Moving Image Preservation and Cultural Capital

Moving Image Preservation and Cultural Capital

This article examines the changing landscape of moving image archiving in the wake of recent developments in online video sharing services such as YouTube and Google Video. The most crucial change to moving image archives may not be in regard to the collections themselves, but rather the social order that sustains cultural institutions in their role as the creators and sustainers of objectified...

Moving Image Preservation in Libraries

WITHINTHE CONFINES OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONS in libraries, an established practice of preservation for film and video collections is largely nonexistent. By comparison, the scale of resources needed to achieve meaningful programmatic efforts to preserve them is far greater than the resources libraries have assembled for traditional paper-based preservation. Management of moving image collections r...

Image based 3D Reconstruction in Cultural Heritage Preservation

Documentation of the current state of an object is often the first crucial step in cultural heritage preservation. Especially for large scale objects as buildings this task becomes complex and time consuming. Hence, there is a growing interest in new, more efficient techniques, which ease the process and reduce the financial impact of surveying actions. In case of façade restoration, experts ne...

the influence of social and cultural capital on efl students critical thinking skills

the major aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between social and cultural capital and efl students’ critical thinking skills. this study takes this relationship in to account to see if people with different sociocultural status are different regarding their critical thinking skills. to this end, 160 university students majoring in english language and literature, english trans...

Cultural Capital and Educational Attainment