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Filologia agiografica per il nuovo millennio
No full textThe paper revisits the most recent methodological advancements in the editing of hagiographic texts, focusing on the distinctive features of this literary genre, which pose numerous challenges for the critical editor. The genre is characterised by extensive, fluid traditions with low authorial certainty, leading to a significant number of variants. The latest research approaches to these issues are examined, ranging from attention to the material aspects of transmission history, to the dialectic between single texts and collective passionaria, and to the potential, including for critical editions, offered by digital tools
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
An Information System for Biblical Manuscripts Paratexts: Modeling, Implementation, and Future Directions
Full text linkParatexts-such as prologues, summaries, prefaces, and annotations-shape the presentation, interpretation, and transmission of texts across audiences and periods. Their study provides critical insights into the historical, philological, and socio-cultural dimensions of manuscript production, use, and dissemination. Yet, a comprehensive analysis of Latin biblical paratexts remains lacking despite notable efforts on specific subsets, such as Marilena Maniaci's researches on Atlantic Bibles and Chiara Ruzzier's studies on 13th-century portable Bibles. This article takes part at addressing such a gap presenting an information system for managing paratexts in medieval Latin biblical manuscripts. Our contribution is twofold: (1) we propose a conceptual model of the domain of medieval Latin biblical manuscripts paratexts to standardize the field and support future research; and (2) we implement such a model through a relational database, which acts as the core of an information system for documenting and analyzing paratexts. Its open access prototype, already available, facilitates data organization and analysis, enabling prospective advanced applications, including artificial intelligence techniques
Filling the Lacunae in ancient Latin inscriptions
No full textInscriptions are a testimony to the past but their poor condition, caused by the deterioration of the material on which they are engraved upon, often makes them partially or completely illegible. The process of restoring these inscriptions is time-consuming and requires the involvement of an expert epigraphist. It is possible to speed-up this process by adopting a semi-automatic assisting tool based on deep neural networks. This work describes a methodology, from the acquisition of the inscriptions to the description of four possible approaches, to predict the missing text in a Latin inscription, that our research team plans to implement in the near future as part of an interdisciplinary research project
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