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Jamaican customs data, c. 1800-45
No full textThis database transcribes data on goods exported from, and imported to, the island of Jamaica between circa 1800 and 1845, including data - where available - on the types of items, the ports of destination (for exports) and the ports of receipt (for imports).
The data was collected from tables produced by the colonial House of Assembly in Jamaica during this period and published in the Journals of the House of Assembly (for 1800-26) and the Votes of the House of Assembly (for 1827-45). The figures provided in the Journals and Votes represent a contemporary summary of the customs data collected by the Naval Officer and Collector of Customs. Data is also included from several reports made by the assembly concerning earlier imports. Data is missing for the years 1829/30, 1830/1 and 1832/3 when the figures were not reported in the Votes.
The data reflects the concerns of the assembly and the planters in it. Exports reported include sugar, rum, coffee, cotton, ginger, pimento and hardwoods. Imports include provisions (such as flour, cornmeal, bread, fish and rice), stores (such as barrel staves, roof shingles, timbers), livestock (horses, cattle, asses, mules) and a wide range of other items. They do not include British and foreign manufactures imported into Jamaica and then re-exported, or commodities imported and exported through the free ports of the island. Unless otherwise noted, years follow the financial year of the island, running from 30 September to 29 September i.e. "1824/5" refers to the period 30 September 1824 to 29 September 1825.
Transcription revealed several errors in addition in the original tables, but on the whole was generally accurate. However, commodities and units were not reported consistently, with rum, for example, being reported in barrels, casks, hogsheads, kegs and puncheons. These have been left as they were in the original.
Information on the typical volumes and capacities of these containers, and the prices of commodities, can be found in the secondary literature: B.W. Higman, 'Slave population and economy in Jamaica, 1807-34' (UWI Press, 1995) Appendix I 'Weights, measures and values' pp. 235-42
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Graham, Aaron
No full textSee entry in Choctaw County volume 1, page 12: https://digital.archives.alabama.gov/digital/collection/voter/id/44
Graham, Aaron
No full textSee entry in Choctaw County, volume 2, page 19: https://digital.archives.alabama.gov/digital/collection/voter1867/id/67
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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
Graham, Aaron
No full textSee entry in Macon County, volume 1, page 49: https://digital.archives.alabama.gov/digital/collection/voter1867/id/273
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