The New W3C Publishing Activity

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liam R. E. Quin
Keyword(s):  
Web Based ◽  
Publishing Activity ◽  
Web Technologies ◽  
Technical Work ◽  
To Come ◽  
Web Platform ◽  
The Web

The W3C is involving publishers and people and organizations who provide tools for publishers in an effort to change the Web so that it's suitable for publishing. The Open Web Platform is changing the ways people do things. Proprietary desktop tools are being replaced by Web-based applications. At the same time ebooks are forcing publishers to come to terms with producing multiple output formats from their assets, so that "XML Early" and "XML First" are hot buzzwords in the industry. The EPUB3 format, defined by IPDF, uses XHTML and CSS, W3C Web technologies. The Open Web Platform doesn't meet the needs of publishers today. So W3C is working more closely with IPDF, with publishers and designers, and others, to change the Web so that it's suitable for publishing. Technical work on CSS has already begun and W3C is looking at internationalization, HTML, metadata, and workflow.

Towards Ubiquitous and Adaptive Web-Based Multimedia Communications via the Cloud

2015 ◽  
pp. 307-360 ◽  
Author(s):  
Spyros Panagiotakis ◽  
Ioannis Vakintis ◽  
Haroula Andrioti ◽  
Andreas Stamoulias ◽  
Kostas Kapetanakis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Web Applications ◽  
Multimedia Communications ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Client Server ◽  
Web Technologies ◽  
3D Environment ◽  
The Future ◽  
Web 3D ◽  
Service Adaptation ◽  
The Web

This chapter at first surveys the Web technologies that can enable ubiquitous and pervasive multimedia communications over the Web and then reviews the challenges that are raised by their combination. In this context, the relevant HTML5 APIs and technologies provided for service adaptation are introduced and the MPEG-DASH, X3Dom, and WebRTC frameworks are discussed. What is envisaged for the future of mobile multimedia is that with the integration of these technologies one can shape a diversity of future pervasive and personalized cloud-based Web applications, where the client-server operations are obsolete. In particular, it is believed that in the future Web cloud-based Web applications will be able to communicate, stream, and transfer adaptive events and content to their clients, creating a fully collaborative and pervasive Web 3D environment.

Web-Based Collaborative Spatial Decision Support Systems

2011 ◽  
pp. 285-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Songnian Li
Keyword(s):  
Decision Support ◽  
Decision Support Systems ◽  
System Design ◽  
Support Systems ◽  
Spatial Decision Support ◽  
Spatial Decision Support Systems ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Web Technologies ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Web

The rapidly expanding range of Web technology has made it possible to collaboratively make decisions over the Web. This chapter examines some of these Web technologies important to the development of collaborative spatial decision support systems, and identifies their technology impediments and strengths. The outcomes provide a basis for discussing how the existing collaborative spatial decision support systems may be redesigned to take advantage of new Web technologies, and how new collaborative spatial decision support systems may be designed and developed in this Web-based paradigm. Some discussions on selected design and development issues that are important to the development of collaborative spatial decision support systems including system design, user’s impact, and performance are presented.

Teaching or Technology

2011 ◽  
pp. 264-283
Author(s):  
Geoffrey C. Mitchell ◽  
Beverly G. Hope
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Technology In Education ◽  
Flexible Learning ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Web Technologies ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Traditional Approaches ◽  
Poor Teaching ◽  
Web Based Education ◽  
The Web

Fuelled by the increasing connectivity afforded by the Internet and the flexibility offered by Web technologies, the use of technology in education has become increasingly common. However, despite claims that the Web will revolutionise education, many attempts at Web-based education simply reinforce current ‘poor’ teaching practices or present more of the same disguised in updated packaging. We argue that this occurs because of differing pedagogical assumptions and a limited understanding of how flexible learning differs from traditional approaches. In particular, we argue that flexible learning demands an increased focus on constructivism and the sociological aspects of teaching and learning. This chapter presents two frameworks that situate our approach to flexible learning with respect to more traditional offerings and discusses the implications for educational technology design.

E-Collaboration in Biomedical Research

2014 ◽  
pp. 102-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen Gray ◽  
Fernando Martin Sanchez ◽  
Gabrielle Bright ◽  
Ardis Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Human Factors ◽  
Biomedical Research ◽  
Research Collaboration ◽  
Biomedical Sciences ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Web Technologies ◽  
Geographically Distributed ◽  
The Web

There are compelling arguments for using emerging Web technologies to facilitate research in the biomedical sciences. This chapter reviews current research and current technologies for e-collaboration in biomedical research. This chapter presents four case studies examining the use of Web-based tools to support the teamwork of geographically distributed biomedical researchers. It then reviews case study findings in light of the Web 2.0 e-collaboration enablers that are available. It concludes with surprising and concerning reflections about current practices in biomedical research collaboration as well as some promising future directions through the use of biomedical informatics to advance these practices by addressing human factors.

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
pp. 163-170
Author(s):  
Dorothy Wai Sim Lau
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Hybrid Mode ◽  
Theoretical Formulation ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Media Image ◽  
Web Technologies ◽  
The Web

This chapter advances a theoretical formulation of Chineseness in participatory cyberculture. Subsequent to the brief revisit of the analyses from previous chapters, a concluding remark engages to Pierre Levy’s theory of cyberculture and David Rodowick’s (2007) theory of the so-called new media image to argue that the open cyber setting enables dynamic fans’ reworking of star texts and multiple ways of approaching Chineseness. The star presence becomes highly abstract that carries no historical essence or stable meanings of the ‘Chinese’. A new, hybrid mode of Chineseness as cine-cyber imaginary which is capricious and unstable emerges, redefining star personae in the Web-based environment. This chapter finally highlights how the entire book provides insight for further explorations of stardom and the pertinent phenomena in global digital culture by cogently uncovering the dynamics and debates of a vital relationship between Chinese stardom, web technologies, and fan discourse.

scholarly journals Cross-Sectional Investigation of HEMS Activities in Europe: A Feasibility Study

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefano Di Bartolomeo ◽  
Paolo Gava ◽  
Anatolij Truhlář ◽  
Mårten Sandberg ◽  
The Euphorea Group
Keyword(s):  
Participation Rate ◽  
Target Population ◽  
Therapeutic Procedure ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Death Risk ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
Research Alliance ◽  
Web Platform ◽  
The Web

Objectives.To gather information on helicopter emergency medical services (HEMSs) activities across Europe.Methods.Cross-sectional data-collection on daily (15 November 2013) activities of a sample of European HEMSs. A web-based questionnaire with both open and closed questions was used, developed by experts of the European Prehospital Research Alliance (EUPHOREA).Results.We invited 143 bases from 11 countries; 85 (60%) reported base characteristics only and 73 (51%) sample-day data too. The variety of base characteristics was enormous; that is, the target population ranged from 94.000 to 4.500.000. Of 158 requested primary missions, 62 (0.82 per base) resulted in landing. Cardiac aetiology (36%) and trauma (36%) prevailed, mostly of life-threatening severity (43%, 0.64 per mission). Had HEMS been not dispatched, patients would have been attended by another physician in 67% of cases, by paramedics in 24%, and by nurses in 9%. On-board physicians estimated to have caused a major decrease of death risk in 47% of missions, possible decrease in 22%, minor benefit in 17%, no benefit in 11%, and damage in 3%. Earlier treatment and faster transport to hospital were the main reasons for benefit. The most frequent therapeutic procedure was drug administration (78% of missions); endotracheal intubation occurred in 25% of missions and was an option hardly offered by ground crews.Conclusions.The study proved feasible, establishing an embryonic network of European HEMS. The participation rate was low and limits the generalizability of the results. Fortunately, because of its cross-sectional characteristics and the handy availability of the web platform, the study is easily repeatable with an enhanced network.

E-Collaboration in Biomedical Research

2017 ◽  
pp. 600-619
Author(s):  
Kathleen Gray ◽  
Fernando Martin Sanchez ◽  
Gabrielle Bright ◽  
Ardis Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Human Factors ◽  
Biomedical Research ◽  
Research Collaboration ◽  
Biomedical Sciences ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Web Technologies ◽  
Geographically Distributed ◽  
The Web

There are compelling arguments for using emerging Web technologies to facilitate research in the biomedical sciences. This chapter reviews current research and current technologies for e-collaboration in biomedical research. This chapter presents four case studies examining the use of Web-based tools to support the teamwork of geographically distributed biomedical researchers. It then reviews case study findings in light of the Web 2.0 e-collaboration enablers that are available. It concludes with surprising and concerning reflections about current practices in biomedical research collaboration as well as some promising future directions through the use of biomedical informatics to advance these practices by addressing human factors.

Using Semantis Web Technologies within E-Learning Applications

2011 ◽  
pp. 173-201
Author(s):  
Wilson Castello Branco Neto
Keyword(s):  
Learning Management Systems ◽  
Learning Objects ◽  
Semantic Web Technologies ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Tutoring Systems ◽  
Web Technologies ◽  
Web Based Learning ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Development And Management ◽  
The Web

This chapter reveals how the Web has improved e-learning as well as some of the problems that came along with it. It argues that the main problem is the gap between two groups involved on Web-based learning. The first group spent its energy studying learning processes, although they are not concerned with reducing the costs and the work necessary for the development and management of such systems. On the other hand, the second group aims at facilitating the construction and management of the courses, without turning its efforts toward learning subject. In this chapter, the union of technologies developed by both groups, such as intelligent tutoring systems, adaptive hypermedia, learning management systems, and learning objects, is discussed. The proposal to put together the four technologies is based on Semantic Web technologies, aiming to solve problems faced by developers, teachers, and learners of Web-based learning.

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