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The Study of Networked Content: Five Considerations for Digital Research in the Humanities
No full textDigital research is taking the humanities by storm. This can be read not only from the many digital humanities programs in education and research in universities around the world but also from the attention for new media practices in humanities and art departments. Famously, and thought-provokingly, media theorist Lev Manovich—strongly rooted in film and media studies—set out to develop a means by which the visual analysis of big data sets of digitized cultural materials could help the study of art and culture transition into the era of big data or, as he calls it, 90the era of “more media” (Manovich, 2009). Often met with scrutiny by art historians, not in favor of a quantitative approach to the arts, Manovich insisted with this “cultural analytics” program on expanding the study of culture by including the vast amounts of user-generated content. As he wrote as early as 2009: “Think about this: the number of images uploaded to Flickr every week is probably larger than all objects contained in all art museums in the world.” Manovich developed the Software Studies Initiative, where he and his team developed software such as Image Plot, for the analysis of large visual data sets. Manovich applies his methods both to digitized materials (such as Time magazine covers) as well as—more recently—to born-digital content (such as selfies on Instagram)
Beyond Lessons Learned: Opportunities and Challenges for Interplay Between Knowledge Management, Arts and Humanities in the Digital Age
No full textKnowledge Management, Arts and Humanities: Setting the Scene
No full textThis short introductory chapter aims to familiarise readers with the main theme of the book and its structure. It argues the need for expanding the realm of knowledge management and suggests the benefits of interdisciplinary collaborations between knowledge management and arts and humanities. Then it briefly presents individual chapters of the book and explains how they contribute novel theoretical approaches and empirical evidence of the nature and value that arts and humanities bring to knowledge management and vice versa
Organizational Climate as Performance Driver: Health Care Workers’ Perception in a Large Hospital
Get PDFRecently health care (HC) organizations have increasingly embarked on organizational climate (OC) assessment with the intent to improve their efficiency and the quality of the delivered services. This is important; however, it is even if more crucial to ensure that workers engaged in the evaluation process are aware of the importance of their fruitful engagement in this investigation as well as of its potential benefits. From the management viewpoint, this is crucial to plan and implement management initiatives able to create a great place to work. The purpose of this paper is to shed empirical light on how, in effect, HC workers perceive OC for itself and as a performance driver to assess and manage. The study was carried out through an action research (AR) project, which included the use of both qualitative and quantitative approaches. Key phases of the AR project were some focus groups and a survey. During the focus groups, several methods and approaches were adopted for getting opinions from people and animating discussion. About the survey, a total sample of 560 HC workers was investigated.
The AR project has shown that even if HC workers intuitively conceive OC as an important performance driver, the meaning of the construct is not completely clear. Moreover, a good level of awareness among HC workers about how and why OC can improve individual and organizational performance represents a key issue to address in evaluating and managing OC
Olivo e olio nel bacino mediterraneo dalla Preistoria al Medioevo. Aspetti colturali, produttivi, storici, funzionali
No full textIl percorso progettuale ‘Horizon Europe Seeds Olivo e olio nel bacino mediterraneo dalla Preistoria al Medioevo: aspetti colturali, produttivi, funzionali ’ è concepito in continuità con analoghe proposte – rivolte in primis all’area mediterranea – che hanno mostrato le potenzialità dei dati desumibili dall’analisi della tradizionale produzione olivicolo-olearia nell’ottica della integrazione interdisciplinare e del confronto serrato delle informazioni che ciascuna branca di studio può offrire alla disamina globale della filiera elaicola. In tal senso, il progetto ha inteso avvalersi del contributo di ambiti euristici e diagnostici pertinenti il campo storico-archeologico, agroambientale, archeometrico e geologico-minero/petrografico e ha perseguito obiettivi di conoscenza, tutela, valorizzazione, condivisione della coltura dell’olivo e della cultura dell’olio d’oliva tra passato e presente. Quindi l’opportunità cogente di imbastire una trama proficua di relazioni e di riflessioni entro la comunità scientifica ha suggerito di organizzare un convegno internazionale celebrato dal 15 al 18 maggio 2023, a Bari, e sviluppato in una sessione seminariale e in una tavola rotonda, dei cui esiti salienti questa pubblicazione dà conto.The ‘Horizon Europe Seeds Olive and Oil in the Mediterranean Basin from Prehistory to the Middle Ages: Cultivation, Production, Functional Aspects’ project is conceived in continuity with similar proposals – aimed primarily at the Mediterranean area – which have shown the potential of the data that can be deduced from the analysis of traditional olive-oil production with a view to interdisciplinary integration and close comparison of the information that each branch of study can offer to the global examination of the olive sector. In this sense, the project aimed to make use of the contribution of heuristic and diagnostic fields pertinent to the historical-archaeological, agri-environmental, archaeometrical and geological/mineral/petrographic fields and pursued the objectives of knowledge, protection, valorisation and sharing of olive cultivation and olive oil culture between past and present. Therefore, the compelling opportunity to set up a fruitful web of relations and reflections within the scientific community suggested the organisation of an international conference celebrated from 15 to 18 May 2023, in Bari, and developed into a seminar session and a round table, the salient outcomes of which this publication reports
Beyond Lessons Learned: Opportunities and Challenges for Interplay Between Knowledge Management, Arts and Humanities in the Digital Age
No full textHow do knowledge management, arts and humanities and big data dialogue in the digital era? What are the opportunities and challenges for arts and humanities in the age of big data? In the last years, we are seeing an increasing exploitation of big data and analytics in arts and humanities fields. Big data and digital technologies are inspiring new paths of development in the arts and humanities field, facilitating the creation and transfer of knowledge. The arts and humanities, in turn, are significantly contributing to the effective exploitation and extraction of meaning and knowledge from big data in several fields. It is evident that the innovative potential of a data-driven approach across the full range of arts and humanities disciplines is becoming more and more huge. However, more research and applications are still required to better understand both the value of creating and using such “strong data-driven ecosystems” in arts and humanities and their contribution to knowledge management processes. Accordingly, this chapter attempts to shed more light on the promising dialogue between arts and humanities and big data approaches in the digital age, by highlighting opportunities and challenges connected to knowledge management aspects
Porosity and crystal morphology of heterometallic coordination networks from β-diketonate ligands
Get PDFPorous coordination polymers (PCPs) or metal-organic-frameworks (MOFs) are considered very promising porous materials that can be exploited in many different technological fields such as gas storage, heterogeneous catalysis and separation of mixtures. In the field of MOF materials, many efforts are devoted to the search of rational synthetic procedures. Among others, a useful synthetic strategy is the so-called Metalloligand (MLs) approach. MLs are coordination complexes containing suitably oriented exo donor-groups that, used in place of organic linkers, can orient the formation of desired homo and heterometallic polymeric architectures [1]. Functionalized chelating ligands suited to obtain useful MLs are -diketonate molecules.[2]
We report the synthesis and the structural characterization of two families of coordination frameworks obtained through the use of different -diketonate ligands with copper salts of several counter-ions. The first family of polymers have a two-dimensional layered structure whereas the members of the second family adopt a three-dimensional flexible framework structure.
We have focused our attention to the correlations between the crystal structure, the dimensionality, the topology and porosity of the networks and the crystal morphologies, as well as to the investigation of the surface phenomena during the crystal growing process. Moreover, we have mapped a continuous set of crystal morphologies by controlling experimental variables such as the solvent system, the metal-ligand molar ratio and the nature of the counter-anion. The aim is to develop a method to tune the crystal habit according to the specific requirement of some important applications.[3]
[1] S. Kitagawa, R. Kitaura, S. Noro Angew. Chem., Int. Ed., 43 (2004) 2334.
[2] L. Carlucci, G. Ciani, S. Maggini, D.M. Proserpio, M. Visconti, Chem. Eur. J, 16 (2010) 12328.
[3] L. Carlucci, G. Ciani, J. M. Garcìa-Ruiz, M. Moret, D. M. Proserpio and S. Rizzato , Cryst. Growth Des., 2009, 9(12), 5024-5034
The reliability and quality problem for the components of traffic ligths control systems
No full textKnowledge Management, Arts, and Humanities Interdisciplinary Approaches and the Benefits of Collaboration
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