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2. Reparative Processing of the 'Luis Alberto Sánchez Papers': Engaging the Conflict between Archival Values and Minimal Processing Practices
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deGraffenreid, Alexandra
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This essay uses the reprocessing of the "Luis Alberto Sánchez papers," the collection of a prominent Peruvian politician and author housed at Penn State University, to argue that ethical and reparative processing needs should be prioritized within an archives' overall extensible processing program. The author explores the tension between two differing threads within the archival literature of: (1) using minimal or extensible processing practices to efficiently process backlogs; and (2) of acknowledging the power of archivists in shaping the historical record and their ethical responsibilities towards communities represented within their collections. This essay argues that archivists should prioritize collections where archival practices have perpetuated in obfuscating or marginalizing the records of traditionally underrepresented communities. It also argues that prioritizing this work capitalizes on the inherent flexibility within an extensible processing framework.
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- 2021
3. PAPER, PAPERMAKING & THE HISTORY OF LIBRARIES.
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Roughen Jr., Patrick F.
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This article traces the history of the relationship of papermaking and paper to libraries over time. Paper was first made in China and is traditionally considered one of that nation's four greatest inventions, along with gun powder, printing, and the compass. Papermaking was often associated with archives in its early development in China, as well as when it was introduced to Japan, where it came to be a part of some Shinto and Buddhist temples, and later governmental agencies. Under Islam, the availability of paper was linked to increased literacy and growth of libraries. In early modern Europe, before the widespread use of wood in the papermaking process, libraries and archives were part of an "economy of paper" with paper at times being in short supply. In the modern era, the world of papermaking did not intersect much with the world of the library, which made progress with the problem of brittle books, one of its greatest challenges, slow, though recent efforts of government, industry, scientists, and representatives of the library have produced positive results. The damage caused by wood-based paper in libraries was mirrored by the environmental damage caused by wood-based papermaking in communities. The history of papermaking and libraries demonstrates the importance of understanding the technologies which support the library, while also advocating effectively to the representatives of all its sources of support in ways which promote the values of the library and its associated community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
4. 2023 Brick & Click: An Academic Library Conference (23rd, Maryville, Missouri, November 3, 2023)
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Northwest Missouri State University, Frank Baudino, Sarah Jones, Becky Meneely, and Abha Niraula
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Eight scholarly papers and seven abstracts comprise the content of the twenty-third annual Brick & Click Libraries Conference, held annually at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, Missouri. The 2023 paper and abstract titles include: (1) The Reliability and Usability of ChatGPT for Library Metadata (Jenny Bodenhamer); (2) A Balancing Act in the Archives: Increasing Access to the Great Plains Black History Museum Collections (Wendy Guerra and Lori Schwartz); (3) Developing Info Students Where They Are: Personalizing Instruction to Increase Literacy Skills to Meet Engagement (Jorge A. León); (4) Empowering Undergraduates: Building Confidence in Primary Source Literacy (Jaycie Vos and Jess Cruz); (5) Quest for the Best: An Info Lit Strategy for First Year Seminars (Stephanie Hallam, Mary Bangert, and Michael Bezushko); (6) Are We Putting Our Values into Practice? Chat Reference Assessment (Mardi Mahaffy); (7) A Pilot Workshop on AI Art and Libraries at the University of Mississippi (Alex Watson); (8) New Expansions of Open Access to Benefit Research and Researchers (Barbara Pope); (9) Zettelkasten Note-Taking in Zotero for Grounded Writing (Rachel Brekhus); (10) Building Community: Library Leadership of a Common Book Program (Jill Becker); (11) Digital Media and Innovation Lab: A Must Have for Academic Libraries (Navadeep Khanal and Joseph Sabo); (12) Digital Libraries as Digital Third Place: Virtual Programming in the Age of Loneliness (Craig Finlay and Jenny Haddon); (13) Community Engagement: Academic and School Library Partnerships (Melissa Dennis); (14) Launching a Ticketing System With Asana (Hong Li); and (15) Meeting the Needs of Student Parents (Sarah Hebert). [For the 2022 proceedings, see ED623765.]
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- 2023
5. Challenges of Maintenance Practices of Paper Based Archival Information Materials and Strategies for Enhancement in Academic Libraries in Nigeria.
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Madumere, Chika Phoebe
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The paper examined the challenges of maintenance of paper based archival information materials and strategies for enhancement in academic libraries in South East, Nigeria which doubled as the objectives of the study. Descriptive survey research method was used for the study. The population consisted of 277 library staff in academic libraries of government owned institutions. Questionnaire and structured interview guide was used to collect data which was analyzed using the Statistical Package of Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20. Mean scores and standard deviation were used to analyze data generated for the two research questions while ttest was used for the hypothesis. Real limits of numbers were used to determine the bench mark. The major findings of the study showed the challenges involved in maintenance of archival materials to include inadequate funding and tropical climate that breeds insects. The strategies involved in archival maintenance practices include: recruiting adequate personnel in libraries, provision of maintenance policies, adequate funding of libraries for proper maintenance of archives, proper control of insect by the use of insecticides and adequate training of maintenance personnel. The hypothesis tested revealed that there is no significant difference in the mean ratings between the male and female library staff in respect to strategies for maintenance practices of paper based archival paper materials in the academic libraries. The paper recommended that the library administrators should engage qualified and competent staff on the field of Library and Information Science and ICT to ensure adequate maintenance of archival materials in academic libraries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
6. ZBIRKA SVETISLAVA STANČIĆA U KNJIŽNICI MUZIČKE AKADEMIJE U ZAGREBU – KNJIŽNICA STANČIĆ I KRAĆI OSVRT NA NJEGOV OSOBNI ARHIVSKI FOND.
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KARAFIN, Aleksandra MEŽNARIĆ
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LIBRARY catalogs , *DIGITAL music , *PERSONAL libraries , *PHONOGRAPH records , *MUSIC archives , *MUSIC libraries , *PIANO playing , *ARCHIVES , *SHEET music - Abstract
Svetislav Stančić (1895-1970), a piano pedagogue, pianist, composer, and founder of the Zagreb Piano School, was considered a central musical and cultural figure in the former Yugoslavia from late 1920s until his death in 1970. During the five decades of artistic and pedagogical work, he taught several generations of piano pedagogues and performers. His valuable personal library (the Svetislav Stančić Library), and personal papers (Personal papers of S. Stančić) provide information on his personal, artistic and pedagogical interests and connections. After his death in 1970, his widow Linda Stančić-Carnelutti donated this entire collection to the Piano Department of the Zagreb Academy of Music. The Stančić Library was stored in room 21, and the Personal papers are stored in the archive of the Croatian Music Institute. In 2015, the Academy of Music Library, which moved to a new building in 2014, received all of the materials of the Stančić Library (648 books, 2261 printed music, 188 gramophone records, 25 manuscripts of other composers and some periodicals), and in 2021 his personal papers were also transferred to the Academy of Music Library. In 2022, the processing of the Stančić Library was completed, making it available to all users and researchers in the Academy of Music Library. Information about the titles in the Stančić Library is available through the Academy of Music Library online catalogue. The value of this collection comes from the variety of materials, themes, authors, composers, editors, performers and editions represented. A variety of topics and approaches to the problem of piano technique is represented in the books, and the Stančić Library contains a wide range of editions of the piano repertoire. Stančić’s hand-written comments and notes in the books and sheet music enable a detailed analysis of his critical attitude towards the methods of other piano pedagogues of his time. They also provide insight in his pedagogic and methodological approach, technical solutions (fingerings, pedal), his approach to interpretation and his redactions of works by other composers. Also of great importance is the collection of 25 autographs of Croatian and Slovenian composers, some of which are the only existing copies (part of the Stančić Library), as well as the collection of Stančić autographs (part of the Personal papers of Stančić). The diverse material of the Stančić Library and Personal papers is a very valuable source of information, important for piano pedagogues as well as performers, musicologists and other interested researchers. The collections can form the basis of research on Stančić’s approach to technical and pedagogical issues, on his place as a composer in Croatian music, on history of the piano department of the Academy of music, and on the general history of Croatian cultural and musical life of Stančić’s time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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7. ARHIVSKO GRADIVO U KNJIŽNICI MUZIČKE AKADEMIJE: ZBIRKA OSOBNIH FONDOVA.
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KLAJZNER, IVANA
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MUSIC teachers , *LIBRARY materials , *MUSIC libraries , *CONDUCTORS (Musicians) , *LIBRARIANS , *ARCHIVES , *MUSICAL notation - Abstract
The Library of the Academy of Music of the University of Zagreb keeps a particularly valuable collection of personal papers – personal documents, manuscripts and other archives created and collected by local musicians, conductors, music teachers and music historians during the performance of their duties. In many cases, those materials came into the Library’s possession as a part of private donations and legacies. Recently, the librarians at the Library of the Academy of Music have started to arrange and describe those materials according to the principles of archival arrangement and description, and so far the personal papers of Theo Tabaka, Ivan Pinkava, Petar Dumičić and Zinka Kunc (Milanov) have been processed. The purpose of this paper is to point out the significance and value of such materials and to provide a brief overview of the contents of the personal papers processed so far. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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8. Placing Papers Update: The Black and Latino Experience in the Literary Archive Market.
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Chen, Amy Hildreth
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BLACK people , *HISPANIC American students , *HISPANIC Americans , *ARCHIVES , *RESEARCH libraries , *INTERNATIONAL trade disputes , *UNIVERSITIES & colleges - Abstract
Placing Papers: The American Literary Archive Market (University of Massachusetts Press, 2020) discussed the post–World War II trade in authors’ papers. One finding of Placing Papers was how well Black writers did on the market as measured by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) rank of their papers’ housing institutions and the frequency with which Black authors were paid for their materials. However, this boon for Black writers only occurred once colleges and universities sought to improve the diversity of their holdings. In this update to Placing Papers, the author expands her data set to include more authors of color to verify her original findings for Black writers and determine the comparative success of Latino authors. The study determined that while Black writers indeed do just as well or better than white authors on the archive market, Latino writers remain understudied and undercollected. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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9. Conservation risks for paper collections induced by the microclimate in the repository of the Alessandrina Library in Rome (Italy).
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Verticchio, Elena, Frasca, Francesca, Cavalieri, Patrizia, Teodonio, Lorenzo, Fugaro, Daniela, and Siani, Anna Maria
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LIBRARY storage centers , *TEMPERATURE lapse rate , *ARCHIVES , *INSECT eggs , *STRAINS & stresses (Mechanics) , *CARDINALS (Clergy) , *REACTION time - Abstract
The Alessandrina Library was founded in 1667 by pope Alexander VII Chigi and is nowadays housed in the Campus of Sapienza University of Rome (Italy). Within its Ancient (mostly made of rag paper) and Modern (mostly made of contemporary paper) collections, it includes more than one million books produced from the XVI to the XXI century. In 2019, six thermo-hygrometers were deployed in its multi-storey repository to monitor temperature (T) and relative humidity (RH). Hourly T and RH data collected over 2 years allowed us to evaluate spatial and temporal thermo-hygrometric distributions and to carry out a comprehensive assessment of the climate-induced risks (mechanical, chemical, and biological deterioration mechanisms). Vertical temperature gradients associated with unstable conditions occurred in winter, resulting in upraising air flows up to the ceiling. The risky short-term RH fluctuations (EN 15757:2010) were determined to avoid mechanical stress in case of loans, relocation, and consultation. The Time Weighted Expected Lifetime (TWEL) index was used to evaluate the chemical risk for different paper-based collections as a function of their acidity and degree of polymerisation, also considering the typical response time of paper books to T and RH changes. The TWEL calculation estimated that the durability of acidic paper was around 300 years and highlighted that rag paper could be subject to cellulose hydrolysis only in summer and autumn, while contemporary paper was mostly at no risk. The risk of mould germination (Sedlbauer diagram) was possible on few days in Autumn, while the production of insect eggs (Brimblecombe empirical function) was favoured during approximately 42% of time over the year. In addition, illuminance and colorimetric measurements (performed on selected book covers) showed that light-sensitive objects could be exposed to the photodeterioration risk in the east-facing side of the repository. Although the investigation focussed on a specific case study, a similar approach could be effectively adapted to most library and archival repositories conserving paper-based collections. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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10. Learning from and Making Use of Digitized Hidden Collections. Proceedings from the 2022 Digitizing Hidden Collections Symposium, October 12-13, 2022
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Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)
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This Proceedings document begins with the text of the keynote by Dr. Michelle Caswell, followed by seven papers, representing a sampling of the symposium presentations from the 2022 Digitizing Hidden Collections (DHC) Symposium, a capstone event for the Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives program. This program was funded by the Mellon Foundation and issued calls for new applicants between 2015 and 2020. The two-day symposium brought together over 135 participants, with presenters from 23 grant-funded projects, both past and current. Their contributions addressed the symposium's theme: "We digitized it--what's next? Learning from and making use of digitized hidden collections." An appendix lists all Symposium content and those who presented and contributed.
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- 2023
11. 2021 Brick & Click: An Academic Library Conference (21st, Maryville, Missouri, November 5, 2021)
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Northwest Missouri State University, Baudino, Frank, Johnson, Carolyn, Jones, Sarah, Meneely, Becky, and Young, Natasha
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Ten scholarly papers and twelve abstracts comprise the content of the twenty-first annual Brick & Click Libraries Conference, held annually at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, Missouri. The twenty-first Brick & Click Libraries Conference was held virtually. The proceedings, authored by academic librarians and presented at the conference, portray the contemporary and future face of librarianship. The 2021 paper and abstract titles include: (1 Designing a Library Exhibition Program On an International Scale for Outreach and Research (Danielle De Jagger-Loftus and Sarah Hanson-Pareek); (2) It's Not Busy Work (Veronica Denison and Tara Coleman); (3) Leading from Anywhere (Rebecca Croxton, Anne Cooper Moore, and Sherri Saines); (4) Intentional Design: Crafting a Mutually Beneficial Internship Program in a University Archives and Special Collections (Wendy Guerra, Claire Du Laney, and Lori Schwartz); (5) The Plot Thickens: Writing the Next Chapter for Access Services (Anna Hulsenberg, Michelle Twait, and Leah Zacate); (6) Get on Track, Jack: Library Assessment Strategies (Nancy Marshall, Linda Kott, and Kristin Echtenkamp); (8) Arguing in the Comments: Using Social Media Interactions to Teach the Rhetoric Of Research (Lane Wilkinson); (9) Migrating an Integrated Library System: A Framework for Fulfillment (Janelle Sander); (10) Defending Wonder: Adapting an Archival Tour in a Digital Environment (Laura Michelson, Allison Haack, and Christopher Jones); (11) Mapping Libguides to Students' Learning (Dipti Mehta and Xiaocan (Lucy) Wang); (12) An Uncommon Partnership: Special Collections and Advanced Art History Classes at Missouri State University (Anne M. Baker); (13) OER on Campus When Everyone Else is Off Campus: Strategies to Keep Your OER Program Momentum During a Pandemic (Susan M. Frey and Natalie Bulick); (14) Evaluating Library Resource Subscriptions: A Case Study (David L. Alexander); (15) Preparing Generation Z Student Employees for Productivity: Examples in Academic Library Virtual Training (Michael Straatmann and Kathryn Brockmeier); (16) Ask Them: Improving the International Student Library Experience (Carolyn Johnson); (17) Using an Advisory Board for Student-Driven Assessment (Cori Wilhelm); (18) Bridging the Gap Between The Library and International Students (Leila June Rod-Welch); (19) If I Were the Boss of You… This is How All Meetings Would Be Run (Tara Coleman); (20) Google Sheets in Library Instruction: A Simple Search Activity (Morgan Sederburg); (21) Utilizing Virtual Mini-Escape Rooms to Increase Awareness of Services at an Academic Health Sciences Library (Jessica King); (22) "Good Enough:" Preserving Born-Digital Content on Removable Media with Limited Resources (Dillon Henry). [For the 2020 proceedings, see ED608791.]
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- 2021
12. An analysis of retracted papers in Computer Science
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Martin Shepperd and Leila Yousefi
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cellular neuroscience ,FOS: Computer and information sciences ,Multidisciplinary ,systematic reviews ,computer and information sciences ,Computer Science - Digital Libraries ,database searching ,Computer Science - Information Retrieval ,meta-analysis ,scientific misconduct ,citation analysis ,Digital Libraries (cs.DL) ,archives ,Information Retrieval (cs.IR) - Abstract
Context: The retraction of research papers, for whatever reason, is a growing phenomenon. However, although retracted paper information is publicly available via publishers, it is somewhat distributed and inconsistent. Objective: The aim is to assess: (i) the extent and nature of retracted research in Computer Science (CS) (ii) the post-retraction citation behaviour of retracted works and (iii) the potential impact on systematic reviews and mapping studies. Method: We analyse the Retraction Watch database and take citation information from the Web of Science and Google scholar. Results: We find that of the 33,955 entries in the Retraction watch database (16 May 2022), 2,816 are classified as CS, i.e., approximately 8.3%. For CS, 56% of retracted papers, provide little or no information as to the reasons. This contrasts with 26% for other disciplines. There is also a remarkable disparity between different publishers, a tendency for multiple versions of a retracted paper over and above the Version of Record (VoR), and for new citations long after a paper is officially retracted. Conclusions: Unfortunately retraction seems to be a sufficiently common outcome for a scientific paper that we as a research community need to take it more seriously, e.g., standardising procedures and taxonomies across publishers and the provision of appropriate research tools. Finally, we recommend particular caution when undertaking secondary analyses and meta-analyses which are at risk of becoming contaminated by these problem primary studies., Comment: This is a preprint of the paper submitted to PLOS ONE
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- 2022
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13. Comment on the paper "Numerical analysis for the non-Newtonian flow over stratified stretching/shrinking inclined sheet with the aligned magnetic field and nonlinear convection, Muhammad Bilal, Muzma Nazeer, Archives of Applied Mechanics, 2021, 91: 949–964"
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Pantokratoras, Asterios
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APPLIED mechanics , *STRATIFIED flow , *NON-Newtonian flow (Fluid dynamics) , *MAGNETIC fields , *NUMERICAL analysis , *ARCHIVES - Abstract
Some errors exist in the above paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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14. Assessing Access Level as a Quality Criterion
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Kristian Roncero
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This paper discusses levels of access in language archives and their implications for assessment. In the absence of well-established criteria, part of the evaluation of language archives is often based on accessibility; roughly, the more "unrestricted" or "open access" content, the better the archive. In this paper, I argue that whilst open access may be indicative of good scientific practices, such criteria cannot be extrapolated to documentary linguistics. I start by explaining the differences between those concepts. Then I discuss the dialectic tension in which language depositors frequently find themselves. On the one hand, archives and grant agencies ask them to archive as much as possible with unrestricted access while also gathering a corpus as "naturalistic" and diverse as possible in terms of content, genres, speakers, and so forth. On the other hand, depositors are expected to behave ethically, which involves restricting access to certain materials. I move on to lesser-discussed cases illustrating how ethical decisions concerning accessibility are strongly bound to the needs and situations of the specific communities at a specific time. I finish by proposing new evaluation criteria, which do not penalise depositors for behaving ethically in situations out of their control, and a summary of the discussion.
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- 2023
15. Digital Archiving and the Establishment of Open Access Digital Repositories in Selected Nigerian Universities.
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Nasidi, Nadir Abdulhadi and Zakaria, Ahmed
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INSTITUTIONAL repositories ,DIGITAL libraries ,ARCHIVES ,ELECTRONIC information resources ,COMMUNICATION infrastructure ,ELECTRONIC paper ,DIGITAL literacy ,INFORMATION services - Abstract
This paper focuses on digital archiving and the establishment of open Access digital repositories in three selected Nigerian Universities. Despite the abundance of vital information kept in the traditional archives of Nigerian universities, many researchers cannot easily access it due to the seeming absence of proper digitization and online visibility. It is also observed that the practice of archiving and the management of information in the repositories in Nigerian universities is limited to the central library, which makes access to information in the satellite archives across the departments and in the administrative units very difficult. This paper therefore, intends to; determine the nature, existence and the roles of digital repositories in the three selected Nigerian universities and to identify the types of information sources and resources available in their digital repositories, among others. Qualitative research methodology was adopted. Data was purposefully obtained from the websites of the three Selected Nigerian universities. The findings of this study indicate that the Digital Repositories existed in the three selected universities studied with different names, and were found to contain volumes of scholarly information sources and resources, which were organized in a systematic and chronological order, but it is not well structured to specifically link resources in the departments, faculties and other units of the universities with the central repositories. It was also found that Digital Repositories were not always accessible, possibly due to inadequate ICT infrastructure and necessary staff skills for their effective maintenance. It was concluded that the repositories existed for over a decade and were providing information services to its users. It was recommended that, the management of the universities studied should imbibe strong maintenance culture to effectively manage the Digital Repositories for sufficient access to scholarly information sources and resources and should consider the installations and deployment of necessary ICT infrastructure, as well as the right software configurations including the provision of regular staff training for proper digitisation and digitalisation of work processes and procedures in the repositories for efficient results and the promotion of Digital Data Literacy in Africa. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
16. The use of ‘poisonous insecticidal solutions’ in bookbinding: coping with historic pesticide treatments in the archive
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Angelova, Lora V., Nawaz, Sadat, Kafadaroğlu, Barbara, Paz, Boaz, Moreta, Francisco, Woollaston, Helen, Vermeulen, Marc, and Vervoorst, Juergen
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- 2023
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17. Knowledge Graph Visualization Interface for Digital Heritage Collections: Design Issues and Recommendations.
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Khoo, Christopher S. G., Tan, Eleanor A. L., Siam-Gek Ng, Chwee-Fong Chan, Stanley-Baker, Michael, and Wei-Ning Cheng
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INTELLECT ,INTERNET searching ,ARCHIVES ,MEDICAL informatics ,INFORMATION technology ,COMPUTER graphics ,SEARCH engines ,METADATA ,HUMANITIES ,SOCIAL networks ,SOFTWARE architecture ,DIGITAL libraries ,USER interfaces - Abstract
Digital heritage portal interfaces are generally similar to digital library and search engine interfaces in displaying search results as a list of brief metadata records. The knowledge organization and search result display of these systems are item-centric, with little support for identifying relationships between items. This paper proposes a knowledge graph system and visualization interface as a promising solution for digital heritage systems to support users in browsing related items, understanding the relationships between items, and synthesizing a narrative on an issue. The paper discusses design issues for the knowledge graph, graph database, and graph visualization, and offers recommendations based on the authors' experience in developing three knowledge graph systems for archive and digital humanities resources: the Zubir Said personal archive collection at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore; Singapore Pioneers social network; and Polyglot Medicine knowledge graph of Asian traditional and herbal medicine. Lessons learned from a small user study are incorporated in the discussion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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18. “On duty in pursuit of the natives”: accounting and truth-telling about Australia's frontier wars
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Sutton, Nicole
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- 2023
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19. Evaluation and modelling of the environmental performance of archival boxes, part 1: material and environmental assessment.
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Novak, Morana, Grau-Bove, Josep, De Stefani, Caroline, Checkley-Scott, Caroline, Kraševec, Ida, Cigić, Irena Kralj, and Elnaggar, Abdelrazek
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WATER vapor ,HUMIDITY ,FOREIGN exchange rates ,ARCHIVES ,SORPTION ,MOISTURE - Abstract
Archival boxes are used as a preventive measure to control the microenvironment in museums and archives storages. However, their efficiency in protecting valuable artefacts from fluctuations in relative humidity (RH) is not yet fully understood. In this study, the environmental performance of different archival boxes with different configurations (size, design, presence of holes/paper material, cardboard types, surface modification) was included in the evaluation of internal environment (RH). The effectiveness of archival boxes on reducing relative humidity fluctuations was investigated by testing various properties of boxes and boards, such as air exchange rates (AER), moisture sorption and water vapour transmission rates (WVTR). While most cardboard boxes showed only a limited buffering against the humidity ingress, strategies such as surface modification limited the interaction of a box with the external environment, resulting in a more stable internal environment. Material and box properties, such as moisture sorption, AER and WVTR proved to be useful quantitative tools for assessing the environmental performance of the selected archival boxes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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20. On the Impact of the National Breath of Life Archival Institute for Indigenous Languages: Developing an Assessment Model for Archive-Based Revitalization
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Gabriela Pérez Báez, Kristen L. Morio, Alison L. Lapointe, and Daryl Baldwin
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The National Breath of Life Archival Institute for Indigenous Languages has provided training in archive-based linguistic research for revitalization since 2011 (Baldwin et al. 2018). Four two-week workshops held biennially through 2017 provided training in phonetics, phonology, morphology, and syntax; on accessing archival documentation; and on applied uses of archive-based research for language revitalization. These workshops served 117 Community Researchers from fifty-five Native North American communities. Overtime, it became important to determine the impact of the workshops on community efforts. Thus, a third-party program assessment and evaluation was carried out, supported by the National Science Foundation Documenting Endangered Languages program (NSF-DEL BCS #1561167, PI D. Baldwin). In this paper, we outline the principles upon which the assessment and evaluation were designed, delve into the quantitative and qualitative methods implemented, and provide ample discussion of the assessment findings. We engage in a discussion on the importance and value of assessment and evaluation to any program akin to National Breath of Life. We close by showing how the assessment and evaluation have given validity to the development of new tools and workshops that address the needs of advanced phases of archive-based research for revitalization, and have also provided a foundation for the design of a Native American philology model. This was especially important considering that the workshops had remained mostly unchanged since they were first developed in the mid-1990s.
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- 2023
21. Digital Repatriation as a Decolonizing Practice in the Archaeological Archive
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Krupa, Krystiana L. and Grimm, Kelsey T.
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Repatriation of archival materials holds great potential for decolonizing archaeological archives. This paper argues that while repatriation of human remains and cultural objects is required by law under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), traditional manuscript archives can and should be subject to the same standards for repatriation. The entirety of the archaeological archive can therefore be repatriated to descendant communities. In fact, many museums and other institutions have adopted the practice of digital repatriation of both documents and artifacts. By repatriating a facsimile of an important cultural item, institutions may actually perpetuate the colonial perspective that the original item's proper place is with the institution instead of with its community of origin. This paper addresses situations in which it is both appropriate and inappropriate to repatriate a digital copy instead of the original object.
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- 2021
22. Arquivos literários e história social da literatura no Brasil O acervo da escritora Anna Amélia Carneiro de Mendonça.
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Buarque de HOLLANDA, Bernardo
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AUTHOR archives ,SOCIAL history ,ARCHIVES ,LITERARY criticism ,HISTORIOGRAPHY ,FEMINISM - Abstract
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- 2023
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23. Placing Papers: The American Literary Archives Market.
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Braun, Jolie
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ARCHIVES , *INSTITUTIONAL repositories , *AMERICAN authors , *LITERARY agents , *WOMEN authors , *ACADEMIC libraries - Published
- 2021
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24. Podcasting Practices: Mediators of Archival Work, ELA Teacher Education Curricula, and Digital Identities
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Nancy Heiss, Morgan King, Courtney Adang, and Donna E. Alvermann
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This paper investigates how a semester-long online course in a language and literacy teacher education department coupled a podcast project with archival pedagogy and restorying to explore how ELA (English Language Arts) teachers (preservice, inservice teachers, and those seeking re-entry) worked collaboratively to enrich understandings of instruction embedded in a high-tech environment. The course was taught in the southeastern United States at the height of a global pandemic. After the semester ended, three graduate students (from a class of 21) joined the instructor to qualitatively analyze data collected during the previous 14 weeks. Data sources included digitally stored videos, archived library objects, class emails, rubrics, asynchronous discussion boards, synchronous Zoom discussions, and student-generated podcast projects. Findings point to the merit of providing agentic-learning opportunities through podcasting practices that mediated students' archival work, ELA teacher education curricula, and digital identity formation. Implications are drawn for ELA classroom teachers and teacher educators.
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- 2023
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25. Biographies, Silences, and Teaching the Archive of Slavery
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Draper, Mary
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Teaching about slavery entails teaching about the archive. Punctuated with silences, scattered with compelling details, and laden with descriptions that oscillate between racist, harrowing, and heartbreaking, runaway ads provide a glimpse into the lives of enslaved people. The details embedded within them--or omitted from them--can also provide springboards for undergraduate research projects. As a result, in "Slavery in the Atlantic World," the author tasked her students with writing an eight- to ten-page biography of an enslaved person living in the early modern Atlantic world. The only record they had of that individual was the text of a runaway ad printed in an eighteenth-century newspaper. Throughout their research, students followed every detail as they attempted to reconstruct the life of one of the millions of people who endured and resisted their enslavement in the Atlantic world. One of the pedagogical goals was to devise an assignment that encouraged students to analyze the lives and experiences of enslaved people, rather than those of enslavers. The assignment asks students to think critically and empathetically about the experiences of an enslaved individual through thoughtful analysis of primary and secondary sources. It also leaves room for students to reflect on the limits of these sources and the nature of the archive. The author explores runaway advertisements as sources, discussing how to introduce students to their contents and prepare them for out-of-class research. Next, she surveys the digital archives that make such an assignment possible. Finally, she reflects on the narratives of Atlantic slavery. The author offers suggestions for secondary sources--from trade paperback books to academic monographs--that can provide students with models of this type of biographical scholarship. She additionally highlights the narratives her students produced. By writing this paper, the author hopes that educators of all levels will be able to integrate runaway advertisements into their classrooms, engage students in conversations about the archive of slavery, and develop assignments that center the lives of enslaved people.
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- 2023
26. Cultivating Authentic Historical Research in the Archives and Classroom
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Sundberg, Sara Brooks
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The class research project, "Chronicling Grassroots Suffrage in Warrensburg," served as a semester-long project for the Fall 2019 course, "Democracy Denied: Women's Rights in America, 1800-Present." This paper argues that local and state history research projects like "Chronicling Grassroots Suffrage in Warrensburg" enhance student learning by providing opportunities for students to conduct authentic research that not only engages them in the practice of "doing history" (i.e., collecting, analyzing, and conveying information), but actually produces new knowledge. Authentic research projects, such as the one discussed here, promote discovery and generate excitement among students because they add new information to the historical record and ask students to analyze how their information modifies or changes what we think about a historical topic. These projects reinforce historians' emphasis on the identification and analysis of primary sources within their original context. Authentic research may also enlighten contemporary issues. This is a major benefit for historians and educators in the current educational environment as they strive to promote understanding, generate interest, and demonstrate the relevance of the liberal arts. The project tied together individual research with collective discussions about that research. The students eagerly shared with each other what they found, and they offered each other alternative explanations for source materials. The biggest challenge to apply this design to a larger class will be selecting a topic and finding enough accessible archival resources -- work that is well worth pursuing.
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27. DSpace 7 Benefits: Is It Worth Upgrading?
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Formanek, Matus
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COMPUTER software ,DIGITAL libraries ,DIGITAL technology ,USER interfaces ,METADATA ,SOFTWARE architecture ,CONCEPTUAL structures ,DATA security ,SEARCH engines ,ARCHIVES ,EMAIL - Abstract
This study discusses the importance of the DSpace open-source software that supports numerous digital libraries and repositories around the world. With the release of DSpace version 7, a natural question that arises is whether the new version offers enough new functionalities to motivate system administrators to upgrade. This paper briefly describes the most important changes, including new features and bug fixes, included in DSpace 7.4 and prior minor versions. The next parts of this paper explore our estimate that there are several thousand DSpace-based systems globally that will likely have to be upgraded in the near future. The main reason for this need is that older versions of DSpace (including 5.x) have reached the end of their developer support period or are reaching it in mid-2023. Based on our own upgrade experience, we propose suggestions and recommendations on migrating from the previous DSpace 6.3-based environment to the new one in a case study that concludes this article. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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28. Le petit livre: el jardín de papel de Gilles Clément.
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Ávila Calzada, Carlos
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GARDENS ,LANDSCAPE design ,ARCHETYPES ,MANUSCRIPTS ,ARCHIVES ,NOTEBOOKS - Abstract
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- 2021
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29. Supporting Linguistic Data Collection from Afar: A Mobile Metadata System
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Richard T. Griscom
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The global COVID-19 pandemic has put into high relief the need for better remote communication and collaboration tools, but also serves as an opportunity to focus on building community capacity and promoting greater community agency in the language documentation process. This paper describes a method for remotely supporting and monitoring a language documentation project conducted by speakers, community activists, and/or academic researchers, through the use of a free and open-source data collection platform called KoBoToolbox. Rather than relying on access to audiovisual data, which are typically large and can be difficult to share remotely, the system is based on the creation of digital linguistic metadata with mobile devices linked to a secure central server, giving project leaders the ability to immediately access metadata as it is submitted, quickly generate summary reports and visualizations, and export metadata for further processing and archiving. The system is suitable for anyone who would like to integrate mobile metadata into a new or ongoing project and is able to provide the necessary training either remotely or in person.
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- 2022
30. MAKE PRINTS LAST.
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PRINTMAKING ,COLOR printing ,ARCHIVES - Abstract
This article from Digital Photographer provides advice on how to extend the lifespan of printed photos. It explains that black-and-white prints generally have a longer lifespan than color prints due to the fading of color dyes over time. The article recommends using archive paper, pigment-based inks, and UV-protected framing glass to preserve the quality of prints. It also suggests storing prints in a climate-controlled area and wrapping them in acid-free tissue paper for maximum protection. The article emphasizes the importance of considering both short-term production and long-term display when preserving printed photos. [Extracted from the article]
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31. The archive and its territories: Reading the London bomb damage photograph archive.
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McArthur, Jane
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PHOTOGRAPHY archives ,HISTORY of archives ,PHOTOGRAPHS ,WORLD War II ,ARCHIVES ,MILITARY museums - Abstract
Copyright of VAD: Veredes, Arquitectura y Divulgación is the property of Alberto Alonso Oro and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 2024
32. The fate of ancestors living in the countryside in family accounts and in-home archives The “My Family” Project implemented in 2022 by students of the Institute of History of the Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce.
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MAJCHER-OCIESA, EDYTA, CZERW, HUBERT, and PIERŚCIŃSKI, KRZYSZTOF
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MICROHISTORY ,ARCHIVES ,PROJECT management ,WORLD War II ,STUDENT attitudes - Abstract
Copyright of Zeszyty Wiejskie is the property of Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Lodzkiego and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 2023
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33. Telling Imperfect Histories with the Digital
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Jennifer Van Horn
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archives ,jennifer van horn ,visual culture ,works on paper ,History of the arts ,NX440-632 - Published
- 2022
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34. A General Model for Competency Repositories and Its Instantiation to the Information Systems Domain
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Bounekkar, Ahm, Cauvet, Corine, Desmoulins, Cyrille, Marquie, Daniel, Schneider, Michel, Souveyet, Carine, and Teyssie, Cédric
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Competency repositories have been developed for several years with various objectives: helping to establish competency assessments, helping with recruitment, helping to build training. A repository can bring together the descriptions of several hundred competencies. However, few studies have focused on the structuring of a competency repository. In this paper, the authors propose a general model for a competency repository based on 5 principles. Two of them consist in using a composition relationship to define competencies at several levels of abstraction and a prerequisite relationship to establish prerequisites between competencies. To illustrate the model, an application in the domain of information systems design and implementation is fully developed. The proposed repository, in addition to a new structure, incorporates new competencies compared to existing IS repositories, in particular with regard to strategic management of the IS, development methodologies and techniques, interpersonal competencies, prerequisites coming from basic disciplines. This repository aims primarily to help the organization of academic and professional training and to allow the assessment of personal competencies. This initiative comes from the French network of MIAGE (Méthodes Informatiques Appliquées à la Gestion des Entreprises) masters.
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- 2022
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35. Archival Imperialism: Examining Israel's Six Day War Files in the Era of 'Decolonization'
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Rayan, Tamara N.
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This research investigates how the interventions of records' creators and archivists have shaped the Six Day War Files Collection to sustain Israel's own narrative of the War. Using a theoretical framework of settler colonialism, epistemic delinking, and symbolic annihilation, this narrative is deconstructed to showcase how it has served to further Israeli colonialism at the expense of Palestinians being marginalized as a people and Palestine being erased as an autonomous state. In constructing this narrative, Palestinians were excluded from the telling of the Six Day War, and in instances where they could not be erased, they were misrepresented or maligned. By delinking the records from their colonial context and unsettling this narrative, Palestinians' experience of coloniality can be reinstated where it was excluded. This paper offers a novel perspective to the current archival scholarship regarding Palestine, revealing how symbolic annihilation in the archive extends and is an extension of systemic annihilation. Moreover, it challenges traditional archival practices which have historically paved the way for acts of imperialism to occur unquestioned.
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- 2021
36. A Continuum of Archival Custody: Community-Driven Projects as a Path toward Equity
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Powell, Chaitra M., Heinz, Kimber, Thomas, Kimber, and Cody, Alexandra Paz
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Typically, when a community's historical materials encounter a large academic library's archives, the engagement is transactional: they sign forms, they hand over their archives, and we assure them that their materials will be valued by researchers. These procedures make assumptions about comfort with gift agreements (what if communities seek compensation?) or value ascribed to academic researchers (what about other kinds of information seekers?). These approaches may work for communities who have only been extolled and affirmed by the formal archive, but other communities need a different approach. We argue that community archives are strengthened with the strategic support of institutions, and institutional aspirations thrive with the inclusion of community voices and practices. In this paper, we use examples from the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries and its community partners to demonstrate how putting work with community-based collections in sharp relief with the practices of institutional repository reveals the fundamentally white supremacist foundation of archival studies and gives us an opportunity to imagine what is required for sustainable repair and healing.
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- 2021
37. Making Space: Archival Transcribathons and Practice-Based Learning in Undergraduate Medical History
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Breathnach, Ciara, Mulrennan, Kirsten, and Keogh, Sinéad
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Although anathema to domain experts, it is unfortunately the case that students of history can graduate with an honors degree without ever handling or analyzing archival materials. Archives are unique resources--ranging from official state documents to personal papers--that have the potential to enrich historical research immeasurably. Access to repositories by large groups of people can be difficult--for example, both the National Archives of Ireland and the National Library of Ireland Manuscripts division, for conservation and preservation reasons, cannot meaningfully cater for groups larger than fifteen at a time. Difficulties associated with busy undergraduate timetables also contribute to why archival visits to off-campus locations can be a rarity for several programs. To address this problem at their institution, the authors used digital surrogates of archival materials to give students a practice-based learning (PBL) experience, allowing them to transcribe and interact with the records in a classroom setting. In this article, they discuss the challenges associated with applying PBL in archives to "Health, Gender, State, and Irish Medical Care, 1837-1948," an elective module offered to fourth-year students at the University of Limerick in Autumn 2018.
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- 2021
38. Collaboration and mediation: a guide to the creation of the Stephen Hawking Archive.
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Dean, Katrina and Gordon, Susan
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DIGITAL communications ,ACADEMIC libraries ,SCIENTIFIC communication ,ARCHIVES ,COOPERATIVE research ,TWENTY-first century - Abstract
In this paper we discuss the creation of the Stephen Hawking Archive through processes of collaboration, and human and technological mediation. We focus on the production of documents including scientific and popular writings, correspondence and lectures in different media and forms of communication from handwriting, diagrams and typing to word processing and digital communication. We consider these processes to think about what is important in the Stephen Hawking Archive, including where authorship is located, and what this shows about scientific collaboration and communication in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. We also briefly consider how archivists have mediated the Archive since it was received by Cambridge University Library (CUL) in 2021 through its arrangement and description, and we look forward to developing the Archive in the future, including the possibility of acquiring further digital files to include in the Archive. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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39. Trends in UFO-Related Archival Collections.
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Luftig, D. M. and Cukier, E. S.
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UNIDENTIFIED flying objects ,ARCHIVES ,COLLECTIONS ,RESEARCH personnel ,GOVERNMENT agencies ,PUBLIC libraries - Abstract
Although unidentified flying objects (UFOs) have long held the public's attention, most research has been conducted by federal agencies who have typically restricted access to such research by classifying or denying the research altogether.1 As a result, countless researchers have taken it upon themselves to investigate the phenomenon over the decades with some of this research making its way into publicly accessible archives. This study provides a history of UFO-related research and archival collections, through an examination of trends gleaned via an inventory of publicly accessible physical collections. The study found that within North America there are sixty-two unique, non-federal collections spread across universities, museums, public libraries, and historical societies. Twenty-two of these collections exclusively contain UFO research content. Collections were created by those who thought UFOs were misidentified objects (the original federal conclusion) and those who believed that there was more to the phenomenon. UFO archival collections started to catch on in the 1970s and are amongst the most popular at their institutions today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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40. La Vorágine en el escritorio. Objetos melancólicos en el archivo de “José Eustasio Rivera & Co.” de la Universidad de Caldas.
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Duque-Buitrago, Nicolás
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AIR pilots ,LAWYERS ,REPATRIATION ,ARCHIVES ,COLLECTIONS - Abstract
Copyright of Estudios de Literatura Colombiana is the property of Universidad de Antioquia, Facultad de Comunicaciones and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 2024
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41. Letters, Gender and Mathematics: a feminist genealogical approach.
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Tamboukou, María
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WOMEN mathematicians ,SCIENTIFIC knowledge ,ARCHIVAL research ,MODERNITY ,MATHEMATICS - Abstract
In this paper, I follow trails of the auto/biographical turn in the field of gender and science, particularly focusing on women mathematicians' epistolary narratives. The paper emerges from a wider Leverhulme funded project of writing a feminist genealogy of «automathographies», tracing women mathematicians' historical emergence as subjects of scientific knowledge, as well as creators of philosophy and culture. What I argue is that letters are important auto/biographical documents in illuminating women's epistemological and intellectual involvement in the making of scientific knowledge, which included the development of mathematical sciences, but was also expanded in the wider cultural formations of the European modernity. In doing so, I deploy the notion of «epistolary sensibility» as a methodological and epistemological approach to archival research with women mathematicians' letters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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42. Charles J. Hirsch, Controller, Golden Nugget Casino: Rolling the Dice on Statistical Sampling and Analysis.
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Boylan, Scott J.
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STATISTICAL sampling ,STATISTICS ,ARCHIVES ,LIBRARY special collections ,CASINOS - Abstract
Charles J. Hirsch was an accountant and controller for the Golden Nugget casino from 1950 to 1970. He contributed to a movement in the 1950s and 1960s to advance the use of statistical sampling and analysis in the accounting profession. This manuscript is based on analysis of Hirsch's professional papers, held at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Libraries Special Collections and Archives. Hirsch used statistical sampling and analysis at Golden Nugget when statistical techniques had not yet been widely accepted or implemented by practicing accountants and auditors. Beginning in 1959, Hirsch made numerous conference presentations describing his work. In addition, Hirsch explicitly challenged the accounting profession to follow his lead and integrate statistical sampling and analysis into existing practice. In doing so, he joined an exclusive group of individuals, including Robert Trueblood, who were early advocates for using statistical techniques to improve the practice of accounting and auditing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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43. An introduction to Transkribus: how to use Handwritten Text Recognition in research and teaching
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Mansutti, Sara, Scholger, Walter, Vogeler, Georg, Tasovac, Toma, Baillot, Anne, Raunig, Elisabeth, Scholger, Martina, Steiner, Elisabeth, Centre for Information Modelling, and Helling, Patrick
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Paper ,Pre-Conference Workshop and Tutorial ,education ,History ,Education/ pedagogy ,Handwritten Text Recognition ,artifician intelligence ,Book and print history ,optical character recognition and handwriting recognition ,manuscripts ,artificial intelligence and machine learning ,archives - Abstract
The tutorial provides a practical introduction to Transkribus, a comprehensive platform for the digitisation, AI-powered text recognition, transcription and searching of historical documents. The participants will learn how to run the layout analysis (also for tables and complex layouts) and train and apply Handwritten Text Recognition AI-models to automatically generate machine-readable transcriptions of images of text. In the end, they will have a general understanding of the potential of Handwritten Text Recognition to open new research questions and how Transkribus can be used to collaborate, involve volunteers and teach in DH and History classes.
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- 2023
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44. Distortion: Authority, Authenticity, and Agency in Zora Neale Hurston's Black Folk Recordings
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Clement, Tanya, Scholger, Walter, Vogeler, Georg, Tasovac, Toma, Baillot, Anne, Raunig, Elisabeth, Scholger, Martina, Steiner, Elisabeth, Centre for Information Modelling, and Helling, Patrick
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Paper ,Sound Studies ,Long Presentation ,Archives ,Media studies ,encoding ,digital libraries creation ,mixed-media analysis ,digital research infrastructures development and analysis ,American Studies ,and analysis ,management ,music and sound digitization ,African and African American Studies - Abstract
In Digital Humanities "Distant Listening" scholarship with sound, the expectation is that the data set will be clean and audible and that its metadata will be descriptive and informative.[1] In contrast to this notion, this talk demonstrates the importance of distortions in approximately seventy-five brief "tracks" or recorded songs, stories, and explanations from a folklore recording trip Zora Neale Hurston took in 1935 to Florida and Georgia with Alan Lomax and Mary Elizabeth Barnicle for the Library of Congress. Close listening to her 1935 recordings reveals that social and technical distortions are in line with how Hurston expresses the complexities of authority, authenticity, and subjectivity in her writings, which amplifying black epistemologies of self-making and creating resonant possibilities for imagining new transgressive formulations of cultural identity. This talk will consider how distortions play an important in large-scale digital projects with sound in the humanities.
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- 2023
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45. Collaboration Across the Archival and Computational Sciences to Address Legacies of Gender Bias in Descriptive Metadata
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Havens, Lucy, Hosker, Rachel, Alex, Beatrice, Bach, Benjamin, Terras, Melissa, Scholger, Walter, Vogeler, Georg, Tasovac, Toma, Baillot, Anne, Raunig, Elisabeth, Scholger, Martina, Steiner, Elisabeth, Centre for Information Modelling, and Helling, Patrick
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Paper ,and methods ,Long Presentation ,bias ,Informatics ,Library & information science ,annotation structures ,Gender and sexuality studies ,descriptive metadata ,metadata standards ,text mining and analysis ,Humanities computing ,gender ,systems ,natural language processing ,archives - Abstract
This presentation reports on a case study investigating how NaturalLanguage Processing, a field that applies computational methodssuch as Machine Learning to human-written texts, can supportthe measurement and evaluation of gender biased languagein archival catalogs. Working with English descriptions from thecatalog metadata of the University of Edinburgh’s Archives, wecreated an annotated dataset and classification models that identifygender biases in the descriptions. Conducted with archival data,the case study holds relevance across Galleries, Libraries, Archives,and Museums (GLAM), particularly for institutions withcatalog descriptions in English. In addition to bringing NaturalLanguage Processing (NLP) methods to Archives, we identifiedopportunities to bring Archival Science methods, such as CulturalHumility (Tai, 2021) and Feminist Standpoint Appraisal (Caswell,2022), to NLP. Through this two-way disciplinary exchange,we demonstrate how Humanistic approaches to bias and uncertaintycan upend legacies of gender-based oppression that mostcomputational approaches to date uphold when working with dataat scale.
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- 2023
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46. Leading collaborative research on video corpora. CANEVAS tools and methods
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Tessier, Laurent, Bourgatte, Michael, Scholger, Walter, Vogeler, Georg, Tasovac, Toma, Baillot, Anne, Raunig, Elisabeth, Scholger, Martina, Steiner, Elisabeth, Centre for Information Modelling, and Helling, Patrick
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Paper ,Performance Studies: Dance ,and methods ,digital archiving ,Media studies ,annotation structures ,open access methods ,video ,mixed-media analysis ,Design studies ,Education/ pedagogy ,annotation ,systems ,Poster ,Theatre ,archives ,audiovisual ,hosting - Abstract
Inaugurated in 2022, the CANEVAS consortium brings together researchers from various humanities disciplines whose common interest is to handle video corpora in their research. This poster present specific issues raised by these corpora as well as a selection of tools and methods identified by the Canevas research community.
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- 2023
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47. AudiAnnotate Workshop with Radio Venceremos, Rebel Radio Station and SpokenWeb: Using IIIF with AV to Build Editions and Exhibits
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Clement, Tanya, Bursztajn-Illingworth, Zoe, Wintermeier, Trent, Burrows, Vera, Scholger, Walter, Vogeler, Georg, Tasovac, Toma, Baillot, Anne, Raunig, Elisabeth, Scholger, Martina, Steiner, Elisabeth, Centre for Information Modelling, and Helling, Patrick
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Paper ,Sound Studies ,and methods ,Archives ,analysis ,Chicano/a/x ,Library & information science ,Latino/a/x studies ,Media studies ,open access methods ,scholarly editing and editions development ,Cultural studies ,encoding ,Pre-Conference Workshop and Tutorial ,metadata standards ,systems ,Latin American Studies ,and analysis ,music and sound digitization - Abstract
This workshop will help participants make audio, video, and its interpretations more discoverable and usable through the use of the IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework) standard for audio and video to produce, publish, and sustain W3C Web Annotations for individual and collaborative audiovisual editions, exhibits, and playlists. The workshop format will include introductions to IIIF, AudiAnnotate, Audacity, and GitHub using model, collaborative AudiAnnotate projects called the "SpokenWeb Anthology," made from recordings from the SpokenWeb Consortium and "Radio Venceremos, the Rebel's Radio Station," which features recordings from Radio Venceremos ("Radio We Will Overcome"), a popular, clandestine radio station that the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) created to broadcast news and analysis from the mountains of Morazán, El Salvador during the eleven year Salvadoran Civil War (1981-1992).
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- 2023
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48. Broadening the Society archive.
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E. R.
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HISTORY of psychology ,ARCHIVES ,EDUCATIONAL psychologists ,ELECTRONIC paper - Abstract
Archive Manager Sophie O'Reilly said one of the biggest gaps in the BPS archive was the work of Black psychologists, something which is due to numerous factors including criteria for donations to the archive which have been limiting in the past. The BPS History of Psychology Centre is appealing for donations of records relating to Black Psychology and Black Psychologists in the UK. Donations, for the Society's archive, can relate to the work of individuals, groups or movements who have impacted UK psychology - including campaigners and activists. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2022
49. BEYOND THE TEXT. INTERPRETATION AND MATERIALITY OF EARLY MODERN MANUSCRIPTS AND PRINTS.
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Monteiro, Rodrigo Bentes and de Melo Araújo, André
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LIBRARY catalogs ,AUTHORSHIP ,COMPARATIVE method ,DOCUMENTARY evidence ,INFORMATION organization ,COPYING ,ARCHIVES ,TRANSMISSION of texts - Published
- 2022
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50. Tintas ferrogálicas y su preservación – caso de estudio: los documentos del siglo XVI en el Archivo Histórico Provincial de Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
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RODRÍGUEZ MACIEL, ANIA and DÍAZ GONZÁLEZ, ELISA
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GRAYSCALE model ,MICROSCOPY ,VISIBLE spectra ,ULTRAVIOLET radiation ,SIXTEENTH century - Abstract
Copyright of Conservar Património is the property of Associacao Profissional de Conservadores-Restauradores de Portugal and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 2024
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