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In the article the results of research concerning online accessibility of parish press within Archdiocese of Katowice have been discussed. In the research all 319 parishes of the Archdiocese have been included. It results from the analysis that 90% of parishes have their own websites and 19% of them promote their magazines on the Internet.
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The article discusses approaches to generating metadata for learning test units. Based on the LOM standard scheme. An approach is proposed to generate metadata in the e-learning process itself and collect data for the user. A generic network model of the user modeling process is created.
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Access to research results is imperative in today’s robust digital age, yet access is often prevented by publisher paywalls. Open Access (OA) is the simple idea that all research should be free for all to access, use, and build upon. This paper will focus on three critical areas of the OA landscape: its impact on scholarship and the public, the obstacles to be overcome, and its advancements. The impact of OA actions and initiatives has been difficult to quantify, but the growing number of studies on OA have shown mostly overwhelmingly positive results. Cultural norms within academia, such as the reliance on the journal Impact Factor (IF) to assess the quality of individual research articles, have impeded the progress of OA. Conversely, federal mandates and institutional policies have supported the OA movement by requiring that scholarly publications be deposited into institutional or subject repositories immediately following publication. As information professionals, library and information science (LIS) professionals have a responsibility as practitioners, authors, and editors to support OA and encourage other academics to do the same.
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Evolution of digital publishing is followed with evolution of its Open Access (OA). OA of electronic journals allows end users to retrieve information anywhere and anytime. The access to the scientific literature is very important to the scientific community. Surely, authors and publishers have to get secured from the unauthorized downloads and copy of their published work. OA publishing alongside its benefits also has misusage attempts. Those misusages are reflecting by creating false AKA predatory publishers of journals which are spamming authors with invitations to publish their articles. The goal of this paper is to describe all the ways predatory publishers act and what measures must be taken to protect the authors. Although the concept of predatory publishers is not new to public, their late increase show that this is a very important problem which has to be solved. Scholars have to be very careful when submitting their articles, because once they send their manuscript to the predatory journal, that manuscript is being “buried” and impossible to restore.
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Libraries have lost their former monopoly on creating metadata. Currently, the internet abounds in many non-library-related websites whose work is based on metadata resources that are sometimes created by merging (or aggregating) the resources of the largest libraries. In such a heterogeneous environment, it is of fundamental importance to find a solution to the problem of the interoperability of systems at all levels, including the metadata level. The interoperability of metadata – defined as the ability of two or more systems or their parts (using different hardware and software, with different data structures and interfaces) to exchange data with a minimal loss of content and functionality (NISO) – can be achieved in various ways, depending – among other things – on whether this process is planned before the creation of the metadata, or whether it concerns resources which have already been created in different systems and formats. There are two distinct approaches to metadata cooperation: one is traditional, authoritative and objectivist, while the other is constructivist and relates to the development of new information technologies. Special attention has been paid not only to new possibilities, but also to the importance of the cooperation of metadata that results from the globalisation of the processes of its creation and the sharing of metadata in so-called data clouds (Linked Data).
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This paper presents the database of manuscripts and bibliography of codicological literature, which has been developed by the Department for the Compilation and Manuscript Studies at the CAS Masaryk Institute and Archive. This database facilitates the cataloguing of new manuscripts and the inclusion of data from printed catalogues and records of retrospective and recent bibliography, as well as updating existing descriptions. It comprises three interconnected sections: the database of manuscripts, the database of codicological literature and most recently the database of institutions and fonds, including current information on institutions owning and administering historical fonds and manuscript collections.
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Review of the 13th library conference "Biblionet" on the topic: Electronic material and resources in libraries. The conference was held in Vršac from September 4-6, 2019.
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Purpose of Article. The objective of the paper is to explore the main types, content and quantitative indicators of information retrieval thesauri in the world and. national experience. Methodology. Methods of analysis, synthesis, and generalization are applied in the research process. The scientific novelty of this paper is the analysis of functioning information retrieval thesauri in the world and national experience. Conclusions. The analysis of existing information retrieval thesauri, the principles of their construction and functioning in various spheres provides the reasons to conclude that the specificity of the date domain of each thesaurus is reflected in its structure.
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It has been stated in the article that the development of scientific communication contributes to extending the role of scientific libraries, in which the professional competence of librarians is related to their knowledge of metadata and experience of working with large collections of documents. One of the tasks of the modern scientific library is to ensure completeness of search, quality of collection, selectivity of processing, reliability of storage, promptness of spreading information. The results of this professional activity can be transformed into intellectual property objects. Library professionals use bibliometric research methods to help them solve their professional tasks, which help in decision-making when purchasing magazines and databases; in library fund analysis; study of publications; researching statistics on the use of electronic documents. It is revealed that in recent decades, bibliometry has become a standard tool for scientific policy and research management in various fields of science.Bibliometry covers such research methods as citation analysis; analysis of reference journals; analysis of quantitative characteristics of primary documents; quantitative analysis of publications of individual authors and their citation; quantitative analysis of scientific publications of particular countries of the world, states, and certain teams of scientists; theoretical issues, including the study of patterns of growth, aging and rank distribution of scientific documents; content analysis of scientific documents; other issues related to spreading scientific documents. Such research requires library staff of creative ability and professional competence. Today’s means of social communication define the new tasks for libraries, the activities of which are related to intellectualization of the library sphere. The results of bibliometric research may be subject to copyright, provided that they meet the criteria of safety, have signs of creativity and novelty.
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Cloud Computing has become the main trend in the IT world at the moment, besides fields such as IoT (Internet of Things), cybersecurity, Augmented Reality, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Chatbots/Business Bots. This article aims at providing a glimpse into the emerging world of Cloud Computing and the impact that it has from both a technological and an economic standpoint. Also, the influences of Cloud technologies on current society, and more particularly on our daily lives will be approached. In the last section, we ask questions and we will probably find partial answers, but we will try to foresee the future based on Cloud technologies, relying on the present level of technical development.
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The 20th Century is considered the „Century of Great Scientific Discovery”. This age is one of great scientific discoveries, be it physics, chemistry or medical science, biology or other areas. It is the age in which atomic physics is determined as science, revolutionary ideas on relativity appear, new galaxies and new drugs are discovered, the microprocessor is built, and genetics is making a huge leap. The Internet is a global network of interconnected computer networks that use a protocol to connect billions of devices worldwide. It is a network of networks consisting of millions of governmental, private, public, academic and business networks linked to a wide range of electronics, cables, wireless systems or optical technologies. The Internet has a wide range of information, resources and services such as documents, applications, and infrastructure to send emails, networks to transfer files or phone services.
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In order to facilitate access to works and their use for the visually impaired, on June 27, 2013, the Diplomatic Conference of the World Intellectual Property Organization in Marrakesh (Morocco) adopted the “The Marrakesh Treaty on the facilitation of access for the blind and visually impaired or with other disabilities to accept printed information to published works”. The accession of countries to the Marrakesh Treaty allows for adequate access for people with visual impairments to published works on the same terms as for people with normal vision. The provisions of the Marrakesh Treaty establish general obligations on restrictions under the Berne Convention, which authorizes the reproduction of works in certain special cases, provided that such reproduction does not harm the normal use of the work and does not unduly affect the legitimate interests of the author. The article reveals the exceptional nature of the Marrakesh Treaty, which combines the law on rights of people with visual problems and intellectual property law, creates the first mandatory restrictions on copyright protection in order to expand access to books for a growing number of people.The implementation of the Marrakesh Treaty into national law will enable libraries to create and distribute copies of works in an accessible format for the visually impaired. In order to protect copyright in the production of works for the visually impaired, the Marrakesh Treaty provides for the establishment of a special “authorized body” in the country, which should be associated with at least one area of society: 1) education, 2) vocational training, 3) adaptive reading or 4) public access to information. Such an authorized body may be any library or other organization that provides services on a non-profit basis.The adoption of the Marrakesh Treaty at the Diplomatic Conference of the World Intellectual Property Organization in Marrakesh is an important step in implementing the basic provisions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which stipulates that everyone, including the visually impaired, can participate fully and equally in political, economic and cultural life of society.
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In this paper, it is augmented how the knowledge by the conational’s of the place and of the principal leading part of the national technical scientific culture in Europe and in the world can contribute to the promote the quality of the instructive processes of the young people and could determine the develop ment of the creative spirit. In the conditions of the European political integration we tend to the construction of a new society and for this purpose it’s a necessity that for the establishing of the strategy for the development to have in view also some fac tors, that are very difficult to quantify, as for example: the cultural distinctions in the aspiration’s field, in the field of the mentali ties’, in the field of the stimulations of the scientific researchers, in the field of the development of the creativity the technical sci entific support of the a new industrialization of the country and so on. In this paper there are presented the preoccupations of the former academician Mihai Draganescu for the creation and the development of a new creative medium and with the object of the creation of a new mentality in the rows of the young people and for this purpose it’s considered a necessity to write the papers about the place and the role of our national culture in Europe and in the world, and about the development of the research field to support the development of the national technical scientific creativity. In this paper it’s also augmented the necessity of the elaboration of a new national-cultural strategy for the sustention the generation and the dissemination of the new technical sci entific values in the hole country and for the propagation the Romanian cultural values in the whole world.
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The Fourth Industrial Revolution radically impacted communication forms. While psychologists switched their focus to the impact of our presence in online communities from that on long hours of television watching, technological developments reached the next level. Accordingly, artificial intelligence has penetrated everyday life, including the communication process, as chatbots provide services in webstores and avatars process our requests on the search pages of libraries. Thus not only is communication placed on an online basis, but one party in the communication chain has become either a robot or an algorithm. Where are we now at in this process? How can we describe the Web 3.0 phenomenon? What is the difference between the semantic web and the Web 3.0? Can we trust the authenticity of the data obtained? How are society’s information-gathering habits changing? Have libraries, expected to increase the reliability of information, started to implement semantic data storage?
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The author, president of the Minerva Cultural Association, associate professor of the Babeş-Bolyai University, presents the evolutions in preserving the cultural heritage and cultural archives through the activity of the Association. With a history of the Association that goes back to the interwar period, the Minerva Archive was conceived as a collection of media-related content, including visual and textual materials. The author presents the possibilities of research that such archives offer, including the digitalization of materials, and creating a database for future researchers of Transylvanian culture and press.
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Digital preservation has significantly expanded over the past few decades, renewing old and creating new challenges related to provenance, integrity, completeness, and context in memory and preservation practices. In this paper we explore how, perhaps counterintuitively, a more extensive digital historical record offers greater opportunities to misrepresent reality. We first review a set of concepts and socio-cultural approaches to memory and preservation. We then focus on the multiplicity of digital memory and preservation practices today, examining their limits, possibilities, and tensions; specifically, we explore the challenges of decontextualized data, personal versus institutional preservation, and “outsider” digital collections that are willingly and/or forcibly excluded from official accounts. Through these discussions, we review examples of what we consider good digital memory and preservation practices that take new approaches to context and collaboration. Lastly, we explore the optimism inherent in seeking to preserve human knowledge over the long term and to make it accessible to all.
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The article is a report from a survey concerning operation of the Podlaskie Voivodship Office’s Electronic Documents Management system (hereinafter: EZD PUW), which is the second most implemented EDM-type system in public administration in Poland. The aim of the survey was to determine how the implementation of EZD PUW affects the operation of the Office’s registry, the workflow of documents and procedures for handling and documenting cases. The text comprises an introductory part, a discussion of the method of collecting and analysing source materials, and a presentation of the results divided into two perspectives – for the offices that indicated the traditional system as their primary method of documenting the course of handling and resolving cases, and for those offices that recognized the EDM system as their main documentation management environment. The survey covered 163 offices of self-government and government administration units, which implemented the EZD PUW system in 2011–2022. The group included 133 Municipal Offices (urban, rural and mixed), 32 County Offices, 13 Voivodship Offices and five Marshal’s Offices. The author analysed responses to a survey addressed to the selected offices, as well as the internal regulations, provided by the respondents, determining procedures for management of electronic records, supplementary to the basic office and archival manuals required by law. The survey revealed lack of uniformity of internal regulations regarding the implementation of the EZD PUW system and its operation in individual offices, both in case of implementation of fully electronic document workflow and in case of hybrid solutions. According to the researcher, such diversity of solutions translates into heterogeneity in the operation of offices themselves as well as in the documentation of their activities. According to the author, such a situation is undesirable in the field of public administration operations. Two main reasons for this state of affairs were indicated. The first is the applicability of the 2011 framework state regulations governing the organization of clerical work in public administration in Poland, which are not adapted to the current electronic office solutions. The second is the supervision policy on the part of the state archives with regard to the growing archival resource, inadequate to modern needs of an electronic chancellery. There are two appendices to the article, containing lists of internal regulations affecting the handling of records. Changing legal regulations, development of new, but disparate tools supporting records management, as well as the growing volume of electronic documentation produced, among other things, have made it necessary for state archives to develop appropriate methods for conducting archival audits. The purpose of this article is to assess the granularity of data regarding electronic records management, including electronic records produced and collected, as reflected in protocols from archival audits. Changes in the scope of logged data will also be addressed. Year 2011 was chosen as the starting point – it marks entry into force of the Prime Minister’s Ordinance of January 18, 2011, which defined the EDM system and regulated the possibility of electronic documentation management in consolidated government administration bodies on the voivodship level, voivodship self-government bodies, county bodies, bodies of municipalities and inter-municipal unions, as well as offices serving such bodies. Year 2019 is not the expiration date for the regulation itself, but due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, which arguably changed the landscape of the Polish archival foreground, it was considered an appropriate concluding point for the article.
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This paper investigates the stochastic resonance in nonlinear system driven by an additive signal-noise mixture. No exact analytical solution of the stochastic resonance equation has been found. It is usually solved approximately. In this paper, this equation is solved numerically. The noise dispersion under the stochastic resonance effect is determined. This study has convincingly shown that a weak signal could be amplified due to noise power and the output signal-to-noise ratio has a nonlinear dependence on the noise level. The results are applicable to radars in telecommunications and radio engineering.
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The main objective of the research is to measure the influence of information technologies, management practices, knowledge management and training on the financial performance of companies in the service sector. Non-experimentation in the design has been chosen, reaching the correlational level and it has been framed in the quantitative procedure. Official sources of secondary data were used, from the period 2011-2017. The results were obtained using panel data analysis, following the production function proposed by Cobb-Douglas, in addition, regressions have been used in the long-term analysis. Demonstrating through the results that making investments in IT allows obtaining better profitability indicators, as well as knowledge management moderates the relationship in the long and short term.
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This study examines the effectiveness of static and dynamic PV module models for solar energy gathering. The static design of the first solar panel is used, while the dynamic design of the second solar panel with a single-axis tracker is used. Finding the best model for capturing solar energy and turning it into electrical energy is the aim. Monitoring systems use IoT technologies. To detect variables including current, voltage, radiation, temperature, and humidity, the system has a number of sensors. The Thinger i.o program, coupled to the Arduino Uno used to control these sensors uses the Internet of Things (IoT) concept to evaluate and keep track of the outcomes of parameter measurements. As a result, the acquired measurement results can be viewed on the Thinger i.o application and checked remotely from any location. The three tests show that systems using dynamic ideas are better able to capture solar energy than static systems. The performance discrepancy is at its widest in the third test, when the dynamic system generates 14.4% more electrical energy than the static system.
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