In recent years RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology based on information carriers, called transponders, has spread rapidly. The contents of transponders can be read and changed at a distance. Transponders can be of various shapes and sizes, which makes it possible to use them in a large variety of fields, such as transport, trade, warehouses, and libraries. RFID labels make it possible to identify, protect and track library materials. A library using this system has to be equipped with suitable readers, a sensor gate for protection, and hardware and software that make linking to the library information system possible. IZUM, in co-operation with Bibliotheca RFID Library Systems AG, a Swiss company, developed software solutions to enable RFID application in libraries that participate in the COBISS.SI system. The RFID system was given an experimental implementation in the first Slovenian library this September. In the final chapter of this article, future perspectives of RFID technology application and some doubts related to protection of data privacy are presented.
The concept of web accessibility provides the basis for ensuring accessibility of websites and mobile apps for all users, primarily for persons with a disability. The Accessibility of Websites and Mobile Applications Act from 2018 represents a regulation of minimal harmonization and it summarizes the EU directive. Although the act was adopted several years ago, the situation in Slovenia is still relatively undeveloped.
The paper reviews, with some historical distance, the circumstances leading to the VMS operating system becoming the basis for developing and implementing the COBISS national shared bibliographic system.
The article presents and analyses selected digital humanities projects and research initiatives in which libraries and other heritage institutions participate actively. These ambitious global projects supplement the existing knowledge on general and specific social and cultural-historical phenomena in the field of written cultural heritage with the help of web-based applications, tools and the collaborative location-independent research approach.
Due to a large number of web devices and many end users, who want constant availability and quick responsiveness of applications, new approaches to computer programming are required. The concept of reactive programming, its basic characteristics, reactive solutions and microservices based on asynchronous operation are presented.
The E-CRIS web applications representing research activities in countries that participate in the COBISS.Net system make it possible to access data in the XML format adjusted for communication among computers. Internal IZUM applications and different applications of scientific institutions access the data. In 2016, access to a wider data set in the JSON format was made possible.
