Plant Collection “Half‐life:” Can Botanic Gardens Weather the Climate?

Botanic gardens are organized around plant collections, and climate change will affect those collections. Land loss is expected for gardens near sea level, prompting a loss of plants from the collection. Future collection development requires planning for these losses, which in turn requires assessment of the extent and rate of collection loss. We examined collection inventory change over time using records at Montgomery Botanical Center (MBC), to formulate a plant collection half‐life concept. This half‐life was used to project changes in MBC's plant collection over the next 100 years within the context of sea level changes. Comparing predicted rates of collection change with projected rates of loss due to sea level rise, we expect plant collection development to keep pace with climate change. As actively curated resources, botanic garden plant collections can adapt to environmental change faster and more deliberately than natural systems.     

“What is Less or More than a Touch?” Multimedia Classics and Hypermedia Hermeneutics

Hypermedia is so diverse that it is in need of documentation, analysis, and methodology. For more than 20 years, online and offline applications of hypermedia technology have combined text, image, video, animation, and sound into a total work of art (Gesamtkunstwerk). This essay provides an insight into my research project, Multimedia Classics and Hypermedia Hermeneutics, focusing on why it is so difficult to describe and analyze hypermedia applications on cultural topics. It suggests how the functions, contents, and forms of hypermedia could be analyzed; to do so, it looks at Notzimmer, an interactive website story about a knockdown furniture construction kit designed by Jewish refugee Mauritius Ehrlich during World War II.     

“一个人与一个学科”—— 甘乃光档案思想述评

行政效率运动为中国近代档案学的产生提供了理论土壤与实践根基,文书档案改革作为行政效率的“突破口”,不仅推动了行政效率运动的深化,而且促进了档案学理论和实践的发展。作为行政效率运动的倡议者和组织者以及文书档案改革的推行者,甘乃光对于档案学成为一门独立学科居功至伟。研究甘乃光的档案思想不仅可以厘清档案学科的源流,而且对于档案学科的创新和持久发展具有重要意义。     

是“毒药”还是“良药”——论社会记忆档案化与档案记忆社会化的互化交融

社会记忆档案化是将社会记忆以档案的方式加以留存,档案记忆社会化则是将档案留存的记忆重新转化为社会共享的记忆。两者是一种双向转化的行为、过程和结果,需要我们超越单向度的思维,在社会记忆再生产的统一性中把握双方的互化融合,认识到它们是“良药”,而非“毒药”。     

“历史层累”阐述—— 传统村落档案研究语境的真实性探析

传统村落档案研究有不同的历史语境,不单是当代的现代化语境。本文用“历史层累”法阐述近现代传统村落的变迁,追溯现代化潮流、社会主义改造、近代反封建及乡土中国四个历史语境,说明传统村落档案研究的可能的时代背景,从而分析研究其语境的真实性。     

“档案宣导”还是“档案倡导”?— 前沿概念的准确表达及内涵解读

本文依据advocacy的词源释义,参考社会学和行政管理学领域的概念界定,评析档案学界已有概念界定的优缺点,提出将advocacy引入国内档案界时,应将其译为“档案倡导”,并科学界定“档案倡导”的内涵,说明其成为前沿概念的理由。     

国内“档案数据”研究述评

“档案数据”是当今档案学研究中的重要概念,对“档案数据”概念的源起及演变路径进行梳理,有利于概念基本含义的界定,规范概念的应用形式及情境。本研究在描述“档案数据”领域文献分布规律的前提下,以技术背景为依据,分“档案工作自动化时代”“档案信息化时代”及“大数据时代”三个研究阶段对“档案数据”领域文献的研究主题及内容进行了梳理与总结,并对相关研究的特征及不足进行了评述。最后,本文对“档案数据”的概念含义与研究价值进行了简要探讨。     

“案牍”一词源流考

“案牍”是由“案”和“牍”两个单音词素组成的联合式复合词。该词起源于南北朝时期,其原始含义包括泛指的官府文书、特指的司法刑狱专门档案以及用来指代公务活动。此后,逐步延伸出名册、官名等含义。使用次数在宋代达到了第一个高峰,之后小幅回落,到了清朝出现了最高峰。民国以后,随着“档案”与“文件”二词的产生与发展,“案牍”一词逐步消亡。