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Collecting contemporary science, technology and medicine [PDF]
Museum Management and Curatorship, 2018 Museums are often associated exclusively with bygones. This can be problematic, especially for those who manage science, technology and medicine (STM) collections. In seeking to correct this misconception with contemporary collecting, they also face other problems, especially in scale and complexity.
Alberti, Samuel J.M.M. +3 more
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Collecting COVID-19 at National Museums Scotland
Museum & Society, 2020 This opinion piece discusses National Museums Scotland’s first responses to collecting COVID-19. Drawing on perspectives from social history, biomedical science and military history, this short paper contextualizes COVID-related collecting within the ...
Sarah Laurenson +2 more
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Authorship, 2023 During the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, collecting authors’ material remains developed from a private pursuit into a public mission, a history that is coupled to the emergence of modern institutions such as the research library and the ...
Tim Sommer
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Contemporary Issues in Collection Management
Education and Research Archive, 2023 This edited, openly licensed, textbook examines several different issues in collection management. Topics covered include physical vs. digital collections; the impact of BookTok on collections; challenges to 2SLGBTQ+ collections ; ebook licensing; ebook pricing; accessible collections for users with physical disabilities; accessible collections for ...
Chiovelli, Chelsea +30 more
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Heritage in a digital world : Algorithms, data, and future value generation
Limina, 2020 Chiara ZuanniThis paper aims to examine the values of born-digital heritage. It focuses on the impact on museum and heritage practices of digital data as consti-tuting heritage objects.
Zuanni, Chiara
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Eclipsing Binary Stars from Space [PDF]
, 2006 We have begun a programme to obtain high-precision photometry of bright detached eclipsing binary (dEB) stars with the Wide field InfraRed Explorer (WIRE) satellite. Due to the small aperture of WIRE only stars brighter than V=6 can be observed.
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, 2014 A review of Kevin M. Moist and David Banash (eds), Contemporary Collecting: Objects, Practices and the Fate of Things (Scarecrow Press, 2013)
Herring, Scott
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From 2D to 3D: the story of graphene in objects
Science Museum Group Journal, 2018 First isolated using sticky tape in Manchester in 2004, graphene is a nanoscience breakthrough which has captured the imagination of the press and the scientific community.
Sarah Baines
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Vladimir R. Đorđević’s contribution to the development of ethnoorganology [PDF]
Muzikologija, 2020 In the versatile musical activity of Vladimir R. Đorđević at the turn of the 20 century, his research work on collecting primarily traditional Serbian melodies, the smaller portion of which refers to instrumental music expression, is of ...
Zakić Mirjana
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Cardiovascular Risk Distribution in a Contemporary Polish Collective [PDF]
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2020 The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of selected risk factors for cardiovascular disease (hypertension, overweight, obesity, carbohydrate metabolism disorders, a positive family history, a lack of physical activity), and to estimate the risk of a cardiovascular incident according to the Systematic Coronary Risk Evaluation (SCORE ...
Anita Liput-Sikora +6 more
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