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Since the digital technologies emerge, digital heritage has become an integral part of the world's cultural heritage under the leadership of UNESCO. With the development of digitization and accumulation of data, the digital information processing system for cultural heritage keeps updating. However, there still exist the problems of low information integration degree and weak information sharing ability, severely restricting the promotion and integration of cultural heritage and society. This paper proposes a digital cultural heritage cloud platform, where basic data service, knowledge service, engineering application, visual exhibition were realized through HTTP request. This platform completely encapsulated a large number of cultural heritage data processing algorithms. Accordingly, a cultural heritage data management system, a cultural heritage knowledge construction and application system, a cultural heritage display, analysis and evaluation system, and a cultural heritage microenvironment index monitoring system were embedded in this platform. In addition, the platform provided API for professional customized development to provide effective support. This platform can be flexibly adapted and extended, laying solid foundation for digital information sharing of cultural heritage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite the existence of studies addressing the historical development of digital platforms, none of them has yet drawn a coherent and comprehensive interpretation of the emergence of scientific digital platforms. The previous literature (i) focuses on specific scientific practices; (ii) does not reach far enough back into the past; (iii) does not cover all relevant groups of social actors; (iv) does not propose a taxonomy for scientific digital platforms; and (v) does not provide a definition for scientific digital platforms. We propose in this paper a long-term view (from 1990 onwards), allowing us to identify the participation of distinct groups of social actors—within State, Market and Science subsystems—in the process of science platformization. Dialoguing with the most up-to-date literature, we broaden our understanding of the ongoing process of platformization of the research life cycle, proposing a taxonomy and a definition for scientific digital platforms. The evidence provided throughout the paper unveils that (i) the changes (caused by platformization) in each of the phases of the research cycle are not at all linear and are not happening simultaneously; (ii) actors from different subsystem played important roles in the platformization of science; and, (iii) specific categories of platforms have consolidated themselves as infrastructures and certain scientific infrastructures have been platformed, although this varies by category. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, a change to the remit and title of a UK government department provides a starting point for reflection on the growing role of digital technologies in the re-imagination of UK cultural policy. An early strategic report produced by the re-named DCMS was entitled Culture is Digital. Identifying the UK's cultural and technology sectors as 'the ultimate power couple,' this report directs the cultural sector towards the use of technology to enhance public engagement and to improve technical skills through the development of collaborations with technology companies. Reflecting on the place of DCMS in UK cultural policymaking and drawing on analysis of this report and associated strategic documents, including responses and updates produced in the light of the Covid pandemic, the paper analyses the claims made about the elision between culture and the digital and their consequences for the status of cultural policy within the British state. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Summary: In recent years, with the development of the Digital Revolution, information technologies such as digital twins and virtual reality are gradually penetrating people's daily learning and living environment. The digital twin historic landscape street has the performance advantages of virtual reality integration, real‐time interaction, independent iteration, and dynamic perception. Taking the historical district of Yu Garden in Shanghai as an example, this paper builds a travel simulation model of the historical district based on the basic elements of the scene service of the digital twin district under the empowerment of "cloud, data and intelligence". With the digital twin lamps as the physical entity, the passenger flow dynamic simulation data model is constructed. The effectiveness of the model was verified through simulation of the impact of passenger flow changes on passenger flow, and improvements and enhancements were made to smart lighting fixtures in the block. This study explores the rich application scenarios of digital twin historic blocks and creates a scenario‐based service model, which will fully activate various online and offline elements of historic landscape blocks, bringing users a brand‐new immersive experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper introduces the innovative concept of platform literacy, specifically within the context of digital platforms. In today's digital economy, where digital platforms are essential tools in people's lives and form the core of the digital ecosystem, the ability to effectively utilize these platforms is becoming crucial. This study systematically examines the existing literature on digital platforms and digital literacy to establish a conceptual foundation for assessing an individual's platform literacy. Drawing upon insights from the digital literacy framework, we propose a platform literacy framework that can be applied in practical settings. Methodologically, we conducted an extensive review of 735 research papers on digital literacies to gather definitions and frameworks. As a result, we identified seven core constructs and three main proficiencies that constitute the platform literacy framework. Moreover, to adapt the framework to the various digital platform contexts, we categorized it into fixed and variable attributes. This paper contributes to the growing body of knowledge on digital literacy by offering a comprehensive framework for understanding platform literacy within the digital platform landscape. • Digital platforms are essential tools in people's lives and form the core of the digital ecosystem. • However, despite its importance, the concept of platform literacy is absent in academia. • This study introduces the concept of platform literacy, specifically within the context of digital platforms. • We conducted an extensive review of 735 research papers on digital literacy to gather definitions and frameworks. • This study proposes the platform literacy framework which can be adapted to the various digital platform contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on the analysis of 5G and Internet of Things technology, this paper proposes the reference architecture of smart factory and its application path for traditional manufacturing enterprises in China, in which the intelligent manufacturing workshop is the core component of smart factory. The Internet of Things technology combined the advanced technologies (Industrial Big Data, WSN, RFID, Cloud Computing Platform) and provides hardware network foundation and technical theory for designing the real-time tracking and monitoring system of intelligent workshop products. The developed system has the advantages of low cost, rapid deployment, and convenient expansion, which traditional manufacturing enterprises realize intelligent management based on IoT application platform. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The increasing pervasiveness of urban systems and networks utilizing digital technologies for their operation generates enormous amounts of digital traces capable of reflecting in real-time how people make use of space and infrastructures in the city. This is not only transforming how we study, design, and manage cities but opens up new possibilities for tools that give people access to up-to-date information about urban dynamics, allowing them to take decisions that are more in sync with their environment. This paper documents the ongoing LIVE Singapore! project which explores the development of an open platform for the collection, elaboration and distribution of a large and growing number of different kinds of real-time data that originate in a city. Inspired by recent data.gov initiatives, the platform is structured to become itself a tool for developer communities, allowing them to analyze data and write applications that create links between a city's different real-time data streams, offering new insights and services to citizens. Being a compact island based city-state metropolis, Singapore offers a unique context for this study. This paper addresses the value of stream data for city planning and management as well as modalities to give citizens meaningful access to large amounts of data capable of informing their decisions. We describe the technology context within which this project is framed, illustrate the requirements and the architecture of the open real-time data platform to serve as a base for programming the city, and finally we present and discuss the first platform prototype (using real-world data from operators of cellphone networks, taxi fleet, public transport, sea port, airport, and others). Based on this prototype a public showcasing of the project was staged in April 2011 at the Singapore Art Museum and the visual data analytics generated are illustrated in the paper. Finally, we draw some conclusions of technical as well as organizational nature regarding the challenges we faced when working in new ways with real-world, real-time data streams in an urban context that will help inform further development of our as well as of related projects in progressing in disclosing the potential of the wealth of digital data generated by urban systems, networks, and infrastructures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Effectively managing energy and power consumption is crucial to the success of the design of any computing system, helping mitigate the efficiency obstacles given by the downsizing of the systems while also being a valuable step towards achieving green and sustainable computing. The quality of energy and power management is strongly affected by the prompt availability of reliable and accurate information regarding the power consumption for the different parts composing the target monitored system. At the same time, effective energy and power management are even more critical within the field of devices at the edge, which exponentially proliferated within the past decade with the digital revolution brought by the Internet of things. This manuscript aims to provide a comprehensive conceptual framework to classify the different approaches to implementing run-time power monitors for edge devices that appeared in literature, leading the reader toward the solutions that best fit their application needs and the requirements and constraints of their target computing platforms. Run-time power monitors at the edge are analyzed according to both the power modeling and monitoring implementation aspects, identifying specific quality metrics for both in order to create a consistent and detailed taxonomy that encompasses the vast existing literature and provides a sound reference to the interested reader. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The energy consumption of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) presents a new grand technological challenge. The two main approaches to tackle the challenge include the development of energy-efficient hardware and software. The development of energy-efficient software employing application-level energy optimization techniques has become an important category owing to the paradigm shift in the composition of digital platforms from single-core processors to heterogeneous platforms integrating multicore CPUs and graphics processing units (GPUs). In this work, we present an overview of application-level bi-objective optimization methods for energy and performance that address two fundamental challenges, non-linearity and heterogeneity, inherent in modern high-performance computing (HPC) platforms. Applying the methods requires energy profiles of the application's computational kernels executing on the different compute devices of the HPC platform. Therefore, we summarize the research innovations in the three mainstream component-level energy measurement methods and present their accuracy and performance tradeoffs. Finally, scaling the optimization methods for energy and performance is crucial to achieving energy efficiency objectives and meeting quality-of-service requirements in modern HPC platforms and cloud computing infrastructures. We introduce the building blocks needed to achieve this scaling and conclude with the challenges to scaling. Briefly, two significant challenges are described, namely fast optimization methods and accurate component-level energy runtime measurements, especially for components running on accelerators. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In an age of digitalized interactions, offerings are no longer “finished” in the traditional sense; creation of value continues by engaging actors (often consumers and their associated social networks) interacting with organizing actors (often firms and their associated organizational ecosystem) in a joint space of interactive system-environments. One can think of the Apple Watch NikePlus (AWNP) offering in which the consumer co-creates valuable experienced outcomes with a mix of applications, touchpoints, and uses, while AWNP and its organizing actors co-create environments with consumers. Actors increasingly find themselves in such a joint enactment of interactional value creation, through offerings as evolving digitalized networked arrangements of artifacts, persons, processes, and interfaces, which the authors refer to as a Digitalized Interactive Platform (DIP). This implies a broader view of value creation—one in which value is created through interactions, versus one where value is simply the exchange of a fixed offering between a firm and its customers. Offerings as DIPs have significant implications for the theory and practice of marketing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Research Summary: We explore the challenges that digital platform-based sharing economy ventures confront in establishing legitimacy for their business models by examining the dynamics that ensued when Uber Technologies deployed its ridesharing business model in four U.S. cities. Uber entered each city to jump-start network effects by establishing cognitive legitimacy while deepening a sociopolitical legitimacy crisis that emerged due to mismatches between its business model and existing regulations. Operating between existing categories, Uber used a series of interrelated market and nonmarket strategies, which we label as liminal movement, to generate cognitive and sociopolitical legitimacy. Managerial Summary: Sharing economy ventures based on digital platforms confront market and institutional challenges in each context they enter. On entry, these ventures must rapidly build an ecosystem of users and service providers, and engage with local regulators, administrators, and social groups in order to gain acceptance. The key to a venture's survival and success is liminal movement or in other words, its ability to adapt its digital platform and business model to continually leverage opportunities and address concerns as they emerge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Industrial companies operate in increasingly competitive international environments; thus, they need to continuously innovate to improve their competitiveness, productivity, and quality. Digital transformation, which is one of the foundations of Industry 4.0, is essential to addressing these innovation challenges. The objective of this study is to present the methodology, development, and implementation of a new cloud computing platform that collects, stores, and processes data from shop floors. Manufacturing shop floors use connected, intelligent devices that produce thousands of data points that, once computed, provide a high added value. This study presents the architecture to collect this data, store it in a big data cloud computing solution, and then process it using advanced artificial intelligence algorithms and/or optimization techniques. The proposed platform has been developed to minimize the complexity and costs required to facilitate its adoption. The platform's implementation and evaluation were conducted by two companies from two different sectors of the Brazilian industry. The objective of the first company was to diagnose production losses in a compressor production line. Using the developed solution, the company identified prospective changes in the layout and automation that could increase productivity by approximately 5%. The objective of the second company was to implement dynamic and optimized process planning in clothing manufacturing. The first assessment of the gains of the proposed solution exhibited an average productivity increase of 10.69% ± 1.82% (confidence interval). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The self-proclaimed front page of the internet, Reddit is a many faceted site, described variously as an assemblage of online communities, a social news aggregation website and a social media site. Reddit is one of the most popular sites online both in terms of visitation and interaction. Central to Reddit's popularity is its active community of users who contribute posts, comments and votes to subreddits resulting in a series of constantly changing bulletin boards comprised of over 3 billion submissions annually. Since its inception in 2005, Reddit has generated polarized engagement and responses to this community activity from wildly positive to highly toxic. Recent developments around perceived political manipulation of and on Reddit and accusations of content manipulation and censorship have raised questions of trust in the Reddit platform. Since 2019 Reddit has sought to identify and mitigate bad actor behaviour, address content manipulation and maintain the site's authenticity and the historical context of Reddit's attempts to address each is of central concern to this article. How this history then intersects with contemporary ideas of digital resignation and commons-based models of management informs analysis in the article on moderation practices, opens up new possibilities for future research into concepts of platform literacy and structural (digital) imagination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article examines two business model "Innocentive.com" and "Challenge.gov" which focuses on issues related to innovation, and presents characteristics to both common and different, whether the sponsor is private or public. Topics include the impact of rise digital economy on internet; use if platforms by companies for research and development, and innovation services; and the role of the same in making contribution to economic development through major technological issues.

The article focuses on proliferation of digital intermediation platforms. Topics include its ideological features and benefits for the sharing economy; building of platform cooperativism; and the role of intermediation platforms such as production and crowdfunding, aggregation of content, advertising and marketing, electronic commerce.

Geography is in the midst of a digital turn. This turn is reflected in both geographic scholarship and praxis across sub-disciplines. We advance a threefold categorization of the intensifying relationship between geography and the digital, documenting geographies produced through, produced by, and of the digital. Instead of promoting a single theoretical framework for making sense of the digital or proclaiming the advent of a separate field of ‘digital geography’, we conclude by suggesting conceptual, methodological and empirical questions and possible paths forward for the ‘digital turn’ across geography’s many sub-disciplines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The growing video game markets, especially the mobile market, have caused problems in terms of new game products being found by players. Cross-promotion and in-game advertising have been used to promote video games inside each other. However, the digital nature of video games as an interactive medium enables deeper collaboration between video games, and could be used in a more profound manner. We interviewed Finnish video game companies to understand if they were interested in creating deeper collaboration between their game products, and how such collaboration could take place. Based on the results, we built a platform called Gamecloud for connecting games together. We present the platform architecture and demonstrate it in use, with examples of connecting games with other games and connecting games with the real world, alongside an example of physical exercising. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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