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Archives of facade
Fantasy is a genre that seldom includes black characters. When black characters are present, they often lack the same narrative significance, reliability and character growth that is given to white characters. This can lead to poorly written black characters that lack purpose or fall victim to …
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Multiculturalism and archives
… purposes upon the institutional management of archives of private origin are then discussed within the context of archival theory. Finally, the results of a survey conducted to determine how Canadian federal, provincial, and territorial archival repositories are interpreting the concept and …
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Archives as a cornerstone of community growth: developing community archives in Brandon, Manitoba
… possible approaches to better integration of archives with communities and engagement of archives with local community development initiatives. The study suggests that innovative usage of archival material can facilitate community engagement in the knowledge-based economy and support a broad …
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Towards a Definition of Visual Artists’ Archives: Vera Frenkel’s Archives as a Case Study
… dissertation is an exploratory case study of the archives of Canadian artist Vera Frenkel and their acquisition by Queen’s University Archives in Kingston, Ontario. The research seeks to understand, through empirical investigation, the many factors that shape the artist’s recordkeeping and …
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The Ageing of the Archives: Community, Conflict, and Queer Potential at the Lesbian Herstory Archives
<p>The Lesbian Herstory Archives is the oldest and largest lesbian archives in the</p> <p>world. This dissertation project examines the role of this community archive in</p> <p>building, defining, redefining, and sustaining community over time. More</p> <p>specifically, this dissertation seeks to …
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Improving Collection Understanding for Web Archives with Storytelling: Shining Light Into Dark and Stormy Archives
… that existing platforms perform poorly for web archives and a user study establishing the best surrogate type, we generate document metadata for the exemplars with machine learning. We then visualize the story and document metadata together and distribute it to satisfy the information needs of …
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Rhodoliths as environmental archives in the tropics
Rhodoliths are free-living forms of calcareous, coralline red algae that are found worldwide, from the tropics to the poles, in relatively shallow (0->250m) waters. They can live hundreds of years and continuously form a high-Mg calcite skeleton that presents periodical growth bands. Recent …
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Rhodoliths as environmental archives in the tropics
Rhodoliths are free-living forms of calcareous, coralline red algae that are found worldwide, from the tropics to the poles, in relatively shallow (0->250m) waters. They can live hundreds of years and continuously form a high-Mg calcite skeleton that presents periodical growth bands. Recent …
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Digital Archives and the Turn to Design
… form, the problems and promise of digital archives will demand thoughtful responses. The ways in which these spaces are designed will determine the kinds of texts that will be produced and valued in the future.
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Oudano as praxis: archives, audiotopias and movements
… prints, rock art, colonial photography and sonic archives, performance art, museum theatre, site-related performance, jazz, struggle music, HipHop, Kwaito, Shambo, documentary film, orature, oral history, protest action, as well as curatorial practice. Given its epistemic potential, Oudano is a …
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Enhancing digital heritage archives using gamified annotations
In the context of digital heritage archives, we find heritage objects having intrinsic contextual and historical information. Capturing all that information is difficult, especially if that effort is left only to the professionals or institutions responsible for those digital heritage archives. In …
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The Politics of Preservation: Stewarding Artifacts in Archives
<p>Kay Bailey Hutchison served Texas and the United States in many capacities during her political career. She vastly impacted Texas, as well as Nacogdoches, Texas in particular, through her time serving as a member of the Texas House of Representatives and as a United States Senator. In 2012, she …
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Reconstructing Tropical Pacific Climate Variability from Coral Archives
The tropical Pacific Ocean is a critical component of the climate system, and its mean state and variability are linked to effects across the globe. Our understanding of the area is limited by the scarcity of direct observations of important climatic variables prior to the mid-twentieth century, …
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Copyright and Accessibility in South African Research Archives
Research archives aim to achieve a balance between preservation and access. Copyright law aims to achieve a balance between the interests of rightsholders and users. These aims sound broadly similar at first, but there are areas where the intersection can be problematic. This dissertation examines …
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Community memory : building multimedia archives on the Internet
Can we use technology to build and strengthen bonds within communities? Can we build technology that will help to elaborate and preserve the shared history of a community? Can we make the technology easy to use, even for beginning computer users? Community Memory is an attempt to answer those …
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Greenlandic ice archives of North Atlantic Common Era climate
The Common Era (A.D. 1– present) represents a crucial period for climatic studies, documenting the timespan over which human activities have become an increasingly domineering force in shaping Earth’s landscape, climate, and ecology. Direct, quantifiable records of climatic phenomena are severely …
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Canadian Audiovisual Archives: The Politics of Preservation and Access
In 2005, in the spirit of Canadas total archives philosophy, the Western University Archives in London, Ontario acquired over ninety regional films on 8mm. Archival staff digitized the films in a Do-It-Yourself (DIY) fashion: they were simply repaired, projected, and captured off the wall with a …
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Corporeal Archives of HIV/AIDS: The Performance of Relation
<p><em>Corporeal Archives of HIV/AIDS: The Performance of Relation</em>, explores how choreographers and theater artists in the early years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in New York City used time and space to involve their audiences experientially in the project of grieving and rebuilding in the midst …
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Anarchival dance: choreographic archives and the disruption of knowledge
This thesis details a practice-led investigation of the archive, explored through choreography and the creation of three anarchival performances. The research theorises the anarchival as a creative research methodology for archival questioning and epistemological disruption, enacted through the …
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Greenlandic ice archives of North Atlantic Common Era climate
The Common Era (A.D. 1- present) represents a crucial period for climatic studies, documenting the timespan over which human activities have become an increasingly domineering force in shaping Earth's landscape, climate, and ecology. Direct, quantifiable records of climatic phenomena are severely …
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