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Architecting Digital Information Ecosystems
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Architecting Digital Information Ecosystems

A special issue of Information (ISSN 2078-2489). This special issue belongs to the section "Information Systems".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2023) | Viewed by 10920

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Dr. Asif Gill

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School of Computer Science, University of Technology Sydney, Broadway, NSW 2007, Australia
Interests: agile methods; digital ecosystem; enterprise architecture; information architecture
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Dear Colleagues,

Digital ecosystems (DEs) are a distributed and heterogeneous network of different types of actors, such as individuals and organizations, that require seamless, effective, and efficient architecture for digital information handling and sharing. Traditional point-to-point and ad-hoc integrations and traditional information infrastructure hinder the ability of DE actors to do so. The overarching challenge is: how do we handle information in complex DEs? This Special Issue aims to investigate what the contemporary information architecture challenges, theories, practices, technologies, and applications are in various domains of digital ecosystems. such as agriculture, business, government, health, retail, and financial and manufacturing ecosystems

Dr. Asif Gill
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • digital ecosystem
  • enterprise architecture
  • information architecture
  • information agility
  • information infrastructure
  • information sharing
  • information modelling
  • knowledge graph-based ontology
  • information management
  • information governance
  • information engineering
  • information privacy
  • information security
  • information ethics
  • information laws
  • information standards

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A Reference Architecture for Enabling Interoperability and Data Sovereignty in the Agricultural Data Space
by Rodrigo Falcão, Raghad Matar, Bernd Rauch, Frank Elberzhager and Matthias Koch
Information 2023, 14(3), 197; https://doi.org/10.3390/info14030197 - 21 Mar 2023
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Agriculture is one of the major sectors of the global economy and also a software-intensive domain. The digital landscape of agriculture is composed of multiple digital ecosystems, which together constitute an agricultural domain ecosystem, also referred to as the “Agricultural Data Space’’ (ADS). [...] Read more.
Agriculture is one of the major sectors of the global economy and also a software-intensive domain. The digital landscape of agriculture is composed of multiple digital ecosystems, which together constitute an agricultural domain ecosystem, also referred to as the “Agricultural Data Space’’ (ADS). As the domain is so huge, there are several sub-domains and specialized solutions, and each of them poses challenges to interoperability. Additionally, farmers have increasing concerns about data sovereignty. In the context of the research project COGNAC, we elicited architecture drivers for interoperability and data sovereignty in agriculture and designed a reference architecture of a platform that aims to address these qualities in the ADS. In this paper, we present the solution concepts and design decisions that characterize the reference architecture. Early prototypes have been developed and made available to support the validation of the concept. Full article
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The Colombian Media Industry on the Digital Social Consumption Agenda in Times of COVID-19
by Andrés Barrios-Rubio
Information 2022, 13(1), 11; https://doi.org/10.3390/info13010011 - 28 Dec 2021
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The pandemic and lockdown forced the media and its agents to transform and think differently. The situation brought with it the reinvention of productive routines and revitalized the information consumption agenda of audiences immersed in screen devices. The operational change of the Colombian [...] Read more.
The pandemic and lockdown forced the media and its agents to transform and think differently. The situation brought with it the reinvention of productive routines and revitalized the information consumption agenda of audiences immersed in screen devices. The operational change of the Colombian media industry, at a time of conjuncture, is approached by this research from a mixed, quantitative and qualitative methodology, with the aim of evaluating the response of the national news company to citizens’ news expectations during lockdown. The case study outlines a digital characterization of the public’s relationship with the media and communication. The corpus of analysis is made up of the actions of the main news agencies in Colombia—press (2), radio (5), television (2)—and their actions on social media—Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube—in the period between 1 January and 31 May 2020. The result of this study denotes a mediamorphosis of analogue media that revitalizes and integrates them into a 360° consumption chain, focusing on content that gives way to a creative culture that adapts to the demands of the market and imposes a see now, share now strategy to expand its market penetration. Full article
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A Theory of Information Trilogy: Digital Ecosystem Information Exchange Architecture
by Asif Qumer Gill
Information 2021, 12(7), 283; https://doi.org/10.3390/info12070283 - 16 Jul 2021
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Information sharing is a critical component of a distributed and multi-actor digital ecosystem (DE). DE actors, individuals and organisations, require seamless, effective, efficient, and secure architecture for exchanging information. Traditional point-to-point and ad hoc integrations hinder the ability of DE actors to do [...] Read more.
Information sharing is a critical component of a distributed and multi-actor digital ecosystem (DE). DE actors, individuals and organisations, require seamless, effective, efficient, and secure architecture for exchanging information. Traditional point-to-point and ad hoc integrations hinder the ability of DE actors to do so. The challenge is figuring out how to enable information sharing in a complex DE. This paper addresses this important research challenge and proposes the theory of information trilogy and conceptual DE information exchange architecture, which is inspired by the study of nature and flow of matter, energy, and its states in natural ecosystems. This work is a part of the large DE information framework. The scope of this paper is limited to the emerging concept of DE information exchange. The application of the DE information exchange concept is demonstrated with the help of a geospatial information sharing case study example. The results from this paper can be used by researchers and practitioners for defining the DE information exchange as appropriate to their context. This work also complements Shannon’s mathematical theory of communication. Full article
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