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Freedom to troll?
Should we be able to say what we want online? Politics, cyber-bullying and hate speech. The balance between free speech and online abuse is getting harder to define and police. What can and should be done to tackle it? In this Data Debate we will discuss trolling: the practice of...Ali, Nimco ; Kelley, Brittany ; Procter, Rob ; Wood, Roisin
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The Academic Book of the Future Project Film
This short film explains what The Academic Book of the Future Project was about and what it achieved. The Academic Book of the Future Project was funded by the AHRC in partnership with the British Library. See the Project website, https://academicbookfuture.org/ for more details.Academic Book of the Future Project
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Digital Sudan: Digitizing Cultural Heritage for the Democratization of Knowledge
For many decades, heritage in Sudan has been a battleground between the diverse political, religious and ethnic forces. This is affecting the way in which the educational and curriculum development processes are organized and how the acquisitions of public libraries, including the National Library, are selected. For many years, books...Satti, Nureldin
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Academic Authorship and Arab Knowledge Production
This talk is inspired by the book that I recently co-authored with Rigas Arvanitis Knowledge Production in the Arab World: The Impossible Promise. (2016). I will show a paradox: Arab knowledge production has tremendously increased but often without being translated into public awareness and policy. What does mean in terms...Hanafi, Sari
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Tombouctou Manuscripts Project
In this presentation I shall introduce the work of the Tombouctou Manuscripts Project. It began as an attempt to understand the tradition of learning in Timbuktu as represented in the large number of manuscript books kept in the town. However, it has expanded into a larger consideration of various issues...Jeppie, Shamil
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Conference paper (unpublished)
The Southpaw and The Global Knowledge Order
This paper considers the special challenges of creating and accessing knowledge material relating to the global South, especially from locations in the South. The imbalance between North and South in the creation of knowledge resources is linked to their unequal access to extant resources, but the link is not always...Chaudhuri, Sukanta
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Academic Publishing in Africa
Provision of education at all levels has always been one of the, if not the, most important expectation that Africans demand of their governments. In the twenty-first century even a bachelor’s degree is no longer good enough for the few available government jobs or for those in the private sector....Bgoya, Walter
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Dataset
Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts: Add MS 10456 - Add MS 17058
This dataset comprises 25 digitised Hebrew manuscripts (1200 - 1599), with their shelfmarks in alphabetical order (Add MS 10456 - Add MS 17058). These manuscripts are out of copyright. These JPEG files were converted from TIFF files using IrfanView, and then further compressed using JPEGMini. They can be used for...Keinan-Schoonbaert, Adi
manuscripts, Jewish, and Hebrew
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Dataset
Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts: Or 2510 - Or 2588
This dataset comprises 40 digitised Hebrew manuscripts (900 - 1747; unknown date), with their shelfmarks in alphabetical order (Or 2510 - Or 2588). These manuscripts are out of copyright. These JPEG files were converted from TIFF files using IrfanView, and then further compressed using JPEGMini. They can be used for...Keinan-Schoonbaert, Adi
manuscripts, Jewish, and Hebrew
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Dataset
Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts: Add MS 18229 - Add MS 26897
This dataset comprises 27 digitised Hebrew manuscripts (1100 - 1799; unknown date), with their shelfmarks in alphabetical order (Add MS 18229 - Add MS 26897). These manuscripts are out of copyright. These JPEG files were converted from TIFF files using IrfanView, and then further compressed using JPEGMini. They can be...Keinan-Schoonbaert, Adi
manuscripts, Jewish, and Hebrew