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Crossing the Curatorial Chasm - Lessons from the FACADE project

4th International Conference on Open RepositoriesThis presentation was part of the session : Conference PresentationsDate: 2009-05-19 01:00 PM – 02:30 PMThe FACADE project was tasked with developing a preservation strategy and program for proprietary, complex 3D CAD models used in architecture and design. In achieving this goal, the project created an expressive object model as an RDF ontology, wrote numerous curatorial applications to assist project comprehension and metadata creation, devised techniques for processing collections at large scale, and designed compelling visualization and discovery user interfaces. Actual instance collections were ingested into DSpace, and UIs manifested from them.Institute of Museum and Library Service

Crossing the chasm between industrial and software companies

Very few of the enterprise resource programme implementations put into action manage to meet their requirements satisfyingly yet the critical failure factors as well as critical success factors have been studied very narrowly. The role and the point of view of the employees who use the software has not been studied extensively throughout this operation and possibly holds some answers. To discover whether there is a gap in understanding from the software developers to the final users of the programme, a thorough inspection into the past research was required to gather a holistic picture. The objective was to define this gap in understanding and define what it would mean if it was there. The numbers of the failed and struggling implementations of different ERPs are too high to be accountable by the previously claimed issues such as cultural differences, top management support and ERP vendor support. These factors play a big role between complete failures and successful implementations by the vendors’ standards but are still far from the desired benefits desired within the procuring companies. A possible solution to the issue of implementing and operating an ERP better might lie on the software side of things instead of on the procuring companies. Gamification is a rising topic in many software fields and has already begun to show in the ERPs as well. Future studies are needed to test the real potential this newish field of software promises

Crossing the technology adoption chasm: implications for DoD

Acquisition research (Graduate School of Business & Public Policy)DoD faces significant challenges in delivering promising new technologies to service members quickly and cost-effectively. To better understand DOD's technology adoption challenges, we review the technology diffusion literature to identify factors associated with successful and unsuccessful technology adoption processes, conduct case studies of DoD's advanced technology programs and propose a conceptual technology adoption model. The literature review identifies three overarching factors reflecting the complexities of defense technology adoption: benefit-cost uncertainty, organizational externalities, and direct and indirect network externalities. Technology adoption clearly involves benefit and cost uncertainties. Organizational externalities arise because there are typically multiple stakeholders from different DoD constituencies. Direct and indirect network externalities reflect the joint and interrelated nature of defense technologies on the battlefield. A closer look at one of DoD's advanced technology development programs indicates that success factors in this program generally parallel the results of the literature survey: the importance of benefit-cost uncertainty, management commitment (organizational externalities), technology champion (network externalities) and the prospects for future technology transfer (network externalities). Finally, we present conceptual technology adoption models incorporating benefit-cost uncertainty, organizational externalities and network externalities. These models can explain the diffusion patterns observed in the defense department: no adoption, full adoption, and partial adoption/de-adoption.Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited

Ubiquitous Healthcare Information System: Toward Crossing the Security Chasm

Ubiquitous healthcare information system is increasingly seen as a viable option for reducing the inherent time lag and inaccuracies in the traditional model of healthcare and promoting the delivery and practice of evidence-based healthcare―as and when needed―without any location and time constraints. Although promising, the realization of ubiquitous healthcare information system brings several threats and risks rooted in real-time collection, analysis, storage, transmission, and access of critical medical data. In this research, we address information security concerns pertaining to the paradigm of ubiquitous healthcare information system. To accomplish this we use National Institute for Standards and Technology’s (NIST’s) system development lifecycle model (SDLC) as the underlying framework to explore the current state of ubiquitous healthcare from the perspective of security. We then leverage the model to propose future research directions in this area. By implementing the NIST’s SDLC model in such a manner, we offer a different dynamic of healthcare security that has not been addressed in literature before

A Checkup On Health Care Markets

Looks at key attributes of the healthcare markets in fourteen communities in order to gain a better understanding of how to help communities drive and sustain high-quality health care for patients with chronic illnesses

Resident Physicians' Preparedness to Provide Cross-Cultural Care: Implications for Clinical Care and Medical Education Policy

Recommends integrating cross-cultural training into medical school curricula, training faculty to ensure useful instruction and mentoring, and mandatory and formal evaluation of residents' cross-cultural communication skills

Transparency and Public Reporting Are Essential for a Safe Health Care System

Compares three approaches to spurring hospitals to improve patient safety and argues that public reporting of performance and feedback to providers is more effective than regulation and accreditation or financial incentives

All Americans at Risk of Receiving Poor Quality Health Care

Summarizes a study of the health care Americans receive compared to the health care they should receive and of the links between the quality of care received and patient characteristics, including age, gender, race/ethnicity, income, and insurance status