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Writing Sumerian, Creating Texts: Reflections on Text-building Practices in Old Babylonian Schools
Sumerian lexical and literary compositions both emerged from the same social sphere, namely scribal education. The complexities of inter-compositional dependence in these two corpora have not been thoroughly explored, particularly as relevant to questions of text-building during the Old Babylonian period (c. 1800â1600 bce). Copying practices evident in lexical texts indicate that students and scholars adopted various methods of replication, including visual copying, copying from memory, and ad hoc innovation. They were not confined to reproducing a received text. Such practices extend to copying literary compositions. A study of compositions from Advanced Lexical Education in comparison with several literary compositions shows a complex inter-dialectic between the corpora, in which lexical compositions demonstrate dependence on literary compositions and vice versa. Thus, Old Babylonian students and scholars could experiment with multiple text-building practices, drawing on their knowledge of the lexical and the literary, regularly creating new versions of familiar compositions
Recovering Residual Forensic Data from Smartphone Interactions with Cloud Storage Providers
There is a growing demand for cloud storage services such as Dropbox, Box,
Syncplicity and SugarSync. These public cloud storage services can store
gigabytes of corporate and personal data in remote data centres around the
world, which can then be synchronized to multiple devices. This creates an
environment which is potentially conducive to security incidents, data breaches
and other malicious activities. The forensic investigation of public cloud
environments presents a number of new challenges for the digital forensics
community. However, it is anticipated that end-devices such as smartphones,
will retain data from these cloud storage services. This research investigates
how forensic tools that are currently available to practitioners can be used to
provide a practical solution for the problems related to investigating cloud
storage environments. The research contribution is threefold. First, the
findings from this research support the idea that end-devices which have been
used to access cloud storage services can be used to provide a partial view of
the evidence stored in the cloud service. Second, the research provides a
comparison of the number of files which can be recovered from different
versions of cloud storage applications. In doing so, it also supports the idea
that amalgamating the files recovered from more than one device can result in
the recovery of a more complete dataset. Third, the chapter contributes to the
documentation and evidentiary discussion of the artefacts created from specific
cloud storage applications and different versions of these applications on iOS
and Android smartphones
Integrating digital document acquisition into a university library : A case study of social and organizational challenges
In this article we report on the effort of the university library of the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration to integrate a digital library component for research documents authored at the university into the existing library infrastructure. Setting up a digital library has become a relatively easy task using the current data base technology and the components and tools freely available. However, to integrate such a digital library into existing library systems and to adapt existing document acquisition work-flows in the organization are non-trivial tasks. We use a research frame work to identify the key players in this change process and to analyze their incentive structures. Then we describe the light-weight integration approach employed by our university and show how it provides incentives to the key players and at the same time requires only minimal adaptation of the organization in terms of changing existing work-flows. Our experience suggests that this light-weight integration offers a cost efficient and low risk intermediate step towards switching to exclusive digital document acquisition
Artefacts and Errors: Acknowledging Issues of Representation in the Digital: Imaging of Ancient Texts
It is assumed, in palaeography, papyrology and epigraphy, that a certain amount of
uncertainty is inherent in the reading of damaged and abraded texts. Yet we have
not really grappled with the fact that, nowadays, as many scholars tend to deal with
digital images of texts, rather than handling the texts themselves, the procedures for
creating digital images of texts can insert further uncertainty into the representation
of the text created. Technical distortions can lead to the unintentional introduction
of âartefactsâ into images, which can have an effect on the resulting representation. If
we cannot trust our digital surrogates of texts, can we trust the readings from them?
How do scholars acknowledge the quality of digitised images of texts? Furthermore,
this leads us to the type of discussions of representation that have been present in
Classical texts since Plato: digitisation can be considered as an alternative form of
representation, bringing to the modern debate of the use of digital technology in Classics
the familiar theories of mimesis (imitation) and ekphrasis (description): the conversion
of visual evidence into explicit descriptions of that information, stored in computer
files in distinct linguistic terms, with all the difficulties of conversion understood in the
ekphratic process. The community has not yet considered what becoming dependent
on digital texts means for the field, both in practical and theoretical terms. Issues of
quality, copying, representation, and substance should be part of our dialogue when
we consult digital surrogates of documentary material, yet we are just constructing
understandings of what it means to rely on virtual representations of artefacts. It is
necessary to relate our understandings of uncertainty in palaeography and epigraphy
to our understanding of the mechanics of visualization employed by digital imaging
techniques, if we are to fully understand the impact that these will have
The Durham Statement Two Years Later: Open Access in the Law School Journal Environment
The Durham Statement on Open Access to Legal Scholarship, drafted by a group of academic law library directors, was promulgated in February 2009. It calls for two things: (1) open access publication of law schoolâpublished journals; and (2) an end to print publication of law journals, coupled with a commitment to keeping the electronic versions available in âstable, open, digital formats.â The two years since the Statement was issued have seen increased publication of law journals in openly available electronic formats, but little movement toward all-electronic publication. This article discusses the issues raised by the Durham Statement, the current state of law journal publishing, and directions forward
The Janus Intertextuality Search Engine: A Research Tool of (and for) the Electronic Manipulus florum Project
This article demonstrates how the search engine developed for this online edition not only serves the research purposes of users of this digital resource, but is also a valuable tool for refining and improving the edition while also aiding the authorâs research on the construction of this text. An example of its utility for the edition project is provided which calls into question previous theories regarding the influence John of Wales may have had on this collection of Latin quotations
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