Die Digitalisierung ist in aller Munde und mit ihr wächst auch der Forschungszweig der Digital Humanities (DH) an. Das beflügelt insofern, als man in den letzten Jahren eher den Rückgang der Geisteswissenschaften erleben musste und nicht deren Förderung und Ausweitung. Auf diese Art entstehen großartige Projekte, in denen nicht nur bekanntes Wissen neu aufbereitet, sondern auch bisher verborgenes erstmalig zur Verfügung gestellt werden kann und das oftmals frei zugänglich, anwenderfreundlich und neu verknüpft ist. Ein Medienwandel à la Erfindung des Buchdrucks scheint im Gange. Während also die Vorteile klar auf der Hand liegen, verschwinden die Kosten hinter der Euphorie. Neben den enormen Finanzmitteln, die Bund und Länder für die Digitalisierung aufwenden, erfordert dieser Prozess vor allem einen hohen Material- und Energiebedarf, der schon jetzt zu unüberschaubaren Auswirkungen auf Ökosysteme und damit auf die Menschen, die darin leben, führt. Auffällig ist dabei, dass – im globalen Vergleich – eine finanzielle Schwäche von Staaten in der Regel mit der Intensität nachteiliger Auswirkungen durch die Digitalisierung korreliert. Für die in dieser Arbeit untersuchten Negativfolgen drängt sich dann die Frage auf, ob die Industrie 4.0 nicht Gefahr läuft, ähnliche Muster zu bedienen, wie sie bereits aus der Kolonialgeschichte bekannt sind. Unter diesem Gesichtspunkt werden im Folgenden verschiedene Bereiche der Digitalisierung untersucht, von der Produktion der Geräte bis zur Partizipation am Wissensbestand, wobei mit Hilfe der Überlegungen der postcolonial studies der Kolonialbegriff auf die besonderen Umstände des aktuellen Zeitgeschehens übertragen wird.:1 Einleitung 3 2. Was ist und was macht DH? 4 2.1 Profil und Arbeitsweise 4 2.2 Beispiel: DH in der Germanistik 5 3 Warum Kolonialismus? 5 3.1 Kolonialismus – Begriffsklärung 5 3.2 Postkolonialismus 6 3.3 Ziel der Begriffsanwendung 7 4. Kritische Selbstreferenz innerhalb der Fachrichtung DH 8 5 Kehrseiten der Digitalisierung 10 5.1 Wissen 10 5.2 Nochmal: Double-Keying 11 5.3 Rohstoffe 12 5.3.1 Verbrauch 12 5.3.2 Beschaffung am Beispiel ‚seltene Erden‘ 13 5.4 Energie 15 5.5 Ökonomie 16 5.5.1 Die Manifestation globaler Ungleichgewichte 16 5.5.2 Beispiel: Umwelttechnik-Atlas für Deutschland 17 6. Schlussfolgerung 19 Literaturverzeichnis 20

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / Community Health Centers (CHCs) play a pivotal role in delivery of primary healthcare to the underserved, yet have not benefited from a modern data analytics platform that can support clinical, operational and financial decision making across the continuum of care. This research is based on a systems redesign collaborative of seven CHC organizations spread across Indiana to improve efficiency and access to care. Three research questions (RQs) formed the basis of this research, each of which seeks to address known knowledge gaps in the literature and identify areas for future research in health informatics. The first RQ seeks to understand the information needs to support operations at CHCs and implement an information architecture to support those needs. The second RQ leverages the implemented data infrastructure to evaluate how advanced analytics can guide open access scheduling – a specific use case of this research. Finally, the third RQ seeks to understand how the data can be visualized to support decision making among varying roles in CHCs. Based on the unique work and information flow needs uncovered at these CHCs, an end to-end analytics solution was designed, developed and validated within the framework of a rapid learning health system. The solution comprised of a novel heterogeneous longitudinal clinic data warehouse augmented with big data technologies and dashboard visualizations to inform CHCs regarding operational priorities and to support engagement in the systems redesign initiative. Application of predictive analytics on the health center data guided the implementation of open access scheduling and up to a 15% reduction in the missed appointment rates. Performance measures of importance to specific job profiles within the CHCs were uncovered. This was followed by a user-centered design of an online interactive dashboard to support rapid assessments of care delivery. The impact of the dashboard was assessed over time and formally validated through a usability study involving cognitive task analysis and a system usability scale questionnaire. Wider scale implementation of the data aggregation and analytics platform through regional health information networks could better support a range of health system redesign initiatives in order to address the national ‘triple aim’ of healthcare.

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Lack of access prevents many from benefiting from educational resources. Digital technologies now enable educational resources, such as books, to be openly available to those with access to the Internet. This study examined the financial viability of a religious publisher's putting free digital versions of eight of its books on the Internet. The total cost of putting these books online was $940.00. Over a 10-week period these books were downloaded 102,256 times and print sales of these books increased 26%. Comparisons with historical book sales and sales of comparable titles suggest a positive but modest connection between this increase and the online availability of the free books. This dissertation may be downloaded for free at http://etd.byu.edu.

This Master thesis is about building-related public art as future cultural heritage and its management, preservation, and digital accessibility from a value perspective. Furthermore, the aim is to develop proposals for a management model and public tools that could benefit the accessibility of public art and thus also its preservation. A management model that provides an overview of management objects of public art and that can be shared with the public to create understanding, participation, and interaction. The thesis includes a critical report on the planning of a GIS project. GIS is a geographic information system, it provides tools for creating, editing, and analyzing data.The purpose of the critical report is to highlight that GIS can be used in an easily way but also requires a critically reflexive approach. The approach in the GIS project is critical, interdisciplinary and the mapping is based on cultural presence as a method. The result shows that geographic Information Systems (GIS) is a useful tool and can be easily use with the free ArcGIS software. There is some of the areas that GIS users need to handle as risk analysis, legislation, interdisciplinary and intercultural perspective. It is important that the material created with GIS is shared with the public to create understanding, participation, and interaction. Thus, it is relevant to contextualize the content from a historical perspective and in relation to the present and the target group. Therefore, is important to keep in mind that norms and values change over time and that making the material available can mean reaching a global audience, an intercultural approach could be beneficial.

The purpose of this paper is to examine if employees at Swedish higher education libraries recommend shadow libraries, also known as Black Open Access, to its patrons as an alternative way to find information. We also want to see if there are any common patterns in the attitudes towards shadow libraries in general as well as the usage of them. Data was collected via a web based survey that yielded 239 responses. We found that only a small minority of employees had ever recommended the usage of shadow libraries to patrons and that few situations usually allow opportunities to recommend them. The results also show three themes of attitudes: 1) Employees with no degree in library and/or information sciences and that were already familiar with shadow libraries were most likely to agree with the opinion that information should not be treated as a commodity. 2) Employees with shorter working experience, were already familiar with shadow libraries and previously had referred patrons to them were more likely to agree with the opinion that shadow libraries favor an open and democratic society. 3) Younger employees with a gender identity other than man or woman and that previously had referred patrons to shadow libraries were more likely to agree with the opinion that shadow libraries are an acceptable alternative information source

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The events of 9-11 resulted in a slew of policy, procedural, and organizational changes within many government departments as the U.S. government took many steps to enhance security to prevent future terrorist attacks. The emphasis on high threat targets by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and other government agencies, such as the White House, the Capitol and Congressional office buildings, major infrastructure and facilities within US cities, airline travel, ports and economic supply chains has generated a great deal of debate and attention. There are however, targets that are considered low risk situated in high threat areas that also provide open access to the public for which security professionals are responsible that should not be overlooked during the War on Terror. The question is how low risk targets in high threat areas should be protected? What resource distribution makes sense? What practices should be applied to achieve security? The purpose of this research is to look at one of these targets, the Smithsonian Institution and how the Smithsonian Institution's Office of Protection Services (SI OPS) responded to the terror attacks of 9-11 and the ongoing threat. Four factors will be examined: (1) the screening process, (2) the budget, (3) the security policy formulation process, and (4) training. The study focus is based on data derived from semi-structured interviews and a review of SI documents. Examining post 9-11 security changes allows one to see how SI OPS has evolved in its attempt to meet both internal security demands and expectations against an external security concern. The findings reveal SI OPS initially underwent significant changes within the four factors in the three years following the attacks of 9-11. However, limited resources and manpower strains have played major roles in the subsequent decline in some of the factors after their initial increases. Although a return to the security levels immediately following 9-11 may not be imminent, it is recommended that OPS management make stronger efforts to communicate with non-security managers and return to more stringent visitor screening procedures. / Ph. D.

Yes / Social media platforms such as Twitter have allowed for a substantial increase in collaboration between academics, allowing access to information and advice from one side of the world to the other. This is especially true among both archaeologists and zooarchaeologists, who often turn to Twitter with faunal bones that they have been unable to identify so that another pair of zooarchaeological eyes can help. In many cases, Twitter has allowed access to reference collections that would have otherwise been inaccessible due to distance and monetary reasons. Based on numerous experiences in using the zooarchaeology community on Twitter to successfully identify archaeofaunal bones, this paper proposes that the next logical step for continuing collaboration among zooarchaeologists to is to develop an international digital database of faunal bone references, crowdsourced from reference collections of zooarchaeologists and institutions around the world. This database could bring zooarchaeology into the Open Access movement that will arguably define the future of archaeology in the digital world.

The author describes how a requirement that our graduate students deposit theses and dissertations into our institutional repository (SOAR) helped to build our online scholarship, educate and strengthen graduate students’ identities as scholars, and forge relationships with the library. Taking advantage of the synergy brought about by a new open access policy, a robust digital repository, and library staff committed to advancing accessible scholarly works, we developed ways to educate, encourage, and promote our newest scholars. Based upon our success thus far, we will develop workshops and tutorials that will be extended to junior faculty to advance their scholarly success.