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City of Edinburgh Council Administrative Headquarters
No full textDetail, curtain walling with custom louvered window vents, bolted glass assemblies and brise soleil manufactured by Schuco; Built by the Glasgow office of BDP. A key objective of the project was to create a landmark building which demonstrates environmental excellence in all aspects of design and function. The City Council headquarters achieved a BREEAM 'Very Good' rating. The building was designed with 74 key performance indicators, including solar water heating, rainwater recycling, green (grass) roofs, natural ventilation and façades designed to exceed requirements. Another key objective of the project was to create a building which allows the consolidation of several existing city services departments (some 20 buildings) under one roof in an open plan office; it houses 1600 staff. Source: Building Design Partnership (BDP) [website]; http://www.bdp.com/ (accessed 6/29/2012
Glasgow Science Center
No full textLooking northwest at IMAX theater, Science Mall, center, and Glasgow Tower, left; It is a purpose-built science center composed of three principal buildings which are the Science Mall, an IMAX cinema and the Glasgow Tower. The Science Mall is a titanium-clad crescent shape structure that houses three floors of over 250 interactive science-learning exhibits, a Science Show Theatre and the Glasgow Science Centre Planetarium. Part of the ongoing redevelopment of Pacific Quay, an area which was once a cargo port known as Prince's Dock. The architects of the Glasgow Science Centre were Building Design Partnership (BDP), however the Glasgow Tower (previously known as the Millennium Tower) was originally designed by the architect Richard Horden with engineering design by Buro Happold. It is the tallest tower in the world in which the whole structure is capable of rotating 360 degrees, although it has been plagued by engineering problems. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 7/7/2012
UCL (University College London) Libraries Masterplan: Masterplanning Report
No full textBDP were appointed to undertake a Masterplan for the UCL Main Library and the
UCL Science Library and to identify how these buildings could be re-ordered to
significantly improve the quality of the library environment and to facilitate the
delivery of library services.
An initial brief was agreed with UCL’s Estates Management Committee and a
Masterplan Steering Group established including academic representatives,
library staff and design consultants. To inform the development of this brief, UCL
Library Services undertook a number of consultation exercises with users of the
Library; students, academic staff and external users, together with Library staff.
A number of visits to exemplar library buildings in the UK and continental Europe
were also undertaken to inform the development of options for the buildings.
Following the development and review of initial options for both the Main Library
and Science Library, it was agreed a further, hypothetical New Build Central
Library Option should be reviewed, to accommodate a relocated and consolidated
library service encompassing 7 of the 16 existing libraries currently distributed
across the UCL Estate
LIBER LAG 2022 - Lighting
No full textLighting - Building Design Partnership (BDP)
LIBER Architecture Group Seminar 2022
“Designing for Learning and Scholarship: a challenge for librarians, architects and all”
20th Seminar, 27-28 April 2022, Luxembour
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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