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Discussing the \u27Divine Comedy\u27 with Dante: On Crowdsourcing and Transcultural Resonance
Get PDFDeparting from the enigmatic 2006 Chinese-oil-painting-turned-digital-curio Discussing the Divine Comedy with Dante, this essay first defines the conceptual framework behind Dante Today, a crowdsourced but curated digital archive that catalogs references to Dante and his works across contemporary global cultures. Then it explains our editorial decision to employ crowdsourcing as the principal mechanism behind collection development. This choice has advantages and pitfalls. On the one hand, crowdsourcing enables the participation of large and diverse publics in collection development, engaging the “crowd” in scholarly practice. On the other hand, outsourcing collection development to the “crowd” threatens to replicate the center-periphery model that Dante’s works are often accused of perpetuating. Although crowdsourcing aspires to democratize participatory heritage projects such as ours, I interrogate the limits of such claims, particularly from the perspective of transcultural and de-colonial scholarly practice. In my conclusion, I articulate our plans for future initiatives that aim to remedy this imbalance
Who Gets Green in Philadelphia?: A Spatial Analysis of Philadelphia\u27s Tree Distribution Program
Get PDFThis study evaluates the equity of the tree distribution of Philadelphia’s yard tree program run by TreePhilly. The assessment focuses on the program’s ability to counteract the urban heat island effect based on land surface temperatures calculated using Landsat 8 satellite imagery as well as zoning specifications from the City of Philadelphia’s land use data, and socioeconomic characteristics from the American Community Survey on the census block group level. Disparities were identified using mapping, regression analysis, and spatial econometric models to determine the relationships between tree distribution and important factors such as temperature, race, income, and property characteristics. Overall, the study found that residential tree distribution was not equitable with regards to combatting the urban heat island effect and that more trees per square feet were planted in census block groups with higher white populations and lower density zoning classifications. This assessment will inform the local government on the effectiveness of its program and facilitate TreePhilly in determining where to target its outreach
Collation Model for LJS 500: Liber mirabilium [manuscript].
Get PDFAlchemical and medical compendium containing recipes and texts from a variety of sources, many of which appear with traditional (now suspect) attributions in other manuscripts, with an alphabetical index to recipes at the beginning of the volume. Occasional manicules and annotations added by readers.https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/1010/thumbnail.jp
Collation Model for Ms. Codex 86: De casibus conscientiae ... [etc.]
Get PDFContains text of a work entitled De casibus conscientiae (f. 1r-364v). There is no indication of the identity of the author. Also contains the text of Pope Clement VIII\u27s bull Pastoralis Romani Pontificis vigilantia (commonly referred to as In coena Domini; f. 366r-378v). This appears to have been copied from a version printed in 1596, though the heading bears the date 1598. Also contains a commentary on Clement\u27s bull, titled De casibus reservatis, et nominatim de iis qui reservatur in bulla Coenae domini.https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/1013/thumbnail.jp
Collation Model for Ms. Codex 1248: [Liturgical miscellany].
Get PDFMiniature manuscript of music and prayers from a monastic context. The manuscript has a pedagogical slant, beginning with the seven tones and some of the ordinary chants (Kyrie, Gloria, Ite missa est) written out repeatedly in different tones. It ends with a diagram of a Guidonian hand, a tool attributed to the 11th-century musical theorist Guido d\u27Arezzo and used in the 12th through 16th centuries for teaching sight-singing, and a ladder diagram of the gamut. Most of the content of the manuscript consists of brief chants for the liturgical cycle, with more extensive chants for Holy Week, including part of the Lamentations of Jeremiah (f. 54v-58r), and for the Office of and Mass for the Dead (Officium defunctorum, Missa pro defunctoris). The only antiphons indicated from the sanctoral cycle are for the Finding of the Holy Cross (May 3, f. 30r) and the Apparition of Saint Michael (May 8, f. 30v). Beginning of musical notation (primus tonus, secundus tonus) now lacking, perhaps 1-2 leaves; a catchword on the last leaf of musical notation suggests that at least one more gathering is missing between the last two. The musical notation is followed by prayers to Saint Michael, Saint Helena, and Saint Katherine of Alexandria, and a number of prayers for the death and burial of different categories of people, including priests, parents, and members of the order, with brief rubrics.https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/1019/thumbnail.jp
Collation Model for Ms. Codex 740: [Fifteenth-century miscellany]
Get PDFMiscellany bound in the late 15th century, with contemporary table of contents for the second half of the text (f. 257v), and paper index tabs on outer margins to locate works. Many works include dates but are probably later copies.https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/1032/thumbnail.jp
Collation Model for Ms. Codex 33: Libellus de speculativa mistice theologie / a magistro Io. de Gersono.
Get PDFContains the text of Gerson\u27s De mystica theologia speculativa (pp. 1-68), De mystica theologia practica (pp. 69-111), and De passionibus animae (pp. 113-156). There is a short bibliographical appendix, Annotacio doctorum aliquorum qui de contemplacione loquti sunt (pp. 111-112). Also contains Pierre D\u27Ailly\u27s De districtione in nocturnis pollutionibus, in an abridged form (pp. 162-163).https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/1024/thumbnail.jp
Reform in Name Only: The Difficulties of Dismantling Mass Supervision in Pennsylvania
Get PDFPennsylvania has one of the highest rates of people on probation in the United States. Probation reform legislation has repeatedly emerged in the Pennsylvania legislature since controversy arose in 2017 over rapper Meek Mill’s long probation sentence. However, probation reform initiatives that would reduce the use of probation in Pennsylvania have been obstructed or amended to actually increase its use and severity. To understand what makes achieving such probation reform difficult, this thesis analyzes three significant roadblocks – the phenomenon of devolution and the actions of two advocacy groups. This thesis is grounded in ten interviews conducted with key actors whose work intersects with the Pennsylvania probation system. These interviews are analyzed alongside scholarly literature, reports from advocacy organizations, and news and legislative materials. The analysis finds that firstly, the consequences of devolution encourage funding probation departments, create entrenched stakeholders, and impede anti-carceral activist efforts. Secondly, the REFORM Alliance, a national advocacy organization particularly active in Pennsylvania, is complicit in punitive changes to the bills it endorses, excludes community organizers, and maintains a neoliberal alliance with the carceral state under the guise of reform. Thirdly, the Pennsylvania District Attorneys Association greatly shapes probation reform measures to be more punitive, benefiting from a political landscape in favor of tough-on-crime district attorneys despite some prosecutorial fragmentation. By identifying key institutional barriers, this thesis aims to assist efforts to end mass supervision in Pennsylvania