Collections as data: Implications for enclosure

Implications of floodplain aquaculture enclosure

Bangladesh has extensive floodplain wetlands covering over 4 million ha. These remain an important source of livelihood fish contribute about 60% of national animal protein consumption, and wetland plants are used for fodder, food and construction. Over fishing, short term leasing of use rights, flood control and drainage, and pollution all have negative impacts. In contrast several projects ha...

Persistent Archives for Data Collections

Implications of Rangeland Enclosure Policy on the Tibetan Plateau

IHDP Update 2.2008 Fundamental, policy-driven changes are transforming China's rangelands in response to a perceived threat of environmental degradation. Having transferred livestock property from state to private ownership over the past two decades, government policy is now encouraging pastoralists to privatise parts of the natural resource, in the form of fenced enclosures. In other areas, th...

Recruitment Framework for Participatory Sensing Data Collections

Mobile phones have evolved from devices that are just used for voice and text communication to platforms that are able to capture and transmit a range of data types (image, audio, and location). The adoption of these increasingly capable devices by society has enabled a potentially pervasive sensing paradigm participatory sensing. A coordinated participatory sensing system engages individuals c...

Persistent Archives for Data Collections Reagan

Persistent archives are feasible when examined from the perspective of data collections [1,2]. Issues of ingestion, identification, and certification can then be cast in terms of the information models and technologies needed to manage and federate collections [14, 17, 18]. It is interesting to note that the data and information models needed to federate multiple collections in space are the sa...