Access Management

Muddiest Point - why have digital materials in a library that you don't own copyright to? I would assume these are born digital materials but if not why incur the expense to digitize materials when the access to them is going to be restricted?

Reading notes - for several reasons, such as copyright and patient privilage (medical records), user access to digital libraries has to be restricted. Different users can only be permitted access to certain records contained in a digital library. There are several ways to accomplish this task. One is password and id verification another is through the users IP address. But it is important to keep in mind that management access will have adverse affects on the the user interface.

The central concept of the general model framework is that access is controlled through the creation of policies. These policies assigns users a set of digital material which they have permission to access while denying access to others.

Materials can also be assigned a level of risk and categorized that way so the level of access can be determined through that risk assessment. Analysis of users and their roles must also be examined when implementing access management.