This report describes the process and steps in detail that needed to be taken in order to meet the end users’ needs. The purpose of this study is to develop a dynamic module based on user-centered design (UCD) for Pulsen’s (pulsen.se) new website using the con-tent management system (CMS) SiteVision. UCD integrated with agile development methodologies is an effective combination to increase the focus of a development project on the end users’ needs. In this study we show the pervasiveness of the two methods combined in a development project. The module’s functionality is to allow the end user to quickly - and without effort - sort and filter news articles, events and job postings into lists that will be embedded and reusable on their new website. Manual adaptation of custom modules was configured directly through JavaScript code which made them error prone, causing the modules not to function properly. To combat this problem, we used contextual inquiry (CI) along with usability testing as data gathering methods with both Pulsen’s editors and external participants. The usability tests were used to plan and evaluate the functionality of the prototype in order to make it as user-friendly as possible. The study resulted in an interface with user defined variables derived from a JavaScript module.

As the amount of educational games on the market increases it becomes daunting task for pedagogues to find the most relevant and effective educational games for their teaching activities. In 2012 a metadata model was suggested to streamline descriptions of educational games for a database. This thesis identifies the need for an advanced search function which takes into consideration the notions of purpose and contextual circumstance of using educational games in order for such a database to be of greater usefulness for users. This thesis presents a design of such a search function, based on the theories of Purushotma (2005), Pannese and Carlesi (2007), Charsky (2010) and Reinders and Wattana (2011). Furthermore this thesis provides an updated metadata model to support such a search function. In the future the search function could be polished from a usability perspective and further developed to incorporate other types of serious games.

Geodata finns idag tillgängligt via geodataportaler runt om i världen. På dessa geodataportaler beskrivs datamängder och tjänster som kommer från olika myndigheter. Geodatasamverkan har uttryckt intresse för att kunna beskriva realtidsresurser på dessa portaler med hjälp av metadata. Utifrån ett samarbete mellan SMHI och Lantmäteriet har denna studie tagits fram där en dynamisk realtidsresurs från SMHI testas beskrivas med Geodataportalens nuvarande struktur. Befintlig litteratur har undersökts för att presentera en bakgrund. Studien ger läsaren en god inblick i hur Geodataportalen fungerar samt hur den arbetar mot metadataprofilen. Studien tar även upp konceptet Sensor Web som metod för insamling av sensordata samt Sensor Web Enablement paketeringen och vilka specifikationer den innehåller. I den praktiska biten utvecklades en importfunktion som används för att befolka vår databas. Denna databas används sedan som grund för vår karttjänst som sedan visas på Geodataportalen. I den teoretiska biten togs tre nya förslag på metadataelement fram, dessa är insamlingsfrekvens, mätningsfrekvens och uppdateringsfrekvens. Dessa skall hjälpa att beskriva dynamiska resurser på Geodataportalen. Slutligen diskuteras våra resultat och ger förslag på metadataelement som bör tilläggas till metadataprofilen samt brister och utvecklingsmöjligheter på vår applikation.

Recent developments in modern computing and wireless networks allow mobile devices to be connected to the Internet regardless of their physical location. These mobile devices, such as smart phones and PDAs, have turned into powerful multimedia units allowing users to become producers of rich media content. This latest development contributes to the ever-growing amount of digital material existing on the World Wide Web, and at the same time creates a new information landscape that combines content coming from both, the wired and mobile Internet. Thus, it is important to understand the context or settings in which mobile devices are used, and what is the digital content produced by the different users. In order to gain more knowledge about this domain, we have investigated how to extend the standard metadata related to content with a metadata domain describing the context, or settings in which the content has been created. In order to limit the scope of our work, we have focused our efforts in a specific case taking place in a project called AMULETS. The AMULETS-project contains all of the elements we need in order to resemble the contextual setting in a metadata model. Combined with the technical metadata associated to the digital content, we try to display the benefits of capturing the different attributes of the context that were present when the content was generated. Additionally, we have created a proof-of-concept Entity Relation (ER)-diagram which proposes how the metadata models can be implemented in a relational database. As the nature of the thesis is design-oriented, a model has been developed and it will be illustrated throughout this report. The aim of the thesis is to show how it is possible to design new metadata models that combine both relevant attributes of the context and content in order to develop new educational activities supported by location-based services.

This work aims, in general terms, to analyze the possibility of integration of metadata standards in the development of finding aids for photographic archives, favoring the user in the recover of the wanted images. In specific terms, it intends to present the photographic archives in the context of documentary heritage, including its characteristics as well as the knowledge area that act in its treatment in order to facilitate its access and the utilization by the users; to analyze procedures, methods and standards of Archives Administration, Librarianship and Museum studies, susceptible to be used in the preparation of instruments that allow the recovery/location of photographs, to study the provisions and applications of Semantic Web and Web 2.0 in order to use them as instruments to disseminate archival descriptions and, developing descriptions from the integration of metadata standards between those areas. To this end, there were used the methods of literature review and case study. There are presented, in this sense, the finding aids developed in the Historical Documentation Center Professor Hugo Alberto Alves Pereira, Federal University of Rio Grande, from the integration of metadata standards used by the archive and library science, as well as codified in EAD (Encoded Archival Description). / Este trabalho visa analisar a possibilidade de integração de padrões de metadados no desenvolvimento de instrumentos de pesquisa para acervos fotográficos, favorecendo o usuário na recuperação das imagens desejadas. Em termos específicos, se propõe a apresentar os acervos fotográficos no âmbito do patrimônio documental, compreendendo suas particularidades bem como as áreas do conhecimento que atuam em seu tratamento no intuito de viabilizar seu acesso e utilização por parte dos usuários; analisar procedimentos, métodos e padrões empregados por profissionais da Arquivologia, Biblioteconomia e Museologia, passíveis de serem utilizados na elaboração de instrumentos que possibilitem a recuperação/localização de fotografias que podem integrar acervos de arquivos, bibliotecas e museus; estudar os preceitos e aplicações da Web-Semântica e Web 2.0 no intuito de utilizá-los como ferramentas de divulgação de descrições de acervos e; desenvolver descrições a partir da integração de padrões de metadados entre as referidas áreas. Para tanto, utilizou-se dos métodos de pesquisa bibliográfica e estudo de caso para o desenvolvimento de instrumentos de pesquisa para o Centro de Documentação Histórica Professor Hugo Alberto Pereira Alves da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, a partir da integração de padrões de metadados utilizados pela Arquivologia e Biblioteconomia, bem como sua codificação em EAD (Encoded Archives Description). Neste sentido, o trabalho é constituído dos capítulos: acervos fotográficos de arquivos bibliotecas e museus na perspectiva do patrimônio documental; procedimentos e métodos da Arquivologia, Biblioteconomia e Museologia para elaboração de instrumentos de pesquisa para acervos fotográficos; Web Semântica e Web 2.0 e o acesso aos recursos informacionais do patrimônio documental; descrição do Acervo Fotográfico Rheingantz: catálogo do dossiê Prédio e Casas; a integração de padrões de metadados na descrição do Acervo Fotográfico Rheingantz; além dos capítulos de introdução e considerações finais.

The public education institutions are trying to follow the technological advances and aim to search for the evolution in education that increasingly appears every day in its organizational environment. This research aimed to investigate, evaluate and analyze the document Gradebook at Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM) in relation to its information management, preservation and security. The methodology used in this study was analytical exploratory combined with the documental analysis from the information in the literature review and, the case study technique. Therefore, we performed a bibliographical research of the legislation and the document archiving management with a qualitative approach. The data collection was performed through meetings, interviews, observation and diagnose with the different users involved in the considered process, where we searched to verify the procedures and the current conditions of the Gradebooks at the Didactic Departments. As a result of this study we suggest a model of metadata for the Electronic Gradebooks in UFSM, aiming to improve the production, flow, storage, access, security and preservation of the information. The proposed model suggests a set of requirements for computerized management of documents, specified in the standard e-ARQ-Brazil, which specifies all the activities and technical operations of the document archiving management from production, processing, use, archiving and final destination. This study was completed with its overall goal reached, which is the development of the model for implementation of Electronic Gradebooks, according to the rules and archival policies of the institution and the government, aiming at the preservation and safety of DC UFSM for a long time through the metadata defined for this document as model, and Brazil-ARQ, determining the best way for their management, preservation and security. / As instituições públicas de ensino vêm buscando acompanhar os avanços tecnológicos e visam à busca pela evolução na educação que surge de forma crescente no dia-a-dia em seu ambiente organizacional. Esta pesquisa buscou investigar, avaliar e analisar o documento Diário de Classe da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM) quanto à gestão, preservação e segurança da informação. A metodologia utilizada foi um estudo exploratório analítico combinado com análise documental a partir de informações encontradas na revisão de literatura, com técnica de estudo de caso. Portanto, foi realizada uma pesquisa bibliográfica, de legislação e de modelos de gestão arquivística de documentos, com abordagem qualitativa. A coleta dos dados foi realizada por meio de reuniões, entrevistas, observação e diagnósticos com os diferentes usuários envolvidos no processo em questão, através dos quais buscou-se verificar os procedimentos e as condições atuais em que se encontram os Diários de Classe nos Departamentos Didáticos. Como resultado, propõe-se um modelo de metadados para o Diário de Classe Eletrônico da UFSM, visando aperfeiçoar a produção, fluxo, armazenamento, acesso, segurança e preservação das informações. O modelo proposto sugere um conjunto de requisitos para gestão informatizada de documentos, indicado na norma e-ARQ Brasil, que especifica todas as atividades e operações técnicas da gestão arquivística de documentos desde a produção, tramitação, utilização e arquivamento até a sua destinação final. Este estudo foi finalizado com o objetivo geral alcançado que é a elaboração do modelo para implantação do Diário de Classe Eletrônico de acordo com a legislação e as políticas arquivísticas da Instituição e do governo, visando à preservação e segurança do DC da UFSM, por longo tempo, através dos metadados definidos para este documento conforme o modelo e-ARQ Brasil, determinando a melhor forma para sua gestão, preservação e segurança.

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This research investigates the development and adoption of educational metadata standards for the widespread use of learning objects. Learning objects, metadata, the related IEEE standard and the various application profiles derived from the standard are discussed. A number of standards and specifications for educational metadata used to describe learning objects are explored, namely the Dublin Core, IMS, SCORM, ARIADNE, CanCore and the UK LOM Core. Three metadata editors and the experience with using one of them, RELOAD, is described. These educational metadata specifications are used in a practical metadata implementation scenario and the experiences are extrapolated to derive a localised instance of the generic IEEE standard. A new application profile is proposed, “RU LOM Core”, for the South African higher education context. Some existing results are confirmed about the complexity of using the IEEE standard and it is demonstrated that it is possible to instantiate the standard for South African conditions. The results are largely qualitative and based on practical experience. However, the results concur with results from related research. Although the development of an application profile is certainly not new, the development of RU LOM Core illustrates that the IEEE standard, developed largely within the northern hemisphere, can be adapted to work in the South African scenario. RU LOM Core has been developed for the South African higher education environment and takes linguistic and cultural diversity and the low rate of technological literacy into consideration. The lessons learned and the proposed LOM core can be built upon in further research and collaboration to use and support the use of such standards within South Africa.