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Proposal of Visual Literacy Indicators for competencies courses. An academic literacy perspective for academic excellence
Full text linkThe paper presents the results of a reasearch based on the evaluation culture approach and particularly on the social corporate responsibility of universities and their duty to account for the quality of their mission, researches, teaching and dissemination of knowledge. Metrics and international rankings have been developed to measure value and performance of the universities; as a consequence, the academic world must express appropriate means in order to improve its position in quality evaluation rankings. The research project focuses on “La Sapienza” University of Rome and especially on international rankings and metrics used to measure its degree of information literacy.The indicators that would take advantage of a program devoted to digital competences are here listed and analyzed to underline: a) the instructional plan, based on the cooperation between researchers-professors and librarians; connectivism as a pedagogical concept; the flipped classroom methodology; the necessity of taking into due account visual competencies and social networks; Educational Digital Objects as Web didactic materials; b) the educational plan meant to enhance visual competences, given the relevance of virtual and augmented reality for university education. The best Visual Literacy standards are selected to empower iconic and visual reading and to envision effective goals, learnign units, methodology and quality. The evaluation must then be considered as one of the principal results of the research itself: it must be based on competecies and quality, and the 13 indicators suggested to measure the educational program – feedback and other metrics included – will be of great use to help the University to highlight its quality standards. The paper presents the results of a research based on the evaluation culture approach and particularly on the social corporate responsibility of universities and their duty to account for the quality of their mission, researches, teaching and dissemination of knowledge. Metrics and international rankings have been developed to measure value and performance of the universities; as a consequence, the academic world must express appropriate means in order to improve its position in quality evaluation rankings. The research project focuses on “La Sapienza” University of Rome and especially on international rankings and metrics used to measure its degree of information literacy. The indicators that would take advantage of a program devoted to digital competences are here listed and analyzed to underline: a) the instructional plan, based on the cooperation between researchers-professors and librarians; connectivism as a pedagogical concept; the flipped classroom methodology; the necessity of taking into due account visual competencies and social networks; Educational Digital Objects as Web didactic materials; b) the educational plan meant to enhance visual competences, given the relevance of virtual and augmented reality for university education. The best Visual Literacy standards are selected to empower iconic and visual reading and to envision effective goals, learning units, methodology and quality. The evaluation must then be considered as one of the principal results of the research itself: it must be based on competencies and quality, and the 13 indicators suggested to measure the educational program – feedback and other metrics included – will be of great use to help the University to highlight its quality standards.The paper presents the results of a reasearch based on the evaluation culture approach and particularly on the social corporate responsibility of universities and their duty to account for the quality of their mission, researches, teaching and dissemination of knowledge. Metrics and international rankings have been developed to measure value and performance of the universities; as a consequence, the academic world must express appropriate means in order to improve its position in quality evaluation rankings. The research project focuses on “La Sapienza” University of Rome and especially on international rankings and metrics used to measure its degree of information literacy.The indicators that would take advantage of a program devoted to digital competences are here listed and analyzed to underline: a) the instructional plan, based on the cooperation between researchers-professors and librarians; connectivism as a pedagogical concept; the flipped classroom methodology; the necessity of taking into due account visual competencies and social networks; Educational Digital Objects as Web didactic materials; b) the educational plan meant to enhance visual competences, given the relevance of virtual and augmented reality for university education. The best Visual Literacy standards are selected to empower iconic and visual reading and to envision effective goals, learnign units, methodology and quality. The evaluation must then be considered as one of the principal results of the research itself: it must be based on competecies and quality, and the 13 indicators suggested to measure the educational program – feedback and other metrics included – will be of great use to help the University to highlight its quality standards
Knowledge Representation of digital Hermeneutics of archival and literary Sources
Full text linkScholarly analysis of archival, library, and literary sources results in a variety of digital artefacts meant to foster knowledge discovery and new research enquiries. Guidelines and standards to formally represent disciplinary information are available (e.g. XML schemas, ontologies, vocabularies). However, digital artefacts rarely address reusable structured information on the hermeneutical approach adopted by scholars when validating hypotheses. As a consequence, reproducibility and assessment of research results is hampered, and comparing online contradictory information is still a hard task. In this work we show how to leverage Semantic Web technologies in a high-level, portable data model for representing hermeneutical aspects related to cross-disciplinary analysis of archival and literary sources. We showcase three representative scenarios in the Cultural Heritage domain where the model is applied, and we describe benefits and limits of our solution
In margine ad archivi ibridi e sistemi integrati
Full text linkWhy define and describe an archive as hybrid? Haven’t archives always been hybrid in terms of media, functionality and purpose? And won’t they still be such in the future? Some reflections originate from these questions, starting from the definition and meaning of the term hybrid, the validity of principles and methods of the archival tradition in the digital environment, the organization of archives free from predetermined schemes, the role and activity of the archivist, of archival description and of multidimensional representation in an environment defined as hybrid.Perché definire e qualificare un archivio come ibrido? Non lo sono sempre stati ibridi per supporti, per funzionalità e per finalità, gli archivi? E non lo saranno ancora nel futuro? Da questi interrogativi hanno origine alcune riflessioni, a partire dalla definizione e dal significato del termine ibrido, intorno alla validità di principi e metodi della tradizione archivistica in ambiente digitale, alla organizzazione degli archivi svincolata da schemi predeterminati, al ruolo e all’attività dell’archivista, alla descrizione archivistica e alla rappresentazione multidimensionale in un ambiente definito ibrido
When Linked Data is (not) enough. Cataloguing Tools between Obsolescence and Innovation
Full text linkThe irruption of the informative space of Web, as new manner to disseminate and share information content, has imposed in the last years an important rethinking of international bibliographic production in its theoretical and methodological basis. In this paper we try to understand the evolutive way of the cataloguing tools though the identification and definition of several change factors (technical and functional): which could be in the next future the new challenges related to the creation and treatment of information?The irruption of the informative space of Web, as new manner to disseminate and share information content, has imposed in the last years an important rethinking of international bibliographic production in its theoretical and methodological basis. In this paper we try to understand the evolutive way of the cataloguing tools though the identification and definition of several change factors (technical and functional): which could be in the next future the new challenges related to the creation and treatment of information
“You will be richer, but I very much doubt that you will be happier”. Antonio Panizzi professor in London, 1828-1831
Full text linkThe paper offers an overview of the complex, not easy period in which Antonio Panizzi was teaching at London University (1828-1831), innovatively suggesting that “a uniform program be adopted for the study of all modern languages and literatures” and nevertheless dedicating himself to research with care and passion. In the article, the teaching materials and custom tools he quickly provided to his students for learning italian language and culture are analyzed regarding concept, structure and target: The Elementary Italian Grammar 1828, and two anthologies of prose writings: Extracts from the Italian Prose Writers, 1828, and Stories from Italian Writers with a Literal Interlinear Traduction, 1830.The paper offers an overview of the complex, not easy period in which Antonio Panizzi was teaching at London University (1828-1831), innovatively suggesting that “a uniform program be adopted for the study of all modern languages and literatures” and nevertheless dedicating himself to research with care and passion. In the article, the teaching materials and custom tools he quickly provided to his students for learning italian language and culture are analyzed regarding concept, structure and target: The Elementary Italian Grammar 1828, and two anthologies of prose writings: Extracts from the Italian Prose Writers, 1828, and Stories from Italian Writers with a Literal Interlinear Traduction, 1830
Open Access come nuovo paradigma. Un'evoluzione inevitabile?
Full text linkAfter almost 20 years from the first Berlin Declaration, the end of 2018 saw a new impulse in open access to publications (and not only) with the launch of Plan S by the Coalition S and with the announcement of the launch of “European Open Science Cloud”. The two events are part of a new scenario that sees, in particular, publishers strongly urged by academic and government institutions to take the definitive step towards a true Open Science. After the transition from paper to electronic, everyone is called to a new challenge: to find one (or more) economically sustainable models that are no longer based on the subscription model but on that of publications. In this highly unstable phase, we speak generically of “transformative agreements”. Some characteristics and problems are here analyzed.Dopo quasi 20 anni dalla prima Dichiarazione di Berlino la fine del 2018 ha visto un nuovo impulso dell'accesso aperto alle pubblicazioni (e non solo) con il lancio di Plan S da parte della Coalition S e con l'annuncio dell'avvio dell'European Open Science Cloud.I due eventi si sono inseriti all'interno di un nuovo scenario che vede, in particolare, gli editori fortemente sollecitati da parte delle istituzioni accademiche e governitive a compiere il definitivo passo verso una scienza realmente aperta.Dopo il passaggio dal cartaceo all'elettronico, tutti sono chiamati ad una nuova sfida: trovare uno (o più) modelli economicamente sostenibili che si basino non più sul modello delle sottoscrizioni ma su quello delle pubblicazioni. In questa fase, altamente instabile, si parla genericamente di "modelli trasformativi". Ne vengono in questa sede analizzate alcune caratteristiche e problematiche
From an epistolary Corpus to a Networking of References
Full text linkThe article introduces the complete digital edition of Tommaso Campanella’s letters. It is a transcription of the full corpus of 172 letters written by Campanella in the years 1591-1639. This work is built on the print collection edited by Germana Ernst and published in 2010 by Olschki. Beyond metadata, an asset in themselves, each letter is enriched by information about the manuscript source (including the archive or the library holding it), the various editions, and a brief summary. The collection offers a detailed and comprehensive vision of the harsh conditions Campanella had to live through during the trials and the long years of imprisonment, at the same time showing, first-hand, the philosophical and theological discussions he had with learned of his time. In order to enhance this intellectual network, the opportunity of including the collection within the great Italian and European epistolary projects has been explored.L’articolo presenta l’edizione digitale dell’epistolario di Tommaso Campanella. Si tratta della trascrizione del corpus di 172 lettere scritte dal filosofo calabrese negli anni che vanno dal 1591 al 1639. L’edizione cartacea alla base del lavoro è il volume curato da Germana Ernst e pubblicato nel 2010 a Firenze. Oltre ai metadati l’edizione digitale presenta notizie sulla fonte manoscritta e sulle edizioni (ivi compreso l’archivio o la biblioteca che conserva il manoscritto) e un breve sommario. L’epistolario offre una visione dettagliata riguardo le dure condizioni di vita del filosofo durante i processi e i lunghi anni di prigionia e nel contempo, permette la ricostruzione delle discussioni filosofiche e teologiche con i dotti dell’epoca. Con l’ottica di valorizzare questa rete di rapporti è stata valutata la possibilità di inserire il carteggio nei grandi progetti di epistolari in Italia ed Europa
Nota introduttiva al documento “Il sistema di collegamenti bibliografici nell'archivio della cooperazione di T. Giordano, con la collaborazione di S. Peruginelli”
Full text linkThe purpose of this article is to introduce a seminal 1984 document on the structure of the “system of bibliographic links” of the Italian national library service (named SBN or Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale). To some extent thirteen years before FRBR, the Entity-Relationship Model has been used to identify Entities, Attributes and Relationships within bibliographic records. The 1984 document can also be seen as a first step of a long path (which has not yet been concluded) of use of E-R model: also the IFLA LRM (2017) claims that it has been developed within the framework of an E-R model.Lo scopo di questo articolo è di presentare un documento fondamentale del 1984 sulla struttura del "sistema dei collegamenti bibliografici" del Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale (SBN). In qualche misura tredici anni prima di FRBR, il Modello ER (Entità-Relazione) è stato utilizzato per identificare Entità, Attributi e Associazioni (o Relazioni) all'interno dei record bibliografici. Il documento del 1984 può essere visto anche come il primo passo di un lungo percorso (non ancora concluso) di utilizzo del modello ER: anche l'IFLA LRM (2017) dichiara di avere come quadro di riferimento il Modello ER
Utilizzo dei carteggi per descrivere i cambiamenti di una rete storiografica. Spunti per un’analisi inter-archivistica partendo dagli scambi epistolari fra fra Armando Sapori, Gino Luzzatto, Roberto S. Lopez e Angelo Sraffa
Full text linkLo scopo di questo studio è di analizzare alcuni scambi di corrispondenza per esplicitare una serie di legami tra entità ricorrenti trovate nei documenti, entità che formano un network complesso in cui corrispondenti, persone, libri e articoli citate nelle lettere, entità citate legate al mondo accademico e i documenti stessi sono uniti tra loro. La prospettiva della multidimensionalità dell'ambiente in cui si trovano le fonti, che è composta dalla dimensione verticale - i singoli documenti che compongono la corrispondenza - e la dimensione orizzontale - rappresentata dai collegamenti tra le dimensioni verticali - aiuta a procedere con l'analisi di questi collegamenti inter-archivistici. Questa analisi è effettuata due livelli: il focus sulla corrispondenza generale (distant reading) e poi su un singolo documento facente parte della corrispondenza (close reading). La corrispondenza tra Armando Sapori e Gino Luzzatto è stata il punto di partenza per la creazione del dataset, poi ampliato con i documenti delle corrispondenze tra Roberto Sabatino Lopez e Gino Luzzatto, Armando Sapori e Lopez, Angelo Sraffa e Sapori. I risultati della network analysis rendono esplicite le connessioni tra le varie entità: a livello macro sottolineano i cambiamenti nel tempo della corrispondenza, mentre a livello micro evidenziano link tra nodi all'interno di singoli documenti.The purpose of this study is to analyze some correspondence exchanges to surface links between recurrent entities found in documents, which form a complex network in which correspondents, books, articles and persons cited in the letters, quoted entities linked to academic world and the documents themselves are linked together.The perspective of the multidimensionality of the environment in which sources are, which is composed by the vertical dimension – the correspondence containing the single documents -– and the horizontal dimension – represented by the links between the vertical dimensions – helps to proceed with the analysis of these inter-archival links. This analysis is made of two levels: the focus on correspondence (distant reading) and then on single document that is part of the correspondence (close reading). The correspondence between Armando Sapori and Gino Luzzatto was the starting point for the creation of the dataset, expanded with documents from correspondences between Roberto Sabatino Lopez and Gino Luzzatto, Armando Sapori and Lopez, Angelo Sraffa and Sapori. The results of network analysis make explicit the connections between the various entities: at the macro level they underline changes over time of correspondence, while at the micro level they highlight links between nodes within individual documents