This exploratory case study was performed aiming at implementing the Activity-based Costing (ABC) method in a Sterile Processing Department (SPD) of a major teaching hospital. Data collection was performed throughout 2006. Documentary research techniques and non participant closed observation were used. The ABC implementation allowed for learning the activity-based costing of both the chemical ...

The primary goal of developing this model will be to facilitate the characterization of tools and standards for digital linguistic resources with respect to the entire documentary and descriptive process in order to (i) help researchers avoid duplicating the work of others unnecessarily and (ii) ensure that linguistics, as a discipline, does not accidentally focus on particularly salient domain...

Conducting fieldwork frequently sparks ethical challenges as researcher and environment clash. This paper seeks to address these challenges, using documentary and ethnography methodologies as a lens to illuminate different ways of thinking about fieldwork ethics. In line with its more qualitative nature, this paper will accomplish its task via meta-analysis and historiography, analyzing past te...

The imminent death of thousands of the world’s languages over the next fifty years has driven linguists to search for solutions to the problems caused by this impending loss of linguistic diversity. A series of works published in the 1990s declared a state of crisis among the world’s languages (e.g., Robins and Uhlenbeck (1991), Crystal (2000), Nettle and Romaine (2000)) and initiated a focus o...

This paper presents digital curators with a more precise understanding of the concept of documentary form, and how documentary form can be automatically learned from a sample of records of a particular document type. The ability to automatically recognize documentary form enables item description. Item description enables file unit description and this enables automatic series description. This...

Metadata extraction is a critical aspect of ingestion of collections into digital archives and libraries. A method for automatically recognizing document types and extracting metadata from digital records has been developed. The method is based on a method for automatically annotating semantic categories such as person’s names, job titles, dates, and postal addresses that may occur in a record....