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Collaborative research in the digital humanities
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ISBN: 9781409410683 1409410684 9781409410690 1409410692 1280571071 9781280571077 1317164385 1317164377 9786613600677 9781317164371 9781138254510 9781317164388 9781315572659 9781317164364 1315572656 Year: 2012 Publisher: Farnham: Ashgate,

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Collaboration within digital humanities is both a pertinent and a pressing topic as the traditional mode of the humanist, working alone in his or her study, is supplemented by explicitly co-operative, interdependent and collaborative research. This is particularly true where computational methods are employed in large-scale digital humanities projects. This book, which celebrates the contributions of Harold Short to this field, presents fourteen essays by leading authors in the digital humanities. It addresses several issues of collaboration, from the multiple perspectives of institutions, projects and individual researchers.


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Scholarship, Commerce, Religion
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ISBN: 0674065328 0674068726 9780674068728 9780674065321 9780674062085 0674062086 Year: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge, MA

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A decade ago in the Times Literary Supplement, Roderick Conway Morris claimed that "almost everything that was going to happen in book publishing-from pocket books, instant books and pirated books, to the concept of author's copyright, company mergers, and remainders-occurred during the early days of printing." Ian Maclean's colorful survey of the flourishing learned book trade of the late Renaissance brings this assertion to life. The story he tells covers most of Europe, with Frankfurt and its Fair as the hub of intellectual exchanges among scholars and of commercial dealings among publishers. The three major religious confessions jostled for position there, and this rivalry affected nearly all aspects of learning. Few scholars were exempt from religious or financial pressures. Maclean's chosen example is the literary agent and representative of international Calvinism, Melchior Goldast von Haiminsfeld, whose activities included opportunistic involvement in the political disputes of the day. Maclean surveys the predicament of underfunded authors, the activities of greedy publishing entrepreneurs, the fitful interventions of regimes of censorship and licensing, and the struggles faced by sellers and buyers to achieve their ends in an increasingly overheated market. The story ends with an account of the dramatic decline of the scholarly book trade in the 1620's, and the connivance of humanist scholars in the values of the commercial world through which they aspired to international recognition. Their fate invites comparison with today's writers of learned books, as they too come to terms with new technologies and changing academic environments.


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Scholarship, commerce, religion : the learned book in the age of confessions, 1560-1630
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ISBN: 9780674062085 0674062086 0674065328 0674068726 Year: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge (Mass.): Harvard university press,

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A decade ago in the Times Literary Supplement, Roderick Conway Morris claimed that "almost everything that was going to happen in book publishing-from pocket books, instant books and pirated books, to the concept of author's copyright, company mergers, and remainders-occurred during the early days of printing." Ian Maclean's colorful survey of the flourishing learned book trade of the late Renaissance brings this assertion to life. The story he tells covers most of Europe, with Frankfurt and its Fair as the hub of intellectual exchanges among scholars and of commercial dealings among publishers. The three major religious confessions jostled for position there, and this rivalry affected nearly all aspects of learning. Few scholars were exempt from religious or financial pressures. Maclean's chosen example is the literary agent and representative of international Calvinism, Melchior Goldast von Haiminsfeld, whose activities included opportunistic involvement in the political disputes of the day. Maclean surveys the predicament of underfunded authors, the activities of greedy publishing entrepreneurs, the fitful interventions of regimes of censorship and licensing, and the struggles faced by sellers and buyers to achieve their ends in an increasingly overheated market. The story ends with an account of the dramatic decline of the scholarly book trade in the 1620's, and the connivance of humanist scholars in the values of the commercial world through which they aspired to international recognition. Their fate invites comparison with today's writers of learned books, as they too come to terms with new technologies and changing academic environments.


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User studies for digital library development
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ISBN: 1856047652 1856049264 9781856049269 9781299278219 1299278213 9781856047654 Year: 2012 Publisher: London Facet

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As the information environment becomes increasingly electronic, digital libraries have proliferated, but the focus has often been on innovations in technology and not the user. Although userneeds have become a popular concept, in practice the users are rarely consulted in the development of services. Research and analysis of users is essential to fine-tune the content and approach of digital libraries to the diverging requirements and expectations of incredibly varied communities and to ensure libraries are effective, accessible and sustainable in the long term. Providing a clear and coherent overview of the user studies domain and user issues in digital libraries this landmark edited text captures a truly global cross-section of leading voices.


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Virtual knowledge : experimenting in the humanities and the social sciences
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ISBN: 1283707519 0262305755 9780262305754 9780262018395 026201839X 0262517914 9780262517911 9781283707510 Year: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : MIT Press,

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Authority and expertise in new sites of knowledge production / Anne Beaulieu, Sarah de Rijcke and Bas van Heur -- Working in virtual knowledge : affective labor in scholarly collaboration / Smiljana Antonijević, Stefan Dormans and Sally Wyatt -- Exploring uncertainty in knowledge representations : classifications, simulations and models of the world / Matthijs Kouw, Charles van den Heuvel and Andrea Scharnhorst -- Virtually visual : the visual rhetoric of GIS in policy making / Rebecca Moody, Matthijs Kouw and Victor Bekkers -- Sloppy data floods or precise social science methodologies? : dilemmas in the transition to data-intensive research in sociology and economics / Clement Levallois, Stephanie Steinmetz and Paul Wouters -- Beyond open access : a framework for openness in scholarly communication / Clifford Tatum and Nicholas W. Jankowski -- Virtual knowledge in family history : visionary technologies, research dreams and research agendas / Jan Kok and Paul Wouters.


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Cultures of knowledge : technology in Chinese history
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ISSN: 01699563 ISBN: 9789004218444 9004218440 9004219366 1283855844 9789004219366 9781283855846 Year: 2012 Volume: v. 103 Publisher: Leiden [etc.] Brill

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Looking at knowledge transmission as a cultural feature, this book isolates and examines the individual factors that affect knowledge in the making and created uniquely Chinese cultures of knowledge. The volume is organized into four sections: Internode, Imperial Court, Agora, and Scholarly Arts. Each has a theoretical introduction, followed by two core contributions from experts in Chinese history. The section concludes with a ‘reflection’ by a historian of Western Technology who scrutinizes each sphere and identifies the points that reflect universal technological experience. The combination of broadly sketched theoretical introductions and detailed core contributions provides an unparalleled insight into pre-modern Chinese history from the Song to early Qing dynasty, revealing Chinese attitudes towards innovation and invention.


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Portuguese humanism and the republic of letters
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ISBN: 9789004217218 9789004226364 9004226362 9004217215 1283396009 9786613396006 9781283396004 6613396001 Year: 2012 Volume: 21 Publisher: Leiden Boston Brill

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This volume focuses on the interdisciplinary investigation of Portuguese humanism, especially as a noteworthy player in the international network of early modern scholars, writers and intellectuals. During the Renaissance, Portugal became a centre for the dissemination of information concerning the new geographical and cultural horizons opened up by voyages of discovery, as well as a meeting place for humanist scholars and intellectuals coming from elsewhere in Europe. Papers in this volume situate Portuguese scholarship within the international humanistic network and examine its connection to other aspects of contemporary cultural production. Contributors include Onésimo Almeida, Jens Baumgarten, Liam Brockey, Sylvie Deswarte-Rosa, Thomas Earle, Karl Enenkel, Catarina Fouto, Noël Golvers, Alejandra Guzmán, Tobias Leuker, Giuseppe Marcocci, Cristóvão Marinheiro, Ricarda Musser, and Marília dos Santos Lopes.

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History of civilization --- anno 1500-1599 --- Portugal --- Communication in learning and scholarship --- Discoveries in geography --- Humanism --- Intercultural communication --- Learning and scholarship --- Portuguese literature --- Renaissance --- Revival of letters --- Civilization --- History, Modern --- Civilization, Medieval --- Civilization, Modern --- Middle Ages --- Erudition --- Scholarship --- Intellectual life --- Education --- Learned institutions and societies --- Research --- Scholars --- Cross-cultural communication --- Communication --- Culture --- Cross-cultural orientation --- Cultural competence --- Multilingual communication --- Technical assistance --- Philosophy --- Classical education --- Classical philology --- Philosophical anthropology --- Discoveries, Maritime --- Discovery and exploration --- Exploration and discovery --- Explorations in geography --- Exploring expeditions --- Geographical discoveries --- Geographical discovery --- Maritime discoveries --- Voyages and travels --- Explorers --- Geographical discoveries in literature --- Communication in scholarship --- Scholarly communication --- History --- History and criticism --- Anthropological aspects --- Portugalii︠a︡ --- República Portuguesa --- Portugalia --- Portogalia --- Portogallo --- Portugali --- Sefarad --- Lusitania (Portugal) --- Portuguese Republic --- البرتغال --- al-Burtughāl --- برتغال --- Burtughāl --- الجمهورية البرتغالية --- al-Jumhūrīyah al-Burtughālīyah --- جمهورية البرتغالية --- Jumhūrīyah al-Burtughālīyah --- 葡萄牙 --- Putaoya --- 葡萄牙共和国 --- Putaoya Gongheguo --- Portugalsko --- Portugalská republika --- République portugaise --- Portugiesische Republik --- Portugál Köztársaság --- Repubblica Portoghese --- ポルトガル共和国 --- Porutogaru Kyōwakoku --- 포르투갈 --- P'orŭt'ugal --- 포르투갈공화국 --- P'orŭt'ugal Konghwaguk --- پرتغال --- Purtughāl --- جمهوري پرتغال --- Jumhūrī-i Purtughāl --- Republika Portugalska --- Португалия --- Португальская Республика --- Portugalʹskai︠a︡ Respublika --- Portekiz --- Portekiz Cumhuriyeti --- Republica Portugheză --- ポルトガル --- Porutogaru --- פורטוגל --- Relations --- REFERENCE --- Questions & Answers. --- History and criticism.

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