Rethinking Collections

Flanders, Julia

doi:10.1057/9781137337016.0017

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“…Collections that endeavor to make primary sources directly browsable and searchable (types 1 and 2, in our typology) are the most familiar to both digital humanities scholars and libraries. Flanders (2014) acknowledges the familiarity of such collections as "an extraordinarily common way we fund and organize and interact with digital scholarly resources, a great deal of the time. [As a result,] they have taken on a certain self-evidence: we recognize and use the genre without questioning its terms" (p. 166).…”

Section: Discussion Of Typesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Thematic research collections have long been acknowledged as one form of scholarly production in the humanities (Flanders, 2014;Palmer, 2004;Price, 2009;Thomas, 2015;Unsworth, 2000). More than a decade ago, Palmer (2004, n.p.…”

Section: Thematic Research Collections and Librariesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In practice, it enables and constrains the uses and functions of content. Collections made available on the web necessarily integrate layers of data models, which may include instantiated descriptive schemas, markup standards, models for linking among resources, and so on (Flanders, 2014;Flanders & Muñoz, 2012). Exploring how data models combine and interact to create a collection is one way of exploring how collections are constituted, which is a fundamental question confronting this emergent genre (Flanders, 2014).…”

Section: Data Modelingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Thematic Research Collections: Libraries and the Evolution of Alternative Digital Publishing in the Humanities

Fenlon¹

2017

Library Trends

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The growth and evolution of digital scholarship in the humanities has produced new genres of scholarly work and publication, reliant upon new ways of representing and sharing evidence, analysis, and interpretation. Meanwhile, extant systems of scholarly communication, including publication, discovery, access-provision, maintenance, and preservation, too often exclude digital research products, to the potential detriment of the entire scholarly record. This paper considers one genre of digital humanities scholarship: the thematic research collection, a digital collection of primary sources gathered to support research on a theme. This genre is recognizable and increasingly common, yet wildly heterogeneous in precise form, function, and purpose. This typological analysis aims to identify and describe types of collections as a way toward comprehending the range, variation, and complexity of the whole genre. The research considers what thematic research collections are, how they work, and what challenges confront the provision of effective and ongoing access to digital scholarship.

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Section: Discussion Of Typesmentioning

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Section: Thematic Research Collections and Librariesmentioning

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Section: Data Modelingmentioning

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Fenlon¹

2017

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“…Demarcating a certain period wherein all LGBT+ characters in domestic fiction content are counted provides little insight into longitudinal trends-a key goal for this study. The objective of the study is descriptive rather than inferential, moreover, and aims to provide a factual context to facilitate further qualitative enquiry (see Flanders, 2014). Accordingly, the method deployed is more related to the field of digital humanities (see Arthur & Bode, 2014;Warwick, Terras & Nyhan, 2012;Berry, 2012) than communication sciences-the field traditionally associated with television monitoring.…”

Section: Collecting and Counting Flemish Lgbt+ Charactersmentioning

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LGBT+ televisibility in Flanders: The presence of sexual and gender diversity in Flemish television fiction (2001-2016)

Vanlee¹,

Dhaenens²,

Bauwel³

2020

DiGeSt - Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies

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Fictional representations of LGBT+ people offer a way to study how socio-cultural discourses on sexual and gender identity are reflected in popular culture. Notwithstanding the fact that particular contexts play a pivotal role in this dynamic, queer television theory currently derives exclusively from U.S. cases. With a quantitative analysis of LGBT+ characters in Flemish television fiction between 2001 and 2016, this study provides a descriptive framework to engage with the representation of sexual and gender diversity in a different context. Firstly, the study establishes the prominent presence of LGBT+ characters in Flemish television fiction. It shows that differences between Flemish public and commercial fiction content are negligible, but that discrepancies between genres are significant. The scarcity of sexual and gender diversity in externally produced ‘quality’ fiction, moreover, suggests a need for channels to formulate stricter expectations to production companies. Concerning individual characters, the study points to an overrepresentation of gay male characters, a lack of LGBT+ characters of color and the pervasiveness of gender conformity. Closer analysis, on the contrary, reveals a disarticulation of Flemings of color from homophobic violence, and the recasting of gender non-conformity on straight characters. This suggests a critical, self-reflexive awareness of stereotyping in fiction production. Accordingly, the findings of this study offer a point of departure for qualitative engagements with LGBT+ televisibility in Flanders. The data presented should not be conceived of as a finality, but as a necessary framework to internationalize and diversify the study of sexual and gender diversity on television.

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“…This category concerns components of the technological infrastructures of collections that (1) are not data models and (2) enable and constrain collections' representations, functions, uses and in short how they are constituted (Flanders, ). Though infrastructure may refer to the broader sociotechnical infrastructure upon which projects are built, the category here refers to discrete technological components, ranging from database systems and search algorithms to tools used for data manipulation and to support advanced functionalities.…”

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Toward a characterization of digital humanities research collections: A contrastive analysis of technical designs

Fenlon

2017

Proc. Assoc. Info. Sci. Tech.

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Scholarship across disciplines is changing in the face of digital methodologies, novel forms of evidence and new communication technologies. In the humanities, scholars are confronting and often pioneering innovative ways of viewing, reading, interacting with, collecting, interpreting, contextualizing and sharing their sources, including digital primary sources and data derivatives. This paper reports on one piece of a multimodal study that aims to help us characterize an important, still evolving genre of digital scholarship: the thematic research collection. Using a close, systematic analysis of collections' data models and infrastructures, this study considers the questions: How do the technical designs of thematic research collections contribute to their purposes, functions and uses? What do variations in their designs teach us about the genre as a whole? An analysis of the purposes and designs of scholar-built collections of humanities evidence has implications for the development of digital collections and aggregations generally and the future shapes of digital scholarship and communication.

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Rethinking Collections

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Thematic Research Collections: Libraries and the Evolution of Alternative Digital Publishing in the Humanities

Thematic Research Collections: Libraries and the Evolution of Alternative Digital Publishing in the Humanities

LGBT+ televisibility in Flanders: The presence of sexual and gender diversity in Flemish television fiction (2001-2016)

Toward a characterization of digital humanities research collections: A contrastive analysis of technical designs

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