Purpose: One of the unresolved problems of the global information society is ensuring the longterm accessibility of digital documents. The project kopal tackles this problem head-on: In a threeyear project kopal’s objective is the practical testing and implementation of a cooperatively created and operated long-term archival system for digital resources. Design/methodology/approach: The system ...

District Architecture for Networked Editions (DAFNE) is a research project funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research aiming to develop a prototype of the national infrastructure for electronic publishing in Italy. The project's initial target concerns the scientific and scholarly production in the human and social sciences. The organizational , legal, technical and bu...

Earth Observation (EO) Space Missions provide global coverage of the Earth by generating on a continuous basis huge amounts of data from a variety of sensors. Locating and accessing these historical data is a difficult process and their interpretation can be even more complicated given the fact that scientists may not have (or may not have access to) the right knowledge to interpret these data....

Our scientific meetings, IT publications, and even the media are awash with new terminology and possibilities about how “a new age has dawned in scientific and engineering research” made possible through distributed science collaborations enabled by the internet, viz., eScience, the grid, cyberinfrastructure, and virtual observatories. All of these new structures and tools depend critically on ...

STUDY OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to analyze the role of dysphagia as a model of pharyngeal muscle dysfunction in the time course of nocturnal disordered breathing (NDB) in patients who experienced a first-ever ischemic stroke. DESIGN Prospective study. PATIENTS AND INTERVENTIONS Fifty-nine consecutive patients (mean age, 73.2 years; SD, 12.8 years) were studied. Clinical sleep and ...

ion is Vital We can be confident that the concept of information will survive the passage of time, and even the concept of digital information. We need to bridge the longevity of the information concept to the certain mortality of the media on which the data lives. Our approach is to ensure that everything is represented as a sequence of bytes. We have confidence that the ability to store a seq...

Software preservation has not had detailed consideration as a research topic or in practical application. In this paper, we present a conceptual framework to capture and organise the main notions of software preservation, which are required for a coherent and comprehensive approach. This framework has three main aspects. Firstly a discussion of what it means to preserve software via a performan...

This poster presents a content reporting add-on to DSpace, developed for AgResearch Ltd by the IRR support team at the University of Waikato's Information Technology Services Division. We outline the motivation for developing this add-on, give a high-level description of its implementation and report initial insights on its reception and uptake. Background Open repositories have become core sys...

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) has become increasingly important in the engineering community over the last decade or so, due to the globalisation of markets and the rising popularity of products provided as services. It demands the efficient capture, representation, organisation, retrieval and reuse of product data over its entire life. Simultaneously, there is now a much greater reliance ...

By means of airborne multiple camera imaging system, we can acquire vertical and oblique aerial images (VAI and OAI) at the same time. In addition to the reduction of data cost, the OAI can also strengthen the imaging geometry during aerial triangulation and be applied on automatic façade texture mapping. With the development of image matching technique, instead of airborne laser scanning (ALS)...