scholarly journals Sustaining Engineering Informatics: Toward Methods and Metrics for Digital Curation

2008 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josh Lubell ◽  
Sudarsan Rachuri ◽  
Mahesh Mani ◽  
Eswaran Subrahmanian

Ensuring the long-term usability of engineering informatics (EI) artifacts is a challenge, particularly for products with longer lifecycles than the computing hardware and software used for their design and manufacture. Addressing this challenge requires characterizing the nature of EI, defining metrics for EI sustainability, and developing methods for long-term EI curation. In this paper we highlight various issues related to long-term archival of EI and describe the work towards methods and metrics for sustaining EI. We propose an approach to enhance the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) functional model to incorporate EI sustainability criteria, Digital Object Prototypes (DOPs), and end user access requirements. We discuss the end user’s requirements from the point of view of reference, reuse and rationale – the “3Rs” – to better understand the level of granularity and abstractions required in the definition of engineering digital objects. Finally we present a proposed case study and experiment.

2018 ◽  
Vol 74 (6) ◽  
pp. 1318-1338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Higgins

Purpose Digital curation addresses the technical, administrative and financial ecology required to ensure that digital information remains accessible and usable over the long term. The purpose of this paper is to trace digital curation’s disciplinary emergence and examine its position within the information sciences domain in terms of theoretical principles, using a case study of developments in the UK and the USA. Design/methodology/approach Theoretical principles regarding disciplinary development and the identity of information science as a discipline are applied to a case study of the development of digital curation in the UK and the USA to identify the maturity of digital curation and its position in the information science gamut. Findings Digital curation is identified as a mature discipline which is a sub-meta-discipline of information science. As such digital curation has reach across all disciplines and sub-disciplines of information science and has the potential to become the overarching paradigm. Practical implications These findings could influence digital curation’s development from applied discipline to profession within both its educational and professional domains. Originality/value The disciplinary development of digital curation within dominant theoretical models has not hitherto been articulated.


2010 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 587-600 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harald Dolles ◽  
Sten Söderman

AbstractFor the first time in the history of FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association), the football (soccer) World Cup held in Germany 2006 specifically addressed environmental concerns. By doing so, the German Organizing Committee did not have the objective of creating a short-term vision, but rather of making a long-term and lasting contribution to the improvement of environmental protection in hosting a mega-sporting event. By taking the football world cup in Germany as a case study, we will provide insights into the so-called ‘Green Goal’ programme and its four main areas: water, waste, energy, and transportation. From a global point of view, climate protection was added by the Organizing Committee as the fifth area of action and was recognised as a cross-sectorial task. Finally, questions are addressed on how to apply those measurements in the planning and organisation of other mega (-sporting) events.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Laura Jamieson

<p>Digital collections are increasingly prominent in museums as born-digital material is acquired by institutions, and digital surrogates of physical items are created through digital imaging, digitisation, and reformatting projects. These digital collections are a significant development in museums and a useful tool, particularly for access. When a digital surrogate is created of a physical object, they have an inherent connection to one another. Representing this relationship is important for museums in order to provide context for their collection items. These types of relationships also occur across physical formats, and the consequence of a breakdown in this relationship has been shown in the literature to lead to a loss of context. However, it is unclear how the relationship a physical object has with its digital surrogate is represented in the metadata. Current literature on digital collections only briefly explores existing relationships between digital and physical collections and provides no framework for best practice in a museum context.  This thesis examines how metadata is used to represent the relationship between a physical object and its digital surrogate at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. The research involved a single-site case study, with interviews and documentary research which were thematically analysed. This thesis shows how the relationship between physical and digital objects are primarily represented at Te Papa through the collection management system’s structure, with some metadata elements representing the relationship incidentally. It also shows that there are differing worldviews and perspectives across the GLAM domains in the language and the drivers of digitisation.  This research serves as a snapshot of current practice at one institution and encourages further research to better understand the long-term implications of this and other approaches. For museums, understanding how the relationship between physical objects and digital surrogates is currently being represented through metadata could help support professional practice for both types of collections, ensure the relationship is maintained, and help support existing and future digital interventions in museums.</p>


Author(s):  
Mercedes Millán Escriche

El municipio de Torre Pacheco ha conocido una significativa evolución en las últimas décadas, tanto desde el punto de vista territorial como socioeconómico. El principal objetivo de esta aportación es comprobar qué tipo de actuaciones han contribuido a modificar la tendencia de declive que compartía con otros espacios rurales. Junto al estudio de caso, se ha recurrido a una metodología no experimental, exploratoria y descriptiva de tipo cualitativo, sin renunciar al soporte de las estadísticas necesarias que cuantifiquen y apoyen determinados aspectos. Los resultados obtenidos ponen de relieve los beneficios alcanzados en Torre Pacheco mediante el incremento de su disponibilidad hídrica, a partir de la aplicación de estrategias de planificación llevadas a cabo con un horizonte temporal de largo plazo.Abstract The municipality of Torre Pacheco has undergone a significant evolution in recent decades, both from the territorial and socioeconomic point of view. The main objective of this contribution is to verify what type of actions has contributed to modifying the trend of decline that it shared with other rural areas.Along with the case study, a non-experimental, exploratory and descriptive methodology of a qualitative type has been used, without renouncing the support of the necessary statistics that quantify and support certain aspects. The results obtained highlight the benefits achieved in Torre Pacheco by increasing its water availability, through the application of planning strategies carried out with a long-term time horizon.


2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 57-70
Author(s):  
Jean O’Donoghue ◽  
Jano I. Van Hemert

Developmental Gene Expression Map (DGEMap) is an EU-funded Design Study, which will accelerate an integrated European approach to gene expression in early human development. As part of this design study, we have had to address the challenges and issues raised by the long-term curation of such a resource. As this project is primarily one of data creators, learning about curation, we have been looking at some of the models and tools that are already available in the digital curation field in order to inform our thinking on how we should proceed with curating DGEMap. This has led us to uncover a wide range of resources for data creators and curators alike. Here we will discuss the future curation of DGEMap as a case study. We believe our experience could be instructive to other projects looking to improve the curation and management of their data.


2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-100
Author(s):  
Dárica da Silva ◽  
Josely Cristiane Rosa

O presente artigo tem como objetivo analisar o desempenho profissional dos colaboradores da empresa KL Embalagens Ltda, a partir da Gestão por Competências. Para tanto, foi realizada a identificação e a definição das competências dos cargos em estudo, como também a constatação das vulnerabilidades dos cargos/áreas que precisam de treinamento e desenvolvimento. Destaca-se que os cargos analisados na pesquisa foram o Auxiliar Administrativo, Cartonageiro a Mão, Impressor Flexográfico, Motorista e Serviços Gerais. Do ponto de vista metodológico, a pesquisa é classificada em qualitativa e tipificada em exploratória. Com relação ao método, a pesquisa constitui-se em bibliográfica e estudo de caso, utilizando-se do questionário como instrumento de coleta de dados e da planilha de mapeamento de competências. Os resultados evidenciaram que as competências mais vulneráveis foram à agilidade, capacidade visual e espacial, concentração, iniciativa, memorização, paciência e velocidade de execução das tarefas. Também foi possível evidenciar que os cargos cartonageiro a mão e serviços gerais apresentaram desempenho abaixo do esperado, seguidos por impressor flexográfico e auxiliar administrativo. O cargo de motorista foi o único que atendeu as expectativas da empresa. Com as vulnerabilidades comportamentais e técnicas avaliadas foi possível sugerir ações de treinamento e desenvolvimento (TD), visando adaptar os colaboradores às suas funções, atendendo as necessidades da empresa KL Embalagens e repercutindo no crescimento profissional dos colaboradores.Palavras-Chave: Gestão de Pessoas. Treinamento e Desenvolvimento. Gestão por Competências. MANAGEMENT FOR COMPETENCES AND THE PROCESS OF PEOPLE TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT (TD): A CASE STUDY AT KL EMBALAGENS - SÃO JOÃO BATISTA /SCAbstract: This article aims to analyze the professional performance of the employees of KL Embalagens Ltda., from Management by Competences. For that, the identification and definition of competencies for each position under study was carried out, as well as the vulnerability of such positions/areas that need training and development. It should be noted that the positions analyzed in the survey were Administrative Assistant, Carton Handler, Flexographic Printing, Driver and General Assistant. From the methodological point of view, the research is classified as qualitative and typified as exploratory. Regarding the method, the research is a bibliographical and case study, using the questionnaire as a data collection instrument and the competences mapping worksheet. The results showed that the most vulnerable competences were agility, visual and spatial ability, concentration, initiative, memorization, patience and speed of task execution. It was also possible to show that carton handling and the general assistant performed below expectations, followed by flexographic printing and administrative assistant. The position of driver was the only one that met the expectations of the company. With the evaluated behavioral and technical vulnerabilities it was possible to suggest training and development actions (TD), aiming to adapt the employees to their functions, meeting the company's needs, thus impacting the professional growth of employees.Keywords: People Management. Training and development. Management by Competences.


Author(s):  
Olga Rudkovskaya ◽  
Vladimir Gerasenko

The article considers approaches to the definition of strategic financial planning, reveals their shortcomings and advantages. Objective: To create a methodological basis for the development of the organization's financial strategy. Methodology: The article is based on the results of research of modern domestic and foreign theories of strategic planning. Application of the results: Increase the validity of the management decisions made based on the results of strategic financial planning. Conclusions: Strategic financial planning is proposed to be considered from the point of view of the system and process approach, which will allow to create an effective functional apparatus, including a system of goals and objectives, principles and tools for the formation and use of financial resources to carry out the activities on developing the directions of organization growth. The formed algorithm of developing a strategic financial planning model allows to take into account the organization’s life cycle stage and its market position in the industry when determining the target parameters of financial development in the long term perspective. An indicator of maximizing the return to capital represented by own and borrowed funds is proposed as a key indicator of the model under consideration. Complying with the set of limitations developed, this indicator provides a more reliable and comprehensive assessment of organization’s development planned directions.


2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (12) ◽  
pp. 874
Author(s):  
Pramita Agustin ◽  
Imron Mawardi

This research aims to know the muslim investor behavior in a stock transaction in capital market. This research used the qualitative approach, using the case study method by basing on the theory of behavioral finance.Data collection using a purposive sampling technique to determine informants amounted to five muslim investors who at least has a two year stock transaction to be interviewed in depth, observed and evaluated the data by performing a triangulation.The results of this research have findings that muslim investor behavior in a stock transaction is divided into two point of view that is, investors who consider religion in their investment decisions and the invetor did not consider religion in their investment decisions. Investors who consider religion in their investment decisions preferring stock composition of the incoming Sharia index list and nature of investments tend to be long term. Investors who do not consider religion in choosing his investment decision stock blends well in the Shariahcompliantindex or not. The nature of investment investors who did not consider the shortterm nature of the religion.


2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (17) ◽  
pp. 4681 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Alberto Rodríguez Sousa ◽  
Jesús M. Barandica ◽  
Alejandro Rescia

In the last 50 years, both the agricultural labour force and irrigated land area have increased almost eightfold in Spain. The main objective of irrigation, in the short term, is to increase agricultural production. However, in the long term, the environmental externalities of irrigation and its direct relationship with soil erosion processes are more uncertain and still poorly studied. In this study, in an olive-growing region of Andalusia, Spain, the variation of several soil parameters related to irrigation and erosion levels was analysed. The results showed that irrigation, while increasing the productive level of the olive groves, entails a progressive alteration of the soil, modifying physical aspects (greater compaction and humidity of the soil together with lower gravel content, porosity and soil weight) and chemical aspects (reduction of the organic matter of the soil and the content of nitrates) that can aggravate the consequences of the erosive processes. In the long term, the productive benefit attributed to irrigation could be unsustainable from an ecological and, consequently, economic point of view. In addition, the lack of sustainability of olive irrigation agroecosystems could be exacerbated by the future restrictive impacts of climate change on water resources in Mediterranean environments. This situation demands spatial planning and alternative management based on soil conservation and rational and efficient forms of irrigation to ensure the sustainability of olive groves and their economic viability.


2010 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 587-600 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harald Dolles ◽  
Sten Söderman

AbstractFor the first time in the history of FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association), the football (soccer) World Cup held in Germany 2006 specifically addressed environmental concerns. By doing so, the German Organizing Committee did not have the objective of creating a short-term vision, but rather of making a long-term and lasting contribution to the improvement of environmental protection in hosting a mega-sporting event. By taking the football world cup in Germany as a case study, we will provide insights into the so-called ‘Green Goal’ programme and its four main areas: water, waste, energy, and transportation. From a global point of view, climate protection was added by the Organizing Committee as the fifth area of action and was recognised as a cross-sectorial task. Finally, questions are addressed on how to apply those measurements in the planning and organisation of other mega (-sporting) events.


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