Showing papers on "Digital transformation published in 2006"

Innovation diffusion in global contexts: determinants of post-adoption digital transformation of European companies

Abstract: Grounded in the diffusion of innovation theory and the technology–organization–environment framework, we develop an integrative model to study the determinants of post-adoption stages of innovation diffusion, using enterprise digital transformation as an example of technology-enabled innovations. We specify four innovation characteristics (relative advantage, compatibility, costs and security concern) and four contextual factors (technology competence, organization size, competitive pressure and partner readiness) as determinants of post-adoption usage, and postulate usage as an intermediate link to impact on firm performance. We test the proposed model using a dataset of 1415 companies from six European countries. We find that the innovation needs to be used extensively in value-chain activities before its impact can be realized. Among the innovation characteristics, we find that compatibility is the strongest driver, and security concern outweighs cost as a usage inhibitor. Among the contextual variables, technology competence, partner readiness and competitive pressure significantly drive e-business usage, and the structural inertia of large firms tends to slow down its penetration. Collectively, these results indicate that innovation diffusion can be better understood by including both innovation characteristics and contextual factors, whereas earlier literature has traditionally treated the two separately. Finally, we evaluate an international dimension among European countries and tease out important boundary conditions that would not have been evident in a single-country dataset. Our results show that careful attention must be paid to the economic and regulatory factors that may result in uneven innovation diffusion even among developed European countries.

DigEuLit: Concepts and Tools for Digital Literacy Development

Abstract: In the e-permeated society, a society also increasingly unpredictable and uncertain, “digital literacy” becomes not only a key factor in enabling participation in education, as well as employment a...

Digital library use: Social practice in design and evaluation

Abstract: Introducing a new hobby for other people may inspire them to join with you. Reading, as one of mutual hobby, is considered as the very easy hobby to do. But, many people are not interested in this hobby. Why? Boring is the reason of why. However, this feel actually can deal with the book and time of you reading. Yeah, one that we will refer to break the boredom in reading is choosing digital library use social practice in design and evaluation as the reading material.

Reaching and Teaching the Digital Natives

Abstract: Purpose – The higher education community is facing a new generation of students – the “Digital Natives”. They are the first generation born into a world of pervasive digital technology. They think and learn differently than the “Digital Immigrants” who are teaching them and educators today should be aware of these differences and how this knowledge can be utilized to create a more effective learning environment.Purpose – The purpose is to provide a description of the new generation of students in higher education, “Digital Natives” and their technology needs.Design/methodology/approach – A summary of the characteristics of “Digital Natives.”Findings – This article provides an overview of who are the “Digital Natives” and their influence on technologies used to support learning environments.Originality/value – This paper is useful for information management professionals who seek greater understanding of the ever‐changing student population in higher education.

METS: standardized encoding for digital library objects

Abstract: METS is an XML document format intended for the encoding of complex objects within digital libraries. It provides the means to record all of the descriptive, administrative, structural and behavioral metadata needed to manage and provide access to complex digital content. While it was designed to promote interoperability of digital content between digital library systems and contribute to the preservation of digital library materials, a variety of practical barriers to achieving these goals remain. However, many of these obstacles are shared by other communities of practice, such as the eLearning community working on the IMS content packaging standards and the MPEG-21 community, and the digital library community faces a unique opportunity at the moment to work closely with others to try to improve the interoperability of our content not only with our own repository systems, but those being used by others.

Scholarly Communication and the Digital Library: Problems and Issues

Abstract: This paper considers a range of definitions for a digital library from the perspective of scholarly communication and the properties of a traditional research library. It then explores some of the problems and issues involved in creating and maintaining a digital library, depending on the characteristics one wants it to have. The paper stresses the need to consider the requirements of scholarship and research as we build the digital libraries of the future.

Literacy and the digital knowledge revolution

Abstract: Although literacy is based on mastering a series of technical and cultural skills, such as reading, writing, numeracy, and media proficiency, these skills do not in themselves amount to literacy As brought forth more and more by research, literacy is fundamentally situated and determined by the cultural, political, and historical contexts of the communities in which it is activated However, with the new digital knowledge contexts, within which 21st century skills are being deployed, literacy, and therefore education, is facing a major challenge The evolving digital technologies are not only transforming the access, they are also fostering new approaches to knowledge, new knowledge architectures, new knowledge ethics, new accountability requirements and assessments These new emerging issues for education will be described as part of the ongoing digital knowledge revolution

Digital Libraries: Integrating Content and Systems

Abstract: Introduction Enabling technologies The role of standards in digital library integration Authentication, identity management and security Interfacing with integrated library systems Electronic resource management Digital asset management Integration with content providers Library portals Conclusion: digital libraries and the library organisation.

Podcasts--an emerging form of digital publishing.

Abstract: Podcasting has recently emerged as an important information technology tool for health professionals and consumers around the world. Prestigious journals, international conferences, universities and government agencies among other entities are starting to publish digital informotion via audio and video podcasts. Podcosting is distinguished from other forms of digital audio-video content because it can be subscribed to (using Real Simple Syndication or RSS) and easily accessed from a personal computer. Further, it can be downloaded to a mobile device, such as an iPod where the user is able to listen to or watch it anywhere, anytime. Podcosting is used in new and evolving ways to publish information for healthcare education, patient care, professional continuing education, and in support of healthcare research. In addition to a description of what podcasting is, how podcasts are created, and how they are used, this paper addresses four critical issues that are emerging concerning podcasts. These issues are intellectual property and copyright, podcast preservation, podcast location, and podcast standards. As podcasting matures and new uses are discovered, we will see podcasting incorporated into our education, research and patient care publication paradigm.

Digital Alchemy: Matter and Metamorphosis in Contemporary Digital Animation and Interface Design

Abstract: The recent proliferation of special effects in Hollywood film has ushered in an era of digital transformation. Among scholars, digital technology is hailed as a revolutionary moment in the history of communication and representation. Nevertheless, media scholars and cultural historians have difficulty finding a language adequate to theorizing digital artifacts because they are not just texts to be deciphered. Rather, digital media artifacts also invite critiques about the status of reality because they resurrect ancient problems of embodiment and transcendence.In contrast to scholarly approaches to digital technology, computer engineers, interface designers, and special effects producers have invented a robust set of terms and phrases to describe the practice of digital animation. In order to address this disconnect between producers of new media and scholars of new media, I argue that the process of digital animation borrows extensively from a set of preexisting terms describing materiality that were prominent for centuries prior to the scientific revolution. Specifically, digital animators and interface designers make use of the ancient science, art, and technological craft of alchemy. Both alchemy and digital animation share several fundamental elements: both boast the power of being able to transform one material, substance, or thing into a different material, substance, or thing. Both seek to transcend the body and materiality but in the process, find that this elusive goal (realism and gold) is forever receding onto the horizon.The introduction begins with a literature review of the field of digital media studies. It identifies a gap in the field concerning disparate arguments about new media technology. On the one hand, scholars argue that new technologies like cyberspace and digital technology enable radical new forms of engagement with media on individual, social, and economic levels. At the same time that media scholars assert that our current epoch is marked by a historical rupture, many other researchers claim that new media are increasingly characterized by ancient metaphysical problems like embodiment and transcendence. In subsequent chapters I investigate this disparity.

Collection Development in a digital environment: an imperative for information organizations in the twenty‐first century

Abstract: Purpose – This paper discusses the topic of Collection Development in a digital environment. Developing digital collections is a logical consequence of inserting information technologies in organizations. The usual route towards other models of libraries has allowed the development of the digital collections as a source of Digital Libraries.Design/methodology/approach – This paper is based on the development of a user‐oriented concept of digital collections.Findings – The current information society requires Collection Development to guarantee suitable resources in information organizations.Originality/value – The authors provide a new way of looking at the development of digital collections. In this paper the authors propose a cycle to create a digital collection starting from the established precepts for traditional Collection Development. The creation process is supplemented with an analysis of the term Collection Development starting from the user's focus.

International Training and the Digital Divide: Computer and Email Use in the Philippines

Abstract: We describe digital technology utilization among knowledge producers who have experienced the alternative training structures. Using data from a face-to-face survey of Filipino scientists, we measure email utilization by scientists in terms of five aspects of access and use, and examine how they vary across place of graduate education. Our questions are: (1) How can we characterize peripheral scientists in terms of their contextual, personal, professional, and educational attributes? (2) How can we characterize their utilization of digital technology? (3) Are there indications that core-based graduate training translates into yet another significant dimension in digital inequality? Our finding suggests that the Philippine scientific system largely reflects the perspective of core-trained male scientists. Filipino scientists are able to utilize digital technology—personal computers, email, and the World Wide Web—but with important qualifications. While scientists at the core have the luxury of architectural, digital, and personal privacy in hardware-software-user interaction, such is not the case for Filipino scientists, who in general have to share digital resources in public spaces within formal organizations. Finally, place of graduation emerges as a new form shaping digital utilization and inequality. The diffusion of digital technology into peripheral scientific systems has been uneven along this newly emerging dimension. Digital inequality construed as simple hardware-software access and use is diminishing, but inequality at the level of advanced hardware-software interaction skills is fast emerging as a new dimension that encapsulates postcolonial relations in science.

Digital librarians: boundary riders on the storm

Abstract: Purpose – This paper aims to examine the strategic role that digital librarians increasingly play within their institutions and attempts to identify the defining skills and personal attributes that are required to fulfill this emerging role.Design/methodology/approach – The paper reviews existing definitions of the digital librarian, not just in the context of digital developments within the library domain, but in the wider context of education and scholarship in the digital age.Findings – Existing definitions focusing on the technical skill set do not go far enough. In addition, successful digital librarians must forge partnerships and communicate effectively across professional boundaries, thereby enabling them to apply their knowledge of information management and information literacy training in all areas of their institutions.Originality/value – The paper takes a fresh look at the changing role of the academic librarian and will be of particular interest to librarians working in all areas of education.

Interacting with information resources: digital libraries for education

Abstract: This paper reviews the capabilities of libraries for supporting learning. We consider the various roles traditional libraries play and how they are being transformed into digital information repositories. Effective strategies for deploying Digital Libraries (DLs) will retain the strengths of traditional libraries while exploiting new possibilities offered by the digital medium.

Cartographic heritage as shared experience in virtual space: A digital representation of the earth globe of Gerard Mercator (1541)

Abstract: Summary The departing point of this paper is the idea that cartographic heritage is cultural heritage. Therefore, but for its own demands as well, cartography faces certain needs to realize this idea. The form of cartographic presentation that should help us to illustrate such a realization shall be the globe. Globes can represent not only cartographic heritage, but the digital state of the art as well. The intended illustration will be done in the framework of a project, which was partly dedicated to the digital transformation in facsimile (facsimilation) of the earth globe of Gerard Mercator of 1541. Tracing this project will help to show one way of a cartographic heritage's administration by digital means. At the end of this way we will see a virtual, three- dimensional facsimile that is interactive accessible and open to the public.

Long‐term preservation of digital humanities scholarship

Abstract: Purpose – To inform digital humanists about digital preservation metadata requirements and to inform digital librarians about the dynamic, multimedia content of digital humanities research and teaching resources that needs to be addressed by digital preservation initiatives.Design/methodology/approach – Literature‐based review of the issues.Findings – Tools to facilitate automatic and semi‐automatic capture, collection, and creation of digital preservation metadata are crucially needed to ensure long‐term preservation of digital humanities scholarship.Practical implications – Without tools to capture and create the majority of the metadata recommended to ensure long‐term preservation of and access to digital resources, the born‐digital multimedia resources created by humanities scholars are in danger of becoming unusable in the long term, nullifying years of scholarship and millions of dollars of investment by scholars, institutions, and funding organizations.Originality/value – Provides current informati...

The web‐internet compound as the infrastructure of digital government

Abstract: Purpose – To provide the framework for digital government in its e‐government and e‐democracy aspects.Design/methodology/approach – Using the aspects‐and‐opportunities framework of the internet‐web compound, the nodal aspects of the continuing and potential technologically‐based change known as digital government are discussed. Reallocation of certain government functions to the market becomes newly attractive economically in the presence of the web as marketplace. The web as a broadly accessible medium and a forum offers new opportunities in digital democracy. The utilitarian aspects of the internet‐web, those of the universal telecommunications network, delivery vehicle, and a common development platform, render the compound a new societal infrastructure, with the consequent benefits and exposures. The opportunities, as well as vulnerabilities, need to be the focus of information specialists as technologists and as citizens.Findings – Opportunities are surfaced to reallocate the functions of e‐governmen...

From Digital Divide to Digital Opportunity

Abstract: With the new developments in industrial pattern and global division of labor in the information age, the digital divide caused by unbalanced development is gradually emerging. Libraries are vital to eliminate digital divide. With information resources on high-speed networks, libraries will play a more eminent role in information literacy and turning the digital divide to the digital opportunity.

Public policies against the digital divide: a necessary adaptation to different degrees of development

Abstract: The notion of the digital divide encompasses many different dimensions. As a matter of fact, more than digital divide, we should talk about digital divides. Access to ICTs and usage are the two variables that determine the width of the divide. The adequate consideration of these two factors is, thus, necessary in any public programme focusing on fighting against the digital divide. The purpose of this article is to move forward in the understanding of what the digital divide implies according to the level of development of the different countries and, from that point, to analyse the challenges they must face and the different paths they can take to go beyond them.

Learning by building digital libraries

Abstract: The implications of using digital library software in educational contexts, for both students and software developers, are discussed using two case studies of students building digital libraries.

Factors motivating use of digital libraries

Abstract: Knowledge about how users use digital libraries and their contents is inextricably tied to a library's ability to sustain itself, grow its services and meet the needs of its users. This paper reports on the preliminary results of a study of how science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) instructors perceive and use digital libraries. Preliminary findings indicate that: they do not differentiate between digital libraries and other kinds of content that comes from the web, they seek content to supplement traditional teaching methods and their reliance on Google and personal networks impedes their ability to recall the primary sources of useful content.

What do young people need to know about digital media

Abstract: article offers a rationale for the notion of «digital literacy» in education. Pointing to some of the limitations of previous proposals in this field, it outlines a framework based on four key con- cepts drawn from media education. It applies these concepts to the World Wide Web and to com- puter games, and discusses the role of digital media production by students in developing digital literacy. The article emphasises the importance of developing critical approaches to digital media as a necessary prerequisite for using them as resources for learning.

The rise of the digital technology ‘Meritocracy’: Legal rules and their impact

Abstract: For many thousands of years, human beings have used various technologies to record thoughts and ideas. The technology used has, over time, become increasingly complex. Today, we use complex digital technologies such as computers. The increasing complexity of technology requires that individuals have increasingly high levels of skill in using such technology. However, many of the abilities of right holders to use digital technology are no longer related to the use of technology to create works. Increasingly, it is focusing around the ability of individuals to circumvent Digital Rights Management (DRM) mechanisms. Both digital technology and legal rules are the cause of this. A solution to the problem might be for legal rules to turn copyright from a ‘negative right not to copy’ into a ‘positive right to copy’.

Digital information contexts: theoretical approaches to understanding digital information

Abstract: The meaning of information Librarianship and print culture Digital information, science and the social sciences Digital information and computer science Digital information, language and representation Digital information and semiotics Digital information and post-structuralism Digital information and post-modernism Digital information and complexity Understanding digital information.

Digital Electronic Technology and Its Application In Computer Major

Abstract: Digital electronic technology is a major of computer subject.It is used not only in electronic computer,electronic survey,instrument,communication, and automatic control field,but also in our dairy life.So in order to let students know this knowledge,we should make new adjustment from the feature of digital circuit and classification so that we can adapt the training of students' practical ability.

The need for a digital library service registry

Abstract: Purpose – To examine how a digital library service registry will help enable the development of distributed, service‐based digital libraries.Design/methodology/approach – A discussion of recent efforts in building service registries, the key components for a digital library service registry, and the need for a reference model for building distributed digital libraries.Findings – By building a reference model, digital library system development can move forward so that digital libraries become less silos of information and more interoperating collections of distributed servicesOriginality/value – Provides ideas for digital library developers and implementers, especially those looking for increasing collaboration and interactivity in digital libraries.

Perpustakaan Digital: Paradigma, Konsep dan Teknologi Informasi yang Digunakan

Abstract: The concept of digital library express library service and collection in physically. Digital library is analogue of traditional library in the case of miscellaneous and complexity of collection, its contents must be in the form of electronic media, kept in the ordinary form to be seen. Digital library needs management process and scheme of new organization. The success of using other digital technology and internet for the coordination of alliance both of them and electronic commerce, library have to check and test and also design the overall process that exist in library. Digital technology and digital process are special activator factors of revolution that happened on information technology area especially in other information institute and library.

User education at the digital library: physical and intellectual access to information through digital literacy

Abstract: Introduction The Digital Library provides physical access to a vast variety of information resources. However, giving users physical access to information does not guarantee that they become informed (Buckland 1991). If at the same time, we look upon libraries as learning centres (see Tonning this volume), the Digital Library can play an equally central role in helping them gain “intellectual access” (Buckland 1991) to information. In this chapter, we discuss how information and digital literacy education can facilitate the user’s intellectual access to information. The chapter presents how the University of Bergen Library (hereafter UBL), in collaboration with three other Scandinavian higher education libraries, has developed online learning objects for the virtual classroom to help students improve their digital and information literacy. More specifically, the learning objects have been designed to help students with their information search process and use of information sources in their writing process. This chapter is organised as follows. Firstly we outline why and how the learning objects came about, with a focus on the pedagogical framework and learning goals underlying the production of materials. Secondly, the learning objects are described. Subsequently, an overview of the first stages of the implementation process is provided, which highlights the collaboration between library and faculty. Finally, the conclusion summarises the main points in planning digital and information literacy user education at the Digital Library.

THE JUMP OF DIGITAL DESIGN THINKING: Overviews of Digital Architectural Design Education

Abstract: Architecture design education is evolved in respond to the emergence of information technologies as well as globalization. In the new era, digital design education is becoming a design platform to integrate technology and design. This paper aims to provide overviews of digital architectural design education. Therefore, this paper proposes a framework to examine the focus of digital design education and the relationship among (1) design contents, (2) digital technologies and tools, and (3) design theory and methodologies in digital design studios. The attempts in National Cheng Kung University in the past 10 years provide the foundation for observation and discussion. The pedagogy and approaches are examined, and the trend and potential directions are reported.