Co-curate: Working with Schools and Communities to Add Value to Open Collections

Co-Curate North East is a cross-disciplinary initiative involving Newcastle University and partner organisations, working with schools and community groups in the North East of England. Co-curation builds on the concept of the ‘ecomuseum’ model for heritage based around a virtual territory, social memory and participative input from the wider population. The project also leverages open licencing and facilities to harvest and repurpose collections of photographs, video clips, and other artefacts. Technologies were developed to support co-production and co-curation, including facilities to combine (‘Mashup’) materials from formal collections of museums and archives with Open Access (OA) content from informal community-based resources. The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the technologies used and developed during the project, with a particular focus on how Open collections were used, in both formal and informal educational contexts.A diverse range of community and school groups participated in the project, including a large-scale pilot with a High School which integrated use of the Website as part of an ‘enquiry-based’ scheme of work over several weeks, culminating in the students giving an exhibition in a prominent regional gallery. Levels of knowledge of copyright and licensing varied between groups, but were generally low. Issues around copyright and licenses were a major component of ongoing discussion with groups as part of the co-curation process.Co-Curate is an innovative project using OA materials in a range of educational and cultural settings

Valutare un ecomuseo : come e perché. Il metodo MACDAB

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Social impacts as a function of place change

This paper argues that both impacts felt by and attitudes to tourism are a function of place change. Destinations are comprised of three types of place: tourism, non-tourism and shared. It is believed attitudes are generally positive when stasis exists among the three types, but deteriorate during periods of rapid place change. Likewise, impacts are felt when place changes, especially when non-tourism place is transformed into either shared or tourism place. This proposition is tested through a meta-analysis of more than 90 journal articles examining social impacts of tourism. Nine types of place change were identified as well as a relationship between place change and lifecycle stage

Racemic and Optically Pure Heptahelicene-2-carboxylic Acid: Its Synthesis and Self-Assembly into Nanowire-Like Aggregates

Rybacek J, Huerta-Angeles G, Kollarovic A, et al. Racemic and Optically Pure Heptahelicene-2-carboxylic Acid: Its Synthesis and Self-Assembly into Nanowire-Like Aggregates. European Journal of Organic Chemistry. 2011;2011(5):853-860.Heptahelicene-2-carboxylic acid was effectively synthesised from suitably functionalised naphthalene building blocks. Methoxy-substituted 1,1'-ethyne-1,2-diylbis(2-but-3-yn-1-ylnaphthalene) was cyclised in the presence of CpCo(CO)(2)/PPh(3) to 2-methoxy-7,8,11,12-tetrahydroheptahelicene, which was converted into heptahelicen-2-yl trifluoromethanesulfonate. This reactive intermediate underwent Pd(OAc)(2)/dppp-catalysed methoxycarbonylation reaction to provide, after hydrolysis, heptahelicene-2-carboxylic acid. The racemate was resolved into enantiomers by semipreparative HPLC on a chiral column. The helicity of (+)-(P)-heptahelicene-2-carboxylic acid was assigned by correlating its CD spectrum to that of the known (+)-(P)-heptahelicene. Racemic heptahelicene-2-carboxylic acid was deposited on calcite (10-14) to undergo self-assembly into nanowire-like aggregates as demonstrated by noncontact atomic force microscopy (NC-AFM)