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SYMBOLIC VALUE ENHANCEMENT, THE CASE OF THE AUTOMOTIVE HERITAGE
No full textThe conclusion of the changing process of heritage sites, which has led to severe economic, social, and environmental issues, and the new orientation of the automotive eco-system induce unusual conditions for historicization. The article highlights problems and perspectives of historicization, heritage knowledge, communication and valorisation
Modern and industrial: the new abandonment. The case of the canavese area
Full text linkThe Canavese area of the Piedmont Region is an example of an intermediate inland area in which marginality and a need for rebalancing were already emerging in the 1950s, generating an innovative plan for manufacturing, social, and educational hubs. The crisis of the economic and community model linked to Olivetti – the driving force behind the plan – in the 1980s led to a process of deindustrialization
and further decline.
The inclusion of “Ivrea Industrial City of the XX Century” in the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites (2018) was an important international opportunity to ensure recognition of industrial heritage and landscapes and the most strategic initiative to the practicalities of conservation and compatible regeneration of the entire territory. The future is closely linked to how well these places will be able to reflect the value of the Olivettian industrial past and community, in terms of territorial branding and imprinting for sustainable innovation.
This paper aims to outline the industrial heritage developed between the 1950s and the 1970s and the factors behind the technical and economic feasibility of reuse regarding its role in local development, a recognition of architectural and testimonial value, technological/construction/architectural innovation, and current decay conditions. The goal is to overcome the traditionally opposite theme of the study of industrial history and a recycling of the past, in which disused industrial buildings cease to be seen as liabilities and become sought-after assets with great potential for redevelopment
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
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