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Traditional knowledge
About: Traditional knowledge is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 10825 publications have been published within this topic receiving 202790 citations. The topic is also known as: indigenous knowledge & indigenous knowledge system.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an analysis of information collected from knowledgeable members of mountain communities in the State of Uttarakhand, Central Himalaya, in order to understand the environmental and conservationist implications of these rules and practices.
Abstract: Cultural diversity in remote mountain regions is closely linked to biodiversity, as there is a symbiotic relationship between habitats and cultures, and between ecosystems and cultural identity; indeed, religious rules and rituals often strengthen this relationship and are characterized by a conservation ethic. The present paper presents an analysis of information collected from knowledgeable members of mountain communities in the State of Uttarakhand, Central Himalaya. The data collected are analyzed within the framework of traditional knowledge-based systems (TKBS) methodology, using the conservation purpose of rules and practices as a means of typifying the information on sacred natural sites (forests/groves, pastures, water bodies), on the phenomenon of dedicating forests to a deity, on the inherent taboos regarding resource exploitation, and on other traditional beliefs and customs, in order to understand the environmental and conservationist implications of these rules and practices. The analysis shows that the cultural precepts of remote Uttarakhand mountain communities can be considered a precondition for sustainable development. In fact, the association of religion with ecosystem management is inherent in traditional Himalayan communities' culture; one cannot think of ecological systems in the Himalaya without religion. However, this knowledge and related conservation rules need to be strengthened in the face of current change.
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TL;DR: A number of scientific bodies and development agencies have called for indigenous and traditional systems of knowledge to be recognized as valuable reservoirs of learning -a move inspired, in part, by the prospect of multinational biotechnology corporations exploiting traditional non-western medical, agricultural and ecological knowledge as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: In recent years, a number of scientific bodies and development agencies have called for indigenous and traditional systems of knowledge to be recognised as valuable reservoirs of learning - a move inspired, in part, by the prospect of multinational biotechnology corporations exploiting traditional non-western medical, agricultural and ecological knowledge. But recognising the legitimacy of indigenous knowledge, albeit partially, has profound implications for conceptions of science. First, the relationship between science and bodies of knowledge hitherto repudiated as myth and superstition needs to be rethought so that indigenous knowledge is demarcated from both science and pseudo-science. Second, the histories of science and mathematics need to recognise consistent criteria for establishing the existence of cross-cultural transmissions. Third, strategies need to be found to legitimise, where possible, indigenous theoretical and methodological discoveries. Fourth, a multicultural idea of science needs to ...
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the role of traditional beliefs, practices, and local institutions in biodiversity conservation and community development in Baima Tibetans, a unique ethnic group inhabiting the hilly regions of the southern tip of Gansu Province.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored one example of an indigenous knowledge system that relates to the quality of tree fodder used by farmers in Nepal and found that the knowledge of tree-fodder quality possessed by the farmers is quite consistent with the level of information that may be generated from the laboratory analyses that are commonly used by nutritional researchers for the same purpose.
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01 Jan 2004
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a case study of a Stream-Based Digital Library: Medical Data, which is a stream-based digital library for information retrieval in the US National Science Digital Library.
Abstract: Keynote and Invited Papers.- Personalization in Digital Libraries - An Extended View.- Case Studies in the US National Science Digital Library: DL-in-a-Box, CITIDEL, and OCKHAM.- Character Strings to Natural Language Processing in Information Retrieval.- Papers.- CMedPort: Intelligent Searching for Chinese Medical Information.- Automatic Summarization of Chinese and English Parallel Documents.- Incorporating Virtual Relevant Documents for Learning in Text Categorization.- A Case Study of a Stream-Based Digital Library: Medical Data.- Towards Web Mining of Query Translations for Cross-Language Information Retrieval in Digital Libraries.- Development of Design Recommender System Using Collaborative Filtering.- Collaborative Querying through a Hybrid Query Clustering Approach.- Information Needs in Information Space.- An Efficient and Fast Multi Layer Statistical Approach for Colour Based Image Retrieval.- Supporting Multilingual Information Retrieval in Web Applications: An English-Chinese Web Portal Experiment.- A Novel Value of Paragraph Content Based PageRank Approach.- Digital Reference Services: Do We Still Need Libraries?.- Approximate String Matching for Multiple-Attribute, Large-Scale Customer Address Databases.- ISTILAH SAINS: A Malay-English Terminology Retrieval System Experiment Using Stemming and N-grams Approach on Malay Words.- THVDM: A Data Model for Video Management in Digital Library.- A Multimedia Digital Library System Based on MPEG-7 and XQuery.- Multimedia Data Transmission Using Multicast Delivery in Digital Library.- Reducing Spatial Relationships for Efficient Image Retrieval.- Effective Image Annotation for Search Using Multi-level Semantics.- Affective Contents Retrieval from Video with Relevance Feedback.- IPSA: A Digital Archive of Herbals to Support Scientific Research.- HIT-DML: A Novel Digital Music Library.- An XPath Reduction Algorithm for Fast Querying of Digital Libraries in XML.- Continuous Naive Bayesian Classifications.- Web Mining for Identifying Research Trends.- Ontology Learning for Medical Digital Libraries.- LVS Digital Library Cluster with Fair Memory Utilization.- So Near and Yet So Far: The Digital Divide among the Information Professionals.- Where Does Professional Education on Digital Libraries Lead Our New Librarians?.- Towards Building Sociable Library System through Negotiation Engine.- Browsing a Digital Library: A New Approach for the New Zealand Digital Library.- The Inevitable Future of Electronic Theses and Dissertations within Malaysia Context.- MAG2DL: A Framework for Information Retrieval and Integration of Distributed Geographic Digital Libraries.- Digital Libraries in Asian Languages - A TCL Initiative.- A Knowledge Network Approach for Building Distributed Digital Libraries.- An Architecture of a Distributed Archive for Re-useable Learning Objects.- Creativity in Digital Libraries and Information Retrieval Environments.- Towards a Digital Document Archive for Historical Handwritten Music Scores.- Knowledge Seeking Activities for Content Intelligence.- Knowledge Management in a Chinese Genealogy Information System.- Approximating Fair Use in LicenseScript.- A Study on the Digital Right Management of MPEG-4 Streams for Digital Video Library.- Gradient-Based Edge Detection of Songket Motifs.- Assessing the Usability of Political Web Sites in Malaysia: A Benchmarking Approach.- The Implementation of the Electronic Game Terminology Dictionary.- Inculcating ICT Skills through a Collaborative Digital Library Initiative for Educational Use.- PAPER for an Educational Digital Library.- Metadata for Online Resources and Learning Object.- Segmenting Chinese Unknown Words by Heuristic Method.- Using a Light-Weighted Cache Pool to Leverage the Performance of Web Picture Databases.- An Object-Oriented Approach for Transformation of Spatial Data from Relational Database to Object-Oriented Database.- Improved Variable Ordering for ROBDDs.- Applying UML to a New Model for Transformation of Spatial Data from Relational Database to Object-Oriented Database.- Proxy Searching of Non-Searchable and Poorly Searchable Open Access Archives of Digital Scholarly Journals.- Object-to-Multidimensional Database Mapping Algorithms.- An Architecture for Multischeming in Digital Libraries.- Improving Automatic Labelling through RDF Management.- An OAI-Based Filtering Service for CITIDEL from NDLTD.- Challenges in Building Federation Services over Harvested Metadata.- Effective Design Multimedia Content Materials: Child-Centered Design.- Indigenous Digital Multimedia Content Development for E-learning: Instructional and Cognitive Design Model Approach.- GridFS: A Web-Based Data Grid with P2P Concepts and Writable Replicas.- Hierarchical Classification of Chinese Documents Based on N-grams.- Evaluating the Effectiveness of Thesaurus and Stemming Methods in Retrieving Malay Translated Al-Quran Documents.- Application of Latent Semantic Indexing on Malay-English Cross Language Information Retrieval.- Identification of Font Styles and Typefaces in Printed Korean Documents.- A Domain Specific Ontology Driven to Semantic Document Modelling.- The System of Registries: An Evaluation of User Feedback... A Year Later.- Posters.- OAI-Based Interoperable System for the Folk Music Digital Library.- An XML-Based Query Generator for Multiple Boolean Search Systems on the Web.- Design and Implementation of a Content-Based Video Retrieval System Using Moving Objects Trajectories.- ACNET: The Genesis of Iranian Information Consortia and Its Impact on National Digital Library Development.- Digesting Bilingual Web News via Mining Financial Activities and Events.- On Extracting Facial Expressions for the Virtual Image Masking.- Variable Order Verification Use of Logic Representation.- A Korean-Japanese-Chinese Aligned Wordnet with Shared Semantic Hierarchy.- A New Video Segmentation Method Using Variable Interval Frame Differencing for Digital Video Library Applications.- Towards Flexible and User-Friendly Management of Documents.- Effective Design of E-learning Application Incorporating Multiple Intelligences.- Integrating Web Databases through Semantic Networks.- Metadata++: A Scalable Hierarchical Framework for Digital Libraries.- The Making of the PolyU Course Scheme Database as One of the Digitization Initiatives of the Pao Yue-kong Library of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.- Usage of Digital Library Services for the Medical Professionals.
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