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Earlier studies describing and categorising the development of museum websites either build on theoretical knowledge or the analysis of a qualitative sample of relatively few, but prominent museum websites. The present study takes a broader approach and aims to characterise the development across Danish museum websites through the years 2005–2020. The methodological approach is a diachronic (temporal) analysis of Danish museum websites using data extracted from the Danish Web. A cluster anal-ysis was used to identify similarities between museum websites. The cluster analysis shows that the museum website representations possess distinct attributes pivotal to their degree of resemblance with others, such as collection type, geographical location, organisational structure and whether the communication and dis-semination strategy focus on disseminating collection content or extends to a broader communication scope. However, the quantitative text analysis approach to studying archived museum web-sites did not identified a new typology. Instead, the study suggests how a cluster analysis of the Danish museum web sphere can constitute an initial step in comprehending domain development, and ultimately discerning the attributes that characterise the different museum website clusters

Throughout history, Vrhnika has stood as an important outpost at the intersection of major roads ever since Roman times. Until the construction of new transport links (Trieste–Vienna), the Ljubljanica river was one of the main transport routes for shipping goods. Consequently, a strong industry and transportation network flourished in the area. The town and the river played an important role in the operation of the Idrija mercury mine, serving as a storage hub for a substantial amount of grain. The Idrija warehouse, positioned between the once main roads (Ljubljanica and Tržaška cesta), was crucial for the mine in Idrija. Today, the existing building and its surroundings lie abandoned and receive minimal maintenance. This area presents an opportunity for the restoration of a building at the city’s entrance and the revitalisation of the riverside area. This task required an in-depth investigation into the time of construction and usage history of the building. I delved into the significance of the Ljubljanica river in the area and its historical utilisation. Although the building, now degraded, once held significant social and economic value, the need for such a facility no longer exists. The goal is to transform it into a cultural and historical centre through the principles of “adaptive reuse”. The existing structure is renewed and accompanied by the establishment of a new public program. The surroundings of the building are reconfigured into a new public space. By setting up a pavilion by the river, my goal is to create modern architecture intertwined with the existing cultural heritage and surrounding nature. This task aims to breathe new life into the riverside area, highlighting the significance of the Ljubljanica river in Vrhnika’s local history and contributing to the restoration of the existing cultural heritage, i.e. the Idrija warehouse. Vrhnika je bila skozi zgodovino pomembna postojanka na stičišču glavnih prometnic vse od rimljanskih časov naprej. Reka Ljubljanica je bila do izgradnje novih prometnih povezav (Trst–Dunaj) ena od glavnih prometnic za prevažanje in pretovarjanje dobrin, zato sta se v tem kraju razvila močna industrija in prevozništvo. Kraj in reka sta bila pomemben člen v delovanju idrijskega rudnika živega srebra, saj se je tam shranjevalo velike količine žita. Idrijsko skladišče, ki se nahaja med nekoč glavnima prometnicama (Ljubljanico in Tržaško cesto), je bilo ključnega pomena za rudnik v Idriji. Obstoječa stavba in okolica sta danes zapuščeni in samo nujno vzdrževani. Območje predstavlja priložnost za obnovitev stavbe ob vstopu v mesto in revitalizacijo obrečnega prostora. Magistrsko delo je zahtevalo poglobitev v čas gradnje in uporabe stavbe. Raziščem pomen reke Ljubljanice v kraju in zgodovino uporabe reke. Danes degradirana stavba je bila nekoč izjemno pomembna v družbenem in ekonomskem smislu. Danes takšen objekt ni več potreben, zato ga spremenim v kulturno-zgodovinski center po načelih prilagodljive ponovne uporabe (angl. adaptive reuse). Obstoječo stavbo se obnovi in vzpostavi se nov javni program. Uredi se tudi okolico stavbe, ki postane nov javni prostor. S postavitvijo paviljona ob reki želim ustvariti sodobno arhitekturo, ki se navezuje na obstoječo kulturno dediščino in okoliško naravo. Cilj naloge je obuditi obrečni prostor in izpostaviti pomen reke Ljubljanice v kontekstu lokalne zgodovine Vrhnike ter obnoviti obstoječo kulturno dediščino, tj. idrijsko skladišče.

Eszter Polonyis Vortrag behandelt frühe Systeme automatisierter Identitätserkennung. Einen Fokus bilden Experimente zur Stimmerkennung, wie sie in der Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts von US-amerikanische Telekommunikationsunternehmen unternommen wurden. Sie geht dabei auch den Verbindungen zur Arbeit mit „noise“ von Medienkünstler*innen nach, darunter Tony Conrad, John Cage und Kurt Kren.

With the focus on how the past is used by and adjusted to the present, everything is about time in critical heritage studies. But time itself is only implicitly addressed in analyses within the field. This article examines how and with what effects time works at community singing events in Denmark in which the High School Songbook is used. The article suggests that critical heritage studies can benefit from concepts from critical time studies to study the framing and use of time in heritage practices where people relate to the abstract temporal categories of past, present and future. Based on ethnographic field work at 15 events, the analysis shows examples of how a particular ‘event-time’ emerged. In this time, an embodied cultural memory practice characterised by a temporal and affective synchronicity enabled a reproduction and acceptance of specific versions of a common past rooted in nineteenth century ideas of the Danish people as culturally and religiously homogenous.

AbstractIntimate partner violence (IPV) is a public health issue throughout the world, and it can have many severe and lifelong sequelae for its victims. Women from ethnic minority groups experience and report more IPV than ethnic Danish women. In shelters, the former group have a higher occurrence of post-traumatic stress than Danish women. The study analyses the reasons women choose to stay or leave abusive relationships using Lacan’s discourse analysis using five Arab and three Danish women who tell and reflect upon their gender roles, their attitudes and beliefs, their concrete experiences, their backgrounds, their religion, the family relations, and social forces. A deeper understanding of what is at stake for these women will hopefully help professionals to listen to the women and to explore the many profound dilemmas that many of these minority women suffer.

This evidence based practice paper presents preliminary results in using an artificial intelligence classifier to mark student assignments in a large class setting. The assessment task consists of an approximately 2000 word reflective essay that is produced under examination conditions and submitted electronically. The marking is a simple pass/fail determination, and no explicit feedback beyond the pass/fail grade is provided to the students. Each year around 1500 students complete this assignment, which places a significant and time-constrained marking load upon the teaching faculty.This paper presents a Natural Language Process (NLP) framework/tool for developing a machine learning based binary classifier for automated assessment of these assignments. The classifier allocates each assignment a score representing the probability that the assignment would receive a passing grade from a human marker. The effectiveness and performance of the classifier is measured by investigating the accuracy of those predictions.Several iterations and statistical analyses were carried out to determine operational thresholds that balance the risks of false positives and false negatives with the required quantity of human marking to assess the assignment.The resulting classifier was able to provide accuracy levels that are potentially feasible in an operational context, and the potential for significant overall reductions in the human marking load for this assignment.

This work is based upon the collaboration in the COST Action CA18209 – NexusLinguarum “European network for Web-centred linguistic data science”, supported by COST (European Cooperation in Sci- ence and Technology). Marko Robnik-Šikonja received financial support from the Slovenian Research Agency through core research programme P6-0411 and projects J6-2581, J7-3159, and V5-2297. Encar- nación Hidalgo Tenorio was financially supported by the European Social Fund, the Andalusian Gov- ernment, and the University of Granada (Project References: A-HUM-250-UGR18 & P18-FR-5020). Petya Osenova was partially supported by CLaDA-BG, the Bulgarian National Interdisciplinary Re- search e-Infrastructure for Resources and Technologies in favor of the Bulgarian Language and Cultural Heritage, and partially through the EU infrastructures CLARIN and DARIAH, Grant number DO01- 377/18.12.2020. Parliamentary and legislative debate transcripts provide an informative insight into elected politicians’ opinions, positions, and policy preferences. They are interesting for political and social sciences as well as linguistics and natural language processing (NLP) research. While exiting research studied individual parliaments, we apply advanced NLP methods to a joint and comparative analysis of six national parliaments (Bulgarian, Czech, French, Slovene, Spanish, and United Kingdom) between 2017 and 2020. We analyze emotions and sentiment in the transcripts from the ParlaMint dataset collection, and assess if the age, gender, and political orientation of speakers can be detected from their speeches. The results show some commonalities and many surprising differences among the analyzed countries. Slovenian Research Agency P6-0411, J6-2581, J7-3159, V5-2297 COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) University of Granada (A-HUM-250-UGR18 & P18-FR-5020) CLaDA-BG DO01-377/18.12.2020 Andalusian Government European Social Fund