Technical Systems, Organisation Forms and Social Implications: Statistical Analysis of the Firm Survey (Second Interim Report)

This is the second interim report of the research project "Information Society, Work and the Generation of New Forms of Social Exclusion" (SOWING). It is based on a firm survey conducted in the eight regions participating in the research project — Flanders (Belgium), Lazio (Italy), Niederösterreich (Austria), Portugal, the Republic of Ireland, the Stuttgart area (Germany), the Tampere region (Finland) and the West London area (U.K.). The aim of this report is to present a broad overview of the collected data. In general, only simple statistical methods have been applied. The report focuses on a regional comparison; however, the data have also been analysed by firm size, measured by quantity of staff, and industrial sector. It should be seen as a first step in the data analysis; it may also give some hints for a more strategic analysis of the survey data.Information Society; Work;

Technical Systems, Organisation Forms and Social Implications: Statistical Analysis of the Firm Survey (Second Interim Report)

This is the second interim report of the research project "Information Society, Work and the Generation of New Forms of Social Exclusion" (SOWING). It is based on a firm survey conducted in the eight regions participating in the research project — Flanders (Belgium), Lazio (Italy), Niederösterreich (Austria), Portugal, the Republic of Ireland, the Stuttgart area (Germany), the Tampere region (Finland) and the West London area (U.K.). The aim of this report is to present a broad overview of the collected data. In general, only simple statistical methods have been applied. The report focuses on a regional comparison; however, the data have also been analysed by firm size, measured by quantity of staff, and industrial sector. It should be seen as a first step in the data analysis; it may also give some hints for a more strategic analysis of the survey data

The 16th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2012

This paper presents research carried out in order to elicit user needs for the design and development of a digital library and research platform intended to enhance user engagement with cultural heritage collections. It outlines a range of user constituencies for this digital library. The paper outlines a taxonomy of intended users for this system and describes in detail the characteristics and requirements of these users for the facilitation and enhancement of their engagement with and use of textual and visual cultural artefacts

Towards a research platform for the 1641 Depositions: new technologies and the humanities

This project will investigate innovative technology to structure and lend meaning to a large corpus of unstructured information. The objectives of this project are: to investigate how text analytics and semantic mark-up tools can be used to enable researchers to discover new insights contained within the digital humanities; to capture some aspects of the subtle processes by which researchers model the meaning of documents and to make key aspects of their knowledge available to other researchers; to prototype and evaluate selected tools which achieve these objectives, using the transcribed 1641 Depositions as a corpus of unstructured humanities content

1641 Depositions: Sharing our history, building a legacy

This research impact case study highlights the multiple impacts stemming from the 1641 Depositions Project. The document summarises how this flagship transdisciplinary digital humanities endeavour has engaged with publics inside and outside academia and transformed our understanding of how the controversial events of the mid-seventeenth century are recorded and remembered

Towards Multi-Dimensional Adaptation of Digitised Historical Content

Traditional keyword-based search approaches are limited in their retrieval of digital content. In this paper we discuss progress towards multi-dimensional adaptation of digitised content in the context of the European Commission-funded CULTURA project. The supporting technology draws on adaptive hypermedia (AH) and adaptive web systems with the aim of enhancing user queries with contextual and user-specific information. Ultimately, the CULTURA project aims to provide a technological environment for the humanities, through which it becomes possible to address implicit questions that a researcher has not explicitly articulated. This is manifested in two particular aspects of CULTURA?s objectives. The first is in assisting the user in finding content that meets their needs and in discovering other content in which they will be interested. The second is to present that content in the context of other material with which the user is familiar, as well as supplemental resources and community generated commentary