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MIDOP - Macroseismic Intensity Data Online Publisher
No full textWithin the activities of the Networking Activity 4 (NA4) module called “Distributed Archive of Historical Earthquake Data” of the European Commission NERIES project, a massive quantity of historical earthquakes related data is being published online. The NA4 working team is composed of many researchers coming from five European National Institutions. The retrieved data ranges from year 1000 to year 1900 and covers all of Europe.
One of the fundamental components of historical seismology research is the so called “macroseismic intensity data” which describes the level of damage caused by an earthquake in a list of places. Usually these data come in form of printed maps and/or tables; only rarely data are available in digital form. Among other tasks, the NA4 working team is dedicated to publishing maps representing retrieved material.
Until now no dedicated software for online map publishing existed and general purpose solutions were adopted. However a macroseismic map requires a series of additional information such as explanation on the sources used, detailed places information and representation of the level of damage using special glyph.
These requirements are of difficult implementation using out-of-the-box tools, resulting in extremely time-consuming hard to do customization and manual operations, tasks that NERIES NA4 couldn’t afford.
To solve the situation the working team decided to create MIDOP, a specific tool that allows webinexperienced researchers to easily transform unappealing tables into deeply customized interactive maps.
A completely coding-free approach has been adopted sporting a user friendly web interface capable of generating entire websites from scratch. Once a website has been created, its publication on the web is easy as dragging a folder to the final web server. Thanks to its SVG and JavaScript integration the web server will only manage static pre-generated pages, resulting in a secure and lightweight web application from the server point-of-view. Only the client computer resources will be used when users require actions such zoom, pans or mapped places search.
The MIDOP tool is based on open source solutions such as JavaScript, PHP and MySQL and extensively uses SVG for visual representation and interaction. The tool is being released under an open source license. This document is a comprehensive final user manual.Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e VulcanologiaPublished5.1. TTC - Banche dati e metodi macrosismiciope
MIDOP - Macroseismic Intensity Data Online Publisher
No full textWithin the activities of the Networking Activity 4 (NA4) module called “Distributed Archive of Historical Earthquake Data” of the European Commission NERIES project, a massive quantity of historical earthquakes related data is being published online. The NA4 working team is composed of many researchers coming from five European National Institutions. The retrieved data ranges from year 1000 to year 1900 and covers all of Europe.
One of the fundamental components of historical seismology research is the so called “macroseismic intensity data” which describes the level of damage caused by an earthquake in a list of places. Usually these data come in form of printed maps and/or tables; only rarely data are available in digital form. Among other tasks, the NA4 working team is dedicated to publishing maps representing retrieved material.
Until now no dedicated software for online map publishing existed and general purpose solutions were adopted. However a macroseismic map requires a series of additional information such as explanation on the sources used, detailed places information and representation of the level of damage using special glyph.
These requirements are of difficult implementation using out-of-the-box tools, resulting in extremely time-consuming hard to do customization and manual operations, tasks that NERIES NA4 couldn’t afford.
To solve the situation the working team decided to create MIDOP, a specific tool that allows webinexperienced researchers to easily transform unappealing tables into deeply customized interactive maps.
A completely coding-free approach has been adopted sporting a user friendly web interface capable of generating entire websites from scratch. Once a website has been created, its publication on the web is easy as dragging a folder to the final web server. Thanks to its SVG and JavaScript integration the web server will only manage static pre-generated pages, resulting in a secure and lightweight web application from the server point-of-view. Only the client computer resources will be used when users require actions such zoom, pans or mapped places search.
The MIDOP tool is based on open source solutions such as JavaScript, PHP and MySQL and extensively uses SVG for visual representation and interaction. The tool is being released under an open source license. This document is a comprehensive final user manual.Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e VulcanologiaPublished5.1. TTC - Banche dati e metodi macrosismiciope
MIDOP: Macroseismic Intensity Data Online Publisher
No full textWithin the Networking Activity 4 (NA4) "Distributed Archive of Historical Earthquake Data" of the EU NERIES project, a massive quantity of macroseismic data related to earthquakes of the past centuries is being published online. The NA4 working team is composed of many researchers coming from five European National Institutions. The retrieved data range from year 1000 to year 1900 and cover all of Europe. The presented tool "MIDOP" is being specifically developed for intuitive online publication of macroseismic maps of historical earthquakes.PublishedMountain View, California, USA5.1. TTC - Banche dati e metodi macrosismiciope
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
MIDOP: Macroseismic Intensity Data Online Publisher
No full textWithin the Networking Activity 4 (NA4) "Distributed Archive of Historical Earthquake Data" of the EU NERIES project, a massive quantity of macroseismic data related to earthquakes of the past centuries is being published online. The NA4 working team is composed of many researchers coming from five European National Institutions. The retrieved data range from year 1000 to year 1900 and cover all of Europe. The presented tool "MIDOP" is being specifically developed for intuitive online publication of macroseismic maps of historical earthquakes.PublishedMountain View, California, USA5.1. TTC - Banche dati e metodi macrosismiciope
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
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