Digital Information Environment Research Articles

Digital Image Representation Model Enriched with Semantic Web Technologies: Visual and Non-Visual Information

The types of content of digital images, visual (syntactic and semantic) and non-visual, cause the complexity of their representation. Considering these contents separately hinders digital image retrieval because this creates a gap between the contents of the image and its representation. Therefore, this work aims to present a representation model of visual and non-visual information of digital images, with semantic enrichment through the Semantic Web technologies. For that, a qualitative methodology with a bibliographical approach was used. Theoretical subsidies of the topics addressed were sought, and it has an applied focus since it proposes a model and its exemplification. The developed model depicts the representation image process and allows the semantic enrichment of the data. This enrichment facilitates the retrieval in multiple contexts with technologies that favor the use of the data through inferences. Also, a use case with digital medical images is presented, demonstrating the feasibility of the proposal. It is concluded that the representation of visual and non-visual content aims to improve the way images are retrieved in digital information environments. The junction of the content and the context of images should be considered, even though search mechanisms usually treat this separately due to the disaggregation of image representation itself.

OPPORTUNITIES AND FEATURES OF THE WORLDVIEW FORMATION IN THE DIGITAL COMMUNICATION ENVIRONMENT: BASED ON THE MATERIALS OF AN EXPERT STUDY

This article is devoted to identifying the features of the formation and transformation of the worldview and its key components in the context of the intensive development of the modern digital communication environment. In this regard, the paper puts forward a research hypothesis that the digital information and communication environment, as well as digital communication technologies, mechanics, affordances and algorithms, are not value-neutral and have the potential to influence the content aspects of the worldview of individuals. To confirm this hypothesis, the authors carried out a discourse analysis of modern research on this issue, as well as an international expert study with the aggregation and analysis of the results. The article defines and discusses the peculiarities of the influence of digital tools on the mass perceptions of users of the digital environment about objective reality, as well as on traditional worldview and value-semantic models. Based on the results of the study, a conclusion was drawn about the high level of value coloring and the significant impact of the digital information and communication environment, as well as digital communication technologies, mechanics, affordances, and algorithms on the modern worldview of individuals. It is concluded that the modern space of digital communications has acquired an independent ontological status, which, in the context of a significant drop in the volume of direct experience of the interaction of individuals with reality, is the foundation for intensive replacement of traditional ways of understanding the world and of the formation of worldview ideas through real social interaction with digital, maximally virtualized ways of understanding the world. The authors also conclude that high speed and intensity, seeming randomness and multidirectionality, as well as the high dynamics of the structure of digital communications, determine the crisis of the value-semantic and worldview self-identification of a modern person.

Digital approach to construction and demolition

High-tech digital solutions play a key role in many areas of modern life. The digitalization of construction is at the stage of development and every year it is being introduced more deeply into the industry: regulatory documentation is being developed, digital platforms for interaction between construction participants are being created, and software requirements are being formed. The construction industry needs professionals who will work in a digital information environment throughout the entire life cycle of a building. The level of modern information modeling makes it possible to create a unified digital environment for the development of design solutions, construction management, efficient operation of buildings and their demolition without causing damage to the natural environment. The article discusses digital technologies that accompany the construction and demolition stages of a building's life cycle. An analysis of the requirements for the content of information models is given, the tasks of organizational and technological design are identified, which can be solved through the introduction of a digital construction model. It is proposed to use an end-to-end information flow to ensure the transfer of reliable information between the stages of the life cycle of an object and the formation of information about secondary building resources that can be used in new construction.

ОБ ОДНОЙ ИЗ ФОРМ ПРОВЕДЕНИЯ ЭКЗАМЕНА ПО МАТЕМАТИКЕ В ВУЗЕ

The materials of the article consider the issues of organizing and conducting intermediate certification of students of specialties related to information security on the discipline «Mathematics». An approach is proposed, in the implementation of which a multi-level system of assessing students' knowledge is used, the range of opportunities for unlocking the potential of students is expanded, communication skills in a mathematical language are formed. A distinctive feature of the described methodology is the possibility of using both standard sources and digital information environment in the preparation process.

Stress tolerance and features of student self-regulation during the pandemic period

The coronavirus disease pandemic (COVID-19) of 2019 is a public health emergency all over the world, and in particular in our republic. This problem also poses serious questions in the context of psychological health. One of the problems is self-isolation, accompanied by intensive inclusion in the digital information environment, which has led to a deterioration in the psychological well-being of students and the emergence of stress. This article deals with the problem of a low level of stress tolerance of students during the post-COVIDtraining regime.During the coronavirus pandemic, measures were introduced around the world to stabilize the social, economic, and political spheres of life. Nevertheless, the pandemic has harmed both the way people live and their affective states. In this regard, the problem of increasing the stress resistance of students at the present stage is of particular importance.As the COVID-19 pandemic strengthens around the world, all areas of life, including daily activities, education, and economic and social sectors, have experienced significant downturns. While all subpopulations are affected by COVID-19, students are particularly vulnerable given their transition to emerging adulthood surrounded by broad future opportunities. Students are bearing a disproportionate burden ofpsychosocial illness, according to growing evidence, which can be attributed to the uncertainty surrounding the course of the pandemic and the sudden shift to online education. Stress becomes an integral part of student life and leads to violations of behavioral, emotional, cognitive, and motivational areas of activity. In addition, many businesses have reduced their recruitment efforts, leaving limited employment for students and more competition in the graduate labor market. The coronavirus infection hasforced people to stay in their homes for several months, and this is a very difficult task.

Повышение качества образовательного процесса посредством взаимодействия с родителями в цифровой информационной среде

Повышение качества образовательного процесса посредством взаимодействия с родителями в цифровой информационной среде

Educational and Professional Programme “Online Journalism and Blogging”: Interdisciplinary Content of the Speciality “Information, Library and Archival Management”

The aim of the study is to identify and substantiate the list of competencies required by a specialist within the interdisciplinary major “Online Journalism and Blogging” in the field of study “Information, Library, and Archival Management”. The research methodology is based on the use of a set of general scientific and special methods: analysis and synthesis, the method of comparative analysis for comparing the standards of higher education, which form the subject field of activity of a future specialist majoring in “Online Journalism and Blogging” in the field of study “Information, Library, and Archival Management”; the method of content analysis in the study of texts and documents; a hypothetical method for justifying the need for online journalism in the activities of institutions and the infrastructure of the document and information sphere. The scientific novelty consists in identifying the list of competencies required by a specialist within the interdisciplinary major “Online Journalism and Blogging” in the field of study “Information, Library and Archival Management” and substantiating the main focus of the educational programme, which is outlined as the formation and development of professional competence in providing press strategies in various forms of their implementation in the digital social and information environment as an integrative activity that includes information (document)-communicative and journalistic components. Conclusions. Increasing the competitiveness of modern specialists is normalised today by the introduction of interdisciplinary educational programmes into the educational process. The offer of the educational and professional programme “Online Journalism and Blogging” in the field of study “Information, Library and Archival Management” provides for mastering the knowledge related to the programme subject areas 061 Journalism and 029 Information, library and archival management, which determine its subject area, and the integration of educational content in these fields. The projected activity of the future specialist in the educational and professional programme “Online Journalism and Blogging” is within the framework of such basic concepts as “information resource” – “social communications” – “information product” in their interconnection and mediation by the use of digital technologies. The main focus of the educational programme and major is the formation and development of professional competence in providing press strategies in various forms of their implementation in the digital social and information environment as an integrative activity that includes information (document)-communicative and journalistic components.

Formation of digital communication in the organizational and pedagogical activity of the university

Authors conducted a sociological study with further analysis of the opportunities and threats associated with the introduction of the digital environment at the. The proposed criteria for modeling digitalization are focused on activating the innovative and creative potential of students, scientific and project activity of the teaching staff, as well as on improving professional level of training of personnel and employees of the university, including contributing to personal development and improving labor efficiency. These criteria allow the university brand to take a stable position in a competitive environment and expand the target audience. The introduction of a digital information and communication environment makes the economic development of the university stable, and, as a result, expands the options for partnerships, large-scale scientific and educational projects that give the right to enter the modern socio-cultural space of the country and the world.

Tool-HLCA: An intervention to promote the health literacy of school-aged children

Abstract Background In the age of ‘infodemic,’ children and young people encounter health-related information in digital environments at an early age. They should therefore learn how to deal with these in a health-competent way while still at school. Above all, it is relevant that they learn how to distinguish good health information from false. This can be achieved by promoting health literacy. The intervention “Toolbox” combines areas of media education in schools and health literacy to be implemented in schools and curricula in the long term. Methods The intervention was designed to address existing health topics in the classroom while strengthening digital health literacy in grades 7 to 10. The Toolbox was piloted in three school classes in Germany and the feedback provided by teachers and students was implemented in a new version of the intervention. Results The basic understanding of health literacy in the Toolbox is finding, understanding, evaluating and using digital health information. These steps are followed through using quality criteria for good health information. Students learn that they need to find out the type of information, analyze the author, investigate the media provider, and also the sources given. If they are unsure, they can conduct an adapted questionnaire regarding identify misinformation and disinformation. In addition, the students and teachers receive working materials for group work. Conclusions Recognizing disinformation is a relevant skill already for children and adolescents. The intervention should make it easier for students to recognize good health information. For teachers it should be made easier to address health literacy in school without additional effort.

8.M. Round table: Health literacy and vaccine literacy as determinants of vaccine acceptance: a critical discussion

Abstract In 2019, Sars-Cov-2 caused the greatest pandemic the modern world has ever faced. The pandemic was unprecedented regarding its effects on all aspects of society. Since the outbreak, debates on vaccines have been elevated in public health. The pandemic also emerged into a game changer regarding health communication and information delivery. With digital communication technologies, the Internet and Social Media being the most important tools to discuss health matters, exchange health knowledge and get advice from peers, every human has been part of a global communication network discussing the pandemic, related policies and vaccines. The digital realm allowed everybody to contribute to the state of Covid-19 related health information and absorb them. Altogether, this led to an overabundance of accurate and false information circulating the digital world, which culminated into the information epidemic (infodemic). Early on in the pandemic, it became obvious that people need competencies enabling them to navigate digital information environments, manage (digital) health information and to use digital health services that were accelerated through Covid-19. While health literacy and vaccine literacy were undervalued at the time, policy makers and practitioners soon highlighted their critical role in mitigating the spread of coronavirus, for protection against infection and increasing adherence to public health emergency measures. In context of the Covid-19 pandemic, health literacy enables people to find, understand and critically appraise relevant information and use it for prevention behaviour. Since it empowers individuals to mitigate the effects of the pandemic, health literacy is seen as a social vaccines. Vaccine literacy is a sub-dimension about health literacy, which especially became important when global roll-out of Covid-19 vaccines began in 2021. Vaccine literacy helps people to understand what a vaccine is, why it is relevant to get vaccinated and how it protects oneself and others. In addition, vaccine literacy empowers people to find vaccine-related information and judge about vaccine claims. The purpose of this roundtable is to discuss research findings on health literacy and vaccine literacy in relation to Covid-19, the determinants of vaccine acceptance, vaccine hesitancy and vaccine attitudes, generated in different European studies: (1) the international trend study HLS-Covid-19 conducted in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, (ii) HLCA-Kids-NRW on coronavirus-specific health literacy in primary schoolchildren (Germany) and (iii) the HLS19 European Health Literacy Survey. While the roundtable aims at introducing empirical findings, each panelist will provide a statement related to the roundtable theme based on the findings of their study. Together with the audiences, we will discuss about lessons learned from the pandemic and how to utilize health and vaccine literacy to increase vaccine acceptance. Key messages • Health literacy is a social vaccine and empowers people to manage health information and increase vaccine acceptance. • Vaccine literacy is a sub-dimension of health literacy and in particular is useful when addressed as part of public health emergency strategies. Speakers/Panellists Orkan Okan Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany Kristine Sørensen Global Health Literacy Academy, Risskov, Denmark Robert Griebler Austrian National Public Health Institute, Vienna, Austria Saskia De Gani Careum Center for Health Literacy, Zürich, Switzerland Torsten Michael Bollweg Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany

“Hi, Folks!” Attention Populism as a Strategy for Dominating the Dissonant Information Environment

This study describes a strategy for dominating the digital political information environment: attention populism. Dissonance in the information environment is a significant trend that is forcing political communication to change. Strategies of political communications experts aimed at dominating the dissonant information environment, and thereby winning the support of various civic and electoral groups, are becoming increasingly apparent, especially among populist parties. We use discourse analysis in a case study to describe the communication strategy of the former Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Andrej Babiš. We focus on his weekly long posts on Facebook that open with the greeting, “Hi, folks!” The case study demonstrates how attention populism works in contemporary political communication practice.

Visual Planarization in Oil Painting Techniques in Digital Information Age

The arrival of the digital information age has realized the transformation of people’s production and lifestyle, which has also promoted the vigorous development of the art field. At present, the application of informatization in oil painting techniques is increasing. The purpose of this paper is to realize the research on the visual planarization of oil painting techniques in the digital information environment to promote the ecological development of the computer and art field. By using the advanced methods and technologies of its information display, this paper proposed the use of image processing algorithms in the digital information age to guide the integration of digital information technology and oil painting techniques. This helped to analyze and solve objective problems such as the profound meaning of the objective existence in the art field and the inability to understand the emotion in it. It can be seen from the analysis of the oil painting color model that, in the RGB model, when the wavelength is within a certain range, it can be used. But when the wavelength is between 444 nanometers and 526 nanometers, the red intensity is too low. That is to say, it can not effectively express its corresponding color in this wavelength range. This model is very challenging. In the XYZ color model, when the wavelength is in a certain region, the output of red light becomes a value less than 0. Any color in this space can be well represented by a linear combination of X, Y, and Z. Therefore, the study of visual flattening of oil painting is very important in the field of art.

Application of Digital Information Technology in Enterprise Innovation Management

Digital information technology is the key to realize the efficient management of enterprises. It is necessary to analyze the information technology and provide perfect operating conditions for enterprises in combination with the economic management of enterprises. This article studies enterprise management in the digital information environment, improves the effectiveness of enterprise management methods, and judges the management state of enterprises. At the same time, formula calculation is used to provide a test method for the application effect of digital information technology so that that information technology can be evaluated fairly. The experimental results show that enterprise management also involves inventory management. It is necessary to use information technology to identify products, record the process of products entering and leaving the warehouse in combination with code scanning technology, and optimize the product management process. In the process of enterprise management, the process management form should be adopted to improve the reliability of management methods and ensure that the enterprise has a normal management mode and perfection of enterprise operation state. It proves that digital information technology can promote the development of enterprises, improve the reliability of enterprise management, and reduce the impact of adverse factors on enterprises.

The Strategic Value of the Liaison Librarian’s Personal Approach to Client Engagement

In today’s digital and distributed information environment, engaging with users is imperative for the success of liaison librarianship in the academy’s learning and research environment. Such associations require the liaison’s personal approach for connecting and building relationships with clients. This paper addresses the main factors for sustaining or improving ties with users as well as the prospects for individualized working relationships by liaison librarians. It examines the validity of and rationale for adopting a more personal type of engagement to improve and extend client connections in the long term. This article also looks at how such an approach by liaisons is reflected in best practices, guidelines, and articles in the library literature. In addition, it traces literature that helps establish grounds for personal or individualized engagement in the workplace. The paper concludes with some important practical considerations and calls for more in-depth research into the liaison librarian’s personal approach as an essential step for understanding and assessing the quality of liaison librarianship.

Функциональная неграмотность как следствие «смены субъекта мышления»

The most important reason for the formation of functional illiteracy is the impact of the digital information environment, in which the reduplication of knowledge as an activity is purposefully distributed. This method, becoming one of the main ones due to low energy consumption, reduces the degree of personal responsibility of the individual for the nature and meaningfulness of the activity. Reduplication and imitation as mental operations are supported by changes in memory, which is increasingly becoming transactive. The authors analyze one of the manifestations of functional illiteracy – the lack of neurophysiological operations in a significant part of the examined students, which are necessary for the full cycle of meaning generation. The authors found the most typical errors in student translations, which reflect cognitive alteration in mental activity of students thus pointing to the cognitive subject shift. The results of the analysis of the students' translation activity showed that it forms a stable tendency towards "simplification of meanings", that arises from the use of only nominative meanings, enables the use of an out-of-context and non-associative meaning of the word, promotes operating with approximate meanings, reflects the desire to identify the units with the same root, but different in lexeme value. It is proved that this is largely a consequence of the active use of various types of visual signs and a partial change in the quality of a verbal sign in the digital information space.

DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY USED IN COLLEGE LIBRARY SERVICES DURING COVID-19 SITUATION: IMPACT AND IMPLEMENTATION

This research paper highlights mainly the focus on the use of digital technology in library services during the Covid-19 period, through the use of technology the traditional college library services and its various managerial operations are transformation into the digital environment. In the higher education system in India, college library can plays a significance role in educational progress by using digital technology during Covid-19 for library services. The new technologies have facilitated the transformation of library resources for the college library users for their required information in digital environment at anywhere and anytime. The purpose of this paper is highlights the use of technologies for accessing information, library functions, activities and use the library resources for better learning.

Software and Hardware Support of the Project “Library of a New Generation in Creative University” at the Kemerovo State Institute of Culture

The results of the project “Library of a new generation in creative university” within the framework of the federal project “Creative People”, carried out at the Kemerovo State Institute of Culture in the direction of “Library and information activities” in terms of software and hardware implementation, are presented. Goals and objectives of the project were the following: creation of a comfortable environment for students, organization of an accessible environment for servicing people with disabilities, implantation of RFID systems, digital technologies for the formation of digital competencies of students and improvement of the digital information environment of the institute. The software and hardware, the results of their operation are considered. The practical results of the project implementation are outlined: the introduction of new services on the library bases, promotional events, publications in professional editions, the inclusion of the elective “VR-design” in the curriculum, the formation of digital content (electronic library of music publications, 3D modeling), the transfer of the library fund to RFID technology. Project prospects are shown: experiments in the field of work with information support of science and education, the formation of an open information space, including the work with new types of data; enriching the educational experience of students by creating a rich educational environment in physical and virtual space.

New trend of the information age: A research on digital hoarding

Bilinçaltında bir güdü olarak saklama, biriktirme, zamanı gelince kullanmak üzere toplama ihtiyacı hissetme, stoklama durumu istifçiliğin çeşitli tanımları arasındadır. Bir içgüdü olarak stoklama insanın doğasında bulunmakta, istifleme bozukluğu ise bu durumun fazlaca tekrarlanması ve nesnelere veda edememe durumuyla toplama ve bırakamama alışkanlığının artarak devam etmesi durumudur. Günümüzde teknolojinin sık kullanımı olumsuz etkilerini de beraberinde getirmiş ve dijital hastalıklar sık konuşulmaya başlanmış, özellikle büyük verinin psikolojik ve fizyolojik etkileri ciddi bir şekilde düşünülmeye başlanmıştır. Bilgi çağının bireyleri uçsuz bucaksız bir veriye sahip olan internetten pek çok bilgi edinerek, bu bilgileri hafızalarında tutmak yerine, dijital ortamlarda saklamayı tercih etmektedir. Gerek günlük bilgiler gerekse fiziki olarak saklanan veriler dijitale yenik düşmekte, dijital teknolojilerin günlük hayatın kaçınılmaz bir parçası haline gelmesi ise her türlü verinin dijitalde depolanmaya başlanmasına neden olmaktadır. Dijitalleşen dünyada yeni teknolojilerin ortaya çıkması ve günlük hayatın her alanına dâhil edilmesi konusunda yaşanan tedirginlikler, dijitalleşme ve teknoloji kaygısını gözler önüne sermiştir. Bilgi teknolojisi kaygısının psikolojik temeli, öz-yeterlik kavramıdır. Teknolojisi kaygısı ve öz-yeterlik kavramları, dijital depolama davranışının incelenmesinde önemli unsurlardır. Yapılan araştırmalar, bireylerin veri biriktirme nedenleri arasında sorumluluktan kaçınma, sorumlulukları öteleme ve Obsesif-kompulsif bozukluk gibi kişisel başka sorunları da tetikleyebildiğini ortaya koymuştur. Dijital araçların ve içeriklerinin biriktirilmesi ve depolanmasının neden ve sonuçları bağlamında yapılan çalışmaların sınırlı olduğu görülmektedir. Bu bağlamda, veri tabanları, videolar, resimler ve dijital belgeler gibi sanal ürünleri içeren depolama sorunları, bir başka deyişle dijital istifçilik ile ilgili araştırmaların yapılması çalışmanın amacını oluşturmaktadır. Çalışmanın sorunsalı, örneklem olarak seçilen dijital istifçilere yöneltilen açık uçlu sorularla nitel araştırma yöntemlerinden biri olan odak grup görüşmeleri yapılarak katılımcıların dijital biriktirme davranışlarının bilgi teknolojisi öz-yeterlik ve kaygısı çerçevesinde değerlendirilmesinin yapılmasıdır.

Computerized systems of graphic work review and assessment in the academic digital information and education environment

The author examines the issues of building the computerized system for reviewing and assessing graphic works and its application in distance learning. The need for integrating the system into interoperating digital library systems and online education systems, the role of digital library systems as the information resources for distance learning systems in the circumstances of online education and the need for seamless access to online information learning resources, are substantiated. The phenomenon of public open online courses demonstrates the significant place online learning occupies in the field of education. The need to prepare arts students through distance learning system actualizes the problem of building computerized review systems for graphic works.

New approach to computer-aided learning based on digital library user behavior

The author introduces the mathematical model of recurrent neural network with external memory. It is intended for predicting efficient education trajectory in digital information environments, e. g. digital libraries. The goal of computer-aided learning based on neural networks is to personalize user trajectories. In the study, user behavior is modeled for the more precise personalization in various aspects using recurrent neural networks. The method is designed for two types of recurrent neural networks, i. e. the classic one with sigmoidal activation function and that with LSTM (Long Short-Term Memory). The experiments demonstrated serious advantages of recurrent neural networks over analogous methods in predicting education trajectory. Thus, the proposed model is the more efficient in predictive accuracy (by 15–20% higher than analogous methods). Its prime application area is prediction of optimum user education trajectory in the digital information environment, and digital library, in particul