7 research outputs found
Pain points of cultural institutions in search visibility: the case of Serbia
Purpose â The purpose of this paper is to identify the common issues affecting the
cultural institutionsâ websites in terms of organic search visibility and to detect if there are
some category specifics for the national libraries, archives and museums.
Design/methodology/approach â In the first phase, an online survey was conducted involving the
cultural institutions of national importance, aiming to map the current state of their websites in
organizational and functional terms, to collect the information about the used domains, their
social media activity and the use of analytical tools to monitor the visitor behavior and online
traffic. In the second phase, the cultural institutionsâ websites were analyzed using the âWhite
Hat SEOâ technics of optimization on Google.
Findings â From the category perspective, the historical archives have the best Technical
search engine optimization (SEO) position due to the low coding errors and fair site speed, the
libraries are leading in content generation and the museums have a very good total SEO index due to
their strong social media activities. Common issues are detected in the description of web
images, non-existence of sitemaps and low website mobile friendliness.
Research limitations/implications â The data were collected from the personnel of the national
cultural institutions based on their pre-assumed knowledge and understanding of website management.
Practical implications â The research methodology can be used to analyze the organic visibility of
any national culture on search engines.
h gap in addressing the cultural institutionsâ websites from the search engine ctive was identified
and addressed within the paper
A Holmes and Doyle Bibliography, Volume 5: Periodical Articles--Secondary References, Alphabetical Listing
This bibliography is a work in progress. It attempts to update Ronald B. De Waalâs comprehensive bibliography, The Universal Sherlock Holmes, but does not claim to be exhaustive in content. New works are continually discovered and added to this bibliography. Readers and researchers are invited to suggest additional content. Volume 5 includes "passing" or "secondary" references, i.e. those entries that are passing in nature or contain very brief information or content
A Holmes and Doyle Bibliography, Volume 6: Periodical Articles, Subject Listing, By De Waal Category
This bibliography is a work in progress. It attempts to update Ronald B. De Waalâs comprehensive bibliography, The Universal Sherlock Holmes, but does not claim to be exhaustive in content. New works are continually discovered and added to this bibliography. Readers and researchers are invited to suggest additional content. Volume 6 presents the periodical literature arranged by subject categories (as originally devised for the De Waal bibliography and slightly modified here)
Library buildings around the world
"Library Buildings around the World" is a survey based on researches of several years. The objective was to gather library buildings on an international level starting with 1990
A Holmes and Doyle Bibliography, Volume 9: All FormatsâCombined Alphabetical Listing
This bibliography is a work in progress. It attempts to update Ronald B. De Waalâs comprehensive bibliography, The Universal Sherlock Holmes, but does not claim to be exhaustive in content. New works are continually discovered and added to this bibliography. Readers and researchers are invited to suggest additional content. This volume contains all listings in all formats, arranged alphabetically by author or main entry. In other words, it combines the listings from Volume 1 (Monograph and Serial Titles), Volume 3 (Periodical Articles), and Volume 7 (Audio/Visual Materials) into a comprehensive bibliography. (There may be additional materials included in this list, e.g. duplicate items and items not yet fully edited.) As in the other volumes, coverage of this material begins around 1994, the final year covered by De Waal's bibliography, but may not yet be totally up-to-date (given the ongoing nature of this bibliography). It is hoped that other titles will be added at a later date. At present, this bibliography includes 12,594 items
Maritime expressions:a corpus based exploration of maritime metaphors
This study uses a purpose-built corpus to explore the linguistic legacy of Britainâs maritime history found in the form of hundreds of specialised âMaritime Expressionsâ (MEs), such as TAKEN ABACK, ANCHOR and ALOOF, that permeate modern English. Selecting just those expressions commencing with âAâ, it analyses 61 MEs in detail and describes the processes by which these technical expressions, from a highly specialised occupational discourse community, have made their way into modern English. The Maritime Text Corpus (MTC) comprises 8.8 million words, encompassing a range of text types and registers, selected to provide a cross-section of âmaritimeâ writing. It is analysed using WordSmith analytical software (Scott, 2010), with the 100 million-word British National Corpus (BNC) as a reference corpus. Using the MTC, a list of keywords of specific salience within the maritime discourse has been compiled and, using frequency data, concordances and collocations, these MEs are described in detail and their use and form in the MTC and the BNC is compared. The study examines the transformation from ME to figurative use in the general discourse, in terms of form and metaphoricity. MEs are classified according to their metaphorical strength and their transference from maritime usage into new registers and domains such as those of business, politics, sports and reportage etc. A revised model of metaphoricity is developed and a new category of figurative expression, the âresonatorâ, is proposed. Additionally, developing the work of Lakov and Johnson, Kovesces and others on Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT), a number of Maritime Conceptual Metaphors are identified and their cultural significance is discussed