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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Connecting the Persistent Identifier Ecosystem: Building the Technical and Human Infrastructure for Open Research
The persistent identifier (PID) landscape extends to cover objects, individuals and organisations engaged in the process of research. Established services such as DataCite, Crossref, ORCID and ISNI are providing a foundation for a trusted ecosystem and a new generation of services. Scalable identifier systems will support researchers and capture research...Dappert, Angela ; Farquhar, Adam ; Kotarski, Rachael ; Hewlett, Kirstie
persistent identifiers, research infrastructure, interoperable services, scholarly communication, and data citation
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The once and future library: the role of the (national) library in supporting research
The global research environment is changing rapidly and with it the role of libraries in facilitating research. Taking the British Library as an example, this article provides a situational analysis of the challenges research libraries face in this context. It outlines a new, or at least modified, role for research...Reimer, Torsten
strategy, research, transformation, library, open access, and scholarly communications
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Response to Alexandra Harris, 'Landscape Now'
Alex invites us to join in a conversation about “the place of art, and the history of art, in national understandings of landscape now”. She notes that over the last twenty years there has been an upsurge in interest in writing about nature, place, and environment not seen since the...Myrone, Felicity
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The Arab Legion and the 1948 War: The Conduct of 'Collusion'
The partition of Palestine and the 1948 Arab-Israeli War proved to be one of the defining moments of the twentieth century and its continued contemporary resonance has helped maintain a lively historiography. One of the key contentions remains the question of ‘collusion’ between the Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan and the...Jevon, Graham
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Writing a Big Data history of music
This article introduces the project A Big Data History of Music, which set out to unlock the bibliographical data held by research libraries in order to create new research opportunities for musicologists. The project cleaned and enhanced aspects of the British Library catalogues of printed and manuscript music, which are...Rose, Stephen ; Tuppen, Sandra ; Drosopoulou, Loukia
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Purcell in the 18th century: music for the 'Quality, Gentry, and others'
Henry Purcell was the only composer of his generation to be honoured with performances of his music at both the Academy of Ancient Music and Concerts of Ancient Music in the 18th century. Both organizations also programmed 18th-century music for The Tempest, believing it to be by Purcell. Excerpts from...Tuppen, Sandra
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Shrove-tide dancing: balls and masques at Whitehall under Charles II
The tradition of the Shrove-tide court entertainment with dancing and music, strong in the first half of the seventeenth century in England, was restored with the monarchy after 1660. Shrove-tide masques, balls and plays, along with dishes of pancakes and fritters, remained a feature of the court calendar to the...Tuppen, Sandra
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Art Libraries in a city: present and possible co-operation in Leeds
In addition to an art library which is part of the public library service, the city of Leeds, in the north of England, is the home of two universities and an art college, and of the Henry Moore Centre for the Study of Sculpture, in each of which significant art...Coombes, Rebecca
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The Geosemiotics of Tahrir Square: A study of the relationship between discourse and space
The year 2011 saw unprecedented waves of people occupying key locations around the world in a statement of public discontent. In Egypt, the protests which took place between 25 January and 11 February 2011 culminating in the ouster of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak have now come to be known...Aboelezz, Mariam
discourse and space, Tahrir Square, geosemiotics, linguistic landscapes, and January 25 Revolution
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Relative values: the words about non-Western art
A survey of holdings of non-Western art in British, and some North American, art libraries has by and large confirmed that it is poorly represented, and that contemporary non-Western art is especially neglected. Libraries’ freedom to acquire material in this broad area may be restricted or defined by curricula, the...Coombes, Rebecca
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'Making tradition': healing, history and ethnic identity among Otjiherero-speakers in Namibia, c. 1850–1950
For at least the last century and a half, Otjiherero-speakers in central Namibia have engaged in healing rituals played out around the Holy Fire and involving a resolution of tension through appeal to male patrilineal ancestors. These ceremonies are part of traditions that have increasingly come to define Herero ethnic...Wallace, Marion
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Personal circuits: official tours and South Africa’s colony
This paper focuses on the visits of Sydney Buxton, Governor-General of South Africa, and his party to South West Africa (SWA, now Namibia) in 1915 and 1919. These, I argue, formed part of a broader economy of what might be called ‘personal circuits’ – journeys and visits by important personages...Wallace, Marion