Over the past 10 years, there has been a noticeable increase of crowdsourcing projects in cultural heritage institutions, where digital technologies are being used to open up their collections and encourage the public to engage with them in a very direct way. Libraries, archives, and museums have long had a history and mandate of outreach and public engagement but crowdsourcing marks a move towards a more participatory and inclusive model of engagement. If a library wants to start a crowdsourcing project, what do they need to know?This article is written from a Canadian library perspective with the goal to help the reader engage with the current crowdsourcing landscape. This article's contribution includes a literature review and a survey of popular projects and platforms, followed by a case study of a crowdsourcing pilot completed at the McGill Library. The article pulls these two threads of theory and practice together, with a discussion of some of the best practices learned through the literature and real-life experience, giving the reader
Au Québec, dans le but d’accéder à la paternité, des couples gais ont recours à la gestation pour autrui. Or, cette technique de procréation assistée suscite de nombreux débats, qui ont notamment trait à son encadrement juridique. À l’aide d’une revue de l’état du droit positif et d’un travail de terrain ayant été réalisé auprès de pères gais ayant eu recours à cette façon d’accéder à la paternité, nous montrons en quoi le flou juridique concernant la gestation pour autrui complique les relations que ces pères gais entretiennent avec deux instances étatiques intervenant auprès des familles, soit le Directeur de l’état civil et le Régime québécois d’assurance parentale. Il nous semble, après étude, que l’intégration, dans la législation québécoise, d’un véhicule procédural distinct, soigneusement conçu pour s’appliquer à la gestation pour autrui, permettrait de rendre moins complexes ces relations. Nous ajoutons notre voix à d’autres, qui font pression depuis un certain temps déjà, pour une réforme législative allant en ce sens.In order to access to paternity in Quebec, gay male couples resort to surrogacy. However, this assisted procreation mechanism raises many issues, one of them being the legal framework in which it takes place. Relying on an analysis of positive law and on fieldwork with gay fathers who chose surrogacy to create their families, this article shows how the uncertainty surrounding this practice in law complicates the interactions gay fathers have with two state authorities, namely the Registrar of civil status (Directeur de l’état civil) and Québec Parental Insurance Plan (Régime québécois d’assurance parentale). After review, it appears to us that to ease these interactions Quebec should include in its laws a separate procedural vehicle addressing surrogacy. We add our voice in support of those pressing, for some time now, for legal reform
According to recent literature on “architecture” as a discipline, practical knowledge relevant to its process of making has decreased in importance in favor of a more academic approach. Using data derived from Ulrich’s Periodical Directory and Clarivate Analytics’s Web of Science, this paper suggests providing empirical evidence supporting of such shift, as revealed by an overview of the dissemination practices in architecture scholarly production between 1980 and 2015. Our results support that architecture is becoming increasingly academic, as demonstrated by the growing proportion of articles and journals intended for scholars rather than for professionals. We also show that architecture is increasingly global, with decreased interest in local and/or national issues and the growing prevalence of English as a publication language. Finally, this academic focus is manifested in references cited by architectural papers with the gradual substitution of professional and artistic oriented knowledge, for scientific approaches tied to engineering and technology.
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