scholarly journals The Rights Statement Selection Tool

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriel Galson ◽  
Brandy Karl
Keyword(s):  
Decision Tree ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Creative Commons ◽  
Selection Tool ◽  
Correct Statement ◽  
The Us ◽  
Visual Reference

Through the standardized rights statements it provides, RightsStatements.org allows institutions to clearly communicate the copyright status of digitized cultural heritage works, promoting their reuse. However, it can be tricky for institutions to determine correct statement usage through the site without additional context. The Rights Statement Selection Tool [bit.ly/RSSTOOL] is an interactive infographic that serves to visually explain the statement selection workflow, allowing a copyright novice to identify the correct statement through decision tree alone. This legal tool lets cultural heritage institutions assign rights statement review work to non-experts, potentially increasing the number of items that can be evaluated. It’s meant to be integrated into cataloging workflows: clickable links lead to each statement’s URI page, and it can be viewed in a browser alongside the RightsStatements.org site. The Tool serves as a complete visual reference to the statements: each is covered and explained. It aggregates relevant resources and serves as a structural bridge between related copyright status determination charts and Creative Commons charts. Donation agreements–often a source of confusion for rights statements reviewers–are covered as well. The Tool is, by design, as agnostic to national law as possible. The US-centered copyright status determination charts that feed into it (such as the Hirtle and Sunstein charts) could easily be swapped for resources reflecting other countries’ national law; the RightsStatements.org logic that it covers would remain unchanged, and so would the chart. As the RightsStatements.org standard goes global, this tool can be translated, adapted, and re-used beyond the US.  

From the Rise of Authentic Italian Restaurants in America to the Creation of New Multicultural Food Tourism Experiences

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-16
Author(s):  
Alessandra Campanari ◽  
Alessio Cavicchi
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Italian American ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Food Tourism ◽  
Globalized World ◽  
Food Identity

With the emergence of culinary multiculturalism in the globalized world, ethnic restaurants have become central symbols of postmodern life, no longer relegated to a domestic and community sphere, but able to attract non-ethnic customers without necessarily destroy food cultural heritage. In line with this trend, the article aims to contribute to the literature on new food tourism experiences by examining contemporary Italian restaurants in the US to investigate how Italian food identity in ethnic restaurants is advertised and sold. Starting from the literature on Italian culinary immigration in America, from the rise of the first Italian restaurants to the invention of the Italian American culinary tradition, the article provides an ethnographic study to understand the changing business environment that is leading new entrepreneurs in foodservice to diversify their business models towards the creation of new food tourism experiences as a result of an ever-changing dialogue between tradition and innovation.

scholarly journals Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality-Based Technology in Cultural Tourism

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 314-322
Author(s):  
Daniela Garbin Praničević
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Technology Implementation ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
Creative Commons ◽  
European Union Countries ◽  
Desk Research ◽  
The Eu

The paper intends to scrutinize the effects of augmented (AR) reality and virtual reality (VR) technology implementation in cultural tourism. Therefore, the paper explored and presented the following: (i) AR, and VR (AR/VR) based technology concept in general, (ii) AR/VR technologies application in cultural tourism with an emphasis on their potential to protect cultural heritage; (iii) the overview of AR/VR presence in cultural tourism in the 27 European Union countries (EU-27). In the discussion part, besides empirical results based on the EU-27 desk research, AR/VR technologies in cultural tourism are additionally reconsidered from the aspect of climate change. In conclusion, what is encouraged is the application of AR/VR in cultural tourism due to the benefits AR and VR bring in terms of (i) delivering quite substantial content to their visitors any time from any place, (ii) reducing the negative impact of tourism on cultural heritage and (iii) developing related strategies based on more sustainable principles and concepts. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

scholarly journals Crowdsourcing Documentary Making

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Greg Elmer
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
The Political ◽  
Collaborative Process ◽  
Still Images ◽  
Creative Commons ◽  
Protest Policing ◽  
Police Agencies ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Mass Protest

The creative commons documentary Preempting Dissent (2014) builds upon the book of the same name written by Greg Elmer and Andy Opel. The film is a culmination of a collaborative process of soliciting, collecting and editing video, still images, and creative commons music files from people around the world. Preempting Dissent interrogates the expansion of the so-called “Miami-Model” of protest policing, a set of strategies developed in the wake of 9/11 to preempt forms of mass protest at major events in the US and worldwide. The film tracks the development of the Miami model after the WTO protests in Seattle 1999, through the post-9/11 years, FTAA & G8/20 summits, and most recently the Occupy Wall St movements. The film exposes the political, social, and economic roots of preemptive forms of protest policing and their manifestations in spatial tactics, the deployment of so-called ‘less-lethal’ weapons, and surveillance regimes. The film notes however that new social movements have themselves begun to adopt preemptive tactics so as not to fall into the trap set for them by police agencies worldwide.

Cultural heritage wars may affect Israeli-Arab ties

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
West Bank ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
The West ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Us ◽  
Peace Accords ◽  
Trump Administration

Significance The ‘Abraham Peace Accords’ between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and between Israel and Bahrain, were signed in September, after being brokered by the US Trump administration. Deals with Sudan and Morocco have since followed. Impacts Palestinian complaints will become more pointed as other Arab-Israeli ties strengthen and tourism increases. The Biden administration could engage in more scrutiny of right-wing Israeli claims, especially over the West Bank settlements. As right-wing politicians entrench their dominance, archaeological finds will drive more nationalistic interpretations of the past.

scholarly journals Is Creative Commons a Panacea for Managing Digital Humanities Intellectual Property Rights?

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 34-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi Ding
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Intellectual Property Rights ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Academic Librarians ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
Creative Commons ◽  
The Us

Digital humanities is an academic field applying computational methods to explore topics and questions in the humanities field. Digital humanities projects, as a result, consist of a variety of creative works different from those in traditional humanities disciplines. Born to provide free, simple ways to grant permissions to creative works, Creative Commons (CC) licenses have become top options for many digital humanities scholars to handle intellectual property rights in the US. However, there are limitations of using CC licenses that are sometimes unknown by scholars and academic librarians. By analyzing case studies and influential lawsuits about intellectual property rights in the digital age, this article advocates for a critical perspective of copyright education and provides academic librarians with specific recommendations about advising digital humanities scholars to use CC licenses with four limitations in mind: 1) the pitfall of a free license; 2) the risk of irrevocability; 3) the ambiguity of NonCommercial and NonDerivative licenses; 4) the dilemma of ShareAlike and the open movement.

Decision Tree Approach to Predicting Vehicle Stopping from GPS Tracks in a National Park Scenic Corridor

2019 ◽  
Vol 2673 (3) ◽  
pp. 86-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Fuentes ◽  
Kevin Heaslip ◽  
Abigail M. Sisneros-Kidd ◽  
Ashley D’Antonio ◽  
Kaveh Bakhsh Kelarestaghi
Keyword(s):  
Decision Tree ◽  
National Park ◽  
Tree Structure ◽  
Gps Tracking ◽  
Visual Reference ◽  
Gps Tracks ◽  
Decision Tree Method ◽  
The One ◽  
Sample Set ◽  
Tree Method

In this study, a GPS tracking dataset was utilized to predict the probability of a vehicle stopping along a scenic corridor in a national park setting. The Moose-Wilson Corridor (MWC) in Grand Teton National Park was evaluated for vehicle stopping/visiting determined from GPS collected data along the corridor. Four attractions were evaluated, which consisted of Death Canyon, Granite Canyon, the Laurance S. Rockefeller Preserve, and Sawmill Ponds. A decision tree analysis was implemented to determine the probabilities of visitors’ stopping patterns at park attractions. A benefit to the decision tree method is the easy to read structure and simple visual representation. An 814-observation sample set was split into training and testing datasets that resulted in model accuracies as high as 94%. A promising outcome of this methodology is that it provides a visual reference to help identify attraction relationships. Similarities in the tree structure were determined for Death Canyon and Granite Canyon owing to their child nodes being composed of other MWC attractions. Alternatively, the Laurance S. Rockefeller Preserve and Sawmill Ponds attractions determined more variability in their tree structure. The implementation of a data analysis method such as the one presented in this paper could help national park managers prepare for the incoming era of technology and data.

scholarly journals Reuse of Wikimedia Commons Cultural Heritage Images on the Wider Web

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 28-51
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Joan Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
Research Needs ◽  
Weak Correlation ◽  
Creative Commons ◽  
Digital Cultural Heritage ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Specific Assessment ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Content Marketing

Abstract Objective – Cultural heritage institutions with digital images on Wikimedia Commons want to know if and how those images are being reused. This study attempts to gauge the impact of digital cultural heritage images from Wikimedia Commons by using Reverse Image Lookup (RIL) to determine the quantity and content of different types of reuse, barriers to using RIL to assess reuse, and whether reused digital cultural heritage images from Wikimedia Commons include licensing information. Methods – 171 digital cultural heritage Wikimedia Commons images from 51 cultural heritage institutions were searched using the Google images “Search by image” tool to find instances of reuse. Content analysis of the digital cultural heritage images and the context in which they were reused was conducted to apply broad content categories. Reuse within Wikimedia Foundation projects was also recorded. Results – A total of 1,533 reuse instances found via Google images and Wikimedia Commons’ file usage reports were analyzed. Over half of reuse occurred within Wikimedia projects or wiki aggregator and mirror sites. Notable People, people, historic events, and buildings and locations were the most widely reused topics of digital cultural heritage both within Wikimedia projects and beyond, while social, media gallery, news, and education websites were the most likely places to find reuse outside of wiki projects. However, the content of reused images varied slightly depending on the website type on which they were found. Very few instances of reuse included licensing information, and those that did often were incorrect. Reuse of cultural heritage images from Wikimedia Commons was either done without added context or content, as in the case of media galleries, or was done in ways that did not distort or mischaracterize the images being reused. Conclusion – Cultural heritage institutions can use this research to focus digitization and digital content marketing efforts in order to optimize reuse by the types of websites and users that best meet their institution’s mission. Institutions that fear reuse without attribution have reason for concern as the practice of reusing both Creative Commons and public domain media without rights statements is widespread. More research needs to be conducted to determine if notability of institution or collection affects likelihood of reuse, as preliminary results show a weak correlation between number of images searched and number of images reused per institution. RIL technology is a reliable method of finding image reuse but is a labour-intensive process that may best be conducted for selected images and specific assessment campaigns. Finally, the reused content and context categories developed here may contribute to a standardized set of codes for assessing digital cultural heritage reuse.

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