Many documents and more generally many resources are produced or used in an e-learning application. In order to capitalize these resources and to facilitate their access, we propose to organise them in a “learning organisational memory” (MEMORAe project). In this paper, we present the context of use, the needs and the contents of this memory. We describe the ontologies and the Topic Maps formal...

Nowadays, data handled by an institution or company is spread out by more than one database and lots of documents of different types. To extract the information implicit in that data, it is necessary to pick parts from those various archives. To obtain a general overview, those information slices should be gather. Different approaches can be followed to achieve that integration, ranging from th...

This essay proposes three models of Mediterranean space and action that emerge out early modern narratives visuals (particularly maps). These overlapping models, for the long sixteenth century, are: 1) itinerary; 2) empire; 3) predator, all which appear under broader frame geographic-commercial is either conflicted or pacific. I employ a preliminary narrative, The Deeds Commander Pietro Mocenig...

We explore the design issues of adaptive hyperbooks in relation to how using hypermedia technology changes the nature of the traditional book. To address some of these issues we have developed and tested MetaLinks, an authoring tool and web server for adaptive hyperbooks. The system is designed to: 1) support inquiry, exploratory, or curiosity-driven learning in richly interconnected material; ...

I f Microsoft’s SenseCam has pioneered visual life-logging—the act of attaching a camera to your neck and taking a picture every 30 seconds— Martin Källström’s Narrative Clip has brought it to the masses. The tiny wearable started out life as the “Memoto Wearable Camera” on Kickstarter in November 2012, raising over half a million US dollars more than its original funding goal of $50,000. After...

This is a discussion of the essential features of product development traceability maps in relation to requirements, architecture, functional models, components, and tests as a set of order type hierarchies and their cross-links. This paper lays out the structure of these ideal traceability relationships that define the essence of the product under development. The importance of the trace relat...

This paper describes the digitization and utilization of Complete Map of Peking, Qianlong Period, which is the oldest measured map of Beijing made about 250 years ago. We first proposed the geometric correction method called “linepreserving distance weighting method” to preserve linear features relevant in the old map of cities. Next we improved the reliability of the old map as information inf...

In E-Learning, the selection of the pedagogical contents to teach and the organization of this content are two principal operations during the design of a course. The growth and the diversity of the informational resources used generate problems of diffusion, access, of classification and management. With the MEMORAe project, we deal with these problems and propose to answer them by using an on...

Bing Han1,2,3, Karsten Köhler2, Kerstin Jungnickel3, Robert Mettin2, Werner Lauterborn2 and Alfred Vogel3,† 1Laser–Material Interaction Lab, Advanced Launching Co-innovation Center, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, #200 Xiao Ling Wei, 210094 Nanjing, Jiangsu, PR China 2Christian Doppler Laboratory on Cavitation and Micro Erosion, Drittes Physikalisches Institut, Universität Götting...

This paper explores the idea of using contexts to support more efficient information search in Topic Maps-based digital libraries. The notion of context is perceived as abstraction of grouping of domain concepts and resources based on the existing semantic relationships between them. The proposed model of context is used for context representation in the TM4L environment.