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and have a broad chronological
span. The public will have
access to the newspapers at
UNT's Portal to Texas
History (texashistory.unt.edu),
which brings together searchable
digital images of Texas-related
documents and photos, and
at a web site of the Library of
Congress (www.loc.gov/
chroniclingamerica).
The libraries' $448,548
IMLS grant will be used to
explore how people interested in
genealogy use digital libraries.
Researchers will determine
what information the genealo-
gists use and develop a user
interface for them to the Portal
to Texas History. The project
will provide a model for future
studies of other targeted groups
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Brian O'Connor, pro-
fessor of library and
information sciences,
and Richard Anderson,
information security
coordinator in the
Computing and Infor-
mation Technology
Center, are working on a
method to analyze film
structure in much the same
way that text is analyzed,
despite the lack of a rigid
grammatical structure.
In their approach, numerical
data from each pixel in each
frame of film is analyzed and
graphically displayed. For
instance, instead of referring to
a scene in general terms such
as dark lighting or fast editing,
a computerized graphic numer-
ically defines patterns of
change in colors. Calculations
on so many pieces of data
from a film have been possible
for several years, but the
researchers have established a
new way to match the meas-urements with the models
developed by film theorists.
They say their work would
allow film scholars to take a
more scientific approach to film
study and would open the door
for film producers to map film
structure to the message they
are creating. Fingerprinting film
in this way would also lead to
a more precise method of
labeling and cataloging photo-
graphs, films and recorded
images of all types.
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Mickey Abel, assistant pro-
fessor of art history, is analyzing
about 50 I2th-century churches
built after the Christian recon-
quest of the Soria region of
Spain. Her research combines
the technology of a global
information system from the
geography department with the
architectural analysis common
to art history. With a Hispanic
Global Initiative grant, she will
take three students to Spain to
study the orientation of the
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topography and cultural devel-
opments. She is collaborating
with Bruce Hunter, director of
the Center for Spatial Analysis
and Mapping, and Lisa
Nagaoka, associate professor
of geography.
Abel says although the main
portal of Christian churches is
typically on the west end, in
Soria the portals are generally
on the north or south. Her
mapping of ninth- and 10th-
century Christian churches in
the region showed that, while
they also had north or south
portals, they were oriented in
relation to the Duero River and
surrounding castles - regard-
less of whether the castles were
occupied by Islamic or
Christian forces. The question
now is whether the I2th-
century orientations are simply
following local tradition or if
other factors are involved.
Abel also is analyzing the
Maillezais Abbey, originally
located on an island off the
French coast. She will map
the ancient canals the monks
built to drain the surrounding
gulf away from the island
and analyze their topographic
relation to the abbey's
western portal.
Mickey Abel is analyzing the
Maillezais Abbey in western
France, founded in the late 10th
;entury. Her research proposes
I reconstruction of the monastic
church's western portal (the
wall pictured).
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