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SOSTENIBILITA' COME OTTIMIZZAZIONE DEL PROGETTO DI CONSERVAZIONE
No full textIn architecture, the sustainability paradigm is able to evaluate how the physical transformations can influence the natural and anthropical environment. That is why it is important to control these transformations overall.
With particular regards to new buildings, the monitoring can move from the technological resources, that can be apt from the constructive and environmental point of view, to the social and economical ones.
The same parameters used to define the environmental impact assessment for new buildings are employed to judge the sustainability in the conservation project of historical buildings.
Conservation is a sustainable approach, because is finalized to minimize the restoration and to maximize the level of knowledge about the construction.
According to the new given definition of conservation, the sustainability can be defined as optimization of the activities connected to safeguard and to restoration of Cultural Heritage.
Sustainability therefore is a process to balance conveniently resources and tasks: collection and organization of the data; management of the human and economical assets; valorisation and usability; use of the material resources (from the compatibility, reversibility and possible disposal); conception of structural and conservative solution that shall be controlled during the time. It is, also , important, to verify which barriers could be broken by the development of the optimization/sustainable process. The diffusion of the specific conservation culture that embraces the management of the cultural heritage might be the main one.
The present aims analyze, also by examples, how the above mentioned process could be applied into conservation project and the integration among “classical” procedures and rating systems
La città nel verde. Progetto per l'area ex Caffaro-Ideal Clima a Brescia
No full textPubblicazione di una tesi di laurea selezionata per partecipare al Premio Manter
VIRTUAL MUSEUMS AS DIGITAL STORYTELLERS FOR DISSEMINATION OF BUILT ENVIRONMENT: POSSIBLE NARRATIVES AND OUTLOOKS FOR APPEALING AND RICH ENCOUNTERS WITH THE PAST
Get PDFVirtual Museums (VMs) have emerged from the ongoing crossbreeding process between museums and digital technologies as an
additional "channel" for disseminating content and providing knowledge about cultural heritage. VMs is a concept still in definition,
as this paper attempts to briefly retrace, the recognition of its potential has motivated our efforts for further developments.
Core questions that motivated the first phase of the research presented have been: can digital storytelling become the key feature of
future VMs? May narratives approach support communication and understanding of cultural heritage providing enriching encounters
with the past? May complex systems, such as the built environment and landscape (characterized by space-time relations among
elements, that are often difficult to read or appreciate) find in digital storytelling a method that exploits their values as documents
and palimpsests of human history? Can an increased awareness of the past contribute to support a sense of belonging and identity
construction? Which kind of stories can be currently designed with the existing tools?
The paper, after an introductory overview, provides a tentative reply to these questions combining the main findings offered by a
series of recent studies related to this scenario with some preliminary direct investigations and, eventually, it proposes some outlooks
for future developments
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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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