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Yiakoumaki, Nayia. "Curating archives, archiving curating." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2009. http://research.gold.ac.uk/15584/.
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This thesis investigates the concept of archives and their role as a source for curatorial work practice. It starts with an examination of Jacques Derrida's concept of the archive in order to claim that every reading of the archive alters the archive. It examines the curating of archive material and compares it to a historiographical operation upon the archive itself. Moreover, it describes curating from the archive as a process concomitant with the three main constituents of Paul Ricoeur's historiography: 'The Documentary Phase', 'Explanation/ Understanding' and 'The Historian's Representation', as developed in Memory, History, Forgetting (2004). From the conceptualisation of this tripartite process the thesis proceeds by arguing that the curatorial practice on archives is an expansive gesture that opens their contents to numerous interpretations. The Whitechapel Gallery Archive is introduced as the case study here. More specifically, the thesis analyses archival material pertaining to Pablo Picasso and the painting Guernica, which was exhibited at the Whitechapel Gallery in 1939. The series of events to which this archive material refer, have been reactivated through artist Goshka Macuga's 2009 commission The Nature of the Beast at the Whitechapel. The thesis proves that a curator working through archival material permanently alters the constitution of the archive, as well as the subsequent interpretations of its material. Moreover, it is argued that the curator's intervention in the archive should be re-deposited within it as a means for the archive's potential expansion. Through the sustained process of curating archives and the successive rearchivisation of curatorial practices, the thesis presents the case for a powerful, self-reflective instrument of analysis.
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Bourget, Jean Paul. "Role-based file archiving /." Online version of thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/8045.
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Martínez-García, Agustina. "Development of self-archiving tools to support archiving, analysis and re-use of qualitative data." Thesis, Liverpool John Moores University, 2013. http://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/4486/.
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The potential to share and re-use qualitative archived data has garnered much interest in recent years. This increased attention can be attributed mainly to advances in both data documentation standards and digital archiving technologies, which provide users with the ability to archive, share and disseminate qualitative research materials. However, there remain theoretical and epistemological barriers to and implications for the sharing and re-use of qualitative study data. One way to address these issues is by studying research practices (with practitioners’ active involvement), in combination with developing software tools that support digital archiving of qualitative studies. Semantic technologies, combined with metadata standards and documentation schemas have the potential to enhance qualitative data documentation, archiving and analysis. In fact, it has been established that data documentation is one of the key elements that enables data archiving. The use of appropriate standard documentation frameworks is crucial to data archives’ exposure and has a direct impact on the discoverability, search and retrieval of archived data. The technological aspect of this study has been the development of a self-archiving toolkit that makes use of such technologies. The purpose of this work was to allow users, with varying levels of research experience (e.g. from undergraduate student researchers up to more experienced senior researchers) to avail of the benefits offered by qualitative digital archiving. To complement the technological developments undertaken, the present study also explored the practices of different researchers: undergraduate student researchers, researchers involved in teaching research-oriented modules, as well as senior researchers. This exploration focused on the collection, organisation, analysis and presentation of qualitative data and how these relate to and can be supported by digital archiving to enable researchers to organise, disseminate, and visualise research collections.
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Coleman, Anita Sundaram, and Cheryl Knott Malone. "Copyright Transfer Agreements and Self-Archiving." Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106282.
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Concerns about intellectual property rights are a significant barrier to the practice of scholarly self-archiving in institutional and other types of digital repositories. This introductory level, half-day tutorial will demystify the journal copyright transfer agreements (CTAs) that often are the source of these rights concerns of scholars. In addition, participants will be introduced to the deposit processes of self-archiving in an interdisciplinary repository and open access archive (OAA), such as DLIST, Digital Library for Information Science and Technology.
Editor's Note: This is a 1-page summary of the tutorial at the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL '05), June 7, 2005, Denver, Colorado. It does not include the actual tutorial. Contents: Introduction, Learning Outcomes, Topics to be covered, About the Presenters, and References.
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Fernandez, Garcia Javier David, Jürgen Umbrich, and Axel Polleres. "BEAR: Benchmarking the Efficiency of RDF Archiving." Department für Informationsverarbeitung und Prozessmanagement, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2015. http://epub.wu.ac.at/4615/1/BEAR_techReport_022015.pdf.
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There is an emerging demand on techniques addressing the
problem of efficiently archiving and (temporal) querying different versions of evolving semantic Web data. While systems archiving and/or temporal querying are still in their early days, we consider this a good time to discuss benchmarks for evaluating storage space efficiency for
archives, retrieval functionality they serve, and the performance of various retrieval operations. To this end, we provide a blueprint on benchmarking archives of semantic data by defining a concise set of operators that cover the major aspects of querying of and interacting with such
archives. Next, we introduce BEAR, which instantiates this blueprint to serve a concrete set of queries on the basis of real-world evolving data. Finally, we perform an empirical evaluation of current archiving techniques that is meant to serve as a first baseline of future developments
on querying archives of evolving RDF data. (authors' abstract)Series: Working Papers on Information Systems, Information Business and Operations
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Moss, Jaime. "Archiving Loss: The Man Who Burned Paper." OpenSIUC, 2014. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1406.
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AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF JAIME MOSS for the Master of Fine Arts degree in MASS COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA ARTS, presented on FEBRUARY 13TH, 2014 at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. TITLE: ARCHIVING LOSS: THE PAPER MAN BEHIND THE MASK MAJOR PROFESSOR: Sarah Lewison, H.D. Motyl, Fern Logan, Dru Vratil This paper is companion to the narrative short, The Man Who Burned Paper. Both this paper and the film deal with the subject of identity loss as an archive, building on the work of sociologists Andrew J. Weigert and Ross Hastings. Drawing on several sources, including the work of literary scholars, affect theorists, and an excerpt from This American Life, this paper explores what it is to create and lose an identity both experimentally and existentially. It develops beyond this exploration by reconstructing it through a cinematic format that uses memories, flashbacks, and body doubles to narrate one man's identity construction and his journey to come to terms with its loss. It concludes that while identity loss is a unique experience, reflecting upon the loss and dysfunction it can bring can create space to understand the sorrow and pain that accompanies it. It is with hope that the findings discovered from this deeply personal and challenging process will act as a guide towards future actions that allow for new opportunities that improve the quality of life and a broader mindset.
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He, Yifeng. "SPIHT-based Image Archiving Under Bit Budget Constraints." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/24382.
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Image archiving is important in various applications. In this work, we formulate the problem of compressing image archives as an optimization problem and present an efficient method for solving this problem. Our method is based on adapting SPIHT to image archiving where the total bit budget is distributed optimally across the images. We show experimentally that this method significantly outperforms its counter-part, namely, SPIHT with equal distribution of bit budget.
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Zuzga, Brian K. (Brian Kenneth). "Tape archiving using the time capsule file system." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/36079.
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McGinley, Susan. "Archiving Ecosystems: The University of Arizona Campus Herbarium." College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/622189.
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Maharshi, Shivam. "Performance Measurement and Analysis of Transactional Web Archiving." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/78371.
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Web archiving is necessary to retain the history of the World Wide Web and to study its evolution. It is important for the cultural heritage community. Some organizations are legally obligated to capture and archive Web content. The advent of transactional Web archiving makes the archiving process more efficient, thereby aiding organizations to archive their Web content.
This study measures and analyzes the performance of transactional Web archiving systems. To conduct a detailed analysis, we construct a meaningful design space defined by the system specifications that determine the performance of these systems. SiteStory, a state-of-the-art transactional Web archiving system, and local archiving, an alternative archiving technique, are used in this research. We experimentally evaluate the performance of these systems using the Greek version of Wikipedia deployed on dedicated hardware on a private network. Our benchmarking results show that the local archiving technique uses a Web server’s resources more efficiently than SiteStory for one data point in our design space. Better performance than SiteStory in such scenarios makes our archiving solution favorable to use for transactional archiving. We also show that SiteStory does not impose any significant performance overhead on the Web server for the rest of the data points in our design space.Master of Science
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Cherry-Reid, Katharine A. "Singing queer : archiving and constructing a lineage through song." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/56285.
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Using an arts-based approach, this research examines how songs written by queer and lesbian musicians can account for and archive queer lived existence while constructing a musical genealogy for listeners and artists alike. By examining my own experience of listening to and attending performances of certain queer and lesbian identified musicians, and then composing and performing my own songs in public spaces, I make a case for the corporeal mobility of songs, and a process I have termed “queer musical lineaging.” Much of the research around music to date has centred on how it impacts and influences brain activity, and how it brings together subcultures and publics. The significance of this project lies in the research around musical processes and practices (listening, composing, performing) as corporeal acts that connect bodies to one another, and build kinships. This research draws mainly upon primary sources of autoethnographic, written accounts in the form of journal entries, stories, poems and song lyrics, and conducts an interpretive analysis of six “queer” songs, five composed by the author of this thesis, and one composed in collaboration with a trans* youth. This project will contribute to research on arts-based practices as archival work, as well as the impact that songs have on people’s lives by broadening our understanding of music’s corporeal effects and genealogical role in lived experience.Arts, Faculty of
Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, Institute for
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Matsubara, Shigeki, Tomohiro Ohno, and Masashi Ito. "Text Editing for Lecture Speech Archiving on the Web." Springer, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/15114.
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Rioux, Alexandre. "Performance evaluation of a picture archiving and communications system." Thesis, McGill University, 2001. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=18257.
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The DICOM-conformant PACS of the MGH was subjected to a performance study. The goal was to develop the tools needed to extract meaningful, quantitative measures related to performance with a view towards establishing reliable indicators that can help identify design weaknesses and performance changes over time. Efforts focused on operational scenarios such as moving images from servers to workstations, automatic routing and prefetching tasks. The performance of each process underlying these scenarios was studied using residency timing combined with a web-based monitoring system to yield quantitative data from various low-level resources on each server. While the critical processes and hardware on the PACS were already monitored to identify faults, the tools developed in this study now provide the means to assess overall performance issues. The results have yielded insights that have helped to identify faulty and inefficient logic in certain program constructs, and suggestions for design improvement and software enhancement.Le PACS du HGM a été soumis à des études de performance. Le but était de développer des outils qui permettent d’obtenir des mesures quantitatives reliées aux performances, afin d’établir des indicateurs fiables permettant d’identifier des points faibles du design et des variations des performances. Les efforts ont été concentrés sur des scénarios opérationnels tels que le transfer d’images des serveurs aux stations de travail, et les services automatisés de distribution d’images. La performance de chacun des procédés utilisés pour ces scénarios a été étudié en utilisant le temps de résidence combiné avec un outils de surveillance du système qui permet ainsi l’acquisition de données quantitatives pour plusieurs ressources de base de chacun des serveurs. Bien que les principaux programmes, ainsi que les équipements du PACS, soient déjà sous surveillance, les outils developpés dans cette étude permettent d’évaluer les problèmes de performance global. Les résultats ont aidé à identifier des erreurs et des inneficacités dans les algorithmes de certains programmes, et ont permis de suggérer des améliorations au design ainsi qu’aux programmes. fr
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Vlahakis, Vassilios. "Medical image compression techniques for archiving and teleconsultation applications." Thesis, Imperial College London, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.314216.
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Nelson, James M. (James Mark) 1977. "Real-time data collection and archiving of physical systems." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/84276.
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Honiball, Marike. "Three-dimensional scanning as a means of archiving sculptures." Thesis, [Bloemfontein?] : Central University of Technology, Free State, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11462/149.
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Thesis (M. Tech. Design technology) -- Central University of Technology, Free State, 2011This dissertation outlines a procedural scanning process using the portable ZCorporation ZScanner® 700 and provides an overview of the developments surrounding 3D scanning technologies; specifically their application for archiving Cultural Heritage sites and projects. The procedural scanning process is structured around the identification of 3D data recording variables applicable to the digital archiving of an art museum’s collection of sculptures. The outlining of a procedural 3D scanning environment supports the developing technology of 3D digital archiving in view of artefact preservation and interactive digital accessibility. Presented in this paper are several case studies that record 3D scanning variables such as texture, scale, surface detail, light and data conversion applicable to varied sculptural surfaces and form. Emphasis is placed on the procedural documentation and the anomalies associated with the physical object, equipment used, and the scanning environment. In support of the above, the Cultural Heritage projects that are analyzed prove that 3D portable scanning could provide digital longevity and access to previously inaccessible arenas for a diverse range of digital data archiving infrastructures. The development of 3D data acquisition via scanning, CAD modelling and 2D to 3D data file conversion technologies as well as the aesthetic effect and standards of digital archiving in terms of the artwork – viewer relationship and international practices or criterions of 3D digitizing are analysed. These projects indicate the significant use of optical 3D scanning techniques and their employ on renowned historical artefacts thus emphasizing their importance, safety and effectiveness. The aim with this research is to establish that the innovation and future implications of 3D scanning could be instrumental to future technological advancement in an interdisciplinary capacity to further data capture and processing in various Cultural Heritage diagnostic applications.
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Hicks, Susan J. "Digital archiving and reproduction of black and white photography /." Online version of thesis, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/11919.
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Wiewandt, Frank. "Archiving the digital image today's best practices of file preparation /." Connect to this title online, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1131398443.
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Gražulis, Saulius, Andryus Merkys, Antanas Vaitkus, Cédric Duée, Nicolas Maubec, Valérie Laperche, Laure Capar, et al. "Efficient long-term open-access data archiving in mining industries." Technische Universitaet Bergakademie Freiberg Universitaetsbibliothek "Georgius Agricola", 2018. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:105-qucosa-231338.
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Efficient data collection, analysis and preservation are needed to accomplish adequate business decision making. Long-lasting and sustainable business operations, such as mining, add extra requirements to this process: data must be reliably preserved over periods that are longer than that of a typical software life-cycle. These concerns are of special importance for the combined on-line-on-mine-real-time expert system SOLSA (http://www.solsa-mining.eu/) that will produce data not only for immediate industrial utilization, but also for the possible scientific reuse. We thus applied the experience of scientific data publishing to provide efficient, reliable, long term archival data storage. Crystallography, a field covering one of the methods used in the SOLSA expert system, has long traditions of archiving and disseminating crystallographic data. To that end, the Crystallographic Interchange Framework (CIF, [1]) was developed and is maintained by the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr). This framework provides rich means for describing crystal structures and crystallographic experiments in an unambiguous, human- and machine- readable way, in a standard that is independent of the underlying data storage technology. The Crystallography Open Database (COD, [2]) has been successfully using the CIF framework to maintain its open-access crystallographic data collection for over a decade [3,4]. Since the CIF framework is extensible it is possible to use it for other branches of knowledge. The SOLSA system will generate data using different methods of material identification: XRF, XRD, Raman, IR and DRIFT spectroscopy. For XRD, the CIF is usable out-of-the-box, since we can rely on extensive data definition dictionaries (ontologies) developed by the IUCr and the crystallographic community. For spectroscopic techniques such dictionaries, to our best knowledge, do not exist; thus, the SOLSA team is developing CIF dictionaries for spectroscopic techniques to be used in the SOLSA expert system. All dictionaries will be published under liberal license and communities are encourage to join the development, reuse and extend the dictionaries where necessary. These dictionaries will enable access to open data generated by SOLSA by all interested parties. The use of the common CIF framework will ensure smooth data exchange among SOLSA partners and seamless data publication from the SOLSA project.
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Jung, Young Je. "Data compression and archiving software implementation and their algorithm comparison." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/26958.
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Although data compression has been studied for over 30 years, many new techniques are still evolving. There is considerable software available that incorporates compression schemes and archiving techniques. The U.S. Navy is interested in knowing the performance of this software. This thesis studies and compares the software. The testing files consist of the file types specified by the U.S. Naval Security Detachment at Pensacola, Florida
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Western, Thomas James. "National phonography : field recording and sound archiving in Postwar Britain." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/33113.
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Vast numbers of historical field recordings are currently being digitised and disseminated online; but what are these field recordings-and how do they resonate today? This thesis addresses these questions by listening to the digitisation of recordings made for a number of ethnographic projects that took place in Britain in the early 1950s. Each project shared a set of logics and practices I call national phonography. Recording technologies were invested with the ability to sound and salvage the nation, but this first involved deciding what the nation was, and what it was supposed to sound like. National phonography was an institutional and technological network; behind the encounter between recordist and recorded lies a complex and variegated mess of cultural politics, microphones, mediality, sonic aesthetics, energy policies, commercial interests, and music formats. The thesis is structured around a series of historical case studies. The first study traces the emergence of Britain's field recording moment, connecting it to the waning of empire, and focusing on sonic aspects of the 1951 Festival of Britain and the recording policies of national and international folk music organisations. The second study listens to the founding of a sound archive at the University of Edinburgh, also in 1951, asking how sound was used in constructing Scotland as an object of study, stockpiling the nation through the technologies and ideologies of preservation. The third study tracks how the BBC used fieldwork - particularly through its Folk Music and Dialect Recording Scheme (1952-57) - as part of an effort to secure the aural border. The fourth study tells the story of The Columbia World Library of Folk and Primitive Music, produced by Alan Lomax while based in Britain and released in 1955. Here, recordings were presented in fragments as nations were written onto long-playing records, and the project is discussed as a museum of voice. The final chapter shifts perspective to the online circulation of these field recordings. It asks what an online sound archive is, hearing how recordings compress multiple agencies which continue to unfold on playback, and exploring the archival silences built into sonic productions of nations. Finally, online archives are considered as heritage sites, raising questions about whose nation is produced by national phonography. This thesis brings together perspectives from sound studies and ethnomusicology; and contributes to conversations on the history of ethnomusicology in Europe, the politics of technology, ontologies of sound archives, and theories of recorded sound and musical nationalisms.
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Santos, João Francisco Silva Caeiro dos. "Relational navigation and archiving of multimedia information for contemporary dance." Master's thesis, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/8449.
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Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em
Engenharia InformáticaTechnology continues to evolve at an incredible rate and with it, the number of people adhering to new digital trends. As the production of multimedia content such as photographs and videos becomes accessible to more people every year, so does the amount of digital content increase exponentially. Consequently, it becomes a hard task to create systems in order to provide efficient storing and browsing of multimedia content. Multimedia Web archives are one of the most popular solutions found for these issues. By providing organized and connected information storage with efficient browsing and social networking features, these systems become the main platforms used to store and share photographs and videos in the internet. This work is done in the scope of the TKB project: Transmedia Knowledge Base for Contemporary Dance and the goal of this thesis is to develop a system for multimedia information storage and relational content navigation. The analysis of multimedia archiving systems done throughout this thesis extends to those specific for Contemporary dance as it is one of the main focus of the work. The contents which will be integrated in the archive include typical multimedia information such as images and videos, as well as annotated videos exported from specific platforms. Connecting all the information within the archive through taxonomy and content hierarchy allows the definition of the intended relational approach. Setting connections between content and users allow the creation of graphs, which will serve as a basis for all the browsing, navigation and searching done throughout the system.
TKB project- A Transmedia Knowledge Base for contemporary dance(PTDC/EAT-AVP/098220/2008)
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Gražulis, Saulius, Andryus Merkys, Antanas Vaitkus, Cédric Duée, Nicolas Maubec, Valérie Laperche, Laure Capar, et al. "Efficient long-term open-access data archiving in mining industries." TU Bergakademie Freiberg, 2017. https://tubaf.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A23193.
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Efficient data collection, analysis and preservation are needed to accomplish adequate business decision making. Long-lasting and sustainable business operations, such as mining, add extra requirements to this process: data must be reliably preserved over periods that are longer than that of a typical software life-cycle. These concerns are of special importance for the combined on-line-on-mine-real-time expert system SOLSA (http://www.solsa-mining.eu/) that will produce data not only for immediate industrial utilization, but also for the possible scientific reuse. We thus applied the experience of scientific data publishing to provide efficient, reliable, long term archival data storage. Crystallography, a field covering one of the methods used in the SOLSA expert system, has long traditions of archiving and disseminating crystallographic data. To that end, the Crystallographic Interchange Framework (CIF, [1]) was developed and is maintained by the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr). This framework provides rich means for describing crystal structures and crystallographic experiments in an unambiguous, human- and machine- readable way, in a standard that is independent of the underlying data storage technology. The Crystallography Open Database (COD, [2]) has been successfully using the CIF framework to maintain its open-access crystallographic data collection for over a decade [3,4]. Since the CIF framework is extensible it is possible to use it for other branches of knowledge. The SOLSA system will generate data using different methods of material identification: XRF, XRD, Raman, IR and DRIFT spectroscopy. For XRD, the CIF is usable out-of-the-box, since we can rely on extensive data definition dictionaries (ontologies) developed by the IUCr and the crystallographic community. For spectroscopic techniques such dictionaries, to our best knowledge, do not exist; thus, the SOLSA team is developing CIF dictionaries for spectroscopic techniques to be used in the SOLSA expert system. All dictionaries will be published under liberal license and communities are encourage to join the development, reuse and extend the dictionaries where necessary. These dictionaries will enable access to open data generated by SOLSA by all interested parties. The use of the common CIF framework will ensure smooth data exchange among SOLSA partners and seamless data publication from the SOLSA project.
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Vishwasrao, Saket Dilip. "Performance Evaluation of Web Archiving Through In-Memory Page Cache." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/78252.
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This study proposes and evaluates a new method for Web archiving. We leverage the caching
infrastructure in Web servers for archiving. Redis is used as the page cache and its persistence mechanism is exploited for archiving. We experimentally evaluate the performance
of our archival technique using the Greek version of Wikipedia deployed on Amazon cloud
infrastructure. We show that there is a slight increase in latencies of the rendered pages due
to archiving. Though the server performance is comparable at larger page cache sizes, the
maximum throughput the server can handle decreases significantly at lower cache sizes due
to more disk write operations as a result of archiving. Since pages are dynamically rendered
and the technology stack of Wikipedia is extensively used in a number of Web applications,
our results should have broad impact.Master of Science
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Frank, Wiewandt Edward. "ARCHIVING THE DIGITAL IMAGE: TODAY'S BEST PRACTICES OF FILE PREPARATION." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1131398443.
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Peters, M. Catherine. "Personal Digital Archiving in Public Libraries| A Critical Realist Approach." Thesis, State University of New York at Albany, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10273116.
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The purpose of this research is two-fold: to challenge the assumption that personal digital archiving only occurs when individuals use personally owned devices and to fill a gap in current personal digital archiving research by including public library users who use public access computers. Very little current research exists using qualitative approaches to studying public libraries and almost no research studies examine how the environment of the public library shapes internet access or personal digital archiving.
The research contributes to theory through the introduction of the concept of migratory archiving. I will define and provide suggestions to resolve the privacy paradox in libraries. Another theoretical contribution of this dissertation is the application of critical realist theory to public libraries and the extension of the Transformational Model of Social Activity (TMSA) as envisioned by Bhaskar (1978, 1979, 1986, 1993, 2010) to include objects, specifically public access computers.
Through investigation of two case study locations in New York State, the research describes the current status of Internet Use and Acceptable Use Policies across the state and the status of personal digital archiving by public access computer users in libraries. This dissertation also defines and analyzes structures—including library policies and procedures—shaping technology access and personal digital archiving in public libraries.
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Pinney, Amy. "Archiving Anna Baright Curry : performances of evidence and evidentiary performances /." Available to subscribers only, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1456284121&sid=3&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Nilsson, Simon. "Automated Culling of Data in a Relational Database for Archiving." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för programvaruteknik, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-18261.
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Background. Archiving of legacy information systems is challenging. When no options exist for extracting the information in a structured way, the last resort is to save the database. Optimally only the information that is relevant should be saved and the rest of the information could be removed. Objectives. The goal is to develop a method for assisting the archivist in the process of culling a database before archiving. The method should be described as rules defining how the tables can be identified.Methods. To get an overview of how the process works today and what archivists think can be improved, a number of interviews with experts in database archiving is done. The results from the interviews are then analysed, together with test databases to define rules that can be used in a general case. The rules are then implemented in a prototype that is tested and evaluated to verify if the method works. Results. The results point to the algorithm being both faster and able to exclude more irrelevant tables than a person could do with the manual method. An algorithm for finding candidate keys has also been improved to decrease the number of tests and execution time in the worst case. Conclusions. The evaluation shows results that point to the method working as intended while resulting in less work for the archivist. More work should be done on this method to improve it further.
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Maina, Job King'ori. "Enhancing digital heritage archives using gamified annotations." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/26955.
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In the context of digital heritage archives, we find heritage objects having intrinsic contextual and historical information. Capturing all that information is difficult, especially if that effort is left only to the professionals or institutions responsible for those digital heritage archives. In this study, we investigate how digital heritage archives can be enhanced using an annotation framework with a focus on gamification. So far, they have been focused on the collection of information and not really on the collaborative capabilities that they could have. We look at how we can add a collaborative element to an already existing digital heritage archive and incentivise users to engage with it more. This way, the owners present their data as the fixed content of the archive and the viewers are then able to present their contributions as annotations layered on the original work. Therefore, using gamified annotations as a proposed solution, we hypothesise that gamification could play an important role in giving the participants an incentive as to why they should be engaging with the digital heritage archive as well as guiding them to contribute relevant content. Through an experimental study, we found that gamified annotations do affect the number and quality of annotations submitted. We believe a successful implementation of a gamified annotation framework should go a long way to improve viewership, sharing, learning and debate around the content of the said digital heritage archives.
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Dougherty, Meghan. "Archiving the Web : collection, documentation, display, and shifting knowledge production paradigms /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6153.
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Lederer, Robert Clarke. "Rise of the curator : archiving the self in contemporary American fiction." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/10667.
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Concurrent with a bloom of interest in the archive within academic discourse, an intense cultural fascination with museums, archives, and memorials to the past has flourished within the United States. The ascendency of digital technologies has contributed to and magnified this “turn” by popularising and habituating the archive as a personal memory tool, a key mechanism through which the self is negotiated and fashioned. This dissertation identifies a sustained exploration of the personal archive and its place in contemporary life by American novelists in the twenty-first century. Drawing on theories of the archive and the collection, this dissertation analyses the parameters of the curated self through close-readings of recent novels by five US authors. The first two chapters read Paul Auster’s Sunset Park through trauma theory and Siri Hustvedt’s What I Loved through psychoanalysis, noting that in each the system of archiving generates moments of catharsis. The two chapters argue that, for the subject shattered by trauma, archiving activates and fulfils psychoanalytic processes that facilitate the self’s reintegration and prompts a discursive revelation about the painful past. The texts, thus, discover in the archive strategies for achieving, however provisionally, a kind of stability amongst unexpected change. The next two chapters reveal the complicity of archival formations with threats posed in the digital age and articulate alternative forms of self-curation that counteract these pernicious forces. To ward off information overload, E.L. Doctorow’s Homer and Langley advocates the ethical flexibility of “blind” narration that, wending through time, accommodates a broad range of perspectives by refusing to fantasise about its own ultimate and total claim to accuracy. Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad, meanwhile, diagnoses the cultural anxiety over increasingly invasive surveillance measures. While the novel situates the digital archive, or database, at the heart of this new dataveillance, it recommends investing the self in material collections, where personal meaning is rendered in the inscrutable patois of objects that disintegrate over time. For Egan, the material archive thereby skirts the assumed readability and fixity of data on which this surveillance thrives. The conclusion analyses Dana Spiotta’s Stone Arabia, observing within it and the other novels a consistent concern with archival destruction, erosion, and stagnation. Together, the texts suggest that the personal archive is persistently stalked by disintegration and failure. Yet, within this contemporary moment in which curation has become a widespread means of self-fashioning, they also show how these hazards can be creatively circumvented or actively courted, can threaten the subject or be harnessed by it.
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Birdie, Christina, B. Sreeharsha, T. Pallavi, and Mahantesh Kannur. "Archiving of Electronic Journals in Physics and Astronomy: Role of Consortia." Information and Library Network Centre, An IUC of University Grants Commission, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106409.
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Electronic journals unfold their most valuable features when they are inter-linked with other documents, archives and databases. These electronic journals need an archiving system that is based on a global concept. Archiving ensures "continued access indefinitely into the future of records stored in digital electronic form". Archiving system has to be flexible to adopt the new technological generation. The rapid pace at which technology becomes obsolete makes archiving an extremely expensive undertaking. The librarians are more concerned about the archiving of the electronic journals themselves, or getting access to the archives established by the publishers or the aggregators. This paper focuses on the issues related to the archiving of electronic journals in Physics and Astronomy by the publishers, aggregators and the consortia.
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Britton, Thomas George 1950. "Picture archiving and communication system model and simulation using Network II5." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/276656.
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This paper describes the application of Network II.5, a modelling tool, to the development of a model for a Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS). The model is used to evaluate the performance of a PACS through computer simulation. The work includes interpretation of the ACR-NEMA Standard for Digital Imaging and Communications. This standard adheres to the ISO-OSI reference model which separates the functions of device communication into well-defined layers. In this work, the Application/Presentation, Session, and Transport layers are treated in detail, in fact, the model structure is based on these layers. Results and conclusions show that Network II.5 is useful in this application, however some weaknesses were exposed due to the size and complexity of the final system model.
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Baldwin, Andrea Michea. "Archiving and Advocating for Performance Festivals as Sites of Disciplinary Action." OpenSIUC, 2015. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1147.
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Performance festivals have a unique, significant, but largely undocumented history in the discipline of Performance Studies. Despite the vital role they serve in invigorating, sustaining and renewing interest in this field, little formal research has been devoted to studying the history, structure and function of these events. This project is designed to mark the history and evolution of performance festivals, their ritual structure and significance for the discipline, and their role in the lives of participants. I focus on two current festivals, the Petit Jean Performance Festival and the Patti Pace Performance Festival, as sites of disciplinary conviction. Through a hybrid methodology of ethnographic description, in-depth interviews, and autoethnographic reflection, I attempt to both document and bring to life the experience of festival attendees. In particular, I focus on how festivals provide opportunities for genealogical connections, embodied mentoring, and upholding performance practice as praxis. My goal in this research is to advocate for performance festivals as sites of disciplinary conviction and growth.
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Hayes, Gillian Rachael. "Documenting and Understanding Everyday Activities through the Selective Archiving of Live Experiences." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/16222.
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This research focuses on the development and study of socially appropriate ways to archive data about important life experiences during unexpected and unstructured situations. This work involves three significant phases: formative studies to understand the data capture needs of particular populations of users in these situations; design and development of a technical architecture for capture and access in these settings coupled with design and development of applications for two specific domain problems; and evaluation of this solution as it pertains to these domain problems. The underlying solution presented in this dissertation is known as selective archiving, in which services are always on and available for recording but require some explicit action to archive data. If no such action is taken, recorded data is deleted automatically after a specified time.
Selectively archived segments of data can provide an efficient way to recover and to analyze high quality data that traditionally available. The projects presented in this dissertation provide insight about the ways in which we can support record-keeping in informal and unstructured settings. Furthermore, when examined together, these projects provide a view into the larger generalized problem of unstructured capture and access and the acceptability of capture technologies. These considerations evolved into a set of seven tensions surrounding recording technologies that are presented in this dissertation. Furthermore, the experiences surrounding the deployment and evaluation of selective archiving technologies demonstrate the ways in which people use different types of knowledge and cues from the world to determine their reactions to and adoption of such technologies.
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Hayes, Gillian R. "Documenting and understanding everyday activities through the selective archiving of live experiences." Available online, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007, 2007. http://etd.gatech.edu/theses/available/etd-05172007-161038/.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008.Abowd, Gregory, Committee Chair ; Grinter, Rebecca, Committee Member ; Starner, Thad, Committee Member ; Guzdial, Mark, Committee Member ; Bell, Genevieve, Committee Member.
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Kim, Jang Soo 1978. "TattleTrail : an archiving voice chat system for mobile users over Internet Protocol." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/87229.
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Reinwald, Carl, and Bob Vossler. "A Practical Methodology for Archiving, Retrieving, and Managing Large Quantities of Data." International Foundation for Telemetering, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/614698.
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International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 30-November 02, 1989 / Town & Country Hotel & Convention Center, San Diego, CaliforniaWith the ever-increasing volume of data generated by today's telemetry processing systems, contemporary data archive technologies are proving inadequate for permanent data storage requirements. Typically after data have been acquired and recorded, specialized engineers will analyze and compare the current data with data archived during past operations. As the quantity of archived data increases, the data's accessibility becomes increasingly difficult to manage efficiently. A new archiving concept has been designed and implemented which provides efficient automated access to over three terabytes of data. The nominal retrieval time for a fifty megabyte file is less than two minutes. The system's storage media is standard VHS high-energy cassettes with a storage capacity of 5.2 gigabytes per cassette.
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Lesniak, Piotr Jerzy. "Towards Warsaw of the future : exhibiting, archiving and moving through architectural imaginaries." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/22998.
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Thesis argument: There is a Culture of Violent Reductivism in Representing Warsaw, which means that: Warsaw is reduced to a symbol of heroism in the hands of God/History or the Expert; imagining is reduced to historic imaginary and by the same token futuristic imaginary; both based on a positivist-romanticist system of thought; the reductivism deploys philosemiotic violence (acts of offering with expectations attached); the reductivism/violence is a symptom of a ‘neurosis’ of the social national/imaginary; the reductivism stops Warsaw/Poland from imagining present and future more openly. An alternative is to represent Warsaw as a series of post-historical objects that: are discrete texts, singular images, drawings, physical objects; are paradigmatic and analogical; they move from specificity to specificity; offer different forms, where ‘form’ is non-objective and means relationship; are a series of critiques, reflections, descriptions that work as architectural hypotheses; represent three exemplar imaginaries of Warsaw (the Birth, the Rebirth, the Second Rebirth); together form a ‘distracted’ architectural archive of Warsaw’s imaginaries. In this way, the thesis posits an example of a methodology of representing Warsaw that opens the possibility for Warsaw/Poland to imagine itself differently. Key themes: Culture of violent reductivism in representing Warsaw, reduction of Warsaw to a symbol of heroism, domination of the historic futuristic imaginary, philosemi(o)tic violence, neurosis of the social imaginary (guilt), positivist romanticism, post-historical object, paradigmatic knowledge, non-objective form, seriality of representation, architectural hypothesis, three imaginaries of Warsaw, ‘distracted’ archive of imaginaries.
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Rackley, Andrew. "Archiving the Games : collecting, storing and disseminating the London 2012 knowledge legacy." Thesis, University of Central Lancashire, 2016. http://clok.uclan.ac.uk/16539/.
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This thesis examines attempts made by the British Library (BL) and other memory institutions in the UK to archive the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. It has a specific focus on the intersections between collecting, storing and disseminating the Games’ knowledge legacy. The thesis makes an original contribution to the sparse body of research into archiving sport and Olympic content. It adopts a distinctive theoretical framework and offers a critical interpretation of qualitative data gathered from interviews with key actors and memory institution agencies about their approach to sport and London 2012 in particular. The awarding of the Olympic and Paralympic Games to London in 2005 represented a significant moment for the UK, as the city became the first to host three Games. The origins of the bid to host the Games stretch back to the late 1990s representing over 12 years worth of content generated in relation to this event. The stark contrast between the wealth of information this represented and the disparate, fragmentary record that remained from the 1908 and 1948 Games highlighted a concern that a significant opportunity to capture and document important sports mega-event content might be missed. The findings of the thesis demonstrate that the collection, storage and dissemination of London 2012’s knowledge legacy rely upon several factors. These include: the availability of sufficient funding; attitudes of individuals within memory institutions towards sport and archives; an abundance of ‘digital immigrants’ within memory institutions; and the value of content beyond sport. In addition, the evidence establishes that early intervention is essential to form a comprehensive archive of the Games and, furthermore, that obtaining custody of this content is crucial for memory institutions to provide a useful knowledge legacy for sports mega-events.
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Alhajeri, Mona. "Future developments and trends in use of picture archiving and communication systems." Thesis, Brunel University, 2016. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/13739.
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Objectives: This study identifies modern information technologies that can improve the clinical practice of Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) and determines the approaches that are needed to improve the functionality of current PACS to provide better next generation PACS and to improve the future of radiology practices and workflow with future PACS generations. Method: A parallel mixed method approach was adopted including qualitative method (semi-structured interviews), quantitative method (questionnaire survey) and observation of online discussion groups on PACS. Five databases were searched to find salient literature, including Science Direct, Springer Link, Scopus, CINAHL Plus and Google Scholar. Six radiologists were interviewed and questionnaires were collected from 120 radiologists. Four online discussion groups related to PACS were monitored via LinkedIn. The data were analysed thematically using the thematic analysis method. Finally, a focus group was held with a separate group of radiologists to validate the findings. Results: Eight themes emerged from the thematic analysis of the data: (1) limitations of traditional PACS; (2) user needs and requirements that can increase PACS functionality; (3) Web based solutions of PACS; (4) PACS on mobile phones; (5) Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA); (6) full integration of voice recognition in PACS; (7) backup solutions for the system and (8) continuous training for PACS users. Discussion: With the development of healthcare information and communication technology (ICT) and with the increased demands of the radiologists to expand PACS usability, traditional PACS must be updated to follow the changes. Modern technologies can provide better solutions to enhance the functionality of current PACS. The next generation of PACS can fulfil the future requirements of users. This study considers the issues between the needs and requirements of the users of a PACS system in the future and the developing solutions in ICT and the PACS industry. Moreover, highly developed PACS systems with advanced features will have a direct impact in changing and improving radiology workflow. Accordingly, a model has been developed that proposes new features for the next generation PACS system, which may be applied to the next generation radiology practice. The model was validated with the focus group and, by using a separate group of radiologists in another country, was determined to be generalisable. Conclusion: It is widely recognised that traditional PACS must be updated to adopt recent advances in ICT. This research has identified themes that, when incorporated, will enhance the functionality of PACS and radiology workflow and provide better quality clinical practice. The findings from this empirical research can be used: as recommendations to vendors; for technology development; and by medical institutes to consider aspects when undertaking implementation of PACS and training future radiologists. Keywords: 'Picture archiving and communication system’, PACS, Future trends, next generation, Organisational efficiency, Productivity, Clinical practice, Ubiquitous.
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Schoberg, Paul R. "Secure ground-based remote recording and archiving of aircraft "Black Box" data." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2003. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion-image/03sep%5FSchoberg.pdf.
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Thesis (M.S. in Computer Science)--Naval Postgraduate School, September 2003.Thesis advisor(s): Cynthia E. Irvine, Scott Cote. Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-171). Also available online.
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Antell, Molly A. "Archiving the Archive: A Tribute to the Machines that Held our Memories." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1275.
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Archiving the Archive is an exploration of the changing ways we hold our memories through media. As digital technology becomes ever more present in daily life, many old analog media are becoming obsolete. Throughout history, these media technologies have done significant cultural work through their ability to hold and share the content that formed collective memory and shared identity. But the way we view content is changing. This project aims to serve as remembrance to this symbolic work and the physical uniqueness of these media through illustrative prints imbued with a movement and life otherwise overlooked. These memories are then fractured and abstracted onto postcards that visitors are encouraged to take with them to create a new sort of collective memory of these media objects.
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Brinks, Raymond Gerald 1960. "A REPROGRAMMABLE HIGH SPEED INTERFACE DESIGN FOR A PICTURE ARCHIVING AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/276488.
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High resolution imaging devices have made a digital medical archiving system feasible. The large volumes of information generated must be stored and retrieved at high data rates in order to insure the timely diagnosis of patients. This creates some unique technological challenges that must be resolved, including the problem dealing with multiple vendor products interacting in one environment. The high speed interface card design presented in this thesis is able to deal with different computer host busses as well as different interprocessor communication protocols. The ACR-NEMA standard has been implemented in the design as one possible network protocol that provides a solution that can be easily adapted to different vendors. The design has been analyzed using the Network II.5 simulation language. The simulation was performed to insure that the original objectives are met and to determine the impact on the protocols rated throughput.
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Atkinson, Louise. "Souvenirs from the British Isles : archiving, curating, and collecting in contemporary art practice." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2016. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/16860/.
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My interdisciplinary practice-based research project utilises a theoretical framework of anthropology to explore concepts associated with economic and cultural appropriation in visual art. Through investigating the problematic history of artists appropriating ethnographic objects for use in their own work, the project considers how anthropology could be used to engage audiences in a more collaborative fashion. This thesis also outlines the processes for producing a body of work using the museum strategies of archiving, collecting and curating. This includes aspects of documentation, interpretation, and dissemination through online and offline channels such as blogging and participatory arts. The two main projects included in the thesis, The Imaginary Museum and Souvenirs from the British Isles, consider how audiences can be engaged through the artwork to produce their own interpretations. The Imaginary Museum achieved this through the physical interaction of audiences collecting postcards. Through ascribing a value to the work with the inclusion of a donation box and only having postcards available within the time frame of the exhibition, the audience began to consider the works as both limited edition artworks and souvenirs of the exhibition. Similarly, there was an element of ambiguity between the artwork and souvenir in the Souvenirs from the British Isles exhibition. Here the sculptures took the aesthetic of the souvenir but were presented in the style of museum artefacts which discouraged tactile engagement. This resulted in a more conceptual interaction, with audiences discussing potential interpretations of the work with each other. Both of these works demonstrate a method of engaging with the museum format, which suggests a model for other artists working in and with collections. Through considering the museum framework as a contact zone, I also aim to suggest the possibility of a collaborative form of anthropology, which can express multiple responses and interpretations of the work of art, whilst also addressing the more problematic aspects of cultural appropriation.
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Dimitrova, Raya. "Designing a collaborative self-archiving system for vulnerable groups via co-design means." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23648.
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This thesis project explores the research question of “How can vulnerable groups be encouraged to contribute with genuine personal content to a shared entity (the archive) in a scalable way?”. The project applies co-design practices in order to identify qualities that a system for collaborative self-archiving should incorporate in order to engage vulnerable groups to contribute to the archive, more specifically exploring what would motivate the refugees in Sweden to contribute to the Swedish archive. Several workshops have been run together with the target group, preceded by sensitizing exercises and interviews and supported by additional field research of the other stakeholders for the subject explored - the professional archivists and the Swedish citizens.
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Miller, Bayard Louis. "When Old Media Was New: Learning From the Past, Archiving For the Future." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2012. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/197386.
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This paper examines recent advances in new media technology and the profound effect that the digital turn has had on the way in which archivists and public historians preserve and present the past. Included is an investigation of the process of digitization, and the creation of digital databases that addresses concerns regarding authenticity in the digital age. As the history consuming public has grown increasingly reliant on digital technology it is essential for public historians to use new media as a way to embrace the public in a historical dialogue. Yet, the public is interested in a history that is far different than that which is produced in the academy and it seems as though historians have drifted away from the public eye. So how should historians connect with a public that finds their work largely inaccessible without having to compromise the integrity of their scholarship? This thesis argues that new media technology can help bridge the gap between the professional history done in the academy and public history that relies on community engagement. Looking to public science at the turn of the twentieth century, this paper shows how including the public in scholarly discourse has been a point of contention for over a century. Understanding how men of science attempted to blend professional and vernacular science in the nineteenth century provides insight for public historians trying to reach out to diverse publics today. Lastly, this paper will show how one institution in particular, the Wagner Free Institute of Science, has used new media throughout its existence as a way to bridge the gap between professional and public science.
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Roosendaal, H. "Informatationsmanagement in der Physik." DPG Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, 1996. http://www.physik.uni-oldenburg.de/documents/UOL-THEO3-96-5/scope.ps.
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Berchuk, Vitaliy, Ed Grozalis, Jennifer Yin, and Chris Dehmelt. "A Low Cost, High Density Reconfigurable Recording Subsystem." International Foundation for Telemetering, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/581620.
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ITC/USA 2012 Conference Proceedings / The Forty-Eighth Annual International Telemetering Conference and Technical Exhibition / October 22-25, 2012 / Town and Country Resort & Convention Center, San Diego, CaliforniaModern test programs require an increase in sensor and bus data while at the same time seeking a decrease in the size and price of data acquisition components. Data archiving, which has been traditionally supplied via dedicated standalone hardware, is not exempt to this demand, but in many ways has not kept up with other instrumentation components in terms of flexibility, size, density and price. The archiving capabilities of a data acquisition system must be able to meet the changing needs of the customer. This paper presents a Solid State Drive (SSD) based data recorder implementation that can be easily reconfigured to address the requirements of different applications, including traditional PCM based systems and contemporary network based systems. The paper identifies the requirements, design challenges, trade-offs and risks in creating a low-cost, flexible data archiving subsystem that can be used in a standalone configuration or be directly integrated with a host data acquisition system.
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Sorrenti, Dax. "VHS 2.0 : amateur archiving on the internet and the nostalgic reclamation of retro media." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/41976.
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The archiving of retro media on the internet has become one of the more prolific examples of amateur archiving in recent years. Using various case studies, I argue for a new understanding of how this orphaned and obsolete media preserves important nostalgic and cultural histories. Not only this, but the preservation of niche film and television programming deserves recognition for the intricate and complex work of amateur archivists, in the aims of validating their work and viewing the sharing of this material as more than simple file sharing. Often providing the only means by which to access material, these archival sites preserve history through its media output, and I provide a glimpse into the motivations and machinations of their inner workings. In need of protection from legal prosecution, and lacking a clear understanding of their place amongst contemporary media in the mainstream, I argue for a nostalgic reclamation of this material, that can co-exist alongside other media with little to no harm.