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D7.6 of the EC IST SCULPTEUR project (IST-2001-35372) 'Final Interoperability Protocol Specification'
No full textThis is a report on the approach that the EC IST FP5 SCULPTEUR project has taken for interoperability between multimedia digital libraries in the cultural heritage sector and contains a specification of the SCULPTEUR Interoperability protocol. The SCULPTEUR interoperability protocol is based on the SRW (Search and Retrieve Web Service) specification developed by the z39.50 community and provides a way for external systems to query the contents of a SCULPTEUR digital library. The target audience of this document is CRM and SRW users (or those seeking to use the CIDOC CRM or SRW protocol) who want to provide a search and retrieval service
D13.1 of the EC IST PrestoSpace project (FP6-507336) 'Planning for Digitisation and Access'
No full textThis report provides medium to large audiovisual archives with a guide to business planning of preservation projects. A tried-and-tested process is presented for assessing the urgency and cost of migrating an analogue collection into a sustainable digital form. A separate report is in production that will address the needs of small audiovisual archives
Planning the digitisation, storage and access of large scale audiovisual archives
No full textThis paper presents ongoing work in PrestoSpace on how broadcast archives can plan large-scale, long-term digitization and storage projects. In our approach, carrier decay, technical obsolescence, and rapidly falling costs of mass storage are represented as a series of statistical and predictive models. The models include ongoing migration within a digital archive. The objective is to allow archive managers to investigate the trade-offs between how many items to transfer, the cost of transfer and storage, how long it will take, what quality can be achieved, how much will be lost, and what digital storage solutions to adopt over time. The process and models are based on digitization projects conducted by large broadcast archives that are currently migrating their collections into digital form. Whilst our focus is on broadcast archives, our findings should be readily transferable to other scenarios where there is a need to store large volumes of digital data over long periods of time
The eCHASE System for Cross-border Use of European Multimedia Cultural Heritage Content in Education and Publishing
No full textEurope’s digital cultural heritage content has tremendous exploitation potential in applications such as Education, Publishing, e-Commerce, Public-Access and Tourism. Value is hugely amplified if the content can be aggregated repurposed and distributed at a European level. The eCHASE project seeks to demonstrate that public-private partnerships between content holders and commercial service providers can create new services and a sustainable business based on access and exploitation of digital cultural heritage content. This paper describes the eCHASE demonstrator from a technical perspective, briefly detailing the tools and components which make up the system and the use of open standards
Simulation on demand
No full textThe use of engineering meta-applications for activities such as design optimisation and sensitivity analysis can provide substantial business benefits, but require significant computing resources. However, they can be made financially viable through the exploitation of software and hardware on demand business models, supported by an electronic marketplace. This paper presents an agent-based business-to-business e-commerce system that enables large-scale distributed engineering simulations using third-party resources. The system has wide applicability and can form an e-business framework for many resource-intensive applications provided by the emerging application service provision (ASP) market
Ambient Multi-Camera Personal Documentary
No full textPolymnia is an automated solution for the creation of ambient multi-camera personal documentary films. This short paper introduces the system, emphasising the rule-based documentary generation engine that we have created to assemble an edited narrative from source footage. We describe how such automatically generated media can be integrated with and augment personally-authored images and videos as a contribution to an individual’s personal digital memory
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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