Symbolic Space Research Articles

The workplace as a therapeutic landscape: Understanding the effects of COVID-19 on the wellbeing of food hospitality employees

This study investigated the pandemic-related modifications to food hospitality businesses in Ontario, Canada and their effects on the health and wellbeing of workers. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 22 food hospitality employees in Ontario between June 2020 and May 2021 as part of the Food Retail Environment Study for Health and Economic Resiliency (FRESHER). Transcripts were analyzed inductively using grounded theory as a means of allowing themes to be distilled organically from this relatively new area of research. Therapeutic landscapes emerged as a framework for the resultant themes. The three main themes in this analysis are compromised based on the physical, social, and symbolic spaces of a therapeutic landscape: physical aspects of food hospitality businesses as influencers of wellbeing, social relationships as sources of support and stress, and symbols of fear and safety within food hospitality workplaces. Results indicate that, for food hospitality employees, the workplace was an imperfect therapeutic landscape with a mix of benefits and threats to wellbeing. Further study is needed to understand how these spaces might be reconstructed to better promote wellbeing.

Концепт «историческое время» в современном либеральном исламе: от философии темпоральности к политике памяти

In this article, the author examines the main features of the perception of historical time in the Arab, Iranian and Indonesian Muslim intellectual traditions in a comparative perspective. The purpose of the article is to analyze the images of "historical time" and its derivatives in the modern liberal segment of the Ummah. Therefore, the author analyzes 1) the peculiarities of the perception of historical time by liberal Muslim intellectuals, 2) the directions of assimilation of Western humanitarian methodology, 3) the prospects for transforming the perception of historical time in the modern humanitarian situation through the prism of rising interdisciplinarity. The article shows that 1) the liberal trend in the ummah demonstrates a wide range of perception of historical time, 2) historical time in Islam is perceived pluralistically, 3) the interpretation of historical time in liberal Islam is dependent on the cultural characteristics of the ummah. Methodologically, the article is based on the principles proposed in interdisciplinary historiography, proposed in intellectual history and new cultural history through the prism of imaginative and interventionist turns. The novelty of the study lies in the analysis of common and unique features of the perception of historical time and its derivatives by modern Muslim liberal intellectuals. The results of the study suggest that 1) Islam has become an important factor in the perception of "historical time", 2) the categories of “event history” and “historical progress” are reduced to the history of the progressive development and spread of Islam, 3) the transplantation of Western interdisciplinary epistemology has become an important factor in the invention of historical time. In general, the article shows that historical time is perceived as a symbolic space for localizing the key moments of the historical memory of the Muslim Ummah. The author believes that the imagination of historical time through the prism of modernity reduces history to the actual present, perceived in terms of the realization of the mission of Islam, associated with the achievement of its global dominance.

The heterotopia of the palace in Abdo Khal’s Throwing Sparks (2009)

This article endeavors to negotiate Michel Foucault’s concept of heterotopia in Abdo Khal’s Booker-Award winning novel Throwing Sparks (2009). The central premise of this article is to offer a new understanding of spatiality, constituted by the simultaneous existences of ‘other’ spaces, which can be viewed in their relations as proximate to, contradictory to, or even reflective of each other. In this novel, the Palace is a real and symbolic space and/or place which oscillates between oppressive homogeneity and individualized depravity. The Palace in Throwing Sparks is a representational temporality that embodies the demarcation and relation between the ‘private’ and the ‘public’, allowing for a new site of material spatiality. The rise of an interstitial (heterotopic) space to fill in between the public and the private is what characterizes the Palace in the novel. It allows for the emergence of a whole landscape of power politics driven by the ramifications of the space and affecting its inhabitants. Since this space is analyzable, its inhabitants are overshadowed by its grander aura. In the Palace, the body does not belong to the individual and his/her own will. It rather belongs to the ‘institutionalized’ volition of the Palace in which ‘docility’ rather than subjectivity and agency is what remains as a performative practice for the survival of its inhabitants.

Counter-Narratives about Sub-Saharan Migrant Women in the Digital Public Sphere

This article looks at counter-narratives of sub-Saharan migrant women in the digital public sphere in Morocco. It aims to highlight the civic engagement of migrant social media activism. Whereas migration and media have been covered in other contexts, this study contributes to the debate in Morocco and North/Sub-Saharan Africa. It will tackle the topic of media migrant representation in Morocco, with a particular focus on women’s representation. It examines Hassan Yemcheu’s YouTube page, on which he uploads videos for the association Planet Migrant. This case study is significant because it provides rare content about the situation of sub-Saharan migrant women in Morocco in a male-dominated narrative space. Planet Migrant’s videos at times focus on migrant women’s entrepreneurship or domestic violence, an outlier from most other migrant narratives in Morocco. The methodology relies on textual analysis (Bainbridge 2010), which is supplemented with insights and comments derived from an interview conducted with Yemcheu about the processes, conditions, and content of his work. It will highlight ways of “talking back” (Hooks 1998) to gain some symbolic digital space through participatory/citizen journalism. Through this media intervention which stands against a backdrop of misinformation and limited coverage, Yemcheu capitalizes on digital storytelling to share stories about fellow migrants. Despite the small social media reach and limited engagement, the selected videos shed light on gender issues for sub-Saharan migrants in Morocco in their struggle to regain some symbolic power and socio-political agency.

Literary Plurimateriality and Poetico-political Vibrations in Muriel Pic’s Work

More and more works testify to the pictorial turn which marks francophone literary production since the end of the twentieth century, “immersed in the world of the modern images and mass media,” as Magali Nachtergael pointed out. The textual and visual regimes are thus no longer inscribed in a logic of competition but arranged in a perspective of co-adjunction, of fertile crossings. From this perspective, we examine Affranchissements (2020) by Muriel Pic; this “wandering-book” is structured in six parts which deploy a nonlinear narrative, brimming with many visual materials and where everything starts from “the magical grimoire of a stamp album” and from a “debt to be paid.” This article analyzes this fundamentally hybrid book which, in a decompartmentalization of semiotic regimes, activates a poetic plurimateriality and makes of the literary space a—political—place of renewal of the real, of a redrawing of the material and symbolic space, as Jacques Rancière would say.

Complementarity-Aware Space Learning for Video-Text Retrieval

In general, videos are powerful at recording physical patterns ( <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">e.g</i> ., spatial layout) while texts are great at describing abstract symbols ( <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">e.g</i> ., emotion). When video and text are used in multi-modal tasks, they are claimed to be complementary and their distinct information is crucial. However, when it comes to cross-modal tasks ( <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">e.g</i> ., retrieval), existing works usually use their common part in the form of common space learning while their distinct information is abandoned. In this paper, we argue that distinct information is also beneficial for cross-modal retrieval. To address this problem, we propose a divide-and-conquer learning approach, namely Complementarity-aware Space Learning (CSL), by recasting this challenge into learning of two spaces ( <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">i.e</i> ., latent and symbolic spaces) to simultaneously explore their common and distinct information by considering multi-modal complementary character. Specifically, we first propose to learn a symbolic space from video with a memory-based video encoder and a symbolic generator. In contrast, we also introduce learning a latent space from text with a text encoder and a memory-based latent feature selector. Finally, we propose a complementarity-aware loss by integrating two spaces to facilitate video-text retrieval tasks. Extensive experiments show that our approach outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods by 5.1%, 2.1% and 0.9% of R@10 for text-to-video retrieval on three benchmarks, respectively. Ablation study also verifies that the distinct information from video and text improves the retrieval performance. Trained models and source code have been released at https://github.com/NovaMind-Z/CSL.

Indigenous Temporary Accommodation in Florianopolis: Participatory Project and State Actions

This article presents the design process adopted for the design of Indigenous Temporary Accommodation in Florianopolis - Santa Catarina - Brazil, focusing on design strategies and changes in the proposal, considering State actions and the participation of the indigenous community. These proposals were developed through an outreach project at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, addressing the importance of indigenous presence in the city, the constant struggle of indigenous people for physical and symbolic spaces in contemporary society, and the social role of architects and urban planners within these challenges. A participatory project process is adopted as a methodological strategy, which comprises theoretical and documentary research stages, joint actions with the indigenous community, interactions with the State, preparation of guidelines, and architectural proposals. As a result, the architectural proposals developed based on community demands are presented, as well as the changes from the different strategies built using State actions to handle the issue. It is believed that when considering the different actors involved in the design process, possibilities broaden both to enable the execution of key public facilities in the city and to make these meet the wants and needs of the communities involved.

Daily Space

Three articles in this issue of Arquitecturas del Sur are dedicated to collective housing, as the housing shortage has led to new and better forms of citizen participation in its solution. The Indigenous Temporary Accommodation in Florianopolis handles an essentially Latin American problem: access for Indigenous people to protected state housing. In this case, the presence of the city’s original inhabitants examines the possibilities of physical and symbolic spaces in the contemporary city and the professional role that looks into the responses. Next, the text on collaborative housing analyzes the case of Spain, and its relationship with public management mechanisms. The case of Gran Canaria looks at mutual aid issues, transfer of use, cooperativism, and citizen participation. In this way, the self-construction system of the Andalusian Junta, a practice that is as effective as it is controversial, and representative of a socialist cooperativism and cohabitation developed by the Barcelona City Council, converge in the debate on cooperative management. The third text looks into one of the latest events disclosed on CORVI’s actions, before its dissolution in 1976. It explores a management model that revealed the role of construction companies as a new player in the habitational process for the case of the Santiago Amengual Neighborhood. A second thematic group in this issue, materialized in its last 3 articles, returns to the structural issues of modern-day architecture, whose presence is diving deeper into the disciplinary debate. The places of memory seem to exceed the margins of an understanding based on heritage discourse. The memory and belonging of daily spaces, turn one to the nodes of memory and collective coherence. This is the case of the Community School – Center of Memory and Integrated Action to Care for the Forest of Galilea and the Territory of Colombia. Likewise, the individual, isolated, and selective expressions examine those unusual experiences where otherness exercises protagonism over experiences in the architecture and city of Santiago de Chile. Finally, revisiting the works of a master like Niemeyer opens the possibility for rereading, through actions based on the Portuguese decisions in two of his works: the urban complex of Pena Furada, in Portugal (1965), and Plaza XV, in Rio de Janeiro (1991).

Visual Communication and Evangelizing Art in the Temple of San Francisco of La Paz (Bolivia)

The temple of San Francisco de La Paz is one of the best examples of the mestizo baroque style in Bolivia. The richness of the interior of the temple contributes to creating a theatrical and symbolic space, intending to evangelize and transmit the new values of the Catholic faith, through its iconographic programme. Our analysis highlights the differentiation of interior space using altarpiece programmes, thus evidencing how interior architecture is used for communication purposes. We conclude that interior space is transformed for evangelizing purposes.

Spectral number of 3-Bernoulli convolutions on and Sierpinski-type measures on

Let be a class of Sierpinski-type measures generated by a pair , where with and and . And let µ b be the 3-Bernoulli convolutions on determined by the pair with . It has been shown that and µ b admit an infinitely many exponential mutually orthogonal system if and only if with , and with respectively. In this paper, we will study the maximal number of exponentials of orthogonal sets of and which we call the spectral number of or µ b . In view of the connection of orthogonality between Sierpinski-type measures on and 3-Bernoulli convolutions µ b on , we study the spectral number of µ b according to the cut-off point . Based on the results for µ b , we give a classification on the spectral number of all Sierpinski-type measures except for the case that at least one and it is not in the form of with . In addition, we provide a structure theorem on the exponential orthogonal sets in for , and at least one and that in for and . To the end, we give an explicit representation on the maximal orthogonal set of exponentials for a class of Moran measures µ w by defining a mixed tree map over a symbol space. As an application, all maximal orthogonal sets of exponentials of with the rational can be explicitly expressed. This result improves the characterization of maximal orthogonal set of exponentials for the integral matrix to that for the rational matrix .

Дэниэлс Р., О’Коннор А., Тыч К. Итальянские материальные культуры

&lt;p&gt;The translation presents excerpts from an article published in Italian Studies, the largest scientific journal devoted exclusively to the study of Italian culture in English and Italian. The article explores contemporary approaches to the study of the material environment and materiality, in particular — as applied to the study of Italian culture. Interest in the problem of materiality in the English-speaking research environment is largely associated with the spread of actor-network theory and the revision of the ontological status of things in culture. At the same time, other approaches are not excluded, leaving the field of material culture studies as an interdisciplinary space. Several trends can be identified in studies of the materiality of Italian culture. The first branch is connected with the concept of “consumption” and the analysis of various goods in their economic and symbolic dimensions. To a large extent, studies of consumer culture focus on studies of the culture of the Renaissance, on the assumption that it was at that time that the patterns and symbolic practices of this cultural phenomenon were conceived. The article includes a practical study of this topic based on the analysis of the artifacts of pharmacies of the Renaissance. Another significant area is the study of books and literature. In the English-speaking environment, in contrast to the Italian and Russian academic tradition, philology as a scientific discipline is not widely spread, and specialists from other areas are also engaged in text research. In addition to textual analysis, contemporary research focuses heavily on the materiality of the book itself — the study of materials, their origins, migration, the techniques required to process them. Various combinations of distinctive features of the books, among other things, formed readers' ideas about the significance of certain cultural characters and events. At the same time, Dante, Petrarch and Bocaccio still remain the central figures of research, which is largely due to the active funding of these studies, including those from the Italian state. Another large and less specialized branch of research is connected with the symbolic dimension of material objects. The article gives an example of such work on the study of the dynamics of the appearance, transformation and migration of the monuments of Dante Alighieri, which since the middle of the 19th century occupied a central place in the squares, acting as a symbol of the new united state, and over time began to lose their place as the center of the material environment of Italian cities, and in the symbolic space of Italian culture. The proposed methodologies should be considered as possible ways of working in the interdisciplinary space of materiality studies, which open up great opportunities in the study and understanding of Italian culture.&lt;/p&gt;The translation was made according to the publication: Daniels R., O’Connor A., Tycz K. “Italian material cultures”, &lt;em&gt;Italian Studies&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;2020&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;no. 2&lt;/em&gt;: 155–175. URL: &lt;a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/00751634.2020.1750272" target="_blank"&gt;https://doi.org/10.1080/00751634.2020.1750272&lt;/a&gt;

A Victorian taste of Italy: Situating the “Italian-Swiss Colony” in California wine culture

The article focuses on Andrea Sbarboro's (1839–1923) Italian-Swiss Colony of Asti in Sonoma County and the success of his winemaking company created in 1881. By exploring the relationship between the symbolic space of the vineyard (which I refer to as a ‘winescape’) and the predominant racial narratives of the time in California, I argue that Sbarboro created an Italian space in which Italian Americans could be recognized as ‘white.’ Sbarboro's representations of winemaking as a tradition rooted in Greek/Roman civilization appealed to a Victorian cultural elite that intended to project a Classical and imperialist aesthetic into California. Even today, it is still possible to find in Sonoma and Napa Valley Italian American winemakers that link their business to a similar aesthetic with the unintended result of excising from the landscape non-white contributions to the history of winemaking in California.

Constructing bi-Lipschitz maps between Bedford-McMullen carpets via symbolic spaces

Let E=K(n,m,D) be a Bedford-McMullen carpet with expanding factors n,m and digit set D. We call a=(aj)j=0m−1 the distribution sequence of D whereaj=#{i;(i,j)∈D}. Under a certain vertical separation condition, Li et al. (2013) [7] showed that if two totally disconnected Bedford-McMullent carpets share the same distribution sequence, then they are Lipschitz equivalent. In this paper, we define a metric ρ on D∞ and call (D∞,ρ) a half-symbolic space. We show that if E is totally disconnected and satisfies the vertical separation condition, then E is Lipschitz equivalent to (D∞,ρ). Thanks to this result, we extend the result of Li et al. by showing that two Bedford-McMullen carpets K(n,m,D) and K(n,m,D′) are Lipschitz equivalent if a, the distribution sequence of D, is a permutation of a′, the distribution sequence of D′, and that a and a′ satisfy a certain color matchable condition.

KRL_MLCCL: Multi-label classification based on contrastive learning for knowledge representation learning under open world

Knowledge representation learning(KRL) transforms knowledge graph(KG) from symbol space to vector space. However, KRL under open world assumption(OWA) is deeply trapped in the dilemma of lack of labels due to difficulty or high cost in labeling. To address this problem, we propose KRL_MLCCL:Multi-Label Classification based on Contrastive Learning(CL) Knowledge Representation Learning method. Specifically, (1)we formalize a problem of solving true knowledge graph objects(KGOs) matchings(KGOMs) under the OWA in the original KGOM sample space(KGOMSS)(multi-label classification with one known true matching(positive-example)). (2)we solve the problem in the new KGOMSS, generated through augmenting the true matching according to CL’s idea(multi-label classification with multiple known true matching). (3)we score the true matchings based on hermitian inner product and softmax and minimize a negative logarithm likelihood loss to establish KRL_MLCCL model preliminarily. (4)we migrate the learned model back to the original KGOMSS to solve the true matching problem. We creatively design and apply a positive-example augmentation way of CL enabling KRL_MLCCL with back migration ability: “pulling KGOs in true matching close and pushing KGOs in false matching away”, which helps KRL out of the labels shortage dilemma faced in modeling. We also propose a negative-example noise filtering algorithm to enhance this ability. The open world entity prediction(OWEP) experiment on dataset FB15K-237-OWE shows that the performance of KRL_MLCCL is increased by 3% in Hits@10 and 1.32% in MRR compared with the state-of-the-art in the baselines. The experiments of OWEP in KG also show that KRL_MLCCL has a better back migration ability.

Social movements and political-emotional communities: an approach from the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity in Mexico

ABSTRACT How are social ties formed in the contentious campaigns led by relatives of victims of criminal and political violence? Drawing on the work of Latin American social anthropologists such as Myriam Jimeno, Morna Macleod and Natalia De Marinis, I argue that the contentious campaigns of a victim-led social movement provide the physical and symbolic spaces where the participants form a political-emotional community by sharing testimonios (testimonial narratives) and developing a victim-centered ethos. To substantiate my claim, I discuss the case of the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity (Movimiento por la Paz con Justicia y Dignidad) in Mexico drawing on twelve in-depth interviews and a documentary review. This article opens a dialogue between the literature on political-emotional communities and the scholarship on social movements offering a new perspective to analyze the development of social ties. In other words, future research projects can make use of the introduced theoretical proposal to understand victim-led activism more in-depth. The approach of this article can be of interest, for example, for scholars dedicated to the study of contention by survivors of genocide, mobilizations against racial violence, and protests in contexts of armed conflict.

La consulta previa como herramienta de la multiculturalidad en contextos migratorios: Evidencia desde Nuevo León, México

En los Estados latinoamericanos, las migraciones de los indígenas del campo a la ciudad tienen ya tintes históricos, no obstante, en los últimos años dichos flujos se han acelerado, debido a conflictos extractivos en sus territorios ancestrales y la búsqueda de empleo. En este contexto, los gobiernos locales de ciudades que no cuentan con una población indígena autóctona se encuentran en una situación inesperada de diversidad étnica que demanda una respuesta multicultural. Así es el caso de Nuevo León, un Estado industrial en el noreste de México, que ha recibido intensos flujos de migrantes indígenasdesde la década de 1990, de forma que en 2015 más de cuatrocientas mil personas ahí residentes se autoadscribían como indígenas. A partir de trabajo de campo realizado entre 2015 y 2017, se analiza la consulta previa –que se suele asociar con conflictos territoriales– como herramienta de multiculturalidad frente a flujos de migración indígena a contextos urbanos. Se sugiere que, aun cuando las consultas realizadas no cumplan ni con los estándares del Derecho Internacional ni con los preceptos básicos de la participación ciuda- dana, pueden ofrecer un espacio simbólico que acerca a las partes para conocerse y entablar un incipiente diálogo intercultural

Children Crossing Borders: Latin American Migrant Children. Edited by Alejandra J. Josiowicz and Irasema Coronado

Children Crossing Borders: Latin American Migrant Children is an important and welcomed contribution to the expanding studies of child migration. Through conscientious fieldwork and content analysis, the authors present ten chapters that center migration and borders and how these two concepts destabilize the lives of migrant and refugee children. The chapters discuss the social and cultural borders and disruptions experienced by migrant and refugee children as well as the lack of policies and solutions on the part of federal and state agencies and administrators. In their conclusions, the authors offer unique strategies of resilience and adaptability that work to mitigate the displacement and trauma experienced by the children. The book weaves together interdisciplinary, intersectional, and transnational approaches and provides an important contribution to Migration, Border and Borderland Studies. Throughout the book, borders are approached as dynamic concepts, as central sites of political, social, and cultural power struggles (p. 11). Part I focuses on the educational experiences of both migrant children who are U.S. citizens repatriated to their parent’s home countries and children from Latin America now living in the United States. For many of these children, educational experiences are defined by linguistic borders that lead to social, cultural, and educational disruptions and which force the children to reimagine their identities along transnational lines. Part II focuses on how literature, art, and culture can be used to present and explain borders as physical and symbolic spaces that destabilize the lives of migrant and refugee children. Until recently, these children were invisible or erased by racist, xenophobic, or imperialistic stereotypes. Through resilient forms of children’s and young adult literature, art projects that center walls as obstacles to mobility, and teaching approaches using testimonials, the authors address ways to combat racism and xenophobia while helping the children confront and challenge the very borders they are crossing. Part III deals with the best interests of migrant and refugee children, or lack thereof, and provides analysis of legislation, policies, and the global labor markets that never consider the best interest of the child. The chapters describe the structural traumas inflicted on the children when their best interests are excluded. Subsequently, the authors provide policy recommendations that aim to correct these omissions.

A Black Queer Phenomenology of Space in James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room

In Giovanni’s Room (1956), James Baldwin emphasises the Black queer space of architecture, particularly of lines, walls, and wallpaper. In particular, by using walls to highlight the existence of the poché, or in-between architectural pocket space, Baldwin generates an inside/outside space that facilitates a slippage and reclamation of subjectivity for his queer characters.Throughout this novel, the characters seek shelter and are described as houses and walls themselves even as they are un-housed in spaces which, from an apartment building to the human body, are always permeable and temporary. Each wall of Baldwin’s novel is, like Black space and queer space, a site of tension and entanglement. These walls are complicated by Giovanni’s violent efforts to expand the architectural and symbolic space of his room. He takes a hammer to the walls not to escape into another apartment on the other side of the walls but, rather, to open the poché between walls.The poché is a liminal and undefined inside/outside space (even on architectural blueprints, when/if it appears). Baldwin’s use of the poché in this novel disrupts white and (hetero)normative expectations of space and classification, makes visible hidden histories, resists stability, and promotes inclusive assemblages.

An Introduction to Symbolic 2-Plithogenic Vector Spaces Generated from The Fusion of Symbolic Plithogenic Sets and Vector Spaces

An Introduction to Symbolic 2-Plithogenic Vector Spaces Generated from The Fusion of Symbolic Plithogenic Sets and Vector Spaces

Abstract 6568: Extended support for model organisms: The next frontier for the molecular signatures database

Abstract In 2005, we introduced the Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA) method to enable the identification and estimation of significance of activated biological pathways and processes in molecular data. Serving a community of over 300,000 registered users, and contributing scientific analysis to more than 30,000 publications, GSEA has become ubiquitous in gene expression analysis and particularly in cancer research. The power of GSEA relies, in a large part, on the Molecular Signatures Database (MSigDB) that provides tens of thousands of expertly curated and annotated gene sets representing cellular processes, canonical pathways, response signatures, etc., derived from prior studies, public data, and curated pathway databases. Here we describe an important recent addition to the GSEA/MSigDB resource. Historically, the GSEA-MSigDB resource has focused specifically on human data, offering guidance and support for analysis of model organism data through limited provision of orthology mapping files. In recognition of the importance of the mouse as a model organism for cancer research, we recently significantly expanded our support for mouse data in two ways. (1) We introduced Mouse MSigDB with a total of about 15,000 sets that are provided in the native mouse gene symbol space and are derived from published mouse datasets and mouse-focused resources. This allows GSEA analysis of mouse datasets without the need for orthology conversion. (2) For investigators who wish to use MSigDB’s human gene sets to analyze mouse data, or vice versa, we also implemented a new procedure for orthology mapping gene identifiers in an input dataset to match the identifiers of the gene sets. The new mapping considers the particular requirements of gene set enrichment analysis, and incorporates high confidence gene ortholog data from the Alliance of Genome Resources and ortholog-match refinement utilizing Ensembl’s ortholog datasets. Together, these new additions offer a substantial step forward for making mouse a first-class citizen of the GSEA-MSigDB ecosystem. The new Mouse MSigDB, and the full GSEA-MSigDB resource, is available at gsea-msigdb.org. Citation Format: Anthony S. Castanza, Jill M. Recla, David Eby, Alexander T. Wenzel, Helga Thorvaldsdottir, Carol J. Bult, Jill P. Mesirov. Extended support for model organisms: The next frontier for the molecular signatures database [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2023; Part 1 (Regular and Invited Abstracts); 2023 Apr 14-19; Orlando, FL. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2023;83(7_Suppl):Abstract nr 6568.