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Vodič kroz istraživanje za mlade lingviste i translatologe
No full textNataša Pavlović i Mateusz-Milan Stanojević: Znanstvena istraživanja jezika i prevođenja. Zagreb: FF press. 2023. ISBN: 978953379010
Metapodatkovni standardi za opis građe Kongresne knjižnice
No full textObjective. The aim of the paper is to present the development of metadata standards for resource description – or metadata schemas – of the Library of Congress in Washington, USA, initiated by the accelerated development of technology and the growth of the networkenvironment in recent decades.
Approach/Methodology/Design. In line with the paper’s objective, the selected approach is reduced to a summary of the development of each metadata standard of the Library of Congress individually, with a focus on metadata schemas for resource description within the library community – MARC 21, MARCXML, MODS and MADS. This approach enables the authors to analyze and evaluate in detail the current state of metadata standards and their evolution over time, as well as to identify challenges and opportunities for future development.
Results. The paper provides a concise overview of the development of each metadata standard at the Library of Congress individually with a focus on the metadata schemes for resource description within the library community – MARC 21, MARCXML, MODS, and MADS. It also provides an overview of the development of metadata schemes for resource description in related communities (EAD, VRA Core) and metadata standards for digital librariesintended for archiving and protection (METS, PREMIS). The paper also discusses potential directions for further development of metadata standards in the Library of Congress, with reference to projects related to semantic web and related data technologies (BIBFRAME, MODS/RDF, MADS/RDF). The need for continuous improvement of metadata standards is emphasized in order to provide better services to users and harmonize them with technological development and user needs.
Originality/Value. The paper provides a comprehensive overview of the development of the Library of Congress metadata standards, which is of great importance to the library community and those engaged in archiving and preservation of digital resources. A discussion of possible directions for the development of metadata standards, particularly in the context of the Semantic Web and Linked Data, provides insight into future challenges andopportunities for the Library of Congress and the wider community. Ultimately, this paper contributes to the understanding of the importance and complexity of metadata standards and their continuous development in the light of rapid technological changes.Cilj. Cilj je rada prikaz razvoja metapodatkovnih standarda za opis građe – ili shema metapodataka – Kongresne knjižnice u Washingtonu, SAD, iniciranog ubrzanim razvojem tehnologije i rasta mrežnog okruženja u posljednjim desetljećima.
Pristup/metodologija/dizajn. U skladu s ciljem rada, odabrani pristup svodi se na sažeti prikaz razvoja svakog metapodatkovnog standarda Kongresne knjižnice pojedinačno, s naglaskom na sheme metapodataka za opis građe knjižnične zajednice – MARC 21, MARCXML, MODS i MADS. Ovaj pristup omogućava autorima da detaljno analiziraju i ocijene trenutačno stanje metapodatkovnih standarda i njihovu evoluciju kroz vrijeme, kao i da identificiraju izazove i prilike za budući razvoj.
Rezultati. Rad pruža sažeti pregled razvoja svakog metapodatkovnog standarda u Kongresnoj knjižnici pojedinačno, s fokusom na sheme metapodataka za opis resursa unutar knjižnične zajednice – MARC 21, MARCXML, MODS i MADS. Također se daje pregled razvoja shema metapodataka za opis izvora u srodnim zajednicama (EAD, VRA Core) te metapodatkovnih standarda za digitalne knjižnice namijenjenih arhiviranju i zaštiti (METS, PREMIS). U radu se raspravlja i o potencijalnim smjerovima daljnjeg razvoja metapodatkovnih standarda u Kongresnoj knjižnici, s osvrtom na projekte vezane za tehnologije semantičkog weba i povezanih podataka (BIBFRAME, MODS/RDF, MADS/RDF). Ističe se potreba za kontinuiranim poboljšanjem metapodatkovnih standarda kako bi se pružale bolje usluge korisnicima i uskladile s tehnološkim razvojem i potrebamakorisnika.
Vrijednost. Rad pruža sveobuhvatan osvrt na razvoj metapodatkovnih standarda Kongresne knjižnice, što je iznimno važno za knjižničnu zajednicu i one koji se bave arhiviranjem i očuvanjem digitalnih izvora. Rasprava o mogućim pravcima razvoja metapodatkovnih standarda,posebno u kontekstu semantičkog weba i povezanih podataka, pruža uvid u buduće izazove i prilike za Kongresnu knjižnicu i širu zajednicu. Ovaj rad, u konačnici, pridonosi razumijevanju važnosti i složenosti metapodatkovnih standarda te njihova kontinuiranog razvoja u svjetlu brzih tehnoloških promjena
La fine di Ludro : sulla drammaturgia di Giuseppe Sabalich
No full textGiuseppe Sabalich (Zadar, 1856-Zadar, 1928) was the most prolific writer in Zadar at the turn of the twentieth century. A renowned historian, storyteller, poet, and writer, he distinguished himself with an extensive oeuvre of comedies, dramas, monologues, scenic sketches, and one-act plays, writing from 1879 until his death in 1928. This paper presents and analyses Sabalich’s drama La fine di Ludro, published in the periodical Zara in 1891. It is a drama in two acts with the well-known Italian character actor Antonio Papadopoli (1815-1899) as the protagonist. A brief introduction to the life and work of Giuseppe Sabalich and Antonio Papadopoli is followed by the analysis of the aforementioned drama, which is central to this paper. Apart from the typical features of Giuseppe Sabalich’s dramaturgy that emerged from the analysis, such as the use of dialect, the Venetian setting, the positive images of Venice, and the historical references, it shows that he wrote the texts for famous actors. Furthermore, the paper points out the divergent traits, which make La fine di Ludro a unique piece in his oeuvre, manifested in the merging of the two identities: the Zadar and the Venetian one, as well as in the metatheatrical element. In the analysis of La fine di Ludro, we trace Papadopoli’s biographical cues that, on the one hand, confirm Papadopoli’s Adriatic identity and, on the other, indicate that Giuseppe Sabalich was a man of theatre whose work was deeply rooted in the historical and social context of his time.Giuseppe Sabalich (Zara, 1856 – Zara, 1928) è stato l’autore più prolifico a cavallo tra l’Ottocento e il Novecento a Zara. Rinomato storico, narratore, poeta e scrittore, si distinse particolarmente per la sua produzione drammatica che si avvale di una vasta produzione di commedie, drammi, monologhi, bozzetti scenici e atti unici nell’arco di circa quarant’anni (1879-1928). In questo saggio si presenta ed analizza il dramma La fine di Ludro che Sabalich pubblica a puntate sulla rivista Zara nel 1891. È un dramma in due atti che come protagonista ha il noto caratterista italiano Antonio Papadopoli (1815-1899). Dopo la breve premessa sulla vita e opera del noto scrittore zaratino e su Papadopoli, nativo di Zara, si prosegue all’analisi del suddetto dramma. Dall’analisi emergono i tratti tipici della drammaturgia di Sabalich, quali l’uso del dialetto, l’ambientazione veneziana, le immagini positive di Venezia, i rinvii storici e infine il fatto di aver destinato i propri testi ad attori di fama. Inoltre, si distinguono i tratti divergenti, che rendono La fine di Ludro un unicum nella sua produzione, e si manifestano nel connubio tra le due identità; quella zaratina e quella veneziana e nell’elemento metateatrale. Nel dramma si riconoscono gli spunti biografici di Antonio Papadopoli che nell’analisi vanno accentuati e che da un lato confermano l’identità adriatica di Antonio Papadopoli, e dall’altro che Giuseppe Sabalich fosse un uomo di teatro fortemente radicato nel suo contesto storico-sociale
Odeporica adriatica
No full textRubrica del Centro Interuniversitario Internazionale di Studi sul Viaggio Adriatico (C.I.S.V.A)a cura di Giovanna Scianatic
The Synergy of a scientific-professional repository and a participative encyclopedia: How to increase the reliability of Wikipedia articles with the contents from Hrčak repository? How to increase the popularity of Hrčak repository with the contents from Wikipedia?
No full textHrčak is the portal of Croatian scientific and professional journals that provides free access to approximately 277,000 papers published in almost 536 journals at the end of April 2023 (https://hrcak.srce.hr). Croatian Wikipedia provides free access to approximately 214,000 articles (hr.wikipedia.org). The advantage of Wikipedia compared to Hrčak is that this online encyclopedia is well known to ordinary Internet users (Singer et al., 2017). The advantage of Hrčak compared to Wikipedia is that information from papers found at Hrčak are generally more reliable than information from Wikipedia articles. For example, the study of Faletar Tanacković et al. has shown that Croatian \u27teachers themselves rarely use Wikipedia for academic purposes\u27 (2015). Unreliability of its information is certainly an important reason for that.The goal of the workshop is to point out the possibility of using the mutual advantages of Hrčak and Wikipedia in order to increase the reliability and the extent of information on Wikipedia and to popularize Hrčak portal, its journals and papers. Also, the goal of the workshop is to familiarize the participants with concrete procedures for improving these portals by upgrading and integrating their content: the participants of the workshop will find content for Wikipedia articles in Hrčak and will prepare and add selected content from Hrčak to Wikipedia articles to which they will add citations and we link to Hrčak papers which will be used to increase the reliability of Wikipedia articles.
For example, Hrčak has over 100 scientific papers in English that are thematically related to the Croatian city of Šibenik. Based on the selected scientific papers from Hrčak, the workshop participants can update the article about Šibenik on Wikipedia and add references leading to scientific articles on Hrčak. Through various activities that are necessary to expand the Wikipedia article about Šibenik, the participants could gain a range of valuable insights. Among these activities are: (1) reading and analysis of the content of the selected article from Hrčak, (2) selection and adaptation of parts of the text that will be added from the selected Hrčak article about Šibenik to the article about Šibenik on Wikipedia, (3) reading and analysis of the article about Šibenik on Wikipedia in order to determine in which places it can be supplemented with data from the selected article from Hrčak, (4) integration of content from the article on Hrčak into the article about Šibenik on Wikipedia with the principle of fitting the added content as meaningfully as possible into the article on Wikipedia, and finally - (5) adding references in the Wikipedia article to the article on Hrčak with the aim of making interested Wikipedia readers aware of the Hrčak repository, with the aim of informing them that on Hrčak they can found various open access scientific articles about Šibenik and other topics, and with the aim of encouraging the Wikipedia readers to further explore the rich archive of Hrčak
Emancipation from the burdens of scholarly publishing – the diamond alternative of the JYU Studies
No full textScholarly publishing is determined and guided by the questionable and artificial prestige of publication channels that are also falsely used for assessing the research and the researchers. This steers researchers to publish their papers in the same publication channels as others do, and many relevant channels are seen as less valuable.While publishing is focused on certain journals and publishers, open access publishing is increasingly concentrated on fee-based channels, where authors are obligated to pay publishing fees (article processing charges, APC and book processing charges, BPC) just to get their research published in open access. This places a burden for researchers to get funding for publishing; it creates inequality between the researchers with funding and those without it, and it increases the costs for universities and other research organizations. (See e.g., Klebel & Ross-Hellauer 2023.) At the same time the academic community has gone further from the very principles of open science, such as the attempts to control the increasing costs of scientific publications and the aims to improve the equality of researchers and other people in need of science.
Diamond OA as a realistic alternativeOpen scholarly publishing should be funded in another way than by charging publication fees from individual authors or their institutions.Promoting Diamond OA should be seen as part of a larger change in the services and practices of scholarly publishing. The whole global academic community and research service providers should be engaged in this change. The current OA diamond landscape needs to be built as a community that will support diversity and include a wide range of different academic communities in different languages (see Becerril et. al., 2021).Research communities such as learned societies and research organizations could take more control of scholarly publishing. While universities are now advancing responsible research assessment (see CoARA), maybe it\u27s time to also reconsider the more active andresponsible role of the universities in reforming the scholarly publishing sector.Case JYU Studies - open monographs with agile servicesJYU Studies is a fresh peer-reviewed monograph series for research affiliated with the University of Jyväskylä. We found a demand for an alternative publishing channel for peer- reviewed monographs with the Diamond OA model. The Open Science Centre of the University and the editorial board manage the series and the publishing process. The editorial work and publishing are funded by the Open Science Centre. Close and agile cooperation with the departments of the University and the authors is key to all successful publishing processes.• The peer-review process is implemented openly, so the authors and the reviewers are aware of each other’s identities.• We offer alternatives for publishing formats (such as Omeka S and EPUB) and develop publishing services in an agile way.• Our publishing services cooperate closely with our university researchers and listen to their thoughts and ambitions for publishing.• The publishing services include communication and marketing planning in cooperation with the authors striving to reach the best possible visibility for the publication.• We also offer the authors a reporting service showing the usage and visibility of publications (e.g., downloads, citations). This way, the publishing service continues after the publication, and the authors get interesting information about the visibility and impact of their publication.All monographs in JYU Studies are deposited in the University of Jyväskylä repository, JYX, which is an essential infrastructure for research and education at the university. Publishing in an open repository with high-quality metadata and registered DOI identifiers ensures that monographs are indexed in relevant databases
Zooming in on Open Access in Ukraine: trends and patterns
No full textIn October 2022, Ukraine declared its commitment to enhancing the effectiveness, quality and responsiveness of its research by implementing the National Plan for Open Science (Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, 2022). This document represents a significant step forward in aligning Ukraine\u27s national legislation with European Union requirements and promoting the adoption of open science practices. Open access (OA) is a crucial component of open science, and it is imperative to gain insight into its growth to inform funding policies and plan infrastructure development accordingly.The aim of this research is to obtain a comprehensive overview of the OA development in Ukraine. To achieve this goal, publications affiliated with Ukrainian research institutions and universities in the period from 2012 to 2021 were collected from three well-known databases: Dimensions, Web of Science, and Scopus. Records were gathered in November 2022 using the web interfaces of WoS and Scopus, while data from Dimensions was extracted via the Dimensions API. After excluding duplicates and publications without DOIs, the OA status of each publication was determined using the Unpaywall API.
The study revealed that between 2012 and 2021, authors affiliated with Ukrainian research institutions and universities published 201,670 research papers. Of these publications, 66.7% were open access, while the remaining 33.3% were behind a paywall. The percentage of OA articles for the indicated 10-year period increased substantially from 33.8% in 2012 to 79.9% in 2021.Gold open access was the most common OA subtype, with 68.4% of articles published in OA journals. The second most frequent choice was bronze open access, accounting for 15.3% of articles. Green subtype and hybrid were less commonly used, with 8.5% and 7.8% of articles published in these categories, respectively.Regarding the distribution of open access across different academic disciplines, the highest percentage of OA publications was found in the social sciences, with a rate of 88.1%, followed closely by the humanities at 87.8%, and medical and health sciences at 73.4%. Agriculture sciences, multidisciplinary studies, and natural sciences also exhibited relatively high levels of OA publications, representing 71.7%, 63.4%, and 55.7%, respectively. The lowest proportion of OA publications was observed in the engineering and technology category, with a rate of 47.7%.This empirical study indicates that the share of OA publications in Ukraine is significantly higher than the global average of 31% reported by Piwowar, Priem, and Orr in 2019 and their estimation of 44% by 2025 (Piwowar et al., 2019). Notably, Ukraine is approaching the indicators of European "openness" leaders, such as Great Britain, Sweden, Austria, and the Netherlands (Robinson-Garcia et al., 2020). It is worth mentioning that northern and central European countries have been early adopters of open access policies (Maddi et al., 2021), while Ukraine lacks mandates for research dissemination through OA, transformative agreements and only a few institutions have registered their OA policy with ROARMAP. The high share of OA publications in Ukraine can be partially attributed to the longstanding tradition of national journals being open access and fully subsidized by hosting research institutions. Therefore, open access has always been a part of the research dissemination culture in Ukraine (Novikov, 2020)
Some implication of FAIR principles on Tales in ethnological and anthropological qualitative research
No full textOpen science, accessibility and knowledge sharing, especially of articles and monographs resulting from publicly funded research, seem to be a positive direction in the development of science and have received almost unanimous approval from the scientific community. However, when it comes to data sharing, voices are not in unison. Concerning natural sciences, the data collected could become completely anonymised, while the anonymisation of data in Social Science and Humanities, e.g. ethnology and anthropology, could still result in recognisability of interlocutors.
Anthropologists and ethnologists have been using qualitative methodological tools since the inception of the discipline, documenting their research and data collected (audio tapes, transcripts, diaries, drawings, video tapes). However the data collected were never kept in an open-source archive. On the other hand, historians “discovered” classical anthropological methodology, interviewing people of interest (recording in-depths interviews and transcribing) and applied it to, at least for them, a new type of source - people that witnessed some important (or even not so important) historical events (Dunaway and Baum 1984). They moved a step further because, unlike anthropologists, they wanted to make this source (in the shape of an edited transcript and audio file) accessible to other researchers. They have set up Oral history and Oral history archives that have now been in existence for more than half a century (Starr 1996 (1984): 40) and have started contributing to current goals of open science quite early.A standard procedure in conducting an in-depth interview (as the most common qualitative methodological tool for anthropology (today mostly anthropology by appointment (Hannerz 2006)) is providing enough information for the interlocutor in order to sign an informed consent. Apart from describing the research, the informed consent sheet has to contain data explaining the procedure of keeping and managing the data, as well as mentioning the media in which the data will be presented (articles, exhibitions, documentaries, etc.).Anonymity is always one of the possibilities informed consent offers, and while most interlocutors opt for it, not all do. Occasionally, the interlocutor insists on periodically switching off the recorder by the researcher, usually when something delicate is being recollected. Interlocutors are aware that their voices can be recognized and try to make sure that this does not happen. Also, quite often, after the interview ends, the researcher can hear the information that was not meant to be recorded.
Although there are ways to anonymise the data (as explained in Celjak, et al. 2020), interlocutors coming from smaller communities or groups can be recognized from the parts of the transcript that have not been removed (to secure anonymity) or by voice. Also, the obligation of the researcher to describe the ways in which the data will be managed in the future will inevitably impact the narratives collected. Anthropologists have already noticed the difference between “order imagined” and the “order realized” (e.g., the ideal wedding vs. actual wedding traditions). One must consider that the possibility to share, for example, their wedding story with future researchers (whoever they may be), might, for some, result in the creation of a narrative with future researchers in mind - a sort of ‘FAIRy Tale’ for the future. After all, imagine yourself recollecting your own wedding to a researcher, but also knowing that it will become a story for the archive or repository? What kind of story would you tell?And what if we are researching certain delicate topics, such as in vitro fertilization (IVF) experiences or the experience of individuals working stigmatized jobs? Having all that in mind I argue for a more vigilant approach of agencies funding research when embracing the idea that all data should be available. Not all data should be made available because this could, in the end, compromise the integrity of the research process. Some data must remain in the space of trust created between main actors in the research process
The role of scientific journals in times of war
No full textIn times of war raging on European soil, the academic community can help by doing what it knows best – documenting important evidence and publishing research. The experience of the Croatian Medical Journal (CMJ) editors during the Homeland War shows how a scientific journal can help during wartime (Marušić & Marušić, 2002). The CMJ published numerous scientific articles on various aspects of war (Marušić & Marušić, 2012; Marusic, Markulin, Lukic, & Marusic, 2006). To attract more authors to write about war and to improve the quality of the submissions CMJ editors introduced an authorhelpful prereview (Marusic & Marusic, 2001). CMJ editors worked with the authors to help them prepare their manuscripts until they were ready for an external peer review. Editorial staff working closely with authors formed the cornerstone of CMJ editors\u27 work and became a unique approach in the world of medical journals (Marušić & Marušić, 2002, 2022).In October 2022, the directors of the postgraduate doctoral program Translational Research in Biomedicine (TRIBE), decided to use that experience and together with the editorial board of the ST-OPEN journal, which is now led by the former editors of CMJ, launch the Giving Voice project to help Ukrainian authors write reports about the war in Ukraine. We named the project Giving Voice because we wanted to give a platform to voices that often are not heard loud enough, particularly those that do not belong to academic elites: students, refugees, vulnerable and marginalized groups, and others whose lives have been disrupted by war.In collaboration with the ST-OPEN editorial staff, we are inviting interested authors from Ukraine to send us their manuscripts. ST-OPEN is an interdisciplinary journal so we welcome contributions from all scientific fields. We will re-employ the author-helpful prereview. Our help will include assistance with study planning, statistics, writing, and English language editing to make the obtained data publishable. Other experts who would like to become a part of our network of mentors are more than welcome. All articles will go through a formal external review process, so we cannot guarantee that all will be accepted for publication, but we will do our best to make them publicationready.Although many projects are aimed at helping the academic community in Ukraine, to our knowledge, our approach is unique. Additional details about the Giving Voice project, already published articles, and similar projects are listed on the project website (Sapunar, 2022). As members of the academic community, we can make a difference within our professional realm. We should not only be a simple service for publishing articles but also, perhaps more importantly, agents of change for the scientific community. As directors of the TRIBE doctoral program, we aim to educate scientists to solve research problems and write reports about them. We should not only try to provide future scientists with knowledge and skills or gather them around the key values – we should also help create enlightened agents of change and equip them with leadership qualities accompanied by social and moral accountability (Frenk et al., 2010). We will extend the same efforts to the authors and mentors who decide to take part in the Giving Voice project
