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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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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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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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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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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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Now You See It; Now You Don’t: The Experience of chronic illness in Six Italian Women Living With Autoimmune Disease
For those affected, chronic illness is a frightening, often isolating experience. Part of its power lies in its invisibility: to the onlooker, the chronically ill often appears “normal”. In addition, with the passing of time the absence of an immediate threat to life can lead the observer – medical professional...Bacchini, Simone
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Iron Ladies? The true impact of pain in chronic illness: where pain really hurts
Bacchini, Simone
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‘If the package is right, the pills are right’: Proprietary medicines, branding, and advertising, 1650-1850
Medical products, predominantly sold by newspaper and book printers, became the most heavily advertised branded good throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This fact, combined with the ever-increasing availability of digitised contemporary newspapers, has generated important work upon their advertisement and distribution. These studies have considerably enriched our understanding of...Basford, Jennifer
branding, material culture, advertising, proprietary medicine, and packaging
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Supporting practical preservation work and making it sustainable with SPRUCE
Wheatley, Paul ; Pennock, Maureen
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Authority and Judgement in the Digital Archive
The transformative promise of the digital humanities is not without problems. This paper looks at digital archive curation using a database of 19th-century London concerts as a case study. We examine some of the barriers faced in its development, related to expertise, volume and complexity, the gap between cost and...Dix, Alan ; Cowgill, Rachel ; Bashford, Christina ; McVeigh, Simon ; Ridgewell, Rupert
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Spreadsheets as User Interfaces
Spreadsheets are ubiquitous, familiar, often overlooked, and embody vast financial and human investment, not least in their user interface. This paper shows how spreadsheets can be used as an integral part of interactive processes, for activities from simple data entry, to more complex grouping and linking of datasets, both as...Dix, Alan ; Cowgill, Rachel ; Bashford, Christina ; McVeigh, Simon ; Ridgewell, Rupert
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Is there a role for ILL in an open access world – a British Library perspective
The 2017 UUK report on the transition to open access reported that 54% of UK-authored articles in 2016 were accessible within 12 months of publication. This is compared to 32% of articles authored in 2014. Over the past five years, open access research has flourished in an environment of funding...Flanagan, Dimity
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ICDAR2019 Competition on Recognition of Early Indian Printed Documents – REID2019
This paper presents an objective comparative evaluation of page analysis and recognition methods for historical documents with text mainly in Bengali language and script. It describes the competition rules, dataset, and evaluation methodology. Results are presented for five methods - three submit-ted, one re-run, and one open source state-of-the-art system....Clausner, Christian ; Antonacopoulos, Apostolos ; Derrick, Tom ; Pletschacher, Stefan
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Conference Panel: The past, present and future of digital scholarship with newspaper collections
Historical newspapers are of interest to many humanities scholars, valued as sources of information and language closely tied to a particular time, social context and place. Following library and commercial microfilming and, more recently, digitisation projects, newspapers have been an accessible and valued source for researchers. The ability to use...Ridge, Mia ; Colavizza, Giovanni
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Research Data Management in 'GLAM': Managing Data for Cultural Heritage
A presentation given at the ‘Open Science Infrastructures for Big Cultural Data’ Masterclass, Dec. 13-15th, in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, looking at research data management in the context of open digital cultural collections, with a case study of the developments in data management and data management infrastructures at the British Library.Stewart, Sarah Anna
data management, museums, research data management, cultural heritage, data, digital collections, digital scholarship, archives, libraries, art galleries, and open research
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Towards a Networked Digital Cultural Heritage: Data Services and Persistent Identifiers at the British Library
Presentation given at the ‘Museums and Big Data’ Conference, April 30 - May 3rd, in Doha, Qatar. This presentation investigates the use of persistent identifiers in digital cultural heritage and digital collections.Stewart, Sarah Anna
museums, persistent identifiers, DOIs, cultural heritage, data, open research, digital scholarship, archives, DataCite, art galleries, digital collections, and libraries
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From standard to community resource: a view on ISNIs and ORG IDs
Over the last year, the International Standard Name Identifier board have been considering the ways in which ISNI as a system can improve to meet new challenges and become more open and transparent. One particular consideration has been to make ISNIs a better solution for organisation identifiers. The British Library...Reimer, Torsten ; Madden, Frances
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