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Oral Tradition and the Internet
The major purpose of this book is to illustrate and explain the fundamental similarities and correspondences between humankind's oldest and newest thought-technologies: oral tradition and the Internet. Despite superficial differences, both technologies are radically alike in depending not on static products but rather on continuous processes, not on \"What?\" but on \"How do I get there?\" In contrast to the fixed spatial organization of the page and book, the technologies of oral tradition and the Internet mime the way we think by processing along pathways within a network. In both media it's pathways--not things--that matter. _x000B__x000B_To illustrate these ideas, this volume is designed as a \"morphing book,\" a collection of linked nodes that can be read in innumerable different ways. Doing nothing less fundamental than challenging the default medium of the linear book and page and all that they entail, Oral Tradition and the Internet shows readers that there are large, complex, wholly viable, alternative worlds of media-technology out there--if only they are willing to explore, to think outside the usual, culturally constructed categories. This \"brick-and-mortar\" book exists as an extension of The Pathways Project (http://pathwaysproject.org), an open-access online suite of chapter-nodes, linked websites, and multimedia all dedicated to exploring and demonstrating the dynamic relationship between oral tradition and Internet technology._x000B_
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Oral Literature in the Digital Age
Thanks to ever-greater digital connectivity, interest in oral traditions has grown beyond that of researcher and research subject to include a widening pool of global users. When new publics consume, manipulate and connect with field recordings and digital cultural archives, their involvement raises important practical and ethical questions. This volume explores the political repercussions of studying marginalised languages; the role of online tools in ensuring responsible access to sensitive cultural materials; and ways of ensuring that when digital documents are created, they are not fossilized as a consequence of being archived. Fieldwork reports by linguists and anthropologists in three continents provide concrete examples of overcoming barriers—ethical, practical and conceptual—in digital documentation projects. Oral Literature in the Digital Age is an essential guide and handbook for ethnographers, field linguists, community activists, curators, archivists, librarians, and all who connect with indigenous communities in order to document and preserve oral traditions.
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Database Creation and Preliminary Acoustic Analysis of Mizo Folk Songs
This paper introduces the Tezpur University-Mizo Folk Song Database (TU-MFSD) which is created for the purpose of acoustic characterization and analysis of Mizo folk songs. Preliminary acoustic analysis and classification of the collected songs is carried out. The database is collected from different sources, viz., online resources, Art & Culture Department of Mizoram (A&C), All India Radio, and field recordings. Mizo folk songs belonging to five different categories are collected. Perceptual validation of the folk song categorization is carried out by 17 listeners (8 male, 9 female) of varying age groups from 18 to 60 years.
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are used for analyzing the characteristics of the collected Mizo folk songs. Four classification models are used for a preliminary classification to validate the effectiveness of the features. The acoustic analysis highlights the existence of creaky phonation at the end of sustained vowels in two categories i.e., Hunting chants and War chants, where distinctive dip in the pitch and energy contours is observed and validated by spectrograms. Percussions are observed to be more frequent in the lyrical regions than in the non-lyrical regions. Voicing is observed to have varying and fluctuating harmonics overlapped across different instruments. An accuracy of 87.50% is achieved using the random forest classifier, which is at par with that of existing works. Findings from the creaky phonation analysis as well as observations made from the experiments highlight the need for further investigation into the vocalization and articulation of Mizo folk songs, and thereby pave way for further studies in the characterization of Mizo folk songs.
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Folklore and the Internet
A pioneering examination of the folkloric qualities of the World Wide Web, e-mail, and related digital media. These stuidies show that folk culture, sustained by a new and evolving vernacular, has been a key, since the Internet's beginnings, to language, practice, and interaction online. Users of many sorts continue to develop the Internet as a significant medium for generating, transmitting, documenting, and preserving folklore.In a set of new, insightful essays, contributors Trevor J. Blank, Simon J. Bronner, Robert Dobler, Russell Frank, Gregory Hansen, Robert Glenn Howard, Lynne S. McNeill, Elizabeth Tucker, and William Westerman showcase ways the Internet both shapes and is shaped by folklore
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Identifying online publications - how to find a needle in a haystack: a German view
Postmodern society is characterized by information overload. In the scientific and academic sector alone there are more than 100,000 journals and 80,000 new books published each year, also a vast number of electronic documents. There are about 170 million hosts on the WWW, with an estimated 500 million sites. The number of serious scientific documents published solely in an electronic form is increasing constantly. It is becoming more difficult to identify relevant information and documents, so there is a need for a unique and permanent identifier for electronic documents. Although it is possible to identify print products unambiguously according to a uniform world-wide standard (ISBN, ISSN), this is not yet the case for electronic documents. At the moment, the internet address (URL) is frequently used to cite and retrieve the documents. However, URLs may change and the publications then frequently simply disappear. Clear and permanent identification systems are therefore necessary so that online publications can be cited, retrieved and used. Libraries in particular are very interested in a unique and permanent identifier for electronic documents. Two different systems, the uniform resource name (URN) and the digital object identifier (DOI), are presented as examples of ways in which electronic publications can be identified.
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Libraries for a postliterate society
According to Wikipedia, a postliterate society is one in which multimedia technology has rendered the ability to read written words unnecessary. Postliterate people can also be described as those who can read but who prefer to meet their primary information and recreational needs by resorting to audio, video, graphics, and gaming. In postliteracy, print is relegated to brief personal messages, short informational needs, and other functional, highly pragmatic uses ranging from instructions to signage and time-management device entries. Postliteracy is impacting books in a variety of ways and is best exemplified by the Net Generation. Libraries, especially those that serve children and young adults, are well equipped to serve postliterate clients. Adapted from the source document.
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Book Reviews
While journal articles, books, and bibliographic citations are still important artifactual evidence of scholarly communication, so are self-publication on personal web sites, hypertext links between web sites, listservers, online discussion groups, and digital libraries of preprints. [...]a new generation of researchers is dusting off the old work to see what still applies, before starting anew.Who better to revisit first principles than Jack Meadows, who started his career as an astronomer, then became an historian of science, and then combined these interests in his later career as an information scientist? [...]these two suggest that they are writing this book in order to correct the lack of attention to public libraries in the information age, especially to build support for doing a new, major survey on the nature and influence of the public library. [...]as I reflect on my own writing, I realize I could be criticized for the same approach.Civic Space/Cyberspace provides, because of the authors wide reach, a heavy portion of food for thought.
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