The document provides information for traveling to Thailand, including currency exchange rates, costs of living, safety warnings, and details on destinations such as Ko Tao, Ko Pha-Ngan and Ko Samui islands. Specifically, it notes that as of 2011, $1 was worth approximately 30 Thai baht, and costs on the islands were generally lower than in Bangkok or major cities. While Bangkok's security situation had stabilized, risks remained high near the Cambodian and Burmese borders. The islands featured beautiful beaches and diving spots, with Ko Tao praised for its diving opportunities and Ko Pha-Ngan known for its full moon parties. Contact information was provided for the US embassies in Bangkok and Chiang
Em tempos de crise económica, as hortas são uma forma de "esticar" o rendimento familiar, são, também, importantes na promoção de uma alimentação saudável e de qualidade de vida, além de contribuírem para aliviar o stress e para o estreitar de relações colaborativas
IPTC NewsCodes Working Party Summer 2015 updateHeather Edwards
The document summarizes the agenda and discussions from the IPTC NewsCodes Working Party meeting on June 2, 2015 in Warsaw. The agenda included reviewing minutes from the previous meeting, a chair's report on change requests and a sports competition policy, wrapping up a session on mapping NewsCodes to semantic web standards, and discussing NewsCodes delivery formats. Participants recommended practices for semantic mappings and preferred formats including the CV server HTML, RDF formats, and a web-based viewer. The next meeting was scheduled for October 2015 in London.
This document discusses the history and development of SemEx, a project by the International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) to standardize the mapping of news providers' classification taxonomies to the IPTC's MediaTopics taxonomy. Version 0.1 of SemEx proposed that IPTC would host provider taxonomy mappings, but providers were reluctant to relinquish intellectual property rights. Version 0.2 instead requires each provider to map their own taxonomy and make the mapping available, avoiding technical and legal issues for IPTC while still promoting interoperability. The draft standard and next steps are outlined.
The document provides information for traveling to Thailand, including currency exchange rates, costs of living, safety warnings, and details on destinations such as Ko Tao, Ko Pha-Ngan and Ko Samui islands. Specifically, it notes that as of 2011, $1 was worth approximately 30 Thai baht, and costs on the islands were generally lower than in Bangkok or major cities. While Bangkok's security situation had stabilized, risks remained high near the Cambodian and Burmese borders. The islands featured beautiful beaches and diving spots, with Ko Tao praised for its diving opportunities and Ko Pha-Ngan known for its full moon parties. Contact information was provided for the US embassies in Bangkok and Chiang
Em tempos de crise económica, as hortas são uma forma de "esticar" o rendimento familiar, são, também, importantes na promoção de uma alimentação saudável e de qualidade de vida, além de contribuírem para aliviar o stress e para o estreitar de relações colaborativas
IPTC NewsCodes Working Party Summer 2015 updateHeather Edwards
The document summarizes the agenda and discussions from the IPTC NewsCodes Working Party meeting on June 2, 2015 in Warsaw. The agenda included reviewing minutes from the previous meeting, a chair's report on change requests and a sports competition policy, wrapping up a session on mapping NewsCodes to semantic web standards, and discussing NewsCodes delivery formats. Participants recommended practices for semantic mappings and preferred formats including the CV server HTML, RDF formats, and a web-based viewer. The next meeting was scheduled for October 2015 in London.
This document discusses the history and development of SemEx, a project by the International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) to standardize the mapping of news providers' classification taxonomies to the IPTC's MediaTopics taxonomy. Version 0.1 of SemEx proposed that IPTC would host provider taxonomy mappings, but providers were reluctant to relinquish intellectual property rights. Version 0.2 instead requires each provider to map their own taxonomy and make the mapping available, avoiding technical and legal issues for IPTC while still promoting interoperability. The draft standard and next steps are outlined.
1) The document outlines the process and challenge for a relay race using LEGO NXT robots. It describes the 12 stage race layout where each robot must travel 100cm to trigger the next robot.
2) It provides instructions and an example program for how each robot can be programmed to start when its sensor is triggered, travel the required distance, and then trigger the next robot's sensor.
3) The design process, NXT overview, sensors, and programming software are explained to help participants understand how to complete the challenge of designing, programming and testing their robot for its assigned stage of the relay race.
Video and slides synchronized, mp3 and slide download available at URL http://bit.ly/2oAuPOe.
Sahar Samiei and Willie Wheeler share Expedia’s resiliency journey, starting with resiliency as an afterthought and progressing toward resiliency as a first-class concern. They talk about the importance of partnering with the teams experiencing operational struggles, and equipping them with the data to make the right investments at the right time. Filmed at qconsf.com.
Sahar Samiei is a Senior Product Manager leading the Site Reliability Program at Expedia. She has been with Expedia for eight years, working across different teams, focusing on operations. Willie Wheeler is a Principal Application Engineer at Expedia, with 20 years of professional software development experience. At Expedia he serves as a resiliency champion within the engineering organization.
RapiTests for Sensory:
- Combines internet with in situ exposure of products
- Is Central Location (CL) based
- Uses either incentivized
street intercept respondents or screened “expert” consumers
- Adapts to different sensory evaluation methods
- Is conducted in major cities of Europe and worldwide
Measurecamp Manchester 2018 - designing better marketing analytics dashboardEd Hammerton
A 'work in progress' approach to designing marketing analytics dashboards. It incorporates business requirements definition, prioritisation, storyframing and wireframing techniques to product more structured displays of marketing data.
Offshoring software development in Switzerland: You can do itAlexandre Masselot
If offshoring is often driven by short term considerations and economical drivers, there are better reasons to externalize software development. And why not coming to Switzerland?. Over the past two years, we have reversed the offshoring flow, pursuing ambitious IT projects for US companies, from the Swiss mountains.
The Agile Tour conference in Lausanne is the occasion of the lessons learned during adventures and to reflect on how we can improve the development of inhouse digital products.
Digital Security by Design Software Ecosystem CompetitionKTN
Slides from the Digital Security by Design Software Ecosystem Competition Briefing from 5 October 2021. This new competition, from the Digital Security by Design challenge, in partnership with Innovate UK and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), both part of UK Research and Innovation, is investing up to £8 million in research and development projects.
Stephen McComb - Masterclass - Funding for Innovation in Life & Health SciencesInvest Northern Ireland
This document provides guidance on applying for R&D grant funding from Innovate UK. It outlines the types of funding available, including grants, innovation loans, and SBRI funding. It advises considering factors like the stage of R&D, level of government contribution, whether the project is single or collaborative, and duration. Eligibility criteria include the applicant being a small/medium/large business or research organization. Successful applications will be business-led, have collaboration between multiple organizations, and have projects that align with the funding competition topics and demonstrate world-leading innovation. The document provides tips on searching for funding opportunities on Innovate UK's website and supports businesses in developing competitive applications.
This document provides guidance on writing technical documentation for Deliverable 1. It begins with an introduction to the two types of technical documentation: user-oriented and project-oriented. The document instructs the reader to write project-oriented technical documentation for this assignment. It outlines four planning steps: 1) identify the context and choose to write an extended definition or technical description, 2) plan how to develop the definition or description, 3) plan the number of slides and their order, and 4) choose an organizing pattern. Several examples are given for each step. Common organizing patterns like sequential, chronological, and parts-to-whole are defined. Formatting guidelines are provided, instructing the writer to use a memo format and
Pin the tail on the metric v01 2016 octSteven Martin
This presentation takes a different approach to metrics. Instead of listing the Top 10 field-tested metrics, we first talk about goals as prerequisites for metrics. Next, we discuss characteristics of good and bad metrics. We end with walking through an activity called “Pin the Tail on the Metric,” a technique to facilitate the critical thinking needed to determine what types of metrics can help your organization discuss trade-offs, options, and ultimately make better forward-looking decisions.
The key customer requirements for the Max Gravity Breaker device are to separate asphalt mix within specific size and time constraints. The requirements include:
- Separating 1500g of mix within one hour or 15 minutes
- Accepting mixes with aggregate sizes between 4.75mm and 1.5 inches
- Producing separated particles smaller than the largest aggregate pieces
- Operating automatically and completing separation for under $5000
This document contains the program for the eighth seminar on advances in personnel selection focusing on new technologies in assessment and measurement. The seminar includes presentations from various speakers on topics like using technology in assessment, online recruitment of personnel, and advances in adaptive measurement. It also includes time for poster presentations and discussion.
Jan Bosch | Agile Product Development: From Hunch to Hard DataOptimizely
Agile methodology has become widely adopted in business, particularly among software and product development teams.
But is an Agile team enough? Is the development of products from a long-term roadmap truly Agile? And how can you and your team release features that meet ever-changing user expectations?
Join Prof. Jan Bosch, Dir. Software Centre of Gothenburg, as he reveals how experimentation and iterative development support your business in building better products to add more value.
What this webinar will show you:
Applying a holistic approach to Agile development
Creating value through experimentation and iterative product development
Identifying practical ways to get started: how to pick the right feature, identify meaningful KPIs, and deploy code
The document discusses various challenges and opportunities around machine translation (MT) technology, including improving output quality, domain adaptation with limited data, and supporting raw publishing scenarios where MT output will be directly consumed without human post-editing. It also examines perspectives of translators on working with MT, such as appreciating improvements over time but finding incorrect sentence structure and terminology most challenging to fix.
The document discusses key aspects of agile methodology including the Agile Manifesto, Scrum roles and ceremonies, product backlogs, user stories, and an individual's role on an agile team. The Agile Manifesto values individuals and interactions, working software, customer collaboration, and responding to change over processes, tools, documentation, contracts, and following a plan. Scrum uses roles of Product Owner, Scrum Master, and self-organizing teams. Product backlogs contain prioritized user stories which are small pieces of functionality with acceptance criteria. Metascrums involve key stakeholders to resolve impediments. An individual's role is to focus on testing, active listening, and delivering value frequently through working software.
This document provides an overview of UX research methods. It defines UX research and lists common biases to avoid in customer research such as confirmation bias. It then describes various qualitative and quantitative research methodologies like contextual inquiry, diary studies, card sorting, usability testing, eye tracking, and heuristic evaluation. For each methodology it discusses the business problem it can address, description, benefits, limitations, typical data collected, and tools used. It also includes references and links to external articles about applying specific methods and determining sample sizes.
Successfully Managing Customer Experience Combining VoC and UX TestingUserZoom
1. The webinar discussed combining customer insights (VOC) and user experience (UX) testing to gain a holistic understanding of the customer experience.
2. A case study was presented where a company conducted remote usability testing on a website redesign using UserZoom to collect data from multiple countries.
3. The results from customer insights, UX testing, surveys, task success rates and other metrics provided valuable feedback to improve the customer experience on the website.
Towards Reproducible Data Analysis Using Cloud and Container Technologiesinside-BigData.com
This document discusses using container technologies to improve reproducibility in data analysis. It outlines the context and challenges of reproducibility, and proposes building infrastructure to support containerization. This includes strategies for building containers for end-users, considering what to include in containers, and addressing open questions around deployment, validation, and documentation of containers. The main challenges are adoption by end-users and technical issues of scale, integration, security, and maintenance of container-based systems for reproducible research.
Webinar - Design Thinking for Platform EngineeringOpenCredo
This document discusses approaching platform engineering with a design thinking mindset. It begins by outlining challenges with existing approaches, such as tools being difficult to use and responsibilities being blurred. It then defines platform engineering and describes design thinking, which integrates user needs, technology possibilities, and business requirements. The design thinking process involves empathizing with users to gain insights, defining opportunities, ideating solutions, prototyping ideas, and testing assumptions. The document argues that applying a human-centered design thinking approach helps focus on outcomes rather than just technology, surfaces conflicts, identifies new opportunities, and involves frequent testing with users. It concludes by recommending getting started with design thinking for platform engineering by identifying and prioritizing problems, engaging stakeholders
This document outlines key concepts from a session on operations strategy in a global environment. It discusses developing mission and strategies, achieving competitive advantage through operations, strategic operations management decisions, and global operations strategy options including international, multidomestic, global, and transnational strategies. Critical success factors and integrating operations strategy with other functions are also covered.
Slash | 500Startups mentoring - product expansion and localization in Southea...Slash
How to expand and customize your product across Southeast Asia (SEA)?
This 2h workshop was delivered for a founder audience of global pre-Series A and Series-A startups (invested by 500 Startups, the VC), expanding into SEA.
The frameworks, mental models, tools and techniques described can be used to generally refresh your value proposition and product for your core markets.
Delivered 12 Feb 2020 in Singapore by Andries De Vos, CEO of Slash.
The Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) invited Taylor Paschal, Knowledge & Information Management Consultant at Enterprise Knowledge, to speak at a Knowledge Management Lunch and Learn hosted on June 12, 2024. All Office of Administration staff were invited to attend and received professional development credit for participating in the voluntary event.
The objectives of the Lunch and Learn presentation were to:
- Review what KM ‘is’ and ‘isn’t’
- Understand the value of KM and the benefits of engaging
- Define and reflect on your “what’s in it for me?”
- Share actionable ways you can participate in Knowledge - - Capture & Transfer
Connector Corner: Seamlessly power UiPath Apps, GenAI with prebuilt connectorsDianaGray10
Join us to learn how UiPath Apps can directly and easily interact with prebuilt connectors via Integration Service--including Salesforce, ServiceNow, Open GenAI, and more.
The best part is you can achieve this without building a custom workflow! Say goodbye to the hassle of using separate automations to call APIs. By seamlessly integrating within App Studio, you can now easily streamline your workflow, while gaining direct access to our Connector Catalog of popular applications.
We’ll discuss and demo the benefits of UiPath Apps and connectors including:
Creating a compelling user experience for any software, without the limitations of APIs.
Accelerating the app creation process, saving time and effort
Enjoying high-performance CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations, for
seamless data management.
Speakers:
Russell Alfeche, Technology Leader, RPA at qBotic and UiPath MVP
Charlie Greenberg, host
1) The document outlines the process and challenge for a relay race using LEGO NXT robots. It describes the 12 stage race layout where each robot must travel 100cm to trigger the next robot.
2) It provides instructions and an example program for how each robot can be programmed to start when its sensor is triggered, travel the required distance, and then trigger the next robot's sensor.
3) The design process, NXT overview, sensors, and programming software are explained to help participants understand how to complete the challenge of designing, programming and testing their robot for its assigned stage of the relay race.
Video and slides synchronized, mp3 and slide download available at URL http://bit.ly/2oAuPOe.
Sahar Samiei and Willie Wheeler share Expedia’s resiliency journey, starting with resiliency as an afterthought and progressing toward resiliency as a first-class concern. They talk about the importance of partnering with the teams experiencing operational struggles, and equipping them with the data to make the right investments at the right time. Filmed at qconsf.com.
Sahar Samiei is a Senior Product Manager leading the Site Reliability Program at Expedia. She has been with Expedia for eight years, working across different teams, focusing on operations. Willie Wheeler is a Principal Application Engineer at Expedia, with 20 years of professional software development experience. At Expedia he serves as a resiliency champion within the engineering organization.
RapiTests for Sensory:
- Combines internet with in situ exposure of products
- Is Central Location (CL) based
- Uses either incentivized
street intercept respondents or screened “expert” consumers
- Adapts to different sensory evaluation methods
- Is conducted in major cities of Europe and worldwide
Measurecamp Manchester 2018 - designing better marketing analytics dashboardEd Hammerton
A 'work in progress' approach to designing marketing analytics dashboards. It incorporates business requirements definition, prioritisation, storyframing and wireframing techniques to product more structured displays of marketing data.
Offshoring software development in Switzerland: You can do itAlexandre Masselot
If offshoring is often driven by short term considerations and economical drivers, there are better reasons to externalize software development. And why not coming to Switzerland?. Over the past two years, we have reversed the offshoring flow, pursuing ambitious IT projects for US companies, from the Swiss mountains.
The Agile Tour conference in Lausanne is the occasion of the lessons learned during adventures and to reflect on how we can improve the development of inhouse digital products.
Digital Security by Design Software Ecosystem CompetitionKTN
Slides from the Digital Security by Design Software Ecosystem Competition Briefing from 5 October 2021. This new competition, from the Digital Security by Design challenge, in partnership with Innovate UK and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), both part of UK Research and Innovation, is investing up to £8 million in research and development projects.
Stephen McComb - Masterclass - Funding for Innovation in Life & Health SciencesInvest Northern Ireland
This document provides guidance on applying for R&D grant funding from Innovate UK. It outlines the types of funding available, including grants, innovation loans, and SBRI funding. It advises considering factors like the stage of R&D, level of government contribution, whether the project is single or collaborative, and duration. Eligibility criteria include the applicant being a small/medium/large business or research organization. Successful applications will be business-led, have collaboration between multiple organizations, and have projects that align with the funding competition topics and demonstrate world-leading innovation. The document provides tips on searching for funding opportunities on Innovate UK's website and supports businesses in developing competitive applications.
This document provides guidance on writing technical documentation for Deliverable 1. It begins with an introduction to the two types of technical documentation: user-oriented and project-oriented. The document instructs the reader to write project-oriented technical documentation for this assignment. It outlines four planning steps: 1) identify the context and choose to write an extended definition or technical description, 2) plan how to develop the definition or description, 3) plan the number of slides and their order, and 4) choose an organizing pattern. Several examples are given for each step. Common organizing patterns like sequential, chronological, and parts-to-whole are defined. Formatting guidelines are provided, instructing the writer to use a memo format and
Pin the tail on the metric v01 2016 octSteven Martin
This presentation takes a different approach to metrics. Instead of listing the Top 10 field-tested metrics, we first talk about goals as prerequisites for metrics. Next, we discuss characteristics of good and bad metrics. We end with walking through an activity called “Pin the Tail on the Metric,” a technique to facilitate the critical thinking needed to determine what types of metrics can help your organization discuss trade-offs, options, and ultimately make better forward-looking decisions.
The key customer requirements for the Max Gravity Breaker device are to separate asphalt mix within specific size and time constraints. The requirements include:
- Separating 1500g of mix within one hour or 15 minutes
- Accepting mixes with aggregate sizes between 4.75mm and 1.5 inches
- Producing separated particles smaller than the largest aggregate pieces
- Operating automatically and completing separation for under $5000
This document contains the program for the eighth seminar on advances in personnel selection focusing on new technologies in assessment and measurement. The seminar includes presentations from various speakers on topics like using technology in assessment, online recruitment of personnel, and advances in adaptive measurement. It also includes time for poster presentations and discussion.
Jan Bosch | Agile Product Development: From Hunch to Hard DataOptimizely
Agile methodology has become widely adopted in business, particularly among software and product development teams.
But is an Agile team enough? Is the development of products from a long-term roadmap truly Agile? And how can you and your team release features that meet ever-changing user expectations?
Join Prof. Jan Bosch, Dir. Software Centre of Gothenburg, as he reveals how experimentation and iterative development support your business in building better products to add more value.
What this webinar will show you:
Applying a holistic approach to Agile development
Creating value through experimentation and iterative product development
Identifying practical ways to get started: how to pick the right feature, identify meaningful KPIs, and deploy code
The document discusses various challenges and opportunities around machine translation (MT) technology, including improving output quality, domain adaptation with limited data, and supporting raw publishing scenarios where MT output will be directly consumed without human post-editing. It also examines perspectives of translators on working with MT, such as appreciating improvements over time but finding incorrect sentence structure and terminology most challenging to fix.
The document discusses key aspects of agile methodology including the Agile Manifesto, Scrum roles and ceremonies, product backlogs, user stories, and an individual's role on an agile team. The Agile Manifesto values individuals and interactions, working software, customer collaboration, and responding to change over processes, tools, documentation, contracts, and following a plan. Scrum uses roles of Product Owner, Scrum Master, and self-organizing teams. Product backlogs contain prioritized user stories which are small pieces of functionality with acceptance criteria. Metascrums involve key stakeholders to resolve impediments. An individual's role is to focus on testing, active listening, and delivering value frequently through working software.
This document provides an overview of UX research methods. It defines UX research and lists common biases to avoid in customer research such as confirmation bias. It then describes various qualitative and quantitative research methodologies like contextual inquiry, diary studies, card sorting, usability testing, eye tracking, and heuristic evaluation. For each methodology it discusses the business problem it can address, description, benefits, limitations, typical data collected, and tools used. It also includes references and links to external articles about applying specific methods and determining sample sizes.
Successfully Managing Customer Experience Combining VoC and UX TestingUserZoom
1. The webinar discussed combining customer insights (VOC) and user experience (UX) testing to gain a holistic understanding of the customer experience.
2. A case study was presented where a company conducted remote usability testing on a website redesign using UserZoom to collect data from multiple countries.
3. The results from customer insights, UX testing, surveys, task success rates and other metrics provided valuable feedback to improve the customer experience on the website.
Towards Reproducible Data Analysis Using Cloud and Container Technologiesinside-BigData.com
This document discusses using container technologies to improve reproducibility in data analysis. It outlines the context and challenges of reproducibility, and proposes building infrastructure to support containerization. This includes strategies for building containers for end-users, considering what to include in containers, and addressing open questions around deployment, validation, and documentation of containers. The main challenges are adoption by end-users and technical issues of scale, integration, security, and maintenance of container-based systems for reproducible research.
Webinar - Design Thinking for Platform EngineeringOpenCredo
This document discusses approaching platform engineering with a design thinking mindset. It begins by outlining challenges with existing approaches, such as tools being difficult to use and responsibilities being blurred. It then defines platform engineering and describes design thinking, which integrates user needs, technology possibilities, and business requirements. The design thinking process involves empathizing with users to gain insights, defining opportunities, ideating solutions, prototyping ideas, and testing assumptions. The document argues that applying a human-centered design thinking approach helps focus on outcomes rather than just technology, surfaces conflicts, identifies new opportunities, and involves frequent testing with users. It concludes by recommending getting started with design thinking for platform engineering by identifying and prioritizing problems, engaging stakeholders
This document outlines key concepts from a session on operations strategy in a global environment. It discusses developing mission and strategies, achieving competitive advantage through operations, strategic operations management decisions, and global operations strategy options including international, multidomestic, global, and transnational strategies. Critical success factors and integrating operations strategy with other functions are also covered.
Slash | 500Startups mentoring - product expansion and localization in Southea...Slash
How to expand and customize your product across Southeast Asia (SEA)?
This 2h workshop was delivered for a founder audience of global pre-Series A and Series-A startups (invested by 500 Startups, the VC), expanding into SEA.
The frameworks, mental models, tools and techniques described can be used to generally refresh your value proposition and product for your core markets.
Delivered 12 Feb 2020 in Singapore by Andries De Vos, CEO of Slash.
Similar to IPTC proposal for facets in NewsCodes (20)
The Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) invited Taylor Paschal, Knowledge & Information Management Consultant at Enterprise Knowledge, to speak at a Knowledge Management Lunch and Learn hosted on June 12, 2024. All Office of Administration staff were invited to attend and received professional development credit for participating in the voluntary event.
The objectives of the Lunch and Learn presentation were to:
- Review what KM ‘is’ and ‘isn’t’
- Understand the value of KM and the benefits of engaging
- Define and reflect on your “what’s in it for me?”
- Share actionable ways you can participate in Knowledge - - Capture & Transfer
Connector Corner: Seamlessly power UiPath Apps, GenAI with prebuilt connectorsDianaGray10
Join us to learn how UiPath Apps can directly and easily interact with prebuilt connectors via Integration Service--including Salesforce, ServiceNow, Open GenAI, and more.
The best part is you can achieve this without building a custom workflow! Say goodbye to the hassle of using separate automations to call APIs. By seamlessly integrating within App Studio, you can now easily streamline your workflow, while gaining direct access to our Connector Catalog of popular applications.
We’ll discuss and demo the benefits of UiPath Apps and connectors including:
Creating a compelling user experience for any software, without the limitations of APIs.
Accelerating the app creation process, saving time and effort
Enjoying high-performance CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations, for
seamless data management.
Speakers:
Russell Alfeche, Technology Leader, RPA at qBotic and UiPath MVP
Charlie Greenberg, host
"What does it really mean for your system to be available, or how to define w...Fwdays
We will talk about system monitoring from a few different angles. We will start by covering the basics, then discuss SLOs, how to define them, and why understanding the business well is crucial for success in this exercise.
LF Energy Webinar: Carbon Data Specifications: Mechanisms to Improve Data Acc...DanBrown980551
This LF Energy webinar took place June 20, 2024. It featured:
-Alex Thornton, LF Energy
-Hallie Cramer, Google
-Daniel Roesler, UtilityAPI
-Henry Richardson, WattTime
In response to the urgency and scale required to effectively address climate change, open source solutions offer significant potential for driving innovation and progress. Currently, there is a growing demand for standardization and interoperability in energy data and modeling. Open source standards and specifications within the energy sector can also alleviate challenges associated with data fragmentation, transparency, and accessibility. At the same time, it is crucial to consider privacy and security concerns throughout the development of open source platforms.
This webinar will delve into the motivations behind establishing LF Energy’s Carbon Data Specification Consortium. It will provide an overview of the draft specifications and the ongoing progress made by the respective working groups.
Three primary specifications will be discussed:
-Discovery and client registration, emphasizing transparent processes and secure and private access
-Customer data, centering around customer tariffs, bills, energy usage, and full consumption disclosure
-Power systems data, focusing on grid data, inclusive of transmission and distribution networks, generation, intergrid power flows, and market settlement data
ScyllaDB is making a major architecture shift. We’re moving from vNode replication to tablets – fragments of tables that are distributed independently, enabling dynamic data distribution and extreme elasticity. In this keynote, ScyllaDB co-founder and CTO Avi Kivity explains the reason for this shift, provides a look at the implementation and roadmap, and shares how this shift benefits ScyllaDB users.
Getting the Most Out of ScyllaDB Monitoring: ShareChat's TipsScyllaDB
ScyllaDB monitoring provides a lot of useful information. But sometimes it’s not easy to find the root of the problem if something is wrong or even estimate the remaining capacity by the load on the cluster. This talk shares our team's practical tips on: 1) How to find the root of the problem by metrics if ScyllaDB is slow 2) How to interpret the load and plan capacity for the future 3) Compaction strategies and how to choose the right one 4) Important metrics which aren’t available in the default monitoring setup.
AppSec PNW: Android and iOS Application Security with MobSFAjin Abraham
Mobile Security Framework - MobSF is a free and open source automated mobile application security testing environment designed to help security engineers, researchers, developers, and penetration testers to identify security vulnerabilities, malicious behaviours and privacy concerns in mobile applications using static and dynamic analysis. It supports all the popular mobile application binaries and source code formats built for Android and iOS devices. In addition to automated security assessment, it also offers an interactive testing environment to build and execute scenario based test/fuzz cases against the application.
This talk covers:
Using MobSF for static analysis of mobile applications.
Interactive dynamic security assessment of Android and iOS applications.
Solving Mobile app CTF challenges.
Reverse engineering and runtime analysis of Mobile malware.
How to shift left and integrate MobSF/mobsfscan SAST and DAST in your build pipeline.
Session 1 - Intro to Robotic Process Automation.pdfUiPathCommunity
👉 Check out our full 'Africa Series - Automation Student Developers (EN)' page to register for the full program:
https://bit.ly/Automation_Student_Kickstart
In this session, we shall introduce you to the world of automation, the UiPath Platform, and guide you on how to install and setup UiPath Studio on your Windows PC.
📕 Detailed agenda:
What is RPA? Benefits of RPA?
RPA Applications
The UiPath End-to-End Automation Platform
UiPath Studio CE Installation and Setup
💻 Extra training through UiPath Academy:
Introduction to Automation
UiPath Business Automation Platform
Explore automation development with UiPath Studio
👉 Register here for our upcoming Session 2 on June 20: Introduction to UiPath Studio Fundamentals: https://community.uipath.com/events/details/uipath-lagos-presents-session-2-introduction-to-uipath-studio-fundamentals/
"Frontline Battles with DDoS: Best practices and Lessons Learned", Igor IvaniukFwdays
At this talk we will discuss DDoS protection tools and best practices, discuss network architectures and what AWS has to offer. Also, we will look into one of the largest DDoS attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure that happened in February 2022. We'll see, what techniques helped to keep the web resources available for Ukrainians and how AWS improved DDoS protection for all customers based on Ukraine experience
"$10 thousand per minute of downtime: architecture, queues, streaming and fin...Fwdays
Direct losses from downtime in 1 minute = $5-$10 thousand dollars. Reputation is priceless.
As part of the talk, we will consider the architectural strategies necessary for the development of highly loaded fintech solutions. We will focus on using queues and streaming to efficiently work and manage large amounts of data in real-time and to minimize latency.
We will focus special attention on the architectural patterns used in the design of the fintech system, microservices and event-driven architecture, which ensure scalability, fault tolerance, and consistency of the entire system.
How information systems are built or acquired puts information, which is what they should be about, in a secondary place. Our language adapted accordingly, and we no longer talk about information systems but applications. Applications evolved in a way to break data into diverse fragments, tightly coupled with applications and expensive to integrate. The result is technical debt, which is re-paid by taking even bigger "loans", resulting in an ever-increasing technical debt. Software engineering and procurement practices work in sync with market forces to maintain this trend. This talk demonstrates how natural this situation is. The question is: can something be done to reverse the trend?
What is an RPA CoE? Session 2 – CoE RolesDianaGray10
In this session, we will review the players involved in the CoE and how each role impacts opportunities.
Topics covered:
• What roles are essential?
• What place in the automation journey does each role play?
Speaker:
Chris Bolin, Senior Intelligent Automation Architect Anika Systems
Discover the Unseen: Tailored Recommendation of Unwatched ContentScyllaDB
The session shares how JioCinema approaches ""watch discounting."" This capability ensures that if a user watched a certain amount of a show/movie, the platform no longer recommends that particular content to the user. Flawless operation of this feature promotes the discover of new content, improving the overall user experience.
JioCinema is an Indian over-the-top media streaming service owned by Viacom18.
GlobalLogic Java Community Webinar #18 “How to Improve Web Application Perfor...GlobalLogic Ukraine
Під час доповіді відповімо на питання, навіщо потрібно підвищувати продуктивність аплікації і які є найефективніші способи для цього. А також поговоримо про те, що таке кеш, які його види бувають та, основне — як знайти performance bottleneck?
Відео та деталі заходу: https://bit.ly/45tILxj
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IPTC proposal for facets in NewsCodes
1. NewsCodes and Facets
IPTC Spring meeting 2015
New York City
Heather L. Edwards – Associated Press
1https://www.flickr.com/photos/lost_in_the_library/14289803708/
2. Introduction to faceted taxonomy
Faceted classification classifies
objects using multiple taxonomies
that express their different
attributes or facets rather than
classifying using a single
taxonomy.
2http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faceted_classification
3. Introduction to faceted taxonomy
Samsung UN48H6350
48-inch 1080p 120Hz Smart LED TV
Electronics
Televisions
…...
48-inch 1080p 120Hz LED Smart TVs
50-inch 1080p 120Hz LED Smart TVs
3http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-UN48H6350-48-Inch-1080p-120Hz/dp/B00I94IR8G/
4. Introduction to faceted taxonomy
Samsung UN48H6350
48-inch 1080p 120Hz Smart LED TV
Electronics
Televisions
Brand: Samsung
Size: 48-inch
Resolution: 1080p
Smart TV: yes
Type: LED
4http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-UN48H6350-48-Inch-1080p-120Hz/dp/B00I94IR8G/
5. Sports Competition policy
• 307 of 1149 MediaTopics are sports
terms. SubjectCodes has 585!
• Class of competition defined in each
sport is highly inconsistent.
• What is the appropriate level of
granularity?
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6. Sports Competition policy
The competition disciplines section of Media Topics
should contain terms for sports competed at a
professional or elite level.
Sub-sport (discipline) terms may be added where different
rules, techniques, and/or equipment significantly
differentiate competitions.
In sports where all athletes typically train and compete in
all events, individual event terms are not appropriate.
Additional description of competitions or events should be
defined using facets.
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7. What are these facets?
• Distance
• Time
• Number of athletes competing in a team
• Level of competition
• Weightclass
• Age
• Gender
• Ability level of participants
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8. How will we express facets?
• Many are already in the Subject Qualifier
vocabulary.
– http://cv.iptc.org/newscodes/subjectqualifier/
– Covered: gender, indoor/outdoor, many competition
levels, stage
– Partially covered: ability level, team size, age
– Candidate: weightclass
• ODF covers ability level thoroughly.
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9. How will we express facets?
• Scalar values – distance and time
– SportsML has the syntax to express scalar values and
units.
– No need for additional controlled terms.
• Ranges – age of athletes
– Minimum and maximum ages
– Conceptual ranges – junior, senior, etc.
– Needs more discussion
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10. How will we express facets?
• Team size
– Subject Qualifiers defines individual, duet, and team.
– Do we need controlled terms for some sports? Or
can team size be a scalar value?
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11. Next steps
• Provide your expert feedback!
• Join NewsCodes dev calls for discussion.
• Update Subject Qualifiers.
• Continue discussion on age ranges, team size.
• Re-consider decisions on swimming,
gymnastics, rowing
• Create facets vocabulary.
• Document best practice for combining facets
into individual terms
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12. Thanks
Please join the Dev group to comment on changes in
progress https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/iptc-newscodes-dev/
Next call: 26 March, 1500 CET / 1400 GMT / 1000 EDT
Submit any change requests
http://dev.iptc.org/NewsCodes-Change-Request-Form
hedwards@ap.org @hl_edwards
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