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Big Archaeological Data. The ArchAIDE project approach
Full text linkDigitisation has changed archaeology deeply and has increased exponentially the amount of data that could be processed, but it does not by itself involve datafication, which is the act of transforming something (objects, processes, etc.) into a quantified format, so they can be tabulated and analysed. Datafication fits a Big Data approach and promises to go significantly beyond digitisation. To datafy archaeology would mean to produce a flow of data starting from the data produced by the archaeological practice, for instance, locations, interactions and relations between finds and sites. The ArchAIDE project goes exactly in this direction. ArchAIDE is a H2020 funded project (2016-2019) that will realise a tool for recognising archaeological potsherds; a web-based real-time data visualization to generate new understanding; an open archive to allow the archival and re-use of ar-chaeological data. This process would move archaeology towards data-driven research and Big Data
La credenza. Associazioni di materiali, memorie e relazioni in un contesto ceramico contemporaneo
Full text linkIn our houses, there are thousands of objects and objects within objects. The analysis of a present-day domestic assemblage inside a kitchen cupboard composed of mugs, coffee cups, teacups, and breakfast bowls, performed by the owners themselves, is the opportunity to reflect on the role and agency of the objects in ordinary life and more in general of the archaeology of the present age. The study is addressed both through a quantitative, analytical approach based on building a systematic catalogue and a qualitative one based on ethnographic observations and informal conversations. The paper stresses the concepts of proximity and familiarity to their extreme. It investigates the entanglement and entrapment between humans and non-humans created by the dependence/dependency built by memory and care. The density of the objects, as well as
the endowment effect, are taken into consideration to address the multiple relationships between things and things, things and humans, and humans and humans. The stories that personal and family memories can attribute to objects could become a parameter capable of making us prefer the oldness instead of the newness, stimulating a sense of responsibility towards the role we play concerning all the non-human and within what we could foresee as a necessary post-anthropocentric revolution process. Here the impelling necessity to drive Italian archaeology and anthropology to work together to improve the understanding of the present
Camaiore, La chiesa altomedievale di S.Michele. Indagine archeologica 2009
No full textRelazionje preliminare delle indagini di scavo condotte nel 2009 presso la chiesa di San Michele a Camaiore-L
Camaiore (LU). Insediamento fortificato di Montecastrese: campagna di scavo 2008
No full textRelazione della campagna di scavo 2008 sul sito dell'insediamento fortificato di Montecastres
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
A database for archaeological data recording and analysis
No full textLa banca dati archeologici sepolti viene gestita all’interno di un RDBMS finalizzato a descrivere la complessità storica, stratigrafica, urbanistica e ambientale dell’area urbana di Pisa, direttamente collegato ad un
archivio digitale contenente i dati grezzi della ricerca. Il RDBMS è strutturato su quattro differenti livelli logici che progressivamente gestiscono l’informazione mediante un processo di sintesi interpretativa, che dalla
definizione della traccia materiale giunge fino alla trasposizione del dato in macro categorie tipologiche
all’interno di ripartizioni cronologiche, assolvendo sia alle funzioni di archiviazione e di analisi, sia a quelle
di categorizzazione ai fini del calcolo predittivo del potenziale archeologico
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
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