scholarly journals Exploring Archives Space an Open Source Solution for Digital Archiving

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (05) ◽  
pp. 272-276
Author(s):  
Mayukh Sarkar ◽  
Sruti Biswas
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
High Definition ◽  
Collections Management ◽  
Digital Archiving ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Video Recordings ◽  
Cross Domain ◽  
Networking Technologies ◽  
Metadata Harvesting ◽  
Digital Language

The advent of digital and networking technologies has begun to embrace the genesis of the next-generation digital archive. The inclusion of cross-domain objects like manuscript documents, audio and video recordings, photographs, paintings, sculptures and other digitised cultural heritage materials increases the complexity of digital archiving in terms of preservation, collection, and discovery of these resources. Introducing a high definition information retrieval system to exhibit the library and museum’s digital resources to a maximum number of users in an open-access environment can satisfy the S. R. Ranganathan’s fourth law – save the time of reader as well as the staffs. Nevertheless, from the perspective of acquiring an advanced OPAC view (web-scale discovery interface) with index-based searching, metadata harvesting, and accessing the physical as well as digital holdings is always a better option for Archival Collections Management System (ACMS). This paper illustrates the fundamental notions and applications of ArchivesSpace, a useful open-source digital archiving toolkit of the contemporary world and analyses its relevance in digital language archiving.

scholarly journals FaceSync: Open source framework for recording facial expressions with head-mounted cameras

F1000Research ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 702 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jin Hyun Cheong ◽  
Sawyer Brooks ◽  
Luke J. Chang
Keyword(s):  
Facial Expression ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Video Recording ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Expression Data ◽  
Video Recordings ◽  
Automated Method ◽  
Open Source Framework ◽  
The Cost

Advances in computer vision and machine learning algorithms have enabled researchers to extract facial expression data from face video recordings with greater ease and speed than standard manual coding methods, which has led to a dramatic increase in the pace of facial expression research. However, there are many limitations in recording facial expressions in laboratory settings.  Conventional video recording setups using webcams, tripod-mounted cameras, or pan-tilt-zoom cameras require making compromises between cost, reliability, and flexibility. As an alternative, we propose the use of a mobile head-mounted camera that can be easily constructed from our open-source instructions and blueprints at a fraction of the cost of conventional setups. The head-mounted camera framework is supported by the open source Python toolbox FaceSync, which provides an automated method for synchronizing videos. We provide four proof-of-concept studies demonstrating the benefits of this recording system in reliably measuring and analyzing facial expressions in diverse experimental setups, including group interaction experiments.

Digital Archiving of Diasporic Cultural Productions and Transnational Citizenship of Arabs in the West

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 259-278
Author(s):  
Melissa Finn ◽  
Eid Mohamed ◽  
Bessma Momani
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Ethnically Diverse ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The West ◽  
Digital Archiving ◽  
Skill Sets ◽  
Cultural Productions ◽  
Transnational Citizenship ◽  
The Many

When transnationally constructed art forms, such as the works of diasporic cultural productions of Arabs in the West, are made available in open-source on a digital archive, this supports the transnational flow or exchange of citizenship-enhancing ideas, skill-sets, technologies, tools, capacities, and practices. In this theoretical investigation, we explore imagined outcomes when new audiences can engage with diasporic cultural productions of Arabs. Digital archiving of ethnically diverse cultural productions can expand civility, solidarity, and common ground among people; these latter behaviors are the ideational foundations of agency-based claims of transnational citizenship. Such cultural productions help to reconfigure the questions, opportunities, and nature of political and social agency in ways that empower diaspora communities and expand their abilities to make citizenship claims in multiple societies. This is what the Internet enables despite its tendency towards parochialism in globalized pockets. Moreover, we highlight the possibilities of open-source digital archiving—with a focus on literature, poetry, biographies, and letters—for agency-based claims of citizenship and the many caveats that require further attention and consideration.

scholarly journals Negri, Hardt, Distributed Governance and Open Source Software

2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Contemporary World

Negri and Hardt have described the mode of governance of the contemporary world as

scholarly journals FaceSync: Open source framework for recording facial expressions with head-mounted cameras

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jin Hyun Cheong ◽  
Sawyer Brooks ◽  
Luke J. Chang
Keyword(s):  
Facial Expression ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Video Recording ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Expression Data ◽  
Video Recordings ◽  
Automated Method ◽  
Open Source Framework ◽  
The Cost

Advances in computer vision and machine learning algorithms have enabled researchers to extract facial expression data from face video recordings with greater ease and speed than standard manual coding methods, which has led to a dramatic increase in the pace of facial expression research. However, there are many limitations in recording facial expressions in laboratory settings. Conventional video recording setups using webcams, tripod-mounted cameras, or pan-tilt-zoom cameras require making compromises between cost, reliability, and flexibility. As an alternative, we propose the use of a mobile head-mounted camera that can be easily constructed from our open-source instructions and blueprints at a fraction of the cost of conventional setups. The head-mounted camera framework is supported by the open source Python toolbox FaceSync, which provides an automated method for synchronizing videos. We provide four proof-of-concept studies demonstrating the benefits of this recording system in reliably measuring and analyzing facial expressions in diverse experimental setups including group interaction experiments.

Heritage as Remaking

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott A. Lukas
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Dynamic Processes ◽  
Data Archive ◽  
Staten Island ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Ghost Town ◽  
Poplar Trees ◽  
The World ◽  
New Perspective

This chapter argues for a new perspective on heritage, one that is informed by the contexts of remaking. Traditionally, heritage has referred to specific types of architectural, material, and cultural forms and processes that carry with them a sense of monumentality. This writing argues for a new sense of heritage that takes into account the dynamic processes of the contemporary world. A series of five heritage metaphors (and their replacement metaphors) is considered in terms of the main premises of heritage as a cultural and political process. These include the tree (rhizome), battery (Rube Goldberg machine), monument (souvenir), lecture (dialogue), and library (open source). These metaphors are considered through a variety of heritage spaces in the world, including Castle of Matrera, the fresco of Christ in Borja, the Denver International Airport, the Staten Island Ferry Disaster Memorial Monument, O. M. Henrikson Poplar Trees Mall, the Bodie ghost town, the Buddhas of Bamiyan, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, and the World Data Archive..

Managing Open Access (OA) Scholarly Information Resources in a University

2017 ◽  
pp. 224-255
Author(s):  
Dimple Patel ◽  
Deepti Thakur
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Digital Library ◽  
Himachal Pradesh ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Information Resources ◽  
Open Standards ◽  
Metadata Harvesting ◽  
Experienced User

Open Access (OA) to scholarly information has now become a reality. Due to the efforts of OA supporters worldwide now even commercial publishers have started supporting open access to their content through various open access models. Many public institutions like universities and R&D Labs have realized the importance of OA in developing the society in general. As a result, these institutions have come up with OA repositories, archives and libraries. As with any such proliferation of information, OA resources have increased manifold and can easily overwhelm even an experienced user. Also different repositories may use various digital library software, which presents the problem of multifarious search interfaces and features. The solution can be found in the open community of open source software and open standards. The open source metadata harvesting software PKP-OHS and the open protocol for metadata harvesting i.e. OAI-PMH come to the rescue. This chapter discusses how PKP-OHS was implemented as a pilot study at the Central University of Himachal Pradesh (CUHP).

scholarly journals An open-source database model and collections management system for fish scale and otolith archives

2020 ◽  
Vol 59 ◽  
pp. 101115
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Tray ◽  
Adam Leadbetter ◽  
Will Meaney ◽  
Andrew Conway ◽  
Caoimhín Kelly ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Management System ◽  
Fish Scale ◽  
Collections Management ◽  
Database Model ◽  
Source Database

scholarly journals Simple Video-Based Spatiotemporal Gait Analysis Is Not Better than Subjective Visual Assessment of Lameness in Dogs

VCOT Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 04 (01) ◽  
pp. e65-e71
Author(s):  
Julie H. Møller ◽  
Anne D. Vitger ◽  
Helle H. Poulsen ◽  
James E. Miles
Keyword(s):  
Gait Analysis ◽  
Pairwise Comparison ◽  
Visual Assessment ◽  
Clinical Population ◽  
High Definition ◽  
Video Recordings ◽  
Standardized Protocol ◽  
Clinically Significant ◽  
Head Height ◽  
Walking Speeds

Abstract Introduction Visual gait analysis is prone to subjectivity, but objective analysis systems are not widely available to clinicians. Simple video analysis using high-definition recordings might enable identification of temporal or spatial variations that could permit objective and repeatable assessments of lameness in general practice. Methods Cohorts of normal and mildly to moderately lame dogs were filmed using a standardized protocol. Using freely available software, measurements of stance, swing and stride time were obtained, along with measurements of pelvic, shoulder, and head height for each limb. Symmetry ratios were calculated, and distributions of normal and lame dogs compared using Mann–Whitney U test and Kruskal–Wallis test. Results Recordings from 35 normal dogs were assessed along with 30 dogs with grade 1 to 3/5 lameness. While no consistent significant differences in temporal characteristics could be found, head height asymmetry was significantly different between lame and normal dogs (p = 0.003), with pairwise comparison showing this difference was restricted to forelimb-lame dogs (p = 0.03). Conclusion While potentially useful for patient records, use of video recordings at walking speeds for simple spatiotemporal gait analysis does not appear to offer clinically significant advantages over visual gait analysis in a typical clinical population of lame dogs.

scholarly journals Audio Networking in the Music Industry

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-48
Author(s):  
Glebs Kuzmics ◽  
Maaruf Ali
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Music Industry ◽  
Fundamental Concept ◽  
Computer Networking ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Software Programs ◽  
Networking Technologies ◽  
Audio Video

This paper surveys the rôle of computer networking technologies in the music industry. A comparison of their relevant technologies, their defining advantages and disadvantages; analyses and discussion of the situation in the market of network enabled audio products followed by a discussion of different devices are presented. The idea of replacing a proprietary solution with open-source and freeware software programs has been chosen as the fundamental concept of this research. The technologies covered include: native IEEE AVnu Alliance Audio Video Bridging (AVB), CobraNet®, Audinate Dante™ and Harman BLU Link.

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