Digital Archives of Engineering Images: Lessons from the Arts

An introduction to Taiwan e-Learning and Digital Archives Program (TELDAP)

International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing ◽

10.3366/ijhac.2012.0034 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 6 (1-2) ◽

pp. 1-7

Author(s):

Simon C. Lin ◽

Eric Yen

Keyword(s):

Information Technology ◽

Digital Archives ◽

Educational Values ◽

Arts And Humanities ◽

Research Institutes ◽

The Arts ◽

E Learning

Taiwan e-Learning and Digital Archives Program (TELDAP) is a long-term, multi-generational, cross-divisional programme that will enhance the cultural, academic, socio-economic and educational values of Taiwan Digital Archives. Among the nine National Projects, TELDAP is the only one focusing on the Arts and Humanities. Unique for its combination of humanities with information technology, TELDAP aims to promote and coordinate content digitisation and preservation at leading museums, archives, universities, research institutes, and other content holders in Taiwan. This paper presents an overview of the history, achievements and challenges of the TELDAP.

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The Rise of Periodical Studies

PMLA ◽

10.1632/003081206x129693 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 121 (2) ◽

pp. 517-531 ◽

Cited By ~ 48

Author(s):

Sean Latham ◽

Robert Scholes

Keyword(s):

Research Society ◽

Digital Archives ◽

Digital Environment ◽

Periodical Studies ◽

Modern Culture ◽

The Arts ◽

The Social ◽

Language And Literature ◽

The Spectator ◽

Cultural Turn

Within or alongside the larger field of print culture, a new area for scholarship is emerging in the humanities and the more humanistic social sciences: periodical studies. This development is being driven by the cultural turn in departments of language and literature, by the development of digital archives that allow for such studies on a broader scale than ever before, and by what the producers of the Spectator Project have called “the special capabilities of the digital environment” (Center). Literary and historical disciplines engaged with the study of modern culture are finding in periodicals both a new resource and a pressing challenge to existing paradigms for the investigation of Enlightenment, nineteenth-century, and modern cultures. The forms of this new engagement range from Cary Nelson's suggestion, in Repression and Recovery, that periodicals should be read as texts that have a unity different from but comparable with that of individual books (219) to the organization of groups like the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, founded in 1968, and the more recently established Research Society for American Periodicals. Every year new books are appearing that emphasize peri–odicals and investigate the ways in which modern literature and the arts are connected to the culture of commerce and advertising and to the social, political, and scientific issues of the time.

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Digital archives of engineering images: lessons from the arts

Advances in Engineering Software ◽

10.1016/s0965-9978(97)00067-7 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 29 (10) ◽

pp. 833-837

Author(s):

Kirk Martini

Keyword(s):

Digital Archives ◽

The Arts

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Electron Microscopy in Molecular Biology

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100060027 ◽

1967 ◽

Vol 25 ◽

pp. 2-3

Author(s):

Cecil E. Hall

Keyword(s):

Electron Microscopy ◽

Molecular Biology ◽

Noise Level ◽

Molecular Structures ◽

Material Structure ◽

The Arts ◽

Shadow Casting ◽

Electron Image ◽

High Degree ◽

Very High

The visualization of organic macromolecules such as proteins, nucleic acids, viruses and virus components has reached its high degree of effectiveness owing to refinements and reliability of instruments and to the invention of methods for enhancing the structure of these materials within the electron image. The latter techniques have been most important because what can be seen depends upon the molecular and atomic character of the object as modified which is rarely evident in the pristine material. Structure may thus be displayed by the arts of positive and negative staining, shadow casting, replication and other techniques. Enhancement of contrast, which delineates bounds of isolated macromolecules has been effected progressively over the years as illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4 by these methods. We now look to the future wondering what other visions are waiting to be seen. The instrument designers will need to exact from the arts of fabrication the performance that theory has prescribed as well as methods for phase and interference contrast with explorations of the potentialities of very high and very low voltages. Chemistry must play an increasingly important part in future progress by providing specific stain molecules of high visibility, substrates of vanishing “noise” level and means for preservation of molecular structures that usually exist in a solvated condition.

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