Data and Information Management Tools for the Web

Author(s):  
David Karger

The evolving Web has seen ever-growing use of structured data, thanks to the way it enhances information authoring, querying, visualization and sharing. To date, however, most structured data authoring and management tools have been oriented towards programmers and Web developers. End users have been left behind, unable to leverage structured data for information management and communication as well as professionals. In this paper, I will argue that many of the benefits of structured data management can be provided to end users as well. I will describe an approach and tools that allow end users to define their own schemas (without knowing what a schema is), manage data and author (not program) interactive Web visualizations of that data using the Web tools with which they are already familiar, such as plain Web pages, blogs, wikis and WYSIWYG document editors. I will describe our experience deploying these tools and some lessons relevant to their future evolution.


2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernanda Albuquerque Cunha ◽  
Jarina dos Passos Silva ◽  
Aline Capanema de Barros ◽  
Eduardo Romeiro

Author(s):  
Matthew H. Barton ◽  
Kevin A. Stein

To help students: 1) learn to use mobile applications as the basis for speech topic selection; 2) identify new outlets for using technology to acquire information and solve problems; 3) learn to use cloud based information management tools to identify and organize research; 4) explore public speaking tools that can improve presentation and delivery skills.


Author(s):  
Maria José Lucena e Vale ◽  
Filipa Vale

The existence of adequate and reliable information to assess population health is essential to build solid strategies for public health promotion and social care, as to help demonstrate efficient investment in these areas. There are several health-related databases, covering different scales: World, Europe, or National, including several datasets with different details. These different datasets should be reviewed and selected on the basis of their ability to support efficient strategies associated with monitoring population health and their usefulness in the promotion of health care efficiency. To understand the relevance of these database infrastructures when integrated with Web-based, geographical information management tools, and use these to improve the knowledge of health issues, this chapter integrates examples related to enhancing the performance analysis of this collaborative spatial data infrastructure in three distinct areas: national health systems and health care; disease prevalence studies in different countries, and integrated analysis of environment quality and public health.


Author(s):  
Tibor Koltay

Information overload (IO) appears in varied information-intensive spheres and everyday environments. This chapter defines its nature and types, outlines its history and names its diverse sources. It is underlined that IO is caused by a mix of factors. Measures and tools of preventing the occurrence of information overload and mitigating its symptoms can be technological by using the capabilities of information architecture. The repertoire of social approaches is much broader, because it includes practicing information literacy, engaging in data literacy, applying critical assessment, slow information behavior and Personal Information Management tools.


2009 ◽  
pp. 244-265
Author(s):  
Marko Helén ◽  
Tommi Lahti ◽  
Anssi Klapuri

The purpose of this chapter is to introduce tools for automatic audio management. The authors present applications which are already available for the users and describe the algorithms and methods behind these applications and their performance. They also discuss the concept of metadata, which is an important prerequisite for modern distributed personal content applications. The variety of automatic audio management tools is wide-ranging. This chapter covers audio segmentation and classification, query by example of audio, music retrieval and recommendation, and speech management, which they consider as being the most important aspects of audio information management. Computational complexity is one major concern in the present era of personal mobile devices and large multimedia collections available on the internet. Therefore they also introduce clustering and indexing techniques which are developed for faster access in large databases.


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