scholarly journals 'Nenhum Problema Tem Solução': Um Arquivo Digital do Livro do Desassossego

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuel Portela
Keyword(s):  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Digital Archive ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Fernando Pessoa ◽  
Critical Editions ◽  
Methodological Aspects

O projeto 'Nenhum Problema Tem Solução: Um Arquivo Digital do Livro do Desassossego' tem como objetivo a criação de um arquivo digital hipermédia dedicado à obra Livro do Desassossego [LdoD], de Bernardo Soares/Fernando Pessoa. O arquivo agregará fac-símiles digitais dos materiais documentais do LdoD, transcrições topográficas desses materiais, transcrições textuais das quatro edições críticas publicadas entre 1982 e 2010 (Coelho 1982 [2ª edição, 1997]; Cunha 1990-91 [2ª edição, 2008]; Zenith 1998 [10ª edição, 2012]; Pizarro 2010), e ainda ferramentas de pesquisa e análise textual. Esta agregação e codificação eletrónica dos fragmentos combina edição genética e edição social do LdoD, mostrando-o como rede potencial de intenções autorais e como construção conjetural dos seus sucessivos editores. O arquivo digital criará ainda um espaço de virtualização do LdoD que favoreça novas dinâmicas de leitura, edição, investigação e escrita. Este artigo apresenta o projeto nos seus aspetos teóricos, técnicos e metodológicos, enquadrando-os na investigação em curso neste domínio. Abstract The research project 'No Problem Has Solution: A Digital Archive of the Book of Disquiet' aims to produce a digital hypermedia archive of the Book of Disquiet [LdoD], by Bernardo Soares/Fernando Pessoa. The archive will contain digital facsimiles of the documentary materials of LdoD, topographic transcriptions of those materials, textual transcriptions of the four critical editions published between 1982 and 2010 (Coelho 1982 [2nd edition, 1997]; Cunha 1990-91 [2nd edition, 2008]; Zenith 1998 [10th edition, 2012]; Pizarro 2010), and also tools for search and textual analysis. This aggregation and electronic encoding of textual fragments combines genetic and social editing of LdoD, showing it both as a network of potential authorial intentions and as a conjectural construction of its successive editors. This digital archive will also provide a space for virtualizing LdoD that encourages new dynamics of reading, editing, research, and writing. This article presents the project in its theoretical, technical, and methodological aspects, contextualizing them within ongoing research in the field.   DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/2182-8830_1-1_1

scholarly journals Machines of Disquiet: Textual Experience in the LdoD Archive

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 59-71
Author(s):  
Luís Lucas Pereira ◽  
Manuel Portela ◽  
Licínio Roque
Keyword(s):  
Digital Archive ◽  
Electronic Literature ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Fernando Pessoa ◽  
Electronic Writing ◽  
Opening Up

The work Machines of Disquiet (http://mofd.dei.uc.pt) has been developed in the context of an ongoing research project whose goal is to create a dynamic digital archive of the Book of Disquiet, an unfinished work written by Fernando Pessoa between 1913 and 1935 (LdoD Archive, 2017, https://ldod.uc.pt/). This paper intends to show the workings of Machines of Disquiet in experiencing Fernando Pessoa’s text as electronic literature. We start by showing the rationale of the LdoD Archive, followed by a discussion of the Machines of Disquiet as both electronic writing and gameplay experiment, before moving on to a demonstration of the various types of machines. We conclude by describing these textual experiments as an opening up of the Book of Disquiet to further acts of writing.

scholarly journals On some theoretical and methodological issues in researching the Roma population in sociology and ethnology/socio-cultural anthropology. The example of an ongoing research project in Serbia

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 879
Author(s):  
Miloš Milenković ◽  
Isidora Jarić ◽  
Valentina Sokolovska
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Roma Population ◽  
Methodological Problems ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
Sociological Approaches ◽  
Methodological Aspects

The paper considers theoretical and methodological problems noted during the research project “Social and cultural potentials of the Roma ethnic community in Serbia” undertaken during 2013 and 2014. These problems point to an extant yet latent tension between the anthropological and the sociological approaches to the researched reality, with special emphasis on the antirealist tradition of the former and the empiricist “realist” tradition of the latter in the Serbian academic tradition of these disciplines. The paper considers how standard issues connected to methodological aspects of this primarily sociological research project (choice of topic, creation of sample, the making of field instruments, selection of informants, communication in the field, use of field assistants, data analysis and the making of the manuscript) diffract through the prism of theoretically disputable concepts of identity, ethnicity, assimilation and essentialization, which are subject to continuing questioning in anthropological theoretical and empirical research. The experience of conducting research together displays a set of methodological defaults on the anthropological and a set of theoretical defaults on the sociological side, followed by research renunciations and interpretative tensions and frustrations that arise from them, so it can be used as a guide to understanding disciplinary differences and similarities, especially when planning cooperation on a global level as well as in the local research context. Aside from this, the indivisibility of theoretical and methodological structures and the huge influence of theory on method, as demonstrated by the research itself, is considered, with implications for understanding theoretical and methodological issues which are bigger than the two disciplines in question. It is concluded that, for pragmatic reasons, multidisciplinary research of this type must be designed to suppress the theoretical ambitions of anthropology as well as the methodological ambitions of sociology.

Information Needs of Microenterprise Owners in Louisiana

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tao Jin
Keyword(s):  
Information Needs ◽  
Wide Spectrum ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Industrial Sectors

This presentation will report on an ongoing research project about the information needs of microenterprise owners in Louisiana. Microenterprises are those businesses with fewer than five employees or sole proprietorships with no employees. They exist across all industrial sectors and incorporate a wide spectrum of information needs.Cette communication présente un projet de recherche en cours s'intéressant aux besoins informationnels des propriétaires de microentreprises de la Louisiane. Les microentreprises comptent moins de cinq employés, y compris celles à propriétaire unique sans employé, et sont présentes dans tous les secteurs d'activités. Les besoins informationnels varient donc grandement.

Chinese Television in Africa

2021 ◽  
pp. 026327642110120
Author(s):  
Alessandro Jedlowski
Keyword(s):  
Soft Power ◽  
The Political ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Chinese Media ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
The Media ◽  
Chinese Television ◽  
Media Company

On the basis of the results of an ongoing research project on the activities of the Chinese media company StarTimes in Nigeria and Côte d’Ivoire, this paper analyses the fluid and fragmentary dimension of the engagements between Chinese media and African publics, while equally emphasizing the power dynamics that underlie them. Focusing on a variety of ethnographic sources, it argues for an approach to the study of Chinese media expansion in Africa able to take into account, simultaneously, the macro-political and macro-economic factors which condition the nature of China–Africa media interactions, the political intentions behind them (as, for example, the Chinese soft power policies and their translation into specific media contents), and the micro dimension of the practices and uses of the media made by the actors (producers and consumers of media) in the field.

scholarly journals Specifying a TEI-XML Based Format for Aligning Text to Image at Character Level

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexei Lavrentiev ◽  
Yann Leydier ◽  
Dominique Stutzmann
Keyword(s):  
Digital Images ◽  
Image Alignment ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Grain Alignment ◽  
Medieval Latin ◽  
Critical Editions ◽  
Fine Grain

This papers presents an experience of specifying and implementing an XML format for text to image alignment at word and character level within the TEI framework. The format in question is a supplementary markup layer applied to heterogeneous transcriptions of medieval Latin and French manuscripts encoded using different “flavors” of the TEI (normalized for critical editions, diplomatic or palaeographic transcriptions). One of the problems that had to be solved was identifying “non-alignable” spans in various kinds of transcriptions. Originally designed in the framework of a research project on the ontology of letter-forms in medieval Latin and vernacular (mostly French) manuscripts and inscriptions, this format can be of use for all kinds of projects that involve fine-grain alignment of transcriptions with zones on digital images.

scholarly journals Welcome Intrusions: Capturing the Unexpected in Translators’ Prefaces to Dante’s Divine Comedy

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Marella Feltrin-Morris
Keyword(s):  
Divine Comedy ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Authentic Voice

As part of an ongoing research project, this essay examines a number of translators’ prefaces to Dante’s Divine Comedy, summarizing recurring patterns and then focusing on deviations from the norm. The majority of these prefaces tend to follow a script, particularly in the case of retranslations of classical texts, which require an acknowledgment of past translations, a homage to the authority of the source text and a display of the translator’s expertise. However, occasional detours from the predictable constellation of themes deserve closer scrutiny, since they give a more authentic voice to the individuals who engaged with the text in its deepest form, not merely within the confines of a prescriptive formula, but expanding the potential of this unique space towards new avenues of discovery.

scholarly journals Reimagining Parenting Possibilities: Towards Intimate Justice

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 238-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esther Ignagni ◽  
Ann Fudge Schormans
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Disabilities ◽  
Social Dilemmas ◽  
Theatre Of The Oppressed ◽  
Intellectual And Developmental Disabilities ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Forum Theatre ◽  
Transformative Potential

At the heart of this paper is a collaboratively created script representing a line of analysis from the Reimagining Parenting Possibilities Project. The script is performed as a forum theatre scene used to disseminate findings from this ongoing research project. Forum theatre, an exemplar of Augusto Boal’s “theatre of the oppressed,” invites audience members into a scene, inventing through embodied performance and improvisation analyses and interventions in shared social dilemmas (Boal, 2006). The project rests upon our joint investments in exploring how the denial and containment of parenthood for people labeled with intellectual and developmental disabilities stems from enduring ableist views as to who is deemed “fit” to raise future citizens, and related efforts to erase disability. We introduce this work with a prologue – offering context for the ableist dynamic and intimate injustices that unfold in the scene. We also provide some background on how we developed the scene, attending to the democratizing and transformative potential of our methodology. Finally, by way of an epilogue, we sketch a number of questions about the scene’s potential to promote intimate and disability justice.

Developing the Methodology for an Applied, Interdisciplinary Research Project: Documenting the Journey Toward Philosophical Clarity

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 450-468 ◽  
Author(s):  
Loene M. Howes
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Mixed Methods Research ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Methodological Choices ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research Project ◽  
Logic Of Inquiry ◽  
Methodological Refinement

Methodologists have urged researchers who use mixed methods to justify their methodological choices and provide greater clarity about the philosophical underpinnings and implications of their approaches. This article outlines the reasoning process undertaken in an endeavor to develop philosophical clarity for an applied, interdisciplinary, mixed methods research project about the communication of scientific evidence in the legal system. I used Greene’s domains of methodology for social inquiry as a framework for addressing reflexive questions about assumptions. Flowing from the domains of values and philosophies, the logic of inquiry was developed before the implications for the integration of findings and reporting of research were outlined. Early engagement in reflexive questioning provided a foundation for methodological refinement throughout the ongoing research journey.

scholarly journals Developing A Comprehensive Tool to Support Requirements Analyst During Elicitation Interviews [Kennesaw State University]

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norah Jean-Charles ◽  
Paola Spoletini
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Application ◽  
State University ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Need Support ◽  
Voice Data ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Data Requirements ◽  
Voice Recording

This research is being conducted to provide requirements analysts with a supportive tool to use during elicitation interviews. In these interviews that were conducted as part of the overall project, stakeholders were asked a series of questions while wearing the Empatica E4 wristband and being recorded through various voice recording platforms. As a part of an ongoing research project, stakeholders have been interviewed using voice recordings and the Empatica E4 wristband to gather biofeedback data. Requirements analyst need support during elicitation interviews because of the ambiguity that arises during communication making it harder to collect proper requirements. In order to provide features such as visualizing the biofeedback collected from the Empatica E4 wristband and the voice waves, questions such as how to create a user-friendly application and how to synchronize the biofeedback and voice data must be researched. In conclusion, creating this mobile application would to assist requirements analysts in carrying out assessments during elicitation interviews.

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