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Changing the Rules? RDA and cataloguing in Europe
This paper provides an overview of plans to implement RDA: Resource Description & Access in Europe to replace existing cataloguing rules. It is based on survey information gathered by EURIG and CILIP CIG. It includes background on the development of RDA as a replacement for AACR2.Danskin, Alan ; Gryspeerdt, Katharine
AACR2, EURIG, linked data, cataloguing, and Europe
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E-journal Archiving and Preservation Workshop
In March 2007, the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC), the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and the British Library invited attendees to a workshop focusing on the archiving and preservation of e-journals. Speakers from the publishing and library environments came together at the British Library to discuss developments and requirements in...Cass, Emma ; Hockx-Yu, Helen ; Jackson, Carol ; Pothen, Philip ; Tillett, Samantha
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Retaking Responsibility for How We Communicate. A Review of Open Access and the Humanities: Contexts, Controversies and the Future
Since the publication of the Budapest Open Access Initiative statement in 2002, Open Access has grown from an ideal to a reality. Open Access and the Humanities explores scholarly practices, communications, and cultures in light of this change and argues that humanists can and should retake responsibility for how they...Baker, James
labour, open access, humanities, markets, and publishing
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Europeana Newspapers: searching digitized historical newspapers from 23 European countries
Europeana Newspapers is a European Commission-funded project which is refining, aggregating and giving researchers online access to historical newspaper content from 23 European libraries. It also offers free, open source tools which individual libraries can use to assess refinement quality and metadata standards in relation to their own digital newspaper...Willems, Marieke ; Atanassova, Rossitza
digitised historic newspapers, 19th-century newspapers, Europeana Newspapers, and digital humanities
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The Formation of Microenvironments in Polyester Enclosures
Inert polyester sheets, such as Melinex and Mylar, are widely used in conservation to create envelope-like enclosures for storing and protecting flat objects (paper, parchment, papyrus, etc.). These materials are known to be chemically stable and present no direct risks to the enclosed items; however, as the films have a...Garside, Paul ; Walker, Olivia
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The Covent Garden Old Price Riots: Protest and Justice in Late‑Georgian London
This article explores perceptions of the law and of how agents of the law responded to events at Covent Garden Theatre during the bitter months between mid-October and late-November 1809, the height of the Covent Garden Old Price riots. It does so through the lens of the periodical press, a...Baker, James William
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A Systematic Approach to Selecting Inexpensive Conservation Storage Solutions
The appropriate storage of heritage artefacts is vital to their long-term survival, but selecting suitable storage solutions is not always easy due to the number of potentially conflicting factors that must be considered: the method of housing should be compatible with both the objects themselves and with the local environment;...Garside, Paul ; Hanson, Lesley
conservation, conservation science, storage, and collection care
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A Hiatus in the Cutting of Buddhist Caves in the Western Deccan
This article places the expansion of Buddhist monasteries in the Western Deccan in its wider context, examining how social, political and economic forces might have impacted on the tempo of Buddhist cave cutting. A framework for dating the caves is outlined and a hiatus in their construction during the first...Rees, Gethin