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This easy-to-follow reference shows a variety of professionals how to use the Concurrent Versions System (CVS), the open source tool that lets you manage versions of anything stored in files. Ideal for software developers tracking different versions of the same code, this new edition has been expanded to explain common usages of CVS for system administrators, project managers, software architects, user-interface (UI) specialists, graphic designers and others.

Current for version 1.12, Essential CVS, 2nd Edition offers an overview of CVS, explains the core concepts, and describes the commands that most people use on a day-to-day basis. For those who need to get up to speed rapidly, the book's Quickstart Guide shows you how to build and use a basic CVS repository with the default settings and a minimum of extras. You'll also find:

• A full command reference that details all aspects of customizing CVS for automation, logging, branching, merging documents, and creating alerts
• Examples and descriptions of the most commonly used options for each command
• Why and when to tag or branch your project, tagging before releases, and using branching to create a bugfix version of a project
• Details on the systems used in CVS to permit multiple developers to work on the same project without loss of data

An entire section devoted to document version management and project management includes ways to import and export projects, work with remote repositories, and shows how to fix things that can go wrong when using CVS. You'll find more screenshots in this edition as well as examples of using graphical CVS clients to run CVS commands. Essential CVS also includes a FAQ that answers common queries in the CVS mailing list to get you up and running with this system quickly and painlessly.

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Part I contains six chapters that focus upon LO concepts vis-à-vis architecture Part II deals with pertinent issues and trends related to LO concepts and architecture. Readers will find all that eleven chapters of this book offer cogent, grounded, analysis of the challenges and opportunities posed by the complex interplay between LO standards, metadata, repositories, and LCMS..
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Metadata is increasingly central to enterprise IT architecture, and to applications ranging from data warehousing to CRM. Finally, there's a comprehensive, start-to-finish guide to implementing metadata solutions Leading data management consultant Adrienne Tannenbaum covers the real issues associated with bringing together data from multiple sources, identifies the key challenges to building effective metadata systems, and presents practical solutions. Tannenbaum begins by focusing on data, its relationship to knowledge, why it is so hard to locate, and how metadata can help. She reviews the key elements of a metadata solution, including metamodels, metadata stores, and repositories, and presents a complete methodology for planning and implementing a metadata solution. She reviews non-technical factors such as readiness and scoping, as well as technical issues such as architecture, exchange, and presentation. Tannenbaum compares today's leading metadata approaches and solutions, including solutions that leave metadata in place, accessing it through a common portal or gateway, as well as solutions that centralize metadata. The book concludes with a thorough discussion of managing metadata solutions and maintaining metadata quality. Throughout, Tannenbaum presents extensive real-world examples and case studies garnered from her extensive consulting experience..
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"This is the first book to tackle the subject of meta data in data warehousing, and the results are spectacular . . . David Marco has written about the subject in a way that is approachable, practical, and immediately useful. Building and Managing the Meta Data Repository: A Full Lifecycle Guide is an excellent resource for any IT professional." -Steve Murchie Group Product Manager, Microsoft Corporation

Meta data repositories can provide your company with tremendous value if they are used properly and if you understand what they can, and can't, do. Written by David Marco, the industry's leading authority on meta data and well-known columnist for DM Review, this book offers all the guidance you'll need for developing, deploying, and managing a meta data repository to gain a competitive advantage. After illustrating the fundamental concepts, Marco shows you how to use meta data to increase your company's revenue and decrease expenses. You'll find a comprehensive look at the major trends affecting the meta data industry, as well as steps on how to build a repository that is flexible enough to adapt to future changes. This vendor-neutral guide alsoincludes complete coverage of meta data sources, standards, and architecture, and it explores the full gamut of practical implementation issues..
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This book explores the dilemma of siting a high-level nuclear waste (HLNW) repository The authors examine siting conflicts from a variety of perspectives - political, psychological, and sociological - and identify the fundamental determinants of public opposition to waste disposal facilities as a means of designing more effective approaches to solving the typical siting dilemma. In assessing the causes of public opposition, the book draws on various surveys of attitudes toward the repository as a function of predictors such as perceptions of risk, benefits, and fairness. Exploring the factors that underlie public opposition to a repository enables one to understand why current siting efforts have failed. More importantly, the data are useful in defining what new strategies might be effective in obtaining public consent for a HLNW storage facility.
One of the primary conclusions is that the current impasse in the siting of a HLNW repository stems primarily from a lack of national consensus on the need for such a facility. The book also recommends the need for a `fair' siting process and the authors strongly favor a voluntary process to solve the siting dilemma. Such a process was initiated in the U.S. by the 1987 Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act; the process of finding a volunteer site has proven to be difficult, but there are signs that this process can work. Finally, the book focuses on the problems associated with siting a HLNW repository by treating this case as a generic example of the more basic siting dilemma. The analysis of public opposition and the recommendations we make for successful siting can be generalized to almost any attempt to site a noxious facility..
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In the aftermath of the Revolutionary War, after decades of intense upheaval and debate, the role of the citizen was seen as largely political. But as Catherine O'Donnell Kaplan reveals, some Americans saw a need for a realm of public men outside politics. They believed that neither the nation nor they themselves could achieve virtue and happiness through politics alone. Imagining a different kind of citizenship, they founded periodicals, circulated manuscripts, and conversed about poetry, art, and the nature of man. They pondered William Godwin and Edmund Burke more carefully than they did candidates for local elections and insisted other Americans should do so as well.

Kaplan looks at three groups in particular: the Friendly Club in New York City, which revolved around Elihu Hubbard Smith, with collaborators such as William Dunlap and Charles Brockden Brown; the circle around Joseph Dennie, editor of two highly successful periodicals; and the Anthologists of the Boston Athenaeum. Through these groups, Kaplan demonstrates, an enduring and influential model of the man of letters emerged in the first decade of the nineteenth century..
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In this account, the author, who served as a policy analyst for Utah monitoring the US Department of Energy's nuclear waste programme, develops a theory of the "nuclear establishment" and explains its success in dominating policy-making. He also describes the history of the 1982 Nuclear Waste Policy Act and its aftermath. After two decades of debate in Congress, state legislatures and the media, the United States still cannot decide where to bury its most dangerous form of garbage - radioactive materials that remain toxic for thousands of years. The problem appears to be intractable. The Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 promised a solution, but Gerald Jacob believes that instead of addressing scientific credibility, legitimacy, and priorities of the nuclear waste programme, the NWPA deferred to the interests of nuclear utilities and the US Department of Energy. Dr Jacob describes how the nuclear establishment used science and geography to protect its interests and dominate nuclear waste policy-making. He brings to light assumptions which drove federal policy-making and implementation, such as an impending energy space, the national benefits of a repository, and the need to restore the financial viability of the nuclear options. He further evaluates the federal promotion of nuclear power, specifically how it affected the goals of waste management and how repeated, bungled attempts at a quick solution wrecked public confidence in a federal waste management programme. "Site Unseen" asserts that, in order to answer the demands of the nuclear utilities and reduce opposition to the Department of Energy programme, federal agencies have repeatedly used their authority to steamroll public opposition and concerns. In the end, federal strongarm politics has made substantial innovation impossible, locking the country into a single but flawed waste disposal solution..
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Summary: This book discusses the concept of the Institutional Repository (IR) and examines how they can be set up, maintained and embedded into general institutional working practice. Specific reference is made to capturing certain types of research material such as E-Theses and E-Prints and what the issues are with regard to obtaining the material, ensuring that all legal grounds are covered and then storing the material in perpetuity. General workflow and administrative processes that may come up during the implementation and maintenance of an IR are discussed. The book notes that there are a number of different models that have been adopted worldwide for IR management, and these are discussed. Finally, a case study of the inception of the Edinburgh Research Archive is provided which takes the user through the long path from conception to completion of an IR, examining the highs and lows of the process and offering advice for other implementers. This allows the book the opportunity to introduce extensive practical experience in unexpected areas such as mediated deposit. Key Features: 1. A comprehensive synthesis of the whole of the IR system - never before provided in other books 2. The research results that it contains are at the leading edge of this subject area 3. Includes a comprehensive case study and examination of practical experience - never before provided in other books 4. Covers every angle of the IR in detail, from culture to technical considerations and the different models that can be implemented 5. Gives the reader an idea of the complexities of the subject and provides a spring board into areas such as digital preservation in context The Authors: Richard D Jones is based at the University of Bergen, Norway. Dr Theo Andrew and John A MacColl are based at the University of Edinburgh. Readership: Implementers of Institution Repositories; digital librarians; academic librarians; library managers; librarians; information scientists and library studies students Contents: Introduction Building the repository Technical requirements for The Institutional Repositories Workflow and administration Advocacy IPR, copyright and licensing Where the Institutional Repository meets the digital library Case Study: Edinburgh Research Archive Glossary of Terms Appendix A: an overview of the current popular software packages.
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