Preserve the Past for the Future: Digital Library of the National Library of Austria

Author(s):  
Johanna Rachinger

The paper reveals the following aspects of activities of NB Austria: the digitization of information, which began in late 1990 through digitizing the card catalog to be posted on the Internet, the digitization of special holdings and archival collections; digitization of national periodicals (project ANNO), legislation and parliamentary documents ALEX; making available online of the XIV-XIX books collection ("Austrian books online") in a public private partnership with Google; gathering of web-publications and creation of Austrian web-pages archive. Being a member of Europeana, NB Austria also participates in EuropeanaTravel4 и EuropeanaConnect3 projects.

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
YUSUNG SU ◽  
Siyu Sun ◽  
Jiangrui Liu

How do Chinese information inspectors censor the internet? In light of the assumption that inspectors must follow specific rules instead of ambiguous guidelines, such as precluding collective action, to decide what and when to delete, this study attempts to offer a dynamic understanding of censorship by exploiting well-structured Weibo data from before and after the 2018 Taiwanese election. This study finds that inspectors take advantage of time in handling online discussions with the potential for collective action. Through this deferral tactic, inspectors make online sentiments moderately flow regarding an important political event, and thereafter, past discussions on trendy topics will be mostly removed. Therefore, reality is selectively altered; the past is modified, and the future will be remembered in a ``preferable" way.


2012 ◽  
Vol 143 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Allen

This article explore how, in the first decade of the twenty-first century, the internet became historicised, meaning that its public existence is now explicitly framed through a narrative that locates the current internet in relation to a past internet. Up until this time, in popular culture, the internet had been understood mainly as the future-in-the-present, as if it had no past. The internet might have had a history, but it had no historicity. That has changed because of Web 2.0, and the effects of Tim O'Reilly's creative marketing of that label. Web 2.0, in this sense not a technology or practice but the marker of a discourse of historical interpretation dependent on versions, created for us a second version of the web, different from (and yet connected to) that of the 1990s. This historicising moment aligned the past and future in ways suitable to those who might control or manage the present. And while Web 3.0, implied or real, suggests the ‘future’, it also marks out a loss of other times, or the possibility of alterity understood through temporality.


Author(s):  
Charles E. Perkins

The Internet is growing ever more mobile – meaning, that an ever greater proportion of Internet devices are mobile devices. This trend necessitates new designs and will produce new and even unpredictable conceptions about the very nature of the Internet and, more fundamentally, the nature of social interaction. The engineering response to growing mobility and complexity is difficult to predict. This chapter summarizes the past and the present ways of dealing with mobility, and uses that as context for trying to understand what needs to be done for the future. Central to the conception of future mobility is the notion of “always available” and highly interactive applications. Part of providing acceptable service in that conception of the mobile Internet will require better ways to manage handovers as the device moves around the Internet, and ways to better either hide or make available a person's identity depending on who is asking.


2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 895-904
Author(s):  
Fátima García López ◽  
Sara Martínez Cardama

The Internet archives kept by heritage libraries are analysed, focusing specifically on that new type of expression characteristic of web culture and digital folklore, the meme. Five paradigmatic examples of heritage institutions engaging in web archive initiatives are explored: the Library of Congress, British Library, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Biblioteca Nacional de España and National Library of Australia. Specific assessment categories are defined for the study. The findings reveal a lack of collection policies for such representative objects of today’s mass culture and identify the challenges both for the custodial institutions and for research in the future.


2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (14) ◽  
pp. 171-181
Author(s):  
Mária Buzinkayová

Opportunities for PPP in Culture In recent years, the importance of PPP has increased - but the projects still remain focused and concentrated in the infrastructure / transport industry. Public-private partnership in some areas of the cultural sector could provide many benefits to both par-ties. There is at present an absence of any mentionable experience with PPP projects in the culture and no special legislation for this application area. This article aims to provide a brief analysis of the advantages and problems of the PPP projects in the field of culture that is dominated by the state offers and their influence on the future situation in this sector.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Crystal Nicole Steltenpohl ◽  
Jordan Reed ◽  
Christopher Keys

The internet allows people to connect with virtually anyone across the globe, building communities based on shared interests, experiences, and goals. Despite the potential for furthering our understanding of communities more generally through exploring them in online contexts, online communities have not generally been a focus of community psychologists. A conceptual, state-of-the-art review of eight major community psychology journals revealed 23 descriptive or empirical articles concerning online communities have been published in the past 20 years. These articles are primarily descriptive and can be organized into four categories: community building and maintenance (seven articles, 30.43%), community support (six articles, 26.09%), norms and attitudes (six articles, 26.09%), and advocacy (four articles, 17.39%). These articles reflect a promising start to understanding how we can utilize the internet to build and enhance communities. They also indicate how much further we have to go, both in understanding online communities and certain concepts regarding community psychology more generally. Community psychologists involved in practice and applied settings specifically may benefit from understanding online communities as they become integral components of advocacy, community organizing, and everyday life.


Author(s):  
Như Thị Thùy Cao

Appraisal is an important stage in the preparation of Public-Private Partnership projects, which has an important influence on the project investment decision. However, the reality of the appraisal work over the past time has not been as effective as expected. To improve this situation, first of all, it is necessary to improve the legal basis of the organization, operation as well as the responsibility of the subject assigned to the appraisal task (the appraisal council). Only when the legal status of the appraisal council is independently designed, the composition of the appraisal council meets the professional requirements and the legal responsibility of each member of the appraisal council are clearly defined, thus the appraisal work can be done seriously and effectively. With the above orientation, this article will clarify Vietnamese legal regulations related to the appraisal council for Public-Private Partnership projects, including the current provisions of Decree 63/2018/ND-CP and the upcoming provisions of the Law on Public-Private Partnership Investment 2020. At the same time, this article will also compare with similar provisions of the Korean laws to have multidimensional views. On that basis, this article will propose a number of personal views to complete the legal basis for the appraisal of Public-Private Partnership projects in our country.


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