Information and Documentation for Individuals

Information design for cultural documentation

Digital cultural repositories contain digital surrogates of cultural objects, objects born digital, or documentation data. The latter comprise data (or ‘metadata’) about physical or informational objects, as well as about the various related processes, such as acquisition, recording, digitization, research, conservation, exhibition, publication, etc. Interoperability of the different, autonomou...

Electronic Information Security Documentation

Effective security management depends upon good risk management, which is itself based upon a reliable risk assessment, involving data collection of all the facets influencing system risk. Such data collection is often an extremely onerous task, particularly if a substantial proportion of the required information is not adequately documented. Hence comprehensive, updated information security do...

Building Information Modelling and Heritage Documentation

Despite the widespread adoption of building information modelling (BIM) for the design and lifecycle management of new buildings, very little research has been undertaken to explore the value of BIM in the management of heritage buildings and cultural landscapes. To that end, we are investigating the construction of BIMs that incorporate both quantitative assets (intelligent objects, performanc...

A Documentation and Information Assistant for Product Development Processes

Engineering processes are increasingly performed in teams by different distributed people including suppliers or external service providers. The engineering tasks are supported by a variety of IT tools like CAD, CAE, office or PDM systems. However these IT applications do not offer any assistance in documenting the engineering processes with all their complex background information like decisio...

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