An Examination on Operation Methods of AR Multi-Viewpoint Viewing System for Ohayashi

Japan is rich in cultural properties of great historical and artistic value, of which the most important are protected as nationally designated cultural properties. Intangible cultural properties are techniques that have been handed down from generation to generation, such as theater, music, and craft techniques. In Japan, where the population is aging rapidly, digital archiving is essential for the transmission of intangible cultural assets. In this study, we focused on the musical accompaniment of the Kanuma Imamiya Shrine Festival (Kanuma Autumn Festival), which is designated as a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage and a nationally designated Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property. Although the Kanuma Autumn Festival had to be canceled last year due to the emergency declaration requested by the spread of coronavirus infection, the festival is still being carried on. In this study, we have developed multi-viewpoint viewing system for ohayashi content with the cooperation of the Kamifukatsu Music Preservation Society and evaluated the system through experiments with participants. As a result, we obtained positive feedback from the participants, while those who had experience with musical performances pointed out points that needed to be improved. The controller was used as a method of interaction with the contents, but other methods have not yet been compared. Therefore, we aim to support the inheritance of tradition and examine the most user-friendly interaction method in terms of operability. © 2023 SPIE.

Productivity and creativity triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic and new technologies

THE ESSENCE OF THE HUMANITIES One of the key components determining the entire field of the humanities consists of teaching critical thinking expressed orally and in writing. [...]whatever literary works or languages we work with, ultimately the purpose proves to be to lay the foundation for cultural competence, linguistic skills, research abilities, and writing skills for a constantly changing world. The exchange via online writing thus proved to be a highly innovative method of studying, demanding a high level of concentration and involvement from the professor and the students. Since we emphasize in the humanities in general and in German studies in particular writing skills, this method was successful. Teaching a literature course in German at an upper level via such a chat room proved to be challenging at first, but then it was highly productive because of the intensive writing activities by students and the instructor. Top Hat is also highly useful for taking attendance (once, twice, or three times per class), for quizzes, and for multiple-choice exams. Since questions can be posted so easily online-also during class meetings-students can also be encouraged to get involved in the teaching process themselves by formulating discussion questions for the entire class.

A Participatory Archives Approach to Fostering Connectivity, Increasing Empathy, and Building Resilience during the COVID-19 Pandemic

This paper explores two pandemic-era projects conducted by the Museum and Archives of North Vancouver (MONOVA) using a participatory archives framework during the COVID-19 pandemic. #NorthVanStories, a rapid-respond social media collecting project, ran from May to September 2020 and received over 200 submissions. #NorthVanStories–Living Histories, a digital video oral history project, ran from summer 2020 to fall 2021 and produced five videos with seven storytellers from diverse and vulnerable communities. This paper discusses the power of collaborative documenting, storytelling, and memory-making to foster connectivity, increase empathy, and build resilience. It highlights the benefits of working collaboratively with organizations and communities;successful approaches to planning and outreach activities;the importance of flexibility and sustainability when working with communities in times of crisis;and how to ensure the future relevance of archives by being responsive to contemporary events and community interests. © 2023 by the author.

@Re-Art Archive Experience. Innovation and Beauty

The forced closure of cultural realities, dictated by the Coronavirus emergency, generated new needs for urgent solutions. Italy has heavily suffered as everything has been interrupted: exhibitions, trade fairs and museums, between more or less hard lockdowns and #iorestoacasa. From the spread of the virus, that thanks to vaccines sooner or later will begin to wane, to the spread of beauty that will help us revive the world. This is the path to follow and Italy a generator of beauty since ancient times, will have to be at the forefront of this mission. The reason is soon to be said. The aesthetic emotion brings man closer: the first sensation we experience in front of something beautiful - whatever it is - is that of not being alone. To encourage the meeting of beauty and people, many have done their utmost, let's think for example of the campaigns #museichiusimuseiaperti, #laculturanonsiferma, #MuseumFromHome, so well organized as to successfully substitute real life visits to museums and galleries, at least for the moment. Thanks to digital technology that allows activities to be carried out in places of art and culture and the distribution of content by all the main cultural institutions through social media. For the first time, the doors of the Web open wide and present to the public, through viewing rooms and virtual exhibition spaces, shows of all kinds. Broadening the horizon, the same choice is made by art galleries around the globe. Changing only the exhibition spaces, no longer physical but digital. Thanks to immersive 3D technology, one can enjoy the sensations and atmospheres of traditional visits. Therefore, the cultural mission of museums is not interrupted, rather it is strengthened and new projects are born exclusively for the Web that follow the themes of the moment. The @Re-Art project fits into this scenario which aims to combine the dynamism of multimedia and digital means of communication (webinar, podcast, social network, virtual tour, and exhibitions intended for the Web) with the uniqueness of the carefully archived heritage from Milanese exhibitions of the past two decades. A way to make them accessible, galvanize them and bring them into circulation, making them live again. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

Ridley Scott's BLADE RUNNER

The Internet Archive supported the efforts of organizations working in parallel to the Library of Congress through cost-sharing with institutions using its popular Archive-lt web archiving service to preserve COVID-related online materials rhttps://archi ve-it.org/blog/covid-19/1 . More information on the game is available here ,[ https://www, nfsa.gov.au/lat est/home-blizzard-antarctic-adventure-plav-online-gamei an accompanying teacher's guide can be accessed here ,[ httns://www. nfsa.gov.au/home-blizzard-teaohers-gui del _. Some information in this column comes courtesy of the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) listserv, along with institutional newsletters, websites, and press releases.

Introduction – performing in digital in the COVID-19 era

This paper introduces the special issue of ‘Performing in Digital’ and reflects the processes and experiences of theatre performance, production, and education during the most affected years of the COVID-19 pandemic. It examines the form, modality, and mediality of theatre production and collaboration during this time, for theatre practitioners and general audiences. As theatres went dark in 2020, performance education and production practices migrated into a largely online and digital space. This paper presents new findings into the sense of self and liveness while analysing the shift in performance: culturally and socially, from the physical to the hyper-connected online space.

Productivity to Precarity on Instagram: Digital Feminism in India during the Covid-19 Pandemic

This paper examines how digital feminism deconstructed neo-liberal ideals of technological productivity in India during the Covid-19 pandemic. By creating a productivity scale, I delineate new social disparities and risk factors brought on by the unprecedented shift to a work-from-home digital economy. Through theories of biopower, I argue that technology is not neutral, apolitical, or unequivocally in favour of equal access and human rights. The creation of a new social group termed the 'technoprecariat' during lockdown is discussed using a 'cripqueer' approach to digital feminism. I extend Judith Butler's early work on gender performativity to the neo-liberal ideal of gender productivity, where the onus of appearing perpetually 'productive' in lockdown was mainly on women. By analyzing how women debunked productivity on social media platforms like Twitter and Instagram, I examine queer influencers whose profiles demonstrated the cost of social non-conformism. I reveal how three feminist activists Priyanka Paul, Durga Gawde, and Roshni Kumar subverted gender productivity during lockdown through their distinct aesthetic and political standpoints.

Historical Overview of the Past Documented Pandemics: From Antiquity to Present

The key to understand a pandemic start with an understanding of the disease itself and the progression of the natural course of the disease. They are part of human race and even documented in all major civilization and Abrahamic religions like Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Every pandemic has its own ratio of sternness, frequency and characteristics on different regions and various techniques to cater for. The paper is a historical overview of the past documented pandemics from Athens plague to Covid-19 (1st really global and extensively documented pandemic) of the recorded history.

INTRODUCTION

While anime is not the primary revenue source of the conglomerates that streaming services belong to, Wong details how nonetheless the conglomerates' industry logics shape the conditions of anime's transnational distribution;in the case of queer content, bidding wars, licensing deals, and the imposition of controls on "mature" content lead to the genre's absence, disappearance, or obfuscation on the platform. [...]in "Toward a Filipinx Method: Queer of Color Critique and QTGNC Mobilization in Mark Aguhar's Poetics," M. T. Vallarta explores the possibilities of a "Filipinx method." [...]the panel looks to the present to consider queer media in light of COVID-19 and the possibility for queer digital media studies in the future.

Historical inclusion and exclusion: New Zealand archives as primary resources for historical research

Purpose>In response to the special issue call for papers on international sources for advertising and marketing history, this paper aims to provide information, this paper provides information on two prominent New Zealand archives: Archives New Zealand and the Alexander Turnbull Library (ATL).Design/methodology/approach>Archives New Zealand and the ATL were chosen as they are the two largest archives in New Zealand, and both have different but complementary roles – one for the preservation of government records and the other for the preservation of private collections. The history of each is provided as well as a discussion of relevant materials for marketing historians. This is followed by a discussion of the limitations of the archives with regards to their colonial contexts and potential for ignoring the “other” over the years.Findings>Archives New Zealand houses official government documents and thus occupational registrations, licences, trademarks, patents and copyright records are held, along with unique product design registration files and the complete history of health promotion in New Zealand. The ATL houses personal and thus biographically useful photographs, society records and minutes, personal letters and diaries, photos and glass plate negatives, portraits and paintings, architectural works and music.Originality/value>For researchers pursuing historical research in marketing, the archival documents offered by government archives and donated private collections from throughout the world provide invaluable resources. This paper also provides a discussion of the colonial focus on record-keeping and potential bias stemming from colonial structures of government and lack of representation of marginalised groups.

Investing in Project Maintenance: Auditing the Digital Transgender Archive

In this case study of the Digital Transgender Archive, www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net, the authors discuss the results of a yearlong audit of the project. While scholarship in the field has focused on both the startup and sustainability stages of DH project lifecycles, far less attention has been paid to fostering healthy project growth and self-evaluation during the maintenance stage. After discussing the motivations for our audit and the methods we employ, this article offers five key observations and summarizes our responses to them. Our hope is that other DH project teams will find that some of these observations are applicable to their work and will then benefit from the responses we developed.

The Use of Personal Digital Archiving For Effective Learning During Pandemic Covid-19

The Covid 19 pandemic that ravaged the world, particularly Indonesia, had a negative impact on aspects of learning, particularly for children aged three to six years in early childhood education. The implementation of distance learning disrupted the face-to-face learning model, which was supposed to be the primary medium for increasing children's knowledge and interest. In this regard, the role of parents is critical in ensuring that learning at home is effective and enjoyable. This study explores the using personal digital archiving (PDA) conducted by parents for effective learning during pandemic covid-19. By using a case study, this qualitative research took the subject of one of the preschools in Surakarta, Indonesia. Data were collected by interview, observation, and documentation. The results of the study prove that personal digital library useful for effective children learning during pandemics. Parents use four things: Videos, PowerPoint, PDF, and Photos to support children learning by saving these things to their archive.

Adieu to Print: For a Sole Embrace of the Digital

According to the founding documents reviewed by Earle Beattie in Volume 1, Number 1 (1974) of Media Probe, Media Probe was an organization intent on addressing a comment by the "1970 Special Senate Committee on the Mass Media chaired by Keith Davey" (p. 11). While the journal's graphic presentation had much improved, costs had outstripped revenue. [...]led by Professor David B. Mitchell, CJC undertook an ambitious circulation expansion program in the early and mid-1990s to attract U.S. and other international library subscribers and to enliven the sales and renewals of subscriptions in and outside Canada. A crumbling nostalgia Time and circumstance have combined to create a bittersweet parting for those whose lives were tied to a seemingly impregnable knowledge materiality and its social conventions: words on pages, pages in books, reading stands, portable books, personal libraries, personal marked-up copies of books, trust in lending, lending libraries, mechanics institutes, public libraries.

Coproducing digital archives with 2SLGBTQ+ Atlantic Canadian youth amidst the COVID-19 pandemic

PurposeThe authors explore the coproduction of a digital archive with 50 2SLGBTQ+ youth across Atlantic Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic in order to catalyze broader public participation in understanding 2SLGBTQ+ youth-led activism in this place and time through art production.Design/methodology/approachThrough a mail-based participatory visual research project and an examination of collage, zines and DIY facemasks, the authors highlight how the production, sharing and archiving of youth-produced art adds to methodological discussions of exhibiting and digital archiving with 2SLGBTQ+ youth as a form of activist intervention.FindingsIn reflexively examining the cocuration of art through social media and project website, the authors argue that coproducing digital archives is an important part of knowledge mobilization. Also, the authors consider how the work has been interacted with by a broader public, so far in an exclusively celebratory manner and note the benefits and challenges of this type of engagement to the youth and to the understandings of 2SLGBTQ+ youth archives.Originality/valueThe authors suggest that these modes of engaging in participatory visual research at a distance offer original contributions in relation to how participation can be understood in a digital and mail-based project. The authors see participant control of how to share works within digital archives as a contribution to the understanding of people's capacity to negotiate and take ownership of these spaces. These strategies are participant-centered and suggest ways that archiving can be made more accessible, especially when working with communities who are socially marginalized or otherwise excluded from the archival process.

Analysis of the Usefulness of Critique Documents on Musical Performance: Toward a Better Instructional Document Format

Today, with the COVID-19 pandemic, the demand for remote and asynchronous lessons for musical performance is rapidly increasing. In these lessons, teachers listen to recordings of musical performances and then return textual critique documents to the performers. However, the common document formats that exist in other fields are not widely known in the field of performance instruction. To address this issue, we launched a project in 2020 to collect and publish a dataset of critique documents. This study describes a statistical analysis of the dataset to investigate which types of elements are useful for performers. The multilevel modeling results revealed that the content of the critiques differed more depending on the teacher than on the musical piece or the student. Particularly, the number of sentences about giving practice advice is a key factor for useful critique documents. These findings would lead to improved forms of critique documents and, eventually, to the development of educational programs for teachers. © 2021, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

Pandemic Self-Portraits Estelle Woolley

At the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, artist Estelle Woolley returned to her family's farm in Cheshire, England, where she found nature both therapeutic and inspiring. During daily walks, she paid close attention to her immediate surroundings, especially the plant life coming in and out of season. She began collecting foraged materials that she used in pandemic-inspired masks. She collected the plants with a sense of purpose. Colorful wildflowers represent the work of the UK's National Health Service during the pandemic;delicate dandelion seed heads parallel the invisible spread of the virus;and nettles and thistles remind people to keep their distance. She writes, "Plants act as a natural filter;they give people oxygen so that they can breathe;they give them life."With these masks, she raises the question of whether the virus is nature's way of teaching them to slow down and pay attention to the world, taking care of ther environment. Woolley's self-portraits are among the more than 125 creative responses to the coronavirus pandemic featured in the online archive launched by Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences.

Editorial

Even when the library buildings are closed to protect staff and visitors from infection, the digital presence of libraries can make itself felt online through electronic resources and online help desks. "4 'Perception and Use of Social Media by Library Users of the Aliah University, Kolkata: a study' by N. Alam offers a case study whose goal "was to investigate the perception towards social media and its effective utilization by Aliah University Library users in meeting their information needs. "8 'Relationship Between Gender and Cognitive Factors that Influence Information Seeking Amongst Postgraduate Students: a case of Kenyatta University Post-modern Library in Nairobi, Kenya' by D. W. Muthee and J. M. Masinde looks at the social and psychological aspects of information seeking.

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The book focuses on the immediate practicalities of service provision under COVID-19;considers longer-term strategic responses to emerging challenges;identifies key concerns and problems for librarians and library leaders;analyses approaches to COVID-19 planning;presents and examines exemplars of best practice from around the world and offers practical models and a useful framework for the future. The book provides guidance on organizing, storing, preserving and sharing research data using RDM;contextualizes RDM within the global shift to data-intensive research;helps researchers and information professionals understand and optimize data-intensive ways of working;considers RDM in relation to varying needs of researchers across the sciences and humanities;and presents key issues surrounding RDM, including data literacy, citations, metadata and data repositories. Boosting the knowledge economy: key contributions from information services in educational, cultural, and corporate environments has a particular interest in learning services, exploring principles and strategies for their implementation - from marketing strategy to analytics - and covers implications for the LIS profession. Presents an overview and analysis of cutting-edge practices in information services, with a particular focus on learning services and their particular contribution to LAMs (libraries, archives, and museums) brand awareness and to social capital building.

Changes and challenges of the archives: researching early-twentieth century lesbianism in United States prisons during the COVID-19 pandemic.

"Changes and Challenges of the Archives" is based on a still-in-progress master's thesis that I will complete by May 2021 at Sarah Lawrence College. The purpose of this article is not to come to any conclusions about the challenges of researching lesbian history during the COVID-19 pandemic but, rather, to explore how these world circumstances have further complicated the labor required of a lesbian historian. Many elements of this thesis and research are still in flux, including my investigation of the role race played in creating and developing a sexually deviant, criminalized definition of lesbian(ism). My ultimate hope is that this paper provides some valuable knowledge for my queer historian comrades and sparks a dialogue that can benefit historians who are continuing their research through debilitating circumstances.