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Sepko, Delaina. "Curating music curation." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2015. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/6357/.
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National cultural heritage institutions are charged with representative preservation of their countries’ cultural materials and the ways their staff undertake preservation activities impact to whom and how these materials are representative. Music is hailed as an integral part of a nation’s cultural heritage, but while aspects of its preservation are individually understood, their combined treatment in cultural institutions — music curation — and its ability to alter concepts of national identity are not. Consequently, we must ask how does music curation influence notions of national identity? By answering this question, this thesis seeks to contribute to our understanding of the ways that national cultural heritage institutions shape and promote a sense of national community. Since its beginning in 1800, the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. has adopted several roles: a congressional resource; a copyright repository; a research centre; a hub for and leader in the library community; and cultural heritage institution. These combine to make the Library of Congress the de facto national library of the United States. However, these roles are not inherently congruent and in some instances undermine each other. Additionally, music has not always been easily integrated into its mission and its collections. Functioning as a national library, the Library of Congress potentially performs significant roles in the preservation and presentation of music, activities that make it an appropriate case study for investigating how music curation affects notions of national identity. Therefore, this work is structured in the following way: first, it offers an historical overview of the Library of Congress’ three music related departments — the Music Division, the American Folklife Center and the Recorded Sound component of the Motion Picture, Broadcast and Recorded Sound Division — to illuminate political, cultural and aesthetic forces that shaped their developments and their approaches to music curation. Second, it presents Howard Becker’s art world as the analytical framework by which this thesis critically engages narrative and identity theories. Third, employing the Library of Congress as a case study, it then investigates eight music curation narratives and juxtaposes them against its image as a cultural heritage institution. Narratives, gathered during semi-structured interviews and presented as interpretive stories, provide a focused insight into the tensions between staff and institution as well as institution and projected notions of national identity. In the context of music curation, this thesis’ conclusions illustrate a gap between the Library of Congress’ iconic image and its actual image, one that is perpetuated by its focus on research.
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Vier, Riley Todd. "Machines of curation." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2018. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6322.
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Machines of Curation is an attempt to confront the ever-growing landscape of technology I observe and live inside of daily. This work is specifically concerned with my interest in how we interact with and alter our surrounding environments through technology. The constant tether we have to our devices is becoming more reminiscent of a parasite and host, rather than of a device and user. It informs how we are to look at things, speak with those we love, pay for things, and receive news; just to name a few. I seek to co-opt these methods to urge the viewer to ask their own questions and make their own decisions on how they feel technology is shaping them in ways they may be unaware of. Graphic design holds a unique vernacular to our digital universe as one of the primary mediums that helps organize and create it. The overall goal of this work is that a consistent irony can be established through the work that helps the viewer experiencing it question their views of technology.
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O'Neill, Rebecca. "The rise of the citizen curator : participation as curation on the web." Thesis, University of Hull, 2017. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:16449.
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From jazz clubs to cheese plates, the term curation has become a signifier of the growing need to organise and prioritise the seemingly endless possibilities of the digital sphere. The issue addressed here is in the associated meanings of the word curation and what it means to be a curator by examining the experience of the curatorial within a discrete context: the Irish curatorial landscape. The word curation comes from the Latin curare, to care for, and has long been associated with the professional duties of those selected as custodians for objects and knowledge deemed to be important to communities, nations, countries or even the world. However, as objects move from being purely physical to the digital, and knowledge changes from being transmitted through similarly physical media to digital formats that can be set free on the Web, what it means to curate has also changed. Curators are no longer necessarily identified as employed within museums or galleries; the word is now also applied to those who engage with and aid in the management and presentation of digital assets online. Curators have emerged in the online space much like their forerunners, bloggers or citizen journalists. We are now seeing the rise of citizen curators on the Web, which has not created these individually motivated curators, but has made their curatorial activities visible. Citizen journalists no longer need to have a printing press or publishing house to communicate with their audience; similarly, citizen curators do not need a private cabinet of curiosities or a job in a museum to allow them to curate or exhibit to an audience. The aims of this research are threefold: to examine the current terminology related to curation by those who identify as curators or engage in curation in Ireland; to define what it means to be a curator or a citizen curator within the Irish context; and to investigate the changing nature of exhibition spaces contained in the Irish context in light of the Web and digital spaces. The study will take the form of an autoethnography, exploiting my unique position within the museum and open knowledge community in Ireland to examine current understandings of curation and the phenomenon of the citizen curator. The focus will be on my work within Wikimedia Community Ireland (WCI), a branch of the Wikimedia Foundation which promotes the use of Wikipedia in Ireland in education, culture, and open knowledge. As an autoethnographer, I can act as an intermediary, part way between those working in cultural organisations and the public involved in knowledge building projects. The study will look at how those engaged in curation articulate the work they do by means of interviews and participant observation. These sources will allow for the development of a spectrum of curatorial practice. The spectrum will arise from the participants’ (both citizen curators and those working in Irish cultural institutions) own understanding and definitions of curation and what it means to curate. In placing these definitions of curation within a spectrum that takes in broader understandings of curatorial practice, the newer forms of digital curation, and a picture of how the citizen curator relates to these methods, will emerge. The disruptive effect which the digital, and in particular the concept of the Long Tail, has brought to bear upon understanding of the assembling, storing, and using of collections will be examined. It will answer many of the issues surrounding the discipline-specific definitions of curation and the curator while informing their relationship with each other. By drawing out curation into a spectrum, what unfolds is the movement of curation from a traditional and closed system of learnt practices, to one which is formed around more open and accessible conventions of curation. In identifying the citizen curator, their role in the larger curatorial debate can be acknowledged and better incorporated into the multitude of online curated projects. This hinges on the emergence of the Do It With Others ethos which pervades both online and offline creative communities, and it redefines curation from a solitary practice, to one which is demarcated by its participatory nature.
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Stiller, Juliane. "From curation to collaboration." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät I, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/16944.
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Die Digitalisierung von kulturellen Gütern und der darausfolgende Online-Zugang zu ihnen hat dazu geführt, dass Gedächtnisinstitutionen wie Museen, Bibliotheken und Archive, neue Instrumente für Nutzer bereitstellen können mit denen das kulturelle Erbe erlebbar gemacht werden kann. Diese Dissertation beschreibt Interaktionen in kulturellen Informationssystemen und verbindet diese mit Zugangsmöglichkeiten zu digitalen Materialien. Basierend auf Fallstudien und dem Ansatz, Theorien aus empirischen Daten zu gewinnen (Grounded Theory), wurde ein theoretischer Rahmen entwickelt, mit dem man Interaktionen beschreiben und analysieren kann. Dieser Bewertungsrahmen für Interaktionen bietet einen ganzheitlichen Ansatz um Interaktionen und deren Zusammenspiel mit dem Informationszugang zu bestimmen. Dieser Zusammenhang hilft Gedächtnisinstitutionen zu verstehen, wie Entscheidungen im Design ihrer Informationsarchitektur den Umgang von Nutzern mit den präsentierten digitalen Artefakten beeinflussen. Der theoretische Rahmen wurde anschließend herangezogen um 72 kulturelle Informationssysteme in einer Inhaltsanalyse eingehender zu studieren. Die Systeme wurden nach ihren Charakteristika in verschiedenen Gruppen - Museen, Bibliotheken, Archive, Aggregatoren, Kollektionen und Gemeinschaften - eingeordnet, zwischen welchen Unterschiede und Gemeinsamkeiten aufgedeckt wurden, die es erlauben Zugang und Interaktionen in jedem einzelnen System besser zu verstehen. Weiterhin wurde der theoretische Rahmen für eine tiefergehende Bewertung eines Systems aus jeder Gruppe genutzt um Empfehlungen für ein effektives Systemdesign zu erarbeiten. Dabei wurde besonderes Augenmerk auf den Einfluss von Interaktionen auf die verschiedenen Zugangsformen gelegt, mit dem Ziel, zweckgerichtete Interaktionen in Systemen anzubieten. Die Dissertation leistet einen wichtigen Beitrag um nachhaltige Interaktionen in Informationssystemen des kulturellen Bereiches zu verstehen, zu bewerten und zu implementieren.Through digitization of cultural heritage and online access to it, memory institutions such as museums, libraries and archives can provide new instruments for engaging users with cultural heritage. The thesis describes interactions in cultural heritage information systems and links them to access points of the digital material. Based on use cases and a grounded theory approach for data analysis, a framework for interactions was developed. This framework offers a holistic approach to understand interactions and their interplay with information access. The interrelatedness allows stakeholders in cultural heritage institutions to understand that each decision in the information design influences how users access and interact with digital material. The framework was then used in a content analysis of 72 cultural heritage systems that were clustered according to their characteristics. The outcomes reveal shortcomings and pinned down peculiarities between the groups Museums, Libraries, Archives, Aggregators, Collections and Communities. In a next step, the framework was applied as a tool for evaluation to help shape effective system design that guides the implementation of purposeful interactions. For that, one system per cultural heritage group was chosen as a use case for the evaluation. The results are recommendations for a more effective system design that acknowledges the impact of interactions on the access modes. This dissertation promotes a new perspective on interactions and derives strategies for effective system design.
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Pellissier-Tanon, Thomas. "Knowledge base curation using constraints." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Institut polytechnique de Paris, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020IPPAT025.
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Les bases de connaissances sont des ensembles de faits, souvent sur des sujets encyclopédiques.Elles sont souvent utilisées pour la reconnaissance d'entités nommées, la recherche structurée, la réponse automatique à des questions, etc. Ces bases de connaissances doivent être maintenues, ce qui est une tâche cruciale mais coûteuse. Le sujet de cette thèse est la maintenance automatique de bases de connaissances à l'aide de contraintes. La première contribution de cette thèse est à propos de la découverte automatique de contraintes. Elle améliore les approches classiques d'apprentissage de règles en utilisant des méta-informations de complétude des données. Elle montre que que ces informations permettent d'améliorer de manière significative la qualité des règles trouvées. La seconde contribution est la création d'une base de connaissance, YAGO 4, qui assure le respect d'une série de contraintes en supprimant les faits qui n'y correspondent pas. La troisième contribution est une méthode pour corriger automatiquement les violations de contraintes.Cette méthode utilise l'historique des modifications de la base de connaissance afin de proposer des corrections, ceci à partir de la manière avec laquelle les utilisateurs de la base de connaissance ont déjà corrigé des violations similairesKnowledge bases are huge collections of primarily encyclopedic facts.They are widely used in entity recognition, structured search, question answering, and other tasks.These knowledge bases have to be curated, and this is a crucial but costly task.In this thesis, we are concerned with curating knowledge bases automatically using constraints.Our first contribution aims at discovering constraints automatically. We improve standard rule mining approaches by using (in-)completeness meta-information. We show that this information can increase the quality of the learned rules significantly. Our second contribution is the creation of a knowledge base, YAGO 4, where we statically enforce a set of constraints by removing the facts that do not comply with them. Our last contribution is a method to correct constraint violations automatically.Our method uses the edit history of the knowledge base to see how users corrected violations in the past, in order to propose corrections for the present
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Sanghi, Gaurav Ashokkumar Kazic Toni Marie. "Automating database curation with workflow technology." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/6251.
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The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed February 12, 2010). Thesis advisor: Dr. Toni Kazic. Includes bibliographical references.
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Nehl, Marthe. "Urban Curation - An explorative study on understandings, roles and functions of curating practices in urban contexts." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22356.
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Curating practices appear in various fields as a common practice of immaterial labour today. To ‘curate’ is an active verb that suggests ‘doing’ something. Seldom if ever are the implications of curating critically discussed outside the arts, and this provides a reason for this thesis to investigate. What does ‘to curate’ mean, imply or suggest in the urban context? How are urban curatorial practices legitimized and where can they contribute to urban planning? Embedded in contemporary urban challenges and the “state of crisis” often referred to, this paper introduces curating as an emerging cultural practice into this field. A vital part of the discussion this thesis opens up, is where art can become part of urban planning. Noting that the relationship between arts and urban environments is ambivalent, since the arts’ symbolic power is recognized within international competition of cities, it is about the margin between the field of arts and urban development. By laying a groundwork of contemporary curatorial understandings in the arts, the paper gives an overview on the existing notions and practices of ‘urban curation’ and highlights that there are strong positions but no existing definition as such. A look into urban planning theory pinpoints the crucial role of economic growth and its implications for the organization of urban developments under the term neoliberalism, a condition in which festivals replace urban development policies and culture becomes a structuring element. The occurrence of projects as organizational structure dominates and challenges long term developments. This constitutes the framework in which the paper discusses three very different project examples from Hamburg, Liverpool and Vienna for closer analysis. Between preservation and management, arranging and staging curating can alternatively be understood as an epistemology producing new knowledge. By cross-referencing between the arts, where the critical discussion on curating is held, and urban planning and architecture, where curatorial practice is applied, the paper suggests strengthening the critical discourse on the relevance and use of cultural practices in urban studies.
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Higgins, Sarah. "Digital curation : contributions towards defining the discipline." Thesis, Aberystwyth University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2160/54e5dddc-4904-441e-9664-810474f25d78.
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This work defines and evaluates the original contributions to the discipline of digital curation that the author has made through ten years of her career for the purposes of gaining a PhD by Published Works. It presents ten published papers, three of which are co-authored, and a narrative concerning the contributions made by these. This narrative explains the professional and academic contexts in which the papers were authored and the impact they have made. The work describes the progressive contributions to both the professional and academic development of the discipline through: an historical analysis of its origins, analysis of the conceptual space it inhabits, theoretical modelling of this conceptual space to enable practical implementations, and the development of higher education curricula. The work reflects on the disciplinary significance of these contributions and suggests next-steps for the author’s research.
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Becker, Brian J. "Semantic Assistance for Data Utilization and Curation." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2013. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1686.
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We propose that most data stores for large organizations are ill-designed for the future, due to limited searchability of the databases. The study of the Semantic Web has been an emerging technology since first proposed by Berners-Lee. New vocabularies have emerged, such as FOAF, Dublin Core, and PROV-O ontologies. These vocabularies, combined, can relate people, places, things, and events. Technologies developed for the Semantic Web, namely the standardized vocabularies for expressing metadata, will make data easier to utilize. We gathered use cases for various data sources, from human resources to big enterprise. Most of our use cases reflect real-world data. We developed a software package for transforming data into these semantic vocabularies, and developed a method of querying via graphical constructs. The development and testing proved itself to be useful. We conclude that data can be preserved or revived through the use of the metadata techniques for the Semantic Web.
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Zhong, Changtao. "Social curation of content : measurements and models." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2017. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/social-curation-of-content(5509fd3d-bdfc-4f96-88b4-859b24cd33bf).html.
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Social curation is a new trend which has emerged following on the heels of the information glut created by user-generated content revolution. Rather than create new content, social curation allows users to categorise content created by others, and thereby creating and resharing their personal taxonomies of the Web. In this dissertation, we collect a large dataset from Pinterest, arguably the most popular image curation service, and seek to understand the trend on three levels: content, friends and crowds. We first take an empirical look at social curation by mining its content usage. Our data reveals that curation tends to focus on niche items that may not rank highly in popularity and search rankings. Yet, curated items exhibit their own skewed popularity, although most users, or curators, act for personal reasons. At the same time, it also shows that curators with consistent activity and diversity of interests show more social value in attracting followers. This drives us to explore the role of social networks on social curation. We find that social users are more active and are more likely to return soon in Pinterest, indicating a bonding effect enabled by social networks. Then we divide the social network into two subgraphs, according to whether they are created natively or copied from some other established social networks (e.g., Facebook) via a social bootstrapping method. It shows that, when users just join the service, copied network can promote more social interaction, as it initiates a stronger and denser social structure than native network. However, social networks are not critical for information seeking, as a non-trivial number of users’ content are curated from strangers with high interest matching. In fact, this trend also holds for social interaction: Users tend to wean from copied friends to interact more with interest-based native friends over a long-term view. Finally, we understand social curation as a distributed computation process, and examine the relationship between curators and crowds. We show that despite being categorised by individual actions, there is generally a global agreement in implicitly assigning content into a coarse-grained global taxonomy of categories, and furthermore, users tend to specialise in a handful of categories. By exploiting these characteristics, and augmenting with image-related features drawn from a state-of-the-art deep convolutional neural network, we develop a cascade of predictors that together automate a large fraction of curation actions with an end-to-end accuracy of 0.69 (Accuracy@5 of 0.75).
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Swartz, Jeremy. "Communication and Curation: Embodied Meaning and Praxis." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/20730.
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This dissertation focuses on developing and furthering curation as a mode of inquiry for the discipline of communication, and how concepts can lead to action (praxis) for life. It will contribute to the ongoing repair of communication and media studies by addressing how an emergent interdisciplinary curational approach leads us to reimagine media and materiality, thus redefining communication today.
The study presents definitions of the key concepts in communication and media studies. To ground this curational communication research approach, interdisciplinary and integrative accounts are composed using radial category analyses of medium, media, and intermedia, as well as the emergent extensions of information, multimedia, transmedia, and metamedia.
Three exemplars are presented to explore the material practices providing evidence of an applied curational approach. They focus on Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr’s Hull-House and Museum, the 1893 World’s (Fair) Columbian Exposition, and the collaboration between John Dewey and Albert Barnes at the Barnes Foundation.
An argument is made for an embodied aesthetics, ethics, and design built along a Pragmatist line that can contribute to new notions of curation and its relation to communication, embodied meaning, and praxis. The dissertation offers a framework for engaging curation as meliorative, stewarding, and repairing. The pragmatist exemplars demonstrate an orientation to medium/media that embraces embodiment and nature to help us rethink how this mode of inquiry plays out concretely in people’s lives.
Overall, the dissertation brings forward marginalized resources of embodied cognition in communication theory to revitalize and ecologize communication theory-practice. We need a novel pragmatist conception of curation, not merely preservation and presentation of artifacts, but as a participatory activity, a melioristic remaking of experience for the better, as a caring for, as a repair of, and as a stewardship supported by pragmatism.
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Ostler, Scott B. "Mutable data representations for lightweight publishing and curation." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/53175.
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Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2009.Includes bibliographical references (p. 77-79).
Web site authors frequently exhibit collections of structured data that visitors can contribute to, using specialized interfaces. Website authors also desire powerful tools for managing their website's data, so they can integrate visitor suggestions, search past versions of their data, and perform edits. However, content management frameworks have too steep a learning cure for casual users, and require programming to customize how a site's data is generated, viewed, and edited. Incorporating a curation process into lightweight data publishing frameworks can lessen the burden of data submission and management for web site visitors and authors alike. The proposed thesis investigates a data submission process that is easy, customizable, and portable. It also explores the characteristics of successful data management interfaces as applied to evolving sets of data.
by Scott B. Ostler.
M.Eng.
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Creasman, Pearce Paul. "Basic Principles And Methods Of Dendrochronological Specimen Curation." Tree-Ring Society, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/622640.
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Dendrochronological collections include continuously expanding multi-taxon records of tree
growth that encompass millennia and often offer irreplaceable sources of biological, environmental, and cultural information. Nevertheless, each departure of a scholar from the field—whether because of death, retirement, career change, shift in research priorities, or even move to a new institution—places collections in increased danger of being lost as viable resources. Without an organized and concerted effort to address outstanding and future issues of specimen curation, dendrochronology as a whole may become mired in the same trap that befalls many other scientific fields: collections apathy. Dendrochronological collections exist as a result of decades of effort and should function to support current and future scientific endeavors, education, and outreach, but cannot do so without adequate attention to their future. Intended as a ‘‘call to arms’’ this paper, focused on dendrochronology in the academic and public sector, aims to encourage discussion and, more importantly, to provide a foundation for and to instill a sense of urgency regarding long-term preservation of dendrochronological specimens.
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Oshurko, Ievgeniia. "Knowledge representation and curation in hierarchies of graphs." Thesis, Lyon, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020LYSEN024.
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L'extraction automatique des intuitions et la construction de modèles computationnels à partir de connaissances sur des systèmes complexes repose largement sur le choix d'une représentation appropriée. Ce travail s'efforce de construire un cadre adapté pour la représentation de connaissances fragmentées sur des systèmes complexes et sa curation semi-automatisé.Un système de représentation des connaissances basé sur des hiérarchies de graphes liés à l'aide d'homomorphismes est proposé. Les graphes individuels représentent des fragments de connaissances distincts et les homomorphismes permettent de relier ces fragments. Nous nous concentrons sur la conception de mécanismes mathématiques,basés sur des approches algébriques de la réécriture de graphes, pour la transformation de graphes individuels dans des hiérarchies qui maintient des relations cohérentes entre eux.De tels mécanismes fournissent une piste d'audit transparente, ainsi qu'une infrastructure pour maintenir plusieurs versions des connaissances.La théorie développée est appliquée à la conception des schémas pour les bases de données orientée graphe qui fournissent des capacités de co-évolution schémas-données.Ensuite, cette théorie est utilisée dans la construction du cadre KAMI, qui permet la curation des connaissances sur la signalisation dans les cellules. KAMI propose des mécanismes pour une agrégation semi-automatisée de faits individuels sur les interactions protéine-protéine en corpus de connaissances, la réutilisation de ces connaissances pour l'instanciation de modèles de signalisation dans différents contextes cellulaires et la génération de modèles exécutables basés sur des règlesThe task of automatically extracting insights or building computational models fromknowledge on complex systems greatly relies on the choice of appropriate representation.This work makes an effort towards building a framework suitable for representation offragmented knowledge on complex systems and its semi-automated curation---continuouscollation, integration, annotation and revision.We propose a knowledge representation system based on hierarchies of graphs relatedwith graph homomorphisms. Individual graphs situated in such hierarchies representdistinct fragments of knowledge and the homomorphisms allow relating these fragments.Their graphical structure can be used efficiently to express entities and their relations. Wefocus on the design of mathematical mechanisms, based on algebraic approaches to graphrewriting, for transformation of individual graphs in hierarchies that maintain consistentrelations between them. Such mechanisms provide a transparent audit trail, as well as aninfrastructure for maintaining multiple versions of knowledge.We describe how the developed theory can be used for building schema-aware graphdatabases that provide schema-data co-evolution capabilities. The proposed knowledgerepresentation framework is used to build the KAMI (Knowledge Aggregation and ModelInstantiation) framework for curation of cellular signalling knowledge. The frameworkallows for semi-automated aggregation of individual facts on protein-protein interactionsinto knowledge corpora, reuse of this knowledge for instantiation of signalling models indifferent cellular contexts and generation of executable rule-based models
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Moruthane, Sepadi. "The digital classification of “unknown maker(s)” of cultural objects: A case study of Iziko South African National Gallery." Master's thesis, Faculty of Humanities, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32884.
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Throughout history, cultural institutions like the Iziko Museums of South Africa have preserved, catalogued, researched and displayed a diverse collection of cultural objects. The renewed interest in digital media has revived the move to reclaim cultural identities, bringing with it the associated challenges regarding the veracity of historical accounts. With the transition to digitisation, and the adoption of digital curatorship for knowledge production in museum environments, it has become necessary to examine the historical accuracy, reliability and trustworthiness of the digital information being provided. Digitisation is an important priority for most cultural institutions. This study contributes to the colonial debate about museum classification and the challenges that these institutions face regarding what is referred to as the “unknown maker”. The use of the term “unknown maker(s)” to denote creators of cultural objects housed in the Iziko South African National Art Gallery collections was crucial to this investigation into the digital cataloguing of objects whose creators could not be determined. The findings show that a national museum is a space where identities are contested, and that museum professionals are repeatedly faced with difficult curatorial and ethical decisions when it comes to classifying cultural objects. As a result, the problems encountered with the digitsation and cataloguing of cultural objects are extensive. Inaccurate classification processes, including the use of the term “unknown maker(s)”, affects how digital heritage objects are recorded, the servicesthat museums offer, how exhibitions are presented, the research that is undertaken, and the skills required to manage cultural objects.
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Kapepiso, Fabian S. "From fable to court: tracing the curation of indigenous knowledge in a biopiracy case." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/27885.
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This dissertation presents a constructivist grounded theory study of curation and biopiracy of medicinal knowledge about Hoodia. Hoodia is a succulent cactus used by the San people for sustenance and medicinal purposes, and a victim of biopiracy as indigenous knowledge of its properties has been patented with the aim of commercialisation. The purpose of this study was to generate a theory or framework that explores and explains the processes involved in curation and application of indigenous medicinal knowledge in the scientific, legal and commercial knowledge domains. The colonial 'discoveries' and records of the Hoodia species by Carl P. Thunberg, Francis Masson, as well as the recorded experience of Rudolf Marloth, in a Renaissance Humanist tradition, led to scientific experiments by the CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) and commercial trials in an attempt to develop slimming drugs for commercialisation. A landmark royalty and benefit-sharing agreement in 2002/3 awarded intellectual property compensation to the San community for commercial exploitation of their traditional knowledge. Although there have been several Master's and Doctoral research studies about Hoodia, minimal or no attention have been directed toward the curation of information in a biopiracy case. Science has sought to capitalise undocumented indigenous knowledge by applying for patents and developing pharmaceutical drugs using indigenous medicinal knowledge obtained from local people. Using a grounded theory methodology, data was collected through an unstructured interview, reviews of literature and theoretical sampling to extract relevant concepts and themes. The study then identified key players and knowledge domains that added new layers of information and knowledge to traditional knowledge in relation to Hoodia use. The study traces the movement of indigenous knowledge from the San to the CSIR, from CSIR to the commercial entities Phytopharm, Pfizer and Unilever, through the licencing of a patent on Hoodia. An emergent theory based on the concept of palimpsest suggests that erasures of the existing traditional knowledge occurred as new layers of knowledge were added or applied. These erasures took the form of (1) renaming the Hoodia species with Greek or Latin names instead of adopting the indigenous names (Renaissance Humanism), and (2) adding new meaning and complicated symbols, resulting in codification of existing indigenous knowledge (Post Modernism). The main themes emanating from the application of palimpsest as a framework present pressing issues such as de-contextualisation and re-codification of indigenous knowledge, resulting in the erosion of benefits for its originators.
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Shipalana, Kizzy. "Dematerialisation of a photographic collection at the concrete institute’s information centre." Master's thesis, Faculty of Humanities, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/30504.
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The Concrete Institute’s information centre houses special collections and information about concrete and various aspects of concrete technology, including photographs that need to be managed effectively for retrieval purposes. The photographic collection has to be recorded and preserved according to relevant standards to ensure longevity and long term access.
Management of photographic collections comes with its unique problems. The purpose of this study is to improve the state of the photographic collection by organising it for easy retrieval, allocating metadata and preserving it for future use. This study employed the action research method to study problems of the photographic collection at the institute. The action research method aims to find solutions to problems that are experienced by people in their everyday lives. Data was collected from a sample drawn using purposive sampling from the target population of information specialists and professionals. Data collection from information professionals was facilitated through an online questionnaire and three information specialists were interviewed. The study has indicated the importance of dematerialisation and allocating metadata to photographs to help identify and enhance accessibility of information resources. The results show that dematerialising the photographs will ease the retrieval process
and assist information professionals to gain a greater insight of the material in their collection. Collections that are easily accessible are usable and fulfil their purpose to information users. In conclusion, a summarised overview of the study is presented in findings and recommendations regarding the management of photographic collections for effective retrieval.
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Daly, Brenda. "Building biodiversity data infrastructure for science and decision-making: information needs and information-seeking patterns in South Africa." Master's thesis, Faculty of Humanities, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32635.
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Biodiversity information is critical to inform science-based policy development as well as to support responsible and accountable land-use planning and decision-making practices. The uptake of available information for these uses is, however, not yet quantified or understood. Here, the extent to which the needs of biodiversity information end-users in South Africa are supported via existing information sources was investigated, at the science, practice and policy interface, using the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI's) online conservation mapping service users as a case study. A quantitative investigation of the information needs of end-users of biodiversity information was made, their information-seeking patterns analysed and the various uses of information by different user groups in South Africa investigated. This allowed for the implications of these needs and behaviour on system design and information provision to be formulated to better design the envisaged National Biodiversity Information System at SANBI. Based on a representative sample of end-users from policy, implementation and research backgrounds, a questionnaire was used and the responses were examined to determine which content was most useful, what barriers and enablers they face when trying to access biodiversity information, and what degree of interdisciplinary information is needed in addressing environmental problems. A sample of 778 (13%) respondents from a total of 5977 biodiversity information users was analysed from across the country. The study found that the lack of appropriate or available information remains one of the three highest unmet needs of biodiversity information end-users. The absence of good prior knowledge of sources of biodiversity information and unreliable and inaccurate information are two additional factors that hinder respondents in finding biodiversity information and achieving their goals. The major implication of information deficiency identified by respondents related to uncertain and/or inaccurate outcomes resulting in ill-informed decision-making. A key outcome of the analysis of the survey results are a series of recommendations on how these issues might be addressed, and it is envisioned that these may be used to help guide the development of a National Biodiversity Information System. A broad range of recommendations have been proposed, principally that the interoperability of information from various adjacent and disparate fields of study be combined with biodiversity information as a means of addressing environmental problems.
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Healeyclough, Faye. "The art of the psychologist : a symbolic self curation." Thesis, University of the West of England, Bristol, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.557599.
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In this inquiry I have explored the reasons why I am a teacher of psychology. The focus of my story highlights the concepts of parentification and psychological mindedness. I have explored the following statements of uncertainty using an art based methodology: Detail my journey into psychological mindedness Explore the role of parentification and my study of psychology Curate my reflexivity on the interplay of self and education To record the uncertainty of art based research I have documented my path using an adaptation of a new method of art based inquiry: symbolic self curation, first explored in the work of Cherry (2008). I wanted to experience and share my reflexivity on self. The process has created thirteen art pieces whose curation has shown the power of art: both to heal and to gain insight into Self and professional practice. I have used this new method to give voice to my story and to inform my teaching of psychology. The key contribution of this thesis is in documenting a clear and accessible pathway into art based inquiry. I want my journey to inspire others to use this method to empower their own journey into Self and professional practice.
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Concha, Paz. "The curation of the street food scene in London." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2017. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3627/.
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This research is an ethnography about the curation of the street food scene in London that looks at processes of cultural calculation to make markets and to assemble marketplaces. The main research question that is guiding this thesis is how is the street food scene in London being curated? This inquiry follows previous research in cultural economies in different scenes of cultural production like advertising, fashion or music (Du Gay and Pryke, 2002; Slater, 2002a; Entwistle, 2006, 2009; McFall, 2002, 2009, 2013; Ariztía, 2015; Negus, 2002; Law, 2002; McRobbie, 2016; Arriagada, 2014; Arriagada and Cruz, 2014). I am focussing on the idea of curation as analytical vehicle to understand the work of cultural intermediaries (Bourdieu, 1984) as a process of value generation, in which they culturally calculate markets (Callon, 1998; Callon, Méadel and Rabeharisoa, 2002; Slater 2002a) and assemble marketplaces (Farías, 2010; McFarlane, 2011a, 2011b, 2011c) by putting together knowledge, people, objects, aesthetics and other materials that configure the scene. This ethnography focusses on the working practices of market organisers, particularly from a company that I will call EAT-LONDON and four food traders who work in these and other markets. Nine months of fieldwork were conducted, working at offices, markets and food stalls across London. Through this empirical work with actors in the street food scene, rich data was obtained with the purpose of analysing how markets are formed in cultural economies, and how markets create place. Curators are actors that shape the social using their embodied and social knowledge to separate businesses, audiences or places based on the distinction of this cultural scene (Johnston and Baumann, 2015; Naccarato and Lebesco, 2012; Cronin et. al., 2014). The practice of curation reveals how economic calculations are also configured by cultural distinctions and how place is assembled and emerging from multiple actors’ relationships and negotiations of value.
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Shang, Zeyuan. "Democratizing data science through interactive curation of ML pipelines." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/128304.
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This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, February, 2020
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Statistical knowledge and domain expertise are key to extract actionable insights out of data, yet such skills rarely coexist together. In Machine Learning, high-quality results are only attainable via mindful data preprocessing, hyperparameter tuning and model selection. Domain experts are often overwhelmed by such complexity, de-facto inhibiting a wider adoption of ML techniques in other fields. Existing libraries that claim to solve this problem, still require well-trained practitioners. Those frameworks involve heavy data preparation steps and are often too slow for interactive feedback from the user, severely limiting the scope of such systems. In this work we present Alpine Meadow, a first Interactive Automated Machine Learning tool. What makes the system unique is not only the focus on interactivity, but also the combined systemic and algorithmic design approach; on one hand we leverage ideas from query optimization, on the other we devise novel selection and pruning strategies combining cost-based Multi-Armed Bandits and Bayesian Optimization. We evaluate the system on over 300 datasets and compare against other AutoML tools, including the current NIPS winner, as well as expert solutions. Not only is Alpine Meadow able to significantly outperform the other AutoML systems while -- in contrast to the other systems -- providing interactive latencies, but also outperforms in 80% of the cases expert solutions over data sets we have never seen before.
by Zeyuan Shang.
S.M.
S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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Lourenço, Jóni Amauri de Almeida. "A web-based collaborative curation system for biomedical literature." Master's thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/14070.
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Mestrado em Engenharia de Computadores e TelemáticaWith the overwhelming amount of biomedical textual information being produced, several manual curation efforts have been set up to extract and store concepts and their relationships into structured resources. Since manual annotation is a very demanding and expensive task, computerized solutions were developed to perform such tasks automatically. Nevertheless, high-end information extraction techniques are still not widely used by biomedical research communities, mainly due to the lack of standards and limitations in usability. Interactive annotation tools intend to fill this gap, taking advantage of automatic techniques and existing knowledge bases to assist expert curators in their daily tasks. This thesis presents Egas, a web-based platform for biomedical text mining and assisted curation with highly usable interfaces for manual and automatic inline annotation of concepts and relations. Furthermore, a comprehensive set of knowledge bases are integrated and indexed to provide straightforward concept normalization features. Additionally, curators can also rely on real-time collaboration and conversation functionalities allowing discussing details of the annotation task as well as providing instant feedback of curators interactions. Egas also provides interfaces for on-demand management of the annotation task settings and guidelines, and supports standard formats and literature services to import and export documents. By taking advantage of Egas, we participated in the BioCreative IV interactive annotation task, targeting the assisted identification of protein-protein interactions described in PubMed abstracts related to neuropathological disorders. Thereby, when evaluated by expert curators, Egas obtained very positive scores in terms of usability, reliability and performance. These results, together with the provided innovative features, place Egas as a state-of-the-art solution for fast and accurate curation of information, facilitating the task of creating and updating knowledge bases in a more consistent way.
Com o acréscimo da quantidade de literatura biomédica a ser produzida todos os dias, vários esforços têm sido feitos para tentar extrair e armazenar de forma estruturada os conceitos e as relações nela presentes. Por outro lado, uma vez que a extração manual de conceitos compreende uma tarefa extremamente exigente e exaustiva, algumas soluções de anotação automática foram surgindo. No entanto, mesmo os sistemas de anotação mais completos não têm sido muito bem recebidos no seio das equipas de investigação, em grande parte devido às falhas a nível de usabilidade e de interface standards. Para colmatar esta falha são necessárias ferramentas de anotação interativa, que tirem proveito de sistemas de anotação automática e de bases de dados já existentes, para ajudar os anotadores nas suas tarefas do dia-a-dia. Nesta dissertação iremos apresentar uma plataforma de anotação de literatura biomédica orientada para a usabilidade e que suporta anotação manual e automática. No mesmo sentido, integramos no sistema várias bases de dados, no intuito de facilitar a normalização dos conceitos anotados. Por outro lado, os utilizadores podem também contar com funcionalidades colaborativas em toda a aplicação, estimulando assim a interação entre os anotadores e, desta forma, a produção de melhores resultados. O sistema apresenta ainda funcionalidades para importar e exportar ficheiros, gestão de projetos e diretivas de anotação. Com esta plataforma, Egas, participámos na tarefa de anotação interativa do BioCreative IV (IAT), nomeadamente na identificação de interações proteína-proteína. Depois de avaliado por um conjunto de anotadores, o Egas obteve os melhores resultados entre os sistemas apresentados, relativamente à usabilidade, confiança e desempenho.
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Nash, Stephen Edward 1964. "Curation during the Middle Paleolithic: A reasonable research focus?" Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291400.
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Anthony Marks' (1988) study "The Curation of Stone Tools During the Upper Pleistocene" utilized data from several Middle and Upper Paleolithic sites in the Central Negev Desert to test Binford's hypothesis that Middle Paleolithic assemblages are "expediently" produced, and Upper Paleolithic assemblages are "curated" (Marks 1988:276). The present study analyzes Marks' contribution, offers comparative data on technologically and typologically similar Middle Paleolithic assemblages from Tabun Cave in the northern Levant, and concludes that the application of these broad technological distinctions oversimplifies a complex archaeological record, and is not a very useful approach to the analysis of Middle Paleolithic assemblage variability.
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Jimenez, Blazquez Lara. "Mathematical Methods for Maritime Signal Curation in Noisy Environments." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-43653.
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QTAGG has designed a real-time autonomous system that continuously calculates an optimum propulsion plan controlling the engines and propellers of a vessel. In this way, the precision of the signals that are used is very important, as any little error in the signal can produce incorrect control effects and cause critical damages to the equipment or passengers. This thesis describes the mathematics and implementation of a system to detect and correct disturbances in the data signals of a vessel. The system applies a signal curation based on mathematical modelling and statistics leading to clean data to use in QTAGG’s control system.
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Scavo, Giuseppe. "Content curation and characterization in communities of a place." Thesis, Paris 6, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA066521/document.
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La quantité d'informations sur Internet aujourd'hui accable la plupart des utilisateurs. La découverte d'informations pertinentes (p. Ex. Des nouvelles à lire ou des vidéos à regarder) prend du temps et est fastidieuse; pourtant, elle fait partie du travail quotidien d'au moins 80% des employés en Amérique du Nord. Plusieurs systèmes de filtrage d'informations pour le Web peuvent faciliter cette tâche pour les utilisateurs. Les exemples se retrouvent dans des familles telles que les réseaux sociaux, les systèmes de notation sociale et les systèmes de bookmarking social. Tous ces systèmes exigent que l'engagement de l'utilisateur fonctionne (par exemple, la soumission ou l'évaluation du contenu). Ils fonctionnent bien dans une communauté Internet, mais souffrent dans le cas des petites communautés. En effet, dans les petites communautés, l'apport des utilisateurs est plus rare. Nous nous concentrons sur les communautés d'un endroit qui sont des communautés qui regroupent les gens qui vivent, travaillent ou étudient dans la même région. Exemples de communautés d'un lieu: (i) les étudiants d'un campus, (ii) les personnes vivant dans un quartier ou (iii) les chercheurs travaillant sur le même site. Anecdote nous savons que seulement 0,3% des travailleurs contribuent quotidiennement à leur réseau social d'entreprise. Cette information montre qu'il ya un manque d'engagement des utilisateurs dans les communautés d'un endroit.Dans cette thèse, nous tirons parti de l'observation passive des communautés d'un endroit pour réduire les frais généraux pour les utilisateurs de participer à des systèmes de filtrage de l'information. Nous obtenons une nouvelle source riche d'informations que nous utilisons pour (i) concevoir WeBrowse, un outil de restauration de contenu pour les communautésLa quantité d'informations sur Internet aujourd'hui accable la plupart des utilisateurs. La découverte d'informations pertinentes (p. Ex. Des nouvelles à lire ou des vidéos à regarder) prend du temps et est fastidieuse; pourtant, elle fait partie du travail quotidien d'au moins 80% des employés en Amérique du Nord. Plusieurs systèmes de filtrage d'informations pour le Web peuvent faciliter cette tâche pour les utilisateurs. Les exemples se retrouvent dans des familles telles que les réseaux sociaux, les systèmes de notation sociale et les systèmes de bookmarking social. Tous ces systèmes exigent que l'engagement de l'utilisateur fonctionne (par exemple, la soumission ou l'évaluation du contenu). Ils fonctionnent bien dans une communauté Internet, mais souffrent dans le cas des petites communautés. En effet, dans les petites communautés, l'apport des utilisateurs est plus rare. Nous nous concentrons sur les communautés d'un endroit qui sont des communautés qui regroupent les gens qui vivent, travaillent ou étudient dans la même région. Exemples de communautés d'un lieu: (i) les étudiants d'un campus, (ii) les personnes vivant dans un quartier ou (iii) les chercheurs travaillant sur le même site. Anecdote nous savons que seulement 0,3% des travailleurs contribuent quotidiennement à leur réseau social d'entreprise. Cette information montre qu'il ya un manque d'engagement des utilisateurs dans les communautés d'un endroitThe amount of information on the Internet today overwhelms most users. Discovering relevant information (e.g. news to read or videos to watch) is time-consuming and tedious and yet it is part of the daily job of at least 80% of the employees in North America. Several information filtering systems for the web can ease this task for users. Examples fall into families such as Social Networks, Social Rating Systems and Social Bookmarking Systems. All these systems require user engagement to work (e.g. submission or rating of content). They work well in an Internet-wide community but suffer in the case smaller communities. Indeed, in smaller communities, the users' input is more scarce. We focus on communities of a place that are communities that group people who live, work or study in the same area. Examples of communities of a place are: (i) the students of a campus, (ii) the people living in a neighborhood or (iii) researchers working in the same site. Anecdotally we know that only 0.3% of workers contribute daily to their corporate social network. This information shows that there is a lack of user engagement in communities of a place
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Buick, Nadia. "Framing fashion curation : a theoretical, historical and practical perspective." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2012. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/63319/1/Nadia_Buick_Thesis.pdf.
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This research project frames an emerging field – fashion curation – through a theoretical, historical, and practical enquiry. Recent decades have seen fashion curation grow rapidly as a form of praxis and an area of academic attention, predominantly in museums and universities. Within this context, two major models for conceptualising the role of the fashion curator have emerged: the institutional and the independent curator. This project proposes and applies a third model: the adjunct fashion curator.
In developing this model my project seeks to move the growing dialogue around fashion curation away from exclusively focusing on the museum. By proposing a third curatorial model for fashion, this research draws on the past of fashion display and exhibition for its context, while simultaneously exploring the adjunct model through my curatorial practice.
The impact of sites of display, the role of gender, and the relationship between art and fashion are explored as pivotal themes in the development of fashion curation and thus provide contextual grounding for the proposal of the adjunct curatorial model. Alongside a theoretical and historical account of fashion curation, I conduct a practice-led inquiry that explores these themes through five exhibition projects and one photographic series.
I argue that the introduction and application of the adjunct model enables curatorial practitioners to sensitively work around the dominant museum model, and circumvent the divide between institutional and independent curation. Introducing the adjunct model allows the curator to develop personalised narratives relating to the experience of fashion and clothing as an exhibited phenomenon in a variety of institutional and non-institutional sites. Hence this research project contributes to a developing field by proposing a valuable and nuanced model for fashion curation.
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Thomas, Lubi. "Curating in uncharted territories: An examination of a programming model & communicative platform for curation in non-traditional art spaces." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2015. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/84621/1/Lubi_Thomas_Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis articulates and examines public engagement programming in an emerging, non¬-traditional site. As a practice-led research project, the creative work proposes a site responsive, engagement centric, agile model for curatorial programming that developed out of the dynamic, new media/digital, curatorial practice at QUT's Creative Industries Precinct. The model and its accompanying exegetical framework, Curating in Uncharted Territories, offer a theoretically informed approach to programming, delivering and reporting for curatorial practices in a non¬-traditional sites of public engagement. The research provides the foundation for full development of the model and the basis for further research.
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Willsteed, Terence J. "It’s Not The Heat, It’s The Humidity: Developing a practice-based method for cultural history curation and dissemination." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2017. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/103847/1/Terence_Willsteed_Thesis.pdf.
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This research contributes new knowledge about the curation and presentation of cultural history. Relationships between curation and performance were tested through the development of an interdisciplinary approach to capturing, storing and sharing the histories of subcultures or scenes, and the creation of a public performance centred around the Brisbane punk and post-punk music scene. The project contributes new understanding of how public stories about popular culture can be presented while simultaneously generating new knowledge about the culture itself.
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Yount, Lisa Michelle. "Remembrance, representation and feminism : toward a politics of memorial curation /." view abstract or download file of text, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1192184061&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=11238&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2006.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 169-176). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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De, Ferrari Luna Luciana. "On combining collaborative and automated curation for enzyme function prediction." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/7538.
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Data generation has vastly exceeded manual annotation in several areas of astronomy, biology, economy, geology, medicine and physics. At the same time, a public community of experts and hobbyists has developed around some of these disciplines thanks to open, editable web resources such as wikis and public annotation challenges. In this thesis I investigate under which conditions a combination of collaborative and automated curation could complete annotation tasks unattainable by human curators alone. My exemplar curation process is taken from the molecular biology domain: the association all existing enzymes (proteins catalysing a chemical reaction) with their function. Assigning enzymatic function to the proteins in a genome is the first essential problem of metabolic reconstruction, important for biology, medicine, industrial production and environmental studies. In the protein database UniProt, only 3% of the records are currently manually curated and only 60% of the 17 million recorded proteins have some functional annotation, including enzymatic annotation. The proteins in UniProt represent only about 380,000 animal species (2,000 of which have completely sequenced genomes) out of the estimated millions of species existing on earth. The enzyme annotation task already applies to millions of entries and this number is bound to increase rapidly as sequencing efforts intensify. To guide my analysis I first develop a basic model of collaborative curation and evaluate it against molecular biology knowledge bases. The analysis highlights a surprising similarity between open and closed annotation environments on metrics usually connected with “democracy” of content. I then develop and evaluate a method to enhance enzyme function annotation using machine learning which demonstrates very high accuracy, recall and precision and the capacity to scale to millions of enzyme instances. This method needs only a protein sequence as input and is thus widely applicable to genomic and metagenomic analysis. The last phase of the work uses active and guided learning to bring together collaborative and automatic curation. In active learning a machine learning algorithm suggests to the human curators which entry should be annotated next. This strategy has the potential to coordinate and reduce the amount of manual curation while improving classification performance and reducing the number of training instances needed. This work demonstrates the benefits of combining classic machine learning and guided learning to improve the quantity and quality of enzymatic knowledge and to bring us closer to the goal of annotating all existing enzymes.
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Sawada, Dan. "Recast : an interactive platform for personal media curation and distribution." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/91423.
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Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2014.78
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This thesis focuses on the design and implementation of Recast, which is an interactive media system that enables users to dynamically aggregate, curate, reconstruct, and distribute visual stories of real-world events, based on various perspectives. Visual media have long been the means for consumptive information acquisition. However, the advancement of technology in the field of communication networks and consumer devices has made visual media a powerful tool for user expression. Given the background, Recast aims to present an intuitive platform for proactive citizens to create visual storyboards that represent the view of the world from their perspective. In order to fulfill the needs, Recast proposes a media analysis platform, as well as a block-based user interface for semi-automating the workflow of video production. As a result of an operation test and a user study, it was verified that Recast is successful in achieving its initial goals.
by Dan Sawada.
S.M.
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Burrows, James. "Rhizo-Memetic art : the production & curation of transdisciplinary performance." Thesis, Edge Hill University, 2017. http://repository.edgehill.ac.uk/10044/.
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Contemporary discourse in the field of Memetics offers potential new insights upon the ways and means of producing and curating contemporary Performance beyond the limits of discipline specific Performance taxonomies. Alongside the rise of Internet Culture and the rapid adoption of social media, it is argued that contemporary artistic practice is becoming ‘more fluid, elastic, and dispersed’ (Cornell, 2014: online). Given this circumstance, the researcher acknowledges that notions of disciplinarity, performative agency and materiality remain in a state of flux and in need of reconsideration. Utilising a Practice-as-Research (PaR) framework, and based upon the above context, the researcher initiated an innovative three-phase methodological approach focused on the application of insights drawn from the concept of the ‘Meme’ (Dawkins, 1974) alongside a primarily Deleuze & Guattarian philosophy upon methods of artistic production, and the curation of transdisciplinary performance. The resulting praxis: ‘Rhizo-Memetic Art’ produced three major artworks including the hypertextual assemblage - Corpus 1 (2012-13), produced collaboratively online with users of Twitter and Facebook; the Florilegium: Exhibition (3rd -24th November, 2014): produced and curated alongside an invited group of contributing artists; and Florilegium: Remix (24th April 2015): an intermedial Live Art lecture. Each of these elements plugs into the following exegetic writing, and alongside the documentation of its artefacts (available on the project website), these elements produce the thesis. The outcomes of this PaR are twofold. The first outcome is a new theoretical understanding of the mechanisms of interdisciplinary creative practice emerging out of the synthesis of meme and rhizome. This outcome can be further developed to reveal insights relevant to the production of transdisciplinary performance and archival/curatorial discourses. The second outcome can be identified as the Rhizo-Memetic Artwork itself, or, rather the multiple creative artefacts and actions that combine to produce its assemblage. The implications of this research suggest that the functioning of Rhizo-Memetic Art raises permanent questions about the status of Performance in terms of its materiality and efficacy outside of the limitations of disciplinarity.
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Street, Gemma Louise. "The role of curation in the design and development of brand experience in the luxury retail environment." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2016. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-role-of-curation-in-the-design-and-development-of-brand-experience-in-the-luxury-retail-environment(9f1d44c4-a9c6-4996-a45b-c573e3a1141d).html.
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This thesis explores the role of curation in the design and development of brand experience in the luxury retail environment. Three research objectives seek firstly, to gain an understanding of the meaning of curation in luxury retailing and identify the role, purpose and value to luxury retailers; secondly, to explore the different ways in which curation manifests itself in the luxury retail environment by examining sole brand and multi brand luxury retailers, and lastly, to identify how curation is brought to life through the curatorial roles within luxury retailers. In light of increasing global competitive pressures and fast-paced technology advances associated with mobile devices, the rise of omnichannel retailing has led luxury brands to be ubiquitous, with the resulting challenge for luxury retailers to develop seamless and experiential omnichannel brand experiences in order to continue to differentiate and grow. However, there is a paucity of literature regarding the design and development of luxury brand experiences, suggesting a gap in the literature. In addition, ‘curation’, a term traditionally associated with museology, is being increasingly used in the business environment in terms of creating differentiated experiences or collection of products both online and in-store. Little attention has been paid to curation in the literature, with the result of limited understanding of the role of curation in the design and development of brand experience, suggesting a second gap to be addressed in the research. The research was an investigative, qualitative and thematic analysis-based study. The data collection focused on face-to-face semi-structured interviews with 17 senior professionals from the luxury retail and cultural environments in the UK. Braun and Clarke’s (2006) Six Stages of Thematic Analysis and NVivo software were utilised to analyse the data, resulting in 9 key themes. My original contribution to the literature is this research is one of the first empirical studies to explore the role of curation in the design and development of brand experience in the luxury retail environment, resulting in three key contributions. Firstly, the role of curation is an influential one in the design and development of brand experience in the luxury retail environment and is manifested in four forms of curation across sole brand and multi brand luxury retailers. Secondly, curation in luxury retail has evolved from the traditional art-historian discipline of curation and is emerging as a new discipline and modus operandi in its own right, creating strategic, organisational, financial and experiential value. Thirdly, a strategic curation management toolkit consisting of three strategic frameworks was developed that contributes to both the brand literature and management practice. The toolkit provides managers with a common vernacular to develop their curatorial capabilities and identify strategic opportunities where they can harness curation as a strategy to design and develop omnichannel luxury brand experiences as a route to competitive advantage and build a platform for future growth.
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Mould, Stephen James. "Curating Opera." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/14521.
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Recent decades have seen the art curator emerge from a behind-the-scenes, anonymous position to that of a public functionary, challenging the role of the artist as the dominant force in the creation of art. A blurring of the roles of artist, gallerist and curator has resulted, along with a diversification in disciplines that attract curatorial attention, including science and architecture. The notion of Gesamtkunstwerk has frequently been evoked in the literature and even found its way into exhibition titles.1 The blurring of curatorial roles is also a characteristic of the opera house, where the singer, composer, conductor, impresario and (most recently), the stage director historically vie for predominance, giving rise to the power struggles for which the world of opera is renowned. The competing forces that drive operatic practice have so far had no visible commentators (such as the art world has recently acquired), to examine curating and curatorial roles within the opera house and to demystify the process for the public. This thesis will: (1) consider the so-called ‘birth’ of opera, with reference to the near-contemporary rise of the modern art museum; (2) examine aspects of the performance history of works by Gluck, Mozart and Beethoven, in order to demonstrate curatorial practices employed in the dissemination and maintenance of the repertoire; (3) consider curatorial tendencies within the modern opera house with reference to current performance practices and the related practices of art museums, highlighting aspects of authenticity, authorial intent, preservation and historically informed performance practice.
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Kontopoulou, Anna Alkistis. "Curation of autonomy : participatory art's potential to enunciate alternative social forms." Thesis, Kingston University, 2016. http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/38121/.
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This thesis provides a dialectical conception of relational aesthetics, the state of art given definition by Nicolas Bourriaud’s text Relational Aesthetics (2002), by focusing on the ‘value form of participation’ and the ways in which this gets subsumed into capitalist circuits, to fit its purpose within ‘culture’. One of the original contributions of this research project within the field of political art, or art that aims to be political, is its in-depth critique of relational art’s political economy from the perspective of an engaged practice. The thesis also provides insights into the role of the curator as the interlocutor of this exchange. As part of this analysis I examine the changes in the formal character of this relation of domination, by analysing the ways in which the classic opposition between autonomous art and the culture industry has mutated today. The thesis supplements its Marxist analysis with Jacques Lacan’s theories of discourse to examine the particularities of how art practices are subsumed into University discourse, and in order to further analyse how artistsstudents’ struggle with subjection to the value form is determined by the capitalist economy. By combining the Marxist and Lacanian perspectives I conceptualise the artist-student as the subject or social embodiment of surplus value and surplus jouissance. My research interest is guided by my own position as a ‘transversal’ practitioner and by my desire to ‘curate’ a relative kind of autonomy that manages to de-link the symbolic from value and re-distribute the surplus of participation back to social movements and the communities that support them. The thesis thus is also informed by my commitment to organising educational and curatorial initiatives that imagine a dialogue between organising and art, as guided by practices of political or militant listening processes exemplified, for example, by the political aesthetic collaboration Ultra-Red, found in the fields of grassroots organising and specific forms of political education, as discussed by Paulo Freire. Hence another contribution to the field of social practice art is my concern as a researcher-practitioner to press current discourse on relational art further, from a critique of contradictory social processes to an embodying of critical agencies.
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Gilchrist, Stephen. "Belonging and Unbelonging: Indigenous forms of Curation as Expressions of Sovereignty." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/22301.
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Indigenous art has been one of the most important vehicles for promoting intercultural understanding in Australia. It visualises Indigenous ways of seeing, knowing and experiencing the world. Indigenous forms of curation have been instrumental in creating these profound moments of intercultural connection, contributing to new theorisations of Indigenous art. This research project seeks to identify an Indigenous critical framework with which to apprehend the complexity of Indigenous art exhibitions. Through detailed case-studies of six exhibitionary projects by Indigenous curators, running from the Aboriginal Memorial of 1988 to barrangal dyara (skin and bones) in 2016, I demonstrate that Indigenous curation is not only an important political act of recognition and visibility, it is also deeply indebted to Indigenous cultural practices and philosophies. The projects chosen are situated within sites of high national and international value and through these case studies I chart a curatorial manoeuvre that I describe as ‘unbelonging’. Unbelonging is not a position of statelessness, but a deliberative model of both subversively unsettling and detaching from the imposition of statehood. In many instances, it uses the resources of leading institutions, but agitates to create self-determined spaces within them. Through a process of unbelonging to the state, to the institution, to disciplines and to history, Indigenous curators are rewriting their own ways of belonging. I understand Indigenous curation as not politically reactive to colonisation as is often presumed, but emerging from Indigenous political formations of governance and sovereignty, value and heritage, consensus and relation. By creating new and broadening complacent formulations of art and social history, identity, and museological practice and temporality, Indigenous curators have reshaped institutional and disciplinary cultures and have contributed to the strengthening of Indigenous art and culture.
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Bernard, Adam Simon. "Using natural language processing methods to support curation of a chemical ontology." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2014. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.708058.
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Pedersen, Anna Navndrup. "When the stone stopped moving, Counter-curation as site specific interaction design." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21578.
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Rural place is often overlooked in interaction design research. This thesis is centered around an analog interaction between humans and a 35 ton stone in a danish forest, on the rural island of Bornholm. With a methodological approach influenced by Donna Haraway's essay 'Situated Knowledges' the author approaches her site-specific topic both as a local, a tourist and a researcher. The thesis offers a close study of the interaction with the stone, and explains how this natural occurring interaction, has physically shaped the landscape around it, but also reveals the curation imposed upon rural place and and how this curation affects our sense of place. The researcher suggests that counter-curations can be used as a method for site-specific interaction designers, and exemplifies this by curating a natural site as well as a rural village site. The stone in the forest opens up for a project about the multiple identities of rural place and how theses are shaped in deep intertwining and tension between the past and present, human and nature.
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Bahceci, Oktay. "Deep Neural Networks for Context Aware Personalized Music Recommendation : A Vector of Curation." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för datavetenskap och kommunikation (CSC), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-210252.
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Information Filtering and Recommender Systems have been used and has been implemented in various ways from various entities since the dawn of the Internet, and state-of-the-art approaches rely on Machine Learning and Deep Learning in order to create accurate and personalized recommendations for users in a given context. These models require big amounts of data with a variety of features such as time, location and user data in order to find correlations and patterns that other classical models such as matrix factorization and collaborative filtering cannot. This thesis researches, implements and compares a variety of models with the primary focus of Machine Learning and Deep Learning for the task of music recommendation and do so successfully by representing the task of recommendation as a multi-class extreme classification task with 100 000 distinct labels. By comparing fourteen different experiments, all implemented models successfully learn features such as time, location, user features and previous listening history in order to create context-aware personalized music predictions, and solves the cold start problem by using user demographic information, where the best model being capable of capturing the intended label in its top 100 list of recommended items for more than 1/3 of the unseen data in an offine evaluation, when evaluating on randomly selected examples from the unseen following week.Informationsfiltrering och rekommendationssystem har använts och implementeratspå flera olika sätt från olika enheter sedan gryningen avInternet, och moderna tillvägagångssätt beror påMaskininlärrning samtDjupinlärningför att kunna skapa precisa och personliga rekommendationerför användare i en given kontext. Dessa modeller kräver data i storamängder med en varians av kännetecken såsom tid, plats och användardataför att kunna hitta korrelationer samt mönster som klassiska modellersåsom matris faktorisering samt samverkande filtrering inte kan. Dettaexamensarbete forskar, implementerar och jämför en mängd av modellermed fokus påMaskininlärning samt Djupinlärning för musikrekommendationoch gör det med succé genom att representera rekommendationsproblemetsom ett extremt multi-klass klassifikationsproblem med 100000 unika klasser att välja utav. Genom att jämföra fjorton olika experiment,så lär alla modeller sig kännetäcken såsomtid, plats, användarkänneteckenoch lyssningshistorik för att kunna skapa kontextberoendepersonaliserade musikprediktioner, och löser kallstartsproblemet genomanvändning av användares demografiska kännetäcken, där den bästa modellenklarar av att fånga målklassen i sin rekommendationslista medlängd 100 för mer än 1/3 av det osedda datat under en offline evaluering,när slumpmässigt valda exempel från den osedda kommande veckanevalueras.
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Kollen, Christine, Inna Kouper, Mayu Ishida, Sarah Williams, and Kathleen Fear. "Research Data Services Maturity in Academic Libraries." American Library Association, Association of College and Research Libraries, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/622168.
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An ACRL white paper from 2012 reported that, at that time, only a small number of academic libraries in the United States and Canada offered research data services (RDS), but many were planning to do so within the next two years (Tenopir, Birch, and Allard, 2012). By 2013, 74% of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) survey respondents offered RDS and an additional 23% were planning to do so (Fearon, Gunia, Pralle, Lake, and Sallans, 2013). The academic libraries recognize that the landscape of services changes quickly and that they need to support the changing needs of research and instruction.
In their efforts to implement RDS, libraries often respond to pressures originating outside the library, such as national or funder mandates for data management planning and data sharing. To provide effective support for researchers and instructors, though, libraries must be proactive and develop new services that look forward and yet accommodate the existing human, technological, and intellectual capital accumulated over the decades. Setting the stage for data curation in libraries means to create visionary approaches that supersede institutional differences while still accommodating diversity in implementation. How do academic libraries work towards that?
This chapter will combine an historical overview of RDS thinking and implementations based on the existing literature with an empirical analysis of ARL libraries’ current RDS goals and activities. The latter is based on the study we conducted in 2015 that included a content analysis of North American research library web pages and interviews of library leaders and administrators of ARL libraries. Using historical and our own data, we will synthesize the current state of RDS implementation across ARL libraries. Further, we will examine the models of research data management maturity (see, for example, Qin, Crowston and Flynn, 2014) and discuss how such models compare to our own three-level classification of services and activities offered at libraries - basic, intermediate, and advanced. Our analysis will conclude with a set of recommendations for next steps, i.e., actions and resources that a library might consider to expand their RDS to the next maturity level.
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Fearon, D. Jr., Gunia, B., Pralle, B.E., Lake, S., Sallans, A.L. (2013). Research data management services. (ARL Spec Kit 334). Washington, D.C.: ARL. Retrieved from: http://publications.arl.org/Research-Data-Management-Services-SPEC-Kit-334/
Tenopir, C., Birch, B., & Allard, S. (2012). Academic libraries and research data services: Current practices and plans for the future. ACRL. Retrieved from http://www.ala.org/acrl/sites/ala.org.acrl/files/content/publications/whitepapers/Tenopir_Birch_Allard.pdf
Qin, J., Crowston, K., & Flynn, C. (2014). 1.1 Commitment to Perform. A Capability Maturity Model for Research Data Management. wiki. Retrieved http://rdm.ischool.syr.edu/xwiki/bin/view/CMM+for+RDM/WebHome
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Ngeh, Stella Emade. "Conflicting interests between public health and custodians of indigenous knowledge with regards to curation and dissemination of information about Xhosa initiation rites." Master's thesis, Faculty of Humanities, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/30847.
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This practice of traditional male circumcision among the Xhosa people in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa is accompanied by a high level of secrecy: details of the practice may not be shared with non-members such as women, uninitiated boys and strangers. To address the issue of injuries and deaths resulting from poorly performed unhygienic circumcision by untrained practitioners, the Department of Public Health in the Eastern Cape passed the Application of Health Standards in Traditional Circumcision Act No 6 of 2001. In order to explore the conflicting interests between public health and custodians of indigenous knowledge of curation and dissemination of information about Xhosa initiation rites, sociocultural theory through a systematic review of literature is used. Meta-ethnography design and a qualitative research approach is also used, as well as NVivo 11 qualitative data analysis software to analyse the data. Eighteen databases were used, and searches were conducted on 9 June 2016 and 13 October 2018. Using the systematic review screening process and PRISMA checklist, articles were screened against inclusion criteria, resulting in nine articles being included in the final review. Apart from the aforementioned findings that the practice excludes non-members from participating and disseminating information, and that traditional practitioners lack basic skills and knowledge necessary for procedures, findings also showed that the establishment of the Circumcision Act was the major reason for the conflict that exists between public health and Xhosa people: Xhosa people do not want secret information about the practice to be disseminated to non-members. In conclusion it is recommended that the Xhosa-speaking community make some Traditional Male Circumcision (TMC) information available while still preserving the fundamental secret information for traditional purposes. For example, access to pertinent information should be given to public health officials to enable assistance in addressing botched circumcisions.
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Simpson, Steve. "History, Context, and Policies of a Learning Object Repository." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/20541.
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Learning object repositories, a form of digital libraries, are robust systems that provide educators new ways to search for educational resources, collaborate with peers, and provide instruction to students in unique and varied ways. This study examines a learning object repository created by a large suburban school district to increase teaching information and encourage collaboration among teachers. Despite investing nearly $2 million to develop the software and seed the repository with materials, data suggest that teacher use falls below set goals. This document explores five years of site traffic, user engagement, social interaction, asset growth, as well as the authoring of instructional materials as a means to evaluate the repository. The results of the study may inform the policy decisions of educational organizations when considering digital learning environments.
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McCartney, Gregory. "The curation of archives as tools for regional art regeneration in North West Ireland." Thesis, University of Ulster, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.535135.
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Lee, Virginia, and gini lee@unisa edu au. "The intention to notice: the collection, the tour and ordinary landscapes." RMIT University. Architecture and Design, 2006. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20070202.153732.
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The Intention to Notice: the collection, the tour and ordinary landscapes is concerned with how ordinary landscapes and places are enabled and conserved through making itineraries that are framed around the ephemera encountered by chance, and the practices that make possible the endurance of these material traces. Through observing and then examining the material and temporal aspects of a variety of sites/places, the museum and the expanded garden are identified as spaces where the expression of contemporary political, ecological and social attitudes to cultural landscapes can be realised through a curatorial approach to design, to effect minimal intervention. Three notions are proposed to encourage investigation into contemporary cultural landscapes: To traverse slowly to allow space for speculations framed by the topographies and artefacts encountered; to [re]make/[re]write cultural landscapes as discursive landscapes that provoke the intention to notice; and to reveal and conserve the fabric of everyday places. A series of walking, recording and making projects undertaken across a variety of cultural landscapes in remote South Australia, Melbourne, Sydney, London, Los Angeles, Chandigarh, Padova and Istanbul, investigate how communities of practice are facilitated through the invitation to notice and intervene in ordinary landscapes, informed by the theory and practice of postproduction and the reticent auteur. This community of practice approach draws upon chance encounters and it seeks to encourage creative investigation into places. The Intention to Notice is a practice of facilitating that also leads to recording traces and events; large and small, material and immaterial, that encourages both conjecture and archive. Most importantly, there is an open-ended invitation to commit and exchange through design interaction.
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Cook, Janis L. "In the moment: Curating chamber music performance." Thesis, Griffith University, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/407571.
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In this thesis, Janis Cook explores ways in which the thoughtful curation of a chamber concert can enhance the reception of the musical repertoire. This avenue of research has evolved from questioning why performances of musical artworks which reflect a significant portion of Australia’s cultural inheritance attract only a niche and arguably diminishing audience.
The author establishes points of view which emphasise the deep cultural connections inherent in music, embrace the social aspect of performance, eschew the division of the expressive realm of the arts into discrete categories, and consider the role of music in the current metamodernist milieu. A scan of historical and current performance practice precedes a discussion of the power of curation as a tool of communication.
As primary research projects, three chamber-music events apply concepts from narrative theory, the philosophy of experiential time, and the general field of arts curation. Around these curated performances, para-curatorial approaches experiment with the distribution of printed programmes after the performance, and a Pay-What-You-Want business model. The methodology consists of the design and execution of the performances as curations, analysis of informal and ethics-approved feedback about the curations, and exegesis mapped by recordings of the curated performances and the overall artistic journey. Many musical examples and video links exemplify the curatorial outcomes.
A fourth and supplementary project points to the future of the performing arts in an increasingly online world. It suggests new ways of adapting the power of curation to suit digital formats, rather than mere live-streamed or pre-recorded onstage performances, by utilising the infrastructure already in place which serves the music industry at large.
Janis Cook addresses the place of chamber music in contemporary society, the role of performing artists as art performers, and the imperative for chamber players to contribute to current culture. The study reveals strong arguments for thoughtfully designing an audience’s chamber concert experience and identifies avenues for further research.Thesis (Masters)
Master of Music Research (MMusRes)
Queensland Conservatorium
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Jackson, Benjamin K. "Genesis : the search for origins : the curation and contamination control of returned solar wind samples." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/33615.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, 2005.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 61-62).
The purpose of the studies carried out in this thesis was to aid in the curation of samples of solar wind returned to earth on the Genesis spacecraft. An experimental study was carried out to aid development of a set of protocols for the laser scribing and subdivision of the Genesis silicon collector array materials. Optimisation of the scribing speed and the positioning of the focal point of the laser were carried out. It was found that scribe width was independent of both factors. Slower scribing speeds were found to produce deeper scribes, while heating effects were minimised with faster speeds. Vertical movement of the stage of 5 pm/pass was found to optimise the focal point of the laser, and minimise heating effects. A procedure to measure the flexural modulus of samples was proposed to quantify the success of the optimisation of the scribing parameters. A theoretical study was carried out to develop a predictive kinetic model for the oxidation of the silicon collector arrays during flight. The mechanism proposed for the increase in oxide thickness over that present pre-flight was the formation of a less-dense suboxide at the SiO₂/Si interface. The driving force is the elevated temperature of the collectors during collection, in the vacuum of space.
(cont.) A kinetic model was developed and growth rate expressions derived for two limiting kinetic cases. It was not possible to apply these expressions to the Genesis sample conditions, as the measurement of several experimental parameters was beyond the time limits of this study. A second model was developed alongside literature models to reduce further the number of unknown variables. Finally, the maximum possible thickness of oxide that could grow on the silicon surface was calculated. This was found to be 25 A, representing a 47 % increase over the original 17A of SiO₂ present pre-flight. It was noted that there was a non-linear increase of total oxide thickness with increase in suboxide thickness to due to density differences between Si and SiO, and SiO₂ and SiO.
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Rebecca, Schmidt. "The Power of Algorithms : The Use of Algorithmic Logic and Human Curation at The Guardian." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för mediestudier, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-120371.
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Algorithms are part of most online activities but act largely in the background and remain hidden to the general public. They are programmed pieces of software that are designed to consume massive amounts of data and progress it into easy consumable pieces of information. Furthermore, that software is able to draw connections between pieces of information and filter it based on relevance or other criteria. What these criteria are and what they are based on often remains a well-kept secret. Companies such as Facebook, Google, Twitter and Netflix all use algorithms to make sense of the ever-increasing amount of Data and suggest posts, movies or search results. With more and more people getting their news stories trough social media platforms and search engines, algorithms play an important role in the way we receive news. That lead to the questions of what power algorithms have over the news we see and what power they have over news organisations and journalism. To answer these broad questions, it was decided to focus on one large news organisations and examine what role algorithms play. The news organisation chosen for this research was The Guardian. In order to investigate these how and if algorithms are used, interviews with eight experts working at The Guardian were conducted. The informants were developers, engineers, product managers, editors and journalists in order to get a broader spectrum of possible frames in place. So as to analyse the interviews, tables were created to understand the way algorithms in relation to the institution of The Guardian and the power of editors were framed by the interviewees. One of the results that could be observed through the interviews and analysis was that algorithms will play an increasingly large role in The Guardian and possibly share their influence with editors. It can also be found that technology and news organisations will become more and more intertwined and data from users will be collected and analysed. The last part of the thesis discusses the impact of the results in a broader context and what further research can be done.
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Hyde, Joshua Malcolm. "Visual Amplification The visual presentation of new music, practical applications in performance, curation, & composition." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/25950.
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Visual Amplification, the visual presentation of new music in composition, performance and curation explores the
role that visual information plays in our perception of sound and musical performance, specifically in relation to
the presentation of new music (contemporary classical music).
This dissertation will show that a conscious understanding of the power of context over the communication of a
musical work is fundamental to creating high quality and engaging musical experiences.
Through theoretical discussion, a review of current practices in the professional music community and the
presentation of a collection of original creative works, the research outlines the extent to which visual stimuli can
impact the reception of musical work and proposes varied strategies to incorporate this information to maximize
audience engagement.
The research conducted draws on interviews with Jennifer Walshe, Steven Takesugi, Simon Steen-Andersen,
Darryl Buckley, David Chisholm, Stefan Prins, Daniel Lineham, & Jean-Luc Plouvier. Examples from performances
curated by the author with musical groups soundinitiative and scapegoat are also used as case studies.
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Hamilton, Stephen Coursault. "Technological Organization and Sedentism: Expedient Core Reduction, Stockpiling, and Tool Curation at the Meier Site (35CO5)." PDXScholar, 1994. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4839.
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The Meier site fine-grained lithic assemblage was used to test the hypothesis that a sedentary group will rely heavily on expedient lithic technologies because they stockpile raw material at the residence. At Meier, expedient core reduction provided blanks for a significant number of curated and expedient tools. I propose that sedentism (stockpiling) minimizes energy investments in raw material procurement and blank production while maintaining the ability to efficiently make both curated and expedient tools. Investment in curation is limited to a few tool classes with specialized functions, not transportable design variables.
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Whisson, Corey. "Integrated conservation approach for the Australian land snail genus Bothriembryon Pilsbry, 1894: Curation, taxonomy and palaeontology." Thesis, Whisson, Corey (2019) Integrated conservation approach for the Australian land snail genus Bothriembryon Pilsbry, 1894: Curation, taxonomy and palaeontology. Masters by Research thesis, Murdoch University, 2019. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/54512/.
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Native land snails are important to ecosystems given their role in the decomposition process through herbivorous feeding of primarily decaying plant matter; calcium recycling and soil nitrification, and as a food source for larger predators. They also serve as a valuable bio-indicator group, especially in Western Australia where they are critical to Environmental Impact Assessments surveys. One conspicuous genus of native land snail found in Western Australia is Bothriembryon Pilsbry, 1894, a Gondwanan group endemic to the southern half of Australia and most diverse in the south-west of Western Australia. Eight species of Bothriembryon are listed as threatened at state and international level. Modern comprehensive reviews of land snails are needed to form good conservation policy however there are a number of knowledge gaps that are hindering the development of an effective conservation management plan for Bothriembryon. Most taxonomic studies on the genus have been based on shell morphology and the group requires modern molecular treatment to help clarify taxonomy. Additionally the group has been subjected to limited biogeographical and ecological studies, particularly those examining diet, predation and life span.
In this study legacy data of the seven nominally threatened south-west Western Australia Bothriembryon species was collated from Australian museums and institutes. This data set was compared with new data gathered through curation of the WAM Bothriembryon collection and targeted fieldwork. Together this augmented data set was designed to improve conservation initiatives, specifically an updated assessment of these species International Union for Conservation of Nature status. Additionally, during curation of the WAM Bothriembryon collection, genetically useful material of all described species was earmarked for DNA extraction toward the first molecular phylogeny of the genus.
This study addressed a major nomenclatural issue with the genus name Bothriembryon with case 3748 submitted to the ICZN to conserve the current genus usage. To promote nomenclatural stability, it was proposed that all type species fixations for the nominal genus Liparus Albers, 1850 and Bothriembryon Pilsbry, 1894 be set aside, and to designate Helix melo Quoy and Gaimard, 1832 as their type species.
Many undescribed species of Bothriembryon are known, some likely requiring conservation management, but only one species has been named in the last 30 years (as of 2016). In this study Bothriembryon sophiarum was described, based on shell and anatomical morphology, the latter using 3D scanning for the first time in this group. Because of its limited distribution, B. sophiarum Whisson and Breure, 2016 qualifies as a short range endemic.
Little published data on the fossil biogeography of Bothriembryon exists. In this study, fossil and modern data of Bothriembryon from Australian museums and institutes were mapped for the first time. The fossil Bothriembryon collection in the Western Australian Museum was curated to current taxonomy. Using this data set, the geological age of fossil and extant species was documented, and where material was available, shell sizes compared between fossil and modern populations. Twenty-two extant Bothriembryon species were identified in the fossil collection, with 15 of these species having a published fossil record for the first time. Several fossil and extant species had range extensions. The geological age span of Bothriembryon was determined as a minimum of Late Oligocene to recent, with extant endemic Western Australian Bothriembryon species determined as younger, traced to Pleistocene age. Extant Bothriembryon species from the Nullarbor region were older, dated Late Pliocene to Early Pleistocene. Most extant Bothriembryon species have similar fossil and modern shell sizes, except for B. fuscus Thiele, 1930, B. notatus Iredale, 1939, B. sayi (Pfeiffer, 1847), B. perobesus Iredale, 1939 and B. indictus Iredale, 1939, which had generally more elongate shells during the Pleistocene. This study did not significantly expand the biogeography or geological age of the group but the data set provided insights into the origin and radiation of Bothriembryon, and will enable future phylogenetic dating.
Collectively, data generated in this study will enable better conservation outcomes for Bothriembryon. This data will also contribute toward the first molecular phylogeny of Bothriembryon.