This study aimed to explore the perceptions of library staff at the University of Roehampton in relation to the library’s use of social media since March 2020. This was done by distributing a questionnaire and then conducting interviews with willing participants, which included all who had been responsible for managing the accounts. This study i…[Read more]

Column on digital humanities and Jewish Studies, focusing on open data in digitized material.

El campo científico de los estudios sociales acerca del desarrollo comunitario en América Latina y el Caribe constituye un conjunto de conocimientos de carácter interdisciplinar. El campo tiene dos manifestaciones que se evidencian en su producción intelectual: 1) una visión conservadora socio – históricamente construida donde se legitiman los par…[Read more]

La historia de las asociaciones de bibliotecarios en Cuba ha sido poco abordada desde la literatura científica publicada. Se identifican escasas investigaciones con apuntes históricos sobre estas organizaciones, fundamentalmente localizadas en la capital. La búsqueda de referencias arrojó como resultado la inexistencia de investigaciones que sis…[Read more]

Reflexión breve sobre la experiencia de enseñanza durante la Pandemia Covid-19.

“Enseñar en Tiempos de Pandemia”, Protagonistas en medio de una Pandemia. Concepción: Ediciones UCSC, 2021.

Syllabus for ISS 222D Introduction to Digital Humanities, a survey course that introduces students to the many debates and methods of digital humanities and adjacent fields. Particular focus is on visualization.

आभासी चलन, क्रिप्टोकरन्सी किंवा क्रिप्टो-चलन हा बायनरी डेटाचा संग्रह आहे जो एक्सचेंजचे माध्यम म्हणून काम करण्यासाठी तयार केलेला आहे. वैयक्तिक नाण्यांच्या मालकीच्या नोंदी डिजिटल लेजरमध्ये संग्रहित केल्या जातात, जो व्यवहाराच्या नोंदी सुरक्षित करण्यासाठी, अतिरिक्त नाण्यांच्या निर्मितीवर नियंत्रण ठेवण्यासाठी आणि नाण्यांच्या मालकीच्या हस्तांतरणाच…[Read more]

Within a few days following the invasion of Ukraine, Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO) was formed as a grass-roots approach to identify and archive at-risk sites, digital content, and data in Ukrainian cultural heritage institutions. In this presentation I will identify the methods and technology we are employing, provide examples…[Read more]

Early Modern Spanish literature, also known as Golden Age Spanish literature, is a well-established period in the History of Spanish literary tradition, covering from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the end of the seventeenth century, from Renaissance to Baroque works. In the case of poetry, the stylistic change from one aesthetic to the…[Read more]

Slides for an invited talk on the Coherence-Based Genealogical Method (CBGM) for the Greek Paul Project Webinar.

Since 2004 the author has lectured for the Japanese government foreign aid agency to visiting officials, mostly from developing countries. The 70th 2-hour presentation will be to long-term grantees entering graduate schools in the Kansai region (Osaka, Kobe, Kyoto, Nara, and surroundings) by Zoom. This illustrated slideshow gives an idea of the…[Read more]

The chapter discusses recently developed computational techniques providing concrete help in addressing various tasks in historical language comparison, focusing specifically on those tasks which are typically subsumed under the framework of the comparative method. These include the proof of relationship, cognate and correspondence detection,…[Read more]

Verso una teoria delle pratiche prefigurative – traduzione dall’inglese.

Sul perchè la cura ha sempre più a che fare con la disobbedienza della proprietà privata

Why to care means to disobey private property

Spanish abstract: Una reflexión evolucionista y cognitivista sobre el papel de la imaginación y de la autorrepresentación en la identidad humana, en la creación de verdades, y en la gestión de las crisis—en el seno de una realidad humana, realidad interaccional y comunicativa, que siempre ha tenido mucho de realidad virtual (avant la lettre y avan…[Read more]

Introduction Using Stebbins’ concept of ‘serious leisure’ and Savolainen’s concept of everyday life information seeking’, this study investigates the information behaviour of Fantasy Premier League players and explores the role the online fan community plays in this behaviour. Method A mixed method approach was taken which included a questionn…[Read more]

It is evident from its presence and use in our everyday lives that textiles have been woven into our history since time began and have earned a place in museums as objects; but can a printed textile be considered a document? This paper proposes to explore the Toile de Jouy, a French 18th-19th century textile through various aspects of Document…[Read more]

Spanish abstract: Los sistemas de organización de la información se van desarrollando en la primera era de la imprenta, en el Renacimiento, en las obras de consulta impresas, y en los métodos de catalogación bibliotecaria, con ciertos paralelos a la manera en que luego lo hicieron en un nuevo entorno de tratamiento de textos—en la infor…[Read more]