The Quest for Electronic Resource Management Standards and Tools

Chapter 6 of 8.Libraries and vendors face significant challenges in the new digital publishing environment. One of these challenges is to manage the information and workflows necessary to acquire and provide access to electronic resources. The growth of electronic journals and databases has both complicated and transformed the acquisition and servicing of library materials. New information and workflows are required to evaluate, select, acquire, license, catalog, and manage electronic products throughout their life-cycle. Current library systems and standards have not kept pace with these changes. In the absence of existing software solutions, many libraries have begun to design and build local automated tools to address this gap. Surveys of locally developed electronic resource management systems reveal a high concentration of shared goals, issues and functional specifications, indicating that the time may be right for a collaborative approach and the establishment of best practices and standards. This chapter will describe the progress that is being made on this front by participants in the Digital Library Federation (DLF) Electronic Resource Management Initiative (http://www.diglib.org/standards/dlf-erm02.htm).Cornell University Librar

Electronic Resources Communications Management: A Strategy for Success

This paper is based on a presentation given at the Electronic Resources and Libraries Conference, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, March 23, 2006.Communications in the workflow of electronic resources (e-resources) acquisitions and management are complex and numerous. The work of acquiring and managing e-resources is hampered by the lack of best practices, standards, and adequate personal information management software. The related communications reflect these inadequacies. An e-resource management communications analysis at The Ohio State University Libraries revealed the underlying structure of the communication network and areas that could be improved in terms of efficiency and effectiveness. E-resources management must be responsive to the high expectations of users and other library staff. Efficient management of the related communications network increases the likelihood of a productive and successful operation

Challenges of the Electronic Resources Life Cycle and Practical Ways to Overcome Them

This paper will discuss challenges throughout the electronic resources life cycle and practical work arounds of tools many academic libraries have on hand already. Those tools include: a discovery layer, electronic resource management system (ERM), link resolver, COUNTER and SUSHI standards, ticketing systems, and spreadsheets. The workflow was previously described by Oliver Pesch’s work (2008) on electronic resources life cycles. Themes of this discussion of the experience at Kansas State University Libraries will include documentation of efficiencies, transparency of workflow activity across library departments, and the movement to take action in user communities and vendor support

Electronic resources management systems: overview and latest trends (ERM Part II)

21 SlidesPaper presented during the SANLIC Workshop, 4-5 May 2011, DurbanThe complexity of and specific requirements for the management of electronic resources have given rise to the development of Electronic Resource Management Systems (ERMs). Despite being on the market for about 5 years, libraries are still struggling to get a grip on the efficient management of e-resources. This paper will provide an overview of new standards being developed and trends in development that could impact on the ERMs

Standing on the shoulders of giants : Are ERP success factors relevant for EDRMS implementation?

Records management has been a central concern for organisations in both private and public sectors since the beginning of the 21st century. This new focus is due both to the introduction of laws, regulations and standards affecting corporate information management; and to the way records are changing from paper-based to &ldquo;born-digital&rdquo; and &ldquo;made-digital&rdquo;. The need for an effective automated system to manage records is now greater than ever, with Electronic Document and Records Management Systems (EDRMS) being the most likely solution. Despite their increasing popularity, however, successful uptake of such systems is not yet widespread and research into their implementation is still limited. This paper investigates the possibility of applying existing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) models to EDRMS by analysing the substantial body of literature on success factors for ERP implementation, both qualitatively and quantitatively; and then comparing these with the still relatively limited literature on EDRMS.<br /

Remote Controlling and Monitoring of Safety Devices Using Web-Interface Embedded Systems

To date, access control systems have been hardware-based platforms, where software and hardware parts were uncoupled into different systems. The Department of Electronic Technology in the University of Seville, together with ISIS Engineering, have developed an innovative embedded system that provides all needed functions for controlling and monitoring remote access control systems through a built-in web interface. The design provides a monolithic structure, independence from outer systems, easiness in management and maintenance, conformation to the highest standards in security, and straightforward adaptability to applications other than the original one. We have accomplished it by using an extremely reduced Linux kernel and developing web and purpose- specific logic under software technologies with an optimal resource use.Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología TEC2006-0843

HELIN Cataloging Policies and Procedures Manual

HELIN Cataloging Manual - Nov. 2011 revisio

Reinventing the university

In view of the discernible trends in Higher Education towards increased numbers, increased diversity and expectations of students, declining resources, increased competition between providers and increasingly irregular patterns of student attendance, there is a need to establish new ways of delivering and supporting teaching and learning. The convergence of different media into a single networked digital domain, and the rapidly expanding accessibility of such media, both driven by market forces, is tempting many HE institutions to develop an online presence. True ‘virtual universities’, i.e., completely online, are still the exception and there are strong reasons why traditional, face‐to‐face, universities should resist the pressure to develop a virtual alter ego. Nevertheless, online delivery and support of teaching and learning offers many potential benefits to students of such institutions, not least of which could be freedom from the constraints of conventional attendance patterns

An open standard for the exchange of information in the Australian timber sector

The purpose of this paper is to describe business-to-business (B2B) communication and the characteristics of an open standard for electronic communication within the Australian timber and wood products industry. Current issues, future goals and strategies for using business-to-business communication will be considered. From the perspective of the Timber industry sector, this study is important because supply chain efficiency is a key component in an organisation's strategy to gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace. Strong improvement in supply chain performance is possible with improved business-to-business communication which is used both for building trust and providing real time marketing data. Traditional methods such as electronic data interchange (EDI) used to facilitate B2B communication have a number of disadvantages, such as high implementation and running costs and a rigid and inflexible messaging standard. Information and communications technologies (ICT) have supported the emergence of web-based EDI which maintains the advantages of the traditional paradigm while negating the disadvantages. This has been further extended by the advent of the Semantic web which rests on the fundamental idea that web resources should be annotated with semantic markup that captures information about their meaning and facilitates meaningful machine-to-machine communication. This paper provides an ontology using OWL (Web Ontology Language) for the Australian Timber sector that can be used in conjunction with semantic web services to provide effective and cheap B2B communications

Аналіз упровадження ISO 50001:2011 в авіаційному сегменті транспортного сектору економіки

[1]. Стрелкова Г. Г. Методологічні аспекти підвищення енергоефективності функціонування аеропортів у контексті сталої авіаці / Г. Г. Стрелкова, Г. М. Агєєва // Архітектура та екологія: V Міжнар. наук.-практ. конф., 29-30.10.2013 p.: матеріали конф. - К : HAY, 2013. - Ч. ІІ. - С. 119-122. [2]. ISO 50001:2011. Energy management systems - Requirements with guidance for use. - CEN/CENELEC. - European Committee for Standardization. - 2011. - 22 p. [3]. Стрелкова Г. Г. Досвід сертифікації систем енергетичного менеджменту об'єктів інфраструктури авіаційного транспорту за вимогами стандарту ISO 50001 / Г. Г. Стрелкова, Г. М. Агєєва // Енергетичний менеджмент: стан та перспективи розвитку. - 2014: І Міжнар. наук.-практ. та навч.-метод. конф., 27-29.05.2014 p.: матеріали конф. - К : НТУУ “КПІ”, 2014. - С. 64—65. [4]. Eurostat Website: Data on Transport statistics. Transport Database [Electronic resource]. - Access mode: http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/transport/data/database . [5]. CAPA - Centre for Aviation. Airports [Electronic resource], - Access mode: http://centreforaviation.com . [6]. Airports Council International. Airport Statistics and Data Centre [Electronic resource], - Access mode: http://www.aci.aero/Data-Centre . [7]. ISO 50001:2011. Энергоменеджмент. Международная сертификация [Electronic resource], - Access mode: http://www.gost50001.ru/mezhdunarodnaya-sertifikatsiya [8]. ISO. Standards. Management system standards [Electronic resource], - Access mode: http://www.iso.org . iso/ru/home/standards/management-standards.htm [9]. IATA. Publications. World Air Transport Statistics (WATS) [Electronic resource], - Access mode: http://www.iata.org/publications/Pages/wats.aspxTo enhance energy efficiency policy of airports and to reduce their energy consumption the analysis of global experience of implementing the ISO 50001:2011 in aviation segment of transport economy sector was conducted. It was found that at the beginning of 2014, experience in implementing the standard at airports was limited and dissemination and frequency of standard implementation were different for various world economic regions. It was noted that one of the reasons of insufficient dissemination of the standard is the absence of systematization of existing experience that leads to uncertainty of trends in standard dissemination and slows down the decisionmaking by airport management concerning the standard’s implementation. To systematize data, the criteria and relevant to them attributes were defined and substantiated that allowed identifying the trends in disseminating the standard in the aviation sector by criteria of conformity assessment of EnMS with ISO 50001:2011 requirements, socio-economic and operational functions of airports. The prospects of implementing the standard at Ukrainian airports were considered.Для посилення політики енергоефективності аеропортів та зменшення енергетичних витрат проведено аналіз світового досвіду впровадження стандарту ISO 50001:2011 в авіаційному сегменті транспортного сектору економіки. Встановлено, що на початок 2014 р. досвід впровадження стандарту в аеропортах залишається обмеженим, причому розподіл та частота впровадження стандарту є нерівномірними за економічними регіонами світу. Зазначено, що однією з причин недостатнього поширення стандарту є відсутність систематизації накопиченого досвіду, що призводить до невизначеності тенденцій розповсюдження стандарту та уповільнює прийняття рішень керівництвом аеропортів стосовно його впровадження. Визначено та обгрунтовано вибір критеріїв і відповідних груп ознак для систематизації даних, що дало змогу сформулювати тенденції поширення стандарту в авіаційному сегменті за критеріями оцінки відповідності системи енергетичного менеджменту вимогам стандарту, соціально-економічного та функціонального призначення аеропортів. Розглянуто перспективи впровадження стандарту в аеропортах України