Haute école de gestion de Genève

The meaning of Architecture in Information Architecture : analysis and reflection

Fuss, Megan ; Schneider, René (Dir.)

Mémoire de master : Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2018 ; MASID 63.

There are various ways of identifying ‘Architecture’. It takes different shapes depending on the circumstances and the field of study, forming distinct disciplines. Furthermore, they all follow their own set of defined characteristics and principles that are reflective of their good practices and of how they are characterized. This paper converges both Information Architecture and...

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The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) : raising awareness of the user benefits for scholarly editions

Raemy, Julien Antoine ; Schneider, René (Dir.)

Mémoire de bachelor : Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2017 ; TDB 2347.

The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF), an initiative born in 2011, defines a set of common application programming interfaces (APIs) to retrieve, display, manipulate, compare, and annotate digitised and born-digital images. Upon implementation, these technical specifications have offered institutions and end users alike new possibilities. In Switzerland, only a handful of...

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Optimisation of CERN tools & methods for e-learning : the case of short online tutorials

Racine, Alexandre ; Schneider, René (Dir.)

Mémoire de master : Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2016 ; MASID 54.

The term “e-learning” is directly related to the practice of distance education, which started about one hundred and fifty years ago. At this time, it was possible for lecturers to teach using means such as mail, phone, radio or television. With the progress made in the field of telecommunications, the Internet and the web allowed people to drastically extend their ability to learn through...

Haute école de gestion de Genève

Archives 2.0 : the next generation websites for archival holdings

Goulet, Marylène ; Schneider, René (Dir.)

Mémoire de bachelor : Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2010 ; TDB 2120.

The emerging technologies, also known as web 2.0, have changed the online world as we know it. In the recent years, public and academic libraries have made the shift from paper to digital and have affirmed their presence on the web with those 2.0 tools as means of communication, engaging their public and crowdsourcing their collections. However public and historical archives have been somewhat...