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ItemElectronic Document Management And Tracking System( 2022-12-16)The PhilHealth Regional Office of National Capital Region (PRO NCR) is an office under the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PHIC) that has created and manages the different types of documents internally that disseminates and routed to various offices. Documents such as Advisory, Corporate Office Order, and other pertinent documents are the most common to create and process. Over the year, most of the problems gathered through interviews and personal experience are missing documents, ineffective dissemination, poor tracking, retrieving, and printing documents. The Electronic Document Management and Tracking System (EDMTS) can manage and transmit various documents. It also centralizes storing information and electronic documents through a web application to quickly retrieve, share, disseminate, and monitor documents' status. The web-based system comprises different modules such as user management, location library management, document type, action management, and document management, which can create new documents and route and publish the electronic document. EDTMS was developed using PHP Laravel framework for the frontend, MySQL to store information, and Apache server as a web application server. As a result, the corporation improved its performance and increased its productivity in managing the documents.
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ItemContent-based Original Pilipino Music (OPM) recommender system centered on mood( 2022-12-16)Recommender systems have become increasingly relevant due to the userfocused service delivery of streaming giants like Netflix and Spotify. Systems like this make it possible to offer media content that is highly similar to a user's preference and, if available, streaming history. Despite the availability of these enterprise recommender systems, recommendations are very global and general, requiring highly technical proficiency before one can use the technology to get recommendations for a very specific genre like Original Pilipino Music (OPM). This special project proposes a web-based recommender system using content-based filtering to recommend Original Pilipino Music (OPM) to music based on their mood, with recommendations subject to the user's input (e.g. is this song happy or sad?) that will be considered in the final recommendation. This project will also leverage audio content features available from the Spotify database for the model training part of the recommender system. Both objective and subjective evaluations of the implemented recommender system are scoped down to the available audio features of available OPM or Filipino songs on the Spotify Database. While this project concurs with the findings of many researchers that music based solely on audio content or features does not provide very accurate recommendations, this project is a good minimum viable product (MVP) for music enthusiasts. Furthermore, the project is also proof of concept for a more robust OPM recommender system in the future, as detailed in the results and recommendations.
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ItemWearable Futures Hackathon – Co-creating a Hybrid, Interdisciplinary Learning Experience( 2022-11-24)This paper is a personal reflection and autoethnographic account of the primary author's experience revolving around the participation in the Wearable Futures Hackathon course as a co-creator for the University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU) Bachelor of Arts in Multimedia Studies program (BAMS). It documents how his perceived participation evolved from being a consultant into co-creator of one of the Multimedia Studies course, the challenges he had to face reconciling the difference between the two, and how co-creation can possibly benefit the academe, the faculty, and the students as participants and as co-creators in developing engaging, innovative, and participatory workshops and classes, not only through online but also offline, first-person perspectives will be employed hereafter.
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ItemExploring Digital Artwork as NFT in Multimedia( 2022-08-16)Non-fungible tokens or NFTs as popularly known have disrupted art as we know it. Thanks to blockchain technology, artists have been able to certify the authenticity of their works and take control of how they distribute their artwork. The same can be said with buyers and collectors of NFT art as they can now sell and resell their art for a fair sum of money. In order to break through to this new concept, one must first understand how cryptocurrencies and blockchain work, which are key parts of the NFT economy. Incorporating my personal experience, this study aimed to determine the viability of NFTs as an art medium. I went through the full process of creating NFT art, from the actual artwork to the listing of digital artworks on OpenSea, one of the most popular NFT marketplaces. The study also observed the risks and benefits associated with selling NFT art and identified the issues and challenges that I have experienced in creating and listing NFT art. The current model of creating, minting, and selling NFTs is still a work in progress. Hopefully, in the near future, the process would be more streamlined to entice more people to be engaged in the world of NFTs which according to famous NFT artist Gary Vaynerchuk a.k.a. GaryVee is here to stay.
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ItemWebSoph: A web-based Knowledge Management System for the IT Department of Globalink Holdings Corporation( 2010-10-19)Corporations today are treating knowledge as an asset and investing on tools that enable them to promote knowledge sharing and reuse. The need to share knowledge is critical in problem solving especially in IT-oriented companies. Globalink Holdings Corporation's IT department is composed of software and web developers, databse administrators, network engineers and technicians, These personnel play an important role in the company's daily operations. WebSoph, a web-based Knowledge Management System, was developed to capture and transform knowledge and act as a tool to avoid waste and redundancy of work, lesse turnaround time, and help in project turnovers and personnel training. It was based on Knowledge Management model that combined strategic issues with implementation. A web-based framework was adopted for easy maintenance of the system. As for the design pattern, the Model-View-Controller architecture was implemented for easy maintenance, flexibility and code reusability. A face-to-face interview was conducted and feedbacks were collected through assessment form.