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    Textualization Strategies, Typological Attempts, Digital Databases: What is the Future of Comparative Charm Scholarship?

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    In the article I present an overview of transformations in approaches to textualizing and typologizing folklore texts over the past 150 years using the example of incantations from anthologies to digital databases with a view to highlighting the new horizons digital databases can open up for research. In the first part of the article, I show how the textological characteristics of the incantation genre and the often implicit questions of researchers influenced the textological strategies of classic incantation editions. These primarily typological considerations largely determined subsequent potential interpretations. Using the dimensions of comparability established by Lauri Honko (phenomenology of tradition, the historicity of tradition, and ecology of tradition) I summarize recent attempts at classification by international folklore studies of charms pointing out the pitfalls and shortcomings of typologies as well as the fundamental incompatibility of the different typological conceptualizations. In the second part of the article, after briefly describing the responses of computational folkloristics to the textological, typological and comparatist problems of folklore texts I come to the conclusion that the elaboration of an international guide to textology, standardizing the textualization techniques of digital editions of incantations, would be more important for comparative studies than the creation of further national and international incantation catalogues. To this end and to generate discussion and debate I conclude with the outline of a set of possible multidimensional textological features to be taken into consideration in the creation of future digital databases of verbal charms

    Digitizing Intangible Cultural Heritage

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    As part of the UNESCO project "Establishment of a National Inventory and Electronic Database of Lithuanian Intangible Cultural Heritage" the authors, representing the EU-funded project "European Cultural Heritage Online" (ECHO) were invited to give a course in digital archiving called "Digitizing Intangible Cultural Heritage" in Vilnius, Lithuania, March 15 to 20, 2004. The present report summarizes very briefly the sessions given. Thereafter, the analyses of the state of the digitization work of the participating institutes and recommendations for the future are given in a dedicated, stand-alone section

    Naujos technologijos kaip galimas katalizatorius demokratizuojant miestų paveldo išsaugojimo praktiką: 3D skenavimo ir dirbtinio intelekto atvejis

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     The conflict between heritage protection and urban infrastructure development rationales creates a context for inclusion, participation and dialogue of different heritage-related communities. However, developed in the pre-computer age of administrative practice, are often incapable, partially or completely, to accommodate the ‘new-era’ community oriented participatory practices. In this article, authors discuss the mutual effects of IT in the process of democratization of urban heritage preservation. The authors create and argue the conceptual model of distributed ledger technologies (DLT) in participatory UHP. The model demonstrates how technologies can become catalysts for democratization in situations when the regulatory and administrative change (on its own) is too inert. The article hypothesizes that novel technological developments which aim at or have the potential for increasing community involvement and democratization of administrative practice, exert their effects directly through technology-based participatory practices.Prieštaravimas tarp paveldosaugos ir miestų infrastruktūros plėtros sukuria ne tik įtampas, bet ir sąlygas įvairių su paveldu susijusių bendruomenių įtraukčiai, dalyvavimui ir dialogui. Tačiau dauguma paveldosaugos administravimo praktikų ir jas taikančių institucijų, atsiradę laikais, kai dar nebuvo kompiuterio, sunkiai prisitaiko prie skaitmeninių technologijų paskatintų pokyčių bei galimybių, orientuotų į bendruomenių dalyvavimą sprendimų priėmime. Šiame straipsnyje autoriai aptaria abipusį IT poveikį miestų paveldo išsaugojimo demokratizavimo procese. Straipsnyje daroma prielaida, kad nauji technologiniai sprendimai, kuriais gali būti didinamas bendruomenės įsitraukimas yra svarbus įrankis demokratizuojant paveldosaugos administracines praktikas. Autoriai sukūrė ir pagrindžia koncepcinį paskirstytų duomenų technologijų modelį ir jo taikymą dalyvaujamajame miestų paveldo išsaugojime. Modelis parodo, kaip technologijos gali tapti demokratizacijos katalizatoriais tais atvejais, kai reguliavimo ir administraciniai pokyčiai (savaime) yra pernelyg inertiški

    Application of principles of information organisation in an electronic environment: identifiacion of strategic trends for scientific digital libraries

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    The aim of the dissertation is to identify strategic trends for development of scientific digital libraries, taking the application of principles of information organisation in an electronic environment into consideration. As identification of trends for development of information organisation in scientific digital libraries is a complex task, as it requires comprehensive understanding of the context and the environment where a digital library is operating, and as it is essential to identify structural elements of information organisation and a digital library as well as their interrelations the systems approach is proposed and the soft systems methodology is used to research strategic priorities, trends and activities. The following tasks have been set and explored: examining the application of principles of information organisation in an electronic environment and issues of development of scientific digital libraries; formulating a systematic methodology for strategic analysis, allowing to combine the aspects determined into a whole and identify strategic trends for development of digital libraries; on the basis of the systems approach and through the application of the systemic methodology for strategic analysis, distinguishing structural elements, processes, tasks and actors of information organisation and scientific digital libraries as well as combining them into one conceptual representation; using the systematic methodology for strategic analysis to probe information organisation in the Lithuanian Academic Electronic Library (eLABa) which performs functions of a scientific digital library in Lithuania, and to produce strategic trends for its development

    Application of principles of information organisation in an electronic environment: identifiacion of strategic trends for scientific digital libraries

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    The aim of the dissertation is to identify strategic trends for development of scientific digital libraries, taking the application of principles of information organisation in an electronic environment into consideration. As identification of trends for development of information organisation in scientific digital libraries is a complex task, as it requires comprehensive understanding of the context and the environment where a digital library is operating, and as it is essential to identify structural elements of information organisation and a digital library as well as their interrelations the systems approach is proposed and the soft systems methodology is used to research strategic priorities, trends and activities. The following tasks have been set and explored: examining the application of principles of information organisation in an electronic environment and issues of development of scientific digital libraries; formulating a systematic methodology for strategic analysis, allowing to combine the aspects determined into a whole and identify strategic trends for development of digital libraries; on the basis of the systems approach and through the application of the systemic methodology for strategic analysis, distinguishing structural elements, processes, tasks and actors of information organisation and scientific digital libraries as well as combining them into one conceptual representation; using the systematic methodology for strategic analysis to probe information organisation in the Lithuanian Academic Electronic Library (eLABa) which performs functions of a scientific digital library in Lithuania, and to produce strategic trends for its development

    An E-Government Implementation Model for Peruvian State Companies Based on COBIT 5.0: Definition and Goals of the Model

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    As part of the regulatory compliance process and the streamlining of public administration, the Peruvian government has implemented the National E-Government Plan in all state institutions with the aim of providing citizens with solid services based on the use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT). As part of the regulations, the requisites to be met by public institutions have been submitted. However, the lack of an implementation model was detected, one that can serve as a guide to such institutions in order to materialize the organizational and technological structures needed, which allow them to provide the required digital services. This paper develops an implementation model of electronic government (e-government) for Peru’s state institutions, in compliance with current regulations based on a COBIT 5.0 framework. Furthermore, the paper introduces phase 1 of this model: business and IT goals, the goals cascade and the future model of processes
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