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Imada, Adria L. "Promiscuous Signification." Representations 138, no. 1 (2017): 1–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/rep.2017.138.1.1.
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This essay assesses clinical photographs of leprosy patients created by the Hawai‘i Board of Health in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, or what may be the most extensive visual cataloging of indigenous, Asian, and immigrant bodies in America’s Pacific empire. Building on theoretical and methodological approaches to archives as a process rather than a source, I follow the trail of these clinical images through time and space, from their emergence within a photographic practice of medical management and segregation in Hawai‘i to their prolific circulation in transnational political and medical arenas. Offering spectacular evidence of the racialized and sexualized pathology of colonial peoples, these photographs were tightly regulated but increasingly viewed as clinical erotica after the United States incorporated Hawai‘i as a territory in 1900. The essay further suggests the “affective excess” that can disrupt the photograph’s medical surveillance, as social intimacies and care between Hawaiian patients bloom within the frame.
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Armstrong, Helen Jane, and Jimmie Lundgren. "Cataloging Aerial Photographs and Other Remote-Sensing Materials." Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 27, no. 1-2 (November 19, 1999): 165–227. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j104v27n01_08.
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Loda, Liubov, Iryna Pigel, and Lesia Dzendzeluk. "A Study on the state of photographic documents in Vasyl Stefanyk National Scientific Library of Ukraine in Lviv." Proceedings of Vasyl Stefanyk National Scientific Library of Ukraine in Lviv, no. 11(27) (2019): 195–208. http://dx.doi.org/10.37222/2524-0315-2019-11(27)-12.
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Collections of photographic documents constitute considerable information, document and art heritage. Photographs with non-existing today art and architectural objects are of particular importance. The task for their keepers is to save all visual information and to ensure accessibility to users. The paper’s purpose is to study the state of photographic documents kept in Vasyl Stefanyk National Scientific Library of Ukraine in Lviv. The article provides a profound analyze of damages’ types as well as factors that caused them and measures for their preservation. Authors highlighted the role of indoor climate’s stability for the safety of photographic documents. Photographs are multi-component objects and 208 consist of several layers, each carrying out certain functions. Photographic documents are of low light resistance, so their improper storage may cause irreversible fading. Damages may be caused by both physical, chemical and biological factors. Actually, their monitoring allows to record any injuries and to identify destructive processes that just begin. On the base of photographs dated back to 1860s – 1930s from museum collections of Shevchenko Scientific Society, Ossolinski National Institute and People’s House in Lviv, the state of paper base and clarity of images were assessed. The results of the study were registered in tables, where the state of their conservation was specified in details. Authors applied five-level system to assess injuries of photographic documents. The paper describes three kinds of damages, including mechanical injuries (loss, deformation, breakings), physical and chemical (fading, color changes, spots), biological (pigmentation, contamination by microorganism, insects etc.). The study and investigation made it possible to refine conservation measures, to develop means for minimizing the influence of harmful factors. Researchers’ growing interest to photographic documents increased their usage in the Library. Supporting safety conditions and accessibility to conducting researches allow to use photographic documents widely for history and art studies, cataloging and exhibitions. Keywords: photographical documents, photo collections, Shevchenko Scientific Society, People’s House, Petrushevych Museum, preservation, conservation.
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Shulman, James. "Words . . . will not stay in place: cataloging and sharing image collections." Art Libraries Journal 36, no. 2 (2011): 25–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307472200016886.
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Words have been affixed to still images for hundreds of years to describe who created a work or what it portrays. This paper examines the ways this process might evolve in an era where dissemination of knowledge is far less linear than it was in an age of print, and reviews two projects that ARTstor is pursuing with the art historical community. One captures users’ notes about 190,000 photographs of old master drawings that are in need of updated descriptive cataloging. The other will create a Built Works Registry through the use of a credentialed Wikipedia-like strategy.
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Levandowski, Mary. "Understanding wetland responses to climate change in the Greater Yellowstone Area." UW National Parks Service Research Station Annual Reports 40 (December 15, 2017): 57–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.13001/uwnpsrc.2017.5573.
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Wetlands in the Greater Yellowstone Area (GYA) support a high diversity of species. Increased temperatures associated with climate change are related to increased wetland drying in the GYA, potentially affecting the species using wetlands. The National Park Service Greater Yellowstone Inventory and Monitoring Network (GRYN) started monitoring wetlands in 2006, focusing on amphibian occupancy. Adding novel surveillance techniques to GRYN’s existing, long-term monitoring program offers an opportunity to observe more species. This may help us better understand how wetland species diversity may be affected by climate change and provide additional information to managers. In 2017, I outfitted four permanent wetlands with equipment collecting photographs, acoustic recordings, and ultrasonic recordings for approximately five days in June/July. When the equipment was deployed, I collected environmental DNA (eDNA) samples. Data from wildlife cameras, acoustic recorders, ultrasonic recorders, and eDNA for cataloging the biological diversity of wetlands is still being analyzed. Acoustic data and eDNA samples require additional processing; however, preliminary data is available for photographic data and ultrasonic data. Cameras detected elk at all sites, whereas bat detection varied by site.
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Dmitrieva, Alexandra I. "The Photo Fond of the State Archive of the Sverdlovsk Region: Issues of Acquisition, Systematization, Search, and Use of Photographic Documents." Herald of an archivist, no. 1 (2022): 154–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.28995/2073-0101-2022-1-154-163.
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The article analyzes the history of creation of the photo fond in the State Archive of Sverdlovsk Region (GASO), assesses its scientific reference apparatus, and evaluates the efficiency of search for photographic documents by their subject. There is a growing interest towards local history and history of urban environment, which increases demand for photographic documents stored in the archive. However, the use of these documents is limited due to low efficiency and arduousness of search. The author suggests several ways to increase the efficiency of search using modern computer technology. To achieve this goal, the legal frameworks on photographic documents processing in state archives have been analyzed. The unique sources used in the research are detailed interviews with the GASO staff, as well as annual reports on the work of the archive during 1961–72. During this period, much effort was put to creation of the scientific reference apparatus: description, systematization, and cataloging of photographic documents were conducted. The photo fond (fond 1) counts 62265 storage items. Photographs and albums are also stored in other GASO fonds. The acquisition sources were departmental archives of institutions and organizations, the GASO itself, as well as individuals. Photo documents were widely used in the GASO’s educational and popularization work and were available on request of organizations and citizens. The documents have research potential, and yet (according to archival staff and to research) the existing information retrieval systems do not provide complete and effective search due to their limitations. Relevance and fullness ratio of the information retrieval system have been calculated for publicly available electronic inventories of photographic documents. It has been established that search efficiency of highly specialized queries has precision score of 0,003, while noise ratio is 0,997.
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HUHÁK, Heléna, and Lóránt BÓDI. "The COURAGE Registry: A Gateway to the Cultural Heritage of Eastern European Nonconformism." Martor. The Museum of the Romanian Peasant Anthropology Review 26 (2021): 138–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.57225/martor.2021.26.09.
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The COURAGE Registry is a digital research tool that allows exploring the legacy of cultural opposition in former Eastern European socialist countries by cataloging and describing relevant collections on dissident culture across Eastern Europe and worldwide. The linked database reveals a great variety of nonconformist cultural practices that were formerly largely unknown and promotes comparative research of similar phenomena in Eastern European societies and cultures. The researchers on the project tended to treat visual sources as traces of the past equally as important as written documents. Images were not only illustrations of the given narratives but, in some cases, visual documents were the only sources that preserved the memory of the alternative or underground activity, while in other cases, it was the act of taking pictures that resulted in the confrontation with official cultural policy. This article aims to provide insight into the basic dilemmas and issues that the project faced dealing with images for the database through three examples. Firstly, we focus on the photo documentation of an exhibition of the Hungarian art group Inconnu that was made by the secret police following the destruction of the artworks. Secondly, we show how photos were also taken by official photographers who operated in the so-called “grey zone.” Finally, our third example refers to Fortepan, a unique public initiative that focuses on the digital preservation of private photographs created between 1900 and 1990.
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Glebova, E. V. "Review of the catalog «Ulchi» from the collection of the Khabarovsk Regional Museum n.a. N.I. Grodekov." VESTNIK ARHEOLOGII, ANTROPOLOGII I ETNOGRAFII, no. 2 (49) (June 5, 2020): 173–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.20874/2071-0437-2020-49-2-16.
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The article presents the analysis of the catalog «Ulchi» by the Khabarovsk Regional Museum n.a. N.I. Gro-dekov. The performance of the local museum is considered in the context of all-Russian experience of cataloging of the museum collections, which is of a particular importance for historical science. The author examines the program of scientific cataloging of the museum collections, featuring the traditional culture of almost all indigenous peoples of the Russian Far East. We conclude that the series of ethnographic catalogues of the museum has made a significant contribution to the Far East museum studies and ethnography. The new catalog «Ulchi» pre-sents the largest ethnographic collection of the museum, which characterizes the material and spiritual culture of one of the eight indigenous populations of the Lower Amur River Region — the Ulchi. The catalog includes 808 ethnographic artifacts — household items, clothes, fishing and hunting equipment, items of ritual culture, shaman-ism and family relations of the Ulchi (19th–21st c.). Specific sections include more than 300 photographs and nega-tives (19th–20th c.), as well as detailed background information. Some artifacts, such as ritual sculptures, shaman clothing and attributes, utensils for ritual rites, ancient devices for fishing etc., are published for the first time. The catalog was prepared by a large team of authors involving Ulchi craftsmen and linguists. The catalog «Ulchi» introduces new materials into scientific discourse, and it can serve as a source for comparative ethnographic, historical and museum studies analysis. It has been emphasized that the newly published catalog of the Kha-barovsk Regional Museum n.a. N.I. Grodekov allows representatives of this people to connect with their own cul-tural heritage; it contributes to the formation of their historical memory and identity.
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De Fino, Melissa. "Cataloging & Digitizing Toolbox Website of the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress – http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/cataloging.html." Technical Services Quarterly 29, no. 3 (June 5, 2012): 239–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07317131.2012.682014.
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Jonge, Ingrid Fischer. "The National Museum of Photography at the Royal Library, Copenhagen." Art Libraries Journal 23, no. 1 (1998): 8–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307472200010750.
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The Royal Library, Copenhagen has made many attempts over the years to organise the huge collection of photographs held in its Department of Maps, Prints and Photographs into a formal museum of photography. Finally in 1996 the Royal Library created such a museum, and named it ‘The National Museum of Photography’. This museum within a library will be located in the new building at the City’s harbour front called The Black Diamond. The displays will show new as well as older photography from the collection, which is important both artistically and historically. Digitisation and cataloguing of the collection are under way, and the first couple of thousand items are already available to a wider public on the Internet.
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Scott, Samantha L., Rick Rohde, and Timm Hoffman. "Repeat Landscape Photography, Historical Ecology and the Wonder of Digital Archives in Southern Africa." African Research & Documentation 131 (2017): 35–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305862x00022512.
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Environmental history projects using repeat photography often involve the acquisition of large collections of historical and current images, matching those images for comparative analysis, and then cataloguing and archiving the imagery for long-term storage and later use (Webb et ah, 2010). When used in combination with other techniques, repeat photography is an excellent tool for documenting change (Gruell, 2010) and has been used in a variety of disciplines, including historical ecology, to determine changes in plant populations, soil erosion, climate trends and ecological processes to name a few. Historical photographs often provide greater temporal range to an analysis compared to, for example, satellite imagery and in many cases even aerial photography (Gruell, 2010).
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Scott, Samantha L., Rick Rohde, and Timm Hoffman. "Repeat Landscape Photography, Historical Ecology and the Wonder of Digital Archives in Southern Africa." African Research & Documentation 131 (2017): 35–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305862x00022512.
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Environmental history projects using repeat photography often involve the acquisition of large collections of historical and current images, matching those images for comparative analysis, and then cataloguing and archiving the imagery for long-term storage and later use (Webb et ah, 2010). When used in combination with other techniques, repeat photography is an excellent tool for documenting change (Gruell, 2010) and has been used in a variety of disciplines, including historical ecology, to determine changes in plant populations, soil erosion, climate trends and ecological processes to name a few. Historical photographs often provide greater temporal range to an analysis compared to, for example, satellite imagery and in many cases even aerial photography (Gruell, 2010).
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Caraffa, Costanza. "The photo archive as laboratory. Art history, photography, and materiality." Art Libraries Journal 44, no. 1 (January 2019): 37–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/alj.2018.39.
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Librarians, archivists, and curators today meet unique challenges when facing huge numbers of photographs accumulated in their institutions. Coming to terms with these masses in a responsible way means to reflect on cataloguing and digitization standards able to record their (material) complexity. It also means to constantly justify a series of investments: in cataloguing and digitization projects, but also in storage space, restoration, archival and conservation materials, not to speak of human resources. It means, ultimately, to reflect on the systems of value that one decides to apply while dealing with these holdings: the dematerialization rhetoric that often goes hand-in-hand with digitization campaigns tends to increase their fragility, on the other side we are confronted more and more often with the ‘contemporary repackaging of erstwhile ephemeral and disposable photographic prints' that acquire a new ‘archival value’.1 In this short essay I will focus on these systems of value. My aim is to offer some methodological tools to deal with documentary photographs in art historical institutions. These instruments derive from the intersection of photographic and archival theories and practices that shaped my experience as Head of the Photothek at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max Planck Institute, for more than a decade.
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Hamburger, Susan. "SEPIADES; Cataloging Photographic Collections." Library Collections, Acquisitions, & Technical Services 29, no. 2 (June 2005): 232–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14649055.2005.10766061.
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Graham, Margaret E. "The cataloguing and indexing of images: time for a new paradigm?" Art Libraries Journal 26, no. 1 (2001): 22–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307472200012001.
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Funding opportunities and digitisation initiatives offer libraries, galleries and museums the potential to exploit their image collections – photographs, slides, drawings, pictures and works of art – in new and exciting ways. Many different organisations are involved in developing standards for the formal description of images (e.g. artist, title, photographer) and some effort is being made to develop compatible standards for the digital environment. Indexing of images can be a difficult task because images are rich in information and may be used by widely different groups of users, who may not always express their information needs adequately. Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) technology, which allows the retrieval of images based on similarity to a query image, has enormous potential, particularly if it can be combined with text-based indexing.
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Dooley, Jackie M. "Processing and Cataloging of Archival Photograph Collections." Visual Resources 11, no. 1 (January 1995): 85–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01973762.1995.9658320.
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Dodds, Douglas, and Ella Ravilious. "The Factory Project: digitisation at the Victoria and Albert Museum." Art Libraries Journal 34, no. 2 (2009): 10–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307472200015820.
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The Victoria and Albert Museum’s Word and Image Department holds an estimated 750,000 prints, drawings, paintings and photographs. Recent acquisitions have been catalogued using the Museum’s Collections Information System, but the vast majority of earlier acquisitions are still only described in a wide range of card indexes and printed catalogues. The indexes have been scanned, but the Museum now needs to complete the transfer of the catalogue records to its online system. The ‘Factory’ digitisation project was established in November 2007, with the intention of digitising the Department’s entire holdings and making them available online. Some 15,000 objects have been photographed in the first year, and cataloguing is also under way. The digital images and catalogue descriptions will be made available online via the Museum’s website as the project proceeds.
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Falconer, John. "Organization, cataloguing and storage of photographic materials." African Research & Documentation 68 (1995): 92–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305862x00021737.
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I ought at the outset of this paper to offer two disclaimers. The first relates to my presence at a conference specifically devoted to African subjects, since my present work with the India Office Library collections brings me into very little contact with material from that continent. The second is that while the question of storage of photographs has important conservation implications, I make no claims to either qualifications or indeed expertise in this field. As regards the first point, I can claim some past acquaintance with African photographs, but would also say that for the purposes of discussing general questions of cataloguing and storage the problems are, broadly speaking, similar for all historical photographs. As to storage and conservation, such decisions as are made in this area are inevitably connected to more general cataloguing questions and I will therefore do no more than raise a few broad points in this regard.
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Miller, Isabel. "Some Iranian and Afghan Portraits in the Public Record Office." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 8, no. 3 (November 1998): 341–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1356186300010476.
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For several years now the Lafayette Project has been compiling a data base of portrait photographs from the Copy I collection at the Public Record Office, Kew (PRO). The Lafayette Project was founded to further the cataloguing of historic photographs and funding by the Elm Trust has enabled the project to set new standards for the documentation of historic photographs based on careful analysis of an image and its contents as a historical source. The data base is a means not only of investigating portraits but also a starting point for entering into the wider scope of the collection to pursue historical research.
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Fuentes-Soriano, Sara, Lara Prihodko, Mitchell Manford, and Zachary Rogers. "Shining a New Light on Elmer Ottis Wooton’s Legacy Herbarium and Historical Archive: an Exercise to Increase Student Participation while Promoting Public Engagement." Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 2 (June 13, 2018): e25783. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/biss.2.25783.
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Elmer Ottis Wooton (1865–1945) was one of the most important early botanists to work in the Southwestern United States, contributing a great deal of natural history knowledge and botanical research on the flora of New Mexico that shaped many naturalists and scientists for generations. The extensive Wooton legacy includes herbarium collections that he and his famous student Paul Carpenter Standley (1884–1963), prolific botanist and explorer, used for the first Flora of New Mexico by Wooten and Standley 1915 , along with resources covering botany and range management strategies for the northern Chihuahuan Desert, and an extensive, yet to be digitized, historical archive of correspondence, field notes, vegetation sketches, photographs, and lantern slides, all from his travels and field work in the region. Starting in 1890, the most complete set of Wooton’s herbarium collections were deposited in the NMC herbarium at New Mexico State University (NMSU), and his archives, now stored in a Campus library, have together been underutilized, offline resources. The goals of this ongoing project are to secure, preserve, and promote Wooton’s important historical resources, by fleshing out the botanical history of the region, raising appreciation of herbarium collections within the community, and emphasizing their unique role in facilitating contemporary research aimed at addressing pressing scientific questions such as vegetation responses to global climate change. Students and the general public involved in this project are engaged through hands-on activities including cataloging, databasing and digitization of nearly 10,000 herbarium specimens and Wooton’s archives. These outputs, combined with contemporary data collection and computational biology techniques from an ecological perspective, are being used to document vegetation changes in iconic, climate-sensitive, high-elevation mountainous ecosystems present in southwestern New Mexico. In a later phase of the project, a variety of public audiences will participate through interactive online story maps and citizen science programs such as iNaturalist, Notes from Nature, and BioBlitz. Images of herbarium specimens will be shared via an online database and other relevant biodiversity portals (Symbiota, iDigBio, JStor) Community members reached through this project will be better-informed citizens, who may go on to become new stewards of natural history collections, with the potential to influence policies safeguarding the future of our planet’s biodiversity. More locally, the project will support the management of Organ Mountains Desert Peaks National Monument, which was established in 2014 to protect the area's human and environmental resources, and for which knowledge and data are currently limited.
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Tsukamoto, Yozo, Mie Hirota, Takashi Hiraoka, Akira Yoshida, and Miyako Tsurumi. "The Cataloging and Photographic Conservation of the Yamashina Institute for Ornithology Collection of Kenji Shimomura, Japan's Pioneer of Wildlife Photography." Journal of the Yamashina Institute for Ornithology 41, no. 2 (2010): 185–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.3312/jyio.41.185.
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Lee, Thomas E., and Madeline L. Walicek. "An Inexpensive Sample Cataloging and Retrieval Tool for Frozen Tissue Collections Using Powerpoint." Collection Forum 35, no. 1 (January 1, 2021): 48–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.14351/0831-4985-35.1.48.
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Abstract We present a method for the cataloging and retrieval of frozen tissue samples stored in a −80°C freezer via image databasing of the samples using server software (PowerPoint) and digital photography. This method is an inexpensive, computer-guided, rapid retrieval technique for visually locating frozen tissue samples in collections. This approach increases retrieval efficiency and reduces sample integrity risk.
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Tsukamoto, Yozo, Mie Hirota, Takashi Hiraoka, Akira Yoshida, and Miyako Tsurumi. "The Cataloging and Photographic Conservation of the Yamashina Institute for Ornithology Collection of Kenji Shimomura, Japan's Pioneer of Wildlife Photography (Supplement)." Journal of the Yamashina Institute for Ornithology 43, no. 2 (2012): 222–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.3312/jyio.43.222.
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Sharma, Rahul, and V. N. Kodagali. "SPHINCS: A system for cataloguing and interpreting seabed photographs of nodules." Marine Geology 92, no. 1-2 (April 1990): 139–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0025-3227(90)90032-f.
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Beaudoin, Alwynne B., and Jennifer Petrik. "The Benefits of a Photograph and Image Cataloguing Database for Research and Archival Purposes, Illustrated by an Example from Canadian Archaeology." Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals 3, no. 3 (September 2007): 211–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/155019060700300302.
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The practice of using photography, whether in digital, slide, or print form, is a fundamental method of documenting and preserving finds and information in archaeology and most other museum-related disciplines. Images play an important role in the communication and preservation of information and can be regarded as archival collections in their own right. However, in many situations it is difficult to store and search efficiently through this vital resource. With the advent of desktop databases and interconnectivity, images can be readily organized into a searchable database. This approach becomes especially useful when dealing with the huge numbers of photographs accumulated through large projects. The EPIC database is a good example of the solution to this problem. EPIC was created to deal with images generated through one research centre of a large archaeological project (SCAPE: Study of Cultural Adaptations in the Canadian Prairie Ecozone). Built around off-the-shelf software, EPIC allows users to view a small thumbnail of an image with associated information, and has been designed to facilitate multiple search pathways. It also has the ability to link to related Museum databases. EPIC has proved beneficial not only to the SCAPE research community, but also to others who have used the information generated through the project.
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Birkin, Jane. "Institutional Metadata and the Problem of Context." Digital Culture & Society 6, no. 2 (December 1, 2020): 17–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.14361/dcs-2020-0203.
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Abstract The traditional archive catalogue constitutes a form of structural and descriptive metadata that long precedes the internet; and the cataloguing of photographs is just one part of a process of archival administration. The application of keywords to images contrasts with archival prose description, which is based on the visual content of the image and is predominantly context-free; a remediation of the image itself. At the heart of this lies the notion that the single photograph is itself devoid of context; it is a discrete embodiment of shutter time and there is nothing certain either side of that. Thus, one can only speculate at its context, and institutional description techniques actively avoid such speculation. Yet context in the archive is ever-present and key to the function of images as objects of information and evidence. It is built through static relationships, through the situating of photographs in accordance with the concept of original order, and it is replicated through storage systems and hierarchical catalogue entries. Such orders, hierarchies and relationships are absent within sets of images that are brought together by keyword search, including through the websites of archival institutions that struggle to reconcile archival principles and identity with network culture. Images are transported to places where contextual information is at best difficult to access, especially for those unfamiliar with archival interfaces. In contrast to the controlled stasis of archival storage and interconnected recordkeeping systems, network storage is messy, unstable and poorly described. However, we must accept that context is not a prerequisite for many users, and for them the networking of archival images denotes a freedom; a democratisation of the archive. But in a media-driven society that is becoming more and more indifferent to the evidential value of documents of any kind, the context-free image is left predisposed to exploitation.
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Fabra Antón, Dolors. "La conformación de la Colección de Fotografía del Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao." Imafronte, no. 26 (January 16, 2020): 221–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.6018/imafronte.376501.
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El presente artículo se basa en las conclusiones de la Tesis doctoral La Colección de Fotografía del Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao (1914-2014): estudio, catalogación y análisis1. Más allá del estudio de los fondos fotográficos que custodia el Museo, la investigación plantea cuestiones adyacentes que aluden a la problemática de la conservación del Patrimonio fotográfico, como a las dificultades que tenido el medio en su introducción en las instituciones, especialmente en lo que atañe a los museos. Con ello se perfila con contexto en el que ubicar el papel que tuvo el Bilboko Arte Ederren Museoa=Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao en su principal etapa de conformación de la Colección de fotografía, desde 1980 hasta 1997. Por otro lado, se busca dar a conocer los fondos conservados en el Museo, como aportación a la cartografía del Patrimonio fotográfico español y a la problemática de su indefinición.
1Dirigida por José Manuel Susperregui y Concha Casajús, fue defendida en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid el 20 de febrero del 2019. Asimismo, la investigación tuvo como punto de partida la Beca BBK-Museo, que me fue concedida durante los años 2014 hasta 2016, con el fin de catalogar y hacer un primer estudio de la Colección de Fotografía del Bilboko Arte Ederren Museoa=Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao.
This article is based on the conclusions of the doctoral thesis The Photography Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts of Bilbao (1914-2014): study, cataloging and analysis1. Beyond the study of the photographic collections that the Museum keeps, the research raises adjacent issues that allude to the problematic of the conservation of the photographic heritage, as well as the difficulties that the medium had in its introduction in the institutions, especially as regards to the museums. With this, it is outlined with context in which to locate the paper that the Museum of Fine Arts of Bilbao in its main stage of conformation of the Photography Collection, from 1980 to 1997. On the other hand, it is sought to give to know the funds preserved in the Museum, as a contribution to the cartography of the Spanish photographic heritage and the problems of its lack of definition.
1Directed by José Manuel Susperregui and Concha Casajús, it was defended at the Complutense University of Madrid on February 20, 2019. Likewise, the research had as its starting point the BBK-Museum Scholarship, which was granted to me during the years 2014 to 2016, in order to catalog and make a first study of the Photography Collection of the Bilboko Arte Ederren Museoa = Museum of Fine Arts of Bilbao.
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Vasconcellos, Bruna, and Sara Miriam Goldchmit. "Narrativas visuais fotográficas na revista National Geographic Brasil: um estudo de caso | Visual Narratives in the magazine National Geographic Brazil: a case study." InfoDesign - Revista Brasileira de Design da Informação 16, no. 1 (May 31, 2019): 143–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.51358/id.v16i1.671.
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O objetivo deste artigo é apresentar como são construídas as narrativas visuais existentes na revista National Geographic. O trabalho apresenta um breve histórico da publicação, as metodologias usadas para compor as matérias, bem como o estudo de caso de uma reportagem específica. A pesquisa foi realizada através de pesquisa bibliográfica, levantamento em acervo para catalogação e consolidação documental das matérias brasileiras até então já publicadas, além de entrevistas com fotógrafo e designers envolvidos com a produção da National Geographic Brasil entre os anos 2001 e 2013. Verifica-se, nos resultados, a ênfase na narrativa fotográfica que preza pela excelência comunicativa, com rigor científico mas sem deixar de emocionar e envolver o leitor pela eloquência das imagens. ***** The main purpose of this article is to explore how the photographic visual narratives in the National Geographic Brazil Magazine are created. The work presents a brief history and background of the publication, the work protocols used to compose the articles, as well as the case study of a specific report. The research was carried out through bibliographic survey, archive research for cataloging the articles made in Brazil and published until then, as well as interviews with a photographer and designers, both involved with the magazine production between 2001 and 2013. It is recognized that there is an emphasis on the photographic narrative that values communicative excellence with scientific rigor, both in the magazine’s processes and in the case study, but without losing the ability to thrill and engage the reader through the eloquence of the images.
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Djorgovski, S. G., R. R. de Carvalho, R. R. Gal, M. A. Pahre, R. Scaramella, and G. Longo. "Cataloging of the Digitized Poss-II: Initial Scientific Results." Symposium - International Astronomical Union 179 (1998): 424–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0074180900129213.
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The Second Palomar Sky Survey (POSS-II) is now nearing completion. It will cover the entire northern sky with 894 fields (6.5° square) at 5° spacings, with no gaps in the coverage. Plates are taken in three bands: IIIa-J + GG395, λeff ∼ 480 nm; IIIa-F + RG610, λeff ∼ 650 nm; and IV-N + RG9, λeff ∼ 850 nm. Typical limiting magnitudes reached are BJ ∼ 22.5, RF ∼ 20.8, and IN ∼ 19.5, i.e., ∼ 1m −1.5m deeper than the POSS-I. The image quality is improved relative to the POSS-I, and is comparable to the southern photographic sky surveys. For more details, see Reid et al. (1987), and Reid & Djorgovski (1993).
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Harron, Tanya. "SharePoint picture library as a searchable photo database in a small library: a program description." Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association / Journal de l'Association des bibliothèques de la santé du Canada 36, no. 1 (April 1, 2015): 20. http://dx.doi.org/10.5596/c15-006.
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In the digital age, librarians are being consulted on unique projects that are outside of the traditional role of responding to information requests. This paper examines the role of a solo health librarian who was tasked with locating and creating a digital photo database for her organization’s small collection of digital photographs, clipart and logos. This paper discusses the selection of SharePoint picture library as the organization’s photo repository, the steps taken by the librarian to create the database, issues with cataloguing the collection, and pros and cons of the software
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Girgenti, G. M., and A. Alessio. "A 3D REWORKING OF THE URBAN TRANSFORMATIONS OF PALERMO IN RECENT HISTORY FOR A HYPOTHESIS OF A "CITY MUSEUM" BASED ON DIGITAL VISUALIZATIONS." ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences VIII-M-1-2021 (August 27, 2021): 81–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-viii-m-1-2021-81-2021.
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Abstract. The objective that drives this research is given by a multitude of information which, in addition to the contribution of technology, allows us to study, analyze, verify and remodel the sites, monuments and evolutions of the city through graphic processes of perspective restitution that start from the analysis of historical photos. The drawing methods, the digital graphic rendering and through the aid of geometric techniques, contribute to the reconstruction of projects and architectures that are now lost, this is possible thanks to the methods of perspective, axonometry and three-dimensional restitution.This remarkable photographic heritage belonging to Palermo, but also to any other city in the world that is sometimes not even considered in the least or that is even forgotten in archives today finds new life thanks to the perspective restitution. Shooting and photographic images following particular studies, allow us to precisely establish the observation points and the dimensions of architectures that have now disappeared, giving them new life through the transposition and reconstruction of the same within a “memory archive three-dimensional”.In order to describe the transformations of the city, both urban and architectural, we have taken as a case study an architecture that has now been lost in the city of Palermo: villa Rutelli. It was a neo-Gothic villa, built in the first twenty years of the twentieth century on the axis of Via Libertà and demolished in the 1960s along with other buildings of the Palermitan Liberty during the years of the infamous "sack of Palermo". Through the iconographic and archival research at the CRICD and the Bronzetti fund (photographer) and with the aid of research and cataloging studies, illustrative material emerged which was useful for reworking the particularities of the model through the perspective restitution.
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Hoggatt, Micah, James Capobianco, and Susan Pyzynski. "So Many Playbills, So Little Time: A Case Study in Fugitive Theatrical Material." RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage 15, no. 1 (March 1, 2014): 31–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/rbm.15.1.413.
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In 1936, not so far removed from the advent of theatre librarianship, George Freedley wrote that “[f]or the director of a theatre collection the chief problem is to develop a technique for housing and cataloguing…fugitive material,” which he described as “a mass…of indefinite value, irregular size, and often not originally intended for permanent use.”1 Things haven’t changed much. Playbills, programs, sheet music, publicity photographs and like material continue to make up a large percentage of patron use at performing arts collections. The issues of irregular size, fragile condition, and quantity continue to make bibliographic control of them elusive. Multiple articles . . .
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Mayo, Hope, Erin L. Murphy, and David Remington. "The Harrison D. Horblit Collection of Early Photography: A Strategy for Research, Cataloging, Imaging, and Exhibition." Journal of the American Institute for Conservation 59, no. 3-4 (October 1, 2020): 286–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01971360.2020.1832404.
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Hamilton, Susan L. "The Roles of the University of Tennessee Gardens in a Public Horticulture Teaching Program." HortTechnology 9, no. 4 (January 1999): 552–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/horttech.9.4.552.
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The University of Tennessee's undergraduate and graduate public horticulture concentrations are new programs designed to prepare individuals for careers in public horticulture that emphasize people and their education and enjoyment of plants. These new programs could not exist without the educational resources of the university's gardens. The gardens play a variety of roles in supporting faculty, undergraduate, and graduate students in these programs. The gardens serve as an outdoor laboratory and classroom and provide on-campus opportunities for the following teaching and learning activities: plant identification; plant photography; garden design; plant use; garden maintenance internships; special problem topics (e.g., production of annual variety trials, planting and labeling trials, writing garden literature, and creating interpretive displays); mapping and cataloging plants; and garden writing. Only through a university-based garden could opportunities to engage students in such meaningful learning experiences occur providing them with the competitive edge for entering the public horticulture field.
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Becker, Stephanie. "The Snapshots of A. Thomas Nelson: A Case Study in the Preservation of Early 20th-century Vernacular Albums." Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals 14, no. 2 (June 2018): 171–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/155019061801400205.
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Throughout the early 20th century, A. Thomas Nelson took snapshots while traveling the United States and Canada. His wife, Catherine Nelson, made a selection of these and placed them within eight photographic albums, later acquired by the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York. Using one of these, “Snapshots from Travels in the United States and Canada (1904–1940),” as a case study, this article explores preservation practices for early 20th-century vernacular albums. While such albums are a valuable part of any collection, they present many complex preservation challenges due to the variety of materials contained within a single object. Critical questions about cataloging, digitizing, and rehousing methods guide decisions on how to stabilize the album's fragile condition and allow for access. This case study offers insight for collection managers and archivists who find themselves caring for similar snapshot albums.
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Pondenkandath, Vinaychandran, Michele Alberti, Nicole Eichenberger, Rolf Ingold, and Marcus Liwicki. "Cross-Depicted Historical Motif Categorization and Retrieval with Deep Learning." Journal of Imaging 6, no. 7 (July 15, 2020): 71. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jimaging6070071.
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In this paper, we tackle the problem of categorizing and identifying cross-depicted historical motifs using recent deep learning techniques, with aim of developing a content-based image retrieval system. As cross-depiction, we understand the problem that the same object can be represented (depicted) in various ways. The objects of interest in this research are watermarks, which are crucial for dating manuscripts. For watermarks, cross-depiction arises due to two reasons: (i) there are many similar representations of the same motif, and (ii) there are several ways of capturing the watermarks, i.e., as the watermarks are not visible on a scan or photograph, the watermarks are typically retrieved via hand tracing, rubbing, or special photographic techniques. This leads to different representations of the same (or similar) objects, making it hard for pattern recognition methods to recognize the watermarks. While this is a simple problem for human experts, computer vision techniques have problems generalizing from the various depiction possibilities. In this paper, we present a study where we use deep neural networks for categorization of watermarks with varying levels of detail. The macro-averaged F1-score on an imbalanced 12 category classification task is 88.3 %, the multi-labelling performance (Jaccard Index) on a 622 label task is 79.5 %. To analyze the usefulness of an image-based system for assisting humanities scholars in cataloguing manuscripts, we also measure the performance of similarity matching on expert-crafted test sets of varying sizes (50 and 1000 watermark samples). A significant outcome is that all relevant results belonging to the same super-class are found by our system (Mean Average Precision of 100%), despite the cross-depicted nature of the motifs. This result has not been achieved in the literature so far.
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Dzyubanenko, A. A., and A. V. Rabin. "Method of the optical recognition of technical documentation and the transformation of graphic information into machine-readable form for cognitive analysis." Journal of Physics: Conference Series 2094, no. 3 (November 1, 2021): 032056. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2094/3/032056.
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Abstract The paper proposes the implementation of the method of optical recognition of technical documentation and the transformation of graphic information into a machine-readable form available for cognitive analysis, which is based on the methods of binarization and alignment of images, text segmentation and recognition. The use of the proposed method will provide a dramatic reduction in the costs of cataloging, checking the completeness and inventory of documentation, as well as an increase in design quality due to the semantic analysis of documentation using a knowledge base that is updated automatically. The article presents the development of the algorithm for optical recognition of a document, preparation of an image for optical recognition of a document, an example of the application of the Sauvola method for binarization of an image, and an analysis of the research results. The proposed implementation allows the text recognition on scanned/photographed documents.
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Nery, Mariana F., Mariana de A. Espécie, and Sheila M. Simão. "Site fidelity of Sotalia guianensis (Cetacea: Delphinidae) in Sepetiba Bay, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil." Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 25, no. 2 (June 2008): 182–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0101-81752008000200004.
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Estuarine dolphins, Sotalia guianensis (Van Bénéden, 1864), were identified in Sepetiba Bay (22º35'S, 44º03'W), state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, between February 1994 and July 2006 using the photo-identification method. A total of 72 surveys resulted in the identification and cataloguing of 217 individual dolphins. Seventy-nine (36%) were resighted at least once during the study period. The average interval between resightings was 40,6 ± 31,1 months. Large numbers of mother-and-calf pairs were recorded during the 12 years and new individuals were frequently encountered in the photographic records. These results suggest that part of the dolphin population is more consistently found in Sepetiba Bay, probably for feeding and reproduction, while other individuals use the Bay only sporadically.
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Gómez Blas, Nuria, Luis Fernando de Mingo López, Alberto Arteta Albert, and Javier Martínez Llamas. "Image Classification with Convolutional Neural Networks Using Gulf of Maine Humpback Whale Catalog." Electronics 9, no. 5 (April 29, 2020): 731. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/electronics9050731.
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While whale cataloging provides the opportunity to demonstrate the potential of bio preservation as sustainable development, it is essential to have automatic identification models. This paper presents a study and implementation of a convolutional neural network to identify and recognize humpback whale specimens by processing their tails patterns. This work collects datasets of composed images of whale tails, then trains a neural network by analyzing and pre-processing images with TensorFlow and Keras frameworks. This paper focuses on an identification problem, that is, since it is an identification challenge, each whale is a separate class and whales were photographed multiple times and one attempts to identify a whale class in the testing set. Other possible alternatives with lower cost are also introduced and are the subject of discussion in this paper. This paper reports about a network that is not necessarily the best one in terms of accuracy, but this work tries to minimize resources using an image downsampling and a small architecture, interesting for embedded system.
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Cardaci, A., A. Versaci, and P. Azzola. "3D LOW-COST ACQUISITION FOR THE KNOWLEDGE OF CULTURAL HERITAGE: THE CASE STUDY OF THE BUST OF SAN NICOLA DA TOLENTINO." ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XLII-2/W17 (November 29, 2019): 93–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-xlii-2-w17-93-2019.
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Abstract. The creation of three-dimensional models for the cataloguing and documentation of cultural heritage is today an emerging need in the cultural sphere and, above all, for museums. The cultural heritage is still catalogued and documented based on descriptive files assorted of photographic images which, however, fail to outline its spatial richness, possible only through the use of 3D artefacts. The essay aims to propose a methodology of digitalization by low-cost and easy-to-use systems, to be employed even by non-expert survey and photogrammetry’s operators. The case study of the statue of San Nicola da Tolentino, preserved at the Sant’Agostino complex in Bergamo, offered the possibility of a comparison between 3D models acquired with different digitalization tools (professional/action/amateur cameras and smartphone) and processed by several image-based 3D Reconstruction software and methods.
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Chua, Constance Ting, Adam D. Switzer, Anawat Suppasri, Linlin Li, Kwanchai Pakoksung, David Lallemant, Susanna F. Jenkins, et al. "Tsunami damage to ports: cataloguing damage to create fragility functions from the 2011 Tohoku event." Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 21, no. 6 (June 17, 2021): 1887–908. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-1887-2021.
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Abstract. Modern tsunami events have highlighted the vulnerability of port structures to these high-impact but infrequent occurrences. However, port planning rarely includes adaptation measures to address tsunami hazards. The 2011 Tohoku tsunami presented us with an opportunity to characterise the vulnerability of port industries to tsunami impacts. Here, we provide a spatial assessment and photographic interpretation of freely available data sources. Approximately 5000 port structures were assessed for damage and stored in a database. Using the newly developed damage database, tsunami damage is quantified statistically for the first time, through the development of damage fragility functions for eight common port industries. In contrast to tsunami damage fragility functions produced for buildings from an existing damage database, our fragility functions showed higher prediction accuracies (up to 75 % accuracy). Pre-tsunami earthquake damage was also assessed in this study and was found to influence overall damage assessment. The damage database and fragility functions for port industries can inform structural improvements and mitigation plans for ports against future events.
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Pokorný, Vít. "Svět prken, která znamenají svět. O projektu Divadelního oddělení Národního muzea – Dokumentace současných divadelních budov." Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae – Historia 74, no. 1-2 (2022): 4–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.37520/amnph.2020.002.
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This paper presents an extensive research project carried out by the Theatre Department at the National Museum. This document, the Catalogue of Contemporary Theatre Buildings, maps out in detail the sites where theatre is performed in the Czech Republic today. It focuses not only on professional venues, but also registers other, often unconventional, places where theatre thrives, such as churches, public spaces, cultural centres, private apartments, gymnasia, cinemas, shopping centres, etc. In the first section, the outline of the project is presented, starting from the initial idea through to the people involved and technical support for its implementation, to a description of how the obtained material was processed into a comprehensive and clear archival collection. In the second part, the study focuses on some valuable findings on contemporary theatre in the Czech Republic, obtained by the author during the cataloguing process. Using photographs, textual materials, video footage and interviews with employees of the documented institutions, the project aims to find answers to general questions of a social nature: How does neatness or untidiness indicate a citizen‘s relationship to the place in which they live? How do people understand the terms ‘community centre’ and ‘public service’?
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Calisi, D., and M. Molinari. "TOWARDS A DIGITAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL ARCHIVE: THE CASE STUDY OF THE ARTEFACTS OF THE AREA OF FORI IMPERIALI." ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XLII-2/W9 (January 31, 2019): 189–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-xlii-2-w9-189-2019.
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<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> The following research aims to exploit the low-cost technologies, for the survey and mapping of historical archaeology in the Roman context. The main purposes of the research is to implement a large-scale survey campaign to understand the geometry and the materiality of the artefacts examined. Three-dimensional survey from photography, allows an immediate mapping of the materiality, of the degradation and of the architectural elements characteristic of the architecture in question. From the model it is possible to obtain an image that is faithful to the reality that can be the basis for developments in many disciplines such as, for example, in the restoration project, for the material analysis and the mapping of the degradation. The applications for this type of mapping are numerous, one of those proposed in this research concerns the virtual musealisation of historical artifacts. More and more in recent years, museums are exploiting the capabilities of three-dimensional modeling software of architectural elements to interactively convey architectural elements. A methodology of work that in recent archaeological excavations is not based solely on the didactic divulgation of the history of a place, but during the excavation phase on the mapping and cataloging of uncovered finds.</p>
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Silva, Luciano De Souza, Moysés M. de Siqueira Neto, Thaise G. Rodrigues, Carina Peixoto, and Gildo Júnior Dos Santos. "COLEÇÃO NÁSSARO NASSER: A Cerâmica Decorada no Acervo Arqueológico do Museu Câmara Cascudo, UFRN." CLIO Arqueológica 33, no. 3 (February 1, 2019): 118. http://dx.doi.org/10.20891/clio.v33n3p118-135.
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Esse trabalho apresenta as características e a variabilidade decorativa da cerâmica arqueológica pertencente à Coleção Nássaro Nasser. A coleção foi formada a partir da atividade científica do arqueólogo Nássaro de Souza Násser, no Instituto de Antropologia, atualmente Museu Câmara Cascudo/UFRN, em parceria com o Smithsonian Institution e o Programa Nacional de Pesquisas Arqueológicas/PRONAPA, nas décadas de 1960 e 1970. Para isso, foram realizadas revisão bibliográfica; arrolamento do material cerâmico; formulação de fichas para coletas de informações; registro fotográfico; análise do material; catalogação das informações utilizando fichas; e identificação da decoração de cada recipiente e fragmento cerâmico com decalque virtual das superfícies internas e externas por meio de fotografias. NÁSSARO NASSER COLLECTION: The Decorated Pottery of the Collection of Archeology of the Câmara Cascudo Museum, UFRN ABSTRACTThis work presents the characteristics and the decorative variability of the archaeological pottery belonging to the Nássaro Nasser Collection. The collection was formed from the scientific activity of the archaeologist Nássaro de Souza Násser, at the Instituto de Antropologia (Institute of Anthropology), currently the Museu Câmara Câmara Cascudo / UFRN, in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution and the Programa Nacional de Pesquisas Arqueológicas/PRONAPA (National Archaeological Research Program) in the 1960s and 1970s. For this, were performed a bibliographic review; list of the pottery material; formulation of records to collect information; photographic register; material analysis; cataloging information using records; and identification of the decoration of each pottery and pottery fragment with virtual decal of the internal and external surfaces using photographs.Keywords: Archeology; Collection; Pottery and Decoration
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Crawford, Cody, Cindy Opitz, and Trina Roberts. "Revitalization of the University of Iowa's Bird Egg Collection after 100 Years of Dormancy." Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 2 (June 13, 2018): e26529. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/biss.2.26529.
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The University of Iowa Museum of Natural History's egg collection spans many avian orders, 6 continents, and over 160 years. However, this collection of approximately 17,000 egg specimens has remained disorganized and underutilized for most of its history. Only in 2017 did the museum begin taking significant steps toward organizing the eggs, cataloging them, and making them and their data available for researchers. Like many museum egg collections, ours is composed mostly of donated private collections originally collected, purchased, or traded between 1870 and 1910, and with variable amounts of data associated with individual specimens. Since the time the eggs were collected, most of them have been separated from the cards on which collectors stored their data. Much of the current project revolves around reuniting eggs and data cards. We have scanned over 2,000 egg cards, crowdsourced transcriptions of the handwriting, verified the accuracy of each transcription, and added the scans and transcriptions to our database for easy access by museum staff and volunteers. We are using the egg cards, any data written on the eggs, and many books and websites to match eggs with egg cards and integrate the data into our database. The eggs are then placed in new cabinets and relabelled with newly generated database information. Each egg set will be photographed and georeferenced if possible, using the GEOLocate web application. At the end of this project, these specimen records will be integrated into biodiversity repositories such as GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility), Integrated Digitized Biocollections (iDigBio), and VertNet, so they can be downloaded and used by researchers globally, as our bird, mammal and insect collections already are. Most of the work is carried out by a team of volunteers and interns, usually undergraduate students, without whom this project would not be possible at its current pace.
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Mulcahy, Daniel G., Justin L. Lee, Aryeh H. Miller, Mia Chand, Myint Kyaw Thura, and George R. Zug. "Filling the BINs of life: Report of an amphibian and reptile survey of the Tanintharyi (Tenasserim) Region of Myanmar, with DNA barcode data." ZooKeys 757 (May 10, 2018): 85–152. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.757.24453.
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Despite threats of species extinctions, taxonomic crises, and technological advances in genomics and natural history database informatics, we are still distant from cataloguing all of the species of life on earth. Amphibians and reptiles are no exceptions; in fact new species are described nearly every day and many species face possible extinction. The number of described species continues to climb as new areas of the world are explored and as species complexes are examined more thoroughly. The use of DNA barcoding provides a mechanism for rapidly estimating the number of species at a given site and has the potential to record all of the species of life on Earth. Though DNA barcoding has its caveats, it can be useful to estimate the number of species in a more systematic and efficient manner, to be followed in combination with more traditional, morphology-based identifications and species descriptions. Herein, we report the results of a voucher-based herpetological expedition to the Tanintharyi (Tenasserim) Region of Myanmar, enhanced with DNA barcode data. Our main surveys took place in the currently proposed Tanintharyi National Park. We combine our results with photographs and observational data from the Chaung-nauk-pyan forest reserve. Additionally, we provide the first checklist of amphibians and reptiles of the region, with species based on the literature and museum. Amphibians, anurans in particular, are one of the most poorly known groups of vertebrates in terms of taxonomy and the number of known species, particularly in Southeast Asia. Our rapid-assessment program combined with DNA barcoding and use of Barcode Index Numbers (BINs) of voucher specimens reveals the depth of taxonomic diversity in the southern Tanintharyi herpetofauna even though only a third of the potential amphibians and reptiles were seen. A total of 51 putative species (one caecilian, 25 frogs, 13 lizards, 10 snakes, and two turtles) were detected, several of which represent potentially undescribed species. Several of these species were detected by DNA barcode data alone. Furthermore, five species were recorded for the first time in Myanmar, two amphibians (Ichthyophiscf.kohtaoensis andChalcoranaeschatia) and three snakes (Ahaetullamycterizans,Boigadendrophila, andBoigadrapiezii).
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Byrd, Christina. "Bringing Sternberg Museum Fossils into the 21st Century." Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 2 (June 13, 2018): e25931. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/biss.2.25931.
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The Sternberg Museum of Natural History (FHSM) has a rich paleontology history extending back to the late 1800s and early 1900s. From the 1902 to 1992, the museum was housed on the Fort Hays State University campus. FHSM outgrew the campus capacity and moved to a new location that afforded the museum significant space for collections and exhibits. Just as the museum had to change locations with its growing collections, so too must the means of care for the collections change and be updated. In order to improve the state of the paleontology collections and make them more accessible, the FHSM’s Chief Curator pursued grants to achieve these goals. Two grants later, FHSM is well on its way to a digitized paleontology collection. One National Science Foundation (NSF) grant focuses on basic collections improvement: transcription of hand-written records, cataloging the specimen backlog, and imaging specimens. One of the most important updates is the addition of the relational database, CollectiveAccess. This database enables FHSM to have a public-facing, searchable database that can show not only specimen data but also images and 3D scans of fossils. The second grant is an NSF funded Integrated Digitized Biocollection (iDigBio) collaborative research project. This grant focuses on fossils collected from the Late Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway fossils. The digitization goals of the collections improvement grant work synergistically with the iDigBio grant. When preparing to start work on these two projects, workflows and how-to guides were developed to fit the needs of both grants. This synergy increased efficiency for training student workers and aided quality control. In regards to the new relational database, many considerations had to be made: what is the nature of the data, with whom are we sharing data, what are the data standards, what controls need to be in place to increase ease of use. Digitization of the collection started with transcription of hand-written records into a spreadsheet. The data from those record books and ledgers was cross referenced with the specimen cards to check for accuracy. Between the two grants, FHSM has two photography stations, four undergraduate students, and two graduate students. This small army of students, along with the Collections Manager, have succeeded in digitizing the invertebrate paleontology collection and have made significant progress on the vertebrate collection. Once the database is finalized, the images produced by these students will be uploaded and shared with aggregators such as iDigBio and accessible via the FHSM website.
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NARBUTIENĖ, DAIVA. "RETŲ SPAUDINIŲ KOMPLEKTAVIMAS LIETUVOS MOKSLŲ AKADEMIJOS VRUBLEVSKIŲ BIBLIOTEKOJE: PROBLEMOS, TRADICIJOS, PERSPEKTYVOS." Knygotyra 56 (January 1, 2011): 112–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/kn.v56i0.1509.
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Lietuvos mokslų akademijos Vrublevskių bibliotekaŽygimantų g. 1/8, LT-01102 Vilnius, LietuvaEl. paštas: narbutiene@mab.ltLietuvos mokslų akademijos Vrublevskių bibliotekos Retų spaudinių skyrius turi senas fondų komplektavimo tradicijas, syjančias su 1912 m. pradėjusia veikti Vilniaus advokato, bibliofilo Tado Vrublevskio (1858–1925) įkurtos bibliotekos formavimo raida. Specialusis raritetus komplektuojantis ir saugantis skyrius buvo įsteigtas 1957 m., sujungus tris – Senų, retų knygų, Meno leidinių ir Kartografijos leidinių – sektorius. Tai lėmė tolesnio dokumentų komplektavimo atrankos specifiką: čia saugomi ne tik seni ir reti spaudiniai, bet ir nauji meno bei kartografijos leidiniai. Lietuvos mokslų akademijos Vrublevskių bibliotekos Retų spaudinių skyriuje yra apie 400 tūkst. įvairaus pobūdžio dokumentų: knygų, periodinių leidinių, kartografinių spaudinių, meno albumų, raižinių, fotografijų, smulkiosios spaudos, mikrofilmų. Ši medžiaga sudaro atskirai suformuotus skyriaus fondus – rinkinius ir kolekcijas. Straipsnyje analizuojama, kaip Retų spaudinių skyriaus fondų turinys atitinka sąvokas „retas“ (raritetas) ir „cimelija“. Siekiama apibūdinti Retų spaudinių skyriaus komplektavimo turinį bei čia saugomų dokumentų atrankos specifiką. Taip pat norima prisiminti skyriaus fondų formavimo tradicijas ir nuspėti perspektyvas, leisiančias geriau ir racionaliau kaupti bei tvarkyti Retų spaudinių skyriaus dokumentus. Pagrindinis šaltinis – Retų spaudinių skyriaus darbo instrukcijos ir nuostatai.THE ACQUISITION OF RARE PUBLICATIONS IN THE WROBLEWSKI LIBRARY OF THE LITHUANIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: PROBLEMS, TRADITIONS, PERSPECTIVESDAIVA NARBUTIENĖ AbstractThe acquisition of rare publications has always been a challenge due to several factors. The first and foremost of them is the very concept of a rare publication, an issue that has been causing theoretical disputes for more than a decade. Another factor that influences the formation of special collections is the historical development of a specific library, shaped by the methods of obtaining documents. The structure of a library – the formation of its subdivisions – is also of importance. In addition to the above objective factors, there are also subjective aspects of work organization, such as the intellect and experience of the staff.Upon the merging of the sectors of Old and Rare Books, of Art and of Cartography, the Department of Old, Rare and Cartography Publications was founded in 1957. The character of the merged sectors was the main factor that determined the nature of the acquired documents, which has remained almost unchanged until today. In 1991, this department was divided into two: the departments of Old Periodicals and Rare Publications.The aim of this article is to characterize the acquisition strategy and the specifics of document selection in the Rare Book Department. Another objective is to overview the traditions of the formation of the department holdings and to outline the perspectives of a more effective keeping and cataloguing of documents. The main source is the Rules and Instructions for the work of the Rare Book Department.At present, the department operates on the basis of the Acquisition Instruction confirmed in 1996. The main principles of rare book acquisition are the following: age (pre-1801 publications), rarity (bibliographic rarities), value, uniqueness (exceptional documents whose preservation requires special conditions). The documents from the holdings of the Rare Book Department in the WLLAS electronic catalogue are labeled CIM (the abbreviation of “cimelia”, the word derived from the Greek κειμήλιον and meaning “treasure”).The Rare Book Department holds more than 200 thousand documents of various nature: books, cartography publications, art albums, engravings, photographs, small documents, microfilms. These materials are grouped into separately formed collections.Lately, the problem of the acquisition of newer documents (books, art albums, exhibition catalogues, accidental (small) documents) has become much more urgent. In our opinion, the Rare Book Department should accord more attention to printed heritage the concept of which is inseparable from a certain period in history.
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Potyl’chak, Oleksandr, and Vladyslav Herasymenko. "PRAGUE GROSCHEN IN THE RESEARCH OF CZECH NUMISMATICS." Ukrainian Numismatic Annual, no. 5 (December 30, 2021): 281–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.31470/2616-6275-2021-5-281-298.
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The aim of the article is a comprehensive analysis of the formation, development and current state of research in Czech numismatics of the XIX - early XXI centuries in the context of coinage, penetration and use of Prague groschen as a means of payment in Central and Eastern Europe in the late Middle Ages and early modern times. The research methodology is outlined by the principles of scientificity, historicism, objectivity, and the main methods used in the study were historiographic analysis and historiographic synthesis, as well as general scientific methods of generalization and systematization. The scientific novelty is determined by the attempt to comprehensively analyze and generalize the historiographical achievements of Czech numismatics in the context of the problem of the participation of Prague money in the circulation of Central and Eastern Europe in the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries. The process of formation, development and current state of Czech and Slovak numismatics in the study of chronology and geography of Grossi pragenses penetration into the coin markets of Central and Eastern Europe in the XIV-XV centuries are considered. The authors have singled out periodization of the historiographical process of numismatic research of the outlined problem is formulated and substantiated, the range of issues that need further study and scientific interpretation. Conclusions. The analysis of the historiographical work outlined in the topic of the article allows distinguishing three consecutive periods of numismatic research on the issue of minting and circulation of Prague groschen. The first period of Czech and Slovak historiography of the problem covers the 80's of the XIX - 30's of the XX century. Beginning with sporadic attempts to describe and register the known types of Prague groschen minted by Czech kings from Wenceslas II (1278-1305) to Ferdinand I (1526-1562). At the beginning of the twentieth century, these studies grew into purposeful scientific cataloguing, study, and systematization of metrological indicators of coins, details of their images, legends, and countermarks. Special studies of the preconditions for the preparation and conduct of the monetary reform of Wenceslas II, the rate of coins minted by him, and the peculiarities of the issuance policy of this monarch were begun. At the same time, a description of the stamp versions of Vladislav II's money (1471-1516) was initiated. However, the technical imperfection of the equipment for visual inspection and photo-fixation of numismatic material at that time often caused incomplete or inaccurate data. The second period of numismatic research on our topic covered the 1950s - early 1990s. At this time there is not only an expansion of the study of the history of minting and circulation of Prague groschen but also qualitative changes in the methodology of numismatic research. The stamp varieties and chronology of the issue of Prague groschen, including those minted during the reigns of John of Luxembourg, Wenceslas IV and Charles IV, Wladyslaw II, and Louis I, have been studied. Scholars described and analyzed countermarks (overprinting) on coins, drew attention to the historical and art analysis of the iconography of Prague groschen; the quality of coinage. The third, modern period of development of Czech and Slovak numismatic studies on the history of minting and circulation of Prague groschen began in the first half of the 1990s. This historiographical period differs from the previous ones primarily by the intensive replenishment of the database of numismatic sources on the topic. On the other hand, the study of coinage and circulation of Prague groschen from purely historical or numismatic grow into interdisciplinary, increasingly numismatists, to search or confirm data, use not only relevant methods of numismatics (methods of stamping and comparative analysis, topography of treasures and individual coins). allocation of periods of money circulation, methods of analysis of the composition of coin treasures), complex methods of special historical disciplines, but also modern non-destructive methods of natural sciences (Physico-chemical analysis of coin metal, spectral research, etc.). Technical perfection of modern devices used by scientists for visual inspection and macro photography of coins facilitates complete research. The current stage of research of Czech numismatists in the field of our problem is characterized by a combination of research efforts in the study of some theoretical and applied issues of minting and circulation of Prague groschen. In particular, data on recently discovered treasures of Prague groschen are published, the history of their minting in the archaic period (1300-1385) is studied, and little-known and previously unknown variants of stamps of these coins are studied. The new source base describes the technological and typological features of numerous coinage varieties of Prague groschen of Wenceslas IV (1378-1419) and Ferdinand I (1526-1562), coins are arranged in detail by type and catalogued. A separate area of numismatic research became the issue of counterfeiting Prague groschen.
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Ewbank, Lynn. "Stage One Digitization Project Report: Part I." Microform & Imaging Review 29, no. 1 (January 2000). http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/mfir.2000.15.
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When Dr. John L. Ferguson, director of the Arkansas History Commission, met with the archivists in late February, 1999, to ask if we had any ideas for an Arkansas Natural and Cultural Resources Council (ANCRC) grant project, hope sprang anew in my heart. The previous September the Arkansas State Library had sponsored my attendance at “Planning for Digitization.” Held at the Denver Public Library by the Western Council of Libraries, this workshop showcased digital possibilities through examining digital technology, existing digital projects and funding sources. Most impressive were the tours of the Denver Public Library's (DPL) Western History Project. Sitting at a computer workstation, I was able to search for photographs, then view high resolution digital images captured from original prints and negatives by the library's digital lab (also included as part of the tour). Best of all, I could view corresponding MARC records created by researchers headed by a photograph cataloging specialist.