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Kallithea to Halos: the defense network of the north Othrys mountainsChykerda, Christopher Myles Unknown Date
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Kallithea to Halos: the defense network of the north Othrys mountainsChykerda, Christopher Myles 06 1900 (has links)
This thesis presents an interdisciplinary examination of a series of towers existing between the sites of Kastro Kallithea and New Halos along the north ridge of Greeces Othrys Mountains. The overarching goal is to utilize digital archaeological techniques such as GIS to refine the methodologies used in determining the rate of efficient communication between towers in defense networks. Tools within the ArcGIS software package allow line of sight and viewsheds to be examined remotely with a series of criteria to be met, such as maximum allowable distance. In doing so, past studies of regional networks are critiqued in light of their inclusion or exclusion of considerations such as distance, atmospheric conditions, and time of day when determining over how far a distance fire signaling could be effective. A second critique explores the dangers of employing digital means from the perspectives of both the investigator and public. / History and Classics
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The Discourse of the Information AgeKeenan, Andrew 06 1900 (has links)
This thesis examines the discourse of the information age and its influence on information literacy and social networking websites. The information age proposes
that society has been dramatically changed by the recent advancements of information and information technology. The
information age is a ubiquitous concept, manifesting specifically in two areas: library and information studies (LIS) and social networking websites. Information literacy, the American Library Associations education strategy for the information age, empowers library patrons with information skills to participate in the emerging era.
Social networking websites (Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter) represent information- based businesses like those predicted by information age theorists. This thesis
concludes that the arrival of the information age is impossible to discern, but the influence of information and information technology is significant.
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Thresholds of Engagement: Integrating Image-based Digital Resources into Textual ScholarshipNiles, Rebecca L. 26 November 2012 (has links)
In recent years, technological advances in creating, storing, and accessing digital facsimiles of print and manuscript documents has resulted in an explosion of digitization initiatives. While such initiatives commonly endorse the viewpoint that digital facsimiles either replace or successfully stand in for their physical originals, textual scholars, whose principle interest is in the text as material artifact, do not share this perspective. Thresholds of Engagement explores the ways textual scholars engage with textual artifacts, tests the limits of representation of digital facsimiles and of the interfaces that house them, and proposes a model for the relationship between physical texts and their digital counterparts that privileges the requirements of textual scholars. The digital-facsimile interface proposed in this study is designed to facilitate methods described by textual scholars in interview—methods of comparison, material analysis, pattern recognition, and modelling—using an open-source web-based approach that is accessible for individuals to innovate and build upon.
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Feature identification framework and applications (FIFA)Audenaert, Michael Neal 12 April 2006 (has links)
Large digital libraries typically contain large collections of heterogeneous resources
intended to be delivered to a variety of user communities. One key challenge for these
libraries is providing tight integration between resources both within a single collection
and across the several collections of the library with out requiring hand coding. One key
tool in doing this is elucidating the internal structure of the digital resources and using
that structure to form connections between the resources. The heterogeneous nature of
the collections and the diversity of the needs in the user communities complicates this
task. Accordingly, in this thesis, I describe an approach to implementing a feature
identification system to support digital collections that provides a general framework for
applications while allowing decisions about the details of document representation and
features identification to be deferred to domain specific implementations of that
framework. These deferred decisions include details of the semantics and syntax of
markup, the types of metadata to be attached to documents, the types of features to be
identified, the feature identification algorithms to be applied, and which features should
be indexed. This approach results in strong support for the general aspects of developing
a feature identification system allowing future work to focus on the details of applying
that system to the specific needs of individual collections and user communities.
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The Life and Letters of Prince Edward Island Proprietor Captain John MacDonald of Glenaladale: An Exercise in Humanities ComputingGillis, Roger January 2007 (has links)
The introduction of the Internet and the World Wide Web has been one the most significant developments of the last decade. Many historians have approached the Web with reluctance, hesitant to use it to conduct their traditional scholarly tasks of researching, publishing, and teaching history. Communication theorists such as Harold Innis and Marshall McLuhan foretold many aspects of the Web’s impact in their analyses of past communication media. Applied to the Web, their ideas provide a deeper understanding of what a new medium of communication might mean for scholars in humanities disciplines. Indeed, in the last decade the term “Humanities Computing” has been coined to describe efforts to apply computer methods to humanities data.
This thesis explores some of the processes and potential of Humanities Computing as it pertains to the presentation of primary documents on the Web. It takes the form of a case study using the correspondence of eighteenth-century Prince Edward Island land proprietor John MacDonald (1742-1810), a central figure in the conflict between the Island government and the land proprietors. MacDonald took an active interest in his land on the Island and became the voice of landowners making their case to the British crown. Digitized letters drawn from his correspondence will be featured on the Web as part of the Atlantic Canada Virtual Archives, making use of the Web as an alternative to print in presenting, analyzing, and interpreting history. The digitization of the MacDonald letters is an exercise in Humanities Computing through the application of current Web and digital technology to primary source material, which, in turn, demonstrates the benefits of doing research on the Web.
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The Discourse of the Information AgeKeenan, Andrew Unknown Date
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THE ELECTRONIC EDITION AND TEXTUAL CRITICISM OF AMERICAN MUSICAL THEATREReside, Douglas Larue 01 January 2006 (has links)
For many, contemporary theatre is represented by the musical. The form remains, however, virtually unstudied by literary scholars. In part, this may be a result of the difficulty of accessing the texts. Reading a musical from a traditional codex is no easy matter. The integration of text and music in a musical make it inappropriate to separate the two. One can try to follow along with a cast recording. In most cases, though, this is awkward. Many cast albums record a significantly modified version of the score and lyrics and few include the entire work. Further, musical theatre texts often exist in many different versions. This work begins with a summary of the problems one encounters when editing a multi-authored text (musicals often have a lyricist, librettist, and composer) which may be revised for practical (rather than aesthetic) reasons. The merits of restoring the material changed during the production process are debated. In this discussion some attempt is made to identify who should be considered the dominating collaborator (or auteur) of a musical. Ultimately, this dissertation argues that the notion of trying to restore an "authorial Ur-Text" makes little sense given the multitude of collaborators involved in the process of making musicals. Instead, an electronic variorum edition is presented as an alternative means of studying and teaching musical theatre texts. The study concludes with a narrative of the authors own work on an electronic edition of the 1998 Broadway musical Parade and ends with a critical introduction to this text.
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Thresholds of Engagement: Integrating Image-based Digital Resources into Textual ScholarshipNiles, Rebecca L. 26 November 2012 (has links)
In recent years, technological advances in creating, storing, and accessing digital facsimiles of print and manuscript documents has resulted in an explosion of digitization initiatives. While such initiatives commonly endorse the viewpoint that digital facsimiles either replace or successfully stand in for their physical originals, textual scholars, whose principle interest is in the text as material artifact, do not share this perspective. Thresholds of Engagement explores the ways textual scholars engage with textual artifacts, tests the limits of representation of digital facsimiles and of the interfaces that house them, and proposes a model for the relationship between physical texts and their digital counterparts that privileges the requirements of textual scholars. The digital-facsimile interface proposed in this study is designed to facilitate methods described by textual scholars in interview—methods of comparison, material analysis, pattern recognition, and modelling—using an open-source web-based approach that is accessible for individuals to innovate and build upon.
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Money Can't Buy Love?' Creating a Historical Sentiment Index for the Berlin Stock Exchange, 1872–1930Borst-Graetz, Janos, Burghardt, Manuel, Wehrheim, Lino 11 July 2024 (has links)
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