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Massive digitization makes histories appear as well as disappear. While digital archives facilitate the access to documents, recordings, films, and other s urces there is the risk that offlin sources get lost.
Dang, Sarah-Mai, Strohmaier, Alena
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Expert Reception of The Limits to Growth: A Few Simple Tools for the Book Historian
In the early 1970s, a research team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology used new methods of computer modelling to simulate global dynamic processes.
Cheryl Knott
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Faculty Seminar On Collaboration Syllabus [PDF]
This is a collectively-built, in-progress syllabus for a faculty seminar on the topic of collaboration at Swarthmore College, Spring 2016. Topics include competing definitions of collaboration across disciplines, formal and informal collaboration, rich ...
Buurma, Rachel Sagner +1 more
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Exploring the information behaviour of users of Welsh Newspapers Online through web log analysis [PDF]
Purpose – Webometric techniques have been applied to many websites and online resources, especially since the launch of Google Analytics (GA). To date, though, there has been little consideration of information behaviour in relation to digitised ...
Gooding, Paul
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Abstract Many theories of human information behavior (HIB) assume that information objects are in text document format. This paper argues four important HIB theories are insufficient for describing users' search strategies for data because of assumptions about the attributes of objects that users seek.
Anthony J. Million +3 more
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Der Beitrag geht von der Beobachtung aus, dass Bibliotheken bisher zwar die Themen E‑Science und Forschungsdaten in ihre Überlegungen hinsichtlich spezifischer Angebote zur Informationskompetenz einbezogen haben. Aber obwohl Bibliotheken über ein breites
Marcus Schröter
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Changing Light: a plethora of digital tools as slides gasp their last? [PDF]
The title 'Changing Light' reflects the enormous changeover from analogue slides to digital images, both a cultural shift and a physical shift down to the change in light from the smoky beams of dual slide projectors piercing the dark of a classroom, to ...
Gramstadt, Marie-Therese
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“Lviv Interactive” and Exploring Artists’ Spaces on a Digital Map
The paper discusses the utilization of digital maps and an encyclopedia platform, hosted by the Center for Urban History in Lviv, to delve into the history of artistic milieus and practices within the spatial context of Lviv during the late 1980s.
Bohdan Shumylovych, Taras Nazaruk
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Changing Trains at Wigan: Digital Preservation and the Future of Scholarship [PDF]
This paper examines the impact of the emerging digital landscape on long term access to material created in digital form and its use for research; it examines challenges, risks and expectations.
Ross, Seamus
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Research Interviews in Historical Practice
A key difference between collecting life stories and doing research interviews is the role of the interviewer. While training in oral history may focus on using standard scripts to take a life story, research interviews are motivated by specific questions that arise from particular historical projects and are often not primarily focused on the ...
Lara Keuck, Soraya de Chadarevian
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