The GDPR requires Data Controllers and Data Protection Officers (DPO) to maintain a Register of Processing Activities (ROPA) as part of overseeing the organisation’s compliance processes. The ROPA must include information from heterogeneous sou...
Building Information Modeling (BIM) is increasingly establishing a model-based work process in the construction industry. Though it can be considered the standard for the planning of new buildings, the use cases for existing buildings are still limit...
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) algorithms possess the capability to accelerate the design of novel materials; however, their advancement in materials science is severely hindered by a fundamental deficit of experimental data,...
The paper follows-up ongoing research focusing on the potential of machine-readable data as additional knowledge in the governance of local tourism and destination management organizations (DMOs) in Slovakia. The current focus is on one classic socia...
Supplement 1 to the ‘Guide to the expression of uncertainty of measurement’ describes a Monte Carlo method as a general numerical approach to uncertainty evaluation. Application of the approach typically delivers a large number of values...
This publication examines the representation of information within test specifications and formulas defined in standards and directives. This information often pre-defines not only the tests and requirements to be conducted but also the information b...
The recognition of human activities from video sequences and their transformation into a machine-readable form is a challenging task, which is the subject of many studies. The goal of this project is to develop an automated method for analyzing, iden...
Data interoperability is an ongoing challenge for global open data initiatives. The machine-readable specification of data types for datasets will help address interoperability issues. Data types have typically been at the syntactical level such as i...
The advent of the digital era has put forward an urgent need for the digitization of metrology, and the digitization of metrology vocabularies is one of the fundamental and critical steps to achieve the digital transformation of metrology. Metrology...
We present the application of QR Codes as carriers for colorimetric dyes, whereby this refined version of machine-readable patterns applied to colorimetric sensing also allows us to maintain the data from the QR Code standard in a back-compatible way...
Machine-readable financial reporting changes how corporate disclosures become visible, verified, and answerable. Inline eXtensible Business Reporting Language (Inline XBRL) combines a human-readable report with embedded structured data, while artific...
The advent of the digital era has put forward an urgent demand for the digitization of units of measurement, and the construction of unit ontology is an important method to realize the digitization of units of measurement. However, the existing unit...
The English-Xhosa Dictionary for Nurses (EXDN) is a bilingual, unidirectional printed dictionary in the public domain, with English and isiXhosa as the language pair. By extending the digitisation efforts of EXDN from a human-readable digital object...
This study implemented the measurement results and administrative information obtained from the hole plate into the Digital Calibration Certificate (DCC). The DCC comprises three parts: Norms and Standards, Hierarchical Structure, and XML as Exchange...
Cardiovascular disease remains a leading cause of global mortality, and the electrocardiogram (ECG) is among the most widely used diagnostic tools. However, a substantial number of ECG records remain available only as paper records or scanned images,...
In the age of digitalization, the collection and analysis of large amounts of data is becoming increasingly important for enterprises to improve their businesses and processes, such as the introduction of new services or the realization of resource-e...
Dementia affects approximately 50 million people in the world today, the majority suffering from Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The availability of long-term patient data is one of the most important prerequisites for a better understanding of diseases. W...
Digitalization and the rapid development of IoT systems has posed challenges for metrology because it has been comparatively slow in adapting to the new demands. That is why the digital transformation of metrology has become a key research and develo...
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are expected to eventually replace traditional vehicles that require human drivers. In recent years, several AV manufacturers have begun on-road testing to validate the safety of these vehicles. California is one of the few...
News about personal data breaches or data abusive practices, such as Cambridge Analytica, has questioned the trustworthiness of certain actors in the control of personal data. Innovations in the field of personal information management systems to add...
The durability of concrete structures is essential for reliable infrastructure. Although many deterioration models are available, they are rarely applied in situ. For existing structures in need of repair or durability assessment, this is also the ca...
Although other methods exist to store and manage data in modern information technology, the standard solution is file systems. Therefore, keeping well-organized file structures and file system layouts can be key to a sustainable research data managem...
Optical character recognition (OCR) is the process of extracting handwritten or printed text from a scanned or printed image and converting it to a machine-readable form for further data processing, such as searching or editing. Automatic text extrac...
Technological progress in metrology provides new opportunities for enhancing the quality and transparency of metrological services, with the Digital Calibration Certificate (DCC) playing a significant role in this development. In contrast to traditio...
Any information is (transported as) a selection from an ordered set, which is the “domain” of the information. For example, any piece of digital information is a number sequence that represents such a selection. Its senders and receivers...
Part design is the principal source of communicating design intent to manufacturing and inspection. Design data are often communicated through computer-aided design (CAD) systems. Modern analytics tools and artificial intelligence integration into ma...
The storage, transmission, and processing of data become significant problems when large digital data files or databases are involved, as in the case of decentralized online global databases such as blockchain. Here, we propose a novel method that al...
The documentation, preservation and rescue of biological diversity increasingly uses living biological samples. Persistent associations between species, biosamples, such as tissues and cell lines, and the accompanying data are indispensable for using...
Plant phenotyping experiments increasingly integrate diverse data types, including physical samples, image-derived traits, environmental measurements, and multi-omics datasets. As experimental complexity grows, maintaining traceability between indivi...
With the increasing reliance of astronomy on multi-instrument and multi-messenger observations for detecting transient phenomena, communication among astronomers has become more critical. Apart from automatic prompt follow-up observations, short repo...
Since the dawn of the new millennium and even earlier, a coordinated effort has been underway to expand the World Wide Web into a machine-readable web of data known as the Semantic Web. The field of art and culture has been one of the most eager to i...
Here, we introduce the EpiConnect Intelligence Platform (ECIP), a platform facilitating rapid, transparent data sharing and analysis to support researchers and public health officials in Europe, with a focus on Italy. ECIP provides reliable, concise,...
Regulation of modern societies requires the generation of large sets of heterogeneous legal documents: bills, acts, decrees, administrative decisions, court decisions, legal opinions, circulars, etc. More and more legal publishing bodies publish thes...
Trends for the digital transformation of metrology and regulation of metrology through IT have some keywords in common with the main properties of the blockchain, such as traceability, immutability, and machine-readable documents. The possible applic...
This study aims to develop an automatic data correction system for correcting the public construction data. The unstructured nature of the construction data presents challenges for its management. The different user habits, time-consuming system oper...
This paper proposes a robust methodology for integrating process-specific data and domain expert knowledge into linked knowledge graphs. These graphs utilize an ontology that provides a standardized vocabulary for material science and facilitates the...
Coordinate measuring machines (CMMs) report sampling-dependent estimates of geometric form. This secondary, exploratory reanalysis examines individual exported results from six drilled cylindrical features documented in a 2025 diploma thesis, with tw...
Marine turtle and cetacean strandings along the Italian coastline represent critical ecological events that require systematic documentation, yet historical data have suffered from fragmentation and poor accessibility across heterogeneous archives. G...
Crystallography is fundamental to elucidating the relationship between microscopic structure and macroscopic material properties, and its progress is closely associated with advances in computational tools and software. This review traces the develop...
The AECO (Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Operation) sector is highly complex, involving multidisciplinary collaboration, extensive data management, and significant financial investments. Decisions in early phases significantly impact op...
The automation of smart building design processes remains a significant challenge, particularly in translating complex natural language requirements into structured design parameters within Computer-Aided Design (CAD) environments. Traditional design...
Life cycle assessment (LCA) is the standard method for the quantification of environmental impacts within the construction sector, relying on available generic LCA databases. New developments, such as the increased influence of the building construct...
With the increasing digitalization of maritime transportation, the demand for structured and interoperable data has grown. While the S-100 framework developed by the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) provides a foundation for standardizin...
Different causative therapeutics for CF patients have been developed. There are still no mutation-specific therapeutics for some patients, especially those with rare CFTR mutations. For this purpose, high-throughput screens have been performed which...
Hospital layout significantly influences hospital service quality, demanding robust tools for informed decision-making during the layout design stage. This study presents a novel Hospital Configuration Model as the foundational component of a Hospita...
Forest foods play a vital role in enhancing dietary diversity, human health, and the sustainable use of forest ecosystems. However, structured and machine-readable resources that systematically describe their taxonomic and nutritional attributes rema...
This article examines the “semantic gap” in the digitisation of museum collections—the divide between human-comprehensible representations of artefacts and machine-readable data structures. Drawing on a comparative analysis of natio...
Background and Objectives: Medical diagnosis documents often exhibit diverse layouts and formats, posing significant challenges for automated information extraction. Ensuring the privacy of sensitive medical data further complicates the development o...
Analyzing the usability of open machine-readable registries in the context of minimizing gaps for local occupancy tax evasions in the example of Slovakia is the main purpose of this paper. The concept uses the Registry of Financial Statements’...
Selecting an appropriate visualization technique for multidimensional and multivariate financial and accounting (F&A) data remains a complex, user-dependent task. The TaxUI&BV4FADA taxonomy previously organized this problem along four dimensi...
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