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Data without meaning: Establishing the significant properties of digital research
It is well recognised that the period of time in which digital research may remain accessible is likely to be short in comparison to the period in which it will continue to hold intellectual value. Although many digital preservation strategies are effective for simple resources, it is not always possible...Knight, Gareth ; Pennock, Maureen
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DCC Workshop Report: E-mail Curation: Practical Approaches for Long-term Preservation and Access, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, April 24 - 25, 2006
A report on the Digital Curation Centre workshop held in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in April 2006 to explore practical approaches for managing, preserving and re-using e-mail records.Pennock, Maureen
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The preservation of disk-based content at the British Library: Lessons from the Flashback Project
This article introduces the British Library’s Flashback project, which is exploring the practical challenges of preserving digital content currently stored on physical media (magnetic and optical disks). It reports on a Flashback proof of concept that conducted experiments on a sample of content from hybrid collection items dating from between... -
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Complicating the story of popular science: John Maynard Smith’s 'Little Penguin' on The Theory of Evolution
Popular science writing has received increasing interest, especially in its relation to professional science. I extend the current scholarly focus from the nineteenth to the twentieth century by providing a microhistory of the early popular writings of evolutionary biologist John Maynard Smith (1920–2004). Linking them to the state of evolutionary...Piel, Helen
popular science, science communication, Neo-Darwinism, evolutionary theory, and John Maynard Smith
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Your name is not good enough: introducing the ORCID researcher identifier at Imperial College London
The ORCID researcher identifier ensures that research outputs can always reliably be traced back to their authors. ORCID also makes it possible to automate the sharing of research information, thereby increasing data quality, reducing duplication of effort for academics and saving institutions money. In 2014, Imperial College London created ORCID...Reimer, Torsten
ORCID, scholarly communications, research information management, identifier, and Imperial College London
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Participation in heritage crowdsourcing
This paper draws upon the experience of several years of running a multi-application crowdsourcing platform, as well as a longitudinal evaluation of participant profiles, motivations and behaviour, to argue that heritage crowdsourcing cannot straightforwardly be considered a democratising form of cultural participation. While we agree that crowdsourcing helps expand public...Bonacchi, Chiara ; Bevan, Andrew ; Keinan-Schoonbaert, Adi ; Pett, Daniel ; Wexler, Jennifer
audience development, crowdsourcing, cultural participation, GLAM, representation, and heritage
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Where are we now? A review of research on the history of women's soccer in Ireland
It is a common fact that women's sport and leisure history, especially in male dominated spheres, and more specifically football, have been ignored by many academics. However, in recent years there have been major developments in digital technology that have changed the nature of the type of research that can...Byrne, Helena
indoor football, digital resources, women's soccer, women's football, oral history, and Ireland
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Great Britain: 1840 Mulready Lord Holland facsimile
Those philatelists interested in Great Britain, especially its postal stationery, are usually aware of the “Lord Holland” facsimile or reproduction. While various references to it have appeared in literature from time to time, its story seems not have been brought together; this article attempts to do just that.Beech, David R.
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Notes for philatelic researchers
A study of research in philately will show us that the last 50 years has seen an explosion of publication. Such scholarship has been much aided by the formation of specialist philatelic societies and the bringing together of those interested in the same or similar subjects by means of meetings,...Beech, David R.
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Hejaz: The Survey of Egypt book of 1918
Following the entry on 29th October, 1914 of the Turkish Ottoman Empire into the 1914-18 First World War on the side of the Central Powers, including Germany, it followed that war was declared between Great Britain and the Ottoman Empire on the 5th November, 1914. As the territory of Britain’s...Beech, David R.