scholarly journals A Etnografia da Infraestrutura

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Leigh Star
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Scale Up ◽  
Ecological Analysis ◽  
Invisible Work ◽  
De Se ◽  
Epistemological Status

Este artigo mobiliza algumas ferramentas e perspectivas da etnografia para tencionar questões metodológicas no estudo das infraestruturas. Sendo ao mesmo tempo relacionais e ecológicas, as infraestruturas tem significados diferentes para os diferentes grupos. Além disso, elas funcionam equalizando ações, ferramentas e ambiente construído, todos aspectos inseparáveis para sua compreensão. As infraestruturas são também ordinárias ao ponto de serem entediantes, envolvendo objetos como tomadas, normas e formulários burocráticos. Partindo das etnografias tradicionais, algumas das dificuldades de se estudar as infraestruturas envolvem o redimensionamento do campo de pesquisa, a gestão de grandes quantidades de dados, tais como aqueles produzidos pelos registros das transações, e a compreensão da interação entre os comportamentos online e off-line. Ao nos depararmos com esses desafios, alguns truques envolvidos são: o estudo da modelagem da infraestrutura, a compreensão dos paradoxos da infraestrutura enquanto simultaneamente transparente e opaca (incluindo as funcionalidades invisíveis na análise ecológica) e o detalhamento do estatuto epistemológico dos indicadores.The Ethnography of Infrastructure   Abstract: This article asks methodological questions about studying infrastructure with some of the tools and perspectives of ethnography. Infrastructure is both relational and ecological—it means different things to different groups and it is part of the balance of action, tools, and the built environment, inseparable from them. It also is frequently mundane to the point of boredom, involving things such as plugs, standards, and bureaucratic forms. Some of the difficulties of studying infrastructure are how to scale up from traditional ethnographic sites, how to manage large quantities of data such as those produced by transaction logs, and how to understand the interplay of online and offline behavior. Some of the tricks of the trade involved in meeting these challenges include studying the design of infrastructure, understanding the paradoxes of infrastructure as both transparent and opaque, including invisible work in the ecological analysis, and pinpointing the epistemological status of indictors.Keywords: Infrastructure, Ethnography, Information Technology, Networks.

scholarly journals Big Building Data 2.0 - a Big Data Platform for Smart Buildings

2021 ◽  
Vol 2042 (1) ◽  
pp. 012016
Author(s):  
Lucy Linder ◽  
Frédéric Montet ◽  
Jean Hennebert ◽  
Jean-Philippe Bacher
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Simple Proof ◽  
Applied Research ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Scale Up ◽  
Heterogeneous Environment ◽  
Data Platform ◽  
Single Data ◽  
Data Location

Abstract The modern built environment is now connected. Multiple software and protocols are used in buildings of many kinds, thus creating a fascinating and heterogeneous environment. Within this context, applied research can be complicated and would benefit from a single data location across projects and users. The first version of BBData tried to solve this problem, BBData v2.0 is an update with a better-defined scope and a new codebase. The solution has been open sourced and simplified with a full software rewrite. Its components are now state-of-the-art and proven to be stable in industrial settings. The achieved performances have been thoroughly tested. Together with its new architecture, BBData v2.0 now accommodates the needs of modern experiments; efficient for simple proof of concepts while keeping the possibility to scale up to city-level projects. This flexibility makes BBData a good candidate for research while being able to scale in production settings.

scholarly journals Modelo de Gerenciamento de Suporte e Entrega de Serviços de Tecnologia da Informação: Estudo de Caso

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Adilson Ricardo Da Silva ◽  
Rafael Rodrigues Pereira ◽  
João Paulo Rocha ◽  
Carlos Eduardo Costa Vieira
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Technology Infrastructure ◽  
Information Technology Infrastructure ◽  
Information Technology Infrastructure Library ◽  
De Se

O objetivo do artigo é apresentar um modelo de gerenciamento de infraestrutura de Tecnologia da Informação (TI) usando o ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) em conjunto com o OcoMon, software para Gerenciamento de TI. Realizou-se um estudo de caso a fim de analisar os benefícios de se aplicar essas práticas de gerenciamento de suporte de serviços.

scholarly journals Analysis of the Potentials of Blockchain for the Governance of Global Digital Commons

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Rozas ◽  
Antonio Tenorio-Fornés ◽  
Samer Hassan
Keyword(s):  
Scale Up ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Peer Production ◽  
Global Commons ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Collective Agreements ◽  
Invisible Work ◽  
Digital Commons ◽  
Current Context ◽  
Global Coordination

In recent years, the increasing need for global coordination has attracted interest in the governance of global-scale commons. In the current context, we observe how online applications are ubiquitous, and how emerging technologies enable new capabilities while reshaping sectors. Thus, it is pertinent to ask: could blockchain technologies facilitate the extension and scaling up of cooperative practices and commons management in this global context? In order to address this question, we propose a focus on the most paradigmatic and widely successful examples of global cooperation: global digital commons. Examples of these are the digital resources maintained by large peer production communities, such as free/libre open source software and Wikipedia. Thus, this article identifies and analyzes the potentialities of blockchain to support the sustainability and management of global digital commons. Our approach draws on Elinor Ostrom’s classic principles for commons governance, although revisiting and adapting these to the more challenging scope of global digital commons. Thus, in this work we identify the affordances which blockchain provides (e.g., tokenization, formalization of rules, transparency or codification of trust) to support the effective management of this type of global commons. As part of our analysis, we provide numerous examples of existing blockchain projects using affordances in line with each principle, as well as potential integrations of such affordances in existing practices of peer production communities. Our analysis shows that, when considering the challenges of managing global commons (e.g., heterogeneity or scale), the potential of blockchain is particularly valuable to explore solutions that: distribute power, facilitate coordination, scale up governance, visibilize traditionally invisible work, monitor and track compliance with rules, define collective agreements, and enable cooperation across communities. These affordances and the subsequent analysis contribute to the emergent debate on blockchain-based forms of governance, first by providing analytical categories for further research, but also by providing a guide for experimentation with the development of blockchain tools to facilitate global cooperation.

scholarly journals Role of contemporary technologies in health care knowledge management: a review

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (9) ◽  
pp. 366
Author(s):  
Muluneh E. Gizaw ◽  
Getachew W. Tessema
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Information Technology ◽  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Quality Of Health Care ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Scale Up ◽  
Content Management ◽  
Care Services

<p>The emergence of knowledge management (KM) technologies has been enabling health care sectors to promote effective management of knowledge and provide evidence-based medicine for improving service deliveries. As a result, the health care industry is increasingly becoming a knowledge-based community that depends critically on using technologies to KM activities. This paper attempts to review various literatures and gives an intellectual background to the study from various studies conducted by different researchers on the thoughts of various KM technologies in health systems. According to the study, technologies play a prominent role in health care sectors in utilizing their organizational and personal knowledge effectively which in turn enhances the quality of health care services. The usage and practice of KM in the health sector is increasingly promoted due to the emergence of health information technology. There are number of information technology solutions that assist healthcare sectors in knowledge management. Health care portals, search engines, retrieval and classification tools, e-collaboration tools, content management systems and other technologies are widely employed to manage the massive and ongoing health information and share it with their users. Therefore, it is indispensable to pay special attention in using these technologies to manage organizational and individual knowledge available within and outside healthcare organization. Overall, this study has proved that information and communication technology are valuable to support and scale up knowledge management processes for the effectiveness and quality of health care services.</p>

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