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Disentangling Digital Preservation Risk: An Interdisciplinary Exploration and Solution
Memory institutions such as the British Library face the important challenge of preserving their digital collections for future generations. Disciplinary efforts to address this challenge are extensive but demonstrate significant inconsistency and uncertainty about how the field understands risk, as well as what it considers to be a valid response....Pennock, Maureen
libraries, risk, risk science, archives, digital preservation, reference model, and design science
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Doctoral thesis
Dynamic, Articulation and Special Effect Markings in Manuscript Sources of Luigi Boccherini’s String Quintets
Luigi Boccherini's chamber works form the largest part of his compositional output of nearly 500 works. In these works Boccherini included performance markings to a much greater extent that in his violoncello sonatas and concertos. His string quintets, in particular, present a large variety of dynamic, articulation and special-effect markings,...Drosopoulou, Loukia
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Doctoral thesis
Idiosyncrasies in the Late Mughal Painting Tradition: The Artist Mihr Chand, Son of Ganga Ram (fl. 1759-86).
This thesis examines the stylistic development of the artist 'Mihr Chand, son of Ganga Ram' (fl. 1759-86), who travelled across northern India in the hope of finding a beneficent patron. The initial hypothesis, which this thesis proposes, is that Mihr Chand's idiosyncratic approach to the established painting tradition earmarked him...Roy, Malini
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Doctoral thesis
Israeli and Palestinian Archaeological Inventories, GIS and Conflicting Cultures in the Occupied West Bank
Effective protection and management of cultural heritage resources in a specific region requires planning strategies and policies, which rely on the sum of existing information about archaeology and cultural heritage. The role of archaeological inventories in the process of heritage management is, therefore, central and critical, as they are supposed...Keinan, Adi
inventory, CHM, Geographic Information System, West Bank, cultural heritage, conflict, Palestine, GIS, Israel, archaeology, and database
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Master's dissertation
The Megiddo Picture Pavement: Evidence for Egyptian Presence in Northern Israel during Early Bronze Age I
The Megiddo Picture Pavement was discovered by the Chicago Oriental Institute expedition in the late 1930's. This pavement is part of a sacred enclosure that belongs to stratum XIX (= Stratum J-2) and dates to the Early Bronze Age IB. The partially preserved pavement of this cultic enclosure consisted of...Keinan, Adi
EBA, Egyptian art, Canaan, slab, Southern Levant, Egypt, Israel, Early Bronze Age, picture pavement, and Megiddo
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Master's dissertation
An Assessment of Long-Term Digital Preservation in Open Access Repositories in the United Kingdom
Background: The literature reveals a lack of implementation of long-term digital preservation in Open Access (OA) repositories in the United Kingdom (UK). Limited research has been done on the subject to better understand the situation. Aim: The study aimed to formulate a case for best practice guidance for long-term digital...McRoberts, Jaimee
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Doctoral thesis
Lorenz Stein and German Socialism 1835-1872
This thesis traces the intellectual trajectory of Lorenz Stein (1815-1890), a German legal scholar and political thinker who, despite being a significant theorist during his lifetime, is an obscure figure today, especially in Anglophone scholarship. It focuses on Stein’s writings on socialism and argues that they provide crucial insights into...Siclovan, Diana
intellectual history, Prussia, Germany, socialism, political thought, 1848 Revolution, and cameralism
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Doctoral thesis
'A commodity of good names' : the branding of products, c.1650-1900
Historians of consumption have perpetuated a specific reading and interpretation of early modern commodity branding, in which the relationship between proprietary interest and final consumer has been privileged. In addition, its primary goal has been portrayed as a means of differentiation in a market of homogenous goods. As such, 'branding'...Basford, Jennifer
branding, nationhood, liquid blacking trade, clay tobacco pipes, proprietary medicine, state formation, advertising, early modern British history, material culture, and packaging