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The purpose of this article is to offer scholars and practitioners a more coherent and holistic starting point for asking questions about information and communication technologies for peacebuilding than has been available so far. A transdisciplinary proposal is made that applies critical pedagogy of peace education to the way that digital media can be used to build peace in communities and societies. This argument is further underpinned by insights from cognitive science and social psychology. The concept of sociotechnical consciousness is developed, which describes what it is like to be experiencing a sociotechnical system. We conclude that, to deploy digital media as part of peacebuilding initiatives, the media’s impact on individuals and groups deserve as much consideration as the content that is delivered via these media. This has important implications for how to design and use media in peacebuilding contexts.

The article focuses on the Supporting Productive Queries for Research (SPQR) study led by King's College London on the potential of semantic approaches to integrate classical antiquity. It says that the study addresses the issue on the representation of information through the development of cultural heritage data ontology. It tells that the disintegration mechanisms and linked data transformation of information are also investigated. It adds that resources include corpora of inscriptions.

The article offers information on the implications of different workshops and seminars on interfaces between grid- and repository-based software architectures for researchers and information scientists. Participants of the workshops discuss various characteristics of preservation, while each seminar focused on the capture of provenance data and the preservation of the creation process.

The article focuses on the fast development of repositories and their application in Web landscape. It discusses the main purpose of repositories, the development in digital repositories, the deployment of repository software packages, and the opportunity they provide for users. It details the repository adoption for use needs, the trust in the system and application levels of open repository environment, the repository object stack, and the replication of digital objects.