762 research outputs found
Achieving OAI PMH compliancy for CDS/ISIS databases
No full textPurpose – The main purpose of this paper is to present the work recently carried out by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in collaboration with Associazione per la documentazione le biblioteche e gli archivi (DBA) in Italy to make web CDS/ISIS-based applications
compliant with the OAI-PMH. CDS/ISIS is an Integrated Storage and Information Retrieval System of Unesco, which is widely used especially in Latin America and Africa. There are hundreds of CDS/ISIS-based application systems managing bibliographical reference, ensuring high quality
content through the use of built-in authority files, data entry guidelines and validations. It also allows for metadata export in many different formats.
Design/methodology/approach – The methodology adopted included study, analysis and evaluation of three existing solutions for exposing metadata from the CDS/ISIS database repositories to the OAI framework.
Findings – The implementation did not include the development of automatic procedures for incremental harvesting from CDS/ISIS databases nor the normalization of the harvested data.
However, a lot of experience in implementation of OAI was gained which will be useful for future development of non-CDS/ISIS systems.
Research limitations/implications – The research and development work demonstrates the importance and implications of this work for the whole CDS/ISIS community and specifically for the participating centres from the AGRIS network.
Originality/value – It proposes an open source, easily parametrizable plug-in tool, which can be adapted to expose metadata from a general structure CDS/ISIS database using the OAI-PMH protocol.
This work assures that semantically rich metadata for agricultural science and research publications based on the “AGRIS Application Profile” can be handled by the OAI protocol. This in turn allows for
further creation of additional services based on the exchange of knowledge on agricultural science and technology publications world-wide
Isis Pelagia : images, names and cults of a goddess of the seas /
No full textIn Isis Pelagia: Images, Names and Cults of a Goddess of the Seas<>/i>, Laurent Bricault, one of the principal scholars of the cults of Isis, presents a new interpretation of the multiple sources that present Isis as a goddess of the seas. Bricault discusses a wealth of relatively unknown archaeological and textual data, drawing on a profound knowledge of their historical context. After decades of scholarly study, Bricault offers an important contribution and a new phase in the debate on understanding the “diffusion” as well as the “reception” of the cults of Isis in the Graeco-Roman world. This book, the first English-language monograph by the leading French scholar in the field, underlines the importance of Isis Studies for broader debates in the study of ancient religion.Revised and updated translation of Isis, dame des flots.Includes bibliographical references and index.In Isis Pelagia: Images, Names and Cults of a Goddess of the Seas<>/i>, Laurent Bricault, one of the principal scholars of the cults of Isis, presents a new interpretation of the multiple sources that present Isis as a goddess of the seas. Bricault discusses a wealth of relatively unknown archaeological and textual data, drawing on a profound knowledge of their historical context. After decades of scholarly study, Bricault offers an important contribution and a new phase in the debate on understanding the “diffusion” as well as the “reception” of the cults of Isis in the Graeco-Roman world. This book, the first English-language monograph by the leading French scholar in the field, underlines the importance of Isis Studies for broader debates in the study of ancient religion
CDS-ISIS for archives.
No full textThe author presents the experience which took place in the Tate
Gallery Library and Archive with the CDS-ISIS system. The
works of art of the United Kingdom National Museum are
registered in a Clipper database, however those in charge of the
Library and the Museum decided to use the CDS-ISIS system
temporarily. The author mentions that although CDS-ISIS works
well in libraries, its application in an archive is more complex
due to the fact that these use archival levels and that the
majority of archives do not register their items as an unique
record. However the conclusions arrived at by the author are
quite satisfactory concerning the use of the CDS-ISIS system
in archives
Як воює ІДІЛ = How ISIS Fights
No full textBased on extensive field work, this book analyzes how ISIS – a widely hated, massively outnumbered, and ludicrously outgunned organization – managed to occupy over 120 cities, towns, and villages from the Southern Philippines to Western Libya. Seeking to understand ISIS’s combat effectiveness, Omar Ashour focuses on the military and tactical innovations of ISIS and their predecessors in Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Egypt. The author explains how their capacity to mix conventional military tactics with innovative guerrilla warfare and urban terrorism strategies allowed ISIS to expand and endure beyond expectations. This Ukrainian translation is supplemented by a special introduction on Russia’s war against Ukraine and the ISIS tactics adoption by Russian troops (2014-2022)
Як воює ІДІЛ = How ISIS Fights
No full textBased on extensive field work, this book analyzes how ISIS – a widely hated, massively outnumbered, and ludicrously outgunned organization – managed to occupy over 120 cities, towns, and villages from the Southern Philippines to Western Libya. Seeking to understand ISIS’s combat effectiveness, Omar Ashour focuses on the military and tactical innovations of ISIS and their predecessors in Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Egypt. The author explains how their capacity to mix conventional military tactics with innovative guerrilla warfare and urban terrorism strategies allowed ISIS to expand and endure beyond expectations. This Ukrainian translation is supplemented by a special introduction on Russia’s war against Ukraine and the ISIS tactics adoption by Russian troops (2014-2022)
ISIS and the "War Makes States" Path
No full textThis paper discusses the progression and evolution of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, also known as ISIS. The author explains how the group has progressed since its conception, explores possibilities for its evolution in the future, as it relates to and affects the surrounding countries and the international arena. The author examines the question of whether Charles Tilly’s “War Makes States” theory can be applied to the group in past, present, and future. The author uses a combination of literature review, critical reading, and research to explain how ISIS follows Tilly’s thesis that states emerge over time from areas of violence and the actions of violent groups. The author concludes that, despite recent territorial losses, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria is evolving towards statehood per Tilly’s model, and that this has ramifications for the rest of the world in that the international arena should act accordingly when dealing with the group in order to forestall this occurrence.
Local structure and clustering in acetic acid/pyridine mixtures
No full textNeutron datasets from ISIS, RB 1320357 Abstract: The aim of this proposed work is to complete our study of the behaviour of acetic acid/pyridine mixtures as a functionof composition, in order to fully characterise the changes in acetic acid clusters and oligomer chain formation acrossthe phase space. Such systems have been under continuous investigation from 1930s, through to thepresent day are of great current importance across disciplines ranging from the formation of protic ionic liquids through to structuring directing interactions in HIV-pepstatin complexes. The data to be collected here will target the key mixture compositions where major changes in bulk properties (viscosity/conductivity etc and responses toacceptor and donor number probes) are observed, providing a complete overview of the liquid structure across thewhole composition spectum. Public release date: 24 October 2016 Principal Investigator: Professor John Holbrey Experimenter: Ms Jade McCune Experimenter: Dr Gosia Swadzba-Kwasny Experimenter: Ms Caithlin White Experimenter: Mr Adam Turner Experimenter: Dr Fergal Coleman Experimenter: Dr Sarah Norman DOI: 10.5286/ISIS.E.42592920 ISIS Experiment Number: RB1320357 Part Number: 1 Date of Experiment: 19 October 2013 Publisher: STFC ISIS Neutron and Muon Source Data format: RAW/Nexus Select the data format above to find out more about it. Data Citation The recommended format for citing this dataset in a research publication is as: [author], [date], [title], [publisher], [doi] For Example: Professor John Holbrey et al; (2013): Local structure and clustering in acetic acid/pyridine mixtures, STFC ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.4259292
Who am I? Analysing Digital Personas in Cybercrime Investigations
No full textOnline cybercrime activities often involve criminals hiding behind multiple identities (so-called digital personas). Unraveling these multiple digital personas is a non-trivial problem owing to the large amounts of text communicated in online social media and the large numbers of digital personas involved. The cognitive load for cybercrime investigators is immense { existing tools lack the sophisticated capabilities required to analyse digital personas in order to provide investigators with clues to the identity of the individual or group hiding behind one or more personas. In this article, we present the Isis toolkit which addresses this very problem
Investigating Cation-Solute Hydrogen Bonding in Ionic Liquids
No full textNeutron datasets from ISIS, RB 1320528 Investigating Cation-Solute Hydrogen Bonding in Ionic Liquids image of ISIS instrument Data collected on the NIMROD instrument at the ISIS facility Abstract: This proposal aims to extend the understanding of uracil-ionic liquid interactions, in particular the C¿H2¿¿¿O=C interaction postulated to exist in a recently published study. The work will extend our understanding of cooperative cation/anion effects in the solubilisation process, and is complementary to our previous studies involving glucose dissolution in ionic liquids. Uracil is one of the four nucleobases of RNA and has uses in drug delivery, as well as being a precursor to various pharmaceuticals itself. As such, its solvation structure in ionic liquids (which are also being considered as potential reaction or solvation media for pharmaceuticals) is of particular interest. We intend to resolve the local structure of the mixture around the cation, anion, and solute, but with particular focus on the ring hydrogens of the ionic liquid cation in order to probe possible H-bonding motifs. Public release date: 31 March 2017 Principal Investigator: Dr Tristan Youngs Experimenter: Mr Adam Turner Experimenter: Professor John Holbrey Experimenter: Dr Fergal Coleman Experimenter: Dr Sarah Norman Experimenter: Ms Jade McCune Experimenter: Dr Gosia Swadzba-Kwasny Experimenter: Ms Caithlin White DOI: 10.5286/ISIS.E.44928045 ISIS Experiment Number: RB1320528 Part Number: 1 download the dataset download the dataset Date of Experiment: 28 March 2014 Publisher: STFC ISIS Neutron and Muon Source Data format: RAW/Nexus Select the data format above to find out more about it. Data Citation The recommended format for citing this dataset in a research publication is as: [author], [date], [title], [publisher], [doi] For Example: Dr Tristan Youngs et al; (2014): Investigating Cation-Solute Hydrogen Bonding in Ionic Liquids, STFC ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.4492804
Optically responsive ionogels
No full textNeutron datasets from ISIS, RB1320201 Abstract: Ionic liquids with 4-cyanopyridinium-based cations have been shown to form exceptionally colourful charge-transfer complexes with polyaromatic moleules such as naphthalene. Immobilisation of the ionic liquids through confinement within silica ionogels forms the basis for potentially new optical sensing technologies. The objectives of this proposal is to provide information on (i) the structure of the silica-confined ionic liquid, which will be compared with previous bulk ionic liquid data, and (ii) to explore the differences in the response of such ionogels to the two aromatic liquids, 1-methylnaphthalene and toluene, where a coloured charge transfer complex is formed in the former case and not in the latter. Public release date: 31 October 2016 Principal Investigator: Professor John Holbrey Experimenter: Mr Adam Turner Experimenter: Dr Tristan Youngs Experimenter: Dr Sarah Norman Experimenter: Dr Fergal Coleman Experimenter: Ms Jade McCune Experimenter: Ms Caithlin White Experimenter: Dr Gosia Swadzba-Kwasny DOI: 10.5286/ISIS.E.42591561 ISIS Experiment Number: RB1320201 Part Number: 1 Date of Experiment: 26 October 2013 Publisher: STFC ISIS Neutron and Muon Source Data format: RAW/Nexus Select the data format above to find out more about it. Data Citation The recommended format for citing this dataset in a research publication is as: [author], [date], [title], [publisher], [doi] For Example: Professor John Holbrey et al; (2013): Optically responsive ionogels, STFC ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.4259156
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