Digital Transformation of Radio Broadcasting: An Exploratory Analysis of Challenges and Solutions for New Digital Radio Services

Like other media industries before, radio broadcasting is increasingly facing competition from new media platforms and changing consumer expectations. Many broadcasters are experimenting with possible solutions and are changing their production processes. While this is necessary, research is needed to capture the whole phenomenon of digital transformation of radio broadcasting. We conducted exploratory qualitative content analysis on talks of radio practitioner to identify current challenges, possible solutions, and specific aesthetics that shape current and future radio experience. We conceptualize the case of digital transformation of radio from the perspective of service-dominant logic and digital service innovation and discuss relevant areas of service innovation. We thus offer orientation for practitioners and contribute to a rather new, yet fruitful area of research for the information systems discipline

Characteristics of the Classic Radio Experience Perceived by Young Listeners and Design Implications for Their Digital Transformation

Nonlinear radio is sometimes perceived as being less enjoyable than traditional radio as elements like jokes, breaks, moderation, and the value-add of editors and radio hosts are often omitted. We start thinking about the design of nonlinear digital radio services with a focus on the traditional radio-listening experience from a consumer value perspective and the transformation of its characteristics to a digital context. We catalog the characteristics that make classic radio worth listening to from the perspective of a younger audience by conducting a qualitative study. Further, we identify implications for digital radio services based on the characteristics we elicited

Translating Editorial Work into Algorithms for Personalized Radio Streams

When providing on-demand content on the internet, radio broadcasters risk losing the inherent flow of radio programs. Radio broadcasters have to understand how to automate editorial decisions and how to integrate them into personalized playouts. We conducted qualitative content analysis on radio content to identify sequences using pattern mining techniques. Based on the patterns of radio shows we identified, we propose an approach for automating editorial decisions to leverage the potential of value co-creation between broadcaster (in form of editorial value) and listener (in form of personalized content) in interactive internet radio

Framing fluid construction grammar

In this paper, we propose a concrete operationalization which incorporates data from the FrameNet database into Fluid Construction Grammar, currently the only computational implementation of construction grammar that can achieve both production and parsing using the same set of constructions. As a proof of concept, we selected an annotated sentence from the FrameNet database and transcribed its frame annotation analysis into an FCG grammar. The paper illustrates the proposed constructions and discusses the value and results of these formalization efforts

Concepts and software package for efficient quality control in targeted metabolomics studies - MeTaQuaC

Targeted quantitative mass spectrometry metabolite profiling is the workhorse of metabolomics research. Robust and reproducible data is essential for confidence in analytical results and is particularly important with large-scale studies. Commercial kits are now available which use carefully calibrated and validated internal and external standards to provide such reliability. However, they are still subject to processing and technical errors in their use and should be subject to a laboratory’s routine quality assurance and quality control measures to maintain confidence in the results. We discuss important systematic and random measurement errors when using these kits and suggest measures to detect and quantify them. We demonstrate how wider analysis of the entire dataset, alongside standard analyses of quality control samples can be used to identify outliers and quantify systematic trends in order to improve downstream analysis. Finally we present the MeTaQuaC software which implements the above concepts and methods for Biocrates kits and creates a comprehensive quality control report containing rich visualization and informative scores and summary statistics. Preliminary unsupervised multivariate analysis methods are also included to provide rapid insight into study variables and groups. MeTaQuaC is provided as an open source R package under a permissive MIT license and includes detailed user documentation

Computational Issues in Fluid Construction Grammar

Steels, Luc (ed.).This state-of-the-art-survey documents the Fluid Construction Grammar (FCG), a new formalism for the representation of lexicons and grammars, which has been used in a wide range of case studies for different languages, both for studying specific grammatical phenomena and design patterns, as for investigating language learning and language evolution. The book focuses on the many complex computational issues that arise when writing challenging real world grammars and hence emphasises depth of analysis rather than broad scope. The volume contains 13 contributions organized in 5 parts from "Basic", and "Implementation", over "Case Studies", and "Formal Analysis", up to 3 papers presenting a "Conclusion".N