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The Historic House Museum. From conveyed memory to participated experience
No full textThis paper interprets the general theme of the 25th ICOM General Conference, Museums as cultural hubs. The future of tradition, by reviewing each phase in the three-year research programme that was developed by the Università degli Studi della Repubblica di San Marino, with the eight institutions that compose the Network of His- toric House Museums of Poets and Writers in the Romagna region in Italy (Bosco, La Maida & Zannoni, 2019). The project, called New integrated systems for the visitor experience in the Historic House Museum, is part of the Museum Plan for the Emilia-Romagna region 2016/2018 and is co-funded by the Institute for the Artistic, Cultural and Natural Heritage of the Regione Emilia-Romagna for a total amount of 35,000 euro (Legge Regionale 18/2000). The project presents a synergic effort between institutions, within a shared educational programme. The research group from the Design Department of the Università degli Studi della Repubblica di San Marino is composed of research fellows who conduct both theoretical and applied research in the field of exhibit and interaction design: Alessandra Bosco and Michele Zannoni, professors and lead researchers for the project; Elena La Maida, research fellow and Emanuele Lumini, responsible for documentary sources and the analysis of case studies. We worked with young professional designers chosen for their specific skills, with the liaison for the Institute of the Cultural Heritage Emilia Romagna, with the scientific directors of the eight Historic House Museums, and with museum staff and technicians
Design Experiences in Pandemic Times. Constructing and Enhancing the Memory of the Present in Museums
No full textDuring the Coronavirus pandemic, museums were beset with serious difficulties. Forced to close for an indeterminate length of time, museum professionals and designers faced real challenges, which they addressed and used to seek to expand their offer, providing and implementing services to involve the public remotely. During the period under observation, museums, which have always guarded and enhanced the historicized heritage, extended to the present time their research into the tangible and intangible records of man and his environment and their acquisition, conservation, communication, and exhibition. Through the critical analysis of case studies, this paper intends to examine the museum’s role in constructing and enhancing memory tied to the present time – articulated in activities that refer to calls to action, curatorial projects, and the production of records – opening new scenarios for design. The configuration of a synthesis model made it possible to develop a matrix of elements that can be variably grouped to visualize the complexity and peculiarity of the actions undertaken by museums
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
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
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