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Functional Architecture for Knowledge Search
Published in Denise Bedford, Knowledge Architectures, 2020
Search system processes revolve around one component – an index. An index helps us to locate important information in an asset. Indexes are used to quickly locate data without having to search every row in a database table every time a database table is accessed. Derived from Latin, an index means one who points out, an indication or a forefinger. Examples are a back-of-the-book (BOTB) index or a library catalog. In a traditional BOTB index, the headings will include names of people, places, events, and concepts selected by the indexer as being relevant and of interest to a possible reader of the book. The indexer may be the author, the editor, or a professional indexer working as a third party. The pointers are typically page numbers, paragraph numbers, or section numbers. A library catalog is another form of index. A catalog record contains authors, titles, subject headings, and pointers to where the item is found in the collection, either in the form of a call number or a weblink. Internet search engines (such as Google) and full-text searching help provide access to information but are not as selective as an index, as they provide non-relevant links and may miss relevant information if it is not phrased in exactly the way they expect.
Intelligent Agent Technology
Published in Jay Liebowitz, The Handbook of Applied Expert Systems, 2019
David Prerau, Mark R. Adler, Dhiraj K. Pathak, Alan Gunderson
Mobile agents travel on the computer network to go to the site of a server they need to use. The interaction with the server occurs at the server site, and then agents travel back to their origin to provide users the results. Essentially, mobile agents are a solution to the limited bandwidth of the network. By sending an agent to the server site, the amount of network traffic generated is minimized. For example, consider a library catalog server on the network. A nonmobile interface agent queries the server for certain items. The results of the query are returned to the agent. Suppose the desired item is not available at this server and the agent must query another server. In this case, the network transmission from the first server can be avoided if the agent were to visit the server site. Then, upon finding that the server does not have the desired item, the agent could travel to the second server site, and so on.
The Three L’s
Published in Krzysztof W. Kolodziej, Johan Hjelm, Local Positioning Systems, 2017
Krzysztof W. Kolodziej, Johan Hjelm
Tracking can be used when migrating through an exhibit or museum; content or data describing or relating to a proximate exhibited item may be delivered, changing as the user changes location. Another example is the Smart Library application at the OULA library in Finland. A library customer is able to browse the OULA library catalog wirelessly with mobile devices. OULA search is operable with mobile phones equipped with an XHTML browser, as well as PDA devices and laptops with WLAN capability. Users request map-based guidance to a desired book or collection. NearSpace specializes in producing campus and venues mapping software (see Figure 1.13 and Figure 1.14).
Evaluating children’s handwashing in schools: an integrative review of indicative measures and measurement tools
Published in International Journal of Environmental Health Research, 2021
Sophie Rutter, Colin Macduff, Catherine Stones, Margarita Gomez-Escalada
The review aimed for a comprehensive coverage of hand hygiene literature that could give a good overview of how handwashing is evaluated in schools. Science Direct, Medline, Web of Science and CINAHL as well as the university library catalog and Google Scholar were searched for studies where children’s handwashing was evaluated in schools. A combination of the following search terms was entered: hand hygiene, handwashing, hand washing, school, children, student, evaluation, intervention. The title and abstract of each citation were used to initially screen and select articles. The reference lists of selected articles were also examined for relevant studies.
Information, Communication, Feedback: The Festival Plaza (Japan World Exposition Osaka 1970), Center Pompidou and Sendai Mediatheque as Suggestive Examples of Artificially Intelligent Architecture
Published in Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering, 2022
Danyal Ahmed, Junichiro Higaya
“Constant renewal of information” was proposed by the French President Georges Jean Raymond Pompidou on 11 December 1969 as an antithesis to the questioning of the traditional notion of art and culture by the French society. The aim was the dissemination of information in its broadest sense and this time in the form of artistic creations not only regionally, in France, but internationally. In order to formulate a benchmark for the broadcasting of this limitless information, Pompidou envisaged a trans-disciplinary experimental contemporary plastic art’s center right in the heart of Paris.1The project was proposed at the site of Plateau Beaubourg and was called Centre du Plateau Beaubourg until President Pompidou’s death in 1974 after which it was renamed as The Centre Pompidou. Information was divided, then sub-divided in order to formulate a colossal information center that broadcasts,2Information was to be visualized in the form of different departments and their sub-divisions, including but not limited to as a current events public museum and a library (one-fifth of building’s total surface), specialized facilities (experimental galleries, documentation, research and experimentation centers, theatre) for art, music, sound recording, film and theatre, industrial design, architecture, meeting rooms, facilities for children, restaurants, etc. The configuration went as in the basement, conference rooms and parking, on the ground (first) floor, reception, bookstore, newspapers, current events media and exhibitions, on the second through fourth floors, main reading and processing functions acting as “multimedia reading ensembles” and on the fifth floor, meeting rooms, restaurant and roof terraces. with its simultaneous renewal and upgradation, the objective being to re-affirm the richness and contradictions posed by contemporary artistic creations in their most sensitive forms without being judgmental but merely through their presences. The communication and information exchange via receiving, breaking down and re-distribution from this broadcasting colossal information center was to be triggered via multiple formats such as of visual transparency, electronic displays, traveling exhibitions, television broadcasts, publications and through a remotely accessible electronic library catalog/distance reference cards. Through the amalgamation of information and men, the public was entrusted to reveal this true unity of the information machine.