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We present a software infrastructure for the research community working on turbulence and complex flows (TurBase), an easily accessible web platform for high quality data. Its main goal is to host, standardize and manage a large collections of heterogeneous experimental and numerical data sets from high-end European fluid dynamics experimental facilities and from High Performance Computational centres...
OurDigitalWorld has offered a province-wide digital heritage search portal at OurOntario.ca since 2007, and currently indexes digital objects from over 250 GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, museums) organizations from across Ontario. The British Columbia Library Association's Provincial Digital Library initiative is laying the foundation for a new provincial digital library in British Columbia...
Crowdsourced testing is gaining a lot of attention these days. Crowdsourced testing utilizes testers which subscribe to an external or internal crowdsourcing platform. Usually these testers are distributed across geographies. Thus, such testing can be treated as a form of distributed testing. Crowdsourced testing, quite often, is used to perform exploratory testing in which testers test the features...
E-recruitment at current is one of the most widely used ways to recruit top talent for an organization. The process starts with advertising job description on a single or multiple job portals. The depth and breadth of job description defines how many potential candidates it will be able to attract. With the advent of Semantic Web, a need to define an ontology for job description can not be ignored...
The problems of a current state of the sphere of implementation of the electronic services to the population (ESP) are considered here. Need of creation of specialized organizational and technical support system — a producer of ESP which functions are directed on minimization of time of receiving necessary service by the applicant — is revealed and then proved. It is established that the most effective...
This research realizes the needs for organizations to increase its readiness towards the implementation of knowledge management. This study specifically analyzes factors related to knowledge management tools utilization within the organization as antecedents towards knowledge management implementation readiness. Data were gathered from 57 respondents whom were employees of a leading software development...
Cyber threats pose grave national security dangers to the US. Many cyber-attacks today are executed with ever-growing collection of malicious tools. Cyber threat intelligence (CTI) and malware analysis portals aim to provide knowledge and tools to help prevent and mitigate attacks. However, current CTI and malware analysis portals and techniques have been criticized for being too reactive as they...
The rapidity with which information travels on the Internet makes it unquantifiable. To analyze it, it's necessary to define the area; so, the dissemination of information on Science and Technology through Twitter is the premise of the investigation. The study seeks to highlight the importance of social networks in the field of science and technology and their influence on the democratization processes...
Difficulties in finding learning objects (LOs) in LO repositories (LORs) are one of the main barriers, which prevent LORs from being globally adopted. During the Organic.Edunet European research project, different search interfaces were developed with the intention of facilitating the location of LOs, considering users would tend to use different interfaces, according to the objectives and specific...
Crowdsourcing is an emerging area by which the knowledge of an expert community is applied to solve critical issues. Though crowdsourcing is popular among the companies for gaining innovative ideas, the software organizations are looking up for community based software development. This paper explores the conceptual areas of crowdsourcing and examines the viability of crowdsourcing in software development...
This paper presents an approach for metadata reconciliation, curation and linking for Open Governamental Data Portals (ODPs). ODPs have been lately the standard solution for governments willing to put their public data available for the society. Portal managers use several types of metadata to organize the datasets, one of the most important ones being the tags. However, the tagging process is subject...
Entrepreneurs signal the worth of their ventures using the technological capabilities of their crowdfunding platforms. Additionally, social media allows others to create "buzz" about the venture, which can also influence funding outcomes. Moreover, these two antecedents can interact with each other, whereby venture signals are either amplified or diluted by buzz about the project. Our study...
Crowdsourcing enables organizations to obtain dynamic solutions from large and diverse crowds of individuals. With the advent of IT-mediated ecosystems crowdsourcing initiatives readily possess a means to mediate, regulate and refine crowdsourcing sub processes including the process of vetting and selecting crowd membership (crowd specification sub process). Despite this fact there is ambiguity in...
Emerging Cloud Computing technologies are changing the way of deploying and accessing web applications. E-learning web application is not excluded from the effect of Cloud. Different e-learning deployment models have been proposed and implemented by researchers. In order to combine both emerging trends, one should understand the requirement of educational institutes for online courses and infrastructure...
Throughout the past few years, changes in the processes of enterprise's resources acquisition have been reflected by the news opportunities provided by web-based technology, changes in the behaviours and expectations of business partners and customers as well. The aim of the paper is to demonstrate that virtualization of resources acquisition processes has essential effect on the achievement of competitive...
Health institutions, over time, have changed in the management and organization of services, with the aim of improving health care services. The reform of primary health care (PHC), in 2005, represents a profound break with the past. This reform is based on what health professionals advocate for many years. The aim of this study was to describe the evolution of CSP in Portugal especially in the current...
The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities states that governments shall “provide accessible information to persons with disabilities about mobility aids, devices and assistive technologies, including new technologies, as well as other forms of assistance, support services and facilities”.
The paper describes the CEFME Portal (Central European Forum on Military Education) for military universities cooperation. The goal of the CEFME system is to support the cooperation among the community of ten universities in education, research, social area, and staff and students exchange. The system is derived from the MilUNI (Military Universities), a knowledge management system (KMS), based on...
Beautifully designed Websites are very important for communicating organizational vision to the different categories of the users in this world IT. It has also become mandatory for different institutions / organizations to design websites and offer all its services online through Websites via internet. To achieve that they put lots of efforts to portray complete information on beautifully designed...
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