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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Born Digital"”.
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From Reading Rooms to Cafes
… walls. This thesis examines how digitisation and born digital content impact the researcher-archivist relationship. To accomplish this it takes a brief look into the history of archives, the history of digitisation, and couples that with commentary from archivists in the Los Angeles area sharing …
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Literapolis: The Post-Internet Textual City
… In response, the thesis frames the city as a 'born-digital living literary,' whose spaces of writing and reading, though obfuscated, remain tied to place. The thesis unrolls over five scrolls. The first examines primary terms. The second organises five nested spatio-textual scales - code, page, …
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Figure Extraction from Scanned Electronic Theses and Dissertations
… counterparts is considerably lower than on born-digital ones. To facilitate this, we propose methods to effectively extract figures and tables from Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs), that out-perform existing methods by a considerable margin. Our contribution towards this goal is …
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The Surprise of a Knight: Excavating Material Legacies through Early Queer Film
… for best practices in the preservation of (born-digital) pornography, and concludes with impressions from potential audiences and present-day content producers as a means of envisioning new avenues of queer grassroots history-making.
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Informational Interfaces: A case study of the impact of discovery systems on biodiversity research and search at the Natural History Museum, London, UK
… from artworks and historical manuscripts to born-digital material such as journal articles. This study investigates the impact of discovery systems on search and research at the Natural History Museum with the objectives: to determine exact attitudes to searching for biodiversity information …
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Audio Segmenting and Natural Language Processing in Oral History Archiving
… a story of some historical significance. As the digital age progresses, digital archives have become more commonplace and have given wider access to archival resources and knowledge to the general public. With wider access, historically marginalized groups now have the means to share stories that …
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An examination of the physical and temporal parameters of post-physical printmaking practice: exploring new modes of collaboration, distribution and consumption resulting from digital processes and networked participation.
… in the physical and temporal parameters of digitally mediated fine art printmaking caused by developments in digital media; specifically the impact of digital culture, Web2.0, social networking, augmented and virtual reality. Grounded on critical contextual review the research explores, …
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Invisibilized Providers: The Role of Racialized Diasporas in Refugee Sponsorship
… sponsors and key informants triangulated with ‘born digital’ material, the research analyzes the motivations, activities, and contributions of Ethiopian, Eritrean, and Oromo diasporas in Alberta, British Columbia, and Ontario. A ‘study up’ technique is used to examine the complexities of power …
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Extracting generic text information from images
… binarisation. For the work on text detection in born-digital images, a new scheme for coarse text detection and a texture-based feature for fine text detection are proposed. In the coarse detection step, a novel scheme based on Maximum Gradient Difference (MGD) response of text lines is proposed. …
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Analyzing and Navigating Electronic Theses and Dissertations
… available online, often through one of many digital libraries. However, since a majority of these digital libraries are institutional repositories with the objective being content archiving, they often lack end-user services needed to make this valuable data useful for the scholarly …
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Database Assemblages: Understanding Cultural Heritage Collections Infrastructures as Techno-Social Actors
… of meanings and narratives within digitised and born-digital cultural heritage collections. A collections database is an infrastructure made up of object records, which contain structured and unstructured metadata descriptions of objects in a museum or archival collection. The study of these …
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The Theognidea in Reperformance: A Rhetorical Rereading
… which can be solved with the introduction of a born-digital edition of the collection. In the third chapter, I discuss the use of five value terms (agathos, esthlos, kalos, kakos, and deilos) which occur with notable frequency in the collection. I find that the status of “good” or “bad” …