Semantic Synchronization of Key Registers in a Model for Drinking Water Resources Management

Research was oriented to spatial-cadastral information-presentation system (SCIPS) and its application to the process of drinking water resources management, with the aim of improving the quality and availability of spatial and other relevant data about these resources. Authors define a model of drinking water resources management on a SCIPS platform, which improves the efficiency of information exchange in the individual interactions of social, government and private participants witch supply users with drinking water. The model is oriented to achieving a high level of availability and multiple uses of data in a wider geographic area based on the principles of cooperation, coordination and collaboration of various elements in a drinking water distribution system. Application of that model, in which key registers are semantically synchronized, may provide more rational and more sustainable usage of drinking water resources and avoiding of potential conflicts of interest or jurisdiction over those resources

The Academic Dispositif: Towards a Context-Centred Discourse Analysis

This contribution outlines the dispositif approach, which combines a linguistic discourse analysis of texts with a sociological study of the social context (i.e. the dispositif understood as an institutional arrangement of practices and structures). The authors use the discourse of academic researchers to exemplify this approach. By articulating correspondence analysis of self-representations on researchers’ homepages with institutional data of sociology professors in the United Kingdom, they outline a research design that consists of three components: a linguistic analysis of texts, a sociological analysis of institutional contexts, and a theoretical account of how the two are related in the academic dispositif. The dispositif perspective on discourse aims to respond to a demand for systematic discourse research on the social and institutional contexts of discursive practices