Crafting Stories in the Domestic Archive

Finding stories in the archive through paragraph alignment

We present research showing the possibility of finding stories in a digital text archive through computational methods. Referring to the concept of "archival bond", we define stories as formed by documents that relate to a target activity. We developed a method called paragraph alignment to find such documents and an interactive visualization to discover connected stories in context with proven...

Advocacy for Leaders: Crafting Richer Stories for Public Health.

Crafting, Crafting, Crafting - Extreme Programming in Classroom?

Extreme Programming (XP) shows several interesting approaches which are very attractive for education. It is centered around early and incremental creation of working software. In the following, the chances XP offers for class are shown – especially for use in a class project, but also for practical phases in all lessons where programming is useful. Finally several common problems which can occ...

The Físchlár-News-Stories System: Personalised Access to an Archive of TV News

The “Físchlár” systems are a family of tools for capturing, analysis, indexing, browsing, searching and summarisation of digital video information. Físchlár-News-Stories, described in this paper, is one of those systems, and provides access to a growing archive of broadcast TV news. Físchlár-News-Stories has several notable features including the fact that it automatically records TV news and s...

Editorial - Crafting Learning in Context

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