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Research information management (RIM) and reporting is an emerging, heterogeneous field of work for which there is currently no systematic overview of the performed tasks and required competencies. Such an overview would be valuable for training, further education and recruiting. This paper presents data on task areas and competency requirements from a national survey of personnel responsible for RIM, CRIS management and reporting in Germany (N =224). With the help of a factor-analytical design, we were able to identify task profiles, such as System development & data modeling and Communication with stakeholders. The task profiles were then compared with a competency model which we developed to support further education and recruiting in research information management. Implications for further development of the competency model are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For continuous monitoring and controlling of the well path during the drilling process, the bottom hole assembly is equipped with sophisticated sensors, which collect geological and directional data. The driller at the surface requires the information for decision making, and therefore, the acquired data must be processed and transmitted to the surface in real time. The most common method for transmitting the data in deep boreholes is the so called mud pulse telemetry. The mud pulse telemetry uses the flowing drilling mud inside the drill string as a transmitting channel, whereby the information is transmitted either in baseband or in passband as coded pressure pulses or waves. The main disadvantage of the mud pulse telemetry is its low transmission data rate. The achieved data rate, in practice usually about 10 bits per second, is very low compared to the amount of raw data measured downhole. At the Institute of Drilling Engineering and Fluid Mining of the Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany, a special focus has been given to develop new ways and novel approaches for speeding up the mud pulse telemetry systems. One of the most recent developed approaches is the hybrid mud pulse telemetry system. According to the new approach, the data will be transmitted simultaneously in base- and passband. Each downhole generated pressure signal transmits two different information words simultaneously, and therefore, the receiver end at the surface must be modified correspondingly. At the receiver end, a special signal processing method is developed and applied to extract the baseband-information and the passband-information from the main received pressure signal. The paper describes the developed concept for a hybrid mud pulse telemetry system and presents the investigation results. Also, a special data management method for the data transmission using the hybrid mud pulse telemetry system is developed and presented in this paper. • Hybrid mud pulse telemetry transmits the downhole date parallel in base- and passband. • The new developed telemetry concept was investigated on the laboratory flow loop. • The laboratory investigations confirmed the functionality of the hybrid mud pulse telemetry system. • A special signal processing method was developed and applied in order to extract the two transmitted data strings from the measured pressure time signal. • A novel method for data management was developed for further acceleration of data transmission rate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses a study whose objectives include establishing an electronic transfer of radiological images (DICOM) between hospitals with heterogeneous software and hardware equipment, examining the speed and volume of typical transfers and analyzing how the transfer volume can be decreased by various compression algorithms. It notes that the typical bandwidth of a normal DSL-connection is enough to transmit typical volume of a trauma patient within an acceptable time.