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Chapter 5. Digitization and Personal Digital Archiving
, 2020 Chapter 5 of Library Technology Reports (vol. 56, no. 5), “Digital Legacy,” covers the ways in which we store and share information and how they have changed.
Seagraves, Katlin
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A study of a crosstool information usage on personal computers : how users mentally link information relating to a task but residing in different applications and how importance and type of acquisition affect this. [PDF]
, 2009 Our information space is partitioned between real and digital worlds. Information in a digital world is fragmented between several devices such us mobile phones, handheld devices, netbooks, notebooks and personal computers.
Dix, Alan, Kljun, Matjaz, Solina, Franc
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Forests play a pivotal role in sustainability transitions. This article explores how people's relationships with forests, particularly how they care for or take care of them, shape and reflect broader tendencies and tensions in forest utilization and governance.
Jana Rebecca Holz
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The more we interact online and manage digital lives, the more we build a born-digital record of our personal contexts and interests. There is a clear mandate that libraries, archives and museums must assume responsibility for educating the public about ...
Johnston, Leslie
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The Sokol Project: Exploring the Social Nature of Personal Archiving
, 2011 The relatively recent study of personal archiving has tended to come from one of two perspectives: that of archivists, whose interest has primarily been in the personal documents and manuscripts likely to end up in archives; and that of researchers ...
Kendall, Lori
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract The decline in biodiversity, particularly in agricultural landscapes, is a pressing global challenge. Monitoring is vital to assess biodiversity trends and conservation effectiveness, yet farmland remains underinvestigated. Engaging farmers and encouraging naturalists to take on new roles could help expand monitoring efforts and strengthen ...
Elin Lundquist +8 more
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Global legal frameworks seek to ensure that benefits arising from the use of biological resources are shared fairly, yet their practical application—particularly where plant materials and Indigenous knowledge are involved—remains challenging. This article presents a case study modelling a pathway for ethical research and commercialisation of Indigenous
Jessica Cartwright +5 more
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Learning and mining from personal digital archives
, 2020 Given the explosion of new sensing technologies, data storage has become significantly cheaper and consequently, people increasingly rely on wearable devices to create personal digital archives. Lifelogging is the act of recording aspects of life in digital format for a variety of purposes such as aiding human memory, analysing human lifestyle and diet
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Botanic and heritage gardens as living laboratories in the age of the polycrisis
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Societal Impact Statement Cities face intertwined crises of climate, biodiversity loss and social disconnection. We show how botanic and heritage gardens can help address these challenges as living laboratories to generate place‐based evidence and public engagement.
Kevin Frediani
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Early modern herbaria house important and useful data on historic environments. However, their contents are often inhospitable to scientific use. Despite this challenge, once their contents have been deciphered, such specimens present novel research opportunities.
Madeline E. White, Stephen A. Harris
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