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- OBJECT TYPE
- digital/video/recordable
- DATE
- 2013
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 2014.0058.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Prodisc
- MODEL
- Thor
- LOCATION
- Unknown
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 2
- AKA
- DVD-R
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- Synthetic disc has white & green label, with text and graphics, on one side.
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- N/A
- Width
- N/A
- Height
- N/A
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- 12.0 cm
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Communications
- Category
- Television
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Prodisc
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Haiti
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- Presumably used 2010 to 2013.
- Canada
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Item from comprehensive collection of tools and technologies used by a Canadian prospector, who worked in the exploration division of Newmont Mining Corporation in Haiti between 2010 and 2013. This collection reflects three aspects of the modern Canadian mining, crucial to the understanding of this sector: mobility of the workforce, ethnicity in the workforce, and globalization. The mining workforce has been highly mobile on both community and individual levels. Entire towns formed around mining operations and died or changed their character when the resources were exhausted. Mining professionals, especially in the field of mineral exploration, work in various often remote locations around the globe, and cover long distances in their daily work. The items donated to the Museum well represent the type of tools and technologies necessary to working outdoors, in remote locations, and a tropical climate. Ethnicity continues to play a role in the sector’s hiring practices. In this particular case, an employer looked for a recent graduate, bilingual prospector, educated in Canada, who could also communicate in Haitian-Creole. A set of hiring criteria in mining is often very specific and difficult to meet by Canadian graduates, but essential to succeeding in exploration projects conducted abroad. Donated artifacts reflect Haitian-Creole cultural context of Newmont operations. [Ref. 1] - Function
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Storage medium for sound and video images. - Technical
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Prospectors spent long periods of time in remote exploration camps with little entertainment. They will often pick up cheap copies of movies, which they can pass around or exchange for other movies to watch during their time off. [Ref. 1] - Area Notes
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Unknown
Details
- Markings
- Markings on disc label include "smartbuy/ ™/ www.smartbuydisc.com" and "DVD-R", "1-16X/ 4.7GB/ Data/ 120 min/ Video". " Made by Prodisc" printed in white around central opening on disc.
- Missing
- Appears complete.
- Finish
- Synthetic disc has white & green label, with text and graphics, on one side.
- Decoration
- Multiple assorted logos appear on disc label.
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Prodisc, Disk, storage, before 2013, Artifact no. 2014.0058, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/2014.0058.001/
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