We welcome Adelaida Ojeda from the Universidad de la Costa (Barranquilla, Colombia). Adelaida will be part of our team during the next three months as an internship in her PhD studies.

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In the domain of geospatial data management, accurately defining the extent of a resource is crucial for effective search and retrieval. Traditionally, Minimum Bounding Boxes (MBB) have been the go-to method for this purpose. However, in this paper we conducted an empirical study to reveal that MBBs often fall short in terms of precision (returning false positive results such as Figure 1), leading to less effective spatial searches.

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Civil law regulates the civil or private relations of persons: it deals with the civil status of persons, their family rights and duties, property and other real rights over things, the regime of obligations and contracts, and successions and inheritances. Although in Europe each country has its own civil law code at the state level, this law dates back to past times and has evolved until present times. In many administrative areas this law has its origin in historical kingdoms that regulated the conditions of settlement of their citizens. The books that publish these historical codes of civil law and the doctrinal works that document their interpretation make up an asset of cultural interest whose study allows us to learn about the political, social, and cultural context of this historical period. Nowadays there are numerous initiatives (e.g. Europeana) that have promoted the digitization of documentary heritage, including that related to civil law. However, simple digitization is not enough. This work is a first step in a research project that aims to promote the study of works of special interest in the field of the history of civil law (specially, civil law authors of XVI, XVII and XVIII centuries) accompanied with the development of the necessary technology to have an online hypertext edition of the works that includes the digital facsimile, a critical edition, a translation and all the complements that are deemed relevant (e.g., legal codes cited and notes or glosses to the text both legal and historical-philological or bibliographical).

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The agri-food supply chain requires accurate forecasting of its production performance since failure affects a vital population need. Maize, rice, and wheat are the three primary cereals consumed globally. However, a key distinction in the industrial processing of maize compared to rice and wheat is dry and wet milling. Dry milling of maize yields primary products such as semolina and various flours, while wet milling primarily generates starch, gluten, and feed. Wet maize is highly vulnerable to fungal growth and insect pests. Therefore, it is necessary to minimise storage duration before processing. Ideally, grains should be incorporated into the processing chain immediately after harvesting, so scheduling harvest activities is vital for achieving optimal results.

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El Grupo de Sistemas de Información Avanzados y el Instituto de Investigación en Ingeniería de Aragón abren la convocatoria para los premios a los trabajos de fin de estudios defendidos en cualquier universidad española entre el 1 de enero de 2023 y el 31 de diciembre de 2023 que más aporten al desarrollo y explotación de los datos abiertos. Aunque en anteriores ediciones este premio ha estado restringido a trabajos realizados con datos geográficos abiertos, a partir de esta edición el premio quiere incluir el reconocimiento del trabajo en otros ámbitos y problemas, siempre que estén relacionados con los datos abiertos.

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