Making an Edition in an App

The massive increase in the use of mobile devices over the last years, with over half of all accesses to the internet now coming from mobile devices, presents a challenge and an opportunity to textual scholars. It has long been suggested that digital technologies may help scholarly editors find new audiences for their work: work which has traditionally lain on library shelves with only the occasional visitor. In this paper we describe an attempt to plan, make and distribute an edition -- the CantApp, presenting in its first iteration the General Prologue of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales -- designed specifically for mobile device use (Chaucer 2020). We reflect on the difficulties we faced, the initial reception of the app, and draw conclusions which might be useful for other scholarly projects.

Crowdsourcing transcription of historical manuscripts: Citizen science as a force of revealing historical evidence from Croatian Glagolitic manuscript

This paper is a report on the project Civil Science in the Field of Glagolitics: from crowdsourcing to knowledge and it describes its first phase. The project is being conducted by the scientific Centre for Research in Glagolitism of the University of Zadar, Croatia, from 2021 to 2022. The researchers come from the Centre, as well as from the Department of Information Sciences of the University of Zadar and State Archive in Zadar, Croatia. The main objective of the project is to examine the possibilities and benefits of citizen participation in the scholarly projects in humanities, particularly the projects whose object of research are manuscripts written in historical script that present a valuable source for local history. The term historical script refers to a script that is not used nowadays as an official script in any country or community but was in use a particular period of history on a certain territory. The corpus for the pilot study conducted within this project consists of manuscripts and their fragments written in cursive form of the Croatian Glagolitic script. Glagolitic script is the oldest known Slavic script, introduced in the 9th century and being used in Croatia up until the 19th century, simultaneously with Latin and Cyrillic scripts. The citizen participation is researched on the example of crowdsourcing transcription of manuscripts written in cursive form of the Croatian Glagolitic script. In the first phase of the project, the pilot study was conducted. The aim of the pilot study presented in this paper is to create a solid basis for involving the public in scientific projects within the disciplines of humanities whose object of research are documents written in historical scripts, namely within the field of the Croatian Glagolitics.

Faculty perceptions of factors that indicate successful educational outcomes of medical students’ research projects: a focus group study

Background A growing number of medical schools have individual scholarly projects as a component of their curricula. The fact that all students, and not only those with research interests, have to carry out a project puts high demands on the projects and their supervision. Evidence is lacking for how to produce scholarly projects with satisfactory outcomes. This study aimed to explore the observations of faculty teachers regarding factors that predict the educational outcomes of medical students’ scholarly projects. Methods Two focus group interviews were held with seven of the 16 faculty coordinators who were external reviewers of students’ research projects. The audio-recorded interview transcripts were analyzed using qualitative content analysis. We employed a constant comparative approach to create categories firmly grounded in the participants’ experiences. A successful project was defined as coordinators’ perception that the stated learning outcomes were achieved, in terms of students’ ability to demonstrate a scientific attitude. Results Five categories emerged from the data: Supervision, Project setup, Student characteristics, Curriculum structure, and Institutional guidance. The supervisors’ experience and availability to students were mentioned as key factors for successful outcomes. Further, a clear aim and adaptation to the time frame were stated to be project-related factors that were also supervisors’ responsibilities. Important student-related factors were skills related to scientific writing, taking ownership of and managing the projects, and making use of feedback. Finally, the course requirements, support, and control accomplished by faculty coordinators played important roles. Conclusions Contributing factors to achievement of the learning outcomes were supervisors’ commitment and experience, and the projects being suitable for the time frame and having a clearly stated research question. Furthermore, the students’ prowess at scientific writing, adequate handling of feedback, and ability to assume ownership of the project contributed to the final outcome, as did adherence to curricular instructions.

Guiding Ethics Review in Pharmacy Education Research and Scholarship at UBC: Clarifying the Unclear

While it goes without saying that ethically sound practices are imperative for high-quality educational scholarship, institutional ethics guidance is often unclear about how to treat educational scholarship generally, and quality improvement/assurance studies and the scholarship of teaching and learning, specifically. Amongst health profession education researchers, including those in pharmacy, this lack of clarity has led to confusion regarding existing ethics governance and ambivalence regarding ethics requirements. Drawing on the experiences of one pharmacy school in western Canada, this commentary describes an ethics vetting guide developed explicitly to address current uncertainty about ethics requirements for pharmacy education scholarship. Clarifying the problem, describing the guide, and exploring what was learned along the way provide a basis for re-centering ethics in the development of scholarly projects and decision-making regarding formal ethics review. The importance of instilling ethical intelligence, delineating research from quality improvement/assurance work, and addressing current gaps in ethics oversight and governance of educational scholarship are among key lessons learned during guide development along with suggestions for new institutional ethics guidance directly targeting educational scholarship to supplement current national guidelines.

ՀՀ ԳԱԱ Արվեստի ինստիտուտի ներդրումընոր և նորագույն շրջանների հայ կերպարվեստի ուսումնասիրության մեջ

Հայ արվեստագիտական մտքի զարգացումը հասել է այն մակարդակին, երբ հրատապ կարիք է զգացվում գոնե համառոտ կերպով ուրվագծելու նրա անցած ուղին, իմաստավորելու նրա փորձը, արժևորելու մշակութային նշանակությունը: Այդ խնդրի մասնավոր, լոկալ ասպեկտներից է ՀՀ ԳԱԱ արվեստի ինստիտուտի դերը նոր և նորագույն հայ կերպարվեստի ուսումնասիրության գործում: Զանազան գիտական նախագծերի մշակմանն ու իրականացմանն ուղղված իր բազմամյա գործունեության ընթացքում ինստիտուտն զբաղեցրեց տվյալ բնագավառում առաջնային տեղը՝ նմանատիպ այլ հաստատություններից առանձնանալով թե՛ իր զուտ ակադեմիական կարգավիճակով և թե՛ իր աշխատանքի մասշտաբներով և արդյունքներով: The current level of development of Armenian art criticism requires to at least briefly outline the passed path, conceptualize the experience, and evaluate its cultural significance. One of the specific, local aspects of this problem is the role of NAS RA Institute of Arts in the study of Armenian fine arts of the new and newest periods. During the many years of its activity, targeted at the development and implementation of various scholarly projects, the Institute holds one of the leading positions in this field, stands out among similar institutions thanks to its purely academic approach, as well as the scale and results of its work.

2018–2021 SERGEI YESENIN SCHOLARLY PROJECTS OF THE GORKY INSTITUTE OF WORLD LITERATURE

Статья посвящена научным есениноведческим проектам Института мировой литературы Российской Академии наук, в частности, «Летописи жизни и творчества С.А. Есенина» и «Есенинской энциклопедии» (фундаментальным сводам знаний о жизни и творчестве поэта): концепции, этапам работы, структуре, содержанию разделов, типологии энциклопедических статей. Первый выпуск «Есенинской энциклопедии», приуроченный к 125-летию со дня рождения поэта, носит название «Памятные места. Литературная география», содержит 353 статьи о 445 реальных и литературных топонимах Есенина и вышел в свет в самом начале 2021 г. The article looks into Sergei Yesenin-related scholarly projects of the Gorky Institute of World Literature, an institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. It describes the principles based on which The Chronicle of Sergei Yesenin’s Life and Work and The Yesenin Encyclopaedia were prepared, the stages of the editing process, the structure, the content of the chapters, and the typology of the entries. The first volume of The Yesenin Encyclopaedia has been published in early 2021 for the poet’s 125th birthday. It is entitled “Places of Memory. Literary Geography” and contains 353 articles on 445 real and fictional toponyms used in Yesenin’s works.

Thirty-Year Pediatric Residency Research and Publication Productivity: Association with Research Funding

Background: The Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University has developed a residency research program and continuously improved the curriculum. The main source of funds for resident’s research projects comes from the Faculty of Medicine. This fund was once limited, but it has been gradually increased. Objective: To assessed publication productivity during the past 30 years and its association with research funding. Materials and Methods: The present study was a retrospective cohort study, using the database containing detailed information on scholarly projects of the Ramathibodi’s pediatric residents between 1983 and 2012. Univariate and multivariate analyses of factors that could be associated with publication productivity and types of study design were performed. Results: Three hundred forty-nine projects were included. These projects were categorized into three groups based upon research funding, no fund (F0) (n=255), funded at 50,000 THB or less (F1) (n=67), and funded at more than 50,000 THB (F2) (n=27). The demographic data of residents and mentors among the three groups were not significantly different. A significant increase in the number of publications was positively associated with more funds. The percentage of publications rose with increasing funds (16.5%, 28.4%, and 33.3% in F0, F1, and F2, respectively) (p=0.019). The percentages of the prospective study were also increased with increasing funds (31.4% to 46.3%, and 48.1% in F0, F1, and F2, respectively) (p=0.022). Multivariate analysis demonstrated that funds was the only factor associated with percentage of publications (odds ratio [OR] 2.54, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.07 to 6.03) and with percentage of prospective study design (OR 7.16, 95% CI 3.50 to 14.66). Funds was an independent factor associated with journal impact factor (adjusted OR 4.09, 95% CI 1.41 to 11.87). Conclusion: An increase in pediatric residency research funding was a major factor associated with an increase in publication productivity. Keywords: Education, Pediatrics, Medical, Resident, Grant

Immersive Scholar: A Guidebook for Documenting and Publishing Experiential Scholarship Works

"Immersive Scholar: A Guidebook for Documenting and Publishing Experiential Scholarship Works" offers a model for librarians, technologists, and scholars collaborating on the production of new forms of scholarly projects, particularly those designed for large scale or immersive spaces. Born from Immersive Scholar, a three-year grant to the NC State University Libraries from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the case studies and principles laid out in this guidebook highlight pragmatic and non-technical opportunities for integrating experiential scholarship within the current scholarly ecosystem. Borrowing from the literature and ideas of digital humanities, open science, software preservation, and academic publishing, the authors present a perspective balanced between theory and application. This guidebook paired with other resources from Immersive Scholar forms the foundation of a toolkit for the conceptualization, building, displaying, and sharing of scholarship in the broad and varied world of large scale, visual, immersive, and experimental work.