Exploring the Smithsonian Institution Transcription Center

Ferriter, Meghan; Rosenfeld, Christine

doi:10.1177/155019061601200214

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“…The former is the American Smithsonian Institution, which, with its platform "Smithsonian Digital Volunteers: Transcription Center" has created a space where "digital volunpeers" [12] can collaborate and contribute to transcription.…”

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Gamifying Cultural Heritage: The Digitization Journey of Genoa University Museum System (SMA-UniGe)

La Tessa,

Schiaparelli,

Coccoli

et al. 2024

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The extensive collection of paper documents and books stored in the archives of universities worldwide is a hidden cultural heritage that is frequently inaccessible. To overcome this problem, the University of Genoa, Italy, seeks to collect, store, and digitize a wide variety of items, encompassing books, manuscripts, archival materials, and documents related to museum artifacts, which together form a cultural heritage of great importance and historical significance. To make such a cultural heritage accessible to both humans and machines, images and videos must be provided with alternate descriptions, metadata, and speech-to-text transcriptions while ancient texts, for which OCR techniques are often not effective, must be accompanied by word-for-word transcripts. This work presents the design of a transcription system for the “University Museum System” at the University of Genoa, Italy (SMA-UniGe), including user interface elements and users’ engagement techniques. The goal is to create an accessible digital heritage that can be enjoyed by all, facilitated by a community of digital volunteers who are eager to dedicate their time, have a great experience, socialize, and interact on the proposed transcription system. The system exploits gamification theory to transform the typically monotonous task of transcription into a captivating experience. This activity is in line with the so-called University third mission, i.e., the activity of public engagement that aims at generating knowledge outside the academic environment to the benefit of the social, cultural, and economic development.

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confidence: 99%

Gamifying Cultural Heritage: The Digitization Journey of Genoa University Museum System (SMA-UniGe)

La Tessa,

Schiaparelli,

Coccoli

et al. 2024

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“…35 Diarmuid Ferriter chronicles the legal issues surrounding sexual assault and incest in Ireland in the 1950s and 60s, noting that there 'remained little public discussion of the sexual abuse of young girls, which continued to occur on a regular basis, with devastating consequences for the victims who were often deemed, it seemed, to share guilt' and young victims being 'associated with sexual immorality' and hidden from view as a result. 36 Leitch represents the needs, wants and desires of his protagonists as animalistic and base and frequently compares his characters to animals (Barbour as a lecherous goat, the boys as bucks, Hetty as a wild horse that needs to be broken in). This constructs them as subject to their bodily desires, rather than the clean and proper bodies, transcending the flesh, of Christian theology.…”

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‘He devours her with his gaze’: Maurice Leitch's Stamping Ground and the Politics of the Visual

Magennis¹

2014

Irish University Review

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This essay is a critical reappraisal of Maurice Leitch's 1975 novel Stamping Ground through theories of the gender, sexuality, and the visual. The novel will be read as a disruptive critique of hegemonic Unionist identity and the rural idyll in Northern Irish cultural discourse but, importantly, the limits of using gendered metaphors in the case will be considered. For, although this novel seeks to critique ideology built around a certain kind of masculine dominance it does so using tropes which will be deconstructed through theories of the body, sexuality, and the visual aesthetic. For Leitch, the Ulster countryside is recast as not the authentic space reconstructed by both Nationalist or Unionist ideology but rather as a nightmarish world of voyeurs, sexual assault, and bodily terror.

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Exploring the Smithsonian Institution Transcription Center

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Gamifying Cultural Heritage: The Digitization Journey of Genoa University Museum System (SMA-UniGe)

Gamifying Cultural Heritage: The Digitization Journey of Genoa University Museum System (SMA-UniGe)

‘He devours her with his gaze’: Maurice Leitch's Stamping Ground and the Politics of the Visual

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