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Title:

Discovery, Identity and Rights: Three Deep Web Problems

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Organizer:
Matt Goldner, OCLC
Description:
A panel discussion on how pieces of the deep Web can be exposed by: 1.) Providing identity management to authorize or authenticate users to controlled content; 2.) Managing content to protect business interests and to meet user needs; and 3.) Exposing content through discovery tools like WorldCat.org, Google.com and others.
Questions
Answered:
  1. What is deep Web content?
  2. What producer business models are in place today?
  3. What must Web sites do to expose deep Web content on today's search engines?
  4. What are the access policies that preclude this content from surfacing?
  5. What identity management mechanisms can be used to provide access to controlled content?
  6. How can we enable discovery of deep Web content and protect business models?
  7. How can we provide access to deep Web content?
  8. What authentication and authorization mechanisms/schemes are on the horizon?
  9. What search sites are in use today to expose the deep Web?
  10. Where are the new business models in exposing deep Web content?
Level:
Intermediate
Category:
Business / Entrepreneurial / Monetization, Content, Education, Licensing / Fair Use / Copyright
Type:
Panel
Event:
Interactive 2010
Josh Kermisch
on 18/8/09
This is a great idea. I struggle with this all day long. Here's an example...I work in a medical imaging practice and we have an electronic medical library that I access through our local hospital. If I go to the hospital's physical medical library, I can access just about any journal article I need. Through the e-med library, I have to re-authenticate...and sometimes, call the reference librarian to get our organizational credentials to access protected content. This burns tons of time and is frustrating. Further, most MDs can't remember another detail (too much info overload) so expecting them to hold onto specific credentials to access content not used daily is almost laughable. Obviously this creates huge barriers to important information and may impact patient care in rare cases.
Cloned Milkmen
on 21/8/09
Is this going to be a round-about sales-pitch for worldcat local and ezproxy (two OCLC products)?
Gary Perlman
on 24/8/09
Josh Kermisch's story reminded me of one that has cost a digital library my annual subscription. I am a 30-year member of ACM and a charter subscriber to their digital library. (1) When the ACM DL started, we able to bookmark PDF files, and after authenticating once, all PDFs loaded quickly. (2) Then the bookmarks went to catalog pages, requiring another link to get to the PDF. (3) Then the bookmarks changed to DOIs but the old bookmarks worked. (4) Then the old bookmarks failed. (5) Then I had to authenticate for every paper access; only IP authentication would allow access without re-authentication. (6) So, I dropped my ACM DL subscription in favour of access through a library's subscription.

So, while the institutional/IP subscription to the ACM DL is great, I would submit that the individual subscription in the ACM DL is an example of how NOT to provide access to deep content. Plus ça change, plus ça deviens plus mauvais. Bad motto, but I see it followed all the time.

Conflict of interest statement: I work at OCLC on worldcat.org, WorldCat Local, and other services. I also have been an elected officer of ACM SIGCHI and have worked on their web presence for 15 years or so.
Alice Sneary
on 27/8/09
Hi Cloned Milkmen. No sales pitch here--only good discussion about how to make content accessible to consumers in a model that is acceptable by publishers/rightsholders.
Larry Truthan
on 31/8/09
As an EX-OCLC employee, I was published in "Dublines" in an article in 1990. I can find that reference with Bing, Google etc., with a Name Search on my name. But even as an author - I cannot access that content -I do not have an account with the Archive, Emerald. It's a REAL issue - how to make content accessible in a model that is acceptable by publishers and rights holders. The reference follows:

Surge Protection: Shocking Standards Exist!
Larry Truthan (pp. 15-17)
Keywords: Computer hardware, Computer security, Computer technology, Electricity
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Games Online
on 3/11/09
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blu ray ripper
on 13/11/09
Terrific info in support of small enterprise. Great idea!
Moroccan Furniture
on 27/11/09
sounds incredibly interesting and relevent!
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