Rethinking the Digital Media Library for RIT\u27s The Wallace Center

In 2012, the Digital Preservation Team at Rochester Institute of Technology\u27s The Wallace Center undertook an assessment of its Institutional Repository, the Digital Media Library. The Digital Preservation Team looked at the repository\u27s current performance and requirements for ensuring its future success, and then examined four different philosophical approaches to configuring an IR that are in use by research institutions today: All-in-one, Archival, Researcher-centric and Subject. The team also compared open source vs. in-house repository providers and services including DSpace, Digital Commons, IR+, and Discovery Garden. A decision was made to move from the open source software DSpace to the full-service hosted software bepress from Digital Commons. The new repository will have a narrower research focus and will be rebranded RIT Scholar Works. It will be launched in fall of 2013. This article describes the configuration approaches that were considered and how each approach would impact the Digital Media Library, leading to the final recommendation

Digital Image access in an educational environment

The thesis Digital Image Access in an Educational Environment explores multiple approaches to image system design and deployment in the academic setting. This discourse chronicles the issues, options, design considerations, technical challenges, and organizational and social factors inherent in Internet and network access to, and use of, collections of high-resolution digital images in the university environment. Discussion focuses upon advances undertaken or participated in at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) by Wallace Library to provide digital image access to the RIT community. Efforts include the development of a local image system, the beta testing of a national image delivery system and the purchase of commercial image systems. While this examination details one institution\u27s foray into encouraging a change through digital image systems experimentation and implementation, as an enhancement to campus-based and distance education curriculum, it is intended to inform other educational institutions in their approach to the same issue

Choosing a Repository Platform: Open Source vs. Hosted Solutions

Discusses selection of a locally hosted, open-source system (DSpace/Fedora) versus a cloud-hosted, proprietary system (Digital Commons), it is important to note that these examples are merely illustrative. Libraries have a range of choices for repository software that includes open source and proprietary in any number of support environments, and exemplary repositories are flourishing on a variety of systems, both open source and proprietary. This chapter focuses on the differences between proprietary and open-source solutions, but also demonstrates how and why libraries choose a repository system. In writing about this process, we realized that it was important to acknowledge that there are two different audiences for this chapter: those who may just be starting out with building a repository at their institution, and those with an established repository who are considering a platform change. Thus, this chapter addresses the challenges and opportunities of platform selection in both circumstances

Reports to the President

A compilation of annual reports for the 1982-1983 academic year, including a report from the President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as reports from the academic and administrative units of the Institute. The reports outline the year's goals, accomplishments, honors and awards, and future plans

The development of the e-commerce technology adoption in Libya : evidence from the Libyan oil and gas industry

The style of doing business electronically, especially using the Internet, is now popularly known as e-Commerce technology. It is generally acknowledged that e-Commerce is revolutionizing the way of doing business. Internet and e-Commerce experts and researchers have recognized the potential of e-Commerce applications for the success of any organization. There is evidence that many companies have benefited from such technology. However, despite numerous studies of e-Commerce, there is a little research identifying the factors associated with the adoption of e-Commerce within petroleum companies. This research investigates factors that influence the adoption of e-Commerce in Libyan Oil and Gas Companies (LOGCs). The study provides insights into the perceptions of Internet and e-Commerce in Libyan petroleum companies who are developing or will develop Internet and e-Commerce technology. However, the LOGCs lack information technology (IT) infrastructure, technical expertise and good management, which appear to be real barriers to adopting e-Commerce. This study will assist those LOGCs that are considering or currently conducting their business using the Internet and e-Commerce. A framework of e-Commerce adoption will be developed to investigate the factors that potentially influence the adoption of e-Commerce. Many oil and gas companies are transferring part of their businesses to the Internet. So how are the LOGCs rising to face the challenges of the fast-moving information age? The Libyan petroleum industry seems to be very slow in responding to this area of information technology. If so, then the full potential of the industry and economy will be compromised. This research examines the factors that hinder or facilitate e- Commerce adoption. A questionnaire was developed utilizing ideas from the existing literature. The sample consisted of top managers in LOGCs (n--21 1). Multiple methods were used to collect and analyse the data: descriptive statistics, correlation and regression analysis. All analysis was performed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences. The results confirmed the findings of the literature survey, in that organizational characteristics influence e-Commerce adoption level. This study proposes a theoretical framework with influential factor groups including organizational, innovation, industry, and environmental factors. Some themes have emerged from previous literature explaining the reasons for rejecting e-Commerce adoption. The results confirm that organizational factors are highly significant in explaining e-Commerce adoption. The results also confirm that environmental factors are crucial and there was a significant relationship between the level of e-Commerce adoption and environmental factors. It is also confirmed that the perceived benefit coefficient has a negative sign and it is not significantly related to adoption level. Finally, the industry factors are not related to e-Commerce adoption level as hypothesized. This study has various limitations, and further research is needed in order to develop a more comprehensive e-Commerce technology adoption model

Bowdoin Orient v.137, no.1-25 (2007-2008)

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The Whitworthian 2009-2010

The Whitworthian student newspaper, September 2009-May 2010.https://digitalcommons.whitworth.edu/whitworthian/1094/thumbnail.jp

Bowdoin Orient v.132, no.1-24 (2000-2001)

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