of Thesis Presented to the Graduate School of the University of Puerto Rico in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science PETRI NET WORKFLOW MODELING FOR DIGITAL PUBLISHING MEASURING QUANTITATIVE DEPENDABILITY ATTRIBUTES By Gustavo Adolfo Chaparro-Baquero July 2006 Chair: Nayda G. Santiago, Ph.D Major Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering This work des...

This paper draws on the results of recent research into digital publishing in Latin America sponsored by the European Commission’s ALFA programme. It outlines the growth in publishing in the region. It aims to stimulate reflection on the impact of a system in which most of the publishing is supported by institutions rather than commercial companies, and considers authors’ aspirations for their ...

Libraries and open access support: New roles in the digital publishing era.

Information delivery is undergoing profound changes. The established media such as radio, television, and newspapers are faced with a variety of new digital content formats. New dimensions of publishing can be exploited in the case of newspaper production. This paper investigates the changes in the production models of newspaper organizations caused by the introduction of information technology...

Over the last two decades, teaching, learning and research in higher education have developed a growing digital presence. Digital development in the humanities has been slow relative to most other areas in academia, and with some exceptions art and art history have enjoyed slow digital growth within the humanities. Within this environment, the article here presents one collaborative model for d...

purpose – this paper aims to describe the role of public libraries in bridging the digital divide. the paper firstly reviews the existing literature body in this area and then suggests a number of practical solutions. digital divide is a concept which appears in the area of information and communication technology (ict) since 1990 and refers to the existing inequality in accessing to ict among ...

France has a long tradition in the publication of mathematics. The very first “mathematics only” journal in the world, the Annales de Gergonne was published from 1810 to 1831 and several of the foremost current mathematical journals are published in France today. This paper will develop the original work of the “MathDoc” team to make accessible these and other journals, and more generally to pr...

This paper aims to highlight a link between publishing business innovation and how editors manage creativity in the digital era. Examining the changing industrial and historical business context for the U.K. magazine publishing industry, two case studies are analyzed as representatives of different ends of the publishing company spectrum (one a newly launched magazine published by a major, the ...