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Remains
No full text'Remains' is a text composed by Annabel Frearson using the last words from the remaining books of a recently deceased artist. It was performed by the author at the launch event for the publication of Issue 2 of '...Or maybe it's the same for everyone' with contributing artists: Martin Westwood, Annabel Frearson, Patrick Coyle and Lizzy Kane.
A launch event was held with performances by the authors at Cafe Oto, London 6 May 2014
Innovation governance in the public sector
No full textThe growth in the use of Information Technologies in the private sector calls for the public sector to anticipate. The public sector digitalisation is expected to improve execution of public tasks and services, and increase confidence of citizens and businesses in new innovative solutions. However, public sector innovation on digitalisation is not seen as a priority, innovation is too risky, and the public sector has no incentive due to absent competitors. Nevertheless, without innovation, public tasks and services become inadequate, resulting in stagnated and eventually decreased effectiveness and efficiency of service delivery. The need for innovation approaches; the inconsistency in sustaining innovation by the public sector; and the unprecedented pace of technological, demographic and social changes, require a systematic approach. The research question answered in this thesis is therefore: “How to govern innovation in the public sector to enhance public sector digitalisation?” The thesis starts with a literature review on innovation (on different types, barriers and drivers, management, and governance), then explains the methodology (qualitative research, data collection through judgment sampling) and where the research was carried out: the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate. Hereafter the results are presented as: the definition and view on public sector innovation, barriers and drivers of public sector innovation, and the development of a governance framework for promoting innovation in the public sector. In the following chapter an initial evaluation is presented, followed by the discussion and conclusion answering the main research question, recommendations, and suggestions for further research. The concluding remark on the thesis shows that the final framework could be seen as a first step in setting up a governance for public sector innovation.Management of Technology (MoT
Generating Teacher Feedback through Parsons Problems
No full textAs computer science lies at the heart of almost all technological progress, widespread computer science education, and particularly programming education, is of great importance. In order to reach a large group of students, secondary schools can play an important role. However, students have difficulty learning programming concepts. Programming is complicated and the education largely takes place on computers, which allows for little interaction with teachers. Consequently, teachers have difficulty gaining insights about the progress and misunderstandings of students and thus have little opportunity to intervene, which threatens to undermine the effectiveness of the learning process. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to improve on existing programming education by developing a feedback method for computer science teachers, which enables them to better understand and remedy programming misconceptions held by their students. Following a Grounded Theory approach, interviews were conducted with computer science teachers and programming education researchers in the Netherlands. Participants were asked to describe the problems they encountered in teaching programming concepts and to identify what in their views would help to improve their teaching. Furthermore, literature was reviewed on existing tools which offer teacher feedback. The majority of these tools appeared to provide little insight and/or require time-consuming analysis by the teacher in order to gain some insights. Teachers indicated that they have little time for complicated data analyses, but would highly value detailed feedback about their students’ programming misconceptions. Furthermore, it was suggested that alternative testing methods, such as puzzles, might be useful. Based on these findings, Parsons Problems were proposed and tested as a solution for detecting programming misconceptions. The testing took place during two rounds, a small-scale trial experiment and a broader experiment in which 64 secondary school students participated. 'Primitive assignment works in opposite direction' was the number one misconception, held by 56% of the participants, and was the most occurring misconception across students. The 'invalid else-statement' misconception was the second most held misconception (53% of participating students), followed by 'primitive assignment works in both directions (swaps)' (45%), 'difficulties in understanding the sequentiality of statements' (39%), 'the natural-language semantics of variable names affects which value gets assigned to which variable' (20%), 'adjacent code executes within loop' (6%), and 'using else is optional' (5%). As 7 out of 8 misconceptions targeted in the experiment were successfully detected, this experiment demonstrates that employing Parsons Problems appears to be a viable method for misconception detection
Design of a Quantum Microarchitecture Integrated Circuit: For Deep Cryogenic Operation
No full textIf a practical quantum computer is to be built, it will not only need quantum programming languages and qubits, but hardware-software interfaces as well. These interfaces, also known as computer (micro)architectures are the key to creating a ’quantum stack’, where a programmer can directly execute programs onto quantum hardware. A functional quantum computer microarchitecture, the Central Controller-Light (CCLight), has been designed, implemented on a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), and verified to control superconducting qubits successfully. The next logical step, in hopes of creating a more scalable quantum computing system, is to take the CCLight and implement it as an Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC). In this thesis, the CCLight was built into an ASIC. It was shown that this approach yields the potential for higher performance and lower power for the microarchitecture core, and the groundwork for more robust and automatic testing of similar microarchitectures was laid out. Lastly, the lack of scalability in the original approach, wherein the processor transmits multi-byte codewords to the analog/RF hardware controlling the qubits, was revealed.Computer Engineerin
“I cannot tell what the dickens his name is”: Name Disambiguation in Institutional Repositories
No full text© 2014 Walker & Armstrong. This open access article is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License, which allows unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.INTRODUCTION Authors who publish under more than one form of their name, multiple authors with the same name, and incomplete author information can all create challenges for repository staff when entering metadata. Unless properly addressed, these variations and duplications can result in search and retrieval errors for users. Name disambiguation, the process of identifying, merging, and making names accessible in one standard form, is a vital process repository staff should incorporate into their workflow to address these issues. DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAM Staff working with ScholarWorks, Boise State’s institutional repository, are exploring the use of disambiguation tools to solve the issue of name duplication. Systems explored include ORCID, ResearcherID, Scopus, Google Scholar Citations, Names Project, and the Digital Commons’ Author Merge Tool. NEXT STEPS Based on this initial assessment, ScholarWorks staff will continue to use the Author Merge Tool on a regular basis and explore ways to document and retain information discovered during the analysis phase. Additionally, they will continue to experiment with emerging name authority tools, such as ORCID. Finally, metadata specialists are encouraged to advocate for international standards that will provide prescribed rules for how metadata is entered into a repository system
Book review: Ethics for records and information management
No full text© Author. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.During the last 30 years, information technology has exploded; with that comes a host of issues that constantly need to be addressed, including how to treat the various and numerous records that have been created as a result of said information explosion. Records and information management (RIM) professionals need to adapt and adjust to the responsibilities that these changes entail. Mooradian’s book, Ethics for Records and Information Management, is essentially a manual to help RIM professionals, including librarians and archivists, develop and implement ethical organizational policies by using a principles-based approach to ethics to help the reader through the process. The author points out that RIM professionals have specific ethical responsibilities and that they will need to be equipped to establish policies, training, and systems “that are meant to manage information in a way that is fair and legitimate” (xxv–xxvi). Mooradian addresses topics that everyone working in information professions should be aware of, such as the structure of ethics, including outlining principles, moral rules, judgments, and exceptions; ethical reasoning; the ethical core of records and information management; important ethical concerns such as copyright and intellectual property, whistleblowing, information leaks, disclosure, and privacy; and the relationship between RIM ethics and information governance
Cowichan Campus Staff Bulletin [April 2009]
No full texthttps://viuspace.viu.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/1564/CowStaff-Apr-09.pdf?sequence=3Cowichan Campus events on
April 15 : Town hall meeting ; Author reading -- "This is my home" -- Service recognition -- New Cowichan Campus announcement! -- Past staff bulletins -- Summer schedules -- Milner Gardens and Woodland annual membership -- Some green reminders -- Congratulations! -- Lizzy Lou's at the U -- Cafeteria dishes -- You are beautiful -- Sugar and gold concert -- Mike Coleman Citizenship Award -- 5th annual Cowichan Aboriginal Film Festival hed April 16-19 -- Employee parking
Book review: Library automation: core concepts and practical systems analysis
No full textClick on the DOI link to access the article (may not be free).Bilal discusses at length integrated library systems (ILS), provides and overview of the Library Automation Lifecycle (LALC), and emphasizes throughout the fact that technology changes rapidly. As a result of technological change, libraries will always be involved in some kind of ILS implementation project. The book is specifically designed for MLIS graduate students, educators, and researchers interested in library automation and ILSs, yet the author also creates a valuable resource that any type of library can use as a reference
“I cannot tell what the dickens his name is”: Name Disambiguation in Institutional Repositories
No full textINTRODUCTION Authors who publish under more than one form of their name, multiple authors with the same name, and incomplete author information can all create challenges for repository staff when entering metadata. Unless properly addressed, these variations and duplications can result in search and retrieval errors for users. Name disambiguation, the process of identifying, merging, and making names accessible in one standard form, is a vital process repository staff should incorporate into their workflow to address these issues. DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAM Staff working with ScholarWorks, Boise State’s institutional repository, are exploring the use of disambiguation tools to solve the issue of name duplication. Systems explored include ORCID, ResearcherID, Scopus, Google Scholar Citations, Names Project, and the Digital Commons’ Author Merge Tool. NEXT STEPS Based on this initial assessment, ScholarWorks staff will continue to use the Author Merge Tool on a regular basis and explore ways to document and retain information discovered during the analysis phase. Additionally, they will continue to experiment with emerging name authority tools, such as ORCID. Finally, metadata specialists are encouraged to advocate for international standards that will provide prescribed rules for how metadata is entered into a repository system
Book review: Linked data for cultural heritage
No full textThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Linked data has been a hot topic in the library world, and this book provides a good overview of the topic. The contributors present theoretical and practical information to help readers understand linked data concepts and its purpose.
The first chapter, by Thorson and Pattuelli, presents institutional projects experimenting with linked data, including Europeana, the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), the Social Networks and Archival Context Project (SNAC), and more. They also present a detailed description of the Linked Jazz project. In the second chapter, Stahmer presents the migration process of the English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) from MARC to linked data and potential benefits that migration presents. The author provides a great explanation of the triplestore data model, a discussion of tagging and controlled vocabularies, and social cataloging
