scholarly journals Digitizing Family Albums in The Family Camera Network (FamCam), Archive at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM): A Case Study of the Evans Family Collection

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Idit Kohan -Harpaz
Keyword(s):  
Original Method ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Collective Memories ◽  
The Public ◽  
Royal Ontario Museum ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
The Family ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Indivisible Object

My thesis explores the family album as an indivisible object within a museum’s collection. Family albums hold both private and public importance for their ability to share collective memories and are valuable resources for scholars and the general public. To realize the inherent value of albums, I argue that we need to treat them as singular objects. Most institutions – such as museums, libraries or archives – treat family albums merely as a group of individual images. In this thesis, I propose an alternative approach: viewing and digitizing the albums as whole objects that are inseparable, lest we distort the narrative shaped in the album. The digitization process advances three services: first, digitization increases access to the album; second, digitization often enables the public to see and understand the album as a whole, maintaining the vision that the album’s maker sought to construct; third, digitization helps preserve the albums. My thesis investigates best practices for family album digitization so that the public can see albums as whole objects. A case study will focus on the Evans family collection from the FamCam at the ROM (accession numbers: 2018.24.1-21), a family collection which comes from a Canadian family that lived in China from 1888, for nearly a 100 years. Twenty-one family albums comprise the collection. The collection portrays the lives of a Western family in China, and provides insight into a century of photography and history. My thesis discusses the methodology, tools, and specific techniques for digitization, while highlighting the complexity of family albums. Though this digitization process may differ from the typical protocols for artifacts, the uniqueness of family albums necessitates genre-specific procedures. My thesis contributes to the emerging literature on family photography in public institutions, and develops an original method for preserving and archiving them digitally.

scholarly journals Digitizing Family Albums in The Family Camera Network (FamCam), Archive at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM): A Case Study of the Evans Family Collection

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Idit Kohan -Harpaz
Keyword(s):  
Original Method ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Collective Memories ◽  
The Public ◽  
Royal Ontario Museum ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
The Family ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Indivisible Object

My thesis explores the family album as an indivisible object within a museum’s collection. Family albums hold both private and public importance for their ability to share collective memories and are valuable resources for scholars and the general public. To realize the inherent value of albums, I argue that we need to treat them as singular objects. Most institutions – such as museums, libraries or archives – treat family albums merely as a group of individual images. In this thesis, I propose an alternative approach: viewing and digitizing the albums as whole objects that are inseparable, lest we distort the narrative shaped in the album. The digitization process advances three services: first, digitization increases access to the album; second, digitization often enables the public to see and understand the album as a whole, maintaining the vision that the album’s maker sought to construct; third, digitization helps preserve the albums. My thesis investigates best practices for family album digitization so that the public can see albums as whole objects. A case study will focus on the Evans family collection from the FamCam at the ROM (accession numbers: 2018.24.1-21), a family collection which comes from a Canadian family that lived in China from 1888, for nearly a 100 years. Twenty-one family albums comprise the collection. The collection portrays the lives of a Western family in China, and provides insight into a century of photography and history. My thesis discusses the methodology, tools, and specific techniques for digitization, while highlighting the complexity of family albums. Though this digitization process may differ from the typical protocols for artifacts, the uniqueness of family albums necessitates genre-specific procedures. My thesis contributes to the emerging literature on family photography in public institutions, and develops an original method for preserving and archiving them digitally.

Social versus Private Insurance

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre Pestieau ◽  
Mathieu Lefebvre
Keyword(s):  
Social Insurance ◽  
Private Insurance ◽  
Population Ageing ◽  
Fiscal Competition ◽  
Public Insurance ◽  
The Public ◽  
Social Risks ◽  
The Family ◽  
Private And Public

This chapter looks at the role of the public versus the private sector in the provision of insurance against social risks. After having discussed the evolution of the role of the family as support in the first place, the specificity of social insurance is emphasized in opposition to private insurance. Figures show the extent of spending on both private and public insurance and the chapter presents economic reasons to why the latter is more developed than the former. Issues related to moral hazard and adverse selection are addressed. The chapter also discusses somewhat more general arguments supporting social insurance such as population ageing, unemployment, fiscal competition and social dumping.

The e-book war in Denmark

2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-105
Author(s):  
Lisbeth Worsøe-Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Public Libraries ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Book Market ◽  
The Public ◽  
Library System ◽  
Commercial Market ◽  
Book World ◽  
Traditional Understanding

The aim is to investigate how digitisation and in particular e-books have changed relations between private players and public institutions within the Danish book world through a case study of eReolen, a private-public partnership functioning as common platform for public libraries’ lending of e-books in Denmark. Traditional and new models of the book world are discussed as the basis of understanding relations between the players. A new way of analysing the field outlined by literary sociologist, Professor Johan Svedjedal, is adopted. The main conclusions are that the lending of e-books has disrupted the traditional understanding and interaction between the public library system and the commercial book market. In addition, the Danish library system through the partnership has taken on a new function in relation to the commercial market, namely acting as the engine in building a market for Danish e-books.

scholarly journals The Effects of Media Language Using of Comedian Program Audiences of Kurdish Televisions; BEZMÎ BEZM Program at KurdMax TV As A Case Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 144-186
Author(s):  
Shwan Adam Aivas ◽  
Mahabad Kamel Abdulla
Keyword(s):  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Media Ethics ◽  
Psychological Violence ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Family ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Effects Of Media

This study is an attempt to evaluate the effects of media language misusing in comedian programs of Iraqi Kurdish televisions. To achieve this goal, the researchers have done an online survey with 145 TV viewers; as well as analyzing the thematic contents of 12 episodes of the BEZMÎ BEZM program on the KurdMax satellite channel.   Based on the research results; media language misusing in the BEZMÎ BEZM program has negative effects on viewers of this program, despite the fact that the majority of opinions agreed on the definition of this satellite as a Kurdish entertainment channel and the rates of views of its main programs "Great". However, they also agreed that this program on the KurdMax satellite channel has become a popular platform for insults, exchange of accusations, and defamation of certain personalities and groups in society, and a reason for sabotaging the Kurdish language and its methods, producing linguistic and psychological violence and highlighting gender discrimination. In addition to sabotaging the public taste of viewers, lack of respect for their needs, delinquency of adolescents, reducing the value of artistic work etiquette and educational foundations, and underestimating the family and Kurdish culture and its peculiarities. As for the topics presented in this program, the main goal is to make viewers laugh only and to achieve this; they do not hesitate to spread market language and archaic and patriarchal cultures, encourage gender differences of men and women, social and sexual taboos, defame personalities, neglect health guidelines, and violate professional media ethics. All of the above; represents the main identity of the BEZMÎ BEZM program on the KurdMax satellite channel. As a final point, this research has recommended the relevant people and bodies to subordinate such programs in order to review its content based on legal and ethical media standards, laws, and rules of the Kurdish language, along with abiding professional art principles.

scholarly journals "TRUST IN PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS AND COMPLIANCE WITH MEASURES AGAINST COVID-19 PANDEMIC. CASE STUDY ON METROPOLITAN AREA OF CLUJ, ROMANIA"

2021 ◽  
Vol 63 E ◽  
pp. 128-150
Author(s):  
Bianca RADU
Keyword(s):  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Preventive Measures ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Policy Compliance ◽  
The Public ◽  
Emergency Situations ◽  
Medical Institutions ◽  
Second Wave

The goal of this article is to analyze the level of citizens’ trust in different public institutions during the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic, and the influence of citizens’ trust on their compliance with the measures adopted to prevent the spread of the virus. The research was conducted between November and December 2020 on a sample of 700 residents of Metropolitan Area of Cluj, Romania. During the time of data collection, Romania registered the largest number of daily COVID-19 cases, therefore, citizens’ compliance with preventive measures was crucial to contain the spread of the virus. Citizens reported high levels of compliance with preventive measures. However, even though people were recommended to avoid meetings with relatives and friends, and participation to private events with large number of people, respondents reported that did not fully comply with social distancing requirements. Citizens have highest level of trust in the public institutions at local level, medical institutions and County Committees for Emergency Situations. The research found that trust in public institutions influences the compliance with preventive measures; however, the influence is weak and the trust in different institutions influences differently policy compliance.

Economic Security and Empowerment of Rural Women

2020 ◽  
pp. 171-186
Author(s):  
Suganda Ramamoorthi
Keyword(s):  
Rural Women ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
Economic Resources ◽  
Patriarchal Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Gender Asymmetry ◽  
The Impact

Economic security is a fundamental cord that would enhance the empowerment levels of women. In the patriarchal family structure, women have little or no access to economic resources, making them vulnerable. Social sanction for femicide, social and cultural discriminatory practices, and violence against women have curtailed women's choices and freedom. The impact of the elimination of girl children and strong son preference has deprived women of their economic entitlements. The case study is of particular interest as it is undertaken in Usilampatti taluk in Tamil Nadu, India, which is notorious for the practice of female foeticide and infanticide leading to low sex ratio. This chapter is an attempt to identify how rural women who have escaped femicide negotiate with gender asymmetry, reorganize the power relations within the family and market structure, manage economic resources, and emerge as independent leaders both in the private and public domains.

scholarly journals The Museum as a collector of vernacular born-digital photographs: a case study of the family camera network collection at the Royal Ontario Museum.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vitor Pavão
Keyword(s):  
Digital Archives ◽  
Camera Network ◽  
Collaborative Project ◽  
Digital Photographs ◽  
Home Videos ◽  
Royal Ontario Museum ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Relationship

Active from April 2016 to March 2019, The Family Camera Network was a collaborative project that explored the relationship between family and photography. The project established a public archive at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) and The ArQuives. The collection is composed of photographs, albums, home videos and miscellaneous objects. Among the objects collected by the ROM are 126 born-digital photographs. This thesis focuses on the development of cataloguing methods for born-digital vernacular photographs using existing fields in the museum’s collection catalogue, TMS. Through the use of digital metadata, this thesis describes and analysis how information embedded in the born-digital archives can assist in the production of valuable collection records.

scholarly journals La legitimidad como fuente de riqueza en las instituciones públicas

2020 ◽  
pp. 183-192
Author(s):  
Carmen-María Robles-López
Keyword(s):  
Public Institutions ◽  
Public Institution ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Empirical Observation ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The Media ◽  
Education Culture

In 2006 the World Bank studied which were the primary engines of nations’ wealth and concluded that it depends to a large extent on the legitimacy of their public institutions. This research explores legitimacy as an intangible good of the public sector, considering legitimacy as a judgment on the actions of organizations according to social values ​​and norms (Suchman, 1995; Deephouse, 1996; Tyler, 2006; Bitektine, 2011). Related to this concept, we address the concepts of online legitimacy and media legitimacy. Four dimensions of legitimacy are studied: procedural, consequential, structural, and personal. The objective of this work is to explore the evolution of the degree of congruence of the judgments of legitimacy that are formulated about a public institution and their leaders, media, and citizens. The selected case study is the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture, and Sports and its ministers José Ignacio Wert and Iñigo Méndez de Vigo (2011-2015). The methodological design used for the empirical observation is triangular, enabling a quantitative content analysis to contrast the three observation points from a physical and online perspective. The data enable an evaluation of the evolution over time of the congruence between the statements of the person who directs a public organization and their consequences regarding the trust of citizens. The results reveal the aspects of legitimacy that must be considered in communication practices to avoid disconnecting the organization from the media and citizens. Resumen En 2006 el Banco Mundial estudió cuáles fueron los motores primordiales de riqueza de las naciones y concluyó que la riqueza de los países depende en una gran parte de la legitimidad de sus instituciones públicas. Esta investigación explora la legitimidad como un bien intangible del sector público, considerando la legitimidad como un juicio sobre las acciones de las organizaciones de acuerdo a valores y normas sociales (Suchman, 1995; Deephouse, 1996; Tyler, 2006; Bitektine, 2011). Relacionados a este concepto, aborda los conceptos de legitimidad online y legitimidad mediática. Se estudian cuatro dimensiones de la legitimidad: procedimental, consiguiente, estructural y personal. El objetivo de este trabajo es explorar la evolución del grado de congruencia de los juicios de legitimidad que formulan sobre una institución pública y su líder, la propia organización, los medios y los ciudadanos. El caso de estudio seleccionado es el Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte y sus ministros José Ignacio Wert e Iñigo Méndez de Vigo (2011-2015). El diseño metodológico empleado para la observación empírica es triangular y se trata de un análisis de contenido cuantitativo para contrastar los tres puntos de observación desde una perspectiva tradicional y online. Los datos permitirán evaluar la evolución en el tiempo de la congruencia entre el discurso de la persona que dirige una organización pública y sus consecuencias en la confianza de los ciudadanos. A la luz de los resultados se muestran los aspectos de la legitimidad que hay que considerar en las prácticas de comunicación para evitar la desconexión de la organización con los medios y con los ciudadanos.

scholarly journals Integrated reporting and integrated thinking: A case study analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1, Special Issue) ◽  
pp. 281-291
Author(s):  
Filippo Vitolla ◽  
Arcangelo Marrone ◽  
Nicola Raimo
Keyword(s):  
Value Creation ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Integrated Reporting ◽  
Management Philosophy ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
Holistic Management ◽  
Quality Disclosure ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
A Company

The objective of the paper is to evaluate the motivations behind integrated disclosure, with particular reference to a holistic management philosophy and integrated thinking. This aspect is particularly relevant because very often companies undertake sustainability paths only for purely opportunistic reasons or to respond formally to context pressures. On the contrary, it is very interesting to analyze companies that base their sustainability policies on solid ethical and moral values. In particular, the analysis was conducted through the methodology of the case study, on a company operating in the transport industry. The analyzed company is characterized by a business model oriented towards sustainability. The results of the analysis showed that at the basis of a quality disclosure there is integrated thinking that pervades all managerial processes in a transversal way. In this perspective, integrated reporting becomes a tool capable of offering an articulated representation of shared value creation processes. This has led not only to extend the content of the information reported but also to broaden the categories of recipients of the report (not only investors but also customers, suppliers, communities, workers, private and public institutions).

scholarly journals A COMPARISON AND INTEGRATION BETWEEN PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SECTOR THROUGH SUSTAINABLE ECONOMICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE ROMANIAN RURAL AREAS USING BEE ALGORITHM

10.26458/1844 ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 55-73
Author(s):  
George GRUIA ◽  
George Cristian Gruia
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
The Public ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
European Policies ◽  
Economical Development ◽  
Initial Results

The article is focused on presenting a comparison of the public sector with public administration policies and private sector with economical strategies with the purpose of better integration between the two with case study on the European funds in beekeeping and how by studying the bee behavior we too can develop our society to achieve better results. The scope of the article is to show an overview of the European policies into state members with focus on sustainable economic development of Romanian rural areas. This is part of the authors’ research from the last 10 years with focus on public, economic and social development and represent initial results of their yet not published work.

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