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Collecting streaming services
No full textIn the streaming era, the very thing that defines it is what threatens to impede access to important media history and cultural heritage. Streaming’s barriers to entry and its interim content catalogs challenge the actual collection and preservation of it for research and teaching purposes. If researchers and libraries do not work together to document and preserve these, we will keep losing important sources and data. From a collection perspective, we argue that streaming services consist of their catalog, metadata, and graphical user interfaces. First, we map the large-scale legal deposit collection of streaming at a national library as well as a media researcher’s small-scale targeted collection. Second, we compare the resulting collections of web sites and graphical user interfaces in order to discuss methodological challenges. The findings of this comparative analysis indicate the existing deficiencies in both collections and suggest potential improvements in the collection and preservation of streaming services.In the streaming era, the very thing that defines it is what threatens to impede access to important media history and cultural heritage. Streaming’s barriers to entry and its interim content catalogs challenge the actual collection and preservation of it for research and teaching purposes. If researchers and libraries do not work together to document and preserve these, we will keep losing important sources and data. From a collection perspective, we argue that streaming services consist of their catalog, metadata, and graphical user interfaces. First, we map the large-scale legal deposit collection of streaming at a national library as well as a media researcher’s small-scale targeted collection. Second, we compare the resulting collections of web sites and graphical user interfaces in order to discuss methodological challenges. The findings of this comparative analysis indicate the existing deficiencies in both collections and suggest potential improvements in the collection and preservation of streaming services
Peztilentze og blodsot:Et detaljeret blik på pest- og dysenteriepidemierne i Øster Løgum, 1627-29
No full textThis study examines Øster Løgum, a rural parish in Slesvig, which experienced outbreaks of first dysentery and then plague in the years 1627-1629. Øster Løgum is an unusual case, because the causes of death were recorded by the local pastor, allowing us to track the course of two epidemic diseases. Historiographically there is a stark contrast between bubonic plague – arguably the most discussed disease in history – and dysentery, which, despite its prevalence, seldom figures prominently in historical narratives. The article examines the spatial and temporal diffusion of both outbreaks at multiple scales in order to compare their impact on the parish population. The epidemiological profiles of the two diseases were markedly different: dysentery affected most villages simultaneously with relatively even mortality, while the impact of plague was temporally and spatially uneven. The plague had a particularly devastating impact on two of the parish’s six villages, resulting in exceedingly high mortality rates. This disparity was also observed at the household level, with the plague, on average, claiming more lives than dysentery in each infected household
