scholarly journals Finding Aids to the Past: Bearing Personal Witness to Traumatic Public Events

2012 ◽  
pp. 199-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbie Zelizer
Keyword(s):  
Public Events ◽  
The Past ◽  
Finding Aids

EAD Twenty Years Later: A Retrospective of Adoption in the Early Twenty-first Century and the Future of EAD

2019 ◽  
Vol 82 (2) ◽  
pp. 303-330
Author(s):  
Jennifer G. Eidson ◽  
Christina J. Zamon
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Archival Description ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Rapid Changes ◽  
Finding Aids ◽  
Initial Survey ◽  
Question Survey

Encoded Archival Description (EAD) was adopted as the first standard for encoding finding aids using archival description in 1998. Since then, rapid changes in technology and archival standards have influenced access, use, and adoption of EAD across a variety of institutions. This article was inspired by an initial survey conducted by one of the authors. The results led to a broader survey and a twenty-year literature review surrounding EAD and online finding aids. The authors developed a twenty-five-question survey to reach a broader audience and delve deeper into the initial questions. The purpose was to answer the following questions: Is there a specific year or time period when a mass adoption of the standard can be identified? What factors influenced whether or not an institution adopted the standard? To what extent has technology influenced the usage of EAD? By surveying archivists across the United States, we gathered their input as to why they did or did not use EAD and how changes in technology and tools influenced their adoption and usage of EAD over the past twenty years. This article explores past trends and predictions, as well as current thoughts by archivists about the past, present, and future of this standard.

Increasing Reference Access to Post-1991 Russian Archives

Slavic Review ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 718-759
Author(s):  
Patricia Kennedy Grimsted
Keyword(s):  
Research Opportunities ◽  
The Past ◽  
Finding Aids

If only archival restrictions were the most glaring insufficiency of our archival service. Here we have a whole complex of problems, for which it is insufficient to decide from on high merely to declassify archives. We still need to fell the whole world exactly what is held in them, to publish inventories and catalogues of previously secret documents.Academician Dimitrii S. Likhachev September 1989Crucially important for expanding access to archives is what western archivists often call “intellectual access”–reference facilities that effectively and efficiently assist researchers in preparing for work in the archives, lead them to appropriate documents, and help them understand their archival context. The dramatic opening of Russian archives in the past decade has revolutionized research opportunities and scholarship in many fields. Today, not only are archives being declassified, but the finding aids for previously classified files are available to researchers and new reference facilities are being developed to an extent Likhachev and others never dreamed possible.

London’s Public Events and Ceremonies: an Overview Through Three Centuries

2013 ◽  
Vol 56 ◽  
pp. 1-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bridget Cherry
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Annual Lecture ◽  
Charles I ◽  
Public Events ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City ◽  
The Church ◽  
Courtauld Institute

A revised and abridged record of the Annual Lecture of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, given at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, on 12 November 2012Two exceptional events in London in 2012, the queen’s Diamond Jubilee and the Olympics, provoked questions about the origins and legacy of major public events of the past. This article explores the impact on the fabric of London since the eighteenth century of occasional planned spectacles through discussion of two main types of event, namely the procession along a predetermined route and occasions requiring a large organized space.George, Elector of Hanover, succeeded to the throne as George I on 1 August 1714. The proclamation of a new monarch took place at a series of traditional sites. The Heralds started at the king’s residence, St James’s Palace, and proceeded to Charing Cross, where the statue of Charles I had replaced the medieval Eleanor cross destroyed in the Civil War. The third site, Temple Bar, marked the boundary of the City Liberties. Within the City the proclamation was repeated at St Mary le Bow and at the Royal Exchange — recent post-Fire buildings, but iconic sites — marking the significance of the Church and the power centre of the City merchants.

scholarly journals Does the messenger matter? Studying the impacts of scientists and engineers interacting with public audiences at science festival events

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (02) ◽  
pp. A02 ◽  
Author(s):  
Todd Boyette ◽  
Jefferson Ramsey
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
The United States ◽  
Proportional Odds Model ◽  
Stem Careers ◽  
Public Events ◽  
The Past ◽  
Scientists And Engineers ◽  
Partial Proportional Odds Model ◽  
Education Outreach

Over the past decade, science festival expos have emerged as popular opportunities for practicing scientists to engage in education outreach with public audiences. In this paper, a partial proportional odds model was used to analyze 5,498 surveys collected from attendees at 14 science expos around the United States. Respondents who report that they interacted with a scientist rated their experiences more positively than those who reported no such interaction on five categories: overall experience, learning, inspiration, fun, and awareness of STEM careers. The results indicate that scientists can positively affect audience perception of their experience at these large-scale public events.

"Welcome to Country" and "Acknowledgment of Country"

Contention ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-28
Author(s):  
Alessandro Pelizzon ◽  
Jade Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
Public Understanding ◽  
Public Event ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Events ◽  
The Past ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
Torres Strait

In the past two decades, “Welcome to Country” and “Acknowledgment of Country” practices have become commonplace at the commencement of most public events throughout Australia, and it is highly unusual to participate in a public event where some words of acknowledgment of the traditional owners and custodians of the locale are omitted. This article traces the origins of such practices while identifying the semantic, political, and conceptual differences between them. It articulates how precolonial protocols of encounter among distinct groups and individuals inform “Welcome to Country” practices, attesting to the ontological and epistemological continuity of the latter in relation to the former. It explores recent trends in the public understanding and positioning of both “Welcome to Country” and “Acknowledgment of Country” speeches and events, contextualizing their emerging positioning within the fabric of Australian settler colonial relations, particularly in the context of contemporary discourses on Aboriginal sovereignty and the constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.

Making Archaeological Collections Available for Research: Recommendations for Repositories

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 311-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia A. King ◽  
Patricia Samford
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
The Past ◽  
Archaeological Conservation ◽  
Archaeological Collections ◽  
Native American Tribes ◽  
Finding Aids ◽  
Digital Delivery ◽  
Research Recommendations

AbstractArchaeological collections repositories have two principal aims: preserving collections while also making them accessible. This accessibility is critical for the growing number of researchers turning to collections to study the past. This article describes steps that repositories can take to enhance access to collections in their custody, based on the experience of the Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory, the state's public archaeological curation facility. These steps include the identification of stakeholders—archaeologists, Native American tribes, and stakeholder communities; creation of a detailed and prioritized collection inventory including artifacts and records; development of finding aids; reconstruction of provenience systems; and exploration of the digital delivery of collection information. For repositories ill equipped to hold archaeological collections, consideration should be given to transferring the collection to one with the appropriate resources and expertise.

Observations of the continuum near the galactic centre

1967 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 405
Author(s):  
F. J. Kerr
Keyword(s):  
Galactic Centre ◽  
The Past ◽  
Centre Region ◽  
The Continuum

A continuum survey of the galactic-centre region has been carried out at Parkes at 20 cm wavelength over the areal11= 355° to 5°,b11= -3° to +3° (Kerr and Sinclair 1966, 1967). This is a larger region than has been covered in such surveys in the past. The observations were done as declination scans.

The Origin of the Moon and its Relationship to the Origin of the Solar System

1962 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 133-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harold C. Urey
Keyword(s):  
Solar System ◽  
The Moon ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Origin Of The Moon

During the last 10 years, the writer has presented evidence indicating that the Moon was captured by the Earth and that the large collisions with its surface occurred within a surprisingly short period of time. These observations have been a continuous preoccupation during the past years and some explanation that seemed physically possible and reasonably probable has been sought.

On The Possibility of an Autonomous History of Modern Southeast Asia

1961 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
John R. W. Small
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Contemporary History ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of

It is generally accepted that history is an element of culture and the historian a member of society, thus, in Croce's aphorism, that the only true history is contemporary history. It follows from this that when there occur great changes in the contemporary scene, there must also be great changes in historiography, that the vision not merely of the present but also of the past must change.

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