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Les manuscrits arabes sont une source d'information inestimable. Trois millions de ces œuvres se trouvent éparpillées à travers le monde. Une prise de conscience réelle sur la préservation de ces œuvres s'est vue naître, ces dernières années, à travers le monde. Beaucoup de projets de numérisation de manuscrits arabes anciens ont été mis en œuvre. Mais, la numérisation est-elle suffisante ? Le véritable but recherché est une diffusion de masse, car rien n'est mieux préservé qu'une ressource partagée. Toutefois, il faut y trouver un moyen d'y accéder facilement. Les bibliothèques sont les lieux de prédilection de sauvegarde et de rangement de manuscrits. Elles ont développé un outil d'accès aux manuscrits qu'elles ont toujours maîtrisé et convenablement mis en œuvre ; il s'agit du catalogue, un support d'utilisation simple et intuitif. Toutes ces œuvres se voient répertoriées selon des protocoles de catalogage non uniformisés, différents d'une institution à une autre, mais pour l'essentiel, utilisant des entrées standards (Auteur, titre de l'œuvre, Sujet). L'idée est de venir au secours du catalogueur qui peine à lui seul à cataloguer autant d'œuvres, sans oublier les différentes difficultés rencontrées tels que le type de calligraphie et l'état du manuscrit. Par conséquent, une autre question se pose à savoir, comment faudrait-il s'y prendre ? A ce niveau se dresse une problématique cruciale, qui consiste à trouver le meilleur moyen d'accès aux images des manuscrits numérisés. En effet, trois solutions d'accessibilité aux manuscrits numérisés sont possibles :• La première consiste en un accès aux manuscrits numérisés en mode image ; cela signifie l'exploitation directe de l'image du manuscrit numérisé par des outils d'indexation appropriés.• La seconde se donne pour objectif de convertir intégralement le manuscrit en texte, ce qui reviendrait à traiter le manuscrit numérisé comme un document texte ordinaire. Par conséquent, l'usage de la recherche d'information deviendra un outil incontournable.• La troisième solution fait appel à un outil efficace utilisé dans les bibliothèques. Il s'agit du catalogue. Le principe de cette solution est élémentaire. Il repose sur l'interrogation du catalogue. L'affichage du manuscrit répondant favorablement à une requête se fait suite au choix de l'utilisateur. Notre travail de recherche ne se positionne pas dans le choix de la meilleure solution parmi les trois sus-citées, nous nous donnons pour objectif de procéder à l'étude des trois modèles de solutions et de procéder à l'évaluation de chaque modèle pour l'optimisation de l'accès en ligne aux manuscrits arabes anciens numérisés... / Arabic manuscripts are a very important source of information. Three million of them are scattered throughout the world. Nowadays, a real awareness rises throughout the world to preserve the old manuscripts.Many digitization projects of old Arabic manuscripts were implemented. But, is this sufficient for the manuscripts preservation? The main goal is the massive diffusion of these resources, because nothing is better preserved than a shared resource. However, it is necessary to make them accessible.Libraries are the most suitable places for storing manuscripts. They have developed an interesting tool for the manuscripts online access: It is about a catalogue, a simple and intuitive user support.the whole of the manuscripts are listed throughout a non-standardized cataloging protocol, which differ from an institution to another, but most of them use standard entries like the "Author", "title" and "subject".The problematic is about finding a way how to help a cataloguer who struggle alone to catalog the manuscripts, which present several problems concerning their state and their calligraphy? Therefore, the answer will be about how to make it.Thus, first we are asked to find a best way to access images of the digitized Arabic manuscripts. Indeed, we can quote three methods to access digitized manuscripts:• The first one consists of accessing to manuscripts in image mode. This is done by images processing with using of suitable indexing tools.• The second one aim to fully convert the manuscript into a text mode, then the manuscript will be processed as textual document. Thus, the information retrieval will be used.• The third solution uses an effective library tool which is the catalogue. The principle of this solution is basic. First, the user makes his query to the catalogue. The latter displays the results, and then the user selects the suitable one.The goal of our research is not to make choice between these three methods to access to digitized manuscripts. Our objective is to use these methods, evaluate them in order to optimize the online access to digitized Arabic manuscripts......

Der Betrieb von prozesstechnischen Produktionsanlagen wird stetig von verschiedenen Aufgaben begleitet, zum Beispiel der Steuerung und Optimierung der Produktion und der Aufrechterhaltung der Verfügbarkeit. Alle Gewerke, die sich mit dem Zustand der Anlage und des darin ablaufenden Prozesses beschäftigen, sind auf Daten angewiesen, die in der Anlage erfasst werden. Ein Großteil dieser Daten werden für die automatische Steuerungs-, Regelungs- und Sicherheitstechnik erfasst und darin in Echtzeit verarbeitet. Apparate und anderes Equipment sind zumeist nicht mit für deren Zustandsüberwachung dedizierter Messtechnik ausgestattet. Um Qualitätsmerkmale, Anlagenzustände oder Wartungsbedarfe erkennen zu können, müssen andere in der Anlage vorhandene Daten kombiniert und in Berechnungsmodellen kondensiert werden. Diese Methodik teilt sich in unterschiedliche Schritte auf: Datenakquise, Entwurf von Auswertemodellen, Modellintegration und Auswertung von Ergebnissen mit Ableitung von Aufgaben. Die vorliegende Arbeit ordnet sich in die Softwareaspekte dieser Methodik ein. Dabei versucht sie, die zentrale Frage „Wie könnte eine Infrastruktur auf Basis von verbreiteten Standardtechnologien aussehen, welche alle Schritte des Engineeringprozesses für freie Apparatemodelle automatisieren kann?“ anhand eines Vorschlags für eine Infrastruktur zu beantworten. Es wird eine Möglichkeit dargelegt, im Betrieb ohne Änderungen am bestehenden System kontinuierlich Daten für die Weiterverwendung in Apparatemodellen auszulesen. Der Entwurf und die Implementierung von Auswertemodellen wurde mit Hilfe eines entwickelten Werkzeugs unterstützt und dadurch die Struktur der Apparatemodelle vorgegeben, um eine einheitliche Modellintegration zu ermöglichen. Die Durchführung der Modellintegration erfolgte über die automatische Auswertung von Planungsdaten. Eine auf offenen Technologien basierende Ausführungsplattform für die Bewertungsmodelle wurde implementiert. Die Auswertung von Berechnungsergebnissen wurde über die Integration der Modelle in verbreitete, für Feldgeräte vorgesehene Standardwerkzeuge ermöglicht. Diese Infrastruktur ermöglicht es den verschiedenen Gewerken des Anlagenbetreibers, generische Bewertungsmodelle auf die Apparateinstanzen in der Anlage anzuwenden, und mit deren Berechnungsergebnissen ihre Aufgaben einfacher oder besser bearbeiten zu können. Nach einer Analyse der technischen Rahmenbedingungen wurde ein Konzept zur Modellintegration entwickelt und dessen Automatisierbarkeit diskutiert. Dieses Konzept wurde prototypisch umgesetzt. Es wurden Softwarekomponenten für den Betrieb sowie Softwarewerkzeuge für die Unterstützung sowohl der Erstellung als auch der Integration von Apparatemodellen entwickelt. Anhand dieser wurde Umsetzbarkeit des Konzepts überprüft / Operating process plants goes along with different tasks, e. g. control and optimization of the production and maintaining availability of the plant. There are several subsections of operations who deal with the state of the plant and the processes it runs. They are all dependent on information which is gathered throughout the plant. Most of this data is acquired for the automatic control, regulation, and safety gear and is processed in real-time. Apparatuses and other equipment are usually not equipped with measurement devices which are dedicated to monitor their state. For being able to recognize specific quality attributes, states of the plant, or maintenance needs, the existing measurements have to be combined and condensed by calculations. This methodology can be split into the following steps: data acquisition, design of evaluation models, integration of these models, and assessment of findings including inferring actions. This thesis addresses software aspects of this methodology. It tries to answer the key question „How to build an infrastructure, which shall be based on common standard technologies, in which all steps to engineer equipment models may be automated?“ by proposing a concrete infrastructure. A technique has been designed to continuously acquire data for further processing in equipment models without any changes to existing systems. The process of design and implementation of equipment models has been supported by a purpose-built tool. This tool puts out the designed models in a uniform structure to allow uniform model integration. This integration has been automated using the plant’s engineering data. An execution platform has been developed based on open technologies. Infrastructure and model structure have been designed to easily integrate calculation results into standard tools for being able to use them in common work environments. It enables the different subsections of operations in a plant to apply generic equipment assessment models on concrete equipment instances. Using the output of the models, they shall be enabled to perform their task in an easier or better manner. The technical requirements and prerequisites have been analyzed. Using the resulting conclusions, a concept to integrate models has been developed and the options to automate it have been discussed. This concept has been implemented prototypically. This implementation includes a runtime component and two tools to support development of models and their instantiation. It has been used to prove the feasibility of the concept.

The thesis focuses on the mediation of electronic information resources of cultural heritage from public libraries to public. The text is divided into two parts - theoretical and practical. Introductory chapters explain key terms - cultural heritage, digitization of analog cultural object and digital library and describe chosen benefits that providing of electronic information resources of cultural heritage brings to public libraries. The thesis also includes analysis of chosen electronic information resources of cultural heritage. They are presented Manuscriptorium, Kramerius, Moll Collection, online portal Europeana and web site of American Memory project. The practical part of this thesis presents the results of a supply and demand survey. The first survey was implemented on web pages of Czech regional libraries and the second survey is user survey among the Czech public. The last chapter is formed by recommendations for public libraries which offer electronic resources of cultural heritage.

Der Betrieb von prozesstechnischen Produktionsanlagen wird stetig von verschiedenen Aufgaben begleitet, zum Beispiel der Steuerung und Optimierung der Produktion und der Aufrechterhaltung der Verfügbarkeit. Alle Gewerke, die sich mit dem Zustand der Anlage und des darin ablaufenden Prozesses beschäftigen, sind auf Daten angewiesen, die in der Anlage erfasst werden. Ein Großteil dieser Daten werden für die automatische Steuerungs-, Regelungs- und Sicherheitstechnik erfasst und darin in Echtzeit verarbeitet. Apparate und anderes Equipment sind zumeist nicht mit für deren Zustandsüberwachung dedizierter Messtechnik ausgestattet. Um Qualitätsmerkmale, Anlagenzustände oder Wartungsbedarfe erkennen zu können, müssen andere in der Anlage vorhandene Daten kombiniert und in Berechnungsmodellen kondensiert werden. Diese Methodik teilt sich in unterschiedliche Schritte auf: Datenakquise, Entwurf von Auswertemodellen, Modellintegration und Auswertung von Ergebnissen mit Ableitung von Aufgaben. Die vorliegende Arbeit ordnet sich in die Softwareaspekte dieser Methodik ein. Dabei versucht sie, die zentrale Frage „Wie könnte eine Infrastruktur auf Basis von verbreiteten Standardtechnologien aussehen, welche alle Schritte des Engineeringprozesses für freie Apparatemodelle automatisieren kann?“ anhand eines Vorschlags für eine Infrastruktur zu beantworten. Es wird eine Möglichkeit dargelegt, im Betrieb ohne Änderungen am bestehenden System kontinuierlich Daten für die Weiterverwendung in Apparatemodellen auszulesen. Der Entwurf und die Implementierung von Auswertemodellen wurde mit Hilfe eines entwickelten Werkzeugs unterstützt und dadurch die Struktur der Apparatemodelle vorgegeben, um eine einheitliche Modellintegration zu ermöglichen. Die Durchführung der Modellintegration erfolgte über die automatische Auswertung von Planungsdaten. Eine auf offenen Technologien basierende Ausführungsplattform für die Bewertungsmodelle wurde implementiert. Die Auswertung von Berechnungsergebnissen wurde über die Integration der Modelle in verbreitete, für Feldgeräte vorgesehene Standardwerkzeuge ermöglicht. Diese Infrastruktur ermöglicht es den verschiedenen Gewerken des Anlagenbetreibers, generische Bewertungsmodelle auf die Apparateinstanzen in der Anlage anzuwenden, und mit deren Berechnungsergebnissen ihre Aufgaben einfacher oder besser bearbeiten zu können. Nach einer Analyse der technischen Rahmenbedingungen wurde ein Konzept zur Modellintegration entwickelt und dessen Automatisierbarkeit diskutiert. Dieses Konzept wurde prototypisch umgesetzt. Es wurden Softwarekomponenten für den Betrieb sowie Softwarewerkzeuge für die Unterstützung sowohl der Erstellung als auch der Integration von Apparatemodellen entwickelt. Anhand dieser wurde Umsetzbarkeit des Konzepts überprüft / Operating process plants goes along with different tasks, e. g. control and optimization of the production and maintaining availability of the plant. There are several subsections of operations who deal with the state of the plant and the processes it runs. They are all dependent on information which is gathered throughout the plant. Most of this data is acquired for the automatic control, regulation, and safety gear and is processed in real-time. Apparatuses and other equipment are usually not equipped with measurement devices which are dedicated to monitor their state. For being able to recognize specific quality attributes, states of the plant, or maintenance needs, the existing measurements have to be combined and condensed by calculations. This methodology can be split into the following steps: data acquisition, design of evaluation models, integration of these models, and assessment of findings including inferring actions. This thesis addresses software aspects of this methodology. It tries to answer the key question „How to build an infrastructure, which shall be based on common standard technologies, in which all steps to engineer equipment models may be automated?“ by proposing a concrete infrastructure. A technique has been designed to continuously acquire data for further processing in equipment models without any changes to existing systems. The process of design and implementation of equipment models has been supported by a purpose-built tool. This tool puts out the designed models in a uniform structure to allow uniform model integration. This integration has been automated using the plant’s engineering data. An execution platform has been developed based on open technologies. Infrastructure and model structure have been designed to easily integrate calculation results into standard tools for being able to use them in common work environments. It enables the different subsections of operations in a plant to apply generic equipment assessment models on concrete equipment instances. Using the output of the models, they shall be enabled to perform their task in an easier or better manner. The technical requirements and prerequisites have been analyzed. Using the resulting conclusions, a concept to integrate models has been developed and the options to automate it have been discussed. This concept has been implemented prototypically. This implementation includes a runtime component and two tools to support development of models and their instantiation. It has been used to prove the feasibility of the concept.

1 Abstract Theses is devoted to some selected issues of cultural heritage online domain within context of information politics in which it takes a place. After dealing with terminology, including cultural heritage definition based on anthropological concept of culture and segmentation of cultural heritage according to UNESCO activities, the second chapter presents cultural heritage digitization and bringing online activities of European Union as a part of European information politics since 90s of 20th Century (important projects out of Europe are mentioned). Regarding to these politics the chapter focuses on participation of Czech Republic on putting European cultural heritage online. The third chapter is focused on college and university education in digitization and bringing cultural heritage online in USA and Europe, with a special focus on Slovac and Czech Republic. The fourth chapter sums up general characteristics of cultural heritage information systems and introduces some possible ways of their use in education and as information sources in libraries. The last chapter presents outputs of project devoted to development of digital library specialized on bringing online data obtained by research in private libraries.

Orientador: Mariângela Spotti Lopes Fujita / Banca: Isidoro Gil Leiva / Banca: Maria Cristiane Barbosa Galvão / Banca: Maria de Fátima Gonçalves Moreira Tálamo / Banca: Plácida Leopoldina Ventura Amorim da Costa Santos / Resumo: A linguagem documentária desempenha um papel fundamental na indexação e recuperação da informação. Quando a linguagem documentária não corresponde às necessidades de representação dos conteúdos dos documentos, realizada pelos bibliotecários indexadores e das solicitações de buscas bibliográficas por assunto dos usuários, afeta a atuação desses processos, comprometendo a realização de buscas e serviços. Realizou-se, como proposta, um estudo de avaliação do uso de linguagem documentária alfabética de catálogos coletivos online, com enfoque nas tecnologias de representação e recuperação da informação, na perspectiva das bibliotecas universitárias e no contexto sociocognitivo de bibliotecários indexadores e usuários. Com o objetivo geral de contribuir para o uso adequado de linguagens documentárias alfabéticas nos processos de indexação e recuperação da informação de áreas científicas especializadas em catálogos coletivos de bibliotecas universitárias e, deste modo, colaborar com o processo de mudanças contínuas nos fazeres bibliotecários e, consequentemente, nos de sua comunidade usuária, a pesquisa teve como objetivos específicos: discutir o papel das linguagens documentárias alfabéticas na concepção dos catálogos coletivos pela perspectiva dos catálogos online; apresentar e discutir os estudos de avaliação de linguagens documentárias pelas abordagens quantitativas, qualitativas e qualitativas-cognitivas como métodos de avaliação, subsidiados pelos fundamentos teóricos e metodológicos da área de Organização e Representação do Conhecimento, frente aos paradigmas contemporâneos da área de Ciência da Informação; e investigar a aplicação da metodologia qualitativa de abordagem sociocognitiva mediante Protocolo Verbal para estudo de avaliação do uso de linguagem documentária alfabética de catálogos coletivos... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: The indexing language plays a fundamental role in the indexing and information retrieval. When the indexing language does not correspond to the necessities of representation of the contents of the documents, carried out by the indexers and the requests of bibliographical searches through the users' subject, it affects the performance of those processes, compromising the accomplishment of searches and services. The proposal is to carry through an evaluation study of the alphabetic indexing language use of the online collective catalogs, with a main focus on the technologies of representation and information retrieval, in the perspective of the university libraries and in the socio-cognitive context of indexers and users. With the general objective of to contribute for the adequate use of the alphabetical indexing languages in the indexing and information retrieval processes of specialized scientific areas in collective catalogs of the university libraries and thus, to collaborate with the process of continuous changes in the librarians' practice and, consequently, of its using community, the research had as specific objectives: arguing the role of the alphabetical indexing languages in the conception of the collective catalogs through the perspective of the online catalogs; presenting and arguing about the indexing languages evaluation studies through the quantitave, qualitative and qualitative-cognitive approaches as evaluation methods, which are supported by the theoretical and methodological fundamentals of the Organization and Knowledge Representation area, coping with the contemporary paradigms of the Information Science area ; and investigating the application of the socio-cognitive approach by Verbal Protocol for an evaluation study of the alphabetical indexing language use of the collective catalogs in specialized scientific areas in the perspective of the university libraries... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Doutor

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Professional respondents in research panels: comparing trained and fresh members of an online panel The diploma thesis deals with the topic of changes in responding of research panel members, which are caused by their previous experience with research process. Various manifestations of this phenomenon, often labelled as the "panel conditioning effect", are described and supported by corresponding empirical evidence. The observations of panel conditioning effect come from longitudinal panel design as well as online access panels. The author proposes logically structured differentiation of the effect. Based on this categorization, several hypotheses about the differences between trained and fresh members of an Internet panel are raised and tested in dedicated online research. The results reveal significant differences between recently-registered and long-term members of the panel, both in their response strategies and in demographic structure of the groups. Yet the overall outcome do not indicate, that interviewing trained respondents would necessarily lead to lower-quality data.