Using smart card to purchase text information from digital library / Ng Han Teck

Ng , Han Teck (2002) Using smart card to purchase text information from digital library / Ng Han Teck. Undergraduates thesis, University of Malaya.

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Abstract

In middle of 1990s, World Wide Web (WWW) had transformed the online world tremendously. Therefore, digital library is a kind of modem library that been implemented In order to provide a better service and convenience to the users especially Internet users. The title for this project is "Using smart card to purchase text Information from Digital Library". This project is developed for the users in order to use a smart card to purchase text information in a digital library via Internet. Usually, users are allowed to browse, read the information and retrieve information in a digital library. Therefore, smart card is used as electronic cash or purse to replace the real monetary for dealing transaction. Here, the text information is the electronic journals (e-journals). What about the payment system? The smart card payment system is using the concept that is quite similar to prepaid card payment system. In other words, users can top up the value of electronic cash that stored inside smart card by paying the equivalent monetary value. The integration of advanced features such as the smart card payment system and information retrieval in digital library, newsletter, e-mail and etc further enhanced this system by allowing more sophisticated and Interactive online tasks to be executed among users and the administrator. The development tools for this system are mainly, Microsoft FrontPage 2.000, Microsoft Interdev 6.0, Active Server Page (ASP), VbScript and utilizing Microsoft SQL Server on Microsoft Window 2000 NT Server platform.

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