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Gilmore, Cody

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“…Folklore research includes a long tradition of creating and working with archives, one which folklorist Janet C Gilmore suggests is 'almost as old as the field of Western European archiving itself ' . 36 While Gilmore's claim looks like over-reach, when Dorothy Howard travelled to Australia (and more than 25 years before the museum archives movement) the management of these collections had become a prominent topic in the field. Symposium II at the prominent Four Symposia on Folklore (1953) was dedicated to archiving folklore, leading the chair of the first session, Maud Karpeles, to conclude: 'Personally I found it extraordinarily cheering and stimulating to learn that the archiving of folklore is a very special and thrilling activity and is not the dull detection of dead things. '…”

Section: Folklore Archivesmentioning

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The Dorothy Howard Collection: revealing the structures of folklore archives in museums

Jones

Darian‐Smith

Tout-Smith

et al. 2017

Archives and Manuscripts

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In 2015-16 researchers from the University of Melbourne and Museums Victoria undertook a collaborative project which sought to visualise archival data from the museum as a means to investigate the structure and context of the Dorothy Howard Collection. This article introduces Dorothy Howard's work, which is part of the internationally significant Australian Children's Folklore Collection, and looks at the project's processes and outcomes, including the initial visualisations produced. In doing so, the authors highlight the data-intensive nature of such work, suggest the potential of visualisations to reveal collection structures, and outline possibilities for future projects and collaborations. You put down on a piece of paper as many dots as you please. You must not do this just any way or you will be wrong. You must go straight up and down and straight across so that the dots will be in squares. Then you take turns joining lines between the dots. (Frank Syaranamual, 10 years old, describing a game called 'Dots' , 1954) 1 Large collections in archives and museums may hold many thousands of items, 2 none of which exist in isolation. If each item is taken as a dot, or node, they are joined by complex networks of connections-to other items as well as to things such as people, organisations, concepts and places-with these relationships accumulating through time. Some items are explicitly joined, their content referring to other items or entities, while others are linked to context within or beyond their collections in ways which help users understand their meaning. However, these networks are often not readily visible to users-whether they be internal staff of the organisation holding the collection, or external users exploring content. Archival description tends to emphasise hierarchical links between items, aggregates (series, collection) and an often-constrained set of provenance entities; 3 and museum description tends toward individual item-level descriptions, loosely coupled to donor information or to like items via common characteristics and classification structures. Furthermore, even where

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Section: Folklore Archivesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Dorothy Howard Collection: revealing the structures of folklore archives in museums

Jones

Darian‐Smith

Tout-Smith

et al. 2017

Archives and Manuscripts

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Persistence in Minkowski Space-Time

Friebe

2011

EPSA Philosophy of Science: Amsterdam 2009

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Adynamism in Physics: The Block Universe vs Barbour’s Relational Strategy

Margoni

2024

J Gen Philos Sci

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The block universe is generally considered as the metaphysical position that best accommodates the outcomes of relativistic physics. Its most consistent formulation postulates a static universe where change is not admitted. However, some of its advocates try to reconcile its basic adynamical commitments as to the nature of physical reality with certain aspects of dynamism that arise, for instance, within human experience. In this article, I first examine how some block viewers try to reconcile dynamism and adynamism. I then go on to discuss the problems that emerge while trying to make room for dynamism within the block. To this end, I clarify the meaning of adynamism and explains what it takes to eradicate dynamism through the implementation of the so-called “Langrangian schema”. Based on this analysis, I juxtapose two resolute attempts at the formulation of a thoroughly adynamical project. The first, named relational block world, aims to make the block view totally static. The second, Barbour’s early works on the implementation of a neo-Machian relational strategy, makes the point that a complete adynamism cannot be achieved within relativity and its metaphysical counterpart. The article in conclusion argues that, by dismissing four-dimensionalism and embracing three-dimensionalism, Barbour proves better at promoting an utterly static physics.

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The Dorothy Howard Collection: revealing the structures of folklore archives in museums

The Dorothy Howard Collection: revealing the structures of folklore archives in museums

Persistence in Minkowski Space-Time

Adynamism in Physics: The Block Universe vs Barbour’s Relational Strategy

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