TX Freedom Colonies Project's Plan to Preserve Endangered Historic Black Settlements & Cemeteries

The technical report describes grant activities for activities taking place 2019-2021.“The Texas Freedom Colonies Project's Plan to Preserve Endangered Historic Black Settlements& Cemeteries” (the Grant) funded through the Trust provided $50,000 to support engagement, mobile cemetery identification and assessment in partnership with descendant communities, and an overall strategic and technical plan to coordinate our online and offline engagement better. We partnered with Newton and Jasper County community descendants active in local preservation from Dixie Community and another community in which a homestead is a National Register site, Shankleville. The grant emerges from The Project team's desire to support local descendants’ efforts to organize other nascent preservation efforts in the region related to cemetery preservation. This executive summary provides an overview of grant-funded activities. Two documents describe the scope, aims, and goals achieved, “the strategic plan and technical report,” and “field testing report.” 1. The strategic plan and technical report intended to guide web portal platform building, and field data collection infrastructure development includes appendices. Primarily authored by vendor: Root Cause Research Center and subcontractors 2. Field testing report: A guidebook, A cemetery mobile assessment tool and registry entries (https://www.thetexasfreedomcoloniesproject.com/cemetery-registry), and evidence of field testing, and lessons learned from descendants This summary reviews the project’s purpose and scope, core audiences, process, findings and conclusions from our contractors, and our Team research processes.The National Trust for Historic Preservation, African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund, Mellon Foundatio

Review of Web Mapping: Eras, Trends and Directions

Web mapping and the use of geospatial information online have evolved rapidly over the past few decades. Almost everyone in the world uses mapping information, whether or not one realizes it. Almost every mobile phone now has location services and every event and object on the earth has a location. The use of this geospatial location data has expanded rapidly, thanks to the development of the Internet. Huge volumes of geospatial data are available and daily being captured online, and are used in web applications and maps for viewing, analysis, modeling and simulation. This paper reviews the developments of web mapping from the first static online map images to the current highly interactive, multi-sourced web mapping services that have been increasingly moved to cloud computing platforms. The whole environment of web mapping captures the integration and interaction between three components found online, namely, geospatial information, people and functionality. In this paper, the trends and interactions among these components are identified and reviewed in relation to the technology developments. The review then concludes by exploring some of the opportunities and directions

Merging Multiple Existing Geotechnical Databases

This report discusses a project undertaken by Kentucky Transportation Center (KTC) researchers to create a comprehensive geotechnical database for highway planning, design, maintenance, and repair. The project consolidated multiple geotechnical data sources into a unified database accessible to Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) staff, enabling informed decision making and improving project outcomes. Databases were merged with great attention to detail, ensuring data integrity and coherence. A geotechnical data collector app developed as part of the project supports convenient and efficient data collection in the field, even when phones or tablets lack network connectivity. A rockfall rating app and landslide hazard rating system streamline the collection and assessment of rockfall and landslide data. The report highlights tools used to complete the project, including the ArcGIS suite (i.e., ArcMap, ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online, Collector, Field Maps, Survey123), Microsoft Visual Studio, and Microsoft SQL Server. These tools facilitate geodatabase management, field data collection, and data analysis. Detailed instructions and user manuals are provided for each application. Overall, project deliverables strengthen the Cabinet’s geotechnical data management as well as its geotechnical investigations, risk assessments, and mitigation strategies. It empowers staff by giving them access to valuable tools for data collection, analysis, and visualization, which in turn positively influence the safety and performance of Kentucky\u27s highways

Electronic Imaging & the Visual Arts. EVA 2013 Florence

Important Information Technology topics are presented: multimedia systems, data-bases, protection of data, access to the content. Particular reference is reserved to digital images (2D, 3D) regarding Cultural Institutions (Museums, Libraries, Palace – Monuments, Archaeological Sites). The main parts of the Conference Proceedings regard: Strategic Issues, EC Projects and Related Networks & Initiatives, International Forum on “Culture & Technology”, 2D – 3D Technologies & Applications, Virtual Galleries – Museums and Related Initiatives, Access to the Culture Information. Three Workshops are related to: International Cooperation, Innovation and Enterprise, Creative Industries and Cultural Tourism

Custovo: A Digital, Personalized Job Search Collection Aid, Streamlined for Creatives

In today’s society, the most common way for people to search for job opportunities is by using the internet on their personal electronic device, whether it be a laptop, desktop, tablet, or mobile phone. There are hundreds of websites and mobile applications catering to all kinds of career services in a plethora of fields. One specific sector of employment that is rather unique is the creative field. Creative positions are posted on their own websites like Behance, AIGA, Coroflot, etc. Since these niche websites exist, there are also hundreds of articles discussing how creative individuals approach the job searching process. Each industry has a different protocol when it comes to the hiring process; that which creatives, in my personal opinion, go through a rather intensive process in order to get that desired job. Not only does it require an interview, but a designed resume and cover letter, a portfolio, and an impress piece (among other things). While creatives search and apply for these jobs, they are most likely finishing up their collegiate career or working full-time. It can be difficult and tedious to keep up with each application and remembering the status of each job applied, especially trying to remember which website you found XYZ job posted on. It is up to the individual to create their own method for keeping track, whether it be an Excel spreadsheet, text document, or using their Email history and labeling folders for each company. Regardless, these methods can fail due to the individual simply not keeping up and checking in frequently. This can result to not becoming employed by a date when the user wants to ideally be employed by and losing opportunity. I searched to see if there was a universally available system currently accessible to the public to prevent that from happening; there was not. The objective of this thesis was to establish the systematic function of a mobile application and website pairing that will act as a guide/tool to aid graduating creatives and individuals already working in the creative field. This tool would have made the job search process easier by organizing all job postings of interest in one location (similar to a Pinterest-type of database), keeping track of all job applications, and automatically sending appropriately timed reminders via push notifications to the user while prompting the user’s actions through Q&A/informative directions, rather than simply demanding an action through directions

Health Care Management using Cloud Computing

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Utilizing Smartphone Resources with Homesite Insurance

The process of providing real estate information about a property, a central component of purchasing homeowner’s insurance, is a lengthy, complicated procedure that has a large capacity for error on the part of the customer providing the information. Because of advances in information technology, including the storage, processing, and presentation of information of all kinds, this process can be handled in ways that are faster, less prone to error, and easier to use in the absence of specialist knowledge. The goal of this project was to explore these technological advances in order to identify strategies that could be used to achieve the aforementioned improvements in such a way that a casual user of the app could handle the process with little difficulty and with reliable results

Software Usability

This volume delivers a collection of high-quality contributions to help broaden developers’ and non-developers’ minds alike when it comes to considering software usability. It presents novel research and experiences and disseminates new ideas accessible to people who might not be software makers but who are undoubtedly software users

Data Processing and the Envision

Data is being generated very rapidly due to increase in information in everyday life. Huge amount of data gets accumulated from various organizations that is difficult to analyze and exploit. Data created by an expanding number of sensors in the environment such as traffic cameras and satellites, internet activities on social networking sites, healthcare database, government database, sales data etc., are example of huge data. Processing, analyzing and communicating this data are a challenge. Online shopping websites get flooded with voluminous amount of sales data every day. Analyzing and visualizing this data for information retrieval is a difficult task. There are large number of information visualization techniques which have been developed over the last decade to support the exploration of large data sets. With today’s data management systems, it is only possible to view quite small portions of the data. If the data is presented textually, the amount of data which can be displayed is in the range of some 100 data items, but this is like a drop in the ocean when dealing with data sets containing millions of data items. Data is being generated very rapidly due to increase in information in everyday life. Huge amount of data gets accumulated from various organizations that is difficult to analyze and exploit. Data created by an expanding number of sensors in the environment such as traffic cameras and satellites, internet activities on social networking sites, healthcare database, government database, sales data etc., are example of huge data. Processing, analyzing and communicating this data are a challenge. Online shopping websites get flooded with voluminous amount of sales data every day. Analyzing and visualizing this data for information retrieval is a difficult task. Therefore, a system is required which will effectively analyze and visualize data. This paper focuses on a system which will visualize sales data which will help users in applying intelligence in business, revenue generation, and decision making, managing business operation and tracking progress of tasks. Effective and efficient data visualization is the key part of the discovery process. It is the intermediate between the human intuition and quantitative context of the data, thus an essential component of the scientific path from data into knowledge and understanding. Therefore, a system is required which will effectively analyze and visualize data. This paper focuses on a system which will visualize data which will help users in interactive data visualization applying in business, revenue generation, and decision making, managing business operation and tracking progress of tasks