I think that it is mostly because we are 100% free to imagine, write and tell the story that we like the most. We can change this character and his trade into whatever we want, we can imagine and make the character face any kind of situation. I can just see the painting and tell the story that it transmits me. The funny thing about this project is that a couple of us might chose the same painting and still tell a completely different story.

To sum up, as I said before I am going to work with the painting of The Astronomer.  Since one of Vemeer’s habit was to sign the painting under the name of what one could see in the picture, my choice is clearly an astronomer working on his office. He is sitting in front of a book and a globe.

Bibliography:

• The Geographer : Web Gallery of Art  Retrieved 16:24 , April 7, 2010 from  http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/v/vermeer/03d/29geogr.html
• The Astronomer : Essential Vermeer  Retrieved 16:31 , April 7 , 2010 from http://www.essentialvermeer.com/catalogue/astronomer.html

He was not very much known outside his circle probably because he mostly worked “genre painter” . He produced few paintings and he never became specially wealthy, he even left his wife and children debt at his death.

As I mentioned before, he is a painter that was involved in the Baroque period or movement during the 17th century. This period meant a whole change of perspective in the art world, including painting, architecture and sculpture. Baroque art is characterized by great drama, rich, deep color, and intense light and dark shadows. As opposed to Renaissance art, which usually showed the moment before an event took place, Baroque artists chose the most dramatic point, the moment when the action was occurring.

Vermeer is particularly known for his masterly treatment and use of the light in his works clearly showing the influence of this new period called Baroque. He worked slowly and with great care, using bright colours and sometimes expensive pigments, with a preference for cornflower blue and yellow.

Bibliography :

• Johannes Vermeer: In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 15:53, April 7, 2010, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Vermeer
• Renaissance Art : Boston College Art History Program .     Retrieved 16:07, April 7, 2010 from http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/HP/renaiss.htm
• Baroque : In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.                  Retrieved 16:02, April 7, 2010, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baroque_painting
• Genre Painting : In Genre Painting: History,Types,Artists Retrieved 16:18, April 7, 2010, from http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/genres/genre-painting.htm

The course is mostly focused in the famous painting “The Girl with a Pearl Earring”, it is about an interactive study of the painting through the painting itself, the book and the movie version.

It is definetely a different way of presenting and studying a subject but I really like the idea of being able to work on something like that with the flexibility and freedom that we have.

In this course we have to work on two different projects :  first we have to choose the painting that we are going to be working on and make a short presentation about it and then, we have to work on a story related to what the painting shows.

Las V Jornadas CRAI, que se organizan en la Universidad de Almería estarán dedicadas a analizar los nuevos requerimientos profesionales para la gestión de estos servicios, la integración de recursos humanos procedentes de tradiciones diferentes y los retos organizativos y formativos que se plantean.

Las Jornadas van destinadas a responsables académicos de servicios universitarios, a profesionales implicados en la planificación estratégica de los servicios, a bibliotecarios, así como a todos aquellos que trabajan en el ámbito de los servicios de apoyo al aprendizaje y la investigacion.

Bibliografia:

Fuente :  Publicación diaria “Hitza” , 18 de Junio de 2009

Aesthetically: It seems that the American National Corpus has a long way to go before it becomes something like the BNC. The latter, seems to be more clear in its presentation and more understandable whereas the former seems to be more technical (for expert users). In the BNC everything is well organized and it easier to find the our way in the page. In the ANC everything gets a little more fuzzy and it is not difficult to get lost in the technical jergon it uses.

Technically (Search Engine): The first advantage of the British National Corpus is that its search engine is online wheareas the ANC’s you have to download it and install it in your computer (4GB approximately). That is a great disadvantage to the ANC because it is tedious to install that ammount of data you might never need to use in your computer. However,there is an option to using the ANC, the Corpus of Contemporary American English which seems to be a more sophisticated way of searching words. The BNC is easier to use, within one click you can find whatever you are looking for, and you will be showed 50 examples of the word you searched in different contexts. The sources of the phrases showed in the BNC are perfectly acknoledged, which is also one of the features of the ANC. As a matter of fact, the search engine used in the BNC is SARA and the one used in the ANC is Xaira.

We will be using both in our project, so we have to say that they both work quite well when dealing with words and phrases in different contexts. Personally, we think that although the registration procedure that has to be done on the CCAE, this one is the best corpus.

Sources:

Retrieved from: http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/ May 19.,2009  12:45

Retrieved from: http://americannationalcorpus.org/ May 19,2009 13:05

Pero de todos modos, creo que es justo hacer lo mismo que con el British National Corpus y mencionar en que consiste exactamente. Al igual que como hice con el anterior corpus volvere a hacerlo en inglés.

American National Corpus

The American National Corpus (ANC) project creates a huge electronic collection of American English,that include texts of all types of genres and transcripts of spoken American English from 1990 to the actual date. Anyone can contribute to the system adding text and transcripts. The American National Corpus is created to provide a more comprehensive picture of the American English, and to serve as a resource for students, linguistic and lexicographic research, and technology development.

It is remarkable to say that the ANC is not still completed but when finished, it will contain a core corpus of at least 100 million words, comparable to the British National Corpus (BNC). The corpus will also include several hundreds of millions of words, in order to provide both the largest selection of texts.The ANC has so far released 22 million words of American English.

Sources:

Retrieved from : http://www.americancorpus.org/ MMay 17, 2009  17:33

Retrieved from : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_National_Corpus May 17, 2009 17:55

The British National Corpus (BNC) is a 100 million word collection of samples of written and spoken language from a wide range of sources, designed to represent a wide cross-section of British English from the later part of the 20th century, both spoken and written.

The written part of the BNC (90%) includes, for example, extracts from regional and national newspapers, specialist periodicals and journals for all ages and interests, academic books and popular fiction, published and unpublished letters and memoranda, school and university essays, among many other kinds of text.

The spoken part (10%) consists of orthographic transcriptions of unscripted informal conversations (recorded by volunteers selected from different age, region and social classes in a demographically balanced way) and spoken language collected in different contexts, ranging from formal business or government meetings to radio shows and phone-ins.

Source:

Retrieved from : Pagina oficial del BNC:   http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/ May 12, 2009 10:02

La definición más breve y concisa que se puede encontrar en la red, es la que podemos encontrar en la wikipedia que dice asi : un Corpus lingüístico es un conjunto, normalmente muy amplio, de ejemplos reales de uso de una lengua. Estos ejemplos pueden ser textos (típicamente), o muestras orales (normalmente transcritas).

Bibliografia:

Corpus lingüístico :

Retrieved from : http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_ling%C3%BC%C3%ADstico  May 12, 2009  09:54

Wikipedia:

Retrieved from : http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Portada  May 12, 2009 10:05

Otras fuentes de información:

Testu corpus-a (euskaraz) : http://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testu_corpus

Corpus lingüísticos tipologia: http://lorien.die.upm.es/~juancho/pfcs/AJP/cap4.pdf

Antes de seguir con el artículo, quiero aportar como curiosidad el origen del nombre de esta plataforma. El nombre viene por Dublín (Ohio,E.E.U.U) , ciudad que en 1995 albergó la primera reunión mundial de muchos de  los especialistas en metadatos y Web de la época.

Después de buscar y comparar diferentes páginas webs que están relacionadas con esta plataforma, incluyendo la oficial, tal vez sea la de la wikipedia la que más claramente defina de que se trata y nos señale sus ventajas y usos entre otros.

Según la wikipedia, Dublin Core es un sistema de 15 definiciones semánticas descriptivas que pretenden transmitir un significado semántico a las mismas. Sin embargo, es necesario aclarar que estas definiciones son: opcionales, se pueden repetir y pueden variar en su orden.

Este sistema de definiciones fue diseñado para proporcionar un vocabulario “base” , capaz de proporcionar la información descriptiva básica sobre cualquier recurso, sin importar origen, área u origen cultural.

Una vez explicado el origen y la función de esta plataforma, voy a analizar por encima su clasificación y sus elementos. Podemos clasificar estos elementos en 3 grupos que nos indican la clase o el ámbito de la información que se guarda en ellos:

1. Elementos relacionados con el contenido del recurso
2. Elementos relacionados con el recurso visto como propiedad intelectual.
3. Elementos relacionados con la instalación del recurso.

Para terminar con el artículo del Dublin Core, creo que hay que mencionar cuales son sus usos y ventajas. El el primer apartado tenemos varios grupos de interes, como por ejemplo: organizaciones educativas, bibliotecas, instituciones del gobierno, páginas Web… En el segundo apartado, en cambio, podemos encontrar los siguientes: simplicidad, flexibilidad, consenso internacional, independencia sintáctica…

Hoy por hoy, el ejemplo más claro de este desarrollo tecnologico es el libro electronico o el llamado e-book. Esta nueva tecnología consiste  en una versión electronica o digital de un libro.  Aunque de momento tenga la batalla contra el papel perdida, llegara el momento en el que sino ganarla conseguira empatar la contienda. El papel sigue siendo el soporte preferido para la lectura pero hay que aceptar que en comparación con el e-book se ve  limitado. El soporte digital que ofrece el libro electrónico ofrece un sin fin de posibilidades : permite tener acceso a un número casi ilimitado de textos, en la mayoría de ellos podemos encontrar la característica del hipertexto, ayuda en la búsqueda y recuperación de datos, esta categorizado conceptualmente, y ofrece la posibilidad de acceder de manera multilingüe. Estas son solo algunas de las posibiliades que el libro electrónico nos brinda.

Aunque las ventajas de estos e-book sean evidentes, hay que dejar claro que la palabra digital no se  lee. Así lo declaró Jakob Nielsen : “people rarely read Web pages word by word; instead, they scan the page, picking out individual words and sentences.” o lo que es lo mismo, la gente raramente lee páginas web palabra por palabra, e su lugar, escanean la página, escogiendo palabras y frases sueltas.  Por eso si la comparamos con la palabra escrita no tiene ninguna posibilad.

Asi que de momento la palabra escrita es claramente superior a la digital.  Como ya dijo el arqueólogo J.L Arsuaga la comunicación oral hizo que el ser humano fuera capaz de trazar planes y estrategias que a la larga hicieron de nosotros una raza superior al resto  de las especies. Está claro que la comunicació oral es superior al resto porque esta exige un contacto visual,cara a cara, se convierte en la forma más efectiva de comunicación y en definitiva nos hace más felices.