Welcome to the 30th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-30). The HICSS Conference is an annual forum for the presentation and discussion of refereed papers in selected areas of system sciences. Topics covered in this year’s conference include architecture, advanced technology, digital documents, information systems, and software technology. HICSS is sponsored by the Univer...

This paper documents the work of the IP Datacast Forum. This Forum has studied the datacasting concept, specifically the complementary implementation of telephony and broadcast technologies, from initial ideas to the development of key specifications. The process has involved the development of basic business and technical models to aid understanding of the potential service capabilities. The f...

The Amistad Research Center, in collaboration with the Shorefront Legacy Center, the South Asian American Digital Archive, Mukurtu, and the Inland Empire Memories Project of the University of CaliforniaRiverside, requests $100,000 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services National (IMLS) Forum Grants program to host a series of forums that will focus on community archives integration in...

The focus of this paper is to design an efficient indexing structure for spatial-temporal-textual data in a digital library environment. Along with traditional document collections, modern digital libraries contain forum discussions, bolg-posts, user provided URLs, and many other digital artifacts. All of these artifacts have time stamps, most of these artifacts have textual description, and so...

Entrepreneurial action is increasingly associated with innovation ecosystems because no firm alone can render the complex and interdependent services demanded in markets. Moreover, entrepreneurial firms are increasingly instigators of innovation ecosystems, rather than merely participants. However, particularly in the pursuit of radical innovation, a question arises as to how an entrepreneurial...

This special issue presents a collection of papers written by participants in the Doctoral Consortium of the 2011 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), held in Ottawa, Canada. This event brought together Ph.D. students engaged in digital library research from around the world to present and discuss their work with an Advisory Panel of international experts. The aim of the annua...

New technologies and materials enable the physical form of display surfaces to become dynamic in terms of shape and movement. This enables devices to form a more intimate relationship with software data and the user’s environment. The research area of actuated interfaces aims at leveraging these qualities to enhance interaction with and representation of digital information, as well as creating...

The inclusion of ICT for educational purposes has burgeoned over the past decade. However, preliminary investigations indicate that e-learning systems remain underutilized, including systems such as discussion forums. The purpose of this study is to establish constructs that may promote adoption and use of discussion forums. The Technology Acceptance Model forms the theoretical framework for th...

In this chapter, we examine how people of African descent are using an online discussion forum as a site for interrogating the existential question of “who am I?”. Contrary to the typical formulations of the digital divide as a measure of disparity in access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), we make a case for how and why ICTs are being effectively used to enable and advance...