Chapter 5. British Library/ Qatar Foundation Partnership and the Digitization Project: A Case Study about Conservation Processes within Mass Digitization of Library Material

2020 ◽  
pp. 105-116
Keyword(s):  
British Library ◽  
Library Material ◽  
Mass Digitization

Habemus Corpora: Reapproaching Philological Problems in the Age of ‘Big’ Data

2021 ◽  
Vol 139 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-127
Author(s):  
Mark Faulkner
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Old English ◽  
English Language ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
British Library ◽  
New Techniques ◽  
Major Task ◽  
New Methodologies ◽  
Primary Focus

Abstract This paper demonstrates the potential of new methodologies for using existing corpora of medieval English to better contextualise linguistic variants, a major task of philology and a key underpinning of our ability to answer major literary-historical questions, such as when, where and to what purpose medieval texts and manuscripts were produced. The primary focus of the article is the assistance these methods can offer in dating the composition of texts, which it illustrates with a case study of the “Old” English Life of St Neot, uniquely preserved in the mid-twelfth-century South-Eastern homiliary, London, British Library, Cotton Vespasian D.xiv, fols. 4–169. While the Life has recently been dated around 1100, examining its orthography, lexis, syntax and style alongside that of all other English-language texts surviving from before 1150 using new techniques for searching the Dictionary of Old English Corpus suggests it is very unlikely to be this late. The article closes with some reflections on what book-historical research should prioritise as it further evolves into the digital age.

scholarly journals Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative: A Case Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-113
Author(s):  
Devan Ray Donaldson ◽  
Allison McClanahan ◽  
Leif Christiansen ◽  
Laura Bell ◽  
Mikala Narlock ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Qualitative Case Study ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Indiana University ◽  
Roles And Responsibilities ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
Digital Curation ◽  
Lifecycle Model ◽  
Mass Digitization

Since its creation nearly a decade ago, the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) Curation Lifecycle Model has become the quintessential framework for understanding digital curation. Organizations and consortia around the world have used the DCC Curation Lifecycle Model as a tool to ensure that all the necessary stages of digital curation are undertaken, to define roles and responsibilities, and to build a framework of standards and technologies for digital curation. Yet, research on the application of the model to large-scale digitization projects as a way of understanding their efforts at digital curation is scant. This paper reports on findings of a qualitative case study analysis of Indiana University Bloomington’s multi-million-dollar Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative (MDPI), employing the DCC Curation Lifecycle Model as a lens for examining the scope and effectiveness of its digital curation efforts. Findings underscore the success of MDPI in performing digital curation by illustrating the ways it implements each of the model’s components. Implications for the application of the DCC Curation Lifecycle Model in understanding digital curation for mass digitization projects are discussed as well as directions for future research.

Sweet Echo

2019 ◽  
pp. 179-202
Author(s):  
Katherine R. Larson
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Level Of Detail ◽  
British Library ◽  
Classroom Discussions ◽  
Performance History ◽  
Musical Settings ◽  
Performance Context ◽  
Acoustic Impact ◽  
And Performance

Although music was integral to masques, the genre’s visual extravagance tends to overshadow its acoustic elements in scholarly and classroom discussions. This chapter focuses on “Sweet Echo,” the Lady’s song in Milton’s A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle (Comus), which was performed in 1634 by 15-year-old Alice Egerton. The unusual level of detail that survives about this masque’s performance history, combined with the musical settings extant in Henry Lawes’s autograph manuscript, now held at the British Library, facilitates a suggestive evaluation of early modern song in terms of the rhetorical interplay between lyric, musical setting, and performance context. It also constitutes a striking case study for considering the acoustic impact of women’s singing voices. Milton’s depiction of temptation and self-discipline in Comus, whose moral message is encapsulated in miniature in the Lady’s performance of “Sweet Echo,” hinges on his audience’s experience of song as an acoustic, embodied, and gendered phenomenon.

scholarly journals ANALISIS KEBIJAKAN AKUNTANSI KOLEKSI BAHAN PUSTAKA SEBAGAI BARANG MILIK NEGARA DI INDONESIA

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-115
Author(s):  
Fajar Islakh Hayadi
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
National Library ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Technical Problems ◽  
Library Material ◽  
Current Accounting ◽  
Government Accounting ◽  
Inaccurate Data ◽  
Data Collections

ABSTRACT The research aims to analyze the conditions of practice and accounting policies for library material collection transactions within Government Accounting Standards/Bultek based on IPSAS and BMN regulations and to provide objective input forms required for specific accounting policies related to library collections as BMN in National Library within Guidance Notes No. 2 Accounting for Library based on IPSAS. This case study qualitative research uses instruments resulting from in-depth interviews, document studies and focus group discussions with National Library, Ministry of Finance and KSAP. The results show that current accounting policies cause technical problems in the recognition and measurement of collections of library materials as assets, resulting in inaccurate data collections of library materials as assets and collections, besides media transfer transactions and digitalization innovations that have not been accommodated in policies, other matters are processes. The library business is not yet in sync with accounting policies including existing information systems. It requires specific accounting policies related to library material collections with objective input in the form of: classification and judgment arrangements, recognition, measurement, media transfer transactions and digitization, including information systems that refer to Guidance Notes and will need to be adjusted to the existing conditions in the National Library.  

The Academic Book of the Future

LOGOS ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 80-90
Author(s):  
Samantha Rayner
Keyword(s):  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Research Council ◽  
British Library ◽  
Morte Darthur ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Future ◽  
Le Morte Darthur ◽  
Future Project

This paper explores the contexts in which the academic books of the future in the arts and humanities (A&H) are being shaped, with the aim of demonstrating how crucial it is that the communities of practice that produce those books continue to work together to build better bridges of understanding and collaboration. There is particular reference to the Arts and Humanities Research Council/ British Library Academic Book of the Future Project (2014–2017) and to a case study of Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur.

Full-text search capability: a new tool for researching the development of scientific language. The ‘Whirlpool Nebula’ as a case study

2008 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Tobin
Keyword(s):  
Full Text ◽  
Spiral Structure ◽  
British Library ◽  
Scientific Language ◽  
Text Search ◽  
Full Text Search ◽  
Online Databases ◽  
Online Newspaper ◽  
Search Capability

Burgeoning numbers of books and periodicals from earlier centuries are becoming available in online databases such as the British Library Online Newspaper Archive, the Making of America collection, the Million Book Project, the Gallica Project, Google Book Search and the Royal Society's Digital Journal Archive. For those databases that offer it, full-text search capability provides the historian with a novel tool for researching the origin and development of scientific language. A case study is given concerning the adoption of the ‘whirlpool’ epithet for Messier 51 (the astronomical nebula in which the Third Earl of Rosse first discovered spiral structure in 1845). This illustrates the power of the tool but also reveals some limitations. In particular, access to originals is still often necessary. Unexpectedly, the astronomical appropriation of ‘whirlpool’ predates Rosse's discovery.

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