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Optimizing RDF Storage Removing Redundancies: An Algorithm
No full textSemantic Web relies on Resource Description Framework (RDF). Because of the very simple RDF Model and Syntax, the managing of RDF-based knowledge bases requires to take into account both scalability and storage space consumption. In particular, blank nodes semantics came up recently with very interesting theoretical results that can lead to various techniques that optimize, among others, space requirements in storing RDF descriptions. We present a prototypical evolution of our system called RDFCore that exploits these theoretical results and reduces the storage space for RDF descriptions
A Pilot of Smart Digital Library Used-Centered: The Project SMARTER
No full textThe paper presents the results of the national PoC project SMARTER, aimed at prototyping a smart DL for the management, interaction, and preservation of digitized and born-digital resources, related to ancient printed and manuscript artefacts. The research focused on the development of an innovative metadata schema structured by integrating the languages of the semantic web with conceptual ontologies, and on the experimentation of the applicability of the ICRPad intelligent recognition system (Pat. UIBM n. 0001407881) to large collections of digital objects, with the aim of making them interoperable with each other and, at the same time, usable also through direct interaction with the contents of the metadata. For the interaction with the digital collections, a set of innovative methods and technologies for management and display on the web has been designed, which allow users to interact with the digitized content through advanced tools
Digital Libraries as Technological Environments. Collaboration of Work and Future Perspectives
No full textThe nature of libraries has changed rapidly with the advent of technology, so far as to change the very way of understanding the library itself. In this paper we examine the impact that digital technologies have had on library workers, and note that so far technology has only been used to transpose the standard library practices, and that little has been done to fully exploit the new opportunities it introduced. To overcome this situation, we propose a graph-based organization of DL data, based on a technology mixing DBs and ontologies. We also propose a holistic data
schema allowing to store information that is usually neglected by traditional cataloging and description standards used in libraries. This would enable the use of AI techniques that may significantly expand the effectiveness of data processing and may dramatically improve the exploitation possibilities of documents
Addressing User Engagement With an Interactive Reading Model by Innovative Digital Expansion
No full textThe paper presents the research results aimed to design and realize an innovative prototype of user’s interactions method, based on the digital impact that Digital Transformation (DT) has on society. The experimentation presented takes as an example some good practices identified in the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A), London: challenging, unconventional cultural goods could attract new users. Based on this assumption, we have observed a target users’ impact on a cultural good generally considered little appeal, transforming the user into a prosumer. The first tests were made in 2019. The University of Bari Aldo Moro and the De Sanctis Classical Linguistic High School of Human Sciences in Trani started a collaboration as part of a PON project titled "Comunicare e promuovere un evento culturale". High School students have been identified as an important target of study. Subsequently, in the paper, we examined a project created by D.A.BI.MUS S.r.l. and Quorum Italia S.r.l, working on niche cultural goods also in this case. In this project, an anastatic printed book became a potential endless book capable of intercepting the interest of even large groups of digital users
CLARIN-IT: An Overview on the Italian CLARIN Consortium After Six Years of Activity
No full textThis paper offers an overview of the Italian CLARIN consortium after six years since its establishment.
The members, the centres and the repositories and the most important collections are described. Lastly,
in order to showcase the visibility and the accessiblity of Language Resources provided by CLARIN-IT
from a user-perspective, we show how Italian resources are findable within CLARIN ERIC
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
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