The paper describes the participation of the CACAO project consortium to the TEL@CLEF 2008 task targeted at retrieving relevant items from collections of library catalogues. CACAO proposes the development of an infrastructure for multilingual access to digital content, including an information retrieval system able to search for books and texts in all the available languages. For each monolingu...

Emerging mobile location-based information services enable people to place digital content into the physical world. Based on three technical components (1) mobile devices, (2) wireless networking and (3) location-sensing the implementation of location-based services can be considered state of the art. In contrast, we observe a lack of conceptual work in terms of user interface issues, like desi...

This paper investigates the current turbulent state of copyright in the digital age, and explores the viability of alternative compensation systems. The paper critically appraises the increased recourse to digital rights management (DRM) technologies, which are designed to restrict access to and usage of digital content. Considerable technical challenges associated with DRM systems have necessi...

Web-based Cognitive Writing Instruction (WeCWI)’s contribution towards language development can be divided into linguistic and non-linguistic perspectives. In linguistic perspective, WeCWI focuses on the literacy and language discoveries, while the cognitive and psychological discoveries are the hubs in non-linguistic perspective. In linguistic perspective, WeCWI draws attention to free reading...

Over the last decade, there have been significant efforts to develop digital libraries. These efforts, however, largely focused on the building of the technology, telecommunications, and standards (i.e., metadata) infrastructures that enable digital libraries to function technically. More recently, the efforts include the building of digital content that populate digital libraries. Little atten...

This paper examines how the introduction and use of a new information system affects and is affected by the values of a diverse professional workforce. It uses the example of lecture capture systems in a university. Its contribution is to combine two concepts taken from actor-network theory, namely accumulation and inscription, and combine them with an integrated framework of diversity manageme...

Video signals differ from image signals in several important characteristics. Of course the most important difference is that video signals have a camera frame rate of anywhere from 15 to 60 frames/s, which provides the illusion of smooth motion in the displayed signal. Another difference between images and video is the ability to exploit temporal redundancy as well as spatial redundancy in des...

We investigate the dynamical switching process of Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR) by numerical calculations probability using an atomistic model. Calculations show that at elevated write temperature HAMR there is a loss information arising from ’backswitching’: thermodynamic phenomenon which comes into play when ratio Zeeman energy to thermal insufficiently large completely stabilise sw...

The recording of classical music is mostly centered around the score of a composition. During editing of these recordings, however, further technical visualizations are used. Introducing digital interactive scores to the recording and editing process can enhance the workflow significantly and speed up the production process. This paper gives a short introduction to the recording process and out...