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Expert Finding by Capturing Organisational Knowledge from Legacy Documents
No full textOrganisations capitalise on their best knowledge through the improvement of shared expertise which leads to a higher level of productivity and competency. The recognition of the need to foster the sharing of expertise has led to the development of expert finder systems that hold pointers to experts who posses specific knowledge in organisations. This paper discusses an approach to locating an expert through the application of information retrieval and analysis processes to an organization’s existing information resources, with specific reference to the engineering design domain. The approach taken was realised through an expert finder system framework. It enables the relationships of heterogeneous information sources with experts to be factored in modelling individuals’ expertise. These valuable relationships are typically ignored by existing expert finder systems, which only focus on how documents relate to their content. The developed framework also provides an architecture that can be easily adapted to different organisational environments. In addition, it also allows users to access the expertise recognition logic, giving them greater trust in the systems implemented using this framework. The framework were applied to real world application and evaluated within a major engineering company
User Requirement Study for a Virtual Research Environment
No full textThis report is a documentation of a user requirement study for Collaborative Orthopaedics Research Environment (CORE) project. The study assesses the needs of users, who are researchers and clinicians working in a bone laboratory, for a Virtual Research Environment (VRE). It was conducted through a consultation process that involved semi-structured interview technique. Requirements of users for a VRE and their corresponding recommendations are outlined according to the study's objectives
An Overview of Service-Oriented Architecture
No full textThis report is a literature review of Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA). An SOA is a loosely couple network of communicating services. The key elements and characteristics of SOAs are outlined to guide the CORE project in creating a Virtual Research Environment (VRE). The benefits of using SOA concepts in implementing the VRE are presented and justifications of their use in the CORE project are also discussed
Towards a Collaborative Orthopaedic Research Environment
No full textUntil recently, it has been the case that scientific findings are captured, summarized, and shared through manuscripts. Nevertheless, the practices of science have already been affected dramatically by Web technologies. Virtual learning and research environments have typically been implemented as monolithic systems in the past. Collaborative Orthopaedic Research Environment (CORE) is a Virtual Research Environment (VRE) which is designed based on the concept of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Grid/Web services. It aims to provide an infrastructure that combines clinical, educational and research in one working environment. This paper describes the VRE requirements and discusses the advantages that will be achieved by implementing it as Grid/Web services
Integrating Service Oriented Architecture with a Virtual Research Environment
No full textA Virtual Research Environment using Service Oriented Architecture is designed to support surgeons and scientists in Bone Laboratory in carrying out trials and disseminating results. Based on the existing VRE system, the new system is reengineered as a loosely coupled web/grid services. The report describes the procedure of how to redesign and re-implement the VRE with focus on the work flows and processes within the server architecture and external web services
CORE User Requirement Study
No full textThis report describes a study undertaken as part of the Collaborative Orthopaedics Research Environment (CORE) project to determine the user requirements for a Virtual Research Environment (VRE). The study was conducted through a consultation process that involved semi-structured interviews and online survey. Requirements of users and their recommendations are presented according to the study’s objectives. The result of this study will be used to inform the development of a VRE demonstrator in the CORE project
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
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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