scholarly journals The Turin Papyrus Online Platform (TPOP): An Introduction

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Töpfer
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
General Public ◽  
Arabic Text ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Online Platform ◽  
Long Term Preservation

In recent years, scholarly communities as well as the general public have been increasingly requesting open access to museum collections, prompting institutions to offer online catalogues, mostly of selected objects, in some cases even of their complete collections. Major Egyptian papyrus collections, however, have so far been extremely slow in adopting this open-access approach. Until recently, this was also true of the Museo Egizio in Turin, which houses one of the largest collections of Egyptian antiquities worldwide. The TPOP project aims to conserve, document, digitize and contextualize hundreds of papyrus manuscripts and thousands of fragments in a newly created online platform. This platform will enable scholars to work collaboratively on the material and will provide a straightforward publication outlet for both the scholarly and the general public. It aims to generate value beyond the mere preservation of material culture. The virtual “restoration” of papyri by digitally reconstructing them and joining fragments online makes possible what physical restoration does not allow, namely, the long-term preservation of written cultural heritage and its accessibility by anyone from anywhere and at any time. ملخص البحث: طلبت المجتمعات الأكاديمية وعامة الناس في السنوات الأخيرة الوصول بحرية إلى المجموعات الخاصة بالمتاحف، مما دفع المؤسسات إلى توفير كتالوجات على الإنترنت معظمها خاصة بعناصر منتقاة لدرجة أن بعضها يعرض المجموعات الكاملة لتلك العناصر في بعض الحالات. على الرغم من ذلك، فإن مجموعات ورق البردي المصرية الرئيسية بطيئة للغاية حتى الآن في تبني نهج الوصول الحر إليها. وهذا ينطبق أيضًا على المتحف المصري في تورينو حتى وقت قريب، والذي يضم واحدة من أكبر مجموعات الآثار المصرية في جميع أنحاء العالم. يهدف مشروع قاعدة بيانات البردي عبر الإنترنت في تورينو "TPOP" إلى حفظ المئات من مخطوطات البردي وآلاف الأجزاء الممزقة وتوثيقها ورقمنتها وفهم سياقها في منصة إلكترونية تم إنشاؤها حديثًا. ستعمل هذه المنصة على تمكين الأكاديميين من العمل بشكل تعاوني على المواد وستوفر منفذًا مباشرًا للمطبوعات لكل من الأكاديميين والعامة. ويهدف المشروع إلى إنشاء قيمة أكبر من مجرد الحفاظ على الثقافة المادية. حيث أنه من شأن "الترميم" الافتراضي للبرديات من خلال إعادة تكوينها رقمياً وجمع أجزاءها عبر الإنترنت أن يجعل ما لم يستطع الترميم المادي توفيره ممكنًا، وهو الحفاظ على التراث الثقافي المكتوب على المدى الطويل وإمكانية الوصول إليه من قبل أي شخص من أي مكان وفي أي وقت.

Library and Museum Collections Digitization Projects in Finland

2009 ◽  
pp. 95-100
Author(s):  
Yulia S. Chechikova
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Scientific Heritage

Digitization of a national cultural and scientific heritage is one of the long-term strategic problems of the European countries’ governments. Member countries of the European Union make major efforts in providing access to their cultural heritage. In the article the process of an access provision is described for Finland.

Long-term hearing preservation after surgery for vestibular schwannoma

2005 ◽  
Vol 102 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone A. Betchen ◽  
Jane Walsh ◽  
Kalmon D. Post
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Preservation ◽  
Magnetic Resonance Images ◽  
Class I ◽  
Repeated Testing ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Long Term Preservation ◽  
Fine Print

Object. Vestibular schwannomas (VSs) are now amenable to resection with excellent hearing preservation rates. It remains unclear whether immediately postoperative hearing is a durable result and will not diminish over time. The aim of this study was to determine the rate of long-term preservation of functional hearing following surgery for a VS and to examine factors influencing hearing preservation. Methods. All patients eligible for hearing preservation (Gardner—Robertson Class I or II) who had undergone resection of a VS by a single surgeon were reviewed retrospectively. Follow-up audiograms and magnetic resonance images were obtained. Of 142 patients deemed eligible for hearing preservation surgery, 38 had immediate postoperative hearing confirmed by an audiogram. In these patients with preserved hearing, the audiographic results demonstrated functional hearing in 30 (85.7%) of 35 patients who underwent repeated testing at a mean follow-up time of 7 years. Delayed hearing loss occurred in five (14.3%) of the 35 patients and did not correlate significantly with the size of the tumor. Hearing improved one Gardner—Robertson class postoperatively in three (7.9%) of the 38 patients. Conclusions. Long-term functional hearing was maintained in 85.7% of patients when it was preserved immediately postoperatively and the result was independent of tumor size. The results of this study emphasize that long-term preservation of functional hearing is a realistic goal following VS surgery and should be attempted in all patients in whom preoperative hearing is determined to be Gardner—Robertson Class I or II.

scholarly journals The woes of Swedish private archival institutions

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 275-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Proscovia Svärd
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Investigation ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
National Narrative ◽  
Digital Repository ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Public ◽  
Active Involvement ◽  
Organization And Management ◽  
Long Term Preservation

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to highlight the long-term preservation challenges that the Swedish private archives are faced with. In as much as they offer a complement to the public archives and hence offer a nuanced national narrative, they lack both financial and human resources to effectively deal with the digital information management environment. Design/methodology/approach Participatory Action Research (PAR) was used to identify the challenges of long-term preservation together with the six private archives institutions that were involved in the collaboration. The collaboration was financially facilitated by the Södertörn University. PAR is defined as a systematic investigation, with the collaboration of those affected by the issue being studied, for the purposes of education and taking action or effecting social change. What is distinctive of PAR is the active involvement of people whose lives are affected by the phenomenon under study. Findings The private archival institutions face long-term preservation challenges such as lack of a digital repository that would facilitate the capture, organization and management of digital records that are of different formats and in a dispersed environment. There are no stringent legal requirements to facilitate the creation and management of the records in a standardized way and the institutions fear that imposing such requirements might deter their clients from depositing archival materials with them. The institutions will also need to espouse the business-oriented archival descriptions where private organizations are concerned to identify relevant archival materials and to promote participatory archival descriptions that would allow the creators to tag their records with metadata. Digital information requires a proactive approach, that is, planning for the long-term preservation of the information before it is created. Private archives need to invest in education packages that will facilitate their clientele’s understanding of the challenges of digital long-term preservation. Research limitations/implications The findings cannot be generalized to all private archival institutions, as it was only six institutions that participated, but the issues discussed are relevant to most archival institutions. Practical implications A lot of research has been carried out in the area of long-term preservation, but researchers have not paid enough attention to the woes of the private archives. To sustain a nuanced national narrative, the private archives need all the support to be able to live up to their mission of preserving archives of the private sector that are not captured by the public archival institutions. This is important in a pluralistic society such as Sweden. Highlighting the challenges might enable the institutions to work towards finding common challenges. Social implications The private archives are part of Sweden’s national heritage. Their preservation matters to the society as a whole and to enhancing the voices of the underrepresented. Originality/value The literature review revealed that not much research has paid attention to the challenges being faced by the private archives. This paper, therefore, contributes to this knowledge gap.

scholarly journals PERBANDINGAN STRUKTUR, FUNGSI, DAN NILAI BUDAYA PADA LEGENDA TELAGA NGEBEL PONOROGO DAN LEGENDA DANAU RANU PASURUAN

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 201
Author(s):  
Nuraini Saura Putri ◽  
Oktavian Aditya Nugraha
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Structure Function ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
General Public ◽  
Oral Literature ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
Literature Research ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Similarities And Differences

Efforts to preserve the legendary cultural heritage and in the framework of seeking the identity of the nation as well as the diversity of ethnic groups in Indonesia, one way to do is to collect and care for folklore. This research as a means to treat foklor legend of Lake Ranu and Ngebel legend Telaga. Both legends have almost the same story, both the character and the story. The purpose of this study is to determine the similarities and differences in the two legends, through its structure, function and cultural values. Such long-term goal in this study is, to provide knowledge about oral literature research on literature students who can be used as a reference for the future. In addition, this research can also provide new knowledge for the general public about the storyline of the legend of Lake Ngebel and the legend of Lake Ranu. Based on the results of research that has been done then can be drawn a conclusion, namely: the structure there are four equations and has three differences. Something contained in the two legends have three functions, namely; as entertainment, as a means of legitimizing institutions and cultural institutions, as child educators. For the cultural values contained in these two legends are the value of Diktatik, Ethical, and Religious values

scholarly journals Lost in migration: document quality for batch conversion to PDF/A

2018 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Roland Erwin Suri ◽  
Mohamed El-Saad
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Software Tool ◽  
Batch Processing ◽  
Digital Archives ◽  
Adobe Acrobat ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Text Document ◽  
File Formats ◽  
Long Term Preservation

PurposeChanges in file format specifications challenge long-term preservation of digital documents. Digital archives thus often focus on specific file formats that are well suited for long-term preservation, such as the PDF/A format. Since only few customers submit PDF/A files, digital archives may consider converting submitted files to the PDF/A format. The paper aims to discuss these issues.Design/methodology/approachThe authors evaluated three software tools for batch conversion of common file formats to PDF/A-1b: LuraTech PDF Compressor, Adobe Acrobat XI Pro and 3-HeightsTMDocument Converter by PDF Tools. The test set consisted of 80 files, with 10 files each of the eight file types JPEG, MS PowerPoint, PDF, PNG, MS Word, MS Excel, MSG and “web page.”FindingsBatch processing was sometimes hindered by stops that required manual interference. Depending on the software tool, three to four of these stops occurred during batch processing of the 80 test files. Furthermore, the conversion tools sometimes failed to produce output files even for supported file formats: three (Adobe Pro) up to seven (LuraTech and 3-HeightsTM) PDF/A-1b files were not produced. Since Adobe Pro does not convert e-mails, a total of 213 PDF/A-1b files were produced. The faithfulness of each conversion was investigated by comparing the visual appearance of the input document with that of the produced PDF/A-1b document on a computer screen. Meticulous visual inspection revealed that the conversion to PDF/A-1b impaired the information content in 24 of the converted 213 files (11 percent). These reproducibility errors included loss of links, loss of other document content (unreadable characters, missing text, document part missing), updated fields (reflecting time and folder of conversion), vector graphics issues and spelling errors.Originality/valueThese results indicate that large-scale batch conversions of heterogeneous files to PDF/A-1b cause complex issues that need to be addressed for each individual file. Even with considerable efforts, some information loss seems unavoidable if large numbers of files from heterogeneous sources are migrated to the PDF/A-1b format.

scholarly journals Towards A Knowledge Model Bridging Technologies And Applications In Cultural Heritage Documentation

2014 ◽  
Vol II-5 ◽  
pp. 81-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Boochs ◽  
A. Trémeau ◽  
O. Murphy ◽  
M. Gerke ◽  
J.L. Lerma ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Data Model ◽  
Global Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Model ◽  
Measuring Techniques ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Interdisciplinary Study ◽  
Long Term Preservation ◽  
Key Questions

This paper documents the formulation of an international, interdisciplinary study, on a concerted European level, to prepare an innovative, reliable, independent and global knowledge base facilitating the use of today’s and future optical measuring techniques for the documentation of cultural heritage. Cultural heritage professionals, color engineers and scientists share similar goals for the documentation, curation, long-term preservation and representation of cultural heritage artifacts. Their focus is on accuracy in the digital capture and remediation of artefacts through a range of temporal, spatial and technical constraints. A shared vocabulary to interrogate these shared concerns will transform mutual understanding and facilitate an agreed movement forward in cultural heritage documentation here proposed in the work of the COST Action Color and Space in Cultural Heritage (COSCH). The goal is a model that captures the shared concerns of professionals for a standards-based solution with an organic Linked Data model. The knowledge representation proposed here invokes a GUI interface for non-expert users of capture technologies, facilitates, and formulates their engagement with key questions for the field.

STRUCTURAL CONCEPTS IMPLEMENTED WHILE SURVEYING BUILDINGS OF HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Miroslav Todorov ◽  
Mihail Todorov
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
Engineering Research ◽  
Construction Techniques ◽  
Full Study ◽  
World Cultural Heritage ◽  
Complex Engineering ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Long Term Preservation

The study of cultural heritage is a multidisciplinary challenge. Working in this area meets a number of peculiarities, which put emphasis on a full study of the elements of the natural environment, as well as the need for brilliant techniques of construction to be used. The detailed studies of the monuments characteristics in a series of engineering areas over the last decade have led us to the conclusion that the creators of these monuments have achieved an important characteristic of their creations – securing their durability. From an engineering standpoint, the examples are valuable in terms of materials as well as the choice of a structural solution as their most important feature. In several sites with world cultural heritage status-the conservation and impact of the monument in the perspective of eternal longevity have been studied, while analyzing construction and the overall vision of the builders to the specific creation. It is these aspects that are the subject of research and it turns out that their role in preserving the monument is extremely important. This publication examines two monuments with extremely distinctive characteristics, requiring complex engineering research and thorough knowledge of natural and anthropogenic materials and their application in the construction techniques of the past. This is an example, and a basis for adequate solutions with an approach for long-term preservation of the structures.

Small organisations and cultural institutions – a digital future?

2005 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 366-380 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaqueline Spence
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Digital Form ◽  
Digital Collections ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Historical Material ◽  
The Status ◽  
Digital Material ◽  
Acquisition Management ◽  
Effective Transfer

PurposeThis paper aims to examine how technology presents both problems and opportunities for the historian, the researcher, small organisations, and cultural heritage institutions. Ways of safeguarding historical material in digital form are suggested, and the role of cultural heritage bodies as managers of sustainable digital collections is examined.Design/methodology/approachThe tools available for online access to historical material are discussed, with some comparison made between current efforts on access provision and long‐term preservation.FindingsAt present, access to historical material in digital form is often given precedence over its preservation. This could have potentially serious long‐term implications. Lack of funding for the traditional collecting bodies suggests that new mechanisms for dealing with digital archive collections need to be found. Managing digital material from its creation moves responsibility back to owners, but can provide a platform for effective transfer to new custodians at the appropriate time. Small organisations can participate, increasing the volume and diversity of available material, enriching the base of knowledge upon which history is created.Research limitations/implicationsFurther research is required into possible models to enable seamless transfer through the custodial chain. Limitation: lack of quantitative analysis of existing and planned digital preservation projects.Originality/valueThe paper challenges the status quo and sets out some radical ideas concerning the creation, acquisition, management and preservation of digital records, and the roles of the key stakeholders in the cultural and historical domains.

scholarly journals Digital preservation policies of the institutional repositories at Brazilian Federal Universities

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 311-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laerte Pereira da Silva Júnior ◽  
Maria Manuel Borges
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Digital Preservation ◽  
Information Policy ◽  
Institutional Commitment ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Institutional Repositories ◽  
Digital Material ◽  
Preservation Policy

Purpose This paper aims to verify the implementation of digital preservation policies at the institutional repositories (IRs) of Brazilian Federal Universities. Design/methodology/approach The methodology used involved the verification of the information available in the Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR) and on the websites of the IRs, to confirm the existence of published digital preservation policies. In this study, a sample of the 26 IRs of Brazilian Federal Universities registered with OpenDOAR, which represents 68 per cent of these repositories, was used. Findings The main conclusion is that the IRs of these universities do not have any published digital preservation policies, even though some repositories state their intention of preserving digital material in their institutional information policy. Originality/value The stakeholders of IRs need to implement a programme to guide their activities to preserve digital materials in the long term. In fact, similar to examples worldwide, this programme should take the form of an institutional commitment outlined in a digital preservation policy. IRs at Brazilian Federal Universities still have a long way to go to guarantee access to digital materials in the long term.

Holistic Houses and a Sense of Place

Museum Worlds ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 181-195
Author(s):  
Jennifer G. Kahn
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
Hybrid Form ◽  
Archaeological Investigation ◽  
Museum Exhibits ◽  
Initial Location ◽  
Settler Societies ◽  
History Of

ABSTRACTThis article discusses the process of refinding the initial location of the Bishop Museum’s hale pili (Hawaiian pole and thatch house) and an archaeological investigation of the site’s surface architecture, use of space, and subsurface activities. The study touches upon themes relevant to representations of culture and place in museum exhibits, analysis of existing museum collections to holistically interpret material culture, and the history of anthropological collecting. The hale pili represents a “hybrid” form, with elements of precontact Hawaiian folk housing and European concepts introduced in the postcontact period. This problematizes the notion of “traditional” when used in relation to indigenous cultures in settler societies and the practice of exhibiting unique examples of “authentic” housing in isolation. Such analyses increase our interpretive abilities for museum collections and exhibits in the long term, particularly in reunifying folk housing and other material culture with location, a sense of place, and locale.

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