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Accountability in archival science
… and accessibility of non-current records in archival repositories is similarly related to the principle of accountability; however this idea is not widely diffused and even less accepted, primarily because the concept of accountability is imprecise and has not been integrated into archival …
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Pickering Lumber Company: Archival Processing Project
<p>Founded by W.R. Pickering in 1894, the Pickering Lumber Company had lumber operations in Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, and California. The company practiced cut-and-run policy that dictated the relocation of lumber operations when the company exhausted its timber holdings. The Pickering Lumber …
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Coding for emerging archival storage media
… standards, digital data storage, primarily archival, can and should capitalise on longer block sizes and more complex coding. Longer blocks have the potential to reduce coding overhead and therefore cost, while longer retrieval latency allows for more complex algorithms. This cycle of noise …
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Building history : learning with archival photographs
In many classrooms, learning about history means memorizing facts from textbooks, films, and other media. It is rare for students to engage in authentic historical activities - analyzing multiple documents to look for similarities and variations and ultimately assembling interpretations of past …
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Conceiving local archival institutions: a study of the development of archival programs in Richmond and Delta, British Columbia
This essay tries to determine how two municipal archival programs develop from their origins as collections of historical documents in museums, and whether they fit into the larger pattern of archival development found in Canadian federal and provincial public archives, which is identified as …
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Socialising The Archive: Art and Archival Encounters
… based research sheds light on the backstage of archival engagement and knowledge production processes. Following the trajectory of a single artist’s encounter with a particular institutional archive, The Baring Archive, and the onward encounters this precipitates, this thesis explores how …
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Encoding power: the scripting of archival structures in digital spaces using the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) Reference Model
The Open Archival Information System (OAIS) Reference Model is a corner stone of the evolving discipline of digital preservation. It undergirds many of the systems that are used in daily practice in organizations engaging in digital preservation, and directly or indirectly influences commercial and …
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Hermeneutics of Residue: Archival Slime and Queer Literacy
<p><em>Hermeneutics of Residue: Archival Slime and Queer Literacy</em> spans the fields of composition and rhetoric, literacy studies, archival studies, and queer theory. Deploying unconventional archival texts such as public graffiti, self-published zines, and underground manuals, this project …
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Herodotus : a peer-to-peer Web archival system
… implementation of Herodotus, a peer-to-peer web archival system. Like the Wayback Machine, a website that currently offers a web archive, Herodotus periodically crawls the world wide web and stores copies of all downloaded web content. Unlike the Wayback Machine, Herodotus does not rely on a …
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Real-time parameter adjustment for archival image scanning
… being restored and converted to digital form for archival. Image scanners which perform these tasks must be fast and must produce digital images that are of high quality. A Scan Optimizer was developed by Image Processing Technologies, Inc., to assist in the restoration and conversion processes. …
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Accelerating MOEA Non-dominated Sorting by Preserving Archival Relationships
Non-dominated sorting is an important part of many multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs). It is used to determine which individuals to keep in the archive of best individuals between generations and to evaluate fitness for breeding. Because this sorting is performed after every …
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Archival offender records analysis: examining patient abuses in Tennessee
This quantitative causal-comparative study was designed to examine potential relationships between independent variables (job level, dependency of patient, work environments, sex, and race) related to health care practitioner offenders and the dependent variable (types of abuse) in Tennessee from …
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Archival time-based media : topologies of preservation and access
The analog time-based media of film, videotape, grooved sound recordings and audiotape have emerged as a growing area of concern for cultural institutions. Collectively, these media constitute a rich body of historical evidence and intangible cultural heritage whose varied physical and …
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Digital reconstruction of District Six architecture from archival photographs
In this thesis we present a strategy for reconstructing instances of District Six Architecture from small sets of old. uncalibrated photographs that are located in the District Six Museum photographic archive. Our reconstruction strategy comprises two major parts. First, we implement a geometry …
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Jamaican Diasporic Counter-Archives: Performative Archival Imaginings In Ontario, Canada
… The central inquiry in this dissertation is how archival practices might challenge colonial frameworks and architectures. Drawing parallels between Indigenous definitions of “archives” and their methods of historical preservation, and the methods used by Jamaicans who descend primarily from …
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Queer trash and archival messes: The politics of queer curation
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-04-12 without embargo terms
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Iron age decorative metalwork in southern Africa: an archival study
… AD) of southern Africa, within a framework of archival studies and artefact studies theory. The thesis adopted a direct historical approach which exploited the huge database of existing information to create typologies of objects and processing techniques that are prominent in ethno-historical …
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Ducal patronage of music in Mantua, 1587--1627: An archival study
Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T12:46:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4922 bytes, checksum: 910b249b4beec47e7ab768910c8f966f (MD5) 9010979.pdf: 41725337 bytes, checksum: ccfb23b2c6594120e68d925d50f03ac4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1989
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