Starting in the Middle: NGOs and Emergent Forms For Cultural Institutions

How should we understand the purpose of publicly engaged art in the twenty-first century, when the very term "public art" is largely insufficient to describe such practices? Concepts such as "new genre public art," "social practice," or "socially engaged art" may imply a synergy between the role of art and the role of government in providing social services. Yet the arts and social services differ crucially in terms of their methods and metrics. Socially engaged artists need not be aligned (and may often be opposed) to the public sector and to institutionalized systems. In many countries, structures of democratic governance and public responsibility are shifting, eroding, and being remade in profound ways -- driven by radical economic, political, and global forces. According to what terms and through what means can art engage with these changes? This volume gathers essays, dialogues, and art projects -- some previously published and some newly commissioned -- to illuminate the ways the arts shape and reshape a rapidly changing social and governmental landscape. An artist portfolio section presents original statements and projects by some of the key figures grappling with these ideas

Remote sensing and GIS analysis for demarcation of coastal hazard line along the highly eroding Krishna-Godavari delta front

Coastal regions, especially river deltas are highly resourceful and hence densely populated; but these extremely low-lying lands are vulnerable to rising sea levels due to global warming threatening the life and property in these regions. Recent IPCC (2013) predictions of 26-82cm global sea level rise are now considered conservative as subsequent investigations such as by Met Office, UK indicated a vertical rise of about 190cm, which would displace 10% of the world’s population living within 10 meters above the sea level. Therefore, predictive models showing the hazard line are necessary for efficient coastal zone management. Remote sensing and GIS technologies form the mainstay of such predictive models on coastal retreat and inundation to future sea-level rise. This study is an attempt to estimate the varying trends along the Krishna–Godavari (K–G) delta region. Detailed maps showing various coastal landforms in the K-G delta region were prepared using the IRS-P6 LISS 3 images. The rate of shoreline shift during a 31-year period along different sectors of the 330km long K-G delta coast was estimated using Landsat-2 and IRS-P6 LISS 3 images between 1977 and 2008. With reference to a selected baseline from along an inland position, End Point Rate (EPR), Shoreline Change Envelope (SCE) and Net Shoreline Movement (NSM) were calculated, using a GIS–based Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS). The results showed that the shoreline migrated landward up to a maximum distance of 3.13km resulting in a net loss of about 42.10km2 area during this 31-year period. Further, considering the nature of landforms and EPR, the future hazard line is predicted for the area, which also indicated a net erosion of about 57.68km2 along the K-G delta coast by 2050 AD

Creating a protein ontology resource

Protein Data Integration approaches at the moment considers data sources as data repositories, but not as applications; which in turn may embody complex interactions with other data sources. Current approaches do not provide methods both for generic mapping protein data representation, depicting interactions in data it describes and for interfacing existing data. The proposed Protein Ontology shows the value of hierarchy and relationships present in proteomics data. The creation of a Protein Ontology provides understanding of diverse types of data like:(1) Protein Entry Details(2) 3D Structural Representations of Proteins(3) Structural Folds and domains conserved in proteins(4) Functional Domains and Families created based on Physiological and Pathological Functions of Proteins, and(5) Various Constraints like Genetic Defects and Chemical Properties of Cell that affect Final Stable Molecular Structure of Protein.Protein Ontology describes the concepts of interest in protein complex mechanisms and proteomics process

How to structure citations data and bibliographic metadata in the OpenCitations accepted format

The OpenCitations organization is working on ingesting citation data and bibliographic metadata directly provided by the community (e.g., scholars and publishers). The aim is to improve the general coverage of open citations, which is still far from being complete, and use the provided metadata to enrich the characterization of the citing and cited entities. This paper illustrates how the citation data and bibliographic metadata should be structured to comply with the OpenCitations accepted format.Comment: 5 pages, submitted to JCDL 202

Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Library (Website review)

A review of the free Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Library website, part of the National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health (NCEMCH) at Georgetown University