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The following is a general guideline for creating digital collections and working with early Indiana documents. Once you decided to digitize a manuscript collection and created a plan, there are ways you can enhance your collection. 1. Taking the time to learn how to read historical handwriting and manuscript collections. 2. Conducting extensive research on the collection. 3. Carefully selecting your collection’s metadata. 4. Promoting your collection once it is live. While explaining the steps, I incorporate examples from my experience reading, researching, inputting metadata, and uploading documents from the New Harmony Collections for the Indiana State Library.

The importance of understanding the quality of data used in any GIS operation should not be underestimated. Metadata (data about data) traditionally provides a description of this quality information, but it is frequently deemed as complex to create and maintain. Additionally, it is generally stored separately from the data leading to issues with updates to the data not being reflected in the metadata and to users not being aware that metadata exists. These issues have gained increasing importance as more and more non-specialists access GIS software and data – driven by Free Open Source Software (FOSS) and Open Data, particularly in an academic context. This paper describes an approach to address these two issues – tightly coupling data and metadata and automating many elements of standardsbased metadata creation. The tools have been developed using the FOSS packages Quantum GIS and PostGIS.

In today's society, an enormous amount of data is created that is stored in various databases. Since the data is in many cases stored in different databases, there is a demand from organizations with a lot of data to be able to merge separated data and get an extraction of this resource. Extract, Transform and Load System (ETL) is a solution that has made it possible to easily merge different databases. However, the ETL market has been owned by large actors such as Amazon and Microsoft and the solutions offered are completely owned by these actors. This leaves the consumer with little ownership of the solution. Therefore, this thesis proposes a framework to create a component based ETL which gives consumers an opportunity to own and develop their own ETL solution that they can customize to their own needs. The result of the thesis is a prototype ETL solution that is built with the idea of being able to configure and customize the prototype and it accomplishes this by being indep...

Software assets are key output of the RAGE project and they can be used by applied game developers to enhance the pedagogical and educational value of their games. These software assets cover a broad spectrum of functionalities – from player analytics including emotion detection to intelligent adaptation and social gamification. In order to facilitate integration and interoperability, all of these assets adhere to a common model, which describes their properties through a set of metadata. In this paper the RAGE asset model and asset metadata model is presented, capturing the detail of assets and their potential usage within three distinct dimensions – technological, gaming and pedagogical. The paper highlights key issues and challenges in constructing the RAGE asset and asset metadata model and details the process and design of a flexible metadata editor that facilitates both adaptation and improvement of the asset metadata model.

Presentation for the Area Studies Webinar Series, 03 May 2016, outlining the initiative within the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) to pilot shared cataloging across CIC institutions, and the development of the partnership that resulted.

This paper describes the use of adaptation patterns in the task of formulating standards for adaptive educational hypermedia (AEH) systems that is currently under investigation by the EU ADAPT project. Within this project, design dimensions for high granularity patterns have been established. In this paper we focus on detailing lower granularity adaptive patterns based upon learning styles. Several patterns from existing AEH system case studies are identified and classified according to an extended learning style "onion" model. This model forms the basis of a learning style taxonomy, introduced here, whose components determine adaptation patterns for AEH. These patterns are of importance both for authoring, as well as for interfacing between adaptive hypermedia systems. From an authoring point of view, these patterns may be used to establish a fine-grain approach to instructional strategies that can be implemented in AEH systems, as a response to a particular learning style. The implementation of this adaptation pattern taxonomy is discussed, both generally and in detail.

The paper presents a visualization-based approach to explore large databases of geographic metadata. The aim of the data exploration is to search and acquire expressive geographic data to create a geographic information system. Metadata repositories which provide information about available geographic data exist on the web and are usually queried to perform data acquisition task. We propose a visualization--based tool to assist the user in this metadata exploration. The approach is characterized by the integration of multi visualization techniques, interaction methods and data mining concepts. The use of multi visualization techniques and a dynamic interaction with them allow to discover new information among data and assists the user in his reasoning.

In this system we propose a novel privacy-preserving mechanism that supports public auditing on shared data stored in the cloud. In particular, we exploit ring signatures to compute verification metadata needed to audit the correctness of shared data. With our mechanism, the identity of the signer on each block in shared data is kept private from public verifiers, who are able to efficiently verify shared data integrity without retrieving the entire file. In addition, our mechanism is able to perform multiple auditing tasks simultaneously instead of verifying them one by one. Our experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of our mechanism when auditing shared data integrity. This Project Mainly Focus To Realize The Authentication For The Data Accesson a Demand Mode. New Security And The Privacy Concerns Can Be Performed. AIDA Algorithm Is Used For The Multiparty Oriented Cloud Services. SAPA Protocol for Address the Privacy Issue.

This paper presents a new approach to develop the strategy of Model–View–Controller architecture pattern in Business Intelligence (BI) architecture. The Business Intelligence architecture consists of the ETL tools and processes, the data warehouse, the technical infrastructure, and the user-interface tools. The major issue related to Business Intelligence architecture is to store the data from heterogeneous sources. The heterogeneous sources might lead to inconsistencies in storage and retrieval of data. Another issue related to Business Intelligence architecture is to provide multiple and synchronized views. The Business information must be presentable in various formats with ‘look and feel ’ approach. Model-View-Controller provides independent approach to the components of Business Intelligence architecture. Model provides guideline for storing the heterogeneous data in one format and implements core functionality of the system. View provides multiple and synchronized views so tha...

Abstract (ENG):
On November 14th and 15th 2017, at the Stabat Mater room of Archiginnasio Public Library of Bologna, the conference "Il libro antico. Limiti e prospettive dei censimenti", coordinated by Regione Emilia-Romagna-Istituto per i beni artistici, culturali e naturali (IBC), took place. On the first day there has been two sessions: one morning session titled "I fondi librari antichi: un patrimonio da conoscere, promuovere, valorizzare, tutelare" ; and one afternoon session titled "Catalogare per conoscere, promuovere, valorizzare, tutelare: le banche-dati". The second and last day has introduced a session titled: "Catalogazione e digitalizzazione: situazione presente e prospettive future". This conference represents a great opportunity to reflect on a still open way about early printed book. A lot of proposed speeches have often reminded that forty years passed since the introduction of automation in libraries related to early printed book; a setting which deserves to be studied and discovered again, above all in the light of the latest innovations and the evolutionary process of information technology and Web. Although information technology has made remarkable progresses on creation of ad hoc software environment, as well as in the definition of "open" and flexible metalanguages to create metadata and codify in a digital way hierarchically ordered and organized text contents, there is still much to do, especially for early printed books, with the specific goal to simplify and increase the census of item data and the connection between these data (which they often elude the strict mechanism of databases and/or forms of census) and digital copies on the Web.


Abstract (ITA):
Nelle giornate del 14 e 15 novembre 2017, presso la Sala Stabat Mater della Biblioteca comunale dell’Archiginnasio di Bologna, si è celebrato il convegno dal titolo “Il libro antico. Limiti e prospettive dei censimenti”, organizzato dalla Regione Emilia-Romagna - Istituto per i beni artistici, culturali e naturali (IBC).
L’evento, dalla tematica assai vasta e di sicuro interesse grazie alla qualità degli interventi proposti e dei relatori intervenuti dall’Italia e dall’estero, ha riscontrato una grande affluenza da parte della comunità dei bibliotecari e degli studiosi, che hanno partecipato molto numerosi.
Per la giornata d’avvio il programma ha proposto due sedute: una seduta antimeridiana dal titolo: I fondi librari antichi: un patrimonio da conoscere, promuovere, valorizzare, tutelare; e una seduta pomeridiana dal titolo: Catalogare per conoscere, promuovere, valorizzare, tutelare: le banche-dati. La seconda e ultima giornata del convegno ha proposto una seduta dal titolo: Catalogazione e digitalizzazione: situazione presente e prospettive future.
Questo convegno non deve essere inteso come un’occasione celebrativa posta a chiusura di un programma di attività: esso rappresenta, invece, una preziosa opportunità di riflessione su un percorso a tutt’oggi aperto e incentrato sul libro antico. Molti degli interventi proposti, infatti, hanno spesso richiamato alla memoria dei presenti come siano trascorsi ben quarant’anni dall’introduzione della tematica dell’automazione in biblioteca e relativa al libro antico; uno scenario che merita di essere analizzato e riscoperto, soprattutto alla luce delle recenti innovazioni e dei processi evolutivi della tecnologia informatica e del Web.
Per quanto l’Informatica abbia fatto notevolissimi passi avanti nella creazione di ambienti software ad hoc, così come nella definizione di metalinguaggi “aperti” e flessibili per la metadatazione e la codifica digitale di contenuti testuali e gerarchicamente ordinati e strutturati, c’è ancora molto da fare, specialmente quando l’oggetto di studio sono i libri antichi, con l’obiettivo specifico di facilitare e potenziare il censimento dei dati d’esemplare e il collegamento di tali dati (che spessissimo sfuggono alle logiche stringenti dei campi a selezione fissa delle banche-dati e/o delle schede dei censimenti) alle copie digitali che popolano il Web.

Cíntia de Azevedo Lourenço graduated in librarianship (1991) and also earned a masters degree (1998) in librarianship at Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas, Brazil, PUC, and a doctoral degree (2005) in information science, at Federal University of the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, UFMG. She is a graduate professor in the Information Science School of Federal University of Minas Gerais State , Belo Horizonte , Brazil. Her current research interests include document description, documents representation , cataloging, metadata and FRBR. She is a member of a institutional research group on these themes. Her curriculum vitae can be found at http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualizacv. jsp?id=K4773000E8. Lídia Alvarenga graduated in librarianship (1968) at Federal University of the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, UFMG, earned a masters degree (1984) in information science at Communication Faculty, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, UFRJ, and a doctoral degree (1996) in education, at Education School, UFMG. She is a graduate and undergraduate professor in the Information Science School of Federal University of Minas Gerais State, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Her current research interests include knowledge organization, document representation and description, and bibliometric studies. She is a member of a institutional research group on these themes. Her curriculum vitae can be found at http:// lattes.cnpq.br/9205421345814071. de Azevedo Lourenço, Cíntia, and Alvarenga, Lídia. Metadata Standard of Theses and Dissertations according to the Entity-Relationship Model. Knowledge Organization, 36(1), 30-45. 17 references. ABSTRACT: With the automation of information systems and with the advent of digital libraries, norms, standards and techniques of library studies have been widely discussed, analyzed, reevaluated and reorganized. In this article the results of doctoral research, in which the Brazilian Metadata Standard for Theses and Dissertations (MTD-BR) was analyzed, is presented. This standard has been utilized in the digital Library of Theses and Dissertations Project, of the Instituto Brasileiro de Infor-mação em Ciência e Tecnologia, IBICT (Brazilian Institute for Scientific and Technological Information), with the methodology of data modeling, according to the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR), which is based on the Entity-Relationship Model. It was concluded that new studies should be carried out applying this methodology to other metadata standards, even if they are analyzed with other data modeling tools, such as the object-oriented model, and considering its relationship with the guidelines, principles and instruments of library studies.

The Web puts a huge number of learning resources within reach of anyone with Internet access. However, many valuable resources are difficult to find due to the lack of interoperability among learning repositories. In order to achieve interoperability, implementers require a common query framework. This paper discusses a set of methods referred to as Simple Query Interface (SQI) as a universal interoperability layer for educational networks. The methods proposed can be used by a source for configuring ...

This paper suggests that in the search for particular practices that escape biological
determinism historians may be better off focusing on circulating men and cultural objects – on displaced figures – as they travel and adjust to new conditions. Strangers experience intense cognitive dissonance between the innate natural conditions of their upbringing and their cognitive values, and as such, these figures work out their mental capacities and exercise free-will more powerfully than well-embedded cultural figures. To adjust to new language and cultural practices, they wrestle with fixed habits. Natives, on the other end, experience estrangement when they encounter foreign cultural objects, reinterpret and place them in a fluid web of implied meanings. Both encounters generate sensations of estrangement, forcing humans to act beyond their inborn and habitual reactions. Therefore, in this current age of physical determinism, cultural networks and moving objects carry great potential in further developing cultural history and in re-stressing and maintaining culture as the expressive realm of the collective soul.

The focal point of security is preventing unauthorized access or loss of customer or company data. Texas Instruments proposes these solution components for activating biometric security of a technological infrastructure. Methods and documented standards are being developed, as biometrics is a newcomer to the cyber security scene. The National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) declared that interoperability is the cornerstone of success for biometrics and deployment requires both national and international standards. Standards have been developed but, rapid innovations coupled with the unconditional data interchange formats and technical interference, result in products that don’t meet established standards.

—This paper gives an overview about different metadata schemas used for preserving digital documents. The resources specified here gives us a head start in understanding various metadata standards. They are used for several purposes in efficient data retrieval from database. However major standards are addressed where more research work is needed to retrieve data efficiently.

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This book is designed to provide comprehensive of Multimedia Technologies with a strong focus on field practice and active experimentation. Amply supplemented with rich pedagogy, it offers an unparalleled learning experience to both students and practitioners.
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Quali sono le metodologie che portano alla costituzione di un archivio fotografico? L’autrice cerca di rispondere partendo dall’analisi fisica fino ad arrivare alle ricerche più recenti, che in campo italiano stanno portando alla creazione della scheda FF, all’utilizzo di software di archiviazione e catalogazione gratuiti, e in campo internazionale alla creazione di una rete di conoscenze basate sulla creazione di metadati. L’analisi è supportata dallo studio della composizione dell’Archivio fotografico Vittorio Emanuele presente all’interno della Biblioteca nazionale centrale di Roma, scelto perché presenta validi spunti di ricerca metodologici, il quale è stato confrontato con l’Arquivo Municipal de Lisboa, di cui sono state prese in considerazione la capacità e la modalità di centralizzare e conservare la produzione fotografica dispersa negli edifici dell’Archivio della città, e con la University of St Andrews Library Photographic Collection, che ospita una delle più grandi e importanti collezioni di fotografia storica della Scozia. Il tutto supportato da un’analisi storica che da Baumann e il suo Liquid Modernity, Deridda e il Mal d’archive agli Archival turn eredi del postmodernismo e della decostruzione porterà alla nuova scienza archivistica della visual culture.
Chiara Micol Schiona è docente presso l'Università di Bologna per il corso di Teorie e metodi degli archivi per la moda. Specializzata in Storia della Fotografia, è oggi archivista, bibliotecaria, pubblicista, curatrice di mostre. Ha partecipato a numerosi programmi di ricerca nazionali e internazionali. È stata assegnista di ricerca per l'Istituto centrale per il catalogo e Documentazione di Roma ed è referee di riviste internazionali e italiane nel settore dell'archivistica, moda e fotografia.

An important dimension of social media discourse is its searchability. A key semiotic resource supporting this function is the hashtag, a form of social tagging that allows microbloggers to embed metadata in posts. While popularly thought of as topic-markers, hashtags are able to construe a range of complex meanings in social media texts. This paper uses Halliday’s (1978) concept of linguistic metafunctions, to explore how hashtags enact three simultaneous communicative functions: marking experiential topics, enacting interpersonal relationships, and organizing text. Corpus-based discourse analysis of linguistic patterns in a 100 million word Twitter corpus is used to investigate these functions and how they enact social processes of ‘ambient affiliation’ is also considered.

Session on linked data and OpenRefine in "Stay Savvy with Scholarly Communication Brown Bag Lunch" at the University of Central Florida Libraries. It covers the following topics: Why does linked data matter? How can libraries and librarians embrace linked data? Linked Data in the Library and the Web (Cases, Standards and Vocabularies); Linked Data Design Principles, Building Blocks & Creation; Current Digital Repositories and Linked Data; Data Editing Tool: OpenRefine (Features, Examples); Possible Ways to Get Involved.

In order to provide a thorough analysis of how the management of digital assets, as well as the creation of these assets, is of an importance in this digital age, I will primarily focus on three of the more elaborate themes within digital asset management.