24-hours.in Tampere - an interactive documentary

Work that explores opportunities for participation, collaboration and the potential democratization of documentary production. Utilizing user-generated video captured on mobile phones and available devices, the project is participatory, the audience contributing documentary videos around the theme of 24-hours in a city; for example 24hours.in Tampere, Finland. With reference to Dziga Vertov’s seminal 1929 documentary film ‘Man with a Movie Camera’, the aim is for the videos to document the cities, the people that live there and their daily lives. Bogdanka Poznanović award - for the media installation. The jury unanimously awarded the work of Richard Vickers and James Field, "24-hours. in Tampere, an interactive documentary”due to participatory potential of the work. Also, jury considered this work as a certain hommage to Dziga Vertov and his "Man with a movie camera" in the 21st century

Serbian Jerusalem: Religious Nationalism, Globalization and the Invention of a Holy Land in Europe\u27s Periphery, 1985-2017

According to beliefs of religious nationalism, a nation is a community of ancestors and descendants, dead and living, past and present. As such, it incorporates within its territory all past and present markers of nationhood, notably historic religious monuments as the physical evidence of the perennial existence of the religious and ethnic community that is, in the nationalist imagination, of the nation. Thus, the history of the shrines and monuments, as told in religious tales and preserved in the rituals, is the history of the nation. In many parts of the world, contesting claims to consecrated territories clash. The struggles evolve into holy wars between good and evil and angels and demons. The enmity cemented by religion does not end until demythologization of history or until one side or the other has been destroyed. At the same time, in a globalized world, narratives of ethnic and religious nationalisms are no longer isolated from each other as they used to be. In recent decades, they have observed each other and borrowed and influenced one another. The case under consideration comparatively observes the conflicts in Kosovo in the Balkan and in Israel-Palestine in order to critically examine the nationalist and religious politics behind the nationalist discourses on history and religion, the past and the present, and the sacred and the secular

Business Intelligence in the Service of Libraries

This paper describes implementation of business intelligence tools in the libraries. A complete procedure for building a data warehouse is described on the case study of the BISIS library management system. During development of a data warehouse model, user requirements about reporting are detected and structure of already existing transactional databases in the BISIS system is analysed. Based on this analysis, three data warehouse models have been proposed that would satisfy the requirements for analytical processing of data. The paper presents the usage of one OLAP tool, but the proposed data warehouse model is independent of the choice of OLAP tools and any other tool can be integrated with the proposed data warehouse

Looking For Whitman: The Poetry of Place in the Life and Work of Walt Whitman - Level 2

This project engages faculty and students at four universities--New York City College of Technology (CUNY), New York University, University of Mary Washington, and Rutgers University-Camden--in a concurrent, connected, semester-long inquiry into the relationship of Whitman's poetry to local geography and history. Each class will explore the relationship between its specific locale and a particular phase of the poet's work. Utilizing open-source tools to connect college classes from multiple institutions, the interdisciplinary project breaks down traditional institutional walls as it creates a collaborative online space in which students can participate in a dynamic, social, web-based learning environment. In its conception and in its dissemination, this project expands the traditional bounds of classroom and institutional space. In doing so, it reflects the central themes of Whitman's career: democracy, diversity, openness, and connectedness

A Guide for Reading and Using online Resources

The development of the information society and information technology gave rise to new opportunities for learning and challenged established practices considering how teaching and learning should be organized. Yet, until recently, much of the learning materials were protected by propriety rights and not reachable without passwords. The open educational resource (OER) movement aims to encourage and enable freely sharing content. Open educational resources (OER) are digitalized materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use and reuse for teaching, learning and research (Center for Educational Research and Innovation, OECD, 2007) including learning content, software tools, and implementation resources such as open licenses. With the development of the World Wide Web and open educational resources, more texts are now processed on screen. Reading in online environment is often considered as reading practice that is different to that of reading in print. A key difference between the two kinds of reading is considered to be rooted in the nature of hypertext where presentation of information is not linear but multi-linear affording different access routes and different reading options. In order to put the reading into specific context, this material has been prepared as a short guide for reading and using online resources in the field of agriculture. Various online resources are presented, both generally and specifically for the agriculture and related disciplines. A guide for reading and using online resources is designed to be used by high school teachers in the field of agriculture and related fields, and agricultural advisors in Serbia. It can be useful for the current and future students of both agriculture and other fields of science, and for professionals in other domains. Printing of the guide is funded by TEMPUS project CaSA Building Capacity of Serbian Agricultural Education to Link with Society, coordinated by University of Belgrade, Faculty of Agriculture

Rad u digitalnoj knjižnici

Manual "Working in a digital library" has been motivated by popular Croatian manual by Katica Tadic: Working in a library, Opatija : Benja, 1994. (http://www.ffzg.hr/infoz/biblio/nastava/dz/text/katm.htm) as well as by worldwide popular manual for digital collections development by Peter Noerr: The Digital Library Tool Kit. Sun Microsystems, Inc. 2002. (http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/edu/libraries/digitaltoolkit.html). Manual consist of articles, lectures, workshops and relevenat content from newsletter "Electronic news about librarianship on Internet" (authorized access for Croatian version at www.ring.net/coni/moje_novosti.html and English version at www.ring.net/coni/my_news.html). It also includes cases and practial experiences of the author, Vesna Turčin ([email protected]), free-lance librarian and consultant from Zagreb, Croatia. Manual has been designed and published as an electronic book, credits for concept and publishing go to authors longtime associate Lovro Valcic, Alaska, US ([email protected]). It is assigned to Croatian librarians and students. Its purpose is to illustrate and explain work with digital content and usage of cost-free sources on Internet in a daily life of a public library

Markerless Vision-Based Skeleton Tracking in Therapy of Gross Motor Skill Disorders in Children

This chapter presents a research towards implementation of a computer vision system for markerless skeleton tracking in therapy of gross motor skill disorders in children suffering from mild cognitive impairment. The proposed system is based on a low-cost 3D sensor and a skeleton tracking software. The envisioned architecture is scalable in the sense that the system may be used as a stand-alone assistive tool for tracking the effects of therapy or it may be integrated with an advanced autonomous conversational agent to maintain the spatial attention of the child and to increase her motivation to undergo a long-term therapy

A bibliography of publications by Albert Bates Lord

Note: [at time of printing] All items listed here can be found in Ellis Library at the University of Missouri, Columbia, either in Special Collections (Ellis 401) or in open stacks (see the affixed call numbers below). Many journals are available online to University of Missouri faculty, staff, and students, and of course through other institutions as well. A full collection of article-length items is maintained in hard copy and on CD in Special Collections