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Connecting Wikipedia And The Archive: Building A Public History Of Hiv/Aids In New York City., Ann Matsuuchi
Connecting Wikipedia And The Archive: Building A Public History Of Hiv/Aids In New York City., Ann Matsuuchi
Publications and Research
This is an overview of a project that was started in 2015 that was collaboratively designed by archivists and historians with the La Guardia & Wagner Archives and LaGuardia Community College’s faculty/librarians. It involves students in the production of a needed public history of the outbreak and impact of HIV/AIDS in New York City via writing and researching contributions to Wikipedia.
The Mystery Of The Schubert Song: The Linked Data Promise, Kimmy Szeto
The Mystery Of The Schubert Song: The Linked Data Promise, Kimmy Szeto
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Linked open data promises global interconnectedness of a vast amount of data. Web technologies promise to lower the barriers to accessing information and to enable knowledge production of massive scale. But can the web of data answer a music reference question? Starting with a seemingly impossible search for a Schubert song, this article describes how linked data technologies could overcome some limitations of catalog searching. However, technical and conceptual challenges are intertwined in the library community’s effort to publish linked data. Through an analysis of contrasting data models, this article offers a linked data reading of medium of performance and …
Spyfall: Information Games And Scholarly Conversation, Nancy M. Foasberg
Spyfall: Information Games And Scholarly Conversation, Nancy M. Foasberg
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Social deduction games like Spyfall can be used to model the rhetorical concept of the Burkean parlor for students.
Teaching Citation Rhetorically: Reading, Not Just Writing, Nancy M. Foasberg
Teaching Citation Rhetorically: Reading, Not Just Writing, Nancy M. Foasberg
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Citation practices are often taught as a list of rules, rather than a rhetorical practice necessary to the scholarly conversation. This presentation recommends some pedagogical strategies that encourage students to read citations and consider them as messages, rather than a set of rules to follow.
The Absence Of Public Libraries In Imperial China: A Consequence Of Chinese Writing, Junli Diao
The Absence Of Public Libraries In Imperial China: A Consequence Of Chinese Writing, Junli Diao
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The purpose of this article is to explore Chinese writing and its connection with libraries in Imperial China. From the perspective of analyzing Chinese writing and its cultural, social and political impact, this article attempts to deliver a tentative and speculative exploration concerning why public libraries did not automatically emerge from Chinese civilization. This article discusses how Chinese writing, characterized by the art form Calligraphy, was intimately associated with Chinese classical texts, knowledge classification, bibliographers and imperial libraries, and eventually with an elite culture empowered by the socio-political repertoire of scholar-officials. It particularly focuses on the discussion of how “public” …