Digital Humanities and Archiving - Science topic

Thank you Dr. Eman Ahmed Aref Gomaa for your answer! I found a very interesting photograph in his collection for my work. However, the photograph belongs to Lekegian not Creswell! http://digitalcollections.aucegypt.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15795coll14/id/1112/rec/2

Ramadan Kareem.

The Literature Atlas may be an interesting project in this regard. See http://www.literaturatlas.eu/en/

Stelios Sir,

thanks for your quick reply. I have seen Paper and code  but at this stage it would be difficult for me to extract information. May i request to give i) if log files of such output because i don't know whether NUMA architecture would work on my platform (any linux) and/or x86 architecture ii) if any standard log details of process migration available, so i am able to  extract page info from those logs....

- what are the parameters to migrate process and what is the role of kernel at the same time? can we generate a tiny OS program given in Figure 4. (https://www.academia.edu/760613/Survey_of_Virtual_Machine_Migration_Techniques)

During my research study, i worked on application of concept maps and information visualization to enhance user experience over DSpace by using comparing many tools such as VUI, SpaceTree, etc. A prototype model also build on this.

Hi Anelia,

at our University (Regensburg, Germany) there is a large archive of digitized, historic radio ads. Maybe you can find some relevant information on their website:

maybe this helps: http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Information_About_Robot_Access_to_our_Pages

This should help you get the texts and metadata (but no annotations though).

Michael, I'll answer your question from a different perspective to Arjun & would like to separate the issues that arise in your provocative title "Is metadata a failed concept?" from the commentary around "metadata quality".

I have participated for many years in international standards development efforts relating to metadata schemas (in organisations like IEEE LTSC, IMS Global, DCMI & SC36). All these organisations have responded -- & are still responding -- to the consequences of the digital revolution in terms of information management & discovery. Successful standards are usually judged as being "fit for purpose" & rarely can add value beyond that. There's plenty of debate out there as to the usefulness of metadata standards or profiles of them but there's also plenty of success stories too. But another point I'd like to make is that "metadata" is not just a term that describes metadata schemas. There's an enormous amount of metadata that gets used in virtually every web service you can think of -- whether it is in the form of XML, RDF, RSS, etc; "date posted" information; or whether it's just a tag cloud or all the other data that gets collected as "analytics". Any content or data that can somewhow be expressed in terms of "who, what, when, & where" while also relating to some other content or data is essentially metadata. So, i don't think "metadata" is a failed concept -- to the contrary, it is as you indicate the "backbone of many warehouse systems" as well as what enables so much systems interoperability on the web.

The issue of metadata quality is of a totally different order for me. If you're managing systems or curating content that requires high quality metadata then it's best to make sure you're drawing on expert input. In many other situations the metadata quality may be of questionable quality or value -- but it's a consequence of how social media works. in time, I'd expect it to improve.

Hello Matt; Many thanks for these four really very interesting links. I already know the impressive activities of the King's College in DH; but I didn't know the three other initiatives, all of them are very, very valuable.

I like very much the very practical and pedagogical approach of JISC for explaining the work with digital video resources. This question we also deal with, here in Paris with our "Audiovisual Research Archives"project (http://www.archivesaudiovisuelles.fr/EN/).

We have started the development of a working environment for people in DH who wants to create and manage their own audiovisual archives (unfortunately, for the moment all the stuff is still in French, but however here is the link to our experimental platform which will yet be stabilised in the coming months: http://www.semiosphere.fr/).

Many thanks again for your so informative message. With all my best wishes Peter

Many interesting parallels between the 'printing revolution' and the 'digital revolution', not least the increasing availability of portable 'cultural technologies' such as iPads, iPods, iPhones, etc., as parallel in their impacts to the 16th/17th century increasing availability of the earlier cultural technology of the portable (codex) printed book in the form of the bible, prayer books, almanacs, Luther's 95 theses, etc., which were, for the first time, available in vernacular languages rather than just Latin. It was this 'material culture' and its diverse uses rather than simply the 'spread of ideas' which lead to the European Reformation, the formation of early modern nation-states, the development of national languages, canons of literature, dictionaries for standardising the language, etc. I would recommend on this Benedict Anderson 'Imagined Communities: Reflections of the Origins and Spread of Nationalism', London, Verso, 1985 and Elizabeth Eisenstein 'The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe', Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. I am also attaching a recent short discussion paper by me for the European Commission which touches on some of these themes.