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Digital Preservation Tools for Repository Managers 3: Describing content for preservation
No full textThe 5-module JISC KeepIt course on Digital Preservation Tools for Repository Managers was designed by repository managers. Each module consists of a mix of short presentations and hands-on exercises to learn about the basics and gain practice with each of the tools covered. Module 3 is a primer on preservation workflow, formats and characterisation, as preparation for the preservation planning tools to be encountered in module 4. This module opens with an introduction to preservation workflow, a process to manage the risk associated with file formats of different digital objects. Then follows a 6-part presentation on the practical analysis of significant characteristics of digital objects, the characteristics that must be preserved over time in order to ensure the continued accessibility, usability, and meaning of the objects. Part 1 introduces the concepts, while the second part considers the framework produced by the InSPECT project for assessing significant characteristics. Two practical exercises lead participants to determine the properties of a particular type of digital object, an email message, then to consider the needs of different stakeholders when assessing the properties of this type of object. Part 5 seeks out tools capable of extracting and maintaining properties for an archival-scale number of objects, and the final part offers a quick summary of all six parts. Other tools are available to describe preservation of digital objects. A short introduction to preservation metadata and PREMIS involves a practical exercise to show how information already being collected by digital repositories can be described by entries in the PREMIS Data Dictionary. Provenance is a record of the process that led to the current state of an object, and a new descriptive model designed to allow provenance information to be exchanged between systems, the Open Provenance Model (OPM), is described briefly based on slides provided by Luc Moreau, the leader of the standardisation effort for OPM. Details of the exercises on significant characteristics are contained within the presentations, and supplementary materials to support the practicals in other presentations are provided, so the full course module can be experienced by other users
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
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
LSHTM Research Data Management Policy - Support documents
Full text linkThe Research Data Management Policy outlines a set of principles with which LSHTM staff and students should follow to ensure their Research Data is managed in accordance with good research practice. The current version (v3.1) of the RDM Policy was approved by the Research Governance Committee in 2021
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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