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Capacity building needed to reap the benefits of access to biodiversity collections

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Global conservation efforts increasingly depend on digitised natural history collections, yet the benefits of this digital data are not equally shared. We analysed biodiversity specimens and citation data from Montserrat and the Cayman Islands to assess who collected these specimens, how they are used, and by whom.
Quentin Groom   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

I Beni Culturali nella galassia della conoscenza: Serra San Quirico rappresentata attraverso i LOD / Cultural Heritage in the Knowledge galaxy: Serra San Quirico represented through LOD

open access: yesIl Capitale Culturale: Studies on the Value of Cultural Heritage, 2022
Questo contributo, dopo aver introdotto il web semantico e i Linked Open Data applicati al settore dei beni culturali, con particolare riferimento all’attività svolta dall’ICCD e al recente aggiornamento del Catalogo Generale, analizza le potenzialità ...
Katia Ramponi
doaj   +1 more source

Resource reallocation across successive systemic innovations: How Rolls‐Royce shaped the evolution of the turbojet, turboprop, and turbofan

open access: yesStrategic Management Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Despite the importance of resource reallocation in shaping a variety of strategic outcomes, strategy scholars have paid only limited attention to the processes by which firms reallocate their resources across successive systemic innovations.
Gino Cattani   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Introduction to Deadly Delusions #5 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Barry Mauer began the comic series Deadly Delusions in 2013 in response to the increasingly extreme and dangerous right-wing propaganda he had observed over the past several decades.
Mauer, Barry
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Production of arsenical bronze using speiss on the Elephantine Island (Aswan, Egypt) during the Middle Kingdom (Middle Bronze Age) (c.2000–1650 BCE)

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper presents the first direct evidence of the slags produced during the cementation alloying process of Cu with speiss inside ceramic crucibles, thus representing Cu alloying with As in Middle Kingdom Egypt. The settlement deposits from the Middle Bronze Age were excavated on Elephantine Island, within modern Aswan.
Jiří Kmošek, Martin Odler
wiley   +1 more source

21st-century scholarship and Wikipedia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Wikipedia, the world’s fifth most-used Web site, is a good illustration of the growing credibility of online resources. In his article in Ariadne earlier this year, “Wikipedia: Reflections on Use and Academic Acceptance”, Brian Whalley described the ...
Thomas, Amber
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Entangled Foodways and Livelihood Pathways: Cinnamon, State Interventions, and Everyday Life in Hmong Communities of Northern Vietnam

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The agroecological practices of ethnic minority farmers in Vietnam's northern uplands are being reshaped by intersecting pressures of land‐use reform, market integration, and state‐backed crop promotion. Among Hmong communities in the south of Lào Cai Province (former Yên Bái Province) cinnamon was once valued primarily for its medicinal ...
Mélie Monnerat, Sarah Turner
wiley   +1 more source

Harnessing the benefits of herbarium specimen digitisation for inferring recent and ongoing plant extinctions

open access: yesNew Phytologist, EarlyView.
Summary Evidence for the ongoing biodiversity crisis rests on assessment of a small fraction of described species, with major knowledge gaps for most organisms, including plants. Here, we highlight how digitised herbarium specimens can be used to accelerate and improve estimates of recent and ongoing plant extinctions.
Aelys M. Humphreys   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Representation of Non-Western Cultural Knowledge on Wikipedia: The Case of the Visual Arts

open access: yesDigital Studies, 2023
We explore gaps in Wikipedia's coverage of the visual arts by comparing the representation of 100 artists and 100 artworks from the Western canon against corresponding sets of notable artists and artworks from non-Western cultures.
Martin Lewis Poulter, Waqās Ahmed
doaj   +2 more sources

What Does Intarsia Say? Materiality and Spirituality in the Urbino Studiolo☆

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Upon entering the Urbino studiolo of Federico da Montefeltro, the visitor is struck by a material‐charged environment. Surprisingly, only a few scholars have addressed one prominent aspect of the decorative scheme, namely, the feature of intarsia as a medium. Even so, it remains on the sidelines of the discussion.
Matan Aviel
wiley   +1 more source

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