Η δημιουργία, παρουσίαση και ανταλλαγή της πληροφορίας όπως, επίσης, και η συλλογή, οργάνωση και αποθήκευση των μέσων πληροφορίας είναι εργασίες που επιτελούνται από τον άνθρωπο από τον καιρό της ύπαρξής του. Αυτό που καθιστά το πρόβλημα μεγαλύτερο και δυσκολότερο για την σημερινή κοινωνία της πληροφορίας είναι η διαχείριση της ποσότητας της πληροφορίας σε ψηφιακή μορφή (ψηφιακό περιεχόμενο), η ταχύτητα με την οποία αναπαράγεται και οι τρόποι με τους οποίους παρουσιάζεται, ανταλλάσσεται, οργανώνεται και αποθηκεύεται. Η εδραίωση του Παγκόσμιου Ιστού έχει επηρεάσει δραματικά όλες αυτές τις δραστηριότητες παρέχοντάς μας νέα εργαλεία και μορφές διαχείρισης και διάθεσης ψηφιακού υλικού. Τόσο η δημιουργία ψηφιακού περιεχομένου από έναν συνεχώς αυξανόμενο αριθμό αναλογικών και ψηφιακών πηγών όσο και η ανάγκη αναπαράστασής του σε μια ατέλειωτη λίστα διαφορετικών μορφών και τύπων έχουν μεταβάλλει σε πολύ μεγάλο βαθμό τους τρόπους της διαχείρισής του. Στις μέρες μας, οργανισμοί με μεγάλο όγκο ψηφιακού υλικού προβάλλουν και διανέμουν το υλικό τους μέσω του Παγκόσμιου Ιστού εμπλουτίζοντας και προεκτείνοντας τις ηλεκτρονικές τους υπηρεσίες και εφαρμογές αξιοποιώντας τα δίκτυα υπολογιστών. Κάτι τέτοιο απαιτεί την ολοκλήρωση εξειδικευμένων πληροφοριακών συστημάτων στην επιχειρησιακή λογική ενός οργανισμού καθώς και την ορθή του χρήση και υποστήριξη από ειδικό προσωπικό. Τα συστήματα αυτά αποτελούν έναν καθοριστικό παράγοντα για τη μελλοντική ανάπτυξη ενός οργανισμού ενώ εγγυώνται και διασφαλίζουν τις οικονομικές του επενδύσεις. Ωστόσο, ο Παγκόσμιος Ιστός αποτελεί ένα ιδιαίτερα εχθρικό περιβάλλον όσον αφορά θέματα ασφάλειας, πλήττοντας άμεσα την εμπορική (ή μη) εκμετάλλευση του διακινούμενου ψηφιακού περιεχομένου. Σε κάθε περίπτωση, οι οργανισμοί οφείλουν να αντιμετωπίσουν όλες εκείνες τις προκλήσεις που προέρχονται από τα ανοιχτά θέματα ασφάλειας του Διαδικτύου ακριβώς επειδή αυτά μπορούν να προκαλέσουν απώλειες μεγάλου όγκου δεδομένων, να οδηγήσουν σε οικονομική καταστροφή ή/και να αμαυρώσουν το κύρος και την αξιοπιστία του οργανισμού προς το ευρύ κοινό. Στόχος της παρούσας εργασίας είναι η ενδελεχής παρουσίαση πληροφοριακών Συστημάτων Διαχείρισης Ψηφιακών Αντικειμένων (Digital Asset Management Systems – DAMS). Στο 1ο από τα 2 μέρη της, παρουσιάζουμε την αρχιτεκτονική τέτοιων συστημάτων, τις υποδομές πάνω στις οποίες στηρίζονται και υλοποιούνται, τις υπηρεσίες και εφαρμογές που παρέχουν καθώς και τους τρόπους ολοκλήρωσής τους με άλλα πληροφοριακά συστήματα καθώς και με το Διαδίκτυο. Στο 2ο μέρος περιγράφουμε το λεπτομερή σχεδιασμό και την υλοποίηση ενός ανθεκτικού αρχιτεκτονικού μοντέλου ασφάλειας για Internet-based DAMS. Αναπτύσσουμε τις βασικές λειτουργικές προδιαγραφές και απαιτήσεις ασφάλειας με βάση τις οποίες κάναμε το σχεδιασμό. Επιπλέον, περιγράφουμε όλες εκείνες τις κρυπτογραφικές αρχές και τεχνολογίες που χρησιμοποιούμε για να πετύχουμε ασφάλεια στα διαχειριζόμενα δεδομένα και ασφαλή αλληλεπίδραση χρηστών με το μοντέλο μας σε διαδικτυακά συνεργατικά περιβάλλοντα. Τέλος, παρέχουμε μια υλοποίηση ενός πρωτοτύπου για Internet-based DAMS το οποίο στηρίζεται πάνω στο αρχιτεκτονικό μας μοντέλο και αναλύουμε όλα τα τεχνικά ζητήματα που ανακύπτουν. / Information creation, presentation and exchange, but also the collection, organization and storage of information carriers, is an old craft. What makes the problem different in today's information society is the amount of information in digital form (digital content) that has to be handled, the speed at which it is produced and the ways that it is presented, exchanged, organized and stored. The advent of the World Wide Web has tremendously affected all these activities, giving us new tools and ways for harnessing digital material. Its creation from an ever-increasing number of analog and digital sources and the need for representing it into an endless list of different types and formats influences dramatically the ways of its management. Nowadays, rich-media organizations tend to exhibit and distribute their material over Internet by extending their electronic services and applications into computer networks. This task requires specialized information systems and also skilled staff to use, maintain and integrate them into the organization's business logic. Adoption of such systems is a critical factor for future economic growth and return on investment (ROI). However, Internet increases the vulnerability of digital content commercial (or not) exploitation since it is a possibly hostile environment. In any case, organizations have to deal with all the open security challenges that can cause huge data and financial losses, harm their reputation and strictly affect people's trust on them. In the present work we describe the design and implementation of a secure and robust architectural model for digital asset management. Usage and exploitation of the World Wide Web is a critical requirement for a series of administrative tasks such as collecting, managing and distributing valuable assets. Our model addresses a list of fundamental operational and security requirements. It utilizes a number of cryptographic primitives and techniques that provide data safety and secure user interaction on especially demanding on-line collaboration environments. We provide a reference implementation of our architectural model and discuss the technical issues. It is designed as a standalone solution but it can be flexibly adapted in broader management infrastructures as well as existing DAMS platforms.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-14T12:36:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 4484678 bytes, checksum: 07ef67519a9b72fcf80724948f89a605 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-08-24 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / The increased production of digital assets in enterprise environments makes digital asset management an increasingly complex task, since we must make use of well-defined metadata, so that you can easily find and use assets from different repositories. However, obtaining a standardized model that cover the peculiarities of all involved, is usually a highly complex task due to heterogeneity between the models. In addition, is considered the fact that existing solutions specialize in solving part of the problem, leaving a gap in the other phases of the integration process. Thus, for the development of this dissertation was proposed, implemented and evaluated a service framework for metadata interoperability that aims to encompass most of the workflow of digital asset management integration process. This framework aims to bring together and complement existing solutions, providing support to semi-automatic identification of correlations between elements of metadata models and a component-based architecture responsible for the dynamic generation of meta-models, which in turn will aggregate the result of the correlation analysis and serve as a unified language, enabling interoperability between digital assets repositories, regardless the metadata standard used by each one. Lastly, the work validation was conducted by performing an experiment using a proof of concept applied to a scenario involving heterogeneous models of digital asset management real systems. The objective of experiment was perform an assessment of quality of the automatically mapping obtained. The result was accuracy up to 98% within the universe of elements that had at least an correlation suggestion, which occurred in 66% of the elements of the models. / O crescimento da produção de ativos digitais dentro de ambientes corporativos torna o gerenciamento de ativos digitais uma tarefa cada vez mais complexa, visto que é preciso fazer uso de metadados bem definidos, de maneira que seja possível localizar e utilizar facilmente ativos provenientes de diferentes repositórios. Entretanto, obter um modelo padronizado, que atenda às peculiaridades de todos os envolvidos, é normalmente uma tarefa altamente complexa, devido às heterogeneidades existentes entre os modelos. Adiciona-se ainda o fato de que as soluções existentes se especializam em resolver uma parte do problema, deixando uma lacuna nas demais fases do processo de integração. Sendo assim, para o desenvolvimento dessa dissertação, foi proposto, implementado e avaliado um framework de serviços que visa contemplar a maior parte do fluxo de trabalho do processo de integração entre sistemas de gerenciamento de ativos digitais. Esse framework visa reunir e complementar soluções já existentes, disponibilizando os recursos necessários para apoiar a identificação das correlações entre elementos dos modelos de metadados e fornecendo uma arquitetura baseada em componentes responsáveis pela geração dinâmica de meta-modelos, que por sua vez irão agregar o resultado da análise das correlações e servirão como uma linguagem unificada, possibilitando a interoperabilidade entre os repositórios de ativos digitais, independentemente do padrão de metadados utilizado por cada um. A validação do trabalho foi realizada através da execução de um experimento utilizando uma prova de conceito aplicada a um cenário envolvendo modelos heterogêneos de sistemas de gerenciamento de ativos digitais reais. O objetivo do experimento foi realizar uma avaliação da qualidade do mapeamento fornecido automaticamente. Como resultado foi obtido um índice de acerto de até 98% dentro do universo dos elementos que obtiveram ao menos uma sugestão de correlação, o que ocorreu para 66% dos elementos dos modelos.

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Just like the rest of society, the use of digital technology has throughout the years become a more crucial part for train companies to improve performance, meet customer demands, improve operation and maintenance processes to increase efficiency and reliability. These solutions have through time developed to become part of a cluster named Digital Asset Management (DAM). A highly relevant segment of DAM is the maintenance and diagnostic segment (M&D) involving solutions such as diagnostic systems, and predictive maintenance. The purpose of this thesis was to investigate what the market of M&D looks like in Sweden given its complex market structure with approximately 40 private train owners. A multi-case study was conducted in which data was collected through eight semi-structured interviews with employees from different key companies in the Swedish railway industry. Based on the interviews, there are several challenges within the digitalization process in the maintenance and diagnostic segment of DAM. These are related to the following: data availability, data analysis and modelling, investments in knowledge and skills, ecosystem perspective and lastly, maintenance optimization. The role of legislation and its impact on the digitalization was studied. The transition to working with a full condition-based strategy is difficult due to the existing challenges. Instead, it is deemed optimal to implement a hybrid strategy consisting both of conventional/time-based maintenance and condition-based maintenance for applicable components given the current state of the industry. / Precis som resten av samhället har användningen av digital teknik under åren blivit en allt viktigare del för tågföretag för att förbättra prestanda, möta kundkrav, förbättra drifts- och underhållsprocesser för att öka effektivitet och tillförlitlighet. Dessa lösningar har med tiden utvecklats och blivit en del av ett kluster som kallas för Digital Asset Management (DAM) eller på svenska, digital tillgångsförvaltning. En central del av DAM är segmentet för underhåll och diagnostik (M&D) som involverar lösningar som diagnostiksystem och prediktivt underhåll. Syftet var att undersöka hur marknaden för M&D ser ut i Sverige med tanke på Sveriges komplexa marknadsstruktur. Data samlades in genom en flerfallstudie från åtta semistrukturerade intervjuer med anställda från olika nyckelföretag inom den svenska järnvägsbranschen. Baserat på intervjuerna att det finns flera utmaningar inom digitaliseringsprocessen inom segmentet för underhåll och diagnostik inom DAM. Utmaningarna är relaterade till följande områden: tillgänglighet av data, dataanalys och modellering, investeringar i kunskap och kompetens, ekosystemperspektiv och slutligen, optimering av underhåll. Lagstiftningens roll visade sig spela en viktig roll. Det konstaterades att övergången till att arbeta med en helt konditionsbaserad strategi är komplext. Med hänsyn till branschens nuvarande tillstånd är det i stället optimalt att implementera en ”hybridstrategi” som består av både konventionellt/tidsbaserat underhåll och konditionsbaserat underhåll för tillämpliga komponenter.

This thesis is focused on digital image postproduction -- specific field, which is responsible for digital creation and manipulation with image data of a feature film or a commercial. To achieve that, it uses large amount of human resources and the newest computer technology. The aim of this thesis was to review actual situation in film production from the informatics point of view. That comprises of explanation of field specifics, identification of information system in a typical postproduction house and finding ways how to effeciently manage postproduction projects through that. Thesis is designed as a complex practical guide, which is well understandable both to inexperienced people and proffesionals and delivers them useful information. It can be used by existing employees of a postproduction house (primarily managers and heads), freelancers or prospective future employees. This thesis highlights importanant aspects of postproduction, connected risks and helps people's to better orientate in this field. Outputs are numerous table summaries, recommendations, tips and hints and examples of possible solutions of actual postproduction problems. They are based on many internet sources and my own previous experience as a 3d graphic.

This thesis discusses the specific effects of single sourcing methodologies on the role of the technical communicator, his or her job responsibilities, qualifications, collaboration with coworkers, employee and employer expectations, and the effects on career progression. The methodologies discussed included all types of single sourcing methods for technical documentation (such as XML-based), advanced and non-advanced Content Management Systems (CMS), and Digital Asset Management (DAM) systems. Other topics explored are an overview of single sourcing for technical documentation, a comparison of the "craftsman model" to the current trend of single sourcing and structured content, specific effects on technical communicators such as role changes, the effects of incorporating XML into a technical communicator's daily work environment, and the effects of other emerging technologies such as advanced CMS and DAM systems on technical communicators. General findings include that the practice of single sourcing, whether a positive or negative development, has continued and likely will continue to increase in technical communication groups within organizations. Single sourcing, especially for dynamic, customized content is also increasing because of the current marketplace, but works best via the use of a CMS and other systems used by large organizations. Single sourcing is also best implemented after extensive strategic planning and training of employees. Many technical communicators will have to accept new roles and positions, the direction of which is greatly impacted by the extent of their skills. Recommendations are made for additional research on the effects of single sourcing implementation on the technical communicator, and how to adapt to changes. Additional research is also needed on XML, DITA (Darwinian Information Typing Architecture), and DAM systems, all related specifically to technical communication.