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The sheer number of metadata standards in the cultural heritage sector is overwhelming, and their inter-relationships further complicate the situation. This visual map of the metadata landscape is intended to assist planners with the selection and implementation of metadata standards.

05 standards listed here is evaluated on its strength of application to defined categories in each of four axes: community, domain, function, and purpose.

the WikiLeaks threat and the persistent leaking of other supposedly confidential corporate information have brought an important issue to the fore.

Companies are creating an ever-growing pile of digital information, from product designs to employees' e-mails.

Much of this information would do little damage if it seeped into the outside world; some of it, indeed, might well do some good. But some could also be valuable to competitors—or simply embarrassing—and needs to be protected. Companies therefore have to decide what they should try to keep to themselves and how best to secure it.

User identification is the process of establishing the user's identity and usually requires very little interaction on the user's part.

Authentication is the process of a user proving that s/he is actually the person who s/he claims.

Authorization is the final process in user-level security. It is the process of determining what resources a user can access after successful identification and authentication.

Your library or organization should consider adopting the following rules for network passwords:Passwords may not be blankPasswords must be seven or more characters longPasswords must use a mixture of letters (upper and lower case), numbers and charactersPasswords must be changed on a regular basisPasswords must be successively unique (in other words, users shouldn't use the same password repeatedly)Passwords must never be written down or posted in an insecure location (such as on a monitor)In addition, consider adding these prohibitions:Passwords cannot be the user's name, the name of someone in their family, or their birth datePasswords must not be constructed by adding a numeral or character to the beginning or end of a regular word; this is too easily guessed (e.g."chair1")

To help improve security on the web, the standard HTTP protocol was enhanced with an additional security layer called the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) to produce a new protocol called HTTPS (HTTP over a Secure socket layer).

Today, we cover URL shortening services:  Bit.ly, TinyURL, Ow.ly and friends.

Here are ten link shortening menaces for you to nibble on.

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