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Roman Maritime Villas: Rediscovering Architecture in Southern Latium and its Wider Context
No full textThis book offers a comprehensive survey of Roman maritime villas along the Tyrrhenian coast of southern Latium, tracing their architectural evolution and construction methods from the 2nd century BC to the 3rd century AD. It uses an interdisciplinary approach combining archival research, field surveys, and archaeological and historiographical analysis. It analyses 109 villa sites across 12 ancient towns' territories, from Ardea to Sinuessa, offering a fresher perspective on the key role played by this region in the evolution of the maritime villa typology.
The chronological assessment of this large sample reveals that the appearance of early maritime villas in southern Latium preceded that on the Bay of Naples. A careful examination of existing or identifiable structures has unveiled pioneering architectural innovations that are remarkable for their early dates and distinctiveness.
The integration of various datasets into a unified analysis provides new interpretations of the architectural environment of coastal southern Latium and its broader implications for villa developments throughout the Mediterranean
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
Una sintesi aggiornata su architettura ed economia delle peschiere romane del Lazio meridionale
No full textLa costa tirrenica dell'Italia centrale era un tempo costellata da lussuose ville marittime appartenenti all’élite romana. Nel Lazio meridionale, molte di queste ville erano dotate di peschiere, caratterizzate ciascuna da un design variegato in termini di forme e dimensioni, con vasche interconnesse per l’allevamento di diverse specie di pesci. Queste strutture non erano solo elementi architettonici decorativi di grande valore, ma fungevano anche da veri e propri centri di piscicoltura, garantendo pesce fresco per il consumo interno delle ville e, probabilmente, soddisfacendo la domanda del mercato locale.
Questo intervento propone un nuovo approccio allo studio delle peschiere romane, sfruttando metodologie digitali innovative. Si evidenzierà che, nonostante la maggior parte delle strutture non sia stata oggetto di indagini archeologiche dirette, l’integrazione di diverse metodologie può fornire dati ipotetici su vari aspetti delle peschiere. Attraverso l’approccio digitale, infatti, è possibile aggiornare le piante delle strutture esistenti e realizzare modelli 3-D che facilitino una migliore analisi, interpretazione e ricostruzione del design architettonico, considerando sia le parti visibili sia quelle ormai scomparse.
Inoltre, l’intervento esplorerà come, mediante calcoli dedotti dalle ricostruzioni 3-D e l’integrazione di modelli teorici sviluppati da altri studi, sia possibile quantificare la capacità media di produzione di queste peschiere e stimare i loro costi di costruzione
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The Roman maritime villas of southern Latium: construction, design and connection to the sea
No full textThis thesis examines the developments in architecture and construction of the maritime villas of southern Latium and uses an interdisciplinary approach, combining information from archival research, field surveys, and historiographical information. The geographic area examined corresponds to the modern territories of Ardea, Anzio, Nettuno, Latina, Sabaudia, San Felice Circeo, Terracina, Fondi, Sperlonga, Itri, Formia, Gaeta, Minturno, the Pontine Islands, Mondragone, and Cellole, in which 109 maritime villa sites were identified. The chronological span of this study is the 2nd century BC to the 3rd century AD.
The thesis argues that the early maritime villas were already located in close proximity to the shoreline and that their appearance and diffusion along the coasts of southern Latium preceded that on the Bay of Naples. Southern Latium emerges as the geographic area where the maritime villa architectural typology was perfected. This thesis also shows that, despite the incomplete documentation, an attentive analysis of the visible or known structures can still reveal architectural innovations considered experimental due to their early date and uniqueness. Finally, this thesis also considers the presence of production activities in which the villas were involved, with particular attention given to the marine fishponds. By using the 3-D models of several of these fishponds created for this thesis, approaches to quantifying the costs of labour for their construction and their potential production capacity have been suggested. The results suggest that these structures not only provided fresh fish for consumption within the villa, but probably also for sale at local markets
CLaRMaV. Data Management Plan. Version 1.0
Full text linkThe DMP is a document that evolves during the lifespan of the project and registers all relevant changes in the life-cycle of all the research datasets. In particular, it explains the way research data are handled, organized, licensed and made available to the public, and how they will be preserved after the project is completed. The DMP also addresses situations where project research data cannot be openly shared due to copyright issues, confidentiality, personal data protection, or the risk of jeopardizing project achievements. This DMP provides details on all the research data collected and generated within the CLaRMaV project (HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-GF 2022-101106554), which is a mandatory submission due in month 6 of the project. It reflects the current state of the art of the CLaRMaV project. However, the details and the final number of datasets may vary during the research project. The variations will be recorded in updated versions of this DMP
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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