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Intervento operativo per la conservazione del complesso archeologico di Chan Chan, Perù, in La Ricerca Italiana in America Latina
No full textProgetto EACH Europen Agency for Cultural Heritage - CNR IM
Strategies and technologies for the knowledge, conservation and enhancement of a great historical settlement: Chan Chan, Perù
No full textIn an attempt to stop the degradation of the Complejo Arqueologico Chan Chan, the Peruvian government, pressed by UNESCO, in 2000 approved the Plan Maestro de conservación y manejo, redact by Instituto Nacional de Cultura, (today Ministerio de Cultura). The Plan Maestro has a number of projects and sub-projects aimed to enhancing the complex and its territory with the purpose of helping the socio - economic development of the population. The MIPE intends to support the actions foreseen by the Plan Maestro participating to its revision and updating and following three main objectives: the planning of the Archaeological Park of Chan Chan, the restoration and the virtual visit of Palacio Rivero and other peculiar architectonic typologies and the baking of local handicraft and tourism by mean of training courses arranged also with the help of the international cooperation. In order to achieve these objectives, taking into account the impressive dimensions of the site, it was very important to take advantage of the potentiality of new methodologies of investigation: the remote sensing techniques and the ICT processes to organize and archive the geodatabase; the modern acquisition techniques, such as laser scanner, to arrange a 3D surveying, to reconstruct in virtual way the emergencies and by means other multimedia solutions to spread the whole site by virtual visits
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
Discovering Chan Chan: modern technologies for urban and architectural analysis
Full text linkSince 2002, the Italian Mission of CNR-ITABC has been operating in the archaeological complex of Chan Chan (Peru), which is the largest pre-Columbian settlement entirely built with adobe. In 1989 Chan Chan was placed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. The main purpose of the work is aimed at the conservation, documentation and use of the site and of the territory that is related to Chan Chan from a historical and cultural point of view. The urban structure of Chan Chan, which is spread over a surface of 14 km2, has a number of buildings which characterizes the town at both an architectural (ciudadelas, huacas, huachaques) and decorative level (bas-reliefs, geometrical motifs). In order to achieve our research goals, we had to arrange for the combined use of various analysis techniques that would provide both urban and architectural information about the town. The data we obtained allowed us to make a more up-to-date interpretation of the urban fabric and revealed intriguing details regarding the construction phases of one of its palaces which will be helpful both for the planning of the Archaeological Park and the restoration project of the Palacio Rivero
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
The ancient water supply system of Petra (Jordan): a link between monumental and geomorphologic heritage.
No full textPetra and Beida (Jordan): two adjacent archaeological sites up to an exploitation of geomorphology-related topics for a cultural and touristic development.
No full textPetra and Beida are two adjacent archaeological sites in southern Jordan characterised by both a striking monumental heritage, and an imposing geomorphologic landscape. These sites, besides preserving important remainders of protohistorical cultures, contain the most important Nabatean vestiges of the entire Middle-East and have more recent, Roman Crusade and Islamic, significant remains as well. On account of the importance of their archaeological and monumental heritage, the two sites are included in the UNESCO’s World Heritage list and are the heart sites of a National Archaeologic Park. Less known, yet not less interesting, is the rich and striking geomorphologic heritage of the Petra-Beida area, characterised by tectonic troughs alternating with steep mountains riddled by canyons and passages to form a town of rocks. The intrinsic beauty and significance of landforms and landscapes could be the driving elements for touristic and educational aims, towards an integration of the geomorphologic heritage with the archaeological-monumental one. In this connection, both Nabatean water management systems and historical burials of monumental areas by flood events are primary links to an integrated approach, suitable for being exploited for tourism and cultural goals. Ongoing researches by means of GPS systems and laser scanning allowed us the detailed reconstruction of both parts of the Nabatean water systems and historical alluvial fills. The digital elaboration and modellisation, as well as computer simulations and reconstructions, besides their intrinsic scientific meaning, can be powerful tools for tourism improvement and educational work
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
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