In this paper we describe DSpace™, an open source system that acts as a repository for digital research and educational material produced by an organization or institution. DSpace was developed during two years’ collaboration between the Hewlett-Packard Company and MIT Libraries. The development team worked closely with MIT Libraries staff and early adopter faculty members to produce a ‘breadth-first’ system, providing all of the basic features required by a digital repository service. As well as functioning as a live service, DSpace is intended as a base for extending repository functionality, particularly to address long-term preservation concerns. We describe the functionality of the current DSpace system, and briefly describe its technical architecture. We conclude with some remarks about the future development and operation of the DSpace system.

Habilitationsschrift--Fachbereich Altertumswissenschaften--Freie Universität Berlin, 1986. / Bibliogr. p. XI-XVII. Index.

This thesis challenges the notion that little light can be shed on Exeter’s ‘middling’ and ‘poorer’ sorts in the period 1550-1610, defined as ‘the chorus’ by Wallace MacCaffrey in his book Exeter 1540-1640. It selects data from mid- to late- sixteenth and early seventeenth century urban archives, defines the strengths and weaknesses of that data and captures it in a digitised database. It uses this data to test which of the methodologies of prosopography, collective and individual biography, social network analysis and occupied topography are most appropriate for analysis of the city’s social structure and individuals’ lived experiences. It subsequently selects collective and individual biography for use with the randomly incomplete data set presented by the archives. Using the database to create group and individual biographies, it then introduces elementary quantitative analyses of the city’s social structure, starting by describing broadly the distinguishing characteristics of the leading actors and the chorus. Following on from this, it describes several groups who form part of the chorus, including the more civically active, alongside those with less data against their names. It investigates family and household dynamics and reveals how these are reflected through the occupation of baker. It continues by examining the post-mortem intentions of those who bequeathed goods and explores the lives of a selection of craftsmen, merchants, tailors and widows viewed through in-depth biographies created from the comparatively rich data associated with death. It also makes explicit that the lack of a particular document type compromises the degree of success in connecting the chorus to the cityscape using occupied topography methodologies. It reveals the challenges of recreating the notion of neighbourhood in the city’s west quarter around St Nicholas Priory, then the town house of the wealthy Hurst family. It concludes that it is possible to outline a new model, that of the ‘categorised, connected citizen’, which challenges the validity of MacCaffrey’s construct of a bi-partite society, one side of which is a murky unknown quantity about whom no ‘striking assertions’ can be made. This new model acknowledges the dynamism, individuality and interactivity of Exeter’s inhabitants, and contents that it is a better one for enabling historians to treat respectfully people they cannot yet fully understand.

This thesis draws upon the literatures of historical geography, book history, and archival theory to investigate the production of travel narratives by the London publisher John Murray during the second half of the nineteenth century. It traces the processes by which in-the-field experiences of explorers and travellers were translated into a textual and physical object: the published book. By interrogating the practicalities and technicalities of geographical publishing, particularly in relation to travellers’ paratexts, the thesis draws attention to the need for geographers to consider the literary commercialisation of geographical knowledge. The John Murray Archive provides an unusual opportunity to examine geographical publishing across 33 years, 138 titles, and 102 authors. Murray’s extensive correspondence and detailed financial records provide source material for the first comparative study of these books. The structure of the thesis follows Murray’s publication process, from accepting or rejecting manuscripts to textual editing, the shaping of paratexts, production of illustrations, and, ultimately, sales, translations, and further editions of later nineteenth-century books of travel. It places remarkable works of travel Murray published in the later nineteenth century — books by authors including David Livingstone, Paul Du Chaillu, Heinrich Schliemann, and Isabella Bird — in the context of the unexceptional. In conclusion, this thesis furthers academic understanding of a nationally important archival resource, demonstrating the value of a longitudinal survey which accounts for economic as well as epistemic influences upon geographical publishing.

This thesis project represents the culmination of my interests in sonic arts, phonography, musical performance, historical preservation, and class equality. The performance Plowing Lacquer and Polishing Noise: A Mudsill's Methodology features the music of Southern Illinois performed on homemade jug band style instruments. The performance also features my sound art sculptures, The Shintonarumori and The Gatlingophone. This paper examines the personal, historical, social, and economic factors that have inspired this media arts thesis project, including my ideological media arts theory entitled The Harakiri Manifesto. This thesis paper concludes with a brief pondering on the democratizing power of music and sound recording.

Orientadora: Maria Leandra Bizello / Banca: Márcia Cristina de Carvalho Pazin Vitoriano / Banca: Telma Campanha de Carvalho Madio / Banca: Maria Celina Soares de Mello e Silva / Banca: Georgete Medleg Rodrigues / Resumo: A presente pesquisa tem por objetivo analisar os processos simbólicos que revestem e conduzem a incorporação de arquivos pessoais por entidades de custódia no Brasil. O problema desta pesquisa encontra-se na questão: De que forma se constituiu, no Brasil, um imaginário que fundamenta e regula a prática de institucionalização dos arquivos pessoais? Esta questão se estrutura a partir da hipótese que de as instituições analisadas estabeleceram e instituíram um imaginário no qual a institucionalização de arquivos pessoais representa uma forma renovada de legitimação de elementos sociais já instituídos na sociedade. Como uma pesquisa de cunho qualitativo, a metodologia utilizada se estrutura em levantamento bibliográfico e documental, com o uso de bibliografia, nacional e estrangeira, especializada em arquivos pessoais e documentos históricos, de modo que fornecesse as bases para os debates que são desenvolvidos. Como pesquisa documental, nos utilizamos dos processos de incorporação de acervos produzidos pelas entidades analisadas. A proposta de utilizar este corpus documental se justifica pela busca por elementos que fornecessem subsídios para compreender as circunstâncias que circundam o trabalho de seleção e incorporação de arquivos pessoais por estas instituições. Foram realizadas também entrevistas com agentes que atuaram especificamente nestes processos de incorporação de arquivos pessoais nas entidades analisadas. Como recorte temporal, foi escolhido o período em que, recon... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: This research aims to analyze the symbolic processes that cover and conduct the personal archives' incorporation by safekeeping entities in Brazil. The problem of this research lies in the question: How was constituted, in Brazil, an ideal that substantiate and regulate the personal archives' institutionalization practice? This question structures itself from the hypothesis that the analyzed institutions - and it is believed to the rest that do not integrate documental research - established and founded an ideal in which the institutionalization of personal archives represents a renewed form of legitimation of social elements already instituted in the society. As a qualitative nature research, the used methodology is structured in bibliographical and documental search, with the use of Brazilian and foreign bibliography, specialized in personal archives and historical documents, in a way that would provide the groundwork to the debates that will be developed. As documental research, we gathered from processes of collection incorporations produced by the analyzed institutions. The proposal to utilize such documental corpus is justified by the search of elements that would supply subsidies to comprehend the circumstances that surround the personal archives selection and incorporation work by these institutions. There was also interviews with agents that worked specifically in these personal archives incorporation processes by the analyzed entities. As a temporal cut, it was chos... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Doutor

Orientadora: Maria Cristina Menezes / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-05T01:18:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 TeixeiraJunior_Oscar_M.pdf: 19498440 bytes, checksum: 7fb28cee25ac3ccfc7921649278a7873 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005 / Mestrado / Ensino, Avaliação e Formação de Professores / Mestre em Educação

Digital history has grown into a critical aspect of history scholarship and practice. The literature surrounding digital history is colored by its discussions of the possibilities and problems of digital history, both as an archiving tool and a method of increasing interaction with public history. This literature is also defined by its lack of answers to these questions, and lack of examinations of these possibilities in cases studies. By examining how three different New Orleans historical institutions have embraced digital history for preservation and public history in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, this thesis will illustrate how questions of preservation, access, and the impact of digital history on research are being answered by these institutions. The New Orleans historical institutions evaluated in this paper have used digital history to bolster their preservation in the face of natural disaster, and to foster increased interactivity and importance with the New Orleans community.

Magister Artium - MA / This study is about the recent political history of South Africa. It examined the crucial period of late apartheid, through the political transition into democracy. The study was conducted through the lenses of Shelagh Gastrow's work, whose series of publications titled Who’s Who in South African Politics traversed the spectrum of a severely polarised South Africa, and earned her the accolade as a "leading authority" in the biographical enterprise of Who's who. Gastrow had interviewed people in political office, those in opposition, those hiding from political persecution and even those in exile outside South Africa. It involved about 100 personalities for each of her five volumes. The study involved examining archival collections, documentary analysis, desktop research and interviews with Shelagh Gastrow. It also examined the Mayibuye Archives, where the Gastrow collection was eventually transferred, as an archive of resistance to apartheid. The study showed that from its origin as a research project about personalities in South Africa’s resistance and transition history, the Shelagh Gastrow collection was transformed into a heritage resource. The study examined political collections as heritage resources in the process of remaking the nation, and the contributions they make in the national re-engineering process. The study drew on the convergence of two theoretical claims. First, Achille Mbembe, among others, has asserted that there is no state without its archives. An indispensable, symbiotic, socio-political relationship exists between the state, actors in the state, and related archives. The second, posited by the likes of Arjun Appadurai and Igor Kopytoff, is to the effect that objects have social lives, and that they are formed and transformed through interactions with their related societies. Between the objects and their societies, meanings and values are transmitted, exchanged and retained. Thus, a careful analysis of the formation and transformations (a biographical study) of such objects can reveal the obscure about the societies they relate to. Consequently, socio-political collections do reveal much about the individuals, groups, and societies they represent. In the case of South Africa, the analysis showed the corpus of Shelagh Gastrow's collection (the object in this study) which included transcripts of political interviews, manuscripts and Who's who publications, revealed the transition from apartheid into democracy as a critical historical juncture. Political collections constitute important heritage resources, which contribute to the production of national narratives. They may originate in the past, but their analysis in the present has resonance for the collective future of the nation.

Recovering the lost voices of marginalized groups and integrating them into history helps reshape social constructs of the past, revitalize historiographical practices, and rethink spaces of exclusivity. Using an archival methodology and a feminist rhetorical lens, this thesis recovers the history of College Temple, a nineteenth-century women’s college located in Newnan, Georgia, and the women who attended the school, examining how the local space contributes to both rhetoric and composition’s larger historical narrative and modern practices. Though in existence a mere thirty-six years (1853-1889), College Temple provided its student with several contemporary opportunities, particularly within the realm of composition, contributing to their sense of agency and ethos. Exploring this contribution demonstrates the importance of the microhistory, serving as a call to further this type of research.