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Showing 1 to 20 of 83 for “"Digitisation"”.
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Examining the taphonomic challenges to the 3D digitisation of fragmented bone
The utilisation of 3D digitisation and visualisation has grown considerably since 2008 and is becoming an increasingly useful tool for the digital documentation and metric analysis of archaeological artefacts and skeletal remains. It provides public access to rare and fragile specimens of …
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Examining the taphonomic challenges to the 3D digitisation of fragmented bone
The utilisation of 3D digitisation and visualisation has grown considerably since 2008 and is becoming an increasingly useful tool for the digital documentation and metric analysis of archaeological artefacts and skeletal remains. It provides public access to rare and fragile specimens of …
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Textual Assemblages and Transmission: Unified models for (Digital) Scholarly Editions and Text Digitisation
Scholarly editing and textual digitisation are typically seen as two distinct, though related, fields. Scholarly editing is replete with traditions and codified practices, while the digitisation of text-bearing material is a recent enterprise, governed more by practice than theory. From the …
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Digitisation and access to Archives: Case study of Sarah Baartman and Khoi San Collections
Digitisation is occurring all over the world today. So to bring it to South Africa is one step in changing people’s understandings of Africa, because the information would be accessible to the world and the rest of South Africa. There are many challenges that have been debated around digitisation …
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Digitisation of industrial data with a view to improving decision making leading to increased efficiency
… of products and services, brought about by their digitisation. Industry 4.0 has been criticised regarding its definition and steps for implementation. This research proposes that digitalisation initiatives are conducted to pave the way for organisations in their transition to Industry 4.0. The …
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How CIOs Engage Boards on Digitisation: The Case of Financial Services Companies in South Africa
… but how do CIOs engage boards on the matter? Digitisation is at the heart of the financial services companies. Accordingly, this dissertation focussed on companies in the financial services industry. The main research question for this dissertation is: how do CIOs of South African (SA) …
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Illicit trade and cultural heritage in South Africa: investigating the policy environment and opportunities for digitisation
This dissertation addresses research questions aimed at understanding and addressing the issue of illicit trafficking in cultural heritage assets in South Africa. The specific research questions guiding this study are as follows: ● What is the state of illicit trafficking in cultural heritage …
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Development of a Managerial Approach for a New IT Organisation Design Framework (ITODF) Based on Digitisation Trends.
Abstract Business organisations are currently at a tipping point. Disruptive technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain and others transforms many industries in the ways they work. Lines between business and technology blur. Researchers have acknowledged that this is the time in which …
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Tailoring Digital Touch: An ethnography of designers' touch practices during garment prototyping and the potential for their digitisation
At a time of rapid digital transition in garment design industries and education, this thesis ethnographically documents garment designers’ use of touch and its role in meaning-making and understanding during garment prototyping. A novel diffractive ethnographic attention is utilised to attune to …
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An Investigation of the Inclusion of Decoloniality in the Objectives of the National Library of South Africa s (NLSA s) Digitisation Programme
… of the National Library of South Africa's digitisation programme. A preliminary review of digitisation documents in the National Library of South Africa (NLSA) showed that decoloniality is never explicitly mentioned. The study employed a sequential mixed method, collecting data through …
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From Reading Rooms to Cafes
… outside of these 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 …
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The existence of the digital divide in African indigenous communities in accessing digital African Indigenous Games: a case study of Ga-Mamabolo oin Limpopo Province, South Africa
… societies are currently witnessing life under digitisation. The adoption of digitisation in African indigenous communities has become inevitable, and this has been seen as an opportunity to preserve games. Even though the adoption of digitisation to preserve the African indigenous games appears …
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Deep learning for digitising complex engineering drawings.
… has not been seen for engineering drawing digitisation. Most of these methods were based on traditional approaches which require manual feature selection and heuristics. This thesis presents a deep learning framework for the challenging problem of digitising complex engineering drawings. …
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Business-to-Business (B2B) Media in UK: A mixed methods study using product variables to assess the impacts of social media on product strategies
… one of the blind spots of media research. Digitisation has helped transforming B2B media from their old profile of trade magazines into a dynamic media sector producing multiple publishing and off-line products with different business models. Previous work on the digitisation of media …
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Gli strumenti finanziari nell'era digitale
This paper analyses the process of digitisation of financial instruments following the adoption of distributed ledger technologies (DLT). Starting from a historical analysis of mass credit instruments and their traditional function of wealth mobilisation, the study reconstructs the gradual decline …
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The future is unwritten. E-publishing in small nations of Europe: A comparative approach to policy frameworks and small business strategies
Digitisation, together with the spread of the internet, has initiated a transition phase in publishing. This transition not only affects the production process but also the way of communication, the product itself and its distribution. International corporations have entered the digital marketplace …
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Fourth industrial banking: case studies into digitising banking models and the foreseeable effects in South Africa
… the study aimed to uncover the processes of digitisation occurring as well as the social processes that underlie them. Findings show that indeed, tangible examples of “4IR”/digitisation are identified at the two banks through technical application of emerging technologies, such as cloud …
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A methodology and trial implementation for digitising information on a factory floor
… of this innovation of current processes includes digitisation and improving access to machine information, usually through the introduction of new technology to assist with this transition. In order to maintain smooth processes and uninterrupted production, various information sources must be …
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The digital classification of “unknown maker(s)” of cultural objects: A case study of Iziko South African National Gallery
… of historical accounts. With the transition to digitisation, and the adoption of digital curatorship for knowledge production in museum environments, it has become necessary to examine the historical accuracy, reliability and trustworthiness of the digital information being provided. …
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Evaluating the current copyright provisions for the reproduction and dissemination of electronic educational material in distance learning
… to access to educational material online. Digitisation has enabled the rapid copying of content and dissemination thereof to better enable access to learning for all through such digital availability of educational material. However, whether there are sufficient exceptions within copyright …
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