Metadata Guidelines for Digital Resources at Texas A&M University Libraries

These guidelines were written to help TAMU partners create high quality metadata for digital collections deposited in the repository at TAMU Libraries. The goal is to ensure an acceptable level of consistency and completeness of metadata across all collections in the repository in order maximize their potential for discovery for the TAMU community. These guidelines were also written to help Digital Initiatives personnel at TAMU Libraries to map metadata to appropriate fields in Dublin Core and MODS, the two most commonly used schema within the TAMU repository. The guidelines, as they are currently written, address metadata elements that may be recorded for ALL digital collections within the repository, regardless of whether they consist of text, still images, video, or any other type of content. It is likely that specific formats may require additional metadata than what is currently described in this document. More specific guidelines for various formats may be added to this document in the future. It should be noted that this document is a work in progress and will continue to be revised and expanded upon

Harnessing Technology: new modes of technology-enhanced learning: opportunities and challenges

A report commissioned by Becta to explore the potential impact on education, staff and learners of new modes of technology enhanced learning, envisaged as becoming available in subsequent years. A generative framework, developed by the researchers is described, which was used as an analytical tool to relate the possibilities of the technology described to learning and teaching activities. This report is part of the curriculum and pedagogy strand of Becta's programme of managed research in support of the development of Harnessing Technology: Next Generation Learning 2008-14. A system-wide strategy for technology in education and skills. Between April 2008 and March 2009, the project carried out research, in three iterative phases, into the future of learning with technology. The research has drawn from, and aims to inform, all UK education sectors

Effectiveness of a Sensory Evaluation Training Video for Use in a Restaurant Setting

Home Economic

Core Metadata Elements: Guidelines to Promote Consistency and Access at TAMU

In December of 2017, the Metadata Task Group was formed in response to answer a two part problem. One was to determine the metadata workflow for projects being placed into A&M OAKTrust digital repository. The other was to recommend metadata schema for the DAME, a relatively new concept design to create an inter-operability system involving multiple formats and computer programs. Although much of the focus was on how to handle workflow for digital projects and suggest metadata schema for two specific platforms (D-Space and Fedora), it soon became obvious to the task group that all metadata must be compatible with metadata in other systems within the DAME. Thus, we explored the necessity of consistent metadata and imputing standards in order to provide maximum accessibility to our users, while also trying to be efficient with library resources

Metadata Guidelines for Digital Resources at Texas A&M University Libraries

These guidelines were written to help TAMU partners create high quality metadata for digital collections deposited in the repository at TAMU Libraries. The goal is to ensure an acceptable level of consistency and completeness of metadata across all collections in the repository in order maximize their potential for discovery for the TAMU community. These guidelines were also written to help Digital Initiatives personnel at TAMU Libraries to map metadata to appropriate fields in Dublin Core and MODS, the two most commonly used schema within the TAMU repository. The guidelines, as they are currently written, address metadata elements that may be recorded for ALL digital collections within the repository, regardless of whether they consist of text, still images, video, or any other type of content. It is likely that specific formats may require additional metadata than what is currently described in this document. More specific guidelines for various formats may be added to this document in the future. It should be noted that this document is a work in progress and will continue to be revised and expanded upon

Distribution of velocities and acceleration for a particle in Brownian correlated disorder: inertial case

We study the motion of an elastic object driven in a disordered environment in presence of both dissipation and inertia. We consider random forces with the statistics of random walks and reduce the problem to a single degree of freedom. It is the extension of the mean field ABBM model in presence of an inertial mass m. While the ABBM model can be solved exactly, its extension to inertia exhibits complicated history dependence due to oscillations and backward motion. The characteristic scales for avalanche motion are studied from numerics and qualitative arguments. To make analytical progress we consider two variants which coincide with the original model whenever the particle moves only forward. Using a combination of analytical and numerical methods together with simulations, we characterize the distributions of instantaneous acceleration and velocity, and compare them in these three models. We show that for large driving velocity, all three models share the same large-deviation function for positive velocities, which is obtained analytically for small and large m, as well as for m =6/25. The effect of small additional thermal and quantum fluctuations can be treated within an approximate method.Comment: 42 page

Prospectus, May 5, 2012

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Prospectus, February 29, 2012

PARKLAND POLICE ARE FREEZIN\u27 FOR A REASON, Students to Participate in Ireland Study Tour, The GOP Puzzle, Are People Taking Casual Attire Too Far?, New and Improved Wi-Fi Connection at Parkland, Power is Ours to Fix Government, Harvard Study Links Good Teachers to Lasting Gain, When Students Fall Asleep in Class: Is It Disrupting or Motivating Your Learning?, Cobras Baseball Ready for 2012 Season, Cobras Softball Preview, Angelina Jolie at the Oscars: The Leg that Roaredhttps://spark.parkland.edu/prospectus_2012/1006/thumbnail.jp

Report of the DAMENames Ad Hoc Committee

In early 2018, the DAMEid group requested that Cataloging and Metadata unit examine the metadata needs for the DAME. When analyzing metadata needs in both OAKTrust and Fedora, it became clear that the lack of name authority control was causing serious problems for users, especially in the case of a single author having many entries in the author index. For example, Steven M. Wright, Royce E. Wisenbaker, Professor II in Chemical and Electrical Engineering, has 10 different entries for his name. This problem is caused by the lack of authority control and the inconsistent ways in which names are inputted into Vireo and OAKTrust. In their report to the DAMEid committee, the Metadata and Cataloging librarians strongly suggested that some type of name authority control be implemented within the DAME. In smaller repositories with few names and fewer entities (e.g., persons, organizations, subjects, etc.), the absence of explicit disambiguation or authority control can be a manageable problem. When only a few authors share a name, it is easy to tell them apart based on the subject matter of the works attached to the name. The problem compounds as collections grow larger and the number of entities with the same name that need to be distinguished from each other increases. For example, in the large OAKTrust IR, it is hard for a user to identify the "Steven Wright" that he or she is looking for, as there are several authors so named with dozens of items in the IR. Another issue that emerges in a system with no authority control – such as OAKTrust – is that an everyday typographical error (an extra space, no period after an initial, misspellings, etc.) results in a new entry in the author list. This results in multiple names for one person and it means that there is no way for a user to easily identify all the works attributed to one author

Prospectus, March 14, 2012

SPRING BREAK NOT ALL FUN FOR INT\u27L STUDENTS; Parkland Cobras basketball season in review; What are you doing for spring break and how much do you plan to spend?; Meet the Pros with Jeff Adams; \u27Kony 2012\u27: Two sides to being a digital media sensation; Coffee shops take different approaches with laptop squatters; Student sets sights on national computer competition; Parkland College Student Government Candidates 2012; Behind the scenes with Parkland Athletic Director Rod Lovett; Willie\u27s Shoe Service leaves footprint in Hollywoodhttps://spark.parkland.edu/prospectus_2012/1030/thumbnail.jp