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米国大学図書館におけるGIS サービスの動向 －過去のアンケート調査の比較とピッツバーグ大学図書館の現状から [Trend of GIS services in US Academic Libraries –from comparison of past surveys and current situation of the University of Pittsburgh]
No full text本稿は，米国大学図書館が1990 年代前半から提供し始めたGIS（Geographic Information Systems）サービスの動向と将来の展望を，過去のアンケート調査と著者の追跡調査，GIS 教育との関わりを通して考察する。大規模大学図書館ではすでに90％の普及率に達しているが，今後利用者を増やしていくには，しっかりしたデータ・コレクション・プランが必要であると考えられる。また，中規模，小規模大学図書館はまだ20～30％の普及率でこれからも伸びるであろうが，より充実したGIS サービスを提供していくには，学科や学部との共同作業が望ましいと思われる。 [This paper studies trends and the prospects for future of GIS (Geographic Information Systems) services in U.S. academic libraries, which have started in early 1990s, based on past surveys, my follow-up survey, and relation with GIS education. Libraries at the doctoral/research universities offer GIS services almost 90% already, but they need to have a good data collection plan in order to increase users. Libraries at the master’s colleges and universities, and the baccalaureate colleges offer GIS services only 20-30% but its proportion will be increased in near future. They would better to do joint efforts between libraries and other departments on campus regarding the use of GIS for better services.
Cultural Memory and Intangible Heritage in the Dominican Republic
No full textIn 2001 and 2005, UNESCO nominated two “cultural traditions” of the Dominican Republic as Intangible World Heritage, the Cofradía del Espíritu Santo and the Cocolo dance theater traditions. Not surprisingly, the two “traditions” are highly different in their historical contexts, performance practices, and accompanying forms, but they are strikingly similar as formerly marginalized traditions within mainstream Dominican society due to perceived African derivation. Despite their differences, UNESCO and the Dominican nation-state collaboratively organized joint stage performances of these groups or of one of them with other artists. Both, the choice of the two cultures as well as their appropriation as Dominican heritage shed light on social ambiguities in the national discourse: As African-derived expressions are widely negatively associated with Haitian immigration and savage religiosity, the masterpieces’ emergence in the environment of sugar plantations shared with Haitian working migrants, for instance, is left out. The two nominated “traditions” have symbolic power for social reconciliation and cultural memory in the Dominican Republic. Examining UNESCO video clips this paper asks what kind of information is represented by UNESCO and Dominican state and what is thereby constantly omitted
Secrecy, Archives, and the Archivist: A Review Essay (Sort Of)
No full textThis review essay considers five recent books on aspects of government secrecy in the United States, written by external observers and critics of American government and from within the ranks of archivists. This is just a sampling of the growing number of books being published on the issue of government secrecy with implications for archives and records management, but considered together they include some compelling lessons and warnings for archivists, both in and out of government
Multivariate time series classification with temporal abstractions
No full textThe increase in the number of complex temporal datasets collected today has prompted the development of methods that extend classical machine learning and data mining methods to time-series data. This work focuses on methods for multivariate time-series classification. Time series classification is a challenging problem mostly because the number of temporal features that describe the data and are potentially useful for classification is enormous. We study and develop a temporal abstraction framework for generating multivariate time series features suitable for classification tasks. We propose the STF-Mine algorithm that automatically mines discriminative temporal abstraction patterns from the time series data and uses them to learn a classification model. Our experimental evaluations, carried out on both synthetic and real world medical data, demonstrate the benefit of our approach in learning accurate classifiers for time-series datasets. Copyright © 2009, Assocation for the Advancement of ArtdicaI Intelligence (www.aaai.org). All rights reserved
Writing for Professional Development and for the Profession
No full textThe records and information management (RIM) field needs its professionals to write and contribute to the field’s knowledge, but many do not do so because they are not aware of many basic, helpful tools available to them. This brief essay reviews the tools that RIM professionals can draw on for professional writing
Aiming High, Reaching Out, and Doing Good: Helping Homeless Library Patrons with Legal Information
No full textPublic librarians can use legal topics to reach out to homeless people who are already in the library as well as those who do not come to the library. This article inspires readers to appreciate why libraries need to provide this kind of outreach, conveys significan knowledge about homeless people's unique legal troubles, and demonstrates how to conduct legal research
The Uncommon Language: Bratislava, Budapest, and Brussels
No full textSlovakia passed an updated Law on the State Language in 2009, which created a protracted diplomatic controversy between Bratislava and Budapest, and agitation among activists and politicians in Slovakia. Some of the rhetoric became more agitated than the usual mode of communication in Central Europe, the wording of the law clouded the issue of Hungarian and other minority language use. The article discusses aspects of both
Secrecy, Archives, and the Archivist: A Review Essay (Sort Of)
No full textReviews five recent books with implications about how archivists need to be concerned with government secrecy or how archivists have avoided the issues
Archival ethics: The truth of the matter
No full textThis essay explores the question of whether records professionals are as aware of the ethical dimensions of their work as they should be. It consider first the historical and professional context of archival ethics, then examines a recent case about business archives involving the author that suggests the need for renewed attention to professional ethics, and concludes with a discussion about how archivists might reconsider the ethical dimensions of their work
Phenomenological Obviousness and the New Science of Consciousness
No full textIs phenomenal consciousness a problem for the brain sciences? An increasing number of researchers not only hold that it is, but that its very existence is a deep mystery. That this problematic phenomenon exists is generally taken for granted: It is asserted that phenomenal consciousness is just phenomenologically obvious. In contrast, I hold that there is no such phenomenon and, thus, that it does not pose a problem for the brain sciences. For this denial to be plausible, however, I need to show that phenomenal consciousness is not phenomenologically obvious. That is the goal of this article