The Renardus broker service: collaborative frameworks and tools

Information professionals in a globalized world: Kosova libraries: Where practical steps are most needed

Web 2.0 has been adopted by many as the best way for forming a collaborative framework e.g., sharing resources, experiences, information, knowledge and feedback. A collaborative framework for application to e-health is necessary to provide patients with the awareness that assists in improving their health. Moreover, collaborative framework can be used by physician to exchange experiences and discuss challenge cases. However, the use of Web 2.0 with healthcare applications is not simple as the use of Web 20 with other enterprise applications according to the privacy of healthcare applications, which requires high quality and security of data, availability of resources, maintainability of services, system security, and Quality of Services (QoS). To offer the required requirements, grid computing is proposed here. Grid computing supporting enterprise applications through offering massive resources through resources collaborative framework that is offering power computing, storage devices, and services. The use of grid computing by Web 2.0 requires robust model that is able to deploy, discover, invoke, and integrate resources in open standard format. Therefore, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is adopted as a model for managing the mixing between Web 2.0 and grid computing technologies. SOA for Web 2.0 and Grid Computing (SOAW2G) are used throughout this work to offer a fabric for e-health applications.

Information and Service-Oriented Architecture & Web Services: Enabling Integration and Organizational Agility

In H. G. Well's The Island of Dr. Moreau, the sinister doctor grows bizarre creatures of flesh and bone to further his vast and evil ambitions. In Isaac Asimov's world of the near future, robots manufactured from metals and polymers are governed by rational principles and serve their human masters for more domestic reasons. In our own age we have the means to construct entities as outlandish as Moreau's and as helpful as Asimov's, made up of hardware, software and the engaged human mind. These new organisms are not motivated by an external spark or by a set of self-contained algorithms. They are animated by the direct involvement of a person or community and by human knowledge stored, accessed and shared. We are the ghost in the web machine. A website's information architecture (IA) is the framework, the skeleton upon which the whole organism of the site stands up. IA gives a site its articulation and therefore its potential to grow into whatever sort of thing it will be. A good IA can be simple and elegant, or complex and engaging. A bad or accidental IA could resemble something that lumbered out of a mad scientist's vat. Digital libraries are often grown over time out of perfectly good but originally unrelated pieces and are particularly at risk of becoming Moreauvian nightmares. To avoid such mistakes you need a good plan and a well-considered approach. IA methodology will give you the blueprints for building a much better digital library. Since the human mind animates the website, the user must be at the center of the web design process. And since design products have to move back and forth during their creation among a number of people—design team members, stakeholders, end users and developers—the web design process should be iterative. User-centered design (UCD) brings representatives from all concerned parties into the process, and iteration allows design to be refined from broad to finely detailed. These methods also help the team figure out which tasks are important to a particular project, get buy-in where needed, creatively manage the tricky parts that come up and roll out a successful web application or site. Navigation, labels and information organization Interactions between user and different parts of the website Relationships between the site and other objects in its environment (search engines, other sites that can contribute or use digital library information, enterprise-wide navigation and more) IA uses user-centered design practices in conjunction with other methods to arrive at these blueprints. An upcoming LITA guide (http://www.lita.org/) showcases projects that apply user-centered design techniques to improve public and special library websites. Edited by Tom Lehman and Terry Nikkel, Making Library Websites Usable, will offer methodologies and case studies to put powerful tools into the right hands. I contributed a case study describing a website redesign for a corporate knowledge services department. As I organized my thoughts for that article I saw that most problems were not unique to digital libraries or knowledge services organizations. Also, the UCD and IA practices we followed can be applied to any complex information space. However, two issues emerged that do pertain specifically to digital libraries. They are designing good interfaces for lists and crafting the user experience when target objects lie outside the digital library. Digital library listings follow various models. Some look like Google results pages. Some replicate card catalogs. Others are bulleted lists or tables. In each case the person designing the list interface has to select which attributes to display for each information object. This decision should not be primarily technological (“all these fields are available in the database, so let's show them”) nor even a cultural one (“we're used to seeing bulleted lists, so we'll do it that way”). Rather, the design should revolve around the user's situation and tasks. The key to designing a useful digital library listing lies in understanding which combination of attributes will help your audience find the resources they're looking for. UCD techniques are effective means to gaining this understanding. The IA challenge is then to arrange an optimal layout and navigation of digital library listings so users can find the resources they need. Imagine you're browsing the magazine racks at your favorite local bookstore. You reach out to pick up an issue of Sunset magazine. You don't expect to find yourself suddenly transported to the publisher's offices in Menlo Park, California. You count on staying right there in the bookstore—otherwise you'd find yourself stumped if what you really needed was a copy of Wired. When browsing in a digital library, the work you ultimately wish to reach might reside anywhere. It may be inside the current collection or somewhere else on the corporate intranet, or it could be behind the login page of a service to which your digital library subscribes. The link you see in the listing might be a link to the thing itself or it might be a jump-off page for yet another digital library with its own navigation scheme and listing style. What lies beyond your home digital library page is an unpredictable and generally frustrating treasure hunt. How do we design the user experience to include smooth transitions between the digital library home page, a filtered list of results and the new interface that may arise when clicking through? Should we—or can we—bring target objects into the sphere of our own digital library? Can we subsume subscription login under the corporate or library login? Or must users be on their own once they reach for certain sorts of information objects? And if they must, how do we ease the path for them? These questions arise out of a user-centered design approach and move us some distance towards a workable solution. But until service-oriented architectures are widely in place, workarounds need to start with a square look at the problem. Each design team must proceed to make considered decisions on how best to smooth the way for their users. Websites are becoming more responsive to the impulses of individuals and communities. The best-behaved sites react to users' actions in natural ways. They anticipate needs in a non-intrusive manner, play nicely with other web and non-web tools, let users do interactive things like add and tag content and work collaboratively in groups, and don't force users into awkward positions in order to work with the site. People are coming to expect websites to be shaped to fit them, and digital libraries need to live up to this promise. Fortunately, with information architecture methodologies, a user-centered design approach and sensible project management, you have the tools to build fully articulated frameworks for all kinds of web creations. All that remains to animate your site is the spark of your inspiration—and the eager participation of your delighted users.

Research data is a field of expanding importance for ASIS&T in our 75th year. The third ASIS&T Research Data Access and Development Summit (RDAP12) was held in New Orleans at the end of March, and in this issue we feature an RDAP-related special section assembled by guest editor Melissa Weaver. Our annual Information Architecture (IA) issue, reflecting the concurrent IA Summit will appear in October. The RDAP12 coverage includes an annotated program, a thematic overview of the summit by Karen Wickett, Xiao Hu and Andrea Thomer and summaries of the panels on data citation and training data management practitioners by Matt Mayernik and Xiao Hu, respectively. In addition, we have related articles on data citation, a major RDAP concern, by Joe Hourclé and Matt Mayernik. In conjunction with the Anniversary Celebration Committee we also begin our 75th anniversary coverage with “The Changed and Changing ADI/ASIS/ASIST After 75 Years,” an overview of the history of ASIS&T by Bob Williams. We are very grateful to Bob and to all our members who have worked over the years to record and preserve this legacy. Our other feature articles are on diverse topics. First, Bo-Christer Björk and Patrik Paetau discuss “Open Access to the Scientific Journal Literature – Status and Challenges for the Information Systems Community.” Their report includes a study of open access to the information systems literature based on a sample of more than 700 articles from information systems journals, while on a lighter note, Jay ven Eman, stressing the need for taxonomic fieldwork, entices us with the unlikely juxtaposition of “Taxonomies, Biology and Baseball.” In addition to our focus on research data access and preservation, there is a sub-theme that runs through much of the issue: information professionals (IPs) – their roles, training, history, recognition, advocacy and status. IP advocacy is the topic of the “President's Page” where current president Diane Sonnenwald discusses the latest recommendations of the Information Professionals Task Force, which is establishing a website at InfoProfessionals.org and supporting panels to promote IP recognition at relevant conferences. In addition, RDAP12, and most particularly the training panel, was much concerned with the role of IPs in this emerging area, and questions regarding their qualifications, training and recognition for data curation are a major concern of Wickett, Hu and Thomer. Finally, of course, the history of ASIS&T is also a part of the history of a significant group of IPs, and its changing structure and focus over the years mirrors many of the broader impacts of the information age on how IPs define themselves. Stay tuned for more on IP advocacy as the anniversary and the task force's projects unfold.

Our aim was to assess the level of use of conserved plant genetic resources (PGR) in crop genetic research. To do this, we analyzed in detail the reports from four internationally recognized journals published in 1996. These journals were Crop Science, Euphytica, Plant Breeding, and Theoretical and Applied Genetics Our results indicate that about 23% of the articles published in these journals reported work conducted with material that originated in an ex situ PGR collection or was collected directly in the field. We also analyzed our results to determine the range of species and research topics involved, the sources of materials used, and the users of PGR for research. Of the material used, 80% was accessed from ex situ germplasm collections housed in genebanks in 27 countries and seven centers of the CGIAR. The rest of the studies utilized material gathered directly in the field. Almost all work was produced at national research centers and universities; very little work from private industry was published in the journals covered. Just under 20% of the institutions represented by authors were located in developing countries. Work published involved 112 species and included assessments of genetic diversity among accessions (42% of the studies), studies of the inheritance of biotic stress resistance (29%), taxonomic and phylogenetic analyses (16%), as well as cytologic, molecular and conservation research. Our research demonstrates a significant use of conserved material in research.

Climate change is deeply impacting the food chain production, lowering quality and yield. In this context, the international scientific community has dedicated many efforts to enhancing resilience and sustainability in agriculture. Italy is among the main European producers of several fruit trees; therefore, national research centers and universities undertook several initiatives to maintain the specificity of the 'Made in Italy' label. Despite their importance, fruit crops are suffering from difficulties associated with the conventional breeding approaches, especially in terms of financial commitment, land resources availability, and long generation times. The 'new genomic techniques' (NGTs), renamed in Italy as 'technologies for assisted evolution' (TEAs), reduce the time required to obtain genetically improved cultivars while precisely targeting specific DNA sequences. This review aims to illustrate the role of the Italian scientific community in the use of NGTs, with a specific focus on Citrus, grapevine, apple, pear, chestnut, strawberry, peach, and kiwifruit. For each crop, the key genes and traits on which the scientific community is working, as well as the technological improvements and advancements on the regeneration of local varieties, are presented. Lastly, a focus is placed on the legal aspects in the European and in Italian contexts.

This paper considers the background to the proposals of the Advisory Board for the Research Councils (ABRC) to channel the bulk of university science research allocations through new inter‐disciplinary University Research Centres (URCs) in research areas of potential strategic economic exploitability, for the most part in selected research universities within a proposed three‐tier university system. The proposals are set against the background of Britain's declining economic competitiveness, higher education's present need to justify itself to government in increasingly utilitarian terms, and the ABRC's plans for stretching limited resources by further concentrating university science and scientific research in fewer departments and centres. The origins of the URC model are examined and related to similar centres now being introduced in America. Mobility between the URCs and university departments is seen as a key issue, as is the question of whether a balance of resources can be maintained between the two. The relations between URCs, industry, and the new Centre for Exploitation of Science and Technology is also seen as important. A sensitive issue is whether or not the sort of concentration and redirection of research resources envisioned by the ABRC will result in long‐term distortions of scientific development ‐ and of the overall intellectual directions, shape and standing of British universities.

The increasing dependence of commercial organizations on trading knowledge, and the ability of such organizations to exploit the power of information and communications technologies (ICTs) to shrink and globalize the world, offer considerable opportunities for librarians and information professionals to build successful careers in this field. This article outlines the basic features of the commercial information landscape relevant to librarians and information professionals, including: information supply; partnerships; and information architecture. These major components of the information landscape are considered in terms of some of the short-term challenges involved, including outsourcing and the high expectation of employers. The authors find that librarians and information professionals can find ways to base their careers on the needs of commercial organizations as long as they are able to muster the right mix of skills. Recent research has identified a number of key information skills required for work in the knowledge economy and a large number of specialized roles for librarians and information professionals working in the teams involved, including: chief knowledge officer; content manager; contracts/supply manager; data modellers; Electronic Records and Document Management (EDRM) manager; information architect; internal communications officer; and portal manager. The multi-disciplinary nature and virtual structures involved in such information teams typically require a mix of specialist information and ICT skills, plus expertise in organizational design and human resources, training and development. The article concludes that, if librarians and information professionals can develop the transferable and business skills required to match their professional skills, they are well placed to maximize the opportunities that the commercial sector offers.

Материал подготовлен Институтом статистических исследований и экономики знаний НИУ ВШЭ Озерова Ольга Кузьминична — заведующая отделом статистики образования Института статистических исследований и экономики знаний НИУ ВШЭ. Эл. адрес: oozerova@hse.ru Адрес: Россия, 101000, Москва, ул. Мясницкая, д. 20.Забатурина Ирина Юрьевна — старший научный сотрудник Центра статистики и мониторинга образования Института статистических исследований и экономики знаний НИУ ВШЭ. Эл. адрес: izabaturina@hse.ru Адрес: Россия, 101000, Москва, ул. Мясницкая, д. 20.Кузнецова Вера Ивановна — старший научный сотрудник Центра статистики и мониторинга образования Института статистических исследований и экономики знаний НИУ ВШЭ. Эл. адрес: vkouznetsova@hse.ru Адрес: Россия, 101000, Москва, ул. Мясницкая, д. 20.Ковалёва Галина Геннадьевна - главный эксперт Центра статистики и мониторинга образования Института статистических исследований и экономики знаний НИУ ВШЭ. Эл. адрес: gkovaleva@hse.ru Адрес: Россия, 101000, Москва, ул. Мясницкая, д. 20.Качество образования зависит не только от процесса воспитания и преподавания, но и от материально-технической базы образовательных учреждений. Одним из приоритетных направлений российской государственной политики в сфере образования является приведение инфраструктуры учебных заведений к уровню, соответствующему современным стандартам. На основании результатов федерального статистического наблюдения представлены данные о состоянии материально-технической базы образовательных учреждений. Показано, что реализация приоритетного национального проекта «Образование», национальной образовательной инициативы «Наша новая школа», региональных проектов модернизации систем общего образования позволила существенно обновить инфраструктуру системы образования. Улучшилось обеспечение образовательных учреждений современным информационно-технологическим оборудованием, открывающим широкий доступ к различным образовательным ресурсам.Приведены показатели технического состояния и благоустройства зданий дошкольных и общеобразовательных (государственных и муниципальных) учреждений, их оснащенности компьютерами, в том числе с доступом в интернет; обеспеченности обучающихся в государственных и муниципальных общеобразовательных учреждениях услугами сети общественного питания, библиотеками, спортивными сооружениями.Представлены данные об обеспеченности учащихся образовательных учреждений начального, среднего и высшего профессионального образования общежитиями, услугами сети общественного питания, а также компьютерами с выходом в интернет, проекторами, интерактивными досками, принтерами, сканерами. Приведены показатели технического состояния зданий образовательных учреждений среднего и высшего профессионального образования.

Current new and next generation e-novation collaborative platforms are explored through a “Day-In-The-Life-Of” scenario in 2020 based on key semantic concepts drawn from chapters within the E-Novation book. Key themes for an emerging e-novation collaborative platform include: triple convergence (before and after), Web 3.0/4.0 – the Web is a brain, redefined collaborative communication, virtual/augmented reality, service-dominant logic (SDL), marketing and innovation, open-source creation, development and distribution, digital branding, CRM redefined, complexity and SMEs, e-novation office, e-novation curriculum, social graphing e-novation, and sustainability platforms and innovation. These themes are discussed both in relation to the current new collaborative platform and how they may develop from 2010-2020. E-novation will be the innovation and marketing social and business service.

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It is an honor to serve as the Chair of the Board of Directors of such a vibrant and member-focused organization. Before beginning my term as chair, I met with the AMIA staff. One of the questions I was asked was “What is your vision for AMIA and what do you want your legacy to be?” As I learned during my 1-year term as chair-elect, it is nearly impossible for one person to understand the sheer volume and depth of our programs and activities. AMIA's board, committees, working groups and individual volunteers have accomplished an incredible amount in the past 20 years. As I thought about that fateful question, I looked at our extensive strategic plan and began to talk to hundreds of you about AMIA. I thank each one of you for your dedication to AMIA. You are the reason that we launched new approaches to branding and messaging, an updated logo, and a realigned strategic plan. We are collectively— Informatics Professionals. Leading the Way . In 2010 the AMIA Board of Directors decided that it was time to re-evaluate AMIA's strategic plan and overall objectives. This report summarizes the realignment, including: Process, Mission, Planning Assumptions, Domains, and Pillars with goals and objectives. Prior to beginning the strategic realignment process, it was important to listen to AMIA members. A request was submitted to members, committees, and working groups to participate and provide input. The board and staff were asked to comment. And at the 2009 Annual Symposium, we collected comments and asked participants what issues AMIA needed to address and what we needed for the future. The call for information from members resulted in more than 30 pages of raw-data field notes. Using the Grounded Theory approach, the data were turned into key concept areas. The original key concept …

Dictated by the necessity of innovative development and experiencing the sanctions imposed by the international community , Russia confronts the problem and, at the same time the prospect, to gradually withdraw from commodity and raw materials trade orientation of the national economy towards the innovative industrially developed economy. The transition to an innovative economy forces all economic actors to perform a complex organizational and economic work and elaborate the national economy development project. The focus on innovative principles of economic development is an argument favouring the establishment of a common strategy in training specialists for domestic industry. The article is devoted to the analysis of the specificity of human capital formation in National research universities. Considering the Russian goal to create the human capital complying with the development of innovative economy the National technical and natural science research universities (NRU)have to be established.. The article reveals the NRU role in the formation of intellectual capital complying with challenges of the innovation economy, as well as the analysis of the peculiarities of NRU functioning in Russia and abroad. National research universities have to play a significant role in the formation of human capital, the development of Russia’s science and innovation culture, thus contributing to the development of innovative economy of the Russian Federation. Measures are proposed how to change the human capital formation system and provoke adequate changes of the organizational-economic mechanism of University’s management, to change the relationship of all the internal elements basing on partner relations and strategic marketing approach to the University’s activity.

To increase competitive advantage for manufacturers, collaboration product development (CPD) has recently become an important issue. Based on the CPD concept, this study focuses on the centre-satellite system (CSS) with five major roles (i.e. centre factory) and their interactions and the technology of web services using service-oriented architecture (SOA) to propose a system framework, entitled the collaborative product development framework for centre satellite system (CPDF-CSS). The CPDF-CSS comprises five modules: CF-MA module, DH-MA module, ODM-MA module, OEM-MA module, and EC-MA module. Next, based on the CPDF-CSS, a generic communication component (GCC) is designed for the interoperability among five modules under heterogeneous contexts. Finally, this study presents a case involving the motorcycle industry for evaluating the implementation of CPDF-CSS. The contributions of this study to the CPD are discussed.