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    Digital Rights Management - Current Status and Future Trends

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    Training of Crisis Mappers and Map Production from Multi-sensor Data: Vernazza Case Study (Cinque Terre National Park, Italy)

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    This aim of paper is to presents the development of a multidisciplinary project carried out by the cooperation between Politecnico di Torino and ITHACA (Information Technology for Humanitarian Assistance, Cooperation and Action). The goal of the project was the training in geospatial data acquiring and processing for students attending Architecture and Engineering Courses, in order to start up a team of "volunteer mappers". Indeed, the project is aimed to document the environmental and built heritage subject to disaster; the purpose is to improve the capabilities of the actors involved in the activities connected in geospatial data collection, integration and sharing. The proposed area for testing the training activities is the Cinque Terre National Park, registered in the World Heritage List since 1997. The area was affected by flood on the 25th of October 2011. According to other international experiences, the group is expected to be active after emergencies in order to upgrade maps, using data acquired by typical geomatic methods and techniques such as terrestrial and aerial Lidar, close-range and aerial photogrammetry, topographic and GNSS instruments etc.; or by non conventional systems and instruments such us UAV, mobile mapping etc. The ultimate goal is to implement a WebGIS platform to share all the data collected with local authorities and the Civil Protectio

    Copyright Insight Out: A Legal Sociologist’s Perspective

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    In my work as a researcher and teacher of legal sociology, copyright issues have always played an important role. I have been particularly interested in studying how copyright has changed under the influence of technology. The start of my career as a law professor in 1998 coincided with the invention of file sharing. In the years that followed, I used file sharing in my teaching to illustrate how digital technology challenged the effectiveness of government sanctions as a means of copyright enforcement. In my research, exploring the relationship between materiality and sociality, or how technological infrastructure and law interact, has become central. It focuses on the concept of normative expectations and the related question of how the law can regulate norm-building processes in a social context. Overall, the law and society perspective has proved useful in analysing the social impact of a new technology and in incorporating the insights gained into legal practice in order to make concrete suggestions for improvement

    A Novel Framework to Select Intelligent Video Streaming Scheme for Learning Software as a Service

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    Cloud computing offers many benefits for government, business and educational institutions as exemplified in many cases. Options to deliver video streaming contents for educational purposes over cloud computing infrastructures are highlighted in this study. In such case, parameters that affect video quality directly or indirectly must be taken into account such as bandwidth, jitter and loss of data. Currently, several intelligent schemes to improve video streaming services have been proposed by researchers through different approaches. This study aims to propose a novel framework to select appropriate intelligent video streaming schemes for efficiently delivering educational video contents for Learning Software as a Service (LSaaS)
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