Charles Brockden Brown’s celebrated novel Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker (1799), set in the Forks of the Delaware region of Pennsylvania, has been related to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia on the basis of a mistaken understanding that its action takes place during the summer of 1787. The correct date is 1785. The n…[Read more]

Charles Brockden Brown’s celebrated novel Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker (1799), set in the Forks of the Delaware region of Pennsylvania, has been related to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia on the basis of a mistaken understanding that its action takes place during the summer of 1787. The correct date is 1785. The n…[Read more]

This presentation will introduce the HuMetricsHSS (Humane Metrics in the Humanities and Social Sciences) initiative, which aims to develop and support a values-based framework of indicators for excellence for the humanities and social science in academia and, by extension, academic libraries. This value-based evaluation paradigm uses metrics only…[Read more]

Open access (OA) is a contested term with a complicated history and a variety of understandings. This rich history is routinely ignored by institutional, funder and governmental policies that instead enclose the concept and promote narrow approaches to OA. This article presents a genealogy of the term open access, focusing on the separate…[Read more]

Apprenticechip is a course on case studies in and techniques for creating digital libraries for apprentice learners. It is available at http://www.apprenticechip.org under a Creative Commons license.

Objective: Using the MLA International Bibliography, students will develop a presentation that demonstrates their understanding of how scholarship on a single work of literature changes over time.

The late medieval wall of Rimini is an important monumental presence in the present-day fabric of the city, bounding its historic center. However, even though a good knowledge exists through written sources about it, the subject has not been checked enough from the archaeological point of view. This article intends to take stock of the situation…[Read more]

An essay that weaves historical perspectives with a unique interpretation of Kerensa Dewantoro’s performance art of Menjahit Marat Sade/ Sewing Marat Sade in Urban Kampong Dago Pojok, Bandung-Indonesia

This essay explores the impact of digitized and born-digital special collections on teaching, learning, and research, and, through institutional case studies, considers the variety of collaborative opportunities made possible by the digitization of special collections.

This essay explores the impact of digitized and born-digital special collections on teaching, learning, and research, and, through institutional case studies, considers the variety of collaborative opportunities made possible by the digitization of special collections.

My sonic work “City Noise” proposes both an artistic and a theoretical approach to the city-sound relationship. The default assumption about this relationship is that sounds reflect a one-to-one relationship between soundscape and landscape, both drawing upon and revealing the physical and social landscapes from which they originate. However, the…[Read more]

Car Free Day has become a contested aren of production and consumption where by a contemporary social and cultural transformation of space also forms a new contemporary composite agencies of urban public in the city of Bandung, West Java. Such agencies also shape a new identity for the image of a city landmark. The cit appears to prioritize its…[Read more]

Public space as a visual spectacle contributed for discovery and possible strengthening of new rhetorics outside the planning sector. Contestation of public space featuring various aspects of life residents, including; economy, entertainment, politic, and life style. One of the paradox emerging from this, manifest in the use of public space that…[Read more]

The Pasupati flyover (Pasteur-Surapati) connecting Bandung to Jakarta has become a new symbol for the city. Recent policy has made the space located under the bridge, transformed from ‘dead space’ into a socially-significant urban space for marginal people governed by many stakeholders and consequently a contestation of multiple and con…[Read more]

Traditional society cosmology is an instrument of territorial, space and buildings order as a whole language.Megalithic Nias was found with its organizational and architectural concept arranged with its cosmology.The belief of three worlds/cosmos: upper world or ancestor’s world, human world, and underworld, is local cult approved as local…[Read more]

Local wisdom producing genius loci is a conceptual idea that lives, grows and develops in the society. It develops continually and in relation with society awareness, organizing sacral and profane parts of their lives. Genius loci in traditional settlements can be found in the different pattern and order corresponding to traditional values of the…[Read more]

My sonic work “City Noise” proposes both an artistic and a theoretical approach to the city-sound relationship. The default assumption about this relationship is that sounds reflect a one-to-one relationship between soundscape and landscape, both drawing upon and revealing the physical and social landscapes from which they originate. However, the…[Read more]

Car Free Day has become a contested aren of production and consumption where by a contemporary social and cultural transformation of space also forms a new contemporary composite agencies of urban public in the city of Bandung, West Java. Such agencies also shape a new identity for the image of a city landmark. The cit appears to prioritize its…[Read more]

Public space as a visual spectacle contributed for discovery and possible strengthening of new rhetorics outside the planning sector. Contestation of public space featuring various aspects of life residents, including; economy, entertainment, politic, and life style. One of the paradox emerging from this, manifest in the use of public space that…[Read more]

The Pasupati flyover (Pasteur-Surapati) connecting Bandung to Jakarta has become a new symbol for the city. Recent policy has made the space located under the bridge, transformed from ‘dead space’ into a socially-significant urban space for marginal people governed by many stakeholders and consequently a contestation of multiple and con…[Read more]