Tradition and Innovation in Cataloguing Medieval Manuscripts

2021 ◽  
Vol 139 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-58
Author(s):  
Orietta Da Rold
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Digital Form ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Medieval Manuscripts ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Training

Abstract In this essay, I offer a brief history of manuscript cataloguing and some observations on the innovations this practice introduced especially in the digital form. This history reveals that as the cataloguing of medieval manuscripts developed over time, so did the research needs it served. What was often considered traditional cataloguing practices had to be mediated to accommodate new scholarly advance, posing interesting questions, for example, on what new technologies can bring to this discussion. In the digital age, in particular, how do digital catalogues interact with their analogue counterparts? What skills and training are required of scholars interacting with this new technology? To this end, I will consider the importance of the digital environment to enable a more flexible approach to cataloguing. I will also discuss new insights into digital projects, especially the experience accrued by the The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220 Project, and then propose that in the future cataloguing should be adaptable and shareable, and make full use of the different approaches to manuscripts generated by collaboration between scholars and librarians or the work of postgraduate students and early career researchers.

scholarly journals A Group Interview about Publishing with Professor Jack Zipes

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-44
Author(s):  
Emma Louise Parfitt ◽  
Emine Erdoğan ◽  
Heidi Fritz ◽  
Peter M. Ward ◽  
Emma Parfitt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Group Interview ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Brothers Grimm ◽  
History Of ◽  
Conversation Piece

The conversation piece is the product of a group interview with Professor Jack Zipes and provides useful insights about publishing for early career researchers across disciplines. Based on his wider experiences as academic and writer, Professor Zipes answered questions from PhD researchers about: writing books, monographs and edited collections; turning a PhD thesis into a monograph; choosing and approaching publishers; and the advantages of editing books and translations. It presents some general advice for writing and publishing aimed at postgraduate students. Professor Zipes is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, United States, a world expert on fairy tales and storytelling highlighting the social and historical dimensions of them. Zipes has forty years of experience publishing academic and mass-market books, editing anthologies, and translating work from French, German and Italian. His best known books are Breaking the Magic Spell (1979), Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion (1983), The Irresistible Fairy Tale: The Cultural and Social History of a Genre (2012), and The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm (2014).

New technologies for data and image storage and their application to the history of art

1982 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Greenhalgh
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Image Storage ◽  
General Terms ◽  
History Of Art ◽  
Art Historians ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject

In general terms, this paper is about the possibilities newly available to art historians, because of the new cheapness, of computing, and the problems which still exist in the areas of data and image storage, retrieval and display. First it tries to assess the technology from a layman’s point of view, then ventures into the contentious matter of how many art historians (in these days of reduced funding) are either able or willing to take advantage (if there are advantages) of new technology. Threading throughout the paper are doubts about whether the use of computers can or will advance the study of the subject (as opposed to making that study easier), and about whether the finance for some of the hardware mentioned could ever be raised by any non-scientific department.

scholarly journals Goldilocks and journal publication: Finding a fit that’s “just right”

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Judi Harris ◽  
Teresa S. Foulger ◽  
Henk Huijser ◽  
Michael Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Research Community ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Journal Publication ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Practical Advice ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Academic Trajectory ◽  
Just Right

Getting your work published in journals in ways that will help to advance your scholarly record is a complex and multifaceted process. This article is written for early career researchers and graduate and postgraduate students, providing practical advice about what to consider when developing a research and publication profile and establishing yourself within a research community. It explains a range of criteria that are useful to consider when choosing the best journal “fit” for each publication and for your academic trajectory. We hope that considering the elements identified and explained in this article will help you to find a fit that is “just right” for each of your future publications.

scholarly journals Organisational and technological skills: The overlooked dimension of research training

2006 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Renata Phelps ◽  
Kath Fisher ◽  
Allan Ellis
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Research Training ◽  
Early Career ◽  
High Quality ◽  
High Quality Research ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽  
Technological Skills ◽  
Research Students

<span>Over the last three decades new technologies have emerged that have the capacity to considerably streamline the research and publication process and enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of research. This paper argues that to achieve high quality research training in the context of today's government and industry priorities, there must be a renewed focus on the organisational and technological skills that are appropriate to research. It reports on a survey of both researchers in training (higher degree research students) and early career researchers across a number of Australian institutions. The study revealed moderate levels of confidence in these areas but also found strong evidence that researchers see these aspects of research as very important and that they require greater knowledge, skills and support. The paper recommends inclusion of these organisational and technological aspects of research in research training programs and that higher education institutions take seriously the importance of such skills and do not assume that beginning researchers are already adequately trained in these skills.</span>

scholarly journals Editorial

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Hannah Ditchfield ◽  
Shuhan Chen
Keyword(s):  
Conference Proceedings ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
New Directions ◽  
The World ◽  
Media Research ◽  
The University ◽  
Media And Communication ◽  
First Time

The first issue of for(e)dialogue is composed of a collection of papers given at the New Directions in Media Research (NDiMR) postgraduate conference in June 2015 at the University of Leicester. NDiMR is a one-day postgraduate focused conference organised by PhD students from the Department of Media and Communication. This conference has a similar aim and purpose of this journal as a whole which is to provide postgraduate students, PhD students and early career researchers with a platform and opportunity to develop and share their research and critically contribute to discussions of theory and methodology on a variety of Media and Communication issues. The NDiMR conference has been held annually since 2012, each year growing in size and attracting more delegates and presenters from across the world. However, this is the first time that some of the events’ presentation papers have been collected for a published conference proceedings.

Prophecy, Fate and Memory in the Early Medieval Celtic World

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Political Authority ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
History Of ◽  
Critical Turn ◽  
The Middle Ages

Prophecy, Fate and Memory in the Early and Medieval Celtic World brings together a collection of studies that closely explore aspects of culture and history of Celtic-speaking nations. Non-narrative sources and cross-disciplinary approaches shed new light on traditional questions concerning commemoration, sources of political authority, and the nature of religious identity. Leading scholars and early-career researchers bring to bear hermeneutics from studies of religion and literary criticism alongside more traditional philological and historical methodologies. All the studies in this book bring to their particular tasks an acknowledgement of the importance of religion in the worldview of antiquity and the Middle Ages. Their approaches reflect a critical turn in Celtic studies that has proved immensely productive across the last two decades.

scholarly journals Scientistt: Cultivating a Community of Passionate Young Researchers

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Early Career ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
The Future ◽  
New Community ◽  
Training Opportunities ◽  
And Training ◽  
Young Researchers

Scientistt is a new networking platform for PhD students and early-career researchers, where they can connect with others in similar fields, share their work, and access up-to-date information about conferences, funding and training opportunities. In this exclusive interview, we speak with Hassan Mahmudul, Scientistt’s CEO and founder, and Callum Elson, head of marketing, who tell us all about this thriving new community, and their hopes for the future.

scholarly journals EMBARKING ON RESEARCH IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES: UNDERSTANDING THE FOUNDATIONAL CONCEPTS

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Raqib Chowdhury
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Methodological Choices ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
First Time

Written primarily for new or early-career researchers and postgraduate students, this paper problematises some of the foundational concepts any beginning researcher will come across when conducting research for the first time. Understanding the oft-confused, abstract, yet important notions of ontology, epistemology and paradigms can be a daunting obstacle in the experience of a new researcher, yet there are nearly no ways of sidelining these if we were to meaningfully plan, construct and execute our research. Through familiar examples, this article engages in discussing the research approach and design and how these are grounded in the ways a researcher thinks about and understands the world - in other words, how their ontological and epistemological positions determine the methodological choices they make. As well as problematising these concepts, the article also compares the qualitative and quantitative approaches, and critically considers how, in some ways, qualitative studies can yield richer results in the social science disciplines, including in Education.

scholarly journals Women in the boardroom and their impact on default risk: a pitch

2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Searat Ali
Keyword(s):  
Default Risk ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Core ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Core Elements ◽  
Personal Reflections ◽  
And Training

Purpose The purpose of this pitch research letter (PRL) is to apply the pitching template developed by Faff (2015) to an academic project on boardroom gender diversity and default risk. Design/methodology/approach The pitching template helps the pitcher to identify the core elements that form the framework of the research project. The PRL encloses a brief background about the pitcher and pitch, followed by a brief commentary on the pitch and personal reflections of the pitcher on the pitch exercise itself. Findings One of the best aspects of the pitching template is that it forced the researchers to think each item over and over, enabling a synthesis of scattered ideas in a systematic way. Hence, it is strongly recommend learning and applying the pitching template as a tool to refine embryonic research ideas and to track the progress on the research projects. Originality/value This PRL is novel as it highlights the worth of performing the pitching exercise (i.e. quality publication), potential adoptability challenge and solutions (i.e. unfamiliarity and training), systematic process of learning the pitching template and application of the “rule of three” in pitching research. Such reflections are believed to be useful for early career researchers (ECRs).

Art and New Technology in Mexico: The National Center for the Arts

Leonardo ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 371-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Di Castro
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
New Technology ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Changing Environment ◽  
Creative Practice ◽  
The Arts ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation

The author chronicles the history of Mexico's Centro Nacional de las Artes (National Center for the Arts) in Mexico City, and in particular the Multimedia Center, a space dedicated to the creation and teaching of the arts and preservation of cultural heritage through the use of new technologies such as CD-ROMs, the Internet and teleconferencing, as well as exhibitions. After 10 years of operation, the Multimedia Center faces new types of challenges as the new technologies become successfully integrated into creative practice. In response to the changing environment, the center is moving toward collaborations with similar institutions internationally and toward new funding models.

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