Purpose – The purpose of this Editorial is to outline the economic factors involved in digitisation and the maintenance of digital collections. Design/methodology/approach – The paper assesses the cost‐effectiveness of digitisation. Findings – Google Print's assumption that whatever has...

Purpose – This paper aims to look into the digital divide in countries where new centres of information technology create wealth and integrate some sectors into the global economy, while millions remain deprived of basic human needs. Design/methodology/approach – Reports were produced by the...

Purpose – An issue of increased interest in metadata research concerns finding ways to store, in the metadata of an information resource, data regarding the resource's quality. The purpose of this paper is to present a metadata schema that facilitates representation and storage of data related...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to address the issue of online security. Design/methodology/approach – Discusses the problem of breaches in online information sharing and security. Findings – There are many issues to be considered in addressing the matter of online information...

Purpose – Information security is becoming increasingly more important as organisations are endangered by a variety of threats from both its internal and external environments. Many theorists now advocate that effective security policies should be created at senior management level. This is...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present an extension to a framework based on the information structure (IS) model for combining information filtering (IF) results. The main goal of the framework is to combine the results of the different IF systems so as to maximise the expected...

Purpose – This paper aims to manage access control tasks to satisfy the user privacy needs of online information resources according to social relations and tags. Design/methodology/approach – The study proposes a method for access control management in the online social context. The...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the notion of context in ubiquitous computing. Personal Information Managers exploit the ubiquitous paradigm in mobile computing to integrate services and programs for business and leisure. Recognising that every situation is constituted by...

It is crucial for information retrieval systems to learn more about what users search for in order to fulfil the intent of searches. This paper introduces query taxonomy generation, which attempts to organise users’ queries into a hierarchical structure of topic classes. Such a query taxonomy...

The use of the Web by academic researchers is discipline‐dependent and highly variable. It is increasingly central for sharing information, disseminating results and publicising research projects. This pilot study seeks to identify the subjects that have the most impact on the Web, and look...