Essays about: "collection archive"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 19 essays containing the words collection archive.

  1. 1. Weird Digitization: Alternative Strategies for Archival Materials

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV)

    Author : Christa Shusko; [2024]
    Keywords : Digital Humanities; Digitization; Archival materials; Photography; Material culture.;

    Abstract : This thesis draws on the theory of new materialism to posit an alternative approach to cultural heritage digitization. Modifying the method of critical digitization and synthesizing it with the method of thick description for the study of damaged cultural heritage, this thesis proposes the method weird digitization which seeks to challenge traditional selection criteria for cultural heritage digitization as well as challenging practices of mass digitization. READ MORE

  3. 2. Crafting Textile Knowledges : A decolonial study of the Iku/Arhuaco material culture in the archives of the National Museum of World Cultures in Gothenburg (Världskulturmuseet)

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Modevetenskap

    Author : Stefanía Castelblanco-Pérez; [2023]
    Keywords : material culture; indigenous heritage; object-based research; ethical stewardship; decoloniality; arhuaco; Iku; cultura material; patrimonio Indígena; investigación objetual; administración ética; decolonialidad; arhuaco; Iku;

    Abstract : The return of objects that belong to ethnographic collections to their places of origin is one of the topics of discussion that, despite not being new, has been gaining more and more relevance today. Taking the Iku indigenous craft collection in the archives of the National Museum of World Cultures in Gothenburg as a case study, I pursue to develop an object-based methodology that increases and deepens the understanding of the notion of ethical stewardship, while joining current debates on indigenous heritage and decoloniality. READ MORE

  4. 3. Post-trade: An Examination of Blockchain Technology’s Capabilities for Future Development

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM)

    Author : Pouria Parvaneh; Ludvig Strand; [2023]
    Keywords : Post-trade; CSD; CCP; Smart Contracts; Blockchain; Layer-two; AI; Post-trade; CSD; CCP; Smarta kontrakt; Blockkedja; Lager-två; AI;

    Abstract : Financial markets have a major role in economic development. An area of the financial industry is securities trading consisting of several stages such as pre-trade, trade execution and post-trade processing. This study has focused on the post-trade stage of securities trading with a particular focus on central securities depositories (CSD). READ MORE

  5. 4. “We Were Called Low-Grades” : Current Archival Approaches to the Digitization and Dissemination of Eugenics Collections

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för ABM

    Author : Georgia Gilbert Gladitz; [2022]
    Keywords : Digitization; Eugenics Collections; Access and Care; Digital Knowledge Dissemination; Difficult Histories; Archival Methodologies; Statens institut för rasbiologi; The Wellcome Library; The Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement; The Canadian Eugenics Archive;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the current methodological approaches to digital access and dissemination of eugenics archives. It looks in-depth at four institutions from around the world which provide some means of digital access to a specific eugenics collection that they control: the Wellcome Collection within the Wellcome Library in London, the Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement founded in part by the Cold Springs Laboratory in New York, the Canadian Eugenics Archive, and the State Institute for Race Biology at the Uppsala University Library Special Collections in Sweden. READ MORE

  6. 5. Power Structures in the Age of Sanatoria : A digital examination of historical patient experience in Mörsil, Sweden

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV)

    Author : Elin Hansson; [2022]
    Keywords : Sanatoriums LCSH ; Patient satisfaction LCSH ; Tuberculosis patients’ writings LCSH ; Tuberculosis--History LCSH ; Archival Materials--Digitization LCSH .; Sanatorier; Patientupplevelse; Tuberkulos; Digitalisering.;

    Abstract : Introduction. This thesis examines historical patients’ experiences of staying in sanatoria in Mörsil, Sweden, with a special focus on power structures within the institution. READ MORE