Newspaper digitalization - Hierarchical storage levels and long-term preservation

Efficient digitization and long-term digital archiving of printed newspapers are building blocks that contribute towards the creation and maintenance of a collective memory for news media. Due to the large volume of digitized files per newspaper, there is a demand for their structured digitization, tool support, and integration with digital long-term archives. However, the state-of-the-art in digitization of newspapers with the open source tools like Kitodo.Production lacks support for structuring digitization processes. Such structures are necessary to make large scale projects with thousands of newspaper edition manageable and to enable a proper integration with long-term digital archives and presentation systems. Within this work, we analyze the existing problems and pitfalls of digitizing newspapers with the Kitodo.Production and propose a concept that supports flexibly structured digitization processes

An approach for a campus visualization system

Intense work is spent especially in the fields of city planning and tourist information to examine possibilities for combining generic information with graphic data to enhance computer based information desk systems. This article presents an approach towards the creation of a campus information system. This campus information system shall allow the user to navigate and select information with the help of a user interface that integrates possibilities to use 2D and 3D interaction concepts simultaneously. The VR entities are accessed by user interaction via the render window

An Integrated Platform for Mobile, Context- Aware, and Adaptive Enterprise Applications

Abstract: In this paper we present an approach for the device-independent authoring of mobile, context-aware and adaptive web applications. We present concepts for the semantic and syntactic adaptation of web dialogs to heterogeneous devices based on the Dialog Description Language. We describe advanced concepts for the integration of dynamic content and user interaction handling in deviceindependent application engineering. Furthermore, the software architecture of the Adaptation Framework, a runtime environment for dialog adaptation, is introduced. Finally, we present an adaptive sample application and give an outlook to future research topics

Comprehensive Structured Context Profiles (CSCP): Design and Experiences

In dynamic heterogeneous environments, such as Pervasive Computing, context-aware adaptation is a key concept to meet the varying requirements of different clients. To enable such functionality, context information must be gathered and eventually presented to the application performing the adaptation. Therefore, a common representation format for the context information is required