Scope and Method. My project takes the early modern period, and particularly the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as its focus. My own specialization in that period of English literature was, of course, a major factor in that decision. However, there are other reasons why this period, in particular, is suited to this study. Among these is the fact that the seventeenth century is very important in the history of philosophy. Critics often look to the seventeenth century as the period during which both science and modern philosophy begin to emerge as they moved away from scholastic philosophy. Natural philosophers, relying on empirical observations and experiments, began to reject Aristotelianism and seek out alternative philosophies, laying the groundwork for modern science. Meanwhile, Descartes, breaking fundamentally from the past, articulated a philosophy of the subject that has been heralded as the foundation for modern metaphysical philosophy. As we will see in chapter 3, these transitions can be figured through wax because wax was already an important philosophical model in scholastic philosophy; philosophers such as Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx and Descartes to figure their departure from scholastic traditions deploy it. The philosophical uses of wax can be related to wax metaphors in literature during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; these reveal changes in understandings of gender, sexuality, and perceptions about what makes men and women human. Just as wax is malleable and its forms are marked by an intrinsic instability, so too are our understandings of ourselves and our relations to others. The use of wax to explore these questions in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries engages with and responds to the philosophical investment with wax, and the shifts in philosophy reverberate through the literary; at the same time changing literary formulations transform philosophy. Thus while the questions of gender, sexuality, and the nature of humanity, which I take up in this project are not limited to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, they are pressing questions in the period that take on new and intriguing shapes in the discourse of the period. Importantly, wax can also be used to figure the period’s relationship to other historical moments. Through wax, the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries connect to the classical period and simultaneously prefigure modernity. As we will see wax was of great significance in the classical era, used to make death masks, and st...
Scope and Method. The E-ARK Maturity Model for Information Governance developed in this deliverable primarily focuses on Archival references namely the Open archival information system – Reference model (OAIS/ISO14721), the Trustworthy Repositories Audit and Certification (TRAC/ISO16363) and the Producer-Archive Interface Methodology Abstract Standard (PAIMAS/ISO20652). This deliverable focuses on the second iteration of the first four stages of the development method (see section 3) that concentrate on the design and development of the maturity model, as presented in Table 10. To use this maturity model an organization first needs to position itself in the maturity matrix in each of the dimensions. This step is called self- assessment. The self-assessment consists of following a series of predetermined steps in which the organization answers a series of questionnaires that will result in the determination of a maturity level. This deliverable details the revision of the self-assessment questionnaire and contains the questions for all the dimensions of the maturity model. D7.6 will focus on the application of the self-assessment that will be used on the use cases after the project pilot. This constitutes the next three stages of the second iteration of the development method. Deliverable 7.6 will conduct a new self- assessment using the final version of the maturity model after the project pilot. Table 10 defines the focus of each deliverable based on the development method and represents the maturity model roadmap.
