>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.
Gordon
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Gordon Hunt
Head of Information Services
Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama
100 Renfrew Street
Glasgow G2 3DB
Tel: 0141 332 4101 x269
Fax: 0141 332 5924
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