scholarly journals Building Scholars and Communities of Practice in Digital Heritage and Archaeology

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 140-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ethan Watrall
Keyword(s):  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Michigan State University ◽  
National Endowment ◽  
State University ◽  
Digital Heritage ◽  
Digital Methods ◽  
Digital Archaeology

AbstractAs the role of digital methods in heritage and archaeology has increased in prominence, so has the question of capacity and community building. Who should receive training in digital methods? How should training take place? What concepts, platforms, technologies should be taught? These are relevant questions requiring careful planning and thoughtful implementation; yet beyond these questions, there is an issue of even greater importance: the planned development of communities of practice. The teaching of digital methods has a greater chance of success if it takes place in an ecosystem of scholars who are connected to one another through shared perspectives on those methods. This article presents and discusses the details of a model developed at Michigan State University that speaks to teaching digital archaeology and heritage methods, and to the development of communities of practice in which those methods are shared and relevant. The model is driven and informed by the activities of three projects: the National Endowment for the Humanities-funded Institute on Digital Archaeology Method & Practice, the Cultural Heritage Informatics Graduate Fellowship Program, and the Department of Anthropology Digital Cultural Heritage Fieldschool.

How to Combine Virtual and Reality in Archaeology Communication

2020 ◽  
pp. 245-258
Author(s):  
Caterina Paola Venditti ◽  
Paolo Mele
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Mixed Reality ◽  
The Other ◽  
Static Models ◽  
Display Technology ◽  
Digital Archaeology ◽  
High Level ◽  
Individual Objects

Within digital archaeology, an important part is centered on technologies that allow representing, or replaying, ancient environments. It is a field where scientific competences' contribution to contents makes a difference, and pedagogical repercussion are stimulating. Among the other reality technologies, the Mixed Reality, giving the possibility to experience in front of the users' eyes both static models of individual objects and entire landscapes, it is increasingly used in archaeological contexts as display technology, with different purposes such as educational, informative, or simply for entertainment. This chapter provides a high-level overview about possible orientations and uses of this technology in cultural heritage, also sketching its use in gaming within the role of gaming itself in smart communication of archaeological contents and issues.

Guidelines for Editing Africanist Texts for Publication

1990 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 379-387 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Henige
Keyword(s):  
Word Processing ◽  
Michigan State University ◽  
National Endowment ◽  
State University ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Moment

The Association for the Publication of African Historical Sources (presently headquartered at the Department of History, Michigan State University) is now administering one umbrella National Endowment for the Humanities grant for editing, translating, and publishing significant African texts, and hopes to administer more in the future. In aid of this, the following guidelines, which should for the moment be considered to be in a draft stage, are offered in an effort both to bring uniformity to these editions and to stimulate thinking towards making the guidelines more thorough and enduring. Readers are urged to send suggestions for the latter to: David Henige, Memorial Library, 728 State St., Madison, WI 53706, U.S.A. If all goes well, it might be possible to publish an improved set of guidelines in next year's HA.As discussed briefly below, efficient mobilization of word processing programs should enable intending editors to achieve better results at less cost. Such word processing programs as are now available are probably not equally suitable and any readers who have used any programs extensively or who have developed variants of their own, with respect either to editing or to linguistic transcription, are also urged to submit brief statements (up to ca. 1000 words) as to their experiences, whether good or bad. These could then be published en ensemble, also (probably) in the 1991 HA.

scholarly journals It really does take a village: The role of neighbors in the etiology of nonaggressive rule-breaking behavior

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (02) ◽  
pp. 713-725 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Alexandra Burt ◽  
Amber L. Pearson ◽  
Amanda Rzotkiewicz ◽  
Kelly L. Klump ◽  
Jenae M. Neiderhiser
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Networks ◽  
Sensitivity Analyses ◽  
Genetic Influences ◽  
Michigan State University ◽  
State University ◽  
Geographic Proximity ◽  
Self Reports ◽  
Contagion Model ◽  
Rule Breaking

AbstractAlthough there is growing recognition that disadvantaged contexts attenuate genetic influences on youth misbehavior, it is not yet clear how this dampening occurs. The current study made use of a “geographic contagion” model to isolate specific contexts contributing to this effect, with a focus on nonaggressive rule-breaking behaviors (RB) in the families’ neighbors. Our sample included 847 families residing in or near modestly-to-severely disadvantaged neighborhoods who participated in the Michigan State University Twin Registry. Neighborhood sampling techniques were used to recruit neighbors residing within 5km of a given family (the mean number of neighbors assessed per family was 13.09; range, 1–47). Analyses revealed clear evidence of genotype–environment interactions by neighbor RB, such that sibling-level shared environmental influences on child RB increased with increasing neighbor self-reports of their own RB, whereas genetic influences decreased. Moreover, this moderation appeared to be driven by geographic proximity to neighbors. Sensitivity analyses further indicated that this effect was specifically accounted for by higher levels of neighbor joblessness, rather than elements of neighbor RB that would contribute to neighborhood blight or crime. Such findings provocatively suggest that future genotype–environment interactions studies should integrate the dynamic networks of social contagion theory.

scholarly journals The Role of Dispensing Device and Label Warnings on Dosing for Sunscreen Application: A Randomized Trial

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-152
Author(s):  
Alyssa Harben ◽  
Shelby Robinson ◽  
Javier de la Fuente ◽  
Laura Bix
Keyword(s):  
Michigan State University ◽  
Common Phenomenon ◽  
State University ◽  
Over The Counter ◽  
Use Patterns ◽  
San Luis ◽  
Sunscreen Use ◽  
Effective Product ◽  
Post Hoc

Drug manufacturers are expected to provide labeling information needed to yield safe and effective product use. However, it is not clear that consumers dose sunscreen, an over-the-counter drug, appropriately; in fact, existing evidence suggests underdosing as a common phenomenon. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of dispensing device and labeling on self-administered doses of sunscreen in young adults. To investigate those effects, a 2 × 2 factorial laboratory experiment crossing dispensing device (two levels) with labeling treatment (two levels) was conducted. Participants applied sunscreen from each of the four treatments; dosing concentration, measured in mg/cm2, served as the response variable. Participants ( n = 94) were recruited on the campuses of Michigan State University (East Lansing, MI) and California Polytechnic State University (San Luis Obispo, CA). Each participant applied sunscreen from each unique treatment to sites on their arms and legs (four applications). Postapplication, a survey was completed to characterize demographics, risk perception, and sunscreen use patterns. Results indicate participants applied approximately 30% less sunscreen from the pump bottles than the squeeze bottles (difference estimate of 0.3059 mg/cm2, standard error = 0.0607, p < .0001); there was no evidence of a difference based on label treatments. Post hoc recognition tests indicated only 55% of participants were able to recognize the two experimental labels they had viewed immediately following sunscreen application. Sunscreen application density was directly related to level of worry regarding skin cancer and frequency of sunscreen use (α = .05). Our results suggest the dispensing device used to deliver sunscreen impacts the dosage amount consumers apply.

scholarly journals A SURVEY ON TOPICS, RESEARCHERS AND CULTURES IN THE FIELD OF DIGITAL HERITAGE

2017 ◽  
Vol IV-2/W2 ◽  
pp. 157-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Münster
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Data Acquisition ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
Important Research ◽  
Digital Heritage ◽  
Broad Variety ◽  
Digital Methods ◽  
Disciplinary Cultures

Digital heritage comprises a broad variety of approaches and topics and involves researchers from multiple disciplines. While the use of digital methods in the text-oriented disciplines dealing with cultural heritage is widely discussed and canonized, an up-to-date investigation on cultural heritage as a scholarly field is currently missing. The extended abstract is about a three-stage investigation on standards, publications, disciplinary cultures as well as scholars in the field of digital heritage, carried out in 2016 and 2017. It includes results of a workshop-based survey involving 44 researchers, 15 qualitative interviews as well as an online survey with nearly 1000 participants. As an overall finding, a community is driven by researchers from European countries and especially Italy with a background in humanities, dealing with topics of data acquisition, data management and visualization. Moreover, conference series are most relevant for a scientific discourse, and especially EU projects set pace as most important research endeavours.

Europeana, EDM, and the Europeanisation of Cultural Heritage Institutions

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-190
Author(s):  
Carlotta Capurro ◽  
Gertjan Plets
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Data Model ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Metadata Model ◽  
Digital Heritage ◽  
National Heritage ◽  
European Heritage ◽  
Heritage Politics ◽  
The Eu

Abstract Over the past two decades, the European Commission has mobilised cultural heritage to bolster a European identity. One of the main flagship initiatives promoted to this end has been Europeana, the most extensive digital cultural project financed by the EU. At the core of the project stands europeana.eu, a digital cultural portal aggregating metadata provided by national and local heritage institutions. Central in our analysis is the Europeana Data Model (EDM). Using standardised thesauri and vocabularies, EDM offers the possibility to create a semantic contextualisation for objects, allowing semantic operations on the metadata and their enrichment with Linked Open Data on the web. Due to its overarching nature, EDM cannot deliver the granularity that cultural heritage institutions need when documenting their resources. Nonetheless, heritage institutions accept to sacrifice accuracy to have their information represented in a Europewide collection. We study how this digital heritage infrastructure was designed to enact a sense of Europeanness amongst national and local institutions. Policy documents, ethnographic research and a systematic survey amongst the European heritage institutions enabled us to trace how a standardised European metadata structure plays a role in governing local and national heritage institutions. The EDM might enable heritage stakeholders to benefit from Europeana’s online exposure while enacting a European mindset. Ultimately, this study of the metadata model enriches the debate on the EU’s cultural heritage politics, which has not fully explored the role of the digital. At the same time, it also taps into debates about infrastructure and digital governmentality.

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