KAPTUR: technical analysis report

Led by the Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) and funded by the JISC Managing Research Data programme (2011-13) KAPTUR will discover, create and pilot a sectoral model of best practice in the management of research data in the visual arts in collaboration with four institutional partners: Glasgow School of Art; Goldsmiths, University of London; University for the Creative Arts; and University of the Arts London. This report is framed around the research question: which technical system is most suitable for managing visual arts research data? The first stage involved a literature review including information gathered through attendance at meetings and events, and Internet research, as well as information on projects from the previous round of JISCMRD funding (2009-11). During February and March 2012, the Technical Manager carried out interviews with the four KAPTUR Project Officers and also met with IT staff at each institution. This led to the creation of a user requirement document (Appendix A), which was then circulated to the project team for additional comments and feedback. The Technical Manager selected 17 systems to compare with the user requirement document (Appendix B). Five of the systems had similar scores so these were short-listed. The Technical Manager created an online form into which the Project Officers entered priority scores for each of the user requirements in order to calculate a more accurate score for each of the five short-listed systems (Appendix C) and this resulted in the choice of EPrints as the software for the KAPTUR project

Institutional Repositories: Features, Architecture, Design and Implementation Technologies

Europe is the leading continent in terms of active adoption and use of Digital Libraries – particularly Institutional Repositories (IRs). Africa has not done poorly in this area with a steady increase from 19 repositories in 2008 to 46 in January, 2011 but there is need to raise awareness and channel efforts towards making IRs easily accessible to Africans through ubiquitous channels such as hand-helds and mobile devices. This paper reviews the features, architecture, design and implementation technologies of IRs. In addition, it highlights viable research areas that can be pursued by African researchers in the field of Digital Libraries. It also encourages research efforts to focus on areas that will be beneficial to Africa

Real time traffic simulator for self-adaptive navigation system validation

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Multimedia repositories in learning and teaching – lessons from the MIDESS Project

The MIDESS project brought together 4 UK universities to explore the management of digitised content through the development of a digital repository infrastructure. The project focused on multimedia materials in particular and looked at how support can be provided for their use in a learning and research context and how resources can be shared both within and between institutions. Three repositories were implemented, using Fedora, DSpace and Digitool respectively. Material suitable for ingest was identified and the dialogue with academic partners in each institution helped clarify not only the complexity of the interactions required but also the value of the repository in supporting learning, teaching and research. Having established a repository platform within each institution, the project then explored how multimedia content could be exchanged and shared between the repositories, using OAI-PMH and METS as transport mechanisms. This paper will summarise the project’s main findings. In particular, it will address how a multimedia repository might fit into the information architecture of the university, the likely requirements for integration into an inter-institutional or national framework and some of the obstacles which can impede such integration. Scenarios will be presented illustrating how student learning can benefit from such a repository within a research-intensive university and the relationship between the repository and the VLE will be discussed

Designing mobile access to DSpace-based digital libraries

Developing countries face serious problems on building and using digital libraries (DL) due to low computer and Internet penetration rates, lack of financial resources, etc. Thus, since mobile phones are much more used than computers in these countries, they might be a good alternative for accessing DL. Moreover, in the developed world there has been an exponential growth on the usage of mobile phones for data traffic, establishing a good ground for accessing DL on mobile devices. This paper presents a design proposal for making DSpace-based digital libraries accessible on mobile phones. Since DSpace is a popular free and open source DL system used around the world, making it accessible through mobile devices might contribute for improving the global accessibility of scientific and academic publications.http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2254556.225469

A typology of cooperation strategies in the telecommunication industry: An exploratory analysis and theoretical foundations

The value chain of the telecommunication industry is subject to a continuing disintegration which is caused by outsourced network operation, the provisioning of wholesale interfaces to competing service providers and the cooperative provisioning of broadband access. Thus, many companies regard cooperation as an element of cooperate strategy. In this paper we propose a cooperation topology for the telecommunication industry and identify drivers of cooperation based on the assessment of case studies. The results indicate that drivers of cooperation differ with respect to the cooperation direction and that the combination of complementary resources is the dominating driver of cooperation. --Cooperation,telecommunication,typology of cooperation strategies,transaction costs

Enabling mobile access to digital libraries in digital divide contexts

Digital libraries (DL) have had a tremendous impact on improving the accessibility of scientific and academic publications. In developing countries, they seem to be the great hope, due to the serious existing problems with the traditional publishing and distribution mechanisms and to the potential they have on enabling access to a great panoply of publications. Moreover, accessing digital libraries over mobile devices has the potential of reaching a broader community of users and on helping to bridge the digital divide, since there are very reduced computer and Internet penetration rates in these countries, along with a higher mobile phone usage. For developed countries, accessing digital libraries on the go might also bring important added value. This paper features an analysis of the major issues related to making digital libraries accessible over mobile devices. A specific study on the possibility of using mobile digital libraries in a developing country context is also presented along with a proposal for making DSpace based digital libraries accessible over mobile phones.http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6263193&isnumber=626305

Interfaces móviles en DSpace

La utilización de dispositivos móviles para el acceso a internet es cada vez más frecuente gracias a la reducción de tarifas y a la disponibilidad de aparatos cada vez más funcionales. Este incremento de uso implica replantearse los servicios ofrecidos por las Bibliotecas Universitarias. El desarrollo de interfaces móviles para las Bibliotecas empieza a ser importante, estimándose que un 44% de las bibliotecas universitarias ofrecen algún tipo de servicio servicios móviles a sus usuarios. Las características de estos dispositivos, principalmente tamaño de pantalla e interacción de usuario, requiere la adaptación de las interfaces web para facilitar su interacción con el usuario en estos nuevos dispositivos. En la comunicación explicaremos las distintas alternativas que el software Dspace cuenta para poder mejorar la interacción y experiencia de uso con estos dispositivos. Introduciremos las tecnicas existentes para adaptar las páginas y contenidos a los dispositivos móviles. Igualmente, revisaremos los mecanismos básicos y claves de adaptación que usa DSpace para trabajar con los aspectos móviles desde la versión 1.8 en adelante y señalaremos los mecanismos que se pueden usar en Dspace para detectar el tipo de dispositivo y la redirección a múltiples versiones de las páginas. Seguidamente revisaremos la nueva interfaz adaptativa de Dspace, basada en herramientas de diseño responsivo, como Bootstrap, incluidas en el tema Mirage 2 y las características funcionales logradas con esta interfaz. Finalmente mostraremos las pautas de desarrollo de aplicaciones para dispositivos Android que interactuán con Dspace en funcionalidades específicas, como la realización de depósitos mediante protocolo SWORD.The use of mobile devices for accessing the Internet is becoming more frequent every day, due toeduced prices and the availability of increasingly functionaldevices. This increased usage requires to evaluate the services offered by University Libraries. The development of mobile interfaces for Libraries is becoming important, being estimated that a 44% of university libraries offer some kind of mobile service to its users. The characteristics of these devices, mainly screen size and user interaction, requires the adaptation of the web interface to facilitate its interaction with the user in these new devices. We will show the possibilities that DSpace software provides in order to be able to improve the interaction and experience of use with these devices. We will introduce new ways to adapt websites and contents to a mobile version, together we will review the basic mechanisms that DSpace uses to work with the mobile aspects from version 1.8 forward, offering an structural vision of the mobile subject in DSpace, the mechanisms used to detect the right device type and the redirection to the suitable version of the webpage.We will revise the new adaptive interface of DSpace, basedon responsive design tools, as Bootstrap, included in the Mirage 2 theme,and the functional characteristics accomplished wit this new interface. Finally, we will show how to develop applications for Android mobile devices interacting with DSpace in specific functionalities, as the accomplishment of deposits using SWORD protocol.Interoperabilidade.Ibero-American Science and Technology Education Consortium (ISTEC

An Active helideck testbed for floating structures based on a Stewart-Gough platform

A parallel robot testbed based on Stewart-Gough platform called Active-helideck is designed, developed and tested as a helicopter floating helideck. The objective of this testbed is to show the advantages of helicopters that use an active helideck upon landing on and taking off from ships or from offshore structures. Active-helideck compensates simulated movements of a ship at sea. The main goal of this study is to maintain the robot’s end effector (helideck) in a quasi-static position in accordance to an absolute inertial frame. Compensation is carried out through the coordinate action of its six prismatic actuators in function of an inertial measurement unit. Moreover, the simulation of the sea movement is done by a parallel robot called ship platform with three degrees of freedom. The ship platform is built with a vertical oscillation along the z axis, i.e. heave, and rotates on remaining axes, i.e. roll and pitch. Active helideck is able to compensate simulated movements by considering the ship as an inertial frame as observed in the experiment

Wireless Broadband Access: Policy Implications of Heterogeneous Networks

A wireless heterogeneous network can help increase the access transmission speed and contribute thereby to the broadband deployment policies of administrations and telecommunications operators. Given the technical particularities of wireless heterogeneous networks, the deployment of wireless heterogeneous networks raises a number of challenges that need to be addressed by regulatory authorities. This article analyses the following regulatory implications: standardisation and technology neutrality, spectrum management, market analysis, open access and infrastructure sharing, interconnection pricing and charging, broadband deployment policies, and privacy and security issues. --4G,heterogeneous networks,cooperative networks,spectrum management,regulation,wireless networks