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From excavation to reconstruction of timber buildings at the Archeodromo of Poggibonsi (Siena, Italy)
Timber and Earth in the Architecture of Italian Early Medieval Fortified Sites (8th–10th Centuries AD)
OpenArcheo2: un sistema informativo per gestire e produrre conoscenza storico-archeologica
OpenArcheo2: an information system to manage and produce historical-archaeological knowledge
With the first part of this paper we briefly explore some issues related to digitally recording and analyzing archaeological datasets, following our (neo)processualist approach. Throughout the text we also assess the actual state archaeological information systems and reflect about possible future directions of this kind of methodological research. The main part of our contribution deals with a description of OpenArcheo2, a wholly new archaeological information system developed at Siena University’s LIAAM (Laboratory of IT Applied to Medieval Archaeology). The result is a web application, with an in-progress development schedule, which subverts the usual perspective of solutions dedicated to the management/analysis of “raw” archaeological data, focusing entirely on interpreted informations. Representation of archaeological knowledge becomes therefore the primary objective of OpenArcheo2, as can be clearly seen from the conceptual model and the ontology presented in this paper
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
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
“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
We 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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