Description: Its meaning, epistemology, and use with emphasis on information science
Abstract This study examines the concept of “description” and its theoretical foundations. The literature about it is surprisingly limited, and its usage is vague, sometimes even conflicting. Description should be considered in relation to other processes, such as representation, data capturing, and categorizing, which raises the question about what it
Birger Hjørland
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Science, method and critical thinking
Science understands that we only can reach the truth of the World via creation of models. The method, based on critical thinking, is embedded in the scientific method, named here the Critical Generative Method. Abstract Science is founded on a method based on critical thinking.
Antoine Danchin
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The Importance of Colophon in Recognizing the Historical Values of Manuscript of "Jong-e Ahmad Gholam" (Date of Writing: 1135 - 1142 Ah.) [PDF]
The scripts' final word is generally known as the ending, the completion, the signature, and the word "Anjameh." This section's significance is because it provides a brief overview of the author, version features, time, location, and political and ...
Vahid Abedinpoor +2 more
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Illuminated Bible of the Armenian Master Ghazar Baberdatsi of Lvov [PDF]
The proposed subject has tremendous significance for specialists in the field of studying iconography, Armenian miniature painting and theology, since the article examines and analyzes the relationship of miniatures of the masters of the Armenian ...
Arakelyan Mikayel G.
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Conversations across Time and Space: Constructing Memory Chains of Calligraphies and Paintings on the Basis of IIIF-IIP Platform [PDF]
[Objectives/Significances] Recently, Chinese colleges and research institutes have begun to use international image interactive framework to present Chinese calligraphies and paintings. But few knowledge discoveries are based on the historic inscriptions
LI Hui, CHEN Tao, SHAN Rongrong
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The Greek Orthodox Community of Northern Lebanon in the Beginning of the Ottoman Epoch [PDF]
This article is devoted to a less-known period in the political history of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch, namely the early decades of the Ottoman rule (1530s–1540s).
Konstantin Panchenko
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Murder and Aesthetics in Patricia Highsmith’s Deep Water
Patricia Highsmith’s fifth novel, Deep Water (1957), revolves around three murders committed by 36-year-old Victor Van Allen, head of Greenspur Press in Little Wesley, Massachusetts, and a genuine aesthete whose interests include handset colophons ...
Robert Lance Snyder
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Carbon Dating Analysis of Manuscripts Kept in the Central Library of the University of Tehran [PDF]
Objective: This paper will present and analyzes the results of the carbon dating campaign carried out in the project “Irankoran” at the Central Library of the University of Tehran (hereafter, CLUT).
Lili Kordavani +5 more
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Women participated actively in the 16th and 17th centuries publishing market. In that context, they acted, among other tasks, as book merchants, who were responsible not just for the book selling but also for finance the printing cost.
Alejandra Ulla
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Traveling history of the Armenian four gospels dated to 1686 (NCM RAR 82)
The colophons of the old manuscripts, in general, convey important information about various persons, noble families, churches, monasteries, historical facts or contemporary political situations.
Khatuna Gaprindashvili
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