On Wed, 14 Jun 2000 15:58:15 +0100 Gordon Hunt <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> >Are we not very far from a future in which a Web page, visible
> >only to staff (or students) who have authenticated in a secure
> >way, will bring up the information an institution holds on them,
> >offer some of it in a form that can be updated or corrected by
> >them, and offer some checkboxes against some items which, if
> >checked, cause the information to be displayed in a Web Directory?
>
> We're already there, in fact - see the SCWEIMS Project
> (http://www.malts.ed.ac.uk/scweims/), one of the SHEFC C&IT Programme
> projects, which is developing exactly that kind of system, while a parallel
> project, Scotmid (http://www.gla.ac.uk/scotmid/index.html) looks at
> authentication issues.
>
Excellent. So are these schemes burdened with silly bits
of "written consent"?
Paul
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