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From Stone to Standards: A Digital Heritage Interoperability Model for Armenian Epigraphy Within the Leiden and EpiDoc Frameworks

Heritage
This study investigates Armenian editorial conventions for inscriptions and evaluates their compatibility and the possibility of their further integration with international standards of epigraphic editing for open access and equal use. It focuses on the
Hamest Tamrazyan, Gayane Hovhannisyan, Arsen Harutyunyan   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ethnography on the Cyberian Frontier

eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2013
Virtual worlds are persistent, multi-user, computer generated environments, established and maintained via internet technologies. Cyber-ethnography is the adaptation of the ethnographic method to the study of virtual worlds.
Rhian Morgan
doaj   +1 more source

Designing assisted living technologies 'in the wild' : preliminary experiences with cultural probe methodology [PDF]

, 2012
Background There is growing interest in assisted living technologies to support independence at home. Such technologies should ideally be designed ‘in the wild’ i.e. taking account of how real people live in real homes and communities.
A Christoforetti, A Crabtree, A Steventon, AJ Cruz-Jentoft, C Graham, C Graham, C Leonardi, G Dewsbury, Guy Dewsbury, H Hutchinson, Joseph Wherton, K Boehner, L Axelrod, M Hartswood, Mark Rouncefield, P Dourish, Paul Sugarhood, PY Takahashi, R Bernhaupt, Rob Procter, S Buchmuller, S Pedell, S van Dieren, Sue Hinder, T Greenhalgh, T Greenhalgh, Trisha Greenhalgh, W Gaver   +27 more
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Innovations for Stakeholder Engagement in Water Governance: A Systematic Literature Review From a Sustainability Transition Perspective

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainable and equitable governance of water resources is among the most pressing global challenges, emphasising the need for innovations towards transitions in the water sector. Innovations for stakeholder engagement can contribute to such transitions through public participation and cross‐sectoral collaboration.
Anne Ellermann, Gül Özerol, Joanne Vinke‐de Kruijf, César Casiano Flores, Vuokko Laukka, Ulf Stein, Suvi Sojamo, Rob Collins   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Doing urban research on ‘hard-to-reach’ populations during the COVID-19 pandemic: advantages and ethical dilemmas using digital ethnography as a new alternative

Discover Global Society
This paper presents insights on conducting urban research amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, emphasizing the adoption of digital ethnography as an innovative and flexible approach. Drawing from an expanding body of literature on fieldwork among 'hard-to-reach'
Johannes Bhanye, Lameck Kachena, Abraham Matamanda, Ruvimbo Shayamunda   +3 more
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Greenstone as a music digital library toolkit [PDF]

, 2004
Greenstone is an open source digital library system that has developed and matured since its inception in 1995. Today it is used in over 60 countries, with a strong emphasis on humanitarian aid.
Bainbridge, David, Cunningham, Sally Jo, Downie, J. Stephen   +2 more
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Cheia de axé (full of axé): Spirituality, resistance, and repair in Pernambuco's Afro‐Brazilian traditional communities

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how Afro‐Brazilian communities in Pernambuco respond to state‐led industrial development through culturally rooted practices of resistance and repair. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research in the coastal municipalities of Cabo de Santo Agostinho and Ipojuca, this study traces the effects of Brazil's large‐scale ...
Shelly Annette Biesel
wiley   +1 more source

Get the hammer out!

Journal of Digital Social Research
This paper focuses on revealing how the interplay between algorithmic interactions and the intuitive ways humans navigate digital environments can be researched through a multi-method approach to collecting and critically examining data from online ...
Radhika Gajjala, Ololade Margaret Faniyi, Debipreeta Rahut, Emily Edwards, Sarah Ellen Ford   +4 more
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The application of ethnographic method in the study of digital media

Encyclopaideia, 2015
Digital media raise methodological issues of some relevance. The following article tries to be a contribution to the qualitative analysis of Social Networks through the use of media ethnography.
Amelia Capobianco
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Queer configurations: The female divine, regional identity, and Queer‐religious belonging in South India

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how queerness and religion intersect in a unique enactment of Bathukamma, a flower festival honoring the female divine in Hyderabad, the capital of the South Indian state of Telangana. Drawing on theories of figuration, I analyze how local queer organizations celebrate the festival in a way that engages two distinctive ...
Stefan Binder
wiley   +1 more source