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Ritrovarsi: nei luoghi e nei confini / Finding oneself: in places and borders
No full textPer ri-partire il tessuto che cura l’eredità culturale, questo contributo riflette su interessi strategici, relazioni e modelli d’intervento. Dopo ben due crisi e la “rivoluzione” culturale del digitale, emerge la domanda di una nuova mediazione fra la grande potenzialità di contenuti e gli abitanti che non vi accedono. Sarà una mediazione molto più connettiva e partecipata, orientata a ricomporre la logica dicotomica-oppositiva per operare sintesi e far convergere studi umanistici, scientifici e tecnologici. La public history è strumento strategico di politiche cultural oriented perché nei territori le comunità si ri-trovino nel loro paesaggio culturale. In concreto più spazio a soft skills, metodi e stili comunicativi per rappresentare il passato come rapporto fra vivi e vivi, fra il presente di ieri e quello di oggi.To re-start the fabric that curates cultural heritage, this essay reflects on strategic interests, relationships and intervention models. After two crises (the financial and the Covid19 pandemic) and the digital revolution, we need a new mediation between the great potential of content and the public who does not access it. It will be a much more connective and participatory mediation, aimed at recomposing the dichotomous-oppositional logic, to bring about a syntesis and bring together humanities, science and technology. Public history is a strategic tool for cultural oriented policies so that local communities can recognise themselves in their cultural landscape. In practice, more space for soft skills, methods and a serious effort to represent the past as a strong relationship among the living, and between two presents: of yesterday and of today.
Il culturale è sociale
Full text linkThe paper traces some professional choices that guided the management of Italian libraries over the last fifty years, focusing on the interpretation of their cultural role, also in relation to the progressive spreading of digital culture. Libraries, regardless of their functional typology, remain a constitutive part of Italy’s cultural heritage: it is therefore essential to find a synthesis between their nature of ‘cultural heritage’, their information function and their social function. In light of this common ground, it is therefore important to find a synthesis between libraries’ informative and social function. Today, libraries are in the most favorable position to weave relationships between people and institutions. Librarians can identify in this current context fertile ground to redefine their profession and place themselves at the service of an Italian civil and cultural revitalization. It is a question of giving libraries – intended as places of inclusiveness and gathering – a greater baggage of knowledge and culture to perform their widely recognized social role. By expanding their range of action, libraries remain social, cultural and information hubs capable of carrying out a renewed connective and participatory function.L’articolo ripercorre alcune scelte professionali che hanno orientato la direzione delle biblioteche negli ultimi cinquant’anni, soffermandosi sull’interpretazione del loro ruolo culturale, anche in rapporto con la progressiva penetrazione della cultura digitale. Le biblioteche, indipendentemente dalla loro tipologia funzionale, sono parte costitutiva dell’eredità culturale italiana: è perciò essenziale trovare una sintesi tra la natura di ‘patrimonio culturale’, la funzione informativa e quella sociale. Oggi le biblioteche sono nella posizione più favorevole per tessere relazioni fra persone, istituzioni, contenuti e mezzi e la professione del bibliotecario può individuare proprio nel contesto attuale una ragione forte di rimotivazione, ponendosi al servizio di un rilancio civile e culturale dell’intero Paese. Si tratta di dare alle biblioteche come luoghi d’incontro e di inclusività un maggiore contenuto di conoscenza e di orientamento, un’impronta più culturale intesa non come alternativa ma come parte integrante di un già riconosciuto ruolo sociale. Allargando il loro raggio d’azione le biblioteche restano hub di comunità ma hub culturali e informativi capaci di svolgere una rinnovata funzione connettiva e partecipativa
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
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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