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Historical Canadian Persons
No full textInformation from the Dictionary of Canadian Biography was selectively augmented from other resources including Wikidata and scholarly sources to provide fundamental information about individuals and their families, such as marital status, occupation, residence, and gender. Unnamed individuals are included with labels such as “A Free Black mother.” Place names are geolocated. A small selection of links to digitized Canadian census records and fonds published by Library and Archives Canada are included. The data includes links to the sections of the Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries from which the set of individuals covered in the datasets and the primary assertions about them were derived.Although the team devised a preliminary model for nationality aligned with other LINCS data, in the end designations related to individuals’ nationality, national origin and ethnicity were not carried over from the source. The team lacked decolonized vocabularies against which to map terms for First Nations, Inuit and Métis people, and was wary both of perpetuating colonial terminology and of omitting such designations solely for Indigenous people.Creators and Contributors
Jim Clifford, Susan Brown, Sarah Roger, Natalie Hervieux, Matthew Kunkel, Jakob McLellan, Zach Shoenberger, Thomas Smith, Jessica Ye, Dani Metilli, Linked Infrastructure for Networked Cultural Scholarship (LINCS)Support
The Historical Canadian Persons dataset was made possible thanks to the generous support of Library and Archives Canada, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Forward Linking Partnership Development Grant.<br
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
Cabinet Conclusions, 1944 to 1979
No full textThe Cabinet Conclusions dataset is based on the public record of the meetings of the Cabinet, which consists of advisors to the Prime Minister of Canada. Also known as Cabinet minutes, Cabinet Conclusions, 1944 to 1979 includes agendas, lists of attendees and summaries of discussions.Library and Archives Canada’s Cabinet Conclusions content has been selectively augmented to demonstrate the potential of data linking by combining them with other resources. This includes the Orders in Council Division of the federal government’s Guide to Canadian Ministries since Confederation and selected MIKAN records.This dataset is the product of a partnership between LINCS and LAC. It combines multiple LAC resources to showcase how the value of online LAC collections can be enhanced using Linked Open Data. LINCS would welcome the involvement of subject-matter experts interested in exploring and potentially refining or augmenting this data.Creators and ContributorsLibrary and Archives CanadaJulia Barkhouse, Erin Isaac, Stephanie Pettigrew, Mathieu SabourinLinked Infrastructure for Networked Cultural Scholarship (LINCS)Susan Brown, Natalie Hervieux, Dani Metilli, Alliyya Mo, Sarah Roger, Zachary SchoenbergerSupportThe Cabinet Conclusions dataset was made possible thanks to the generous support of Library and Archives Canada, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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