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ICTs for Narrating Architecture Archives: The Theses of Gaetano Cima’s Students
No full textThe archives of architectural drawings represent an invaluable testimony of the teaching practices and methods used in the academic sphere throughout the history of architecture teaching. A heritage whose protection and valorisation
has as its first step the digitisation of the physical documents; this digitisation cannot, however, be limited to mere reproduction, on pain of inheriting from the physical support the limitations that characterise it in terms of limited comprehension for the layman. The creation of digital reproductions must therefore be accompanied by tools for the informative enrichment of drawings, with cultural historical data often dispersed in multiple archives, and with new drawings and models that help their critical reading.
The following contribution presents the development of a prototype of a web based consultation portal to protect and narrate the final results of the theses of the students of Gaetano Cima, the main protagonist of the architectural and urban scene in 19th-century Cagliari
HBIM as an Active Tool for the Study of On-Paper Architecture: The Case of the Unbuilt Project for a Maritime School in Cagliari
Get PDFThe research stands in continuity with the processes of valorization and communication of the architectural heritage of the twentieth century, already undertaken during the last years through the use of the digital medium.
The digitization of archives, conducted through the development of models derived from the critical reading of architectural drawings, has led to the need to define new approaches to the translation of geometric and semantic components. Indeed, such translations develop from a complex process of interpretation capable of communicating a whole series of unseen values and significances that have remained latent. Digital models today must therefore be able to preserve and convey such complexity.
This research proposes a workflow focused on the use of typical HBIM processes and tools, declined for the particular case of on-paper architectures, as active tools of study and interpretive reinterpretation.
The case study is the model project for a Marinara Professional School, designed by architects Salvatore Rattu and Bruno Virdis, for the city of Cagliari during the early second half of the twentieth century.
The digital reconfiguration in the HBIM environment allowed the opening to new paths of semantic redefinition of the drawings, facilitating the decomposition, documentation and communication of values related to the architecture of the twentieth century
Dal disegno all’edificio e ritorno. Strumenti digitali per comunicare gli archivi di architettura
Get PDFIl mezzo digitale ha imposto una riflessione sul ruolo degli archivi di architettura. La costruzione di modelli digitali derivanti dalle riletture delle architetture di carta, si traduce in molteplici riconfigurazioni del progetto. Queste riletture innescano un processo interpretativo nel quale alcune riflessioni latenti prendono forma nel modello digitale. La ricerca propone un flusso di lavoro incentrato sull’accesso, la valorizzazione e la divulgazione dei disegni d’architettura. Il caso studio è la Casa del Mutilato a Cagliari, progettata negli anni ’50 da Salvatore Rattu. La modellazione in ambiente BIM ha permesso di ridefinire virtualmente ogni componente rendendo possibile l’integrazione delle informazioni geometriche con tutti i dati rilevanti della costruzione. Il percorso di rilettura critica attraverso il linguaggio del disegno e la ricostruzione virtuale dell’opera progettata consentono inoltre una modellazione concettuale di alcune delle caratteristiche salienti del progetto. Un WebGIS che guida i visitatori in remoto in visite virtuali permette la costruzione di possibili itinerari di turistici, definendo un censimento georeferenziato dei progetti edificati e non edificati disegnati per la città di Cagliari da questo architetto del Novecento.Digital tools call for a reflection on the role and functions of architectural archives today. The construction of digital models made from paper architectures leads to multiple digital reconfigurations of the design process. These “re-readings” of the drawings trigger an interpretative process of “translation” in which some latent reflections take shape in the digital representation. The research proposes a workflow focused on accessing, enhancing and disseminating the drawings of the architectural archives. The case study is the project for the Casa del Mutilato in Cagliari drawn up in the 1950s by Salvatore Rattu. Modeling in a BIM environment has made it possible to virtually redefine each component, making it possible to integrate geometric information with all relevant construction data. The path of critical analysis through the language of drawing and the virtual reconstruction of the designed work also allows a conceptual modeling of some of the salient features of the project. The creation of a WebGIS guides the remote searches and allows the construction of possible itineraries for visits, defines a georeferenced census of the built and unbuilt architectures of this twentieth-century architect in Cagliari
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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