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    LegalHTML: semantic mark-up of legal acts using web technologies

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    We introduce here LegalHTML, an extension of the HTML language thought for representing legal acts. LegalHTML has been conceived in the context of an exploratory study conducted for the Publications Office of the European Union, with the objective of overcoming the proliferation of formats for the electronic redaction of legal acts, dedicated to different steps of the editorial process (e.g. first draft, content editing, proof reading, introducing semantics, publishing) and of realizing a model and a language that could bind all processes and exigencies under a common umbrella. LegalHTML satisfies these requirements by providing an explicit domain language addressing all structural aspects of an act, such as articles, paragraphs, items, references and an associated ontology (foreseeing both inline annotations through RDFa and explicit RDF code within script elements) providing rich semantics to describe the editorial and jurisdictional history of the act and to insert references to entities of the domain. Being based on HTML, presentation is also offered by the same language, an aspect missing from all most notable standards for the legal domain. Furthermore, LegalHTML addresses consolidation of an act and its subsequent modifications into a single document using a tree-based representation of the original content and of its modified versions. Finally, alongside the language & ontology, we implemented a CSS stylesheet for the default rendering of LegalHTML documents and a JavaScript file imbuing documents with an API supporting TOC generation, footnote cross-references and the said point-in-time visualization of consolidated legal acts

    Rec. a: F. Nardelli – A. Petrucci, 40 Italiani. Una scelta di voci tratte dal Dizionario biografico degli Italiani, a cura di A. Bartoli Langeli, A. Ciaralli, A. Fiorelli, M. Palma, C. Romeo (Roma 2022).

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    Review of F. Nardelli – A. Petrucci, 40 Italiani. Una scelta di voci tratte dal Dizionario biografico degli Italiani, a cura di A. Bartoli Langeli, A. Ciaralli, A. Fiorelli, M. Palma, C. Romeo (Roma 2022)

    Lifting tabular data to RDF: a survey

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    Tabular data formats (e.g. CSV and spreadsheets) combine ease of use, versatility and compatibility with information management systems. Despite their numerous advantages, these formats typically rely on column headers and out-of-band agreement to convey semantics. There is clearly a large gap with respect to the Semantic Web, which uses RDF as a graph-based data model, while relying on ontologies for well-defined semantics. Several systems have been developed to close this gap, supporting the conversion of tabular data to RDF. This study is a survey of these systems, which have been analyzed and compared. We identified commonalities and differences among them, discussed different approaches and derived useful insights on the task

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

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    “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
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