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Introduction
No full textThe introduction presents the volume, that collects the Proceedings of the conference on "Humanities Computing: Philosophy and Digital Resources," held in Bologna, at the Department of Philosophy, on 22-23 September 2000. The conference was organized to assess the recent advances in humanities computing and, more specifically, the impact of digital tools on the development of fields such as the history of philosophy, and the history of science and technology. The introdoction presents the contributions to the volume as grouped in two sections, respectively devoted to the development of tools for text processing, and to case studies and methodological issues in the domain of computer-based text analysis. The introduction concludes with a discussion of the intitutional consequences and implications of the new developments in technologies and the associated changes in scholarly methods
Purification rituals: reflections on the history of science in Italy
No full textAn assessment of the history of science as practiced in Italy over the past fourty years, based on a comparison with what has been going on in the field in the English-speaking countries over the same period. The interpretive model suggested is based on a purification rituals hypothesis, inspired by Mary Douglas's "Purtity and Danger"
Tumore tenosinoviale a cellule giganti di tipo diffuso della mano: descrizione di un caso
No full textViene descritto un caso di tumore tenosinoviale a cellule giganti di tipo diffuso insorto nella man
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
Diacritical Ambiguity and Markup
No full textThe paper discusses criteria of adequacy for digital editions and deals in particular with the relationship between a marked up text and its structural organization in a database. The structure of the expression of a given text, assigned by the markup, and the structure of its content, as organized in a database, are mutually related. A dynamic model for an adequate digital representation of the text can be based on the structural interaction between the content and the expression of the text. A viable approach to the formalization of such an interection is finally proposed
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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