Table of Contents 

Table of Figures 

Figure 1: The Reference Manager literature selection on RFID, AmI, Profiling, Identity and Biometrics    7

Figure 2: Overview of the D7.10 Wiki Workpad Pages     10

Figure 3: Back-end System of Reference Manager    15

Figure 4: Starting Page of the literature selection on RFID, AmI, Profiling, Identity and Biometrics (front – end view)    16

Figure 5: Result of the Quick Search on ‘Profiling’ (front –end view)    16

Figure 6: Screenshot of the literature reference ‘Bygrave ID 11’ found by searching for ‘profiling’ (front – end view).    17

Table 1: Glossary of Acronyms    8

Table 2: Overview of the fields of the Wiki Workpad Reference Page    13

Table 3: Overview of the contributors    14

Executive Summary

This deliverable aims to set up a multidisciplinary, high quality literature selection in identity–related thematic areas, such as RFID, Profiling, AmI, and Biometrics. The FIDIS Work Package Leaders were asked to fill in references into the WP7 wiki workpad, which was created for this deliverable. A discussion forum was designed to enhance discussions among the contributors of the various work packages. The literature selection which is available on the internal portal and at http://bibliography.fidis.net can be consulted, searched and exported by members of the FIDIS community (in RIS or XML format to EndNote or ProCite). The availability of this expanding literature selection will serve to facilitate the authorship of further deliverables as well as academic publications by carefully selecting and reviewing leading articles in the field.

This deliverable must be seen as a continuous task. The set up of the literature selection is the main goal of the deliverable 7.10. The continuous development goes on after the delivery of the deliverable. 

Figure : The Reference Manager literature selection on RFID, AmI, Profiling, Identity and Biometrics

Introduction

The result of the Deliverable D7.10 is the realization of the first version of the Literature selection on RFID, Profiling, AmI, Biometrics and Identity, supported by the bibliographic management software Reference Manager. In this report, an overview of the objectives of the Literature selection will be provided (chapter 3). The process of the creation of the Literature selection will be explained (chapter 4), whereas in the following chapter (chapter 5) the outlook of the Literature selection is presented. Finally we define some steps for the future (chapter 6).

The Literature selection will require an ongoing effort by all FIDIS partners in order to stay dynamic and expand within the identified areas. The selection itself is available online at

Glossary of Acronyms

Table : Glossary of Acronyms

Objectives of the Literature Selection

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The aim is:  

1. to collect and evaluate existing literature in terms of disciplines, topics and quality, including an adequate abstract (the point is not to be exhaustive but to detect quality);

2. to detect quality, not to be exhaustive; (for this reason the selection is limited to 100 entries, forcing the editors to review, compare and weigh new entries after the limit of 100 has been reached);  

3. to especially seek multidisciplinary publications that move beyond juxtaposition of different disciplinary approaches, facing up to the relevance of findings of one discipline for what happens in the other;

4. to stimulate participation by all FIDIS partners, opening a Wiki to discuss relevance and quality; 

5. to guarantee coherence, relevance and quality by creating an editorial board of 2 or 3 scientists that evaluate suggested content in terms of relevance and quality;

6. to make this an ongoing endeavor, eventually to be placed on the external portal - providing canonical references for anyone interested in one or more of the topics.

Creation of the Literature Selection

In this section, we will explain how the creation of the literature selection was dealt with. In short, an editorial board was installed, wiki workpad pages were created, the Reference Manager software was installed and input (references) from the various FIDIS work packages was asked.  

The editorial board

An editorial board was set up to facilitate the creation of the literature selection. The editorial board consists of ICCS (Vassiliki Andronikou) scientific co-editor for technology aspects, TILT (Paul De Hert) co-editor of legal aspects, and VUB (Els Soenens) for the social aspects and overall coordination. These three people centralize the contributions and pay attention to the quality and multidisciplinarity of the (future) contributions. When the amount of references exceeds 100, the editorial board has the authority to replace references with less quality or reference which don’t exhibit multidisciplinarity.  

Hereafter you see an overview of the Wiki Workpad Pages: 

Figure : Overview of the D7.10 Wiki Workpad Pages

The D7.10 wiki workpad page contains links to those sub-pages that are important for the creation of the literature selection. The main-: http://internal.fidis.net/workpackage-main/wp7/wiki-workpad/wiki/Deliverable%20D7.10%3A%20literature%20selection/

The first sub-page is the reference page (http://internal.fidis.net/workpackage-main/wp7/wiki-workpad/wiki/reference%20page/). This page was designed as a straight forward fill-in form for the contributors of literature references. A wiki page entry-form has the advantage that every partner can see the contributions entered so far.

We asked the contributors of the literature references to provide information regarding the following fields: 

Table : Overview of the fields of the Wiki Workpad Reference Page

Next to the entry-form, a discussion forum has been installed on the reference page to facilitate communication and discussion between the contributors of the literature selection. The discussion forumhttp://internal.fidis.net/workpackage-main/wp7/wiki-workpad/wiki/Discussion%3Areference%20page/. So far no discussion has erupted yet. We expect that this will occur in due course, especially in the case of a difference of opinion as to the quality of a text. After reaching 100 items, new items will in principle replace ‘old’ entries (which will remain visible on the wiki pages) – this may need public motivation and discussion.

A guidelines’ page, explaining in detail the objectives of the literature selection, provides information regarding the entry-form. These http://internal.fidis.net/workpackage-main/wp7/wiki-workpad/wiki/guidelines/

Literature selection software

The bibliographic management software ‘Reference Manager’ is used to provide technical support for the Literature Selection. The software runs under Windows 2000 and XP systems and requires a Web Browser Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 and higher or Netscape 4.0 or higher (for the Web Publishing function).

The v11 Network Edition with a 5 user license has been bought. The advantage of this Network version is that (maximum) 5 users are authorized to be editors of the literature selection. There is always one Network administrator (VUB) who can limit the access rights for the other users to the Reference Manager database. For this literature selection, the overall editor (VUB) has exclusive read – write rights. The FIDIS community has the right to view the selection, to perform searches and export references (Read-Only access rights).  

The FIDIS members can access the selection thanks to the Web Publishing function of Reference Manager (see the selection on http://bibliography.fidis.net). The editorial board ensures that the latest version of the Literature Selection is uploaded using the Web Publishing function.

Contributions of the Work Packages

For the creation of the reference selection, all work packages were asked to contribute. Work package leaders were invited to fill in 5 literature references, which they valued as highly important and of high quality onto the reference page.  

The editors received references from the following people/ partners / Work Packages 

Table : Overview of the contributors

The Literature Selection

The literature selection can be accessed online by following the link on the D7.10 wiki page or directly at http://bibliography.fidis.net

Some screenshots of the bibliography management tools used can be found hereinafter:  

Figure : Back-end System of Reference Manager

Figure : Starting Page of the literature selection on RFID, AmI, Profiling, Identity and Biometrics (front – end view)

Figure : Result of the Quick Search on ‘Profiling’ (front –end view)

Figure : Screenshot of the literature reference ‘Bygrave ID 11’ found by searching for ‘profiling’ (front – end view).

Future Steps

The FIDIS community will be reminded to deliver references appropriate for the Literature Selection on a continuous basis, aiming at maintaining a dynamic Literature selection. If the selection is placed on the external portal, outsiders can suggest new entries as well.  

Another way to keep the selection up to date will be to screen the bibliographies of finished FIDIS Deliverables and to include the most interesting references in the areas of RFID, Profiling, AmI, Biometrics and Identity into the Literature selection. The screening will be the task of the editorial board. More specifically, editors have been assigned the responsibility of searching for relevant high-quality references according to their own expertise and insofar as these references are of multidisciplinary nature. 

The editorial board will ensure that the Literature selection does not exceed 100 references. Only those references which are valued highest quality / multidisciplinary will be kept within the selection.  

Since the Literature selection can be exported (e.g. RIS or HTML, to EndNote and ProCite), the references can be uploaded into other FIDIS databases in the future. 

When the selection has reached its critical value of 100 items, it will be put onto the external portal and become accessible by a broader audience with similar research interests.