Engineers Pledge Support for Archeological Preservation

The ISIS Bandwagon: Under What Conditions Do Groups Pledge Support?

UK pledge for funding boost

This approach has been talked about, but people didn't take it seriously But Wimmer did make something that evoked the word that assures stories prominent play: 'terrorism'. As the Independent wrote, '[T]hey wanted to show how easily lethal diseases could be developed by bioterrorists. In principle it would be possible to use the same procedure to make far deadlier but more complex viruses, suc...

Product taxonomy and web directory as support for ontology engineers

This paper presents our attempt to build a text mining tool for collecting specific words – verbs in our case – that usually occur together with particular product category. These verbs could be used as a support for ontology designers in creating relations between entities and concepts. As the ontologies are headstone for the success of the semantic web, our effort is focused on building small...

Scalable decision support for digital preservation

Purpose – Preservation environments such as repositories need scalable and context-aware preservation planning and monitoring capabilities to ensure continued accessibility of content over time. This article identifies a number of gaps in the systems and mechanisms currently available and presents a new, innovative architecture for scalable decision-making and control in such environments. Desi...

Hoppla - Digital Preservation Support for Small Institutions

Small businesses (small office/home office, SOHO) have tremendous amounts of digital information. At the same time, they have little to no expertise on how to manage it, not to mention caring for their long-term preservation, as even simple back-up strategies pose already drastic challenges. This demo presents the Hoppla archiving system to provide digital preservation solutions specifically fo...