scholarly journals Approaching Trust: Case Studies for Developing Global Research Infrastructures

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather Flanagan ◽  
Laurel L. Haak ◽  
Laura Dorival Paglione
Keyword(s):  
Information Sharing ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Trust Building ◽  
Technical Service ◽  
Core Component ◽  
Global Alliance ◽  
Stakeholder Groups ◽  
Research Infrastructures ◽  
Governance Processes

Trust is a core component of collaboration. Trust is a local phenomenon, and scientific research is a global collaborative, its impact multiplied through open exchange, communication and mobility of people and information. Given the diversity of participants, local policies and cultures, how can trust be established in and between research communities? You need transparent governance processes, thoughtful engagement of stakeholder groups, and open and durable information sharing to build the “stickiness” needed. In this paper we illustrate these concepts through three trust building use cases: ORCID, Global Alliance for Genomics and Health, and SeamlessAccess, platforms sharing an identity and access technical service core, painstaking community building, and transparent governance frameworks.

scholarly journals Making School Children’s Participation in Planning Processes a Routine Practice

Societies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 3
Author(s):  
Jenny Stenberg ◽  
Lasse Fryk
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Routine Practice ◽  
Close Collaboration ◽  
Regular Process ◽  
Children’S Participation ◽  
Planning Processes ◽  
Children's Participation

Children’s participation in planning has been investigated to some extent. There are, however, unexplored topics, particularly concerning what is needed for children’s participation to become a regular process. Based on case studies in Sweden, this article draws some conclusions. It is quite possible to organize ordinary processes where children participate in community building, in collaboration with planners, as part of their schoolwork. The key question is how this can be done. Clearly, it needs to occur in close collaboration with teachers and pupils, however it also needs to be implemented in a system-challenging manner. Thus, rather than looking for tools with potential to work in the existing school and planners’ world, it is important to design research that aims to create learning processes that have the potential to change praxis. Hence, it is not the case that tools are not needed, rather that children need to help to develop them.

A Service Architecture for Mobile Teamwork

2003 ◽  
Vol 13 (04) ◽  
pp. 447-467 ◽  
Author(s):  
Engin Kirda ◽  
Harald Gall
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Information Sharing ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Query Language ◽  
Personal Digital Assistant ◽  
Motion Platform ◽  
Service Architecture ◽  
Mobile Information ◽  
Actual Location

Mobile teamwork has become an emerging requirement in the daily business of large enterprises. Employees collaborate across locations and need team support while they are on the move. Business documents and expertise need to be shared independent of the actual location or connectivity (e.g., access through a mobile phone, laptop, Personal Digital Assistant, etc.) of employees. Although many collaboration tools and systems exist, most do not deal with new demanding requirements such as locating artifacts and experts through distributed searches, advanced information subscription and notification, and mobile information sharing and access. The MOTION service architecture that we have developed supports mobile teamwork by taking into account the different connectivity modes of users, provides access support for various devices such as laptop computers and mobile phones, and uses XML meta data and the XML Query Language (XQL) for distributed searches and subscriptions. In this article, we describe the architecture and the components of our generic MOTION services platform for building collaborative applications. The MOTION platform is currently being evaluated in two large industry case-studies.

EXPLORING THE POTENTIAL FAILURE OF THE REGULATORY FRAMEWORK AND MANAGEMENT TOOLS WHICH GOVERN THE CONSERVATION OF BIODIVERSITY: THE CASE OF ARTIFICIAL LAKE KERKINI IN GREECE

2009 ◽  
Vol 11 (02) ◽  
pp. 213-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
DIMITRA MANOU ◽  
JASON PAPATHANASIOU
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Artificial Lake ◽  
Management Tools ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Strategic Objective ◽  
Development Objectives ◽  
Governance Processes ◽  
Conservation Of Biodiversity

This paper was developed in the context of the research project entitled GEMCONBIO (Governance and Ecosystems Management for the Conservation of Biodiversity), which is a European FP6-funded project under Priority 7 — Citizens and Governance in a Knowledge-Based Society. The projects strategic objective is, through the elaboration of certain case studies, to explore the interactions between governance modes and sustainable development objectives in view of identifying which governance processes and institutions can contribute best to the conservation of biodiversity. The case study of Kerkini Lake was selected along with approximately 27 case studies across Europe, the United States and third countries because of the area's very important ecosystem. It is one of the 10 most important wetlands in Greece, a declared National Park and one of the most important wetlands for birds in Europe. There is a plethora of national, European and international laws and regulations as well as administrative decisions regarding the study area. However, problems of implementation and compliance appear to be very strong causing severe implications in the area's sustainable development.

Physical and remote access to the European Volcano Research Infrastructures as a strategy to promote the community building: efforts, challenges, and results.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Letizia Spampinato ◽  
Giuseppe Puglisi
Keyword(s):  
Community Building ◽  
Volcanic Rocks ◽  
Remote Access ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Scientific Communities ◽  
Research Infrastructures ◽  
Physical Access ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Volcano Observatories ◽  
The Ideal

<p>Indeed, nowadays data sharing via internet is one of the most used approaches to networking scientific communities. However, the opportunity to physically access Research Infrastructures (RIs) and their installations and facilities is potentially the most powerful mean to build up a community. Physically access, in fact, makes the ideal conditions for the RI’s providers and users to work side by side on specific research topics. This is recently the case of the European trans-national access activities promoted in order to allow and push the volcanology community to use either the volcano observatories, to carry out experiments or fieldworks, or laboratories, for exploiting analytical and computational facilities, belonging to the main European volcano research institutions.</p><p>The EUROVOLC project has granted the access to 11 RIs for an overall of 45 installations, including single facilities of pools of mobile instrumentation and of laboratories, and remote access to collections of volcanic rocks, of 5 European countries (France, Iceland, Italy, Portugal, and Spain). In the frame of the project, the trans-national access offer has come from 7 partners (IMO, UI, INGV&CNR, CIVISA, IPGP, and CSIC) acting in 7 WPs (13, 14, 16, 16, 17, 18, and 19).</p><p>The EUROVOLC work-plan has foreseen two calls, one in 2018 and the other in 2019, allowing users to apply for access the RIs, and the effective physical access in 2019 and 2020, respectively. Each call has been managed according to a stepwise process based on an excellence-driven criterion, in which the roles of the various actors and the schedule have been previously defined.</p><p>This contribution aims at presenting the management and coordination efforts related to the trans-national access activities in the frame of EUROVOLC including the preparation and the launch of the 1<sup>st</sup> call, the process of the selection of the proposals, the feedback from the management of the 1<sup>st</sup> call, the preparation of the 2<sup>nd</sup> call, and a critical analysis for improving the management of the 2<sup>nd</sup> call.</p>

Religion and the Chinese Diaspora in Southeast Asia

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 220-249
Author(s):  
Kenneth Dean
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Chinese Diaspora ◽  
Chinese Religion ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
Made In

Abstract This paper uses three case studies—(1) community building by Methodist Chinese in Sibu, Sarawak; (2) the construction of transnational temple networks originating in Chinese temples in Sibu; and (3) hybrid spirit medium processions in Kalimantan—to explore aspects of the role of religion within the Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia. Analytic approaches to Chinese religion proposed by Weber and Mauss are discussed, and an argument is made in favor of following the spread of civilizational techniques into hybrid social and ritual formations.

scholarly journals The Role of CLARIN in Digital Transformations in the Humanities

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 89-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Wynne
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Research Infrastructure ◽  
Language Resources ◽  
Unique Character ◽  
Digital Scholarship ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Research Infrastructures ◽  
Distributed Infrastructure

CLARIN is a recently-established research infrastructure which aims to build and sustain services based on language resources and tools. CLARIN aims to support and foster the next generation of research in the humanities, which will make use of advanced digital technologies. A distributed infrastructure is necessary in order to overcome the problems of the current fragmented environment, to create an ecosystem in which data and tools can be connected, and in which innovation will be encouraged. Case studies of early CLARIN demonstrators give a flavour of the possibilities of digital transformations in a number of humanities disciplines, and there is huge potential for important future new directions in literary and linguistic computing. For more widespread, thoroughgoing and effective transformations to take place, builders of infrastructure and researchers will need to negotiate and avoid potential pitfalls, and agree to achieve a certain measure of consensus in terms of priorities, categories and concepts. In the context of current debates about the nature of the humanities and their role in society, it will be necessary for digital humanists to be careful to preserve the unique character and importance of research in the humanities, while moving towards research infrastructures which will facilitate digital scholarship.

Information sharing between the child welfare and behavioral health systems: Perspectives from four stakeholder groups

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 500-523 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophia H. J. Hwang ◽  
Cynthia J. Mollen ◽  
Katherine S. Kellom ◽  
Susan L. Dougherty ◽  
Kathleen G. Noonan
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Information Sharing ◽  
Behavioral Health ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
Stakeholder Groups
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