We herein describe the recovery of a series of data on temperature, humidity, precipitation, evaporation, wind, and local weather conditions from documentary sources obtained from the Jesuit observatory of A Guarda (Galicia, Spain) for the period 1881-1896. The data were digitized and made available in accessible electronic formats. Comparisons were made with present-day meteorological data obt...

1. Artificial Intelligence and Human Reasoning: The Need for a Critical Review of Implemented Systems. 2. The Legal Decision: Limitations of the Computer Approach. 3. Expertise and Documentation. 4. Models of Integrated Systems; 4.1. Integration between Expert System and Hypertext Program, with an Advisory-Decision Making Approach; 4.2 Integration between Expert System and Hypertext Program, wi...

This paper presents the development of and reactions to a documentary featuring the perceptions that doctors and medical students have about human death and dying. What stands out most overall is the relationship between human death and suffering. The underlying purpose of the documentary is to provide a venue/moment in which to prompt viewers to reflect on human death and dying, and to present...

Research agendas in different disciplines have addressed ways in which groups adapt to their environments, coordinate interactions, and translate such activities into practices which can be shared by other groups.This paper incorporates research on digital environments from a number of disciplinary perspectives, and presents an extended analogy: documentary/digital genres are like genes, and th...

In this paper I introduce a lens of mobility for the study of documentary film practices and gender in zones of conflict. By drawing on my qualitative research regarding the practice of the independent filmmaker Iffat Fatima, I will argue that a lens of mobility helps to grasp highly mobile media practices both conceptually and methodologically. Through a lens of mobility, my focus lies on the ...

In the general abstracting process (GAP), there are two types of data: textual, within a particularly framed trilogy (surface, deep, and rhetoric); and documentary (abstractor, means of production and user demands). For its development, the use of the following disciplines, among others, is proposed: linguistics (structural, transformational and textual), logic (formal and fuzzy) and psychology...

Defining 15thand 16th-century Iberian shipbuilding traditions related to European expansion overseas is a difficult task. Scarce documentary evidence and the systematic destruction of Spanish and Portuguese shipwrecks by those with a purely monetary agenda make the task even more complex. In spite of these obstacles, data suggests that a distinctive shipbuilding tradition existed on the Iberian...

Speech recognition, image processing, and language understanding technologies have successfully been applied to broadcast news corpora to automate the extraction of metadata and make use of it in building effective video news retrieval interfaces. This paper discusses how these multimedia technologies can be adapted to enrich perspectives in exploring cultural heritage documentaries. Through au...