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Collaborative Access To Virtual Museum Collection Information: Seeing Through The Walls (Journal of Internet Cataloging (Paperback))
Collaborative Access To Virtual Museum Collection Information: Seeing Through The Walls (Journal of Internet Cataloging (Paperback))
Get practical tools to successfully develop collaborative online learning projects!Virtual museums provide an opportunity to spark learning through online access to multi-sensory information, and collaboration between sources is needed to efficiently and effectively catalog and present material. Collaborative Access to Virtual Museum Collection Information: Seeing Through the Walls presents respected authorities exploring the world of virtual collections, from the identification and selection of objects to be included to providing online access using common terminology. Future possibilities and problems are fully detailed, taking into consideration the need for fixed metadata, descriptive standards, and negotiated compromise. Solutions to difficult issues are provided to allow successful development of collaborative virtual museum projects of all types.A virtual museum can provide users with direct, easy access to information, photographs, drawings, sound files, and video clips. However, discipline-based differences in terminology between collections are as much a challenge as integrating detailed locally-developed vocabularies with more general descriptors. Collaborative Access to Virtual Museum Collection Information: Seeing Through the Walls shows how to best achieve consistent information access by providing studies of successful collaborative museum projects which resulted in the creation of catalogs of material from a number of separate collections. The book helps you to understand the challenges of dealing with an unknown online user community as well as the opportunities for presenting information to the virtual museum visitor that differs from that information available during an on-site visit. Four case studies are presented in depth and highlight practical strategies on the development of collaborative common language for future projects. Extensive references provide opportunity for further research while tables clearly illustrate data.Collaborative Access to Virtual Museum Collection Information: Seeing Through the Walls thoroughly explores: cataloging and the digital collection at the Experience Music Project the collaborative cataloging efforts using Dublin Core to unite local heritage organizations the compromises and negotiations necessary to build a common catalog for multiple collaborating organizations the challenges of creating contextual information that places objects in relationship to their creators and the circumstances of their use the partnership between museums with Native American collections and tribally controlled schools the types of images indexed by museum practitioners indexing procedures and systems identifying potentially sensitive information for inclusion or exclusion in online collection databasesCollaborative Access to Virtual Museum Collection Information: Seeing Through the Walls is cutting-edge information for museum archivists, librarians, collection curators, and anyone involved in creating catalogs or providing online access to existing museum collection information.
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Access-Right: The Future of Digital Copyright Law
Access-Right: The Future of Digital Copyright Law
Copyright law has become the subject of general concerns that reach beyond the limited circles of specialists and prototypical rights-holders. The role, scope and effect of copyright mechanisms involve genuinely complex questions. Digitization trends and the legal changes that followed drew those complex matters to the center of an ongoing public debate. In Access-Right: The Future of Digital Copyright Law, Zohar Efroni explores theoretical, normative and practical aspects of premising copyright on the principle of access to works. The impetus to this approach has been the emergence of technology that many consider a threat to the intended operation, and perhaps even to the very integrity, of copyright protection in the digital setting: It is the ability to control digital works already at the stage of accessing them by means of technological protection measures. The pervasive shift toward the use of digital technology for the creation, dissemination, exploitation and consumption of copyrighted material warrants a shift also in the way we perceive the structure of copyright rules. Premising the copyright order on the concept of digital access first calls for explaining the basic components of proprietary access control over information in the abstract. The book then surveys recent developments in the positive law, while showing how the theoretical access-right construct could explain the logic behind them. Finally, the book critically analyzes existing approaches to curbing the resulting problems of imbalance and overprotection, which are said to disadvantage users. In conclusion, the book advocates for a structural overhaul of our current regulative apparatus. The proposed reform involves a series of changes in the way we define copyright entitlements, and in the way in which those entitlements may interrelate within a single, coherent scheme.
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Apogee Symphony I/O (Symphony I/O Base Unit)
Apogee Symphony I/O (Symphony I/O Base Unit)
NOTE: Some of the Symphony I/O's projected features will be available in future firmware updates. For a complete list, see the note at the bottom of this page or call your Sweetwater Sales Engineer for more details.For more than two decades, Apogee has developed some of the finest pro audio technology, including the famous X-series and Rosetta series converters, the Big Ben master clock, the Trak2 mic preamps, and the Symphony PCI protocol. Now, they put all that experience into one amazing interface: the Symphony I/O. You get to choose the I/O, so you can get up to 32 channels of jaw-dropping AD/DA conversion set up for any DAW, including native DAWs such as Logic, Cubase, and Ableton Live, as well as Pro Tools|HD! And standalone operation even lets you use the Symphony I/O with proprietary systems such as Pro Tools LE.Here's how it works. The Symphony I/O comes as a single base unit. This unit features built-in Ethernet and USB output, as well as Symphony/Pro Tools HD PC-32 I/O - but no additional I/O. A pair of module bays lets you decide what additional I/O you need, allowing you to build the system you want. Choose from five different modules, each with a different assortment of analog and digital I/O. You can even add banks of Apogee's ultra-transparent microphone preamps! Each of the Symphony I/O's module cards offers Apogee's finest conversion technology, and the Symphony I/O itself sports enhanced C777 clocking for completely reliable jitter-free performance.The Symphony I/O's front-panel controls are remarkably simple too. You can access every control from just a couple of knobs: one to select the function and the other to change the selected function's setting. Even completely reconfiguring the Symphony I/O's output takes only seconds, so you can jump from your composition in Pro Tools to your recording session in Logic Studio in just a matter of seconds. With all of the flexibility the Apogee Symphony I/O gives you, you'll never have to conform to the limitations of your system - your system will conform to your needs!Apogee Symphony I/O Modular Interface Features at a Glance:Dual I/O module bays let you add the I/O you need via optional modulesUp to 32 input channels and 32 output channels simultaneously when expandedSymphony/Pro Tools|HD configurable PC-32 output USB 2.0 portEthernet port (currently not used)Word clock I/O and LoopSync I/OWord clock termination switch2 x 1/4" headphone outputs on front panel16- and 10-segment meters2 x multifunction encoder knobsOLED GUI with function selection, function adjustment, and Audio Interface Mode (AIM) selectionSoftware-controlled AD/DA reference settingUltra-low-latency AD/DA conversionVariable gain inputOutputs are balanced through Apogee's proprietary Perfect Symmetry Circuitry (PSC)7-segment sample rate displayClock source displayMeter source displayUV22HR for superior dither of high-resolution audio to 16-bit (can be applied to a channel pair or all channels)Clocking technology featuring Direct Digital Synthesis (DDS)Mac OS compatible only - requires Mac OS 10.58 or aboveSymphony I/O interface, USB cable, power cable, rack ears and bolts, quick-start guide includedA/D THD+N: -113dB @ +20dBu (0.00024%)D/A THD+N: -117dB @ +20dBu (0.00014%)D/A dynamic range: 129dB A weightedPower: 90-240VAC, 50-60Hz, 150WSymphony 64 and Symphony Express compatibility availableMaestro Routing available now in public betaAn Apogee Symphony I/O system gives you the I/O you need and the uncompromising quality you demand!NOTE: Some Symphony I/O features will be available in future firmware upgrade. These are projected to include: Pro Tools|HD preamp control, USB Audio mode for use with native DAWs (Low-latency Mixer enabled in Maestro 2), SBus support, Eucon support, Ethernet connectivity, MADI connectivity, and Legacy support for X-Symphony equipped X-Series and Rosetta Series converters.
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MicroLab Spirometer, Mk8 (with PC Software)
MicroLab Spirometer, Mk8 (with PC Software)
MicroLab Spirometer, Mk8 (with PC Software)MicroLab - The Future of Portable Spirometry Highly portable and beautifully designed, the new generation MicroLab has been developed for the professional. Employing Micro Direct’ s acclaimed precision GOLD STANDARD Digital Volume Transducer (especially suited to measuring very low flow rates in patients with COPD) the instrument has a wide angle, high-resolution colour touch-screen. All the unit’ s features can be easily accessed by simply touching the chosen function’ s corresponding icon. This, together with fast textual data entry using a stylus or the optional MicroMouse makes the system’ s use highly intuitive. A quiet and very fast printer with easy-load paper mechanism is integrated. The printout can be fully customised and can also be linked directly to external printers. Equipped with many advanced functions the MicroLab is supplied with Spida 5, the worlds’ most comprehensive Spirometry PC software package, and meets all International standards for performance and accuracy. There are over 40,000 MicroLab Spirometers in use around the world this new generation model is truly the most advanced portable Spirometer.Gold Standard Transducer:Setting new standards in spirometryThe Gold Standard transducer from Micro Direct gives the most precise volume and flow measurements for Asthma and COPD patients. Especially effective at low flows, it complies with all current ATS and other recognised international standards for accuracy. This means that Micro Direct’ s world beating spirometers are the definitive benchmark for accurate respiratory measurement bar none. Digital Volume Transducer Spirometers are NOT ALL THE SAME. Features: -High definition colour touch-screen -Simple screen icon interface using stylus or optional MicroMouse -Fast on-screen textual entry enabling comments and report writing -Fast, quiet printer with easy load paper mechanism -Fully customisable printout format -Direct
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On Greek Religion (Cornell Studies in Classical Philology)
On Greek Religion (Cornell Studies in Classical Philology)
'There is something of a paradox about our access to ancient Greek religion. We know too much, and too little. The materials that bear on it far outreach an individual's capacity to assimilate: so many casual allusions in so many literary texts over more than a millennium, so many direct or indirect references in so many inscriptions from so many places in the Greek world, such an overwhelming abundance of physical remains. But genuinely revealing evidence does not often cluster coherently enough to create a vivid sense of the religious realities of a particular time and place. Amid a vast archipelago of scattered islets of information, only a few are of a size to be habitable.' -from the PrefaceIn On Greek Religion, Robert Parker offers a provocative and wide-ranging entrée into the world of ancient Greek religion, focusing especially on the interpretive challenge of studying a religious system that in many ways remains desperately alien from the vantage point of the twenty-first century. One of the world's leading authorities on ancient Greek religion, Parker raises fundamental methodological questions about the study of this vast subject. Given the abundance of evidence we now have about the nature and practice of religion among the ancient Greeks-including literary, historical, and archaeological sources-how can we best exploit that evidence and agree on the central underlying issues? Is it possible to develop a larger, 'unified' theoretical framework that allows for coherent discussions among archaeologists, anthropologists, literary scholars, and historians? In seven thematic chapters, Parker focuses on key themes in Greek religion: the epistemological basis of Greek religion; the relation of ritual to belief; theories of sacrifice; the nature of gods and heroes; the meaning of rituals, festivals, and feasts; and the absence of religious authority. Ranging across the archaic, classical, and Hellenistic periods, he draws on multiple disciplines both within and outside classical studies. He also remains sensitive to varieties of Greek religious experience. Also included are five appendixes in which Parker applies his innovative methodological approach to particular cases, such as the acceptance of new gods and the consultation of oracles. On Greek Religion will stir debate for its bold questioning of disciplinary norms and for offering scholars and students new points of departure for future research.
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High Access Home: Design and Decoration for Barrier-Free Living
High Access Home: Design and Decoration for Barrier-Free Living
Welcome to the home of the future, courtesy of Universal Design, a new movement that's helping the disabled, the aged, pregnant women, and children live with ease and comfort. Think of the automatic garage door, which originated out of necessity for a client whose condition prevented him from lifting a heavy door. Now just imagine if your home was as easy to operate."High-Access Home" redefines the standards for home design today. Conveniently positioned sinks, grab bars in the shower, properly illuminated hallways, and remote controls for the window shades, adjustable kitchen counters are just some of the improvements shown in this illustrated volume. You'll never have to reach for a light switch or bend for an outlet again.At first glance, a home that follows the principles of Universal Design does not look any different from a traditional, well-crafted home. A connoisseur of the user-friendly Universal Design home appreciates its invisibility as much as its functionality. Subtle differences are its hallmark-with levers instead of knobs on doors, with wider hallways and doors, non-slip floors in the bathroom, roomier garages, elevators, and touch pads, Universal Design is a silent revolution in simplifying life."High-Access Home" tours the top of the line homes that follow Universal Design, featuring both revamped old homes and newly-constructed ones as well. Tour Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Top Cottage or visit the Carroll Center for the Blind, which happens to be a renovated stable that's ultra-chic. Following this tour is a room-by-room breakdown of how to create the ideal home to make living easier. This chapter focuses in-depth on the entry, the living room, the bathroom, the kitchen, the bedroom, and the home office, providing helpful tips on how to get started simplifying your home life. Additional resources for product manufacturers, non-profit organizations, and government organizations are provided in the appendix. If you are living with an aging parent, children, or you would like to "age in place," or have a disability, "High-Access Home" will provide advice, inspiration, and resources for barrier-free living.
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