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This special issue of the journal Photography & Culture (volume 14, issue 3) calls for the development of research into the various local and global political circumstances that have influenced the absorption of historical photographs into the realm of digital heritage, alongside the study of the digital photographic heritagization practices triggered by this very process. Presenting case studies from Australia, Britain, Israel, Palestine, Russia and South Africa, it analyses how historical photographs, digital heritage, and cultural conflicts have become interlocked in multiple countries around the globe since the post-Cold War rising prevalence of digital technology, global interconnectedness, and liberal democracy. These related conditions, it is suggested, have informed the growing digital heritagization of historical photographs and the methods used for their digitization, safeguarding and dissemination. Therefore, as a whole, the special issue argues that the confluence of historical photographs and digital heritage must not be understood as a mere response to technological progress but as an articulation of politically-charged aspirations to capitalize on the common association of photographs with the past, to administer approaches to differing cultural values in a time of imposing liberal-democratic politics of consensus.

The agricultural drought inventory for the UK is a subset of data from the UK Drought Inventory. This dataset contains qualitative drought data related to UK agriculture based on an extensive review of two weekly farming magazines in the UK: Farmers Weekly and Farmers Guardian for the 2018 summer drought. This inventory is a complement of the existing Historic droughts inventory of references from agricultural media 1975-2012 (Rey et al., 2019), also available in ReShare (see Related Resources). This dataset contains a total of 1,098 references. The inventory follows a standard format (based on the European Drought Impact Report Inventory, EDII), common to the other sectoral collection of references, that allows their combination for drought analysis and characterisation. Thus, it stores information on the start and end dates of the event and their location (local and regional based on NUTS regions) to characterise the temporal and spatial extents of the cited event. The events/entries are categorised as drivers, impacts, responses and includes a sample of text from the source. Entries for years different from 2018 are related to content about a previous drought (e.g., 1976) that is mentioned in 2018.Historic Droughts was a four year (2014-2018), £1.5m project funded by the UK Research Councils, aiming to develop a cross-disciplinary understanding of past drought episodes that have affected the United Kingdom (UK), with a view to developing improved tools for managing droughts in future. Drought and water scarcity (DWS) events are significant threats to livelihoods and wellbeing in many countries, including the UK. Parts of the UK are already water-stressed and are facing a wide range of pressures, including an expanding population and intensifying exploitation of increasingly limited water resources. In addition, many regions may become significantly drier in future due to environmental changes, all of which implies major challenges to water resource management. However, DWS events are not simply natural hazards. There are also a range of socio-economic and regulatory factors that may influence the course of droughts, such as water consumption practices and abstraction licensing regimes. Consequently, if DWS events are to be better managed, there is a need for a more detailed understanding of the links between hydrometeorological and social systems during droughts. With this research gap in mind, the Historic Droughts project aimed to develop an interdisciplinary understanding of drought from a range of different perspectives. Based on an analysis of information from a wide range of sectors (hydrometeorological, environmental, agricultural, regulatory, social and cultural), the project characterised and quantified the history of drought and water scarcity events since the late 19th century. The Historic Droughts project involved eight institutions across the UK: the British Geological Survey the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Cranfield University, the University of Exeter, HR Wallingford, Lancaster University, the Met Office, and the University of Oxford. Extensive review of two weekly farming magazines in the UK: Farmers Weekly and Farmers Guardian for 2018. The issues are in electronic format (in ProQuest, accessed via Cranfield University Library website). The search terms were: drought, dry weather/spell, rainfall/precipitation, soil moisture, water scarcity/stress/deficit. After all the references containing one or more of these terms were collected, the content was screening and only the relevant ones were included in the inventory (spreadsheet format).

The agricultural drought inventory for the UK is a subset of data from the UK Drought Inventory. It contains qualitative drought data related to UK agriculture based on an extensive review of two weekly farming magazines in the UK: Farmers Weekly and Farmers Guardian for the period 1975-2012. For creating this dataset, we focused on the major drought events in that period (1975-76, 1988-92, 1995-97, 2003-06 and 2010-12). The agricultural inventory contains a total of 2,209 references. The inventory follows a standard format (based on the European Drought Impact Report Inventory, EDII), common to the other sectoral collection of references, that allows their combination for drought analysis and characterisation. Thus, it stores information on the start and end dates of the event and their location (local and regional based on NUTS regions) to characterise the temporal and spatial extents of the cited event. The events/entries are categorised as drivers, impacts, responses and includes a sample of text from the source. Historic Droughts was a four year (2014-2018), £1.5m project funded by the UK Research Councils, aiming to develop a cross-disciplinary understanding of past drought episodes that have affected the United Kingdom (UK), with a view to developing improved tools for managing droughts in future. Drought and water scarcity (DWS) events are significant threats to livelihoods and wellbeing in many countries, including the United Kingdom (UK). Parts of the UK are already water-stressed and are facing a wide range of pressures, including an expanding population and intensifying exploitation of increasingly limited water resources. In addition, many regions may become significantly drier in future due to environmental changes, all of which implies major challenges to water resource management. However, DWS events are not simply natural hazards. There are also a range of socio-economic and regulatory factors that may influence the course of droughts, such as water consumption practices and abstraction licensing regimes. Consequently, if DWS events are to be better managed, there is a need for a more detailed understanding of the links between hydrometeorological and social systems during droughts. With this research gap in mind, the Historic Droughts project aimed to develop an interdisciplinary understanding of drought from a range of different perspectives. Based on an analysis of information from a wide range of sectors (hydrometeorological, environmental, agricultural, regulatory, social and cultural), the project characterised and quantified the history of drought and water scarcity events since the late 19th century. The Historic Droughts project involved eight institutions across the UK: the British Geological Survey the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Cranfield University, the University of Exeter, HR Wallingford, Lancaster University, the Met Office, and the University of Oxford. Extensive review of two weekly farming magazines in the UK: Farmers Weekly and Farmers Guardian for the period 1975-2012. From December 2003 onwards, the issues are in electronic format (in ProQuest, accessed via Cranfield University Library website). For items before 2004 (not available electronically), issues in paper format were consulted at the British Library (London). The search terms were: drought, dry weather/spell, rainfall/precipitation, soil moisture, water scarcity/stress/deficit. After all the references containing one or more of these terms were collected, the content was screening and only the relevant ones were included in the inventory (spreadsheet format).

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Young Lives survey is an innovative long-term project investigating the changing nature of childhood poverty in four developing countries. The study is being conducted in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam and has tracked the lives of 12,000 children over a 20-year period, through 5 (in-person) survey rounds (Round 1-5) and, with the latest survey round (Round 6) conducted over the phone in 2020 and 2021 as part of the Listening to Young Lives at Work: COVID-19 Phone Survey.Round 1 of Young Lives surveyed two groups of children in each country, at 1 year old and 5 years old. Round 2 returned to the same children who were then aged 5 and 12 years old. Round 3 surveyed the same children again at aged 7-8 years and 14-15 years, Round 4 surveyed them at 12 and 19 years old, and Round 5 surveyed them at 15 and 22 years old. Thus the younger children are being tracked from infancy to their mid-teens and the older children through into adulthood, when some will become parents themselves.The 2020 phone survey consists of three phone calls (Call 1 administered in June-July 2020; Call 2 in August-October 2020 and Call 3 in November-December 2020) and the 2021 phone survey consists of two additional phone calls (Call 4 in August 2021 and Call 5 in October-December 2021) The calls took place with each Young Lives respondent, across both the younger and older cohort, and in all four study countries (reaching an estimated total of around 11,000 young people).The Young Lives survey is carried out by teams of local researchers, supported by the Principal Investigator and Data Manager in each country.Further information about the survey, including publications, can be downloaded from the Young Lives website. This study includes data and documentation for Round 5 only. Round 1 is available under SN 5307, Round 2 under SN 6852, Round 3 under SN 6853 and Round 4 under SN 7931.Latest edition:For the second edition (August 2022), the Peruvian younger cohort household level data file (pe_r5_ychh_youngerhousehold) has been updated to include the mother's health variables. Main Topics: Older Cohort Household Questionnaire (age 22): includes sections on: Parental background; Household education; Livelihoods and asset framework; Economic changes and recent life history; Socio-economic status; Public Programmes.Older Cohort Child Questionnaire (age 22): includes sections on: Mobility; Subjective Wellbeing; Education; General Perceptions; Employment, earnings and time-use; Feelings and Attitudes; Household decision-making; Marital and Living Arrangements; Gender roles and social norms; Fertility; Health and Nutrition; Computer and other digital devices and internet use and skills; Social Capital; Anthropometry.Older Cohort Self-Administered Questionnaire (age 22): includes sections on: Relationship with parents, Smoking, Violence, Alcohol, Sexual behaviour (administered in Peru only).Younger Cohort Household Questionnaire (age 15): includes sections: on Parental background; Household education and time use; Livelihoods and asset framework; Consumption; Social Capital; Economic changes and recent life history; Socio-economic status, Health; Anthropometry (for the study child and a sibling); Caregiver perceptions and attitudes.Younger Cohort Child Questionnaire (age 15): includes sections on Mobility; Time use and work activities; Education and job aspirations; Health; Social norms and gender roles; social networking; Marriage and parenthood expectation; Feelings and Attitudes; Computer, other digital devices and internet usage; Anthropometry.Younger Cohort Cognitive Tests (age 15): include Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (administered to the study child and a sibling); Mathematics test; Reading comprehension test. In Ethiopia only an additional English and Amharic reading test.Community Questionnaire: (administered in the main communities where Young Lives children live) includes sections on: General characteristics of the locality; Social environment; Access to services; Economy; Local prices; Social protection; Educational services; Health services; Migration.Mini-community questionnaire: (administered in communities into which one or study children moved) includes sections on: General characteristics of the locality; Social environment; Access to Services; Economy; Local prices. Purposive selection/case studies Interview Self-administered questionnaire

The search for the wilderness as a space and possibility of a more radical religious experience accompanies and marks the development of Western culture, with multiple declinations, from voluntary seclusion or eremitical life to solitary life in more communitarian forms. The search for solitude and eremitism remained and marked the main moments of crisis and renewal in the Western world throughout the Middle Ages and the Early Modernity. All these experiences influenced and accompanied both the development of the city and the peri-urban landscape, with a particular importance in the transformation of territorially more isolated or peripheral areas. At the same time, the seek for solitude and seclusion, either through monastic or hermitic experiences, also flourished in other cultures and religious traditions, from Buddhism to Islam, giving interesting perspectives on the understanding of such religious phenomena in larger terms. info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

Permafrost-dependent landslides occur in a range of sizes and are among the most dynamic landforms in the Arctic in the warming climate. Retrogressive thaw slumps (RTSs) are enlarging landslides triggered by thawing and release of excess water from permafrost ground ice, causing smaller or larger collapses of ground surface, which in turn exposes new permafrost to rapid thawing and collapse. In this study, a preliminary assessment of previous thaw slump activity in Nordenskiöld Land area of Svalbard is made based on remote sensing digitisation of 400 slump-scar features from aerial images from the Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI). RTS properties and distribution are analysed with an emphasis on their implications for the preservation of the Svalbard’s cultural heritage (CH). Our analysis shows that the areas where RTS scars and CH co-exist in Nordenskiöld Land are, at present, limited and cover mainly areas distributed along north-west (Colesbukta, Grønfjorden, Kapp Starostin), north-east (Sassendalen and Sassenfjorden) and south-west (Van Muydenbukta) coastlines. Taking into consideration the preliminary aspect of this inventory and study, it can be stated that for now, RTS and CH sites do not have a high level of co-existence, except for eight sites which are located at less than 100 m to a RTS and one site that is located inside a currently inactive slump-scar. Further mapping of RTS will be undertaken in order to have a complete picture of these climate triggered landslides potentially threatening the Arctic CH. The results of this study, even if preliminary, can be used by local authorities and stakeholders in prioritising future documentation and mitigation measures and can thus present a powerful tool in disaster risk reduction.

Research guide and teaching tool for the analysis of digital archives and digital resources in the humanities. Developed from the author's doctoral research and for the postgraduate classes 'Digital resources in the humanities' (Digital Humanities) and 'Concepts and Contexts' (Archives and Records Management) at UCL.

Specification Writing Guide; This document follows up the release of the recommendation of the Consortium 3D for the Humanities available in open access on the HAL platform in 2018. These first recommendations were mostly included into the guide “Guide pour la rédaction d’un cahier des charges de numérisation en 3D” published by the French Ministry of Culture in the context of the National program to digitize and to valorize cultural content.

The ancient city of Tripolis is located within the town of Yenicekent in Buldan district of Denizli Province in southwest Anatolia [1]. In this study, we shall demonstrate the different dimensions of archaeological landscapes using the case of Tripolis, based on both mythological and biological features of some selected plants widely used for domestication and agricultural trades. For these purposes, some seed remains found at Tripolis and some plant motifs depicted in wall paintings are studied from the agricultural perspective. Additionally, olive and grape production in Tripolis and its vicinity is explored in past and today. Large quantities of Olea europea L. (olive), Vitis vinifera L. (grape) and some grains were found at the excavation site indicating the storage of agricultural surplus. We also found many different biological figures on the walls of buildings and some other ruins excavated. The findings in the area support the view that the agricultural economy of the region depended on olives, grapes and grains. © (2017) by the International Measurement Confederation (IMEKO). All rights reserved.