Digital critical editions hold the promise of supporting new scholarly research activities not previously possible or practical with print critical editions. This promise resides in the specific ability to integrate corpora, their associated editorial material and other related content into system architectures and data structures that exploit the strengths of the digital publishing environment...

In this article, we examine the American finding aid as a form of genre from both a cognitive and a sociological perspective and use this analysis to articulate some of the hidden or underlying regularities and assumptions of archives work. As finding aids increasingly are created and delivered digitally, we can anticipate tensions in the form and use of these genres giving rise to increased sc...

In this article, we describe proven and exciting new analytics for testing hypotheses using empirical/ archival financial accounting data. Our study seeks to (1) inform business professionals about state-of-the-art methods and evidence from accounting research and (2) trigger academics to pursue new creative cross-disciplinary research in business, economics, law, and related social science fie...

Social psychologists are interested in the ways that other people affect thought, emotion, and behavior. To explore these concepts requires special research methods. Following a brief overview of traditional research designs, this module introduces how complex experimental designs, field experiments, naturalistic observation, experience sampling techniques, survey research, subtle and nonconsci...

In this paper, we describe some of the challenges associated with creating a locative game based on historical content. The Forgotten Worker Quest presents the history of the Rideau Canal as the winning of space while aligned with an avatar; however, the web exhibit from which the game draws its assets does not exhibit the same ludic qualities, which presented serious design challenges. The lac...

Corporate governance scandals and the global financial crisis have led to calls for better risk disclosure. However, such disclosure may be stifled by the proprietary cost hypothesis that firms limit voluntary disclosure to avoid risk of adverse actions. Against this background, several studies have examined the determinants of risk disclosure in corporate annual reports. The purpose of this pa...

In his article "Conscience's De Leeuw van Vlaanderen (The Lion of Flanders) and Its Adaptation to Film by Claus" Gertjan Willems discusses Hugo Claus's 1984 filmic adaptation of Hendrik Conscience's 1838 historical novel, a landmark in the history of the Flemish Movement. Willems's analysis is executed by means of a textual film analysis and archival research. Willems pays special attention to ...

This illustrated paper reports on the early digital games industry in New Zealand, during the late 1970s and 80s. It presents an overview of this largely unknown history, drawing on in depth archival research, interviews with key industry participants and collectors. It discusses the local production of consoles, handhelds, and arcade games in this market, as well as anomalies of distribution o...

Since its initial publication over a decade ago, the OAIS Reference Model, its concepts and terminology, have become essential to the digital preservation discourse. In this discourse, the topos – or myth – of “OAIS compliance” continues to play a central role as archives and repositories seek to demonstrate their fitness for the challenge of digital preservation. After briefly considering what...

Though several state legislatures have considered bills to eliminate the death penalty in the past decade, New Jersey stands alone as the first state to legislatively abolish the death penalty in over thirty years. What factors enabled the New Jersey legislature to successfully pass legislation that abolished the death penalty? To answer this question, I conduct a qualitative case study of the ...