Digital Archives

Chiefs were instrumental in the pre-colonial and colonial states of Ghana and West Africa. Through the chieftaincy institution, the indigenous medium of socio-political administration, communities were united to form a common identity based on history, religion, and customs. The chief is the first citizen of a native state through whom the ancestral nexus is continued. However, during the age of colonialism, chieftain positions degenerated because the chiefs cooperated with the colonial regime as agents of the Crown. The paper found that during that period of degeneration, chiefs were offered medals with 3-or 2-inch silver gilt chains for their service and contributions to the colonial administration; they were also offered the Union Jack flag and government cane staff if they did "good work" on behalf of the colonial office. Thus, this paper examines the contributions made by Ashanti chiefs to the colonial office between 1919 and 1938, for which they were rewarded with Union Jack flags and/or medals. To unravel that, archival and secondary sources were utilised in the study. The paper asserts that the role of chiefs in the establishment of colonial rule in Ghana has been brought to light by the commendations bestowed upon them by the colonial office in recognition of their diverse services and contributions.

Can computers be creative? Is algorithmic art just a form of Candy Crush? Cutting through the smoke and mirrors surrounding computation, robotics and artificial intelligence,Joanna Zylinska argues that, to understand the promise of AI for the creative fields, we must not confine ourselves solely to the realm of aesthetics. Instead, we need to address the role and position of the human in the current technical setup – including the associated issues of labour, robotisation and, last but not least, extinction. Offering a critique of the socio-political underpinnings of AI, AI Art: Machine Visions and Warped Dreams raises poignant questions about the conditions of art making and creativity today.

The Living with Machines Database (LwMDB) represents one of the crown jewels of the Living with Machines project, showcasing the convergence of the project's multiple newspaper-related datasets into a single, enriched resource for researchers interested in digitised British newspapers from the long nineteenth century. By combining British Library (BL) catalogue data, FindMyPast (FMP) metadata, and bespoke datasets such as WikiGaz and Mitchell's Newspaper Press Directories, LwMDB enables an enriched view of digitised newspapers. Simplified CSV exports provide easy-to-use, reproducible access, while the database's scalable architecture, built using Django and Docker, supports future iterations. In this way, LwMDB provides a foundation for humanities research made possible by powerful new metadata.

The digitization process of archives involves the conversion of physical documents, records, and artefacts into digital formats, enabling easier access, preservation, and dissemination of valuable historical information. The present study aimed to explore the digitization and preservation of archives: a case study of the Punjab Archives, Lahore. This study uses a qualitative research methodology in order to achieve the study's goals. An inductive approach was used to collect the data. Data was collected from the staff of the Punjab archives team, the project team and primary sources. Data was converted into written transcripts with the help of NVivo software. The benefits of digitization, such as improved accessibility, enhanced searchability, increased security, efficiency of accessing resources, and the protection of cultural heritage, are discussed, along with potential benefits, challenges, and solutions. The findings of the study revealed that the Punjab archives are the richest and oldest archives in the region. Seven million archives are available in different forms (documents, manuscripts, government records, coins, stamps, lithography, books, pictures, maps, etc.) in the Punjab Archives, and 114,592 documents have been selected for the initial phase of digitization. The purpose of the project was to preserve damaged, forged, and torn records in digital form.

The Atlas of Brazilian Digital Literature is the first and the only digital archive of digital literature in Brazil to date. It reunites the documentation (taxonomic description, images, videos, interviews with the authors, and critical fortune) of 150 works and counting. This article reports the challenges related to the construction and maintenance of the Atlas, which led to the formation of the Brazilian Digital Literature Observatory, a research group dedicated to follow and critically analyze the production of Brazilian digital literature, to propose alternatives for its preservation, and to discuss the changes in the literary system at a time when print culture and digital culture coexist.

Great advances have been made in the field of archaeology by researchers using virtual reality to reconstruct and preserve the record of past cultures. Despite the common research objectives and methodologies shared by scholars in archaeology and architectural history, relatively few architectural historians have investigated the potential of this new media technology for their discipline.  The virtual environment can greatly enhance our means of conducting research, preserving the historical record, publishing scholarly work and teaching. A virtual archive of the medieval architecture of Barcelona, Spain, will illustrate a number of ways in which this new media technology can be used to advance the discipline.

This paper attempts to define and describe ar elatively new subgenre of digital literature-appf iction. Id ifferentiateb etween four keycomponents of its poetics: triple reception model, three typesofimmersion, interface, and database. These components, which inform a specific set of media literacy competences necessary for receiving app fiction and conceptualize phenomenological, technological, and haptic dimensions of it, are used in a succinct discussion of three examples: The Pickle Index by Eli Horowitz, Arcadia by Iain Pears, and Belgravia by Julian Fellowes.

The rich manuscript heritage of Italy, preserved in archives and libraries, is becoming increasingly accessible to a wider audience through dedicated digitization initiatives. However, the interpretation of these manuscripts often proves challenging due to several factors: the linguistic complexity of medieval Latin, the early development of vernacular languages, the continuous evolution of handwriting styles, and the extensive use of abbreviation systems devised to conserve space on costly materials such as parchment and paper. Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools can significantly boost the last step of the digitization process: transcription. In particular, the advent of Handwritten Character Recognition (HCR) technology enables recognition and processing of handwritten text. However, as with all AI tools-especially in the domain of handwritten texts and, more broadly, in the Humanities, training and fine-tuning is required. To support Digital Humanists in tailoring these powerful tools to specific needs-i.e. transcribing different handwriting styles-a Human-AI collaboration approach has been adopted to develop a collaborative web application, named HCR WORKFLOW, designed for the creation of ground-truth data for AI-based manuscript transcription. The platform is composed of a toolkit for document layout analysis based on Neural Networks for text line recognition (P2PaLA), an image Transformer encoder and an autoregressive text Transformer decoder for single-line transcription (TrOCR). This integrated system guides and assists Digital Humanists throughout the entire process-from digitization to transcription supervision. For this study, the platform was used to fine-tune TrOCR on humanistic script, and in particular to create the ground truth based on the Copialettere (Letterbooks) of Isabella d'Este and the letters addressed to her by Lucrezia Borgia. This research paper will discuss in detail the HCR WORKFLOW platform, the dataset used, the approach to create an AI-oriented transcription, and the results of the fine-tuning of the AI tool for manuscript transcription.

La Nube: Una mirada sobre la Infancia
Hace más de cuarenta años, Pablo Medina —desde su lugar como maestro de escuela— decidió construir un fondo bibliográfico que le permitiese conocer el universo de la infancia con la clara intención de apropiarse de sus problemáticas mediante la exploración de la obra de escritores, teóricos, investigadores, artistas y demás referentes de la disciplina, buscando desarrollar una mirada propia sobre el campo.
Con el correr del tiempo, Pablo —quien había pasado por la labor de librero— no sólo se convertiría en un coleccionista sino también en el visionario protector de este capital cultural, creador del centro de documentación que alberga la memoria de la infancia de Argentina y Latinoamérica. Un incansable investigador dedicado a la generación de ideas y proyectos —encaminados casi siempre hacia la producción escrita y publicación de materiales— y un ferviente promotor de las exposiciones en el país y en el extranjero a partir de un fondo documental compuesto por material único e irrepetible.
En la actualidad, la Biblioteca y centro de documentación La Nube, infancia y cultura, cuenta con más de 90.000 volúmenes, entre libros y publicaciones periódicas, además de documentos de audio, fotografías, originales y bocetos de dibujantes, pintores e ilustradores, videos, juguetes, títeres, afiches y artículos periodísticos. También funciona como un espacio cultural donde las dinámicas exceden lo relacionado con los libros y la lectura, dando paso a obras de teatro, recitales musicales, circo y títeres, un espacio donde se piensa a la familia como eje fundamental en la consolidación del capital cultural de la sociedad.

Auteur : AKSAS Wiam 📄 Résumé Ce document présente une méthode basée sur Python pour la récupération et l'analyse en temps réel des données du champ magnétique solaire provenant de l'instrument HMI (Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager) via le centre JSOC de la NASA (Joint Science Operations Center). L'objectif est de détecter les régions de forte intensité magnétique et de déclencher une alerte lorsque certains seuils sont dépassés, ce qui est crucial pour la prévision des Éjections de Masse Coronale (CME). Le code intègre la récupération automatisée des données, l'analyse d'image et la génération d'alertes en temps réel.

Gender equality and social inclusion are essential for sustainable development in South Asia, a region characterized by deep-rooted socio-economic disparities. This paper examines the evolving landscape of gender equality and social inclusion, analysing historical trends, current challenges, policy frameworks, and successful interventions. By integrating case studies and policy analysis, the paper highlights the intersectionality of gender, caste, class, and disability in shaping inclusion efforts. The paper concludes with recommendations for strengthening gender-responsive policies and fostering inclusive development.

This article discusses the importance of the Portal of Amateur Collaborators and the Register of Individual Finds of the Archaeological Map of the Czech Republic (AMCR-PAS) in preserving data from metal-detecting activities in the Czech Republic. The context and legal framework of metal detecting in the country are explained along with the establishment of AMCR-PAS. The collaboration between amateur and professional archaeologists is also discussed. The recorded finds are analysed in terms of chronological, typological and spatial distribution. The AMCR-PAS system is recognised as a crucial tool for the preservation of data from metal detecting, and provides a valuable resource for national and transnational archaeological research, enabled especially by aggregation of AMCR-PAS data in the ARIADNE infrastructure. Overall, this article highlights the significance of the AMCR-PAS system and its potential to contribute to the understanding of the country's rich archaeological herit...

This article considers how Indigenous peoples in Central Australia share and keep digital records of events and cultural knowledge in a period of rapid technological change. To date, research has focused upon the development of digital archives and platforms that reflect Indigenous epistemologies and incorporation of protocols governing access to information. Yet there is scant research on how individuals with little access to such media share and hold—or not, as the case may be—digital cultural information. After surveying current enabling infrastructures in Central Australia, we examine how materials are held and shared when people do not have easy access to databases and the Internet. We analyze examples of practices of sharing materials to draw out issues that arise in managing storage and circulation of cultural records via Universal Serial Bus (USB) flash drives, mobile phones, and other devices. We consider how the affordances of various platforms support, extend, and/or chal...

EUR 97,50 – ISBN 978-92-871-6997-6 The archives of many television broadcasters now contain materiel which includes more than half a century of contemporary, documentary and entertainment history and are of immense cultural and economic value. Digitisation has created an entirely new technical basis for making these assets available to a wide audience, and there are a whole range of projects aimed at opening up audiovisual archives (including those of broadcasters). Examples that might be mentioned are the BBC Creative Archive, the Dutch Filmotech initiative or the French Inamédiapro database.

Depuis plus de six décennies, la majorité des États africains a accédé à l’indépendance politique. Toutefois, cette indépendance reste incomplète : les structures mentales, culturelles, symboliques et institutionnelles demeurent profondément marquées par l’héritage colonial et néocolonial (Nkrumah, 1965 ; Cabral, 1970).
Dans ce contexte, l’IEMAC-i ICAWS propose la Coafrwologie comme nouvelle science panafricaine visant à analyser, purifier et reconstruire les égrégôres nationaux : ces champs psychiques collectifs qui conditionnent la conscience des peuples (Jung, 1959 ; Mbémbé, 2000). La libération durable de l’Afrique passe nécessairement par la décolonisation de l’invisible (Ngugi wa Thiong’o, 1986).

The people of Aguililla, Michoacán, have experienced intergenerational displacement for five centuries, dating back to their time as a tributary community of the P’urhépecha Empire. Throughout the history of Michoacán, the pueblo of Aguililla and its surrounding region of the Tierra Caliente have been subjected to immense extraction and exploitation by the ruling government, including the P’urhépecha Empire, Spanish colonialism, and Mexican neocolonialism. However, the absence of archival records detailing its extent and ramifications has impacted the historical and societal perception of the region. It has also determined the collective memory of the people of the Tierra Caliente, since the historical narrative established by the ruling government has omitted the violence against their ancestors. Intergenerational displacement among the people of Aguililla has recently reached another level of intensity. Because of cartel violence, Aguilillenses are unable to safely return to their ancestral pueblo nor engage in their generational practice of transnationalism. This article details an Indigenous autoethnographic approach to trace the long legacy of violence in my ancestral pueblo of Aguililla and the Tierra Caliente region utilizing archival and academic sources, along with reference to personal, ancestral, and communal knowledge shared with me by fellow Aguilillenses to demonstrate our acts of survivance against further erasure, marginalization, and oppression.

This paper discusses the work-in-progress of the reconstruction of the two Rucellai chapels of the ex-Florentine church of San Pancrazio, which now survives as the Museo Marino Marini. Suppressed in the nineteenth century, San Pancrazio suffered numerous structural interventions across the centuries that drastically and permanently altered the configuration of this sacred space. Textual and visual primary sources, together with data gathered from surveys, allow us to create an informed and interrogable digital model adapted for both a scholarly and a museum environment.

A particular highlight of the complex was Leon Battista Alberti’s surviving fifteenth-century marble burial tempietto for Giovanni Rucellai; the sepulchre chapel sat adjacent to a second Rucellai chapel that housed Filippino Lippi’s c.1485 altarpiece of the Virgin and Child with Saints Dominic and Jerome, now at the National Gallery in London. Questions regarding the recontextualization of these objects and the relationships between these spaces provide a test case for the refinement of the working methods already adopted by the Florence4D team for previous reconstructions of Santa Maria degli Innocenti and the camera terrena of Palazzo Medici. Our aim is to address and improve the efficiency of collaboration for the integration of documentary research and digital expertise, which are both fundamental to such visualisation work. Custom extensions for our main software applications seek to clarify interpretative decisions and to streamline and optimise the modelling process, allocating more time to research rather than technical setup.

We discuss our development of the Florence4D workflow and its current focus on improving collaborative working and data management, modular approaches, and the improved linkage of the 3D model to the underpinning research data. Compared to previous approaches, our workflow utilises a more versatile modelling framework, which grants the researcher greater control in assembling individual objects into a 3D reconstruction; this facilitates their work of interpretation and increases the possibility of more nuanced decisions and comparisons between alternative layouts before reaching a polished outcome. A greater digital proficiency is demanded of all team members, as well as repurposable digital skills to be adapted to different use-case scenarios.

Indian museums, long shaped by colonial frameworks, have often prioritized materiality over lived experiences, sidelining indigenous voices. Decolonizing these spaces requires inclusive curation, transparent repatriation, and innovative storytelling that reconnects artifacts with their cultural ecosystems. Collaborative approaches that engage local communities and oral histories can foster shared heritage. Ultimately, decolonization is less about reclaiming objects than about transforming museums into inclusive spaces of dialogue, memory, and cultural plurality.

Em homenagem à minha família, particularmente ao meu pai e à minha mãe, pelo carinho, amparo absoluto e valores que continuamente me passaram, e que continuam a ser pilares estruturantes da minha vida. Ao meu irmão, amigo, conselheiro confidente e companheiro, um verdadeiro alter-Ego da minha pessoa. Um tributo muito especial à minha mulher, aquela molécula de carbono indispensável à sobrevivência do meu Ser. Pelo Amor, apoio, e pela sua jovialidade contagiante e forma de ver a Vida, e que me desafia a abrir-me ao Mundo. A todos os meus amigos, colegas, companheiros e conhecidos que passaram pela minha vida, estejam ou não presentes nela, pela marca que deixaram não só na minha memória, mas também na minha vida. Aos meus professores, verdadeiros Mestres do Conhecimento, muito particularmente ao Mestre Francisco Barbedo, pelos desafios e apoio que me tem concedido, desde o curso de especialização, passando pelo Arquivo Distrital do Porto e pela Direcção-Geral de Arquivos. Um verdadeiro exemplo de competência e profissionalismo descomprometido. Aos meus amigos e colegas da Torre do Tombo (independentemente do nome do organismo ou instituição que alberga o edifício!) e Arquivos Distritais (especialmente no do Porto e o de Braga), pelos ensinamentos e pela forma como me ensinaram a vivenciar a prática arquivística, bem longe de "academismos empoeirados". A lista é longa, mas estão bem presentes na minha lembrança. Foi uma regalia a oportunidade de ter trabalhado convosco. Estes organismos foram e continuam a ser a minha Alma Mater. Aos meus amigos e colegas da Comunidade do RODA, Miguel Ferreira, Luis Faria e Rui Castro, por suportarem as minhas infindáveis questões e pedidos. Aos meus amigos e colegas da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, especialmente aos Professores António Gil Matos, Carlos Guardado da Silva, Jorge Revez e Paulo Alberto Farmhouse, pela força e incentivo. Às minhas amigas e colegas de trabalho da Biblioteca da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, nomeadamente a Margarida Pino, a Ana Fraga e Teresa Boa, pelo cuidado e atenção que tiveram a escutar as minhas dúvidas. Aos meus amigos e familiares que tiveram a paciência de me acompanhar na produção deste trabalho, e de todas as incertezas, apreensões e anseios ao longo desta lide, manifesto o meu mais sincero e profundo reconhecimento. Este trabalho pretende situar os repositórios digitais no seio da Preservação Digital e analisar como estes podem ser considerados dignos de confiança por parte dos seus utilizadores. Nesse sentido são abordadas normas e outros documentos com requisitos que têm como fim a certificação, como elementos que promovem e reforçam a confiança nos repositórios digitais, sendo proposta uma comparação entre o TRAC, a ISO 16363:2012 e o NESTOR. Neste âmbito é igualmente apresentado o RODA, repositório orientado para a preservação digital a longo prazo, aventando-se a sua avaliação com base nos requisitos propostos pelos referidos documentos.

This document presents an anthropological and cinematographic study on the use of artistic black and white archive in Tunisia, with a focus on the restoration and colorization of archive images. The first part explores the role of the archive as a visual reference, emphasizing the semiotics and psychology of artistic archive images. It also examines new artistic practices involving the use of archive images in installations. Moreover, this part discusses the significance of archive images as a form of visual anthropology, highlighting their use as primary research sources and their role in anthropological and ethnographic documentaries.

The second part of the document addresses the technical challenges of preserving, restoring, and colorizing archive images. It analyzes common damages and defects encountered in archive preservation, as well as available restoration and digitization solutions, including the colorization of black and white images. Finally, the general conclusion summarizes the main findings of the study.

Keywords: artistic archive, visual anthropology, ethnography, semiology, artistic installations, preservation, restoration, colorization.

Il contributo ricostruisce le vicende legate alla rinascita del Museo Poldi Pezzoli di Milano dopo i bombardamenti del 1943, che ne avevano devastato la sede storica. Protagonista fu Fernanda Wittgens, storica dell’arte e funzionaria della Soprintendenza, che si batté per mantenere la collezione nella sede originaria di palazzo Trivulzio, opponendosi al progetto alternativo del soprintendente Guglielmo Pacchioni, favorevole a un trasferimento in altra sede. Il confronto, che rifletteva due opposte visioni museologiche – da un lato una concezione moderata e conservativa del carattere storico-artistico, dall’altro un approccio modernista e funzionale – si trasformò in una vera e propria battaglia culturale e politica. Grazie al sostegno di commissioni di esperti, della Direzione Generale e del Consiglio Superiore delle Belle arti, Wittgens ottenne la conferma della ricostruzione in situ. I lavori, diretti da Ferdinando Reggiori e Guido Gregorietti con la collaborazione di Franco Russoli, portarono a una riorganizzazione più razionale degli spazi e a un rinnovato ordinamento museale, inaugurato nel 1951. L’episodio costituisce un caso emblematico delle tensioni ideologiche e pratiche che hanno segnato la museologia italiana del secondo dopoguerra, e restituisce a Wittgens e Pacchioni un ruolo cruciale nella difesa e valorizzazione del patrimonio culturale nazionale.

Il percorso didattico presentato, intitolato "Music Drivers", è stato già discusso nelle sue premesse metodologiche e nelle sue linee essenziali (De Francesco, D. (2023). ‘Music Drivers’. Un percorso integrato tra musica e turismo . Musica Docta, 13(1), 149–162. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2039-9715/18638); in questo scritto si sviluppano riflessioni ulteriori circa le sue ricadute didattiche,
soprattutto relativamente alla flessibilità, che lo rende adattabile a
contesti e destinatari diversi, ai traguardi e alle competenze coinvolti, in special modo quelle di cittadinanza.

Il percorso didattico intitolato
"Music Drivers", è stato già discusso nelle sue premesse metodologiche e nelle sue linee essenziali (De Francesco, D. (2023). ‘Music Drivers’. Un percorso integrato tra musica e turismo . Musica Docta, 13(1), 149–162. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2039-9715/18638). In questo saggio si sviluppano riflessioni ulteriori circa le sue ricadute didattiche,
soprattutto relativamente alla flessibilità, che lo rende adattabile a
contesti e destinatari diversi, ai traguardi e alle competenze coinvolti, in special modo quelle di cittadinanza.

The modern digital libraries have to address multiple diverging requirements and expectations of the users and at the same time to accommodate the rapidly changing technological novelties. User needs are always mentioned amongst the priorities in the multitude of policy documents which shape the scope and characteristics of digitisation and accessibility online. However, in reality, users seem not to be consulted in detail. One particularly underexplored area is how the use of social media could provide insights into the user interests and how the engagement with users can be enhanced in these environments. This tutorial introduces a range of methods which can be applied to understand better user needs and expectations (surveys, questionnaires, interviews, deep log analysis, personas, eye tracking, ethnographic studies) and to give a practical feel how they work in real practice through a series of recent studies. It includes real life international case study which will help the participants to get a better understanding what studies could be particularly helpful according to the products and services they develop, how to involve user s in digital library evaluation, and how to engage better with users. Participants in the tutorial will gain better understanding of: -Basic models on users in the digital library domain; -Key user study methods; -Recent best practices of case studies. It will also help participants to get initial knowledge how to plan and implement a user study, and will facilitate transfer of experience between specialists engaged in specific types of studies.

ESPERIENZE DOCUMENTALI SUL TERRITORIO DAGLI ANNI '80 AD OGGI. ALCUNE CONSIDERAZIONI Vorrei iniziare questo breve rapporto nel ricordo di Sabatino Moscati e con riferimento all'incontro di studi che egli promosse con il titolo di "Calcolatori e Scienze umane". Eravamo nei primi anni '90 e non sfuggì al suo spirito indagatore, rivolto a tutti i campi delle Scienze dell'antichità, la necessità di proporre un primo bilancio sui risultati -de�niti "spettacolari" -che il fortunato incontro tra le aree della ricerca umanistica e quelle dell'informatica ad essa applicata già erano in grado di mostrare. Un bilancio che veniva anticipato come positivo, ma che in pari tempo riscontrava già "lacune, disfunzioni, ritardi". E per il settore dell'informatica rivolta all'archeologia del territorio, Moscati volle af�darmi il compito di un rapido sguardo preliminare: non certo un consuntivo, bensì l'identi�cazione di come la topogra�a antica e cioè la ricostruzione storicizzata delle presenze dell'uomo sul territorio avesse reagito a questo nuovo tipo di approccio che di giorno in giorno andava modi�cando le tradizionali metodologie di studio su ciò che dell'antico si era conservato nelle nostre città e nei loro contesti. Nell'occasione ebbi la possibilità di mostrare, tra l'altro, un primo lotto di ricerche e pubblicazioni prodotte, a partire dagli anni centrali dell' '80, dal gruppo di lavoro formatosi nell'ambito della redazione della Carta Archeologica d'Italia, sull'abrivio delle esperienze di Giuseppe Lugli e di Ferdinando Castagnoli (Sommella 1990) 1 . In quella sede suggerivo come, rispetto a un problema che coinvolge l'intera super�cie nazionale, sia per le proporzioni dell'impresa che per i tempi tecnici della ricerca, la soluzione non potesse intervenire se non attraverso adeguate strutture operative e soprattutto mediante un ef�cace sistema di accesso ai dati. Esigenze, queste, che solo il corretto uso delle tecnologie informatiche poteva garantire con modalità più rapide di quanto non fosse stato fatto a partire dagli anni immediatamente successivi alla creazione della apposita Commissione risalente agli anni successivi a Roma Capitale. È infatti noto che l'idea di una Carta Archeologica d'Italia venne formulata nel 1885, in occasione della prima riunione della Direzione di Antichità e Belle Arti del Ministero della Pubblica Istruzione. Dopo un lungo periodo di gestazione ed un dichiarato fallimento dell'impresa, nel 1923 la Carta Archeologica d'Italia, soprattutto grazie all'impegno del Lugli, divenne una delle iniziative scienti�-1 Cfr. i riferimenti bibliogra�ci alla �ne del testo.

The digital language archiving enterprise is facing serious bottlenecks in scaling up the submission of new materials and the use of already archived materials. This talk explores the strategies of separation of concerns and automation of services in developing an infrastructure for interoperation that can break these bottlenecks.

Questo contributo intende vagliare le potenzialità della didattica della letteratura italiana attraverso le strategie dell’educazione basata sul luogo, in ambienti caratterizzati dalla compresenza di elementi naturali e antropici. In particolare, si sostiene che una progettazione didattica fondata su una conoscenza approfondita del territorio, realizzata con metodologie esperienziali e arricchita da conoscenze interdisciplinari, possa valorizzare non soltanto l’apprendimento letterario in ambito scolastico ma anche la consapevolezza culturale e ambientale degli allievi nei confronti dei luoghi da essi abitati. Alcune considerazioni teoriche sulla didattica della letteratura, fatte convergere con le intuizioni degli studi specialistici sull’educazione all’aperto e basata sui luoghi, sono dunque rintracciate negli esiti di un caso di studio sperimentale condotto presso una scuola secondaria di primo grado.

Cet article propose d'envisager les porosités entre le traitement artistique du temps historique par l'artiste Hanne Darboven (1941-2009) et le traitement informatisé des données d'archives. Il s'agit ainsi de ré-envisager la dimension esthétique des procédés de numérisation, et leurs incidences sur l'appréhension d'un ensemble documentaire. Dans un premier temps, l'article s'attache à montrer que la méthode d'indexation récurrente de Hanne Darboven, s'inscrivant dans la logique de l'artiste d'« écrire sans décrire », oeuvre à détacher les dates de leur ancrage historique et de leur force descriptive. Ceci est est appréhendé à travers le concept de « mot d'ordre », tel qu'employé par Deleuze et Guattari. Ce détachement est ensuite mis en évidence dans les pratiques de numérisation d'archives, où la remise en question de modèles archivistiques classiques fait écho au déplacement des documents que produit Hanne Darboven. D'un côté comme de l'autre, ceci est permis par la reconsidération d'une matérialité, celle du temps pour Darboven, et celle des données et du code pour l'informatique.

'Antidote: Advanced Training in Digitization of Older Texts', A Joint Conference by Trinity College Dublin and The Royal Irish Academy.

The Cotton Library, Lismore, was invited to contribute to the ANTIDOTE project (Advanced Training in Digitization of Older Texts), hosted by Trinity College Dublin and the Royal Irish Academy. The presentation, Sustaining the Past: Challenges Facing Small Independent Archives, highlighted the distinctive role of small diocesan libraries in preserving cultural, linguistic, and ecclesiastical heritage.
Drawing on the Cotton Library’s unique holdings, including material in fourteen languages and the historically significant Bedell Irish Old Testament; the presentation explored both the opportunities and the obstacles faced by smaller institutions. Key themes included the financial and technical challenges of digitisation, the need for collaborative networks to support independent archives, and the wider cultural value of safeguarding texts that embody the complex intersections of Irish language, Protestant identity, and historical memory.
The session underscored that while small archives may lack the resources of larger institutions, they remain vital custodians of heritage. Digitisation not only secures their collections for future generations but also extends access, allowing these texts to continue to inspire scholarship, dialogue, and community engagement.

Anyone who enters the drawing installations and graphical artworks of Nic Hess (*1968, Zürich, CH) must be prepared to travel a long way: on upward, downward and diagonal paths, on circuitous paths, on side paths—and on what Paul Klee calls Hauptweg und Nebenwege [Highway and Byways]. This description applies on a physical level and on a mental level. Physically, a drawing installation by Nic Hess may extend over several storys—across the full height of the space’s walls and across ceilings and floors. The viewer is expected to access the installation in its totality through movement and from different perspectives—but also to be aware of all the dimensions of the space, to look forwards and to look back in order to develop a vision that unites the miniature details with the huge, bill-board-like surfaces and signs. The mental requirements that Nic Hess’s installations impose on the viewer are still more complex—he draws his graphical rhetoric from a freely and imaginatively deployed reservoir of art history, from the language of signs, from the aesthetic of our everyday lives, from symbols from the worlds of politics and fi-nance and from a number of other spheres. [Renate Wiehager, Nic Hess. History Pictures of our Aesthetic-Political Situation, in: Renate Wiehager, Christian Ganzenberg (Ed.), Nic Hess. Drawing Installations 1995 – 2014, Snoeck Verlag, Cologne 2014, German/English. 304 pp. ISBN: 978-3-86442-079-5]

Artificial intelligence (AI) opens new possibilities for processing and analysing large, heterogeneous historical data corpora in a semi-automated way. The Ottoman Nature in Travelogues (ONiT) project applies a fine-tuned Contrastive Language–Image Pre-Training (CLIP) model for retrieving images with nature representations in digitized early book prints based on embeddings of visual features rather than on textual metadata. In this article, we present results of our work, including a curated and annotated dataset of 8,042 images of nature representations, and the CLIP-based text–image exploration tool ONiT Explorer. An evaluation of the fine-tuned model comparing it to the zero-shot model confirms the potential of vision-language models for retrieving specific contents from large image collections in the cultural heritage and digital humanities domains. While in general our fine-tuned model can retrieve more correct examples per class compared to the zero-shot model, our analysis also reveals some limitations that need to be addressed in future explorations.

Prefazione al Quaderno didattico sul Piano di Magadino, che si compone di vari materiali per supportare l’esplorazione tematica e la progettazione didattica dei docenti: un libretto introduttivo di carattere metodologico; schede di «sapere docente», che riguardano approfondimenti scientifici sul Piano di Magadino e sul suo Parco; missioni ed esplorazioni, ovvero attività destinate direttamente alle e agli allievi della scuola dell’infanzia e della scuola elementare; infine, completa l’offerta una sezione cartografica pieghevole (storica e recente). Anche l’aspetto metodologico, quindi, è fortemente e costantemente ricercato e sostenuto dalla pubblicazione, con la piena consapevolezza dell’esigenza di fornire, per mezzo dei docenti, modelli interpretativi efficaci ma al contempo flessibili, ai discenti impegnati in tutte quelle fasi didattiche che permettono di ricapitolare, organizzare e tesaurizzare le esperienze raccolte sul campo.

“His most important contribution to the general history of art lies in his
theoretical considerations of the notion of the periphery”. 1 Given the
necessary distinctions, it would not be out of place to apply this iconic
synthesis of the scientific approach to the Cultural Heritage by Ljubo
Karaman (1886‒1971) to the Italian Art Historian, Francesco Negri Arnoldi
(1932–Rome, 2018). Because, despite the chronological gap, and
the geographical focus between them, we can say that they were both
strenuous defenders of non-mainstream art. And their common enemy
was the hierarchical approach to the ‘histories’ of Art.

Screening Exercises V-VIII è un ciclo di proiezioni, incontri e seminari che si concentrano sulla proiezione cinematografica come centro della ricerca artistica di alcuni artisti contemporanei e come elemento specifico e strutturale del cinema rivelando la connotazione performativa che può avere l’atto della proeizione.

Screning Exercises V-VIII ha visto tre giorni di proiezioni e incontri con gli artisti Claudio Caldini, Gaëlle Rouard e Andrea Saggiomo; e vedrà un seminario conclusivo con il ricercatore e assistente curatore della Collezione film del Centre Pompidou Enrico Camporesi.

Objetivo: Analisar o que vem sendo feito, no âmbito público, no tratamento dos dados coletados em saúde e, a partir das mudanças trazidas pela lei 13.709/2018, quais reverberações poderão causar na interoperabilidade. Métodos: Estudo de abordagem metodológica descritiva, com viés analítico. Resultados: O advento da lei 13.709/2018 trouxe de maneira sistemática a forma como os dados devem ser tratados. Nesse sentido, a esfera pública tem deveres específicos para tratar os dados. O trabalho destaca a necessidade de mantê-los em formato interoperável e estruturado. Conclusão: A Rede Nacional de Dados em Saúde (RNDS) é uma aposta para a integração de dados em saúde, conforme as demandas da LGPD. No entanto, ainda que algumas iniciativas já tenham sido tomadas, ainda não se tem efetiva aplicabilidade do modelo a despeito da lei já estar vigorando.

This study explores the accessibility of archives for people with disabilities in
Oman. This research seeks to discuss the state of physical and digital accessibility
within archival institutions in Oman. Using a qualitative exploratory approach,
semi-structured interviews were conducted with 23 participants who were archivists,
cultural institution managers, and representatives of organizations that advocate on
behalf of people with disabilities. Thematic analysis of the data reveals major findings
into the area of accessibility challenges in Oman. The results clearly show that
though the archives in Oman provide some physical facilities, such as ramps, Braille
signs, and special parking lots, the digital accessibility has major gaps. Most of the
digital archives cannot be accessed by visually or hearing challenged people because
there is a lack of screen reader compatibility and adapted interfaces. This study also
finds a lack of awareness and training among archivists as one of the contributors
to these barriers. Furthermore, the protection of accessibility by the legal frameworks
is evidently far from the implementation practice. Improvements have been
made through signing the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities by
Oman, up to holding a disability conference in 2023. However, digitization of archival
content and inclusion of assistive technologies require more action. Finally, the
study concludes with recommendations, highlighting measures that ensure complete
digital solutions, improved infrastructure, inclusive policy frameworks, and training
programs so as to enhance the accessibility of archival materials to people with disabilities
in Oman.