5,300 research outputs found
Hypermedia Information Systems in Industry
No full textThe requirements for industrial strength hypermedia are well known. If hypermedia applications are to be used successfully in the industrial environment, then considerable effort is required to integrate them into with the organisation’s current business practices. This implies that any proposed model must be simple to maintain and implement, as well as bringing real benefits to the organisation as a whole. This article discusses the development of such a system, its implementation and evaluation to support manufacturing operations at Pirelli Cables, Eastleigh
Barriers preventing introduction of telemedicine
No full textThe data in this file is the raw data use to generate tables 4, 5 and 6, in the paper Jayasinghe, Dayani, Crowder, Richard and Wills, Gary (2016) Model for the adoption of telemedicine in Sri Lanka. Sage Open, 1-14. (doi:10.1177/2158244016668565).
The data is in cvs format. The data for each of the tables separated by a heading:- Clinician raw data; Hospital staff raw data; and public raw data. These correspond to the tables in the main paper.</span
RLabs: A South African Perspective on a Community-driven Approach to Community Information
No full textStakeholders in a community project commonly include academics, businesses, and people from within the community. Community empowerment is a central motivation for community informatics; however it is debatable how the community is empowered and benefits from many community research projects. This paper presents a community-driven case study, Reconstructed Living Lab, identifying factors that aid or hinder community-driven technological innovations. The RLabs case study identifies the community as the main stakeholder and identifies the factors that aid or hinder community empowerment. The conclusion is that Living Labs is an appropriate and effective vehicle for community empowerment
Social and Community Informatics and Social Theories of Networks
No full textThere are Non Government Organisations (NGOs), technical and academic interest in the community driven Athlone Living Lab and its social innovations. With actors across many disciplines, it is necessary that the successful solutions can be utilised by other NGO’s without creating social casualties. The social research background to the project needs to be understood so that the project can reach an academic audience in multi-disciplinary fields. Also that the data generated by this successful project may be used to demonstrate important principles that have enabled the community to develop from a Community in Tension (CiT) to a community in transformation
A University of Greenwich Case Study of Cloud Computing – Education as a Service
No full textThis paper proposes a new Supply Chain Business Model in the Education domain and demonstrates how Education as a Service (EaaS) can be delivered. The implementation at the University of Greenwich (UoG) is used as a case study. Cloud computing business models are classified into eight of Business Models, this classification is essential to the development of EaaS. A pair of the Hexagon Models is used to review Cloud projects against success criteria; one Hexagon Model focuses on Business Model and the other on IT Services. The UoG case study demonstrates the added value offered by Supply Chain software deployed by private cloud, where an Oracle suite and SAP supply chain can demonstrate supply chain distribution and is useful for teaching. The evaluation shows that students feel more motivated and can understand their coursework better
Applying linked data in multimedia annotations
No full textCurrent multimedia applications in Web 2.0 have generated large repositories for multimedia resources and annotations, so there is an urgent requirement to interlink annotations of these resources across different repositories to achieve better indexing and searching. To solve this problem, many researchers have been trying to apply semantic Web technologies to media fragments and annotations. Linked data has brought forward a promising way to expose, index and search media fragments and annotations which used to be isolated in different applications. This paper discusses in depth three key research problems when applying linked data principles in multimedia annotations: choosing URIs for media fragments, dereferencing media fragments and ontology alignment. An architecture is designed based on the possible solutions of the research problems. The key idea of the architecture is that it should act like an extra layer built on top of old applications when publishing linked data. A demo is built as an implementation of the architecture to show that media fragments can be published and linked to various datasets in the linked data cloud. In the future, some algorithms should be designed to make full use of the interlinked media fragments and annotations for indexing and searching
Improving the knowledge exchange landscape in the Cape Flats, a developing community in South Africa
No full textSouth Africa has a national shortage of Information Communication and Technology (ICT) personnel. Great strides are being made to improve the level of ICT literacy among the school population. However, it will take some time before the current school population has the necessary background training needed to use ICT in a corporate setting and fill this gap. Web 2.0 services have created a virtual world that brings people closer through the formation of networks. Web 2.0 services tend to be single function, easy-to-use tools. This research explored the use of Web 2.0 services to lower the barrier to take-up of ICT, by people living in a socially and economically deprived area, and affected by gangsterism and drugs. This article reports on an investigation into the use of Web 2.0 technologies to enhance the information flow within the community to assist preventing the growth and spread of gangsterism and the use of drugs among South African communities, especially those in the Cape Flats. Ex-gang members and ex-drug addicts were interviewed, none of whom finished high school or had previous experience of using ICT. The findings showed that, through the use of Web 2.0 technologies, interviewees learnt to use, exchange and disseminate information
IMS QTIEngine on Android to Support Mobile Learning and Assessment
No full textThe IMS Question and Test Interoperability (QTI) specification defines a standard for representation of assessment content and results, supporting the transfer and delivery of these materials in multiple IT systems. The ability to import test items and assessment results in mobile contexts offers greater flexibility and interactivity for learning and teaching. Recent mobile devices provide a platform on which more complex applications can be implemented and therefore have the potential to be used as powerful learning tools, both offline and online. In this paper, we describe a mobile QTI rendering architecture and tools built on top of the core software library of “ASDEL” to deliver an assessment consisting of an assembly of QTI items and to retrieve assessment results. A mobile QTI engine was deployed upon an Android system and provided services for rendering and processing QTI XML. It allowed learners to play QTI items natively and receive feedback effectively which enabled better support for offline mobile learning
Towards Business Integration as a Service 2.0
No full textCloud Computing Business Framework (CCBF) is a framework for designing and implementation of Could Computing solutions. This proposal focuses on how CCBF can help to address linkage in Cloud Computing implementations. This leads to the development of Business Integration as a Service 1.0 (BIaS 1.0) allowing different services, roles and functionalities to work together in a linkage-oriented framework where the outcome of one service can be input to another, without the need to translate between domains or languages. BIaS 2.0 aims to allow full automation, enhanced security, advanced risk modelling and improved collaboration between processes in BIaaS 1.0. The benefits from adopting BIaS 1.0 and developing BIaS 2.0 are illustrated using a case study from the University of Southampton and several collaborators including IBM US. BIaS 2.0 can work with mainstream technologies such as scientific workflows, and the proposal and demonstration of BIaaS 2.0 will certainly benefit industry and academia
Approaches to maintaining provenance throughout the additive manufacturing process
No full textThe development of 3D printers has resulted in significant Intellectual Property Right issues. This work presents a model for signing printable 3D objects. The paper initially reviews the security principles of signing of objects in both digital or physical form, and the metrics for assessing signatures. 3D designs are not just a file, but actual physical objects and should be treated identically, to digital documents that have associated intellectual property rights and copyright protection. In this paper we propose a signing methodology intended to resolve issues with the adaptation of rapid prototyping and 3D printing by users both in engineering and the humanities. The proposed digital signing methodology is based on physical signing principles that follow archival principles to maintain accurate records. The new model allows the transition of provenance between digital and physical form
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