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Past and Present in Digital Public History
No full textThe author examines the relationship between past and present to reflect on the perception of time in the era of the digital revolution. The time of digital presentism is not linear but circular. The arrival point coincides with the starting point: from present to present. A loop faster and faster which changed the perception of time for at least two generations of digital natives. The author uses Facebook as a case study to investigate the origin of the interreal (set of real and virtual) that restructured the relationship between past and present. In the social network, their link is no longer entrusted to the scientific rigor of history but to the disintermediated emotions of a ubiquitous memory which generates a wave of collective nostalgia
The Audiovisual Dimension & the Digital Turn in Public History Practices
Get PDFThe historical tale has always been more effective and engaging with the use of sounds and images than with the fixity of the written word. In a certain way,the audio/visual dimension allowed by the digital turn brings the tale back to its original fluidity, returning it to its original identity. As a tale made by sounds and images, the“story”must have its own styles, special effects, pauses, and rhythms,which have a decisive and primary importance related to its contents. The current digital revolution has emphasized this ability of the storytelling to influence, invoke and evocate and captivate by multiplying the ways and the tools in order to produce and publish audio-visual“stories”and increasing and modifying the impact force of the historical audiovisual narrative
Modeling data complexity in public history and cultural heritage
Get PDFThe publication by Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums of metadata about their collections is fundamental for the creation of our shared digital cultural heritage. Yet, we notice, these digital collections are, on one hand, of little use to scholars (because of the inconsistent quality of the published records), and, on the other hand, they fail to attract the interest of the general public (because of their dry content).
These problems are exacerbated by the current move towards public history, where citizens are no longer just passive actors, but play an active role in contributing, maintaining and curating historical records, leading some to question the trustworthiness of collections in which non scholars have the ability to contribute.
The core issue behind all these problems is, we argue, a (doomed) search for objectivity, often caused by the fact that data models ignore the derivative and stratified nature of cultural objects, and allow only one point of view to be expressed. In turn this forces the publication of bowdlerized records and removes any venue for the expression of disagreement and different opinions.
We propose an approach named contexts to solve these issues. The adoption of contexts makes it possible to support multiple points of view inside the same dataset, allowing not only multiple scholars to provide their own possibly contrasting points of view, but also making it possible to incorporate additions, corrections and more complex kinds of commentaries from citizens without compromising the trustworthiness of the whole dataset
Historical GIS.
Get PDFThe historical GIS is, without any doubt, a powerful means of communication of historical phenomena for the public and also of collecting georeferenceable historical source through crowdsourcing activities, but the complexity of the data model underlying a GIS can also distance the public from understanding the complexity of the phenomena themselves. From this point of view the role of the Digital Public Historian is essential: not only will he/she have to be able to construct a GIS with a methodologically correct data model, but he/she will have to find the right ways of communicating it in order to make the GIS an effective tool of understanding and sharing the past
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
2011 Scholars and Artists Bibliography
Get PDFThis bibliography was created for the annual Friends of the Michael Schwartz Library Scholars and Artists Reception, recognizing scholarly and creative achievements of Cleveland State University faculty, staff and emeriti. Mark Tebeau was the guest speake
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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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