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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"digital archives"”.
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Digital Archives and the Turn to Design
… proceeds through case studies of three different digital archive technologies: digital document repositories (web sites that store and provide access to archival collections online), wikis (dynamic, collaboratively authored web sites that anyone can add to or change), and plagiarism detection …
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Investigating how South African humanities researchers engage with digital archives
… Despite technological developments in the Digital Humanities space, it is unclear that the facilities offered by digital archives support the needs of Humanities researchers in developing countries. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate how South African Humanities scholars use …
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A framework for public digital archives administration in Zambia : current practices, procedures and prospects.
… of this study was to establish the framework for digital archives administration in Zambia, focusing on the current practices, procedures and prospects. A case study design using concurrent mixed research methods was adopted for this study. Purposive, and simple random sampling techniques were …
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A framework for public digital archives administration in Zambia : current practices, procedures and prospects.
… of this study was to establish the framework for digital archives administration in Zambia, focusing on the current practices, procedures and prospects. A case study design using concurrent mixed research methods was adopted for this study. Purposive, and simple random sampling techniques were …
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Digital Archives as Relationship-Building: Reflections on Worldmaking in Community-Based Latin American and Caribbean Diasporic Memory Work in Southern California
<p>While participatory digital methods for conducting archival research and practice have contributed in meaningful ways to discourses on rebalancing power asymmetries in archival partnerships between academics and communities, this work has yet to effectively disrupt the status quo. Using a …
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Decentering the writing program archive: How composition instructors save and share their teaching materials
… program archive through research on instructors’ digital archives. Artifacts of composition instruction are no longer saved to print archives alone; rather, digital technologies expand the locations where artifacts of writing pedagogy can be archived and accessed. The following archival …
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Making memory: techne, technology, and the refashioning of contemporary memory
… of new types of memory in combination with digital media. To interrogate this connection, I suggest three interpretations of the Greek concept, <i>techne</i>: as a process that is inherently productive; as a force that renegotiates contemporary sources of social power; and as a skill that …
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Audio Segmenting and Natural Language Processing in Oral History Archiving
Traditional archives preserve physical historical records, documents, artifacts, etc. and tell 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. …
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Large image support in digital repositories
… organisations and companies are implementing digital repositories to collect, preserve, administer and distribute their collections via the World Wide Web. In the process of building these digital archives and collections, images such as maps are often are captured in an uncompressed, …
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Between Fantasy & Reality: Ludonarrative Dissonance and Black Affect in the Present
… to video games. Drawing upon literary texts, digital archives, video games, play studies and phenomenology, it asks: What are the fundamental ways around which black social life is structured in the early 21st Century? I assert that video games—most of which are Japanese in origin—are the most …
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IMMERSION : a platform for visualization and temporal analysis of email data
… events. Additionally, they can also serve as digital archives, thus making it possible for others to access, learn from and reflect upon our life's trajectory long after we are gone. In this thesis, I propose and develop a webbased platform called Immersion, which reveals the network of …
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Hashtags and Pins in Education: Digital Native Educators in Digital Habitats.
… education. This research seeks to understand how Digital Native educators are using Digital Habitats in their professional practice. By gaining a deeper understanding of how educators use Digital Habitats, including their tools, like hashtags and pins, we can begin to develop ways to incorporate …
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Specialized Online Publics and Rhetorical Ecologies: A Study of Civic Engagement in Natural Resource Management
… online public"publics that are constituted in digital spaces around shared interests and the circulation of texts and (vernacular) discourses, while existing in rhetorical ecologies. This dissertation argues sportsmen and sportswomen are an overlooked public within the field of Rhetoric and …
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Users & use: An exploration of the interaction between the user and the digital archive
… examine the interaction between the user and the digital archive. The aim of the study is to support an in-depth examination of the interaction process, with a view to making recommendations and tools, for system designers and archival professionals, to promote digital archive domain development. …
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The archival records on Chinese slaves, convicts, exiles and ‘free blacks' at the Cape of Good Hope (1654 -1838): Conceptualising a digital curation project
Despite the growth of digital archives, there is no dedicated repository that systematically compiles the history of Chinese migration to South Africa. This qualitative study used 62 archival records housed at the Western Cape Archives and Records Service, to explore how the application of digital …
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W.G. Sebald and the Cinematic Imagination
… unprecedented ability not only to store huge digital archives, but also to click, drag, and recontextualize their contents across limitless formats. Always on the move, collecting, reporting, and speculating about images, Sebald suggests that we do not have to be slaves to spectacle but can …
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European Integration and the Political Transformation of the British Labour Party and the German SPD from the Mid-1980s until the 2010s
… Moreover, several selected physical and digital archives on Labour and the SPD’s European vocations were covered. To analyse the collected data, the reflexive thematic analysis (RTA) method was used, drawing on Peter Mair’s Europeanisation, party change, and cartel party theories as the …
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Literacy and Labor: Archives, Networks, and Histories in Working-Class Communities
<p>Literacy and Labor: Archives, Networks, and Histories in Working-Class Communities explores the significance of The Federation of Worker Writers and Community Publishers (FWWCP), a network of writing groups that existed between 1976-2007 and self-published thousands of texts focused on …
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The Office of experiments: experimental research in the expanded field of contemporary art.
… documentation and traces of exhibitions, digital archives and artist publications, along with the full text of referenced citations of these works from major catalogues and published articles and journals. The database itself reflects a key dimension in the critical research practice that …
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Ireland’s pre-1940 daily precipitation data: data rescue, quality assurance and analysis of extremes
… data remains in paper or image form in numerous archives. This research presents daily rainfall data and metadata for Ireland transcribed from historical manuscripts and printed copies of rainfall registers located in Met Éireann's archives. To facilitate the transcription of rainfall …
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