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Dorothy Spees Millard, Oral History
No full textThis is a video recording of an oral history interview with Dorothy Spees Millard. It was conducted October 7, 2019. The interviewer is Marcia Lair.
This interview focuses on Dorothy Spees Millard\u27s memories of life in Rusk County and Delta County.
Dorothy Spees Millard was born in 1924 to Percival T. and Lucy Fay Dixon Spees. She spent most of her youth in Price, Texas where her family worked as farmers during the Great Depression. After graduating from Cooper High School, she attended Brantley Draughon Business College in Fort Worth, TX. Following her graduation, she worked at the Quartermaster Depot in Forth Worth.
Dorothy Spees married Leo Millard in 1945, and they lived in Fort Worth for thirty-two years. They eventually moved to Cooper, Texas where they bought Millard\u27s Grocery from Leo\u27s parents. Since returning to Cooper, Dorothy Millard has been engaged in various civic activities such as, the Chamber of Commerce, a library renovation, and remodeling historic homes.https://lair.etamu.edu/scua-oral-history-all/1024/thumbnail.jp
Dorothy Spees Millard, Oral History Index
No full textThis is an index of an oral history interview with Dorothy Spees Millard. It was conducted October 7, 2019. The interviewer is Marcia Lair.
This interview focuses on Dorothy Spees Millard\u27s memories of life in Rusk County and Delta County.
Dorothy Spees Millard was born in 1924 to Percival T. and Lucy Fay Dixon Spees. She spent most of her youth in Price, Texas where her family worked as farmers during the Great Depression. After graduating from Cooper High School, she attended Brantley Draughon Business College in Fort Worth, TX. Following her graduation, she worked at the Quartermaster Depot in Forth Worth.
Dorothy Spees married Leo Millard in 1945, and they lived in Fort Worth for thirty-two years. They eventually moved to Cooper, Texas where they bought Millard\u27s Grocery from Leo\u27s parents. Since returning to Cooper, Dorothy Millard has been engaged in various civic activities such as, the Chamber of Commerce, a library renovation, and remodeling historic homes.https://lair.etamu.edu/scua-oral-history-all/1023/thumbnail.jp
Letter, Millard M. Bush, Jr., to Mississippi State University President Dean W. Colvard, March 6, 1963
Get PDFMillard M. Bush, a Mississippi Steel Corporation stockholder and Jackson law partner, writes to MSU President Colvard to express his commitment to segregation. Bush also explains that he believes in States\u27 Rights, which leads him to support Colvard\u27s decision to send MSU to the NCAA tournament.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/ua-msu-loyola-1963/1030/thumbnail.jp
Web 2.0: Hypertext by Any Other Name?
No full textWeb 2.0 is the popular name of a new generation of Web applications, sites and companies that emphasis openness, community and interaction. Examples include technologies such as Blogs and Wikis, and sites such as Flickr. In this paper we compare these next generation tools to the aspirations of the early Hypertext pioneers to see if their aims have finally been realized
URI Disambiguation in the Context of Linked Data
No full textThe Linked Data initiative has given rise to an increasing number of RDF datasets, many of which are freely accessible online. These resources often arise as a result of database exports; however sufficient consideration may not be given to the unseen implications caused when they are used in the wider context of the Semantic Web. This paper investigates two popular resources, DBLP and DBpedia, and discusses whether the issues regarding identity management and co-reference resolution have been suitably addressed. We find that a large percentage of authors in DBLP have been conflated, and that disambiguation pages have been incorrectly linked using owl:sameAs within DBpedia. Systems for dealing with these issues are presented, and directions are given for future research
Towards an Ergonomics of Knowledge Systems: Improving the Design of Technology Enhanced Learning
Get PDFAs Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) systems become more essential to education there is an increasing need for their creators to reduce risk and to design for success. We argue that by taking an ergonomic perspective it is possible to better understand why TEL systems succeed or fail, as it becomes possible to analyze how well they are aligned with their users and environment. We present three TEL case studies that demonstrate these ideas, and show how an ergonomic analysis can help frame the problems faced in a useful way. In particular we propose using a variant of ergonomics that emphasizes the expression, communication and use of knowledge within the system; we call this approach Knowledge System Ergonomics
Ontological Approaches to Modelling Narrative
No full textWe outline a simple taxonomy of approaches to modelling narrative, explain how these might be realised ontologically, and describe our continuing work to apply these techniques to the problem of Memories for Life
Narrative as a Form of Knowledge Transfer, Narrative Theory and Semantic: Present Challenges - Future Possibilities (9 month Report)
No full textAn increase in digital multimedia data, has presented computer scientists with the key problem of large-scale information management. The Semantic Web vision proposes the publishing of information as semanticly accessible resources. Current methods of querying and browsing such rich knowledge bases require an understanding of the domain at hand that can not be asked of end-users. This progress report aims to present how Narratives, that are core to our method of conceptualising our environment, can be used to present targeted knowledge to an end-user. Ontology definitions are promoted as the fundamental building blocks for annotating these multimedia resources and are presented as key to this research. The main contribution of this paper is the identification of the shortcomings of existing narrative generation systems, followed by the identification of techniques that could be adopted to overcome these deficiencies
Canyons, deltas and plains: towards a unified sculptural model of location-based hypertext
No full textWith the growing ubiquity of mobile devices, new ways of sensing context and the emergence of the mobile Web, digital storytelling is escaping the confines of the desktop and intertwinging in new and interesting ways with the physical world. Mobile, location aware, narrative systems are being applied to a range of areas including tour guides, educational tools and interactive fiction. Despite this there is little understanding of how these applications are related or how they link with existing hypertext models and theory.We argue that location aware narrative systems tend to follow three patterns (canyons, deltas and plains) and that it is possible to represent all of these patterns in a conceptual sculptural hypertext model. Our model builds on a general sculptural mechansim (of pre-conditions and behaviours) to include locality and narrative transitions as first class elements, opening the possibility of standardised viewers, formats, and hybrid stories. We show how existing structures can be mapped onto this conceptual sculptural model, and how narratives defined in the model can take advantage of open data sources and sensed contextual data. To demonstrate this we present the GeoYarn system, a prototype which implements the model to create interactive, location aware narratives, using all three patterns
Hypermedia Interoperability: Navigating the Information Continuum
No full textOpen Hypermedia Systems are designed to allow links to be authored and followed on top of any media format. The link structures are held separately from the documents in a software component called a Link Server. As hypermedia has matured as a research topic attention has turned to standardising the way in which components talk to Link Servers in order to provide interoperability. The Open Hypermedia Systems Working Group took up this challenge and proposed an Open Hypermedia Protocol (OHP). However, the scope of this proposal proved to be too large and the protocol was divided into domain specific parts (Navigational, Spatial and Taxonomic Hypermedia), tackling each domain differently, but consistently. It is questionable whether this step was the correct one, as the domains share many similar features. In this thesis I present a detailed examination of the information spaces that the OHP was attempting to model (from all these considered hypertext domains), which incorporates notions of both behaviour and context. This examination looks at what it means to navigate around the many dimensions of information, across these domains, and reveals a cohesive and continuous structure that I call the Information Continuum. The Fundamental Open Hypermedia Model (FOHM) is presented, which is capable of representing the structures of this continuum in a consistent and meaningful way. FOHM is coupled with an agent infrastructure to produce an implementation that demonstrates the model being used for cross-domain interoperability
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