …
Smart Objects, Dumb Archives: A User-Centric, Layered Digital Library Framework, Kurt Maly, Michael L. Nelson, Mohammad Zubair
Smart Objects, Dumb Archives: A User-Centric, Layered Digital Library Framework, Kurt Maly, Michael L. Nelson, Mohammad Zubair
Computer Science Faculty Publications
Discusses digital libraries, interoperability, and interfaces to access them, and proposes one universal protocol for communication for simple archives based on the hypertext transfer protocol (http). Describes the creation of a special class of digital objects called buckets, archives based on a NASA collection, and a set of digital library services. (Author/LRW)