36 research outputs found
A Web-based multimedia collaboratory. Empirical work studies in film archives
This report represents the latest study in the activity on Ecological Information Systems conducted in the Center for Human Machine Interaction situated at Ris National Laboratory and the University of Aarhus. The purpose of this activity is to give a description of the characteristics of work domains that will serve to outline the general context of concern to design of collaboratories. In addition, a set of preliminary implications for the design of a collaboratory are derived from the cognitive work analysis. To anticipate, further research on this approach to the design of collaboratories will show how the preceding analysis is likely to lead to a novel theoretical framework, called Ecological Collaborative Information Systems (ECIS), required for the design of collaboratories. The intention is to illustrate how the general principles of ECIS can be instantiated to develop a concrete design product: A crossdisciplinary and cross-cultural collaboratory to support customer service and professional research in archives. A web based Collaboratory Numerous valuable historic and cultural films and their sources are scattered in various national archives. Knowledge and usage of the multinational film material are severely impeded by access problems. To fully exploit the cultural film heritage internationally, a high degree of cross-disciplinary and international collaboration among professionals working with the film media is required. The Collaboratory for Annotation, Indexing and Retrieval of Digitized Historical Archive Material (Collate) is intended to foster and support collaboration on research, cultural mediation and preservation of films through a distributed multimedia repository. The collaboratory will provide webbased tools and interfac..
FRBR, Facets, and Moving Images: A Literature Review
Annotated bibliography on resources related to FBRB, facets and moving images
The NEUMA Project: towards Cooperative On-line Music Score Libraries
Περιέχει το πλήρες κείμενοThe NEUMA project (http://neuma.irpmf-cnrs.fr)
aims at designing and evaluating an open cooperative system
for musician communities, enabling new search and analysis
tools for symbolic musical content sharing and dissemination.
The project is organized around the French CNRS laboratory
of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France which provides sample
collections, user requirements and expert validation. The paper
presents the project goals, its achitecture and current state
of development. We illustrate our approach with an on-line
publication of monodic collections centered on XVIIe century
French liturgic chants
Collaboratory Digital Libraries for Humanities in the Italian context
The study investigates the approach to collaboration in Humanities, within the Italian context, to test the possibility of collaborative digital library for scholars. The research hypothesis is that collaboration can foster innovation and scienti c development: therefore, within Humanities, digital libraries can be the collaborative laboratory for research. Thus, understanding perception of scholars towards collaboration, especially online, and
comprehending if wiki systems could be the framework of collaboration were the objectives of the study. A qualitative approach has been adopted, using case study as research method: in-depth, semi-structured interviews to Digital Humanities scholars provide data integrated with interviews with two key informants
(one of which is prof. Umberto Eco).
The results of the study show that Humanities, within Italian context, do appreciate collaboration and the concept of a collaboratory digital library, though several issues need to be solved. In fact, Humanities are still tied with individual work and collaboration is not easy to pursue, for cultural, technical and political reasons. Great e ort needs to be done at many different levels to eliminate obstacles and facilitate online collaboration for scholars. The study provides a draft model for a collaborative digital library arisen from gathered data
Collaboratory Digital Libraries for Humanities in the Italian context
The study investigates the approach to collaboration in Humanities, within the Italian context, to test the possibility of collaborative digital library for scholars. The research hypothesis is that collaboration can foster innovation and scienti c development: therefore, within Humanities, digital libraries can be the collaborative laboratory for research. Thus, understanding perception of scholars towards collaboration, especially online, and
comprehending if wiki systems could be the framework of collaboration were the objectives of the study. A qualitative approach has been adopted, using case study as research method: in-depth, semi-structured interviews to Digital Humanities scholars provide data integrated with interviews with two key informants
(one of which is prof. Umberto Eco).
The results of the study show that Humanities, within Italian context, do appreciate collaboration and the concept of a collaboratory digital library, though several issues need to be solved. In fact, Humanities are still tied with individual work and collaboration is not easy to pursue, for cultural, technical and political reasons. Great e ort needs to be done at many different levels to eliminate obstacles and facilitate online collaboration for scholars. The study provides a draft model for a collaborative digital library arisen from gathered data
Let Me Tell You About My Grandpa: A Content Analysis of User Annotations To Online Archival Collections
Archivists have a long history of striving for objectivity in their descriptions of archival materials for their users. However, archivists are only capable of providing limited contextual knowledge about a collection due to their own subjective point of view and limitations on time and resources in processing. One proposed solution is the implementation of user-contributed annotations to online archival content, though many institutions have been slow to adopt this feature into their own digital initiatives. This study provides a content analysis of user annotations from three online archival collections: The Polar Bear Expedition Digital Collections, Beyond Brown Paper, and the Keweenaw Digital Archives. Findings showed that users most often engage in information-providing communication behaviors, with some variances between the three sites. In analyzing existing annotations, this study seeks to inform the role of user-contributed content in archival description