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Migrating Heritage. Experiences of Cultural Networks and Cultural Dialogue in Europe
Full text linkBringing together an international forum of experts, this book looks at how museums, libraries and further public cultural institutions respond to the effects of globalisation, mobility and migration across Europe.
It puts forward examples of innovative practice and policies that reflect these challenges, looking at issues such as how cultural institutions present themselves to and interact with multicultural audiences, how to support networking across European institutions, and share practice in core activities such as archiving interpreting and exhibiting artefacts. Academics, practitioners from museums and public institutions and policymakers explore theoretical and practical approaches from a range of different disciplines such as museum and cultural heritage studies, cultural memory studies, social anthropology, sociology of organizations, cultural heritage management and cultural heritage informatics
DesignNet. Knowledge e Information Management per il design
No full textAtti del seminario internazionale "Knowledge e Information Management per il Design", Milano 8 febbraio 200
Design networks and knowledge management for supporting small and medium enterprises. Cases from Italy.
No full textThe shift from industrial economy to knowledge economy and from material resources to “intellectual resources” has supported new ways to look at innovation processes. More and more importance is given to knowledge diffused inside and outside organizations as the key resource to foster innovation.
Italian companies, above all in furniture, home accessories, fashion sectors, have gained a competitive advantage.
This success was based on local knowledge network, connecting systems of small an medium companies, in
which design played a distinctive role.
The global diffusion of knowledge, thanks to Information and Communication Technology, represents for Italian
companies an opportunity and a risk as well: they can easily access new knowledge about design, technologies
materials etc., but they can hardly protect their specific know how and their local capabilities.
This paper aims to explain how Italian successful companies created design knowledge networks and how they
continuously support design innovation. Starting from this scenario it shows, through two case studies, how a
public institution – the University – can support design knowledge sharing and creation inside local systems of SME
An online knowledge gateway for industrial design education and research activities
Full text linkThis paper presents DesignNet, a knowledge-based system to the online digital display, retrieval and archiving of rich media resources for industrial design education and
research. It addresses the needs of end-users (teachers, researchers and students) and content providers interacting with the School of Design of the Politecnico di Milano. The project moves from the assumption that traditional modalities of archiving and presentation currently adopted by the Politecnico and other academic institutions are not coherent
with industrial design process and its need of project-support materials. The typical outputs
of industrial design process are 3D models or 2D graphics, not just texts or simple
images, the materials for which the usual method and technique of archiving and retrieval
are conceived and developed. The challenges, philosophy and methodology in creating
this evolving Web-based, cataloguing, multimedia knowledge-base to VR design resources
are discussed. Finally, the related system and prototype are described
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
Preventing digital casualties: an interdisciplinary research for preserving digital art
No full textThere are practical problems associated with documentation, preservation, access, function, context and meaning of digital art. How do we care for similar works, and which are the theoretical and methodological challenges for curating and preserving digital art? Upon an ongoing case-based investigation of current digital and media art conservation practices at leading international museums, The author investigates how conservation for digital art could benefit from interdisciplinary synergies with Digital Preservation, Art Theory, and Information Management. A longer version of this paper entitled ‘Evolution and preservation of digital art: case studies from ZKM’, was presented at the Association of Art Historians (AAH) Conference 2010, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
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