scholarly journals Strength in Numbers. A Short Note on the Past, Present and Future of Large Historical Databases

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 5-8
Author(s):  
Lionel Kesztenbaum
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Short Note ◽  
Historical Demography ◽  
Historical Records ◽  
Short Contribution ◽  
The Past ◽  
Historical Databases ◽  
The Way

Historical demography is inherently associated with constructing large-scale databases from historical records. Although there have been tremendous changes in the way they are constructed, many of the challenges remain. Throughout his career, Kees Mandemakers has been instrumental in facing some of these challenges, particularly those related to the conservation, standardization, and dissemination of databases. This short contribution discusses the evolution of large historical databases in historical demography.

scholarly journals The Scopic Feast of Heritage and the Invention of Unthreatening Diversity in Neoliberal Cities

Heritage ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 1660-1680
Author(s):  
Feras Hammami
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
Political Interest ◽  
The Political ◽  
Historical Records ◽  
The Past

This article explores the role that heritage might play in the representation of ‘difference’, within the context of neoliberal cities. The case is a large-scale urban change in the former working-class neighborhood of Gamlestaden, Sweden. Interviews and on-site observations revealed how authorized heritage practices can enable the celebration of particular social and cultural values, while naturalizing the erasure of others. People’s cultural diversity, and diverging interpretations of the past, have been guided by the power of heritage into a process of subjectification, according to which only ‘unthreatening’ forms of cultural diversity were celebrated and revealed legitimate. The ‘fetishized’ difference and particular historical records have served to conceal the political interest at stake in its’ production and maintenance, and led to a politicised representation of cultural diversity through what Annie Coombes’ terms ‘scopic feast’. All this was made possible through BID, the first neoliberal business improvement district model in Sweden, and its investment in a deeply rooted process of heritageisation. Uncritical engagement with difference in the context of heritage management and neoliberal urban development, make it appear almost natural to erase the cultural values that fall outside the authorized narrative of value.

scholarly journals OBSERVATIONS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF PRIVATE SHEEP FARMS IN NORTHLAND: 2. The Adviser's Viewpoint

1967 ◽  
pp. 55-63
Author(s):  
J.D. Currie
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
National Average ◽  
Sheep Population ◽  
The Past ◽  
Management Techniques ◽  
Made In ◽  
The Way

THE Northland flock is increasing rapidly. The sheep population reflects the progress made in pasture development over the past fourteen years, the two million sheep wintered this year representing a remarkable 200% increase in numbers since 1953. It is the initiative of progressive farmers in pioneering improved management techniques, and the courage of the Lands and Survey Department in implementing these methods on a large scale, and with such convincing success, that have shown the way. But it is only during the last three favourable growth years that the extension message of more fertilizer and lime, and, above all, more stock, has been widely accepted. Fertilizer sales have doubled over this three-year period, and sheep owners (of which there are 1,000 with 500 or more sheep), reached a climax this year when they increased their flocks by three times the national average.

Past Bank Erosion as a Guide for Bank Erosion Prediction at Pipeline Crossings

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurent Roberge ◽  
Gerald Ferris ◽  
Hamish Weatherly
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Bank Erosion ◽  
Historical Records ◽  
Preliminary Estimate ◽  
Case Histories ◽  
Channel Pattern ◽  
The Past ◽  
Erosion Prediction ◽  
Future Performance ◽  
Erosion Behaviour

This paper presents a methodology which uses past bank erosion behaviour as a predictor of future performance. The methodology employed in the bank erosion study consists of the following main steps: identifying a reach to examine, classifying the watercourse, estimating key hydrotechnical properties, obtaining historical air photographs of the reach, georeferencing or orthorectifying the airphotos, mapping the position of the channel edge, obtaining the historical records of nearby gauges to estimate the return period of floods that have occurred between successive pairs of historical air photographs, and finally combining the results to provide correlations between the rates of bank erosion and the rarity of the floods that have occurred. More than 70 bank erosion studies have been completed in the past two years at a variety of watercourses. This paper provides three case histories that illustrate the methodology and then proceeds to provide some tentative relationships that could be used to focus future bank erosion studies on those sites most active, and used to provide a preliminary estimate of the amount of bank erosion that could be expected in both design settings and existing pipeline integrity evaluations. In this study wandering rivers are more laterally active than other channel pattern types. Although the smallest floods do not cause large-scale changes to the banks, significant bank erosion can be caused by either moderate (20-year) or extreme (100-year) events with a rough trend to larger bank erosion in larger floods. No significant correlation between the time elapsed between successive air photos and the magnitude of erosion was found, suggesting that bank erosion is an event-driven process rather than time dependent.

The Roman Curia Takes Over

2021 ◽  
pp. 94-113
Author(s):  
Stefania Tutino
Keyword(s):  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Historical Records ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Way

Given the difficulties encountered when they tried to investigate and possibly prosecute Carlo Calà for the forgery, the Catholic authorities moved Giovanni’s case from Naples to Rome. This chapter takes us inside the Roman censorship apparatus. It focuses on Stefano Gradi, tasked by the Congregation of the Index to examine the sources on Giovanni. Gradi believed that all historical sources needed to be authenticated by means of solid documentary and historical analysis, and that the sources related to Giovanni did not pass muster. Carlo Calà, by contrast, believed that as long as the sources were stored in official archives and authenticated by public notaries, no further proof of their authenticity was needed. The debate between Calà and Gradi has profound implications for our own society and for the way we think about truth and authenticity in the process of governing people (through information) and the past (through historical records).

scholarly journals The COVID States Project #24: The trajectory of health-related behaviors in Massachusetts

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Lazer ◽  
Mauricio Santillana ◽  
Roy H. Perlis ◽  
Matthew Baum ◽  
Katherine Ognyanova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Individual Behavior ◽  
The Past ◽  
Individual Behaviors ◽  
Health Related Behaviors ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Large Scale Survey ◽  
The Way

This report summarizes the trajectory of individual behaviors in Massachusetts related to the spread of COVID-19 - that is, the way individual behavior has changed over the past 7 months in the Commonwealth. These summaries are based on a large-scale survey that our team has regularly conducted in all 50 states since April of this year.

Remembering the Past in Nineteenth-Century Scotland

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
James J. Coleman
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
National Identity ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Collective Memories ◽  
The Past ◽  
Prevailing View ◽  
The Way

At a time when the Union between Scotland and England is once again under the spotlight, Remembering the Past in Nineteenth-Century Scotland examines the way in which Scotland’s national heroes were once remembered as champions of both Scottish and British patriotism. Whereas 19th-century Scotland is popularly depicted as a mire of sentimental Jacobitism and kow-towing unionism, this book shows how Scotland’s national heroes were once the embodiment of a consistent, expressive and robust view of Scottish nationality. Whether celebrating the legacy of William Wallace and Robert Bruce, the reformer John Knox, the Covenanters, 19th-century Scots rooted their national heroes in a Presbyterian and unionist view of Scotland’s past. Examined through the prism of commemoration, this book uncovers collective memories of Scotland’s past entirely opposed to 21st-century assumptions of medieval proto-nationalism and Calvinist misery. Detailed studies of 19th-century commemoration of Scotland’s national heroes Uncovers an all but forgotten interpretation of these ‘great Scots’ Shines a new light on the mindset of nineteenth-century Scottish national identity as being comfortably Scottish and British Overturns the prevailing view of Victorian Scottishness as parochial, sentimental tartanry

Memory that ‘owes nothing to fact’: Friel's Implausible Missionary Priest in Dancing at Lughnasa

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 236-249
Author(s):  
Stephanie Boeninger
Keyword(s):  
Historical Records ◽  
Living Together ◽  
The Way

Dancing at Lughnasa has been widely discussed as a memory play. Critics frequently analyze the way Michael's narration shapes the story he tells of five unmarried sisters living together in 1930's Donegal. Fewer critics, however, focus on Michael's representation of Father Jack, the missionary priest who returns after twenty-five years in Uganda. A surprisingly articulate anthropological observer who is more changed by the Ugandans than they by him, Father Jack defies the image of the missionary imperialist. Indeed, his portrayal conflicts with historical records. Father Jack's heterodox beliefs distress his family, but they find favor with postmodern audiences, eager to see Irish characters resist their part in the colonial enterprise. Friel's portrayal of Father Jack thus implicates the audience, not just Michael, in the play's selective memory.

Profilometry. Using Corneo-scleral topography for scleral lens fitting

The Eye ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (128) ◽  
pp. 19-22
Author(s):  
Gregory DeNaeyer
Keyword(s):  
Ocular Surface ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Contact Lenses ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Way

The world-wide use of scleral contact lenses has dramatically increased over the past 10 year and has changed the way that we manage patients with corneal irregularity. Successfully fitting them can be challenging especially for eyes that have significant asymmetries of the cornea or sclera. The future of scleral lens fitting is utilizing corneo-scleral topography to accurately measure the anterior ocular surface and then using software to design lenses that identically match the scleral surface and evenly vault the cornea. This process allows the practitioner to efficiently fit a customized scleral lens that successfully provides the patient with comfortable wear and improved vision.

The Southern Slope of Monsalvat: How Spanish Wagnerism Became Catalan

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-47
Author(s):  
Clinton D. Young
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Southern Slope ◽  
Modern Music ◽  
The Past ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Symphonic Culture ◽  
Similar Dynamic ◽  
The Way

This article examines the development of Wagnerism in late-nineteenth-century Spain, focusing on how it became an integral part of Catalan nationalism. The reception of Wagner's music and ideas in Spain was determined by the country's uneven economic development and the weakness of its musical and political institutions—the same weaknesses that were responsible for the rise of Catalan nationalism. Lack of a symphonic culture in Spain meant that audiences were not prepared to comprehend Wagner's complexity, but that same complexity made Wagner's ideas acceptable to Spanish reformers who saw in the composer an exemplar of the European ideas needed to fix Spanish problems. Thus, when Wagner's operas were first staged in Spain, the Teatro Real de Madrid stressed Wagner's continuity with operas of the past; however, critics and audiences engaged with the works as difficult forms of modern music. The rejection of Wagner in the Spanish capital cleared the way for his ideas to be adopted in Catalonia. A similar dynamic occurred as Spanish composers tried to meld Wagner into their attempts to build a nationalist school of opera composition. The failure of Tomás Bréton's Los amantes de Teruel and Garín cleared the way for Felip Pedrell's more successful theoretical fusion of Wagnerism and nationalism. While Pedrell's opera Els Pirineus was a failure, his explanation of how Wagner's ideals and nationalism could be fused in the treatise Por nuestra música cemented the link between Catalan culture and Wagnerism.

The End of History Museums: What's Plan B??

2008 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 9-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cary Carson
Keyword(s):  
Historic Sites ◽  
The Public ◽  
End Of History ◽  
House Museums ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Museums ◽  
Plan B ◽  
The End Of History ◽  
The Way

Abstract Are historic sites and house museums destined to go the way of Oldsmobiles and floppy disks?? Visitation has trended downwards for thirty years. Theories abound, but no one really knows why. To launch a discussion of the problem in the pages of The Public Historian, Cary Carson cautions against the pessimistic view that the past is simply passéé. Instead he offers a ““Plan B”” that takes account of the new way that learners today organize information to make history meaningful.

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