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Administration & Society, 2013

Despite normative claims that elite foundation boards select elite nonprofits, foundations increa... more Despite normative claims that elite foundation boards select elite nonprofits, foundations increasingly use community volunteers to allocate grants. There is an assumption that community involvement in grant making leads to better grant decisions. However, no one has tested this assumption and explored whether community members are even making different grant decisions than traditional boards. Drawing on a sample of six funders who use a community and traditional board, their 616 grantees, and 955 nongrantees, this paper empirically tests anecdotes replete in literature, identifying the organizational and financial determinants that influence community boards grant decisions versus those that influence traditional board decisions.

Electronics and Power, 1974

http://www.nyu.edu/its/pubs/pdfs/NINCH\_Guide\_to\_Good\_Practice.pdf

Bull. IEEE Tech. Comm. Digit. Libr., 2011

The ECDL Doctoral Consortium provides doctoral students with an opportunity to present research p... more The ECDL Doctoral Consortium provides doctoral students with an opportunity to present research papers in an informal atmosphere whilst still receiving constructive feedback from expert Doctoral Consortium Mentors and from peers. The consortium is also a chance for the students to develop relationships with peers and future colleagues. The doctoral consortium is particularly valuable in providing students with critiques from external experts that they may not encounter within their own institution.

As the design processes in architectural practices switch toward entirely digital workflows, arch... more As the design processes in architectural practices switch toward entirely digital workflows, architects are gradually required, because of their legal and commercial liability, to provide for both a relatively long-term curation of their own digital products and the deposit of authoritative data. But, despite being the sole curation actors for their data, architects receive little education or training in either pertinent competences nor agreed and established procedures to comply with these duties. In this paper, the DEDICATE project, an AHRC funded project hosted by the HATII of the University of Glasgow, will be discussed to explain its role in the design of Digital Curation courses within architectural CAD education and architects' vocational training. Keywords—Digital Curation, CAD, CAM, Architectural CAD Education. I. CAD/CAM IN PROFESSIONAL PRACTICES AND ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION Early computer aided drafting systems started being adopted in Architecture design as soon as t...

In recent years archives have spent increasing amounts of time and money developing on-line findi... more In recent years archives have spent increasing amounts of time and money developing on-line finding aids and other electronic retrieval tools. However, there have been relatively few studies of the effectiveness of such tools or of users' information-seeking behaviour on which to base these developments. This paper presents results from a survey of UK academic historians' information-seeking behaviour. It suggests that although historians have varied information retrieval methods, clear patterns and preferences are visible. Moreover, analysis suggests that the predominant factor to explain historians' information-retrieval behaviour is the type, or genre, of source concerned. Lastly, the implications of these results for the development of archival information systems are considered. RESUME Durant les dernieres annees, de plus en plus de temps et d'argent ont ete consacres par les institutions d'archives au developpement d'instruments de recherche en ligne et...

This paper explains, evaluates and reflects on the technical challenges and opportunities that un... more This paper explains, evaluates and reflects on the technical challenges and opportunities that underpin both the Mapping Sculpture project and its mobile interface. It provides insights into the development process as an integral component of the research methodology, and highlights the importance of meaningful collaboration between researchers and software developers. Just as the project questions the conventional notion of the lone sculpture practitioner, so the technical development needed to mirror the complex web of connections between people, places, objects, organizations and events through enabling large-scale, distributed and collaborative research. Enabling access to these rich resources on mobile devices was a further innovative and challenging development, but one that opens up the possibility for fresh modes of access and development of new audiences. The success of this technical development offers a model for representing complex relationships hidden in multiple sources, enabling innovative research and enhancing access.

Program, 2007

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to present an evaluation of The Glasgow Story (TGS) digitisat... more PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to present an evaluation of The Glasgow Story (TGS) digitisation project, funded by the UK's National Lottery's New Opportunities Fund digitisation (NOF‐Digi) programme, and a critique of the evaluation process itself. The paper emphasises the need for user impact evaluation and for results to be brought into the public domain in order to substantiate the claimed benefits of digitisation projects and programmes and inform ongoing digitisation activity. By critiquing the evaluation methods used the paper also hopes to contribute to the development of good practice in evaluation methodology.Design/methodology/approachQuestionnaires, focus groups, data logs, online surveys and feedback forms were used to gather user responses and make impact assessments.FindingsThe paper suggests that whilst the evaluation can point to some positive impacts that justify the project's innovative approach, practical constraints on the evaluation and methodo...

Program, 2005

PurposeTo introduce the theme of this special issue which contains a selection of papers presente... more PurposeTo introduce the theme of this special issue which contains a selection of papers presented at the Association for History and Computing UK (AHC‐UK) annual conference in 2004.Design/methodology/approachThe role of the AHC in the UK is described and the reasons for choosing the theme of the 2004 conference, Recasting the Past: Digital Histories, are outlined along with the original call for papers.FindingsThe contributors to this issue come from a wide geographic area and reflect the delegates at the conference by being archivists, historians, librarians and researchers.Originality/valueProvides an introduction to the special issue.

Archivaria, 2004

Durant les dernières années, de plus en plus de temps et d'argent ont été consacrés par les insti... more Durant les dernières années, de plus en plus de temps et d'argent ont été consacrés par les institutions d'archives au développement d'instruments de recherche en ligne et d'autres outils électroniques pour repérer l'information. Cependant, ces développements se sont basés sur peu d'études concernant l'efficacité de ces outils ou encore le comportement des utilisateurs dans la recherche d'information. Cet article présente les résultats d'un sondage auprès d'historiens universitaires du Royaume-Uni quant à leur comportement dans la recherche d'information. L'auteur suggère que, même si les historiens ont différentes méthodes pour retrouver l'information, des modèles et des préférences clairs apparaissent. De plus, il suggère que le facteur prédominant expliquant le comportement des historiens dans la recherche d'information est le type ou le genre de source recherché. Enfin, les répercussions de ces résultats sur le développement des systèmes d'information sont présentées. ABSTRACT In recent years archives have spent increasing amounts of time and money developing on-line finding aids and other electronic retrieval tools. However, there have been relatively few studies of the effectiveness of such tools or of users' information-seeking behaviour on which to base these developments. This paper presents results from a survey of UK academic historians' information-seeking behaviour. It suggests that although historians have varied information retrieval methods, clear patterns and preferences are visible. Moreover, analysis suggests that the predominant factor to explain historians' information-retrieval behaviour is the type, or genre, of source concerned. Lastly, the implications of these results for the development of archival information systems are considered. * The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation provided generous financial assistance for the Primarily History Project. The Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute and the Faculty of Arts of the University of Glasgow provided additional funding. I would like to thank Monica Greenan and Rebecca Sharp for their valuable research assistance. Wendy Duff, Michael Moss, Lesley Richmond, and Alistair Tough have all provided valuable comments. Particular thanks must go to Helen Tibbo, who first had the idea for this research, and without whose enthusiasm and good advice none of this would have been possible. 2 Seventy responses were received from a survey of 150 UK archives conducted as part of this research project. The results will form a future paper. 3 Richard J. Cox, "Access in the Digital Information Age and the Archival Mission: the United States," Journal of the Society of Archivists 19, no. 1 (1998), p. 26. 4 The Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) is a national, five-year assessment of departments' research performance in the United Kingdom. The primary measure used in this assessment is the publication output of individual academics. RAE performance determines the distribution of £5 billion of public research funds.

This paper reports on a one year speculative research project that sought to test the technical f... more This paper reports on a one year speculative research project that sought to test the technical feasibility, practical implications and usability of transforming an XML Encoded Archival Description (EAD) finding aid into an XML ZigZag™ structure and applying a relational browser interface.