Cost Factors in Digital Projects: A Model Useful in Other Applications

Description of a costing model developed by digital production librarian to determine the cost to put an item into the Claremont Colleges Digital Library at the Claremont University Consortium. This case study includes variables such as material types and funding sources, data collection methods, and formulas and calculations for analysis. This model is useful for grant applications, cost allocations, and budgeting for digital project coordinators and digital library projects.

Open Apps: Opening Teaching Experiences and Applications

The Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Open University of Catalonia, UOC) is an online university that makes extensive use of information and communication technologies to provide education. Ever since its establishment in 1995, the UOC has developed and tested methodologies and technological support services to meet the educational challenges posed by its student community and its teaching and management staff. The know-how it has acquired in doing so is the basis on which it has created the Open Apps platform, which is designed to provide access to open source technical applications, information on successful learning and teaching experiences, resources and other solutions, all in a single environment. Open Apps is an open, online catalogue, the content of which is available to all students for learning purposes, all IT professionals for downloading and all teachers for reusing.To contribute to the transfer of knowledge, experience and technology, each of the platform¿s apps comes with full documentation, plus information on cases in which it has been used and related tools. It is hoped that such transfer will lead to the growth of an external partner network, and that this, in turn, will result in improvements to the applications and teaching/learning practices, and in greater scope for collaboration.Open Apps is a strategic project that has arisen from the UOC's commitment to the open access movement and to giving knowledge and technology back to society, as well as its firm belief that sustainability depends on communities of interest.

Analyses of the usefulness of Software Defined Storage Solutions for Web-based Digital Preservation Applications

Presentation at Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-13, 2014

Computer Applications: Our Digital World

Week 1

Cómics para videojuegos, industria cultural y digital.

Las Start-ups han se consideran el medio por el cual personas independientes puedan dar a conocer sus nuevas e innovadoras ideas. Estas nuevas ideas son las que hoy en día invaden el mundo de la tecnología, mueven el mercado y la inversión por parte de diferentes empresas. El auge de los smartphones y la tecnología que manejan, han permitido que diferentes Start-ups puedan sobresalir con sus ideas y poder mostrarlas el mercado. El éxito de este modelo de negocio ha permitido que haya más competencia y variabilidad en el mercado, de igual forma ha rompido con estereotipos que muchos profesionales han tenido por años. Estas pequeñas empresas a través de las aplicaciones móviles, o “Apps”, han hecho la vida del ser humano más simple dándole soluciones digitales en el teléfono celular o diferentes artefactos tecnológicos. La relación del hombre y la tecnología ha sido objeto de estudio para la antropología digital, pues el interactuar con el mundo tecnológico el ser humano ha cambiado su estilo de vida y comportamientos. Por otro lado, los medios que las industrias digitales ofrecen, han sido de gran ayuda para poder generar un mayor contacto, o empatía, con el ser humano. De esta manera muchas empresas acuden a estas ideas creativas para que sus productos puedan generar una mayor empatía con los consumidores y así haya fidelidad hacia éstos. Esta tesis buscará dar una solución a la empresa TTidh, para que pueda promocionar y dar a conocer al público, sus videojuegos en el formato de aplicaciones móviles. La solución a este problema se dará a través de un cómic el cual se hará con el videojuego Pesty Veggies. Este tendrá tres objetos de estudio principales. El Primero será el estudio de la antropología digital, las necesidades digitales y análogas. El segundo será analizar la historia de los cómics y cómo surgió su éxito. Finalmente, la realización del comic.

Digital radiography using digital detector arrays fulfills critical applications for offshore pipelines

Digital radiography in the inspection of welded pipes to be installed under deep water offshore gas and oil pipelines, like a presalt in Brazil, in the paper has been investigated. The aim is to use digital radiography for nondestructive testing of welds as it is already in use in the medical, aerospace, security, automotive, and petrochemical sectors. Among the current options, the DDA (Digital Detector Array) is considered as one of the best solutions to replace industrial films, as well as to increase the sensitivity to reduce the inspection cycle time. This paper shows the results of this new technique, comparing it to radiography with industrial films systems. In this paper, 20 test specimens of longitudinal welded pipe joints, specially prepared with artificial defects like cracks, lack of fusion, lack of penetration, and porosities and slag inclusions with varying dimensions and in 06 different base metal wall thicknesses, were tested and a comparison of the techniques was made. These experiments verified the purposed rules for parameter definitions and selections to control the required digital radiographic image quality as described in the draft international standard ISO/DIS 10893-7. This draft is first standard establishing the parameters for digital radiography on weld seam of welded steel pipes for pressure purposes to be used on gas and oil pipelines.

Parallel vector processing of multidimensional orthogonal transforms for digital signal processing applications

The performance of the parallel vector implementation of the one- and two-dimensional orthogonal transforms is evaluated. The orthogonal transforms are computed using actual or modified fast Fourier transform (FFT) kernels. The factors considered in comparing the speed-up of these vectorized digital signal processing algorithms are discussed and it is shown that the traditional way of comparing th execution speed of digital signal processing algorithms by the ratios of the number of multiplications and additions is no longer effective for vector implementation; the structure of the algorithm must also be considered as a factor when comparing the execution speed of vectorized digital signal processing algorithms. Simulation results on the Cray X/MP with the following orthogonal transforms are presented: discrete Fourier transform (DFT), discrete cosine transform (DCT), discrete sine transform (DST), discrete Hartley transform (DHT), discrete Walsh transform (DWHT), and discrete Hadamard transform (DHDT). A comparison between the DHT and the fast Hartley transform is also included.(34 refs)

MPEG-M: A Digital Media Ecosystem for Interoperable Applications

MPEG-M is a suite of ISO/IEC standards (ISO/IEC 23006) that has been developed under the auspices of Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG). MPEG-M, also known as Multimedia Service Platform Technologies (MSPT), facilitates a collection of multimedia middleware APIs and elementary services as well as service aggregation so that service providers can offer users a plethora of innovative services by extending current IPTV technology toward the seamless integration of personal content creation and distribution, e-commerce, social networks and Internet distribution of digital media.

Fourth report on survey of electric utility applications of digital computers.

"S-109-B."

Third report on survey of electric utility applications of digital computers.

At head of title: S-109-A.

Second report on survey of electric utility applications of digital computers.

At head of title: S-109.