Documenting information making in archaeological field reports

PurposeSharing information about work processes has proven to be difficult. This applies especially to information shared from those who participate in a process to those who remain outsiders. The purpose of this article is to increase understanding of how professionals document their work practices with a focus on information making by analysing how archaeologists document their information work in archaeological reports.Design/methodology/approachIn total 47 Swedish archaeological reports published in 2018 were analysed using close reading and constant comparative categorisation.FindingsEven if explicit narratives of methods and work process have particular significance as documentation of information making, the evidence of information making is spread out all over the report document in (1) procedural narratives, (2) descriptions of methods and tools, (3) actors and actants, (4) photographs, (5) information sources, (6) diagrams and drawings and (7) outcomes. The usability of reports as conveyors of information on information making depends more on how a forthcoming reader can live with it as a whole rather than how to learn of the details it recites.Research limitations/implicationsThe study is based on a limited number of documents representing one country and one scholarly and professional field.Practical implicationsIncreased focus on the internal coherence of documentation and the complementarity of different types of descriptions could improve information sharing. Further, descriptions of concepts that refer to work activities and the situation when information came into being could similarly improve their usability.Originality/valueThere is little earlier research on how professionals and academics document and describe their information activities.

4D Inspection: A Comprehensive Platform to Digitize Pipeline Construction Inspection and Generate Data Driven Continuous Improvement

Beginning in 2018, TC Energy began an effort to digitize inspection and construction management and internally named this concept the Dynamic, Digital, Data and Diagnostics platform otherwise known as “4D Inspection”. The 4D Inspection platform is built upon Project Consulting Service’s Epilogue® energy infrastructure construction management solution and is intended to evolve inspection reporting to a digital platform to create standardized construction reporting embedded with real-time compliance validations for efficient and effective management of field construction issues, progress tracking, and over-all construction quality monitoring. Currently, this effort is nearing the end of its first year of a multi-year implementation plan, the platform is in use on projects in both Canada and the United States spanning four different time zones with more than 595 inspectors on over $7.5 billion in capital projects. Even with implementation still underway, this concept’s key functionality, like automated inspection report document control, simplified photo capture with geo-tagging and automated daily progress reporting, has provided immediate benefits of more thorough, more reliable, and more efficient construction data than ever gathered using previous data collection processes. With improved data accuracy and detail, TC Energy gains insight and even foresight into how best to advance construction quality and safety while also impacting overall project costs and schedule.

ANALISIS POTENSI PERTUMBUHAN PENDAPATAN ASLI DAERAH (PAD) UNTUK OPTIMALISASI PENDAPATAN PEMERINTAH PROVINSI JAWA TENGAH

AbstrakOtonomi Daerah membuka peluang Pemerintah Daerah lebih aktif dalam meningkatkan Pendapatan Daerah yang sesuai dengan perundang-undangan. Pendapatan yang memungkinkan untuk di usahakan oleh pemerintah daerah Provinsi adalah Pendapatan Asli Daerah. Pendapatan Asli Daerah (PAD) menjadi salah satu penyokong pemenuhan kebutuhan dalam rangka penyelenggaraan pemerintah daerah. Penelitian ini akan berfokus pada kontribusi PAD terhadap Pendapatan daerah dan menganalisis potensi pertumbuhan PAD. Jenis penelitian yang digunakan adalah deskriptif. Teknik pengumpulan data yang dilakukan adalah dengan mengumpulkan dokumentasi berupa dokumen laporan realisasi anggaran pendapatan dan belanja daerah Provinsi Jawa Tengah dengan periode 2013-2018. Dalam pembahasan penelitian ini diambil kesimpulan (1) Tingkat kontribusi PAD terhadap Pendapatan Daerah Provinsi jawa tengah masuk kategori sangat baik dengan prosentase lebih dari 50%. (2) Pajak Daerah merupakan jenis PAD yang menyumbang prosentase lebih dari 80% PAD secara keseluruhan. (3)Potensi pertumbuhan PAD setiap tahunnya sekitar 6,5%.Kata Kunci : PAD, Pendapatan Daerah, Pajak Daerah, Kontribusi, Potensi Pertumbuhan. AbstractRegional Autonomy opens opportunities for the Regional Government to be more active in increasing Regional Revenues in accordance with the prevailing laws and regulations. The revenue possibly earned by the provincial government is that of local own-resource revenue. Local Own-resource Revenue (PAD) becomes one the sustaining pillar to fulfill the need in order to perform the implementation of the regional government. The present study was focused on the PAD contribution to the Local Own-resource Revenue and analyzing the potential growth of PAD. The study was conducted in a descriptive design. The data collection technique employed was documentation collection in the form of report document of revenue budget realization and local own-resource revenue and local state budget of Central Java Province during the 2013-2018 period. From the discussion of this study, some conclusions could be made as follows (1) The rate of PAD contribution to the local own-resource revenue of Central Java Province was considered very good with a percentage of more than 50%. (2) Local Tax is a type of PAD that gave a contribution to a percentage of more than 80% of PAD as a whole. (3) The potential for annual PAD growth was around 6.5%.Keywords : PAD, Local Own-source Revenue, Local Tax, Contribution, Growth Potential.

“Society Becomes a Mass Organization of the Soviet Intelligentsia”: Information about the Organization and Work of the AllUnion Society for the Dissemination of Political and Scientific Knowledge

A historical source is introduced into scientific circulation that reveals the features of the creation and activity of the first three years of the All-Union Society for the dissemination of political and scientific knowledge - Information about the organization and work of the All-Union Society for the dissemination of political and scientific knowledge. The reference is a report document that displays data on the number of popular science events held, on the structure and composition of the society, and on the intensity of attracting scientists from academic institutions. This document contains the necessary information for studying the problem of interaction between the scientific community and political power in the first post-war decade within the framework of the Institute responsible for popularizing scientific knowledge.

Good Practices for Strengthening the Social Capital of Village Communities by House Renovation Activities

The study examines how to strengthen the social capital among the village communities with the study case in Genuksari, South Semarang. It aims to reconstruct the community service activities by the Community Service Team of Faculty of Letters, Diponegoro University, which took place in 1989, 30 years ago. The method used was a historical-contemplative method, based on the community service report document. It was the research work in the form of writing related to the topic, supplemented by in-depth interviews with the interviewees. The results of good practices are in the form of a theoretical framework for the social capital utilization from the slum village community to become a community that is empowered and dignified on its own ability, able to change from a village that is originally hopelessly marked by drinking, gambling into a community which is able to build a residence through a social gathering system and mutual work and has successfully rehabilitated 22 housing units.

The Development of E-Procurement System for an IT Consultant Company

The research objective was to identify, analyze, and design a procurement information system that was developed by an IT consultant company for their client companies. Data collection techniques used were literature study, field study, document study, learning and trying the existing e-procurement system. Then, it was followed by analysis on general procurement processes using objectoriented analysis with Unified Modeling Language (UML) as tools. The result is a web-based e-procurement application that supports documentation and storage of transaction data. It also generates reports in accordance with company requirements. The main system features are Request Usage Form (RUF), Purchase Request (PR), Purchase Request Summary (PRS), Request for Quotation (RFQ), Quotation, Winner Selection (WS), Purchase Order (PO), and Receive Report (RR). It can be concluded that the developed system can support procurement processes effectively and efficiently, and integrate the inventory and approval system. Integration with inventory system will result in easier stock checking and automated update of goods data in the inventory system. It includes creating item, editing item, and receiving made report document. Integration with approval system will also result in the simpler process of documents approval in the e-procurement system.

Constructing Metadata Schema of Scientific and Technical Report Based on FRBR

Scientific and technical report is an important document type with high intelligence value. But the resource distribution of different carrier forms of scientific and technical report is not integrated and the resource description is not deeply and specific enough to the report document type, which influences the information searching accuracy and efficiency for users. Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR), an emerging model in the bibliographic domain, provides interesting possibilities in terms of cataloguing, representation and semantic enrichment of bibliographic data. This study employs the FRBR conceptual model and entity-relationship analysis method to design in-depth descriptive metadata schema of scientific and technical report by analyzing the entities and mapping the bibliographic attributes corresponding to the characteristics of report, which can help to integrating and disclosing scientific and technical report resources.