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From the Theory of Archival Narrative to the Practice of Archival Blogging: Why the Characteristics of Narrative Matter
No full textThis thesis aims at defining the archival narrative from the discourse between archivists and historians writing on “archives as subject”. The objectives of this thesis are to identify and define the characteristics of archival narrative and to apply these characteristics to archival blogging. Qualitative and reflective, this research conducted a comprehensive and systematic literature review on “archives as subject” to produce a conceptual framework that defines archival narrative and its characteristics. A content analysis was also conducted to determine how the characteristics defining archival narrative are represented within archival blogs. The content analysis identifies, refines and defines the characteristics of archival narrative. As archives evolve in the digital world, social media and the demand for increased patron engagement, archivists’ must recognize their own expertise while sharing the characteristics of archival narrative. This will contribute to a more transparent and accountable archival profession
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appraisal of Government Records: A Study About How Archivists, Records Managers, and Employees Appraise Archival Value and Business Value
No full textThis thesis explores the appraisal of federal government records in Canada. It explores how archivists, records managers, and employees contribute to the appraisal of government records. It also identifies strategies and criteria used to appraise records for business value and archival value. It adopts a qualitative research approach and uses semi-structured interviews, cognitive inquiry (i.e. think aloud) exercises, and document analysis to inform its findings. An interpretation of the findings suggests the appraisal of government records involves three interconnected layers: microappraisal (i.e. appraisal at the record level), mesoappraisal (i.e. appraisal at the series level), and macroappraisal (i.e. appraisal at the archives level). It concludes that effective appraisal relies on all three levels
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Information Management Practices and Methodologies in Architecting Information Systems
No full textThe results of this research, with the application of content analysis, offer a comprehensive perspective on the contemporary trends in the domain of Information Architecture (IA) for Information Management (IM) and the information architect profession. It enhances the understanding of the IA concept and its elements as well as practices and methodologies of IA design for IM. It also provides insights into education, roles, knowledge and skills expected from information architects in the current job market. The findings of this research can be implemented in training IA stakeholders at different levels, determining the responsibilities of an information architect, standardizing terminology, defining strategies to clarify users' needs and goals in alignment with IA best practices, and developing official standards complementing IA design. Besides, this research contributes to enhancing the evolving domain of IA for IM, reducing the ambiguity surrounding its elements and methodologies, and offering pedagogical insights for organizing Library and Information Studies programs
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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