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Developing information architecture through records management classification techniques
Purpose ā This work aims to draw attention to information retrieval philosophies and techniques allied to the records management profession, advocating a wider professional consideration of a functional approach to information management, in this instance in the development of information architecture. Design/methodology/approach ā The paper draws from a hypothesis originally presented by the author that advocated a viewpoint whereby the application of records management techniques, traditionally applied to develop business classification schemes, was offered as an additional solution to organising information resources and services (within a university intranet), where earlier approaches, notably subject- and administrative-based arrangements, were found to be lacking. The hypothesis was tested via work-based action learning and is presented here as an extended case study. The paper also draws on evidence submitted to the Joint Information Systems Committee in support of the Abertay University's application for consideration for the JISC award for innovation in records and information management. Findings ā The original hypothesis has been tested in the workplace. Information retrieval techniques, allied to records management (functional classification), were the main influence in the development of pre- and post-coordinate information retrieval systems to support a wider information architecture, where the subject approach was found to be lacking. Their use within the workplace has since been extended. Originality/value ā The paper advocates that the development of information retrieval as a discipline should include a wider consideration of functional classification, as this alternative to the subject approach is largely ignored in mainstream IR works
Semantic Categorization Of Online Video
As internet users are increasing day by day, the users of video-sharing site are also increasing. Video-sharing is becoming more and more popular in e-learing, but the current famous websites like youtube are not structured when it come to serving the purpose of providing educational videos for preschool and high school students. There is a need to fill building more educationally focused video site, where the content is more structured, easy to use, support both direct search and browsing, and follow a particular curriculum for preschool and high school students. This report discuss the issues like categorization and search interface of these sites and propose alternatives to existing ones out there. In this project, I have built an educational website for preschool, high school, and college level students concentrating on improved categorization and search interface of the site. This report provides detail description of my system and the results of comparison between my site and youtube. supraj
The SEC-system : reuse support for scheduling system development
Recently, in a joint cooperation of Stichting VNA, SAL Apotheken, the Faculty of Management and Organization, and the University Centre for Pharmacy, University of Groningen in the Netherlands, a Ph.D-study started regarding Apot(he)ek, Organization and Management (APOM). The APOM-project deals with the structuring and steering of pharmacy organization. The manageability of the internal pharmacy organization, and the manageability of the direct environment of pharmacy organization is the subject matter. The theoretical background of the APOM-project is described. A literature study was made to find mixes of objectives. Three mixes of objectives in pharmacy organization are postulated; the product mix, the process mix, and the customer mix. The typology will be used as a basic starting point for the empirical study in the next phase of the APOM-project.
Crowd-Sourcing Fuzzy and Faceted Classification for Concept Search
Searching for concepts in science and technology is often a difficult task.
To facilitate concept search, different types of human-generated metadata have
been created to define the content of scientific and technical disclosures.
Classification schemes such as the International Patent Classification (IPC)
and MEDLINE's MeSH are structured and controlled, but require trained experts
and central management to restrict ambiguity (Mork, 2013). While unstructured
tags of folksonomies can be processed to produce a degree of structure
(Kalendar, 2010; Karampinas, 2012; Sarasua, 2012; Bragg, 2013) the freedom
enjoyed by the crowd typically results in less precision (Stock 2007).
Existing classification schemes suffer from inflexibility and ambiguity.
Since humans understand language, inference, implication, abstraction and hence
concepts better than computers, we propose to harness the collective wisdom of
the crowd. To do so, we propose a novel classification scheme that is
sufficiently intuitive for the crowd to use, yet powerful enough to facilitate
search by analogy, and flexible enough to deal with ambiguity. The system will
enhance existing classification information. Linking up with the semantic web
and computer intelligence, a Citizen Science effort (Good, 2013) would support
innovation by improving the quality of granted patents, reducing duplicitous
research, and stimulating problem-oriented solution design.
A prototype of our design is in preparation. A crowd-sourced fuzzy and
faceted classification scheme will allow for better concept search and improved
access to prior art in science and technology
empathi: An ontology for Emergency Managing and Planning about Hazard Crisis
In the domain of emergency management during hazard crises, having sufficient
situational awareness information is critical. It requires capturing and
integrating information from sources such as satellite images, local sensors
and social media content generated by local people. A bold obstacle to
capturing, representing and integrating such heterogeneous and diverse
information is lack of a proper ontology which properly conceptualizes this
domain, aggregates and unifies datasets. Thus, in this paper, we introduce
empathi ontology which conceptualizes the core concepts concerning with the
domain of emergency managing and planning of hazard crises. Although empathi
has a coarse-grained view, it considers the necessary concepts and relations
being essential in this domain. This ontology is available at
https://w3id.org/empathi/
Evaluating cost taxonomies for information systems management
The consideration of costs, benefits and risks underpin many Information System (IS) evaluation decisions. Yet, vendors
and project-champions alike tend to identify and focus much of their effort on the benefits achievable from the
adoption of new technology, as it is often not in the interest of key stakeholders to spend too much time considering
the wider cost and risk implications of enterprise-wide technology adoptions. In identifying a void in the literature, the
authors of the paper present a critical analysis of IS-cost taxonomies. In doing so, the authors establish that such cost
taxonomies tend to be esoteric and difficult to operationalize, as they lack specifics in detail. Therefore, in developing a
deeper understanding of IS-related costs, the authors position the need to identify, control and reduce IS-related costs
within the information systems evaluation domain, through culminating and then synthesizing the literature into a
frame of reference that supports the evaluation of information systems through a deeper understanding of IS-cost taxonomies.
The paper then concludes by emphasizing that the total costs associated with IS-adoption can only be determined
after having considered the multi-faceted dimensions of information system investments
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