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Conference paper (unpublished)
Inequities in Scholarly Communications
In today's political climate, we are well aware, if we weren't before, that inequities exist at all levels of society. This is true also in scholarly communications, which despite its many changes in the last few decades, still adheres to traditional values and structures. This talk offers a broad overview...Roh, Charlotte
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Using Open Source Tools to Decolonize Map Archives: The Case of Palestine Open Maps
An essential part of the colonial process was mapping the colonies: to know their historical and spatial characteristics as a prelude to conquering them (Abu Sitta, 2004). The maps produced through those processes now sit in various archives, and often serve as a snapshot of the spatial layout of those...Al-Shihabi, Majd
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For Whom Should Science Be Opened?
Leslie Chan invites us to consider the uncritical acceptance of openness, proposing that there is no universal concept of open as the concept does not address how knowledge is created, shared and circulated in different communities and different contexts. Leslie advocates for a need to decenter whiteness in both academic...Chan, Leslie
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Bricks and Mortals: Approaches to Decolonizing Museums at UCL
Subhadra Das is Curator of the Galton Collection at UCL. She reflects on the problematic issues of the naming of spaces and buildings at UCL, focusing on Francis Galton and his links with the history of eugenics. Subhadra considered how to bring this story to a wider public and in...Das, Subhadra
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A Deep Learning Approach to Geographical Candidate Selection through Toponym Matching
Recognizing toponyms and resolving them to their real-world referents is required for providing advanced semantic access to textual data. This process is often hindered by the high degree of variation in toponyms. Candidate selection is the task of identifying the potential entities that can be referred to by a toponym... -
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Contextualizing Victorian Newspapers
Beelen, Kaspar ; Ahnert, Ruth ; Beavan, David ; Coll Ardanuy, Mariona ; Hosseini, Kasra …
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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