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‘Providing a layman’s guide to the scheme’: museum computing, professional personas and documentary labour in the United Kingdom, 1967-1983
No full textBetween the 1960s and early-1980s the museum sector in the United Kingdom was rapidly professionalised and systematised. A crucial moment in this transition was the creation in 1967 of the Information Retrieval Group of the Museums Association (IRGMA), and the subsequent launch of its system for the machine encoding and communication of museum catalogue records. The rise of IRGMA marked an inflection point in museological practice and the normalisation of computerised work within the UK museum profession, a moment when the desire for a ‘layman’s guide to the scheme’ began to give way to new professional personas and forms of documentary labour. This paper asks how cultures of museology and professional labour shifted in response to IRGMA. It argues that between the late-1960s and mid-1980s both the implementation of and the debate around computerised cataloguing disrupted the function of UK museums and how museum professionals imagined their labour. And by tracing the emergence of these cultures and their intersections with professional identity and labour practices, this paper seeks to tease out the ways museum history can resonate with wider narratives of labour, expertise and technological innovation in contemporary British History
More process, less product: the making of the Making African Connections Digital Archive
No full textReflecting in 2014 on the transformative impact of digitisation on access to and the study of African collections, Terry Barringer and Marion Wallace argued that whilst there had been positive change, in some respects African collections were just as – if not more – hidden than ever. It is in this context that the Making African Connections project sought to make a digital archive whose ends were to investigate – and make investigable – our process of making a digital archive, what we did in the making rather than the outputs of that making. This article explores key aspects of that work – forgoing detail, foregrounding multi-vocality, collapsing hierarchies, digitizing with care – and documents what we found as principles became actions, as product succumbed to process, as tensions and conflicts arose in the making of a 'decolonial' digital archive
Judging Personality Disorder: A Systematic Review of Clinician Attitudes and Responses to Borderline Personality Disorder; and an Examination of Causal Attributions, Stigmatising Stereotypes and Jury Decision Making Regarding the ICD-11 “Severe Personality Disorder, Borderline Pattern” Criteria
Full text linkAims: This portfolio aims to aid understanding of processes of mental health stigma relating to “Borderline Personality Disorder” (BPD), and how developments in the nosology of Personality Disorder may affect the perceptions of laypeople in legal settings. It contains a review of the evidence concerning clinician attitudes and reactions toward BPD, and an empirical investigation of the effect of International Classification of Diseases-11 (ICD-11) terminology upon jury decision-making and perceptions.
Design: This portfolio consists of an general introduction to the topic, a systematic review of clinician attitudes and responses to BPD, an empirical paper outlining a quasi-experimental study of the effect of the “Severe Personality Disorder, Borderline Pattern” ICD-11 classification upon jury decision-making, an extended methodology, and an overall discussion and evaluation section.
Findings: The systematic review confirms that negative attitudes toward BPD remain a problem in clinical groups and are likely to relate to both unhelpful stereotypes and challenging therapeutic interactions, implicating a need for well-evidenced training programmes. Various methodological limitations of this literature are discussed.
The empirical paper identified significant differences relating to increased perceptions of dangerousness and the need for segregation and coercion when a defendant’s mental health problems were described as a “Severe Personality Disorder, Borderline Pattern”, although differences in jury-decision making were not observed.
Value of work: This work indicates that BPD remains a particularly stigmatised diagnosis among clinicians, and this is likely to remain the case until well-evidenced training programmes are made a crucial component of ongoing professional development. This work makes a novel contribution to the study of jury perceptions and decision-making and is possibly the first to assess the effect of the new ICD-11 classification upon processes of stigma toward Personality Disorder. It has important implications for the way in which clinicians communicate clinical information in legal settings
Designing immersive serious games
No full textSerious games, designed for more than entertainment, can be used for educational purposes in order to more effectively teach certain ideas. One particular element which has not been investigated fully is the idea of immersion in educational games, in terms of how to engage learners with such games and to keep them engaged while playing. The subject has been approached from various perspectives, including education and gameplay, but the theories presented miss important aspects shown in others (such as designing gameplay towards learning outcomes), which makes further advancement in the field more difficult. To solve this problem, the Immersive Educational Games Model was proposed in this thesis, which will help the design of immersive serious games, in terms of providing engaging content and educational value. The model integrates key characteristics of instructional design, gameplay, immersion, and serious game theories to outline the key considerations in creating compelling educational gameplay.To validate whether the model can be used to measure immersive qualities, a questionnaire-based instrument was created and tested through three experiments, utilising an established immersive serious game. While the results show a need for further investigation into measurements for immersive states, the instrument demonstrated that the model may be used to reliably identify aspects that make a serious game immersive
Correspondence and Notes, New York Academy of Sciences Conference on Diarrheal Diseases -- 1955 -- Speaking Engagements -- letter, 1955-06-28
No full textLetter from Baker, James A. to Sabin, Albert B. dated 1955-06-28.Sabin Collection Fair Use Policy</a
The sources of the Mississippi. Their Discoverers, Real and Pretended.
Full text linkBaker, James H.. (1887). The sources of the Mississippi. Their Discoverers, Real and Pretended.. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/168294
Beyond Notability Data Essays
No full textThese data essays were written in Autumn/Winter 2024 as an output of the Beyond Notability project, funded between 2021 and 2024 by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK (Project Reference AH/V01384X/1).Taken together the data essays fulfil a key aim of the project: to experiment with interactive approaches to data recorded in our wikibase, a collection of 'linked data' about women's work in archaeology, history and heritage between 1870 and 1950. Encompassing over 30,000 statements related to over 900 women, the wikibase forms a major research output of the project.The data essays can be read in any order. Each digs into a facet of our wikibase, moving between data, what that data represents (or, more correctly in most cases, is trying to represent), and how that data is presented in visual form. As historians who use computational methods, we were drawn both to topical questions - patterns relating to education, how motherhood interacted with work - and to questions about computational historical methods - the nature of residence and date data, the alure of network visualisations. The results are necessarily exploratory, reflexive, and cautionary, and follow D'Ignazio and Klein in rejecting the seemingly inherent positivism of data visualisation. Instead, by producing visualisations that change as you hover over them, tweak a parameter, toggle an option, or even just expand and contract your browser, we urge the reader to use explorations of data at scale as always fluid and partial acts of making and remaking undertaken in the service of historical analysis. Yes, computational historians can and will put 'finished' graphs on a page. But before they do that they will do a lot of what these data essays enable you to do: play. So, enjoy! (And for more examples of our process of play, see our miscellaneous interactives and Sharon's work-in-progress notes)
Scholarly articles written by women extracted from Indexes of Archaeological Papers (1891-1907) and Gomme's Index of Archaeological Papers 1665-1890
No full textThe dataset `List-of-Women-in-Archaeological-Indexes_cleaned.tsv` contains scholarly articles written by women extracted from annual Indexes of Archaeological Papers published between 1891 and 1907 inclusive and George Laurence Gomme's Index of Archaeological Papers 1665-1890, referred to hereafter as the source datasets. These Indexes were published in London, initially by the Congress of Archaeological Societies directly, and from 1898 by Archibald Constable &amp; Co. The Indexes were sent to Societies subscribing to the Congress, but could also be acquired separately. A list of indexes consulted in available on our Zotero library. The dataset is published in .tsv and .xslx formats. This is v2 of the dataset, including some cleaned publication titles and the addition of the socities that published each journal (v2.1 fixes a faulty dataset export in v2).</span
Understanding need among digital preservation professionals
No full text'Understanding Need Among Digital Preservation Professionals' focuses on current technology use and working practices relating to digital preservation activities in UK-based institutions. It seeks to provide a snapshot, evidenced by our research, of current practice in a particular set of contexts, a tool for navigating and characterising digital preservation readiness, and a particular perspective on sectoral trajectory and ambition
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