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INSPIRE Keynote Address: Bridget Fletcher
No full textBridget Fletcher is the keynote presenter for the inaugural INSPIRE Conference on Friday, November 18, 2016 at 9:00 a.m. at the MSU Paducah Regional Campus in Paducah, Ky
INSPIRE Implementation and Beyond, INSPIRE Conference Abstracts
No full textWith the adoption of the INSPIRE directive, 2007/2/EC, the focus of the 2nd INSPIRE conference is on reviewing the progress of the INSPIRE Legislation and on the development of SDIs in general. Proceedings of the conference.JRC.H.6 - Spatial data infrastructure
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
INSPIRE – What if? Summary report from the What if…? sessions at the 2017 INSPIRE Conference
Full text linkFollowing up from the successful "What if we didn't have INSPIRE?" workshop at the 2016 INSPIRE Conference in Barcelona and the "INSPIRE - What if...?" workshop at the OGC meeting in Delft1 in March 2017, two "INSPIRE - What if…?" sessions took place at the INSPIRE Conference in Strasbourg on 8 September 2017.
This report explains the background to these sessions and provides a summary of the discussions in the break-out groups.
Even though the six group discussions focused on different topics, the conclusions converged around the following recommendations:
- Make INSPIRE easier to use for mainstream ICT professionals and developers
- Focus on data content and on creating (preferably open) national or pan-European data sets, which are quality-assured and of high-value to a broad user community
- Make INSPIRE more user-centric and user-driven
- Improve communication and promote INSPIRE's success stories
- Clarify the roles of the public and the private sectors, especially with respect to data offering(s), data integration and value adding servicesJRC.B.6 - Digital Econom
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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