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disegnare con... MAURIZIO FORTE
Full text linkMaurizio Forte è ricercatore italiano di fama internazionale. Attualmente è distinguished Professor of Classical Studies Art, Art History, and Visual Studies e direttore del Dig@Lab alla Duke University negli Stati Uniti. Impossibile sintetizzare il suo esteso curriculum ma tra i suoi ruoli si vuole ricordare che è stato professore di World Heritage all’Università della California (Merced) e primo ricercatore presso l’Istituto per le Tecnologie Applicate al Patrimonio Culturale del CNR, presso il laboratorio di Virtual Heritage in cui molti giovani ricercatori si sono formati. Maurizio Forte ha coordinato ricerche archeologiche sul campo e progetti di ricerca in Italia, Etiopia, Egitto, Siria, Kazakistan, Perù, Cina, Oman, India, Honduras, Turchia, USA e Messico. Si è distinto nell’ambito del panorama disciplinare contemporaneo per il fondamentale contributo fornito alla dimensione teorica e metodologica dell’archeologia digitale e in particolare della Cyber Archaeology di cui parleremo in seguito. Tra i primi a comprendere e sfruttare i vantaggi della realtà virtuale, delle simulazioni in archeologia e l’importanza delle relazioni tra uomo ed ecosistema virtuale, è autore di oltre 200 articoli scientifici alcuni dei quali hanno contribuito a consolidare le basi di questo settore disciplinare e tracciare nuove strade non ancora percorse. Alcuni contributi che si possono considerare punti di riferimento sono Virtual Archaeology (1996), Virtual Reality in Archaeology (2000), From Space to Place (2006), Cyber Archaeology (2012), Digital Methods and Remote Sensing in Archaeology (co-editor Stefano Campana, 2017); da ultimo Digital Cities (co-editor Helena Murteira, 2020). Questa intervista ci dà l’opportunità di interrogarci, con uno dei pionieri della disciplina, su cosa sia cambiato nell’ambito del patrimonio culturale, con particolare attenzione ai modelli ricostruttivi del passato, grazie o a causa della recente rivoluzione tecnologica e soprattutto su che cosa cambierà per l’umanista digitale del terzo millennio.DOI: https://doi.org/10.20365/disegnarecon.27.2021.dw</p
Digital Methods and Remote Sensing in Archaeology. Archaeology in the Age of Sensing
No full textThis volume debuts the new scope of Remote Sensing, which was first defined as the analysis of data collected by sensors that were not in physical contact with the objects under investigation (using cameras, scanners, and radar systems operating from spaceborne or airborne platforms). A wider characterization is now possible: Remote Sensing can be any non-destructive approach to viewing the buried and nominally invisible evidence of past activity. Spaceborne and airborne sensors, now supplemented by laser scanning, are united using ground-based geophysical instruments and undersea remote sensing, as well as other non-invasive techniques such as surface collection or field-walking survey. Now, any method that enables observation of evidence on or beneath the surface of the earth, without impact on the surviving stratigraphy, is legitimately within the realm of Remote Sensing. The new interfaces and senses engaged in Remote Sensing appear throughout the book. On a philosophical level, this is about the landscapes and built environments that reveal history through place and time. It is about new perspectives—the views of history possible with Remote Sensing and fostered in part by immersive, interactive 3D and 4D environments discussed in this volume. These perspectives are both the result and the implementation of technological, cultural, and epistemological advances in record keeping, interpretation, and conceptualization. Methodology presented here builds on the current ease and speed in collecting data sets on the scale of the object, site, locality, and landscape. As this volume shows, many disciplines surrounding archaeology and related cultural studies are currently involved in Remote Sensing, and its relevance will only increase as the methodology expands
Sensing Ruralscapes. Third-Wave Archaeological Survey in the Mediterranean Area
No full textThe present contribution discusses the so-called ‘third wave’ of archaeological survey, drawing attention to the wide gap between the development and implementation or archaeological research within townscapes as compared with rural landscapes in the Mediterranean area. The first part of the discussion sum-marises the development of landscape studies and survey methods during the last century, critically highlighting the outcomes and limitations of past experience. The paper then presents the initial results of the Emptyscapes Project, an interdisci-plinary program of survey and interpretation work designed to stimulate changes in the way in which archaeologists, in Italy but also more generally within the Mediterranean world, study the archaeology of the rural countryside, moving from an essentially site-based approach to a truly landscape-scale perspective. The first results of the project have made it possible to challenge past landscape paradigms and to move towards a more complex and comprehensive understanding of a stretch of lowland rural landscape in southern Tuscany. In doing so the project has emphasised the extent to which choices about the methodological and technological framework of the work may to a certain extent predetermine the archaeological results and influence the archaeological questions that can be asked or answered
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
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