Presentazione di GisHosting alla quarta conferenza OpenGeoData Italia (Roma 20 giugno 2016)
Sessione: Strumenti, software e servizi per l'elaborazione e la gestione dei dati
The Goethe-Institut and the National Museums of Kenya organised a Post-SCECSAL-Conference on ‘LIBRARIES AS COMMUNITY MEMORY’ in Nairobi, Kenya. The purpose of this workshop was to explore ways in which African libraries – through various initiatives – can play an active role in collecting, processing, disseminating acting as repositories of indigenous knowledge. This was in cognisance of the fact that most of the cultures on the African continent are largely oral-based and information that would be useful for posterity is not documented in written form. The eThekwini Municipality’s Ulwazi Programme will be used as the case study.
While librarians are not necessarily the ones who would be expected to go out into the field to collect this information, they need to work closely with community field workers, who must be trained on how to gather information and present it to the librarians for processing and dissemination. The documentation/dissemination can be in different forms: book, CD-ROM, website, brochure, or a combination of two or more of these. The basic approaches in dealing with this phenomenon are numerous and we hope that the workshop can identify the most practical, sustainable and cost-effective approaches.
1. The document describes a pilot study that used the mobile application Graph2Go to teach mathematics concepts related to functions and graphs.
2. A pedagogical model was developed for using Graph2Go in a face-to-face setting that was based on social-historical learning theory and emphasized cooperative work and teacher/peer mediation.
3. The pilot study involved 12 college students using Graph2Go on their mobile devices to complete activities on quadratic and sine functions. Analysis found that students easily learned to use the application and saw benefits of visualizing graphs, but also limitations.
The Development of a User-generated Digital LibraryNiall McNulty
Current ICTs and mobile technology have the potential to empower communities to preserve and manage their own local knowledge. This paper looks at the development of the Ulwazi Programme, a community-generated digital library of local content, based in the eThekwini Municipality of Durban, South Africa. The programme uses crowd-sourcing and Web 2.0 technologies to enable communities served by the municipal library to contribute to a digital resource of local knowledge. By creating an online platform that inhabitants of the municipality can engage with and contribute to, the author argues that communities start participating in the global information society. Making this information more widely available can also serve to promote cross-cultural understanding and tolerance and in turn, social cohesion. Technology empowers communities to record what they feel is important in a way that makes sense and is logical to them. The Ulwazi Programme increases the capacity of the local communities of eThekwini to develop and access content in their own language. Previously technologically-marginalised communities now have online access to local knowledge, along with the prospect of participating in the global information society and developing digital literacy.
Recommendation of Learning Objects Applying Collaborative Filtering and Compe...pbehar
This paper proposes a model for recommending learning objects to students based on competencies and collaborative filtering. The model was implemented in a prototype and evaluated through experiments with 10 undergraduate computer engineering students. The results found the recommendations were 76% accurate in satisfying students' learning needs related to the competencies. Precision and recall metrics also showed the system succeeded in providing relevant learning materials to support competency development. Future work aims to test the model with different learning objects and incorporate user relevance feedback.
Digital Memory Toolkit – a free resource to assist community projectsNiall McNulty
Information for African NGOs, libraries, archives, museums and schools to initiate and run their own digital memory projects, using free, open-source technology and community volunteers.
Presented at the 2015 IFLA World Library and Information Congress in Cape Town where it was the winner of the Best IFLA Poster award (http://www.ifla.org/professional-committee/awards/poster-session).
Presentazione di GisHosting alla quarta conferenza OpenGeoData Italia (Roma 20 giugno 2016)
Sessione: Strumenti, software e servizi per l'elaborazione e la gestione dei dati
The Goethe-Institut and the National Museums of Kenya organised a Post-SCECSAL-Conference on ‘LIBRARIES AS COMMUNITY MEMORY’ in Nairobi, Kenya. The purpose of this workshop was to explore ways in which African libraries – through various initiatives – can play an active role in collecting, processing, disseminating acting as repositories of indigenous knowledge. This was in cognisance of the fact that most of the cultures on the African continent are largely oral-based and information that would be useful for posterity is not documented in written form. The eThekwini Municipality’s Ulwazi Programme will be used as the case study.
While librarians are not necessarily the ones who would be expected to go out into the field to collect this information, they need to work closely with community field workers, who must be trained on how to gather information and present it to the librarians for processing and dissemination. The documentation/dissemination can be in different forms: book, CD-ROM, website, brochure, or a combination of two or more of these. The basic approaches in dealing with this phenomenon are numerous and we hope that the workshop can identify the most practical, sustainable and cost-effective approaches.
1. The document describes a pilot study that used the mobile application Graph2Go to teach mathematics concepts related to functions and graphs.
2. A pedagogical model was developed for using Graph2Go in a face-to-face setting that was based on social-historical learning theory and emphasized cooperative work and teacher/peer mediation.
3. The pilot study involved 12 college students using Graph2Go on their mobile devices to complete activities on quadratic and sine functions. Analysis found that students easily learned to use the application and saw benefits of visualizing graphs, but also limitations.
The Development of a User-generated Digital LibraryNiall McNulty
Current ICTs and mobile technology have the potential to empower communities to preserve and manage their own local knowledge. This paper looks at the development of the Ulwazi Programme, a community-generated digital library of local content, based in the eThekwini Municipality of Durban, South Africa. The programme uses crowd-sourcing and Web 2.0 technologies to enable communities served by the municipal library to contribute to a digital resource of local knowledge. By creating an online platform that inhabitants of the municipality can engage with and contribute to, the author argues that communities start participating in the global information society. Making this information more widely available can also serve to promote cross-cultural understanding and tolerance and in turn, social cohesion. Technology empowers communities to record what they feel is important in a way that makes sense and is logical to them. The Ulwazi Programme increases the capacity of the local communities of eThekwini to develop and access content in their own language. Previously technologically-marginalised communities now have online access to local knowledge, along with the prospect of participating in the global information society and developing digital literacy.
Recommendation of Learning Objects Applying Collaborative Filtering and Compe...pbehar
This paper proposes a model for recommending learning objects to students based on competencies and collaborative filtering. The model was implemented in a prototype and evaluated through experiments with 10 undergraduate computer engineering students. The results found the recommendations were 76% accurate in satisfying students' learning needs related to the competencies. Precision and recall metrics also showed the system succeeded in providing relevant learning materials to support competency development. Future work aims to test the model with different learning objects and incorporate user relevance feedback.
Digital Memory Toolkit – a free resource to assist community projectsNiall McNulty
Information for African NGOs, libraries, archives, museums and schools to initiate and run their own digital memory projects, using free, open-source technology and community volunteers.
Presented at the 2015 IFLA World Library and Information Congress in Cape Town where it was the winner of the Best IFLA Poster award (http://www.ifla.org/professional-committee/awards/poster-session).
Recommendation of Learning Objects Applying Collaborative Filtering and Compe...pbehar
This paper proposes a model for recommending learning objects to students based on competencies and collaborative filtering. The model was implemented in a prototype and evaluated through experiments with 10 undergraduate computer engineering students. The results showed that the system's recommendations achieved 76% accuracy in recommending objects relevant to students' competency development. Precision and recall metrics also indicated the system succeeded in providing students access to relevant materials. Future work aims to test the system with other object types and include user relevance feedback to improve recommendations.
The document proposes new instruments for monitoring and early management of emergencies. It discusses using GNSS technology to assess water vapor in the atmosphere and a smart rainfall system of distributed sensors to estimate and locate rainfall in real-time. This data could support timely decision making during emergencies by civil protection entities. The system was tested in Genoa, Italy and prototype sensors were validated against rain gauge measurements, showing the potential to anticipate rainfall by 30 minutes and detect light rain. The high-resolution precipitation maps produced could provide new input for risk assessment models.
Affective Subject Interacting in the ROODA Virtual Learning Environmentpbehar
The document summarizes a presentation given at the World Computer Congress in Brisbane, Australia in 2010. The presentation discusses analyzing student moods and affective states during interactions in the ROODA virtual learning environment (VLE) based on theories from Piaget and Scherer. The researchers aim to map student moods, such as being satisfied or unhappy, during their use of tools in the VLE like chat and forums to better understand the affective dimension of virtual learning interactions.
The Ulwazi Programme: a Model for Community Digital Libraries in South AfricaNiall McNulty
IFLA 2015: Session 174a
Born of changes in the political context and the policy environment, the Ulwazi Programme is a South African library
initiative that has been set up by the eThekwini Municipal Library’s Libraries and Heritage Department. Its aim is to
record and share, in both English and Zulu, the local histories and cultures of communities served by the municipal
library in the greater Durban area. The Programme does this by using the existing library infrastructure and freely
available social technologies to create a wiki, much like Wikipedia, but localised for the eThekwini Municipality. The
presentation further argues that the Ulwazi Programme advances the library’s efforts to be an inclusive institution
and contributes to social cohesion at a local level.
Una presentazione del servizio GisHosting per la pubblicazione online di progetti QGIS con particolare riguardo alle operazioni di emergenza (Piani di Emergenza Comunali) http://www.gishosting.gter.it/home
PechaKucha: The Ulwazi Programme in 20 SlidesNiall McNulty
This document discusses a public library's efforts to create an online community and crowdsource information about local heritage and culture. The library established a website that collects articles, images and categories about topics of Zulu, English and Afrikaans culture and history. The most popular pages on the site cover traditions like weddings, houses and religious figures. The site aims to train citizens in online collaboration and digital archiving of local resources. It has grown to over 15,000 monthly visitors from 185 countries, and the library hopes to expand its community projects around documenting memories and creating heritage maps.
Les technologies du Web appliquées aux données structurées (2ème partie : Rel...Gautier Poupeau
Diaporama de la présentation effectuée au séminaire INRIA IST "Le document à l'heure du Web de données" (Carnac 1er-5 octobre 2012) en compagnie d'Emmanuelle Bermès (aka figoblog)
MashupXFeed et la stratégie éditoriale - Workshop Activis - GreenIvoryJean-Georges Perrin
Présentation de Jean-Georges Perrin (CEO de GreenIvory) sur la mise en place d'une stratégie éditoriale et d'autres exemples d'utilisation de MashupXFeed. Détail sur les fermes de contenu.
CMSday 2013 - Comment valoriser son patrimoine numérique ?Smile I.T is open
Comment valoriser son patrimoine numérique : Quelle architecture les CMS devront-ils proposer pour s'adapter à des technologies et usages en perpétuelle mutation ?
Avec : Ametys, HippoCMS, Drupal, Novius
Animé par : Laurent Marie, Directeur de Business Unit Smile
Recommendation of Learning Objects Applying Collaborative Filtering and Compe...pbehar
This paper proposes a model for recommending learning objects to students based on competencies and collaborative filtering. The model was implemented in a prototype and evaluated through experiments with 10 undergraduate computer engineering students. The results showed that the system's recommendations achieved 76% accuracy in recommending objects relevant to students' competency development. Precision and recall metrics also indicated the system succeeded in providing students access to relevant materials. Future work aims to test the system with other object types and include user relevance feedback to improve recommendations.
The document proposes new instruments for monitoring and early management of emergencies. It discusses using GNSS technology to assess water vapor in the atmosphere and a smart rainfall system of distributed sensors to estimate and locate rainfall in real-time. This data could support timely decision making during emergencies by civil protection entities. The system was tested in Genoa, Italy and prototype sensors were validated against rain gauge measurements, showing the potential to anticipate rainfall by 30 minutes and detect light rain. The high-resolution precipitation maps produced could provide new input for risk assessment models.
Affective Subject Interacting in the ROODA Virtual Learning Environmentpbehar
The document summarizes a presentation given at the World Computer Congress in Brisbane, Australia in 2010. The presentation discusses analyzing student moods and affective states during interactions in the ROODA virtual learning environment (VLE) based on theories from Piaget and Scherer. The researchers aim to map student moods, such as being satisfied or unhappy, during their use of tools in the VLE like chat and forums to better understand the affective dimension of virtual learning interactions.
The Ulwazi Programme: a Model for Community Digital Libraries in South AfricaNiall McNulty
IFLA 2015: Session 174a
Born of changes in the political context and the policy environment, the Ulwazi Programme is a South African library
initiative that has been set up by the eThekwini Municipal Library’s Libraries and Heritage Department. Its aim is to
record and share, in both English and Zulu, the local histories and cultures of communities served by the municipal
library in the greater Durban area. The Programme does this by using the existing library infrastructure and freely
available social technologies to create a wiki, much like Wikipedia, but localised for the eThekwini Municipality. The
presentation further argues that the Ulwazi Programme advances the library’s efforts to be an inclusive institution
and contributes to social cohesion at a local level.
Una presentazione del servizio GisHosting per la pubblicazione online di progetti QGIS con particolare riguardo alle operazioni di emergenza (Piani di Emergenza Comunali) http://www.gishosting.gter.it/home
PechaKucha: The Ulwazi Programme in 20 SlidesNiall McNulty
This document discusses a public library's efforts to create an online community and crowdsource information about local heritage and culture. The library established a website that collects articles, images and categories about topics of Zulu, English and Afrikaans culture and history. The most popular pages on the site cover traditions like weddings, houses and religious figures. The site aims to train citizens in online collaboration and digital archiving of local resources. It has grown to over 15,000 monthly visitors from 185 countries, and the library hopes to expand its community projects around documenting memories and creating heritage maps.
Les technologies du Web appliquées aux données structurées (2ème partie : Rel...Gautier Poupeau
Diaporama de la présentation effectuée au séminaire INRIA IST "Le document à l'heure du Web de données" (Carnac 1er-5 octobre 2012) en compagnie d'Emmanuelle Bermès (aka figoblog)
MashupXFeed et la stratégie éditoriale - Workshop Activis - GreenIvoryJean-Georges Perrin
Présentation de Jean-Georges Perrin (CEO de GreenIvory) sur la mise en place d'une stratégie éditoriale et d'autres exemples d'utilisation de MashupXFeed. Détail sur les fermes de contenu.
CMSday 2013 - Comment valoriser son patrimoine numérique ?Smile I.T is open
Comment valoriser son patrimoine numérique : Quelle architecture les CMS devront-ils proposer pour s'adapter à des technologies et usages en perpétuelle mutation ?
Avec : Ametys, HippoCMS, Drupal, Novius
Animé par : Laurent Marie, Directeur de Business Unit Smile