Results 221 to 230 of about 37,588 (256)
Some of the next articles are maybe not open access.
Documenting Fashion: The Documentation and Preservation of Fashion Pieces
2020Documents have historically been identified as written texts. Due to the ideologies of documentalists stemming from the eighteenth century, the idea of a document has greatly expanded to include not just written texts, but objects as well. Fashion pieces carry with them history, stories and information.
openaire +1 more source
Books and bytes: Preserving documents for posterity
Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1999Information retrieval used to depend on the existence of “documents,” traditionally defined in library and information work as combinations of an information content and a supporting physical carrier. This article describes some of the problems in documentation work rising from the habit of detaching information from any physical support, as a ...
openaire +1 more source
Philology in the preservation of audio documents
Unlocking Sound and Image Heritage: Selected Readings from the 2015 SOIMA Conference, 2017Sound recordings have proven to be irreplaceable primary sources for disciplines like linguistics, musicology, ethnomusicology and sociology. Their fragile physical nature has activated a number of counter-actions aimed at prolonging the life expectancy of their content.
openaire +1 more source
Documenting and Preserving Histories and Legacies
2013Researchers on the Russian Diaspora in the United States face many problems in identifying and accessing materials. Émigrés often struggled financially, and preservation of their own legacy was often the least of their worries. Children born to the members of the "waves" typically assimilated in the US, and did not understand the value of family papers.
+4 more sources
Notation: documentation, layout, and the preserved
2002Abstract Writing was for centuries the only way of recording a spoken text. Most actors need a cue-script, a copy of their lines and cues, from which to learn a role; and all revivals depend on the availability of the play-text (and perhaps also on the survival of costumes, sets, or a star actor associated with a role).
John Lennard, Mary Luckhurst
openaire +1 more source
Documenting and/or preserving endangered languages
2007Abstract This chapter originated as a “general remarks “ response to the individual papers presented at the conference on endangered languages held in Kyoto at the end of 2000; some of these papers appear in revised form in the present volume.
openaire +3 more sources