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BESOCIAL: Interview / Survey results WP1
No full textThis document is part of the PROMISE project (2017-2019) financed by the Belgian Science Policy Office (Belspo) as part of the BRAIN.be programme and is coordinated by KBR. The State Archives, the universities of Ghent (Research Group for Media, Innovation and Communication Technologies; Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities) and Namur (Research Centre in Information, Law and Society) and the university college Bruxelles-Brabant (Unité de Recherche et de Formation en Sciences de l’Information et de la Documentation) are partners in the project.
In the scope of this project, a state-of-the-art report was written based on interviews via mail and Skype with several organizations from different countries. The information in this spreadsheet is a summary of the data collected during this task. A list of all the organisations involved can be found in tab "Annex - List of countries and organizations".
In 2020, a new project called BESOCIAL (towards a sustainable social media archiving strategy for Belgium) started in which an updated state-of-the-art report will be written with a focus on archiving social media.
Again, the different organizations are surveyed and the data in this spreadsheet is being updated and enhanced
Belgian social media archiving initiatives mapped
Get PDFResearch has demonstrated that born-digital collections, in addition to the known physical objects, are increasingly becoming more present in cultural institutions. Still, a clear overview of Belgian social media archiving (SMA) initiatives is currently lacking. In this study, we map the Belgian landscape of social media archiving initiatives. The BESOCIAL research project used surveys and semi-structured interviews to find out how different initiatives in Belgium are archiving these volatile types of data, such as tweets. Our findings demonstrate that the scope and size of the archiving activities depend on 3 major thresholds: i) time to explore the field of SMA, ii) (technical) in-house knowledge and iii) the limited budget. Results are discussed in terms of selection, harvesting, preservation, and access. Based on our conclusions, we advise that practitioners should consider follow-up research to better understand the implications of certain SMA decisions for the future
Country report: web and social media archiving in Belgium
Get PDFThe intention of this country report is to present a non-exhaustive overview of Belgian institutions that include archived social media material in their collections. This report is based on a previous report that was drafted in the context of the PROMISE project in 2019 in which the following Belgian web archiving initiatives were presented: Felixarchief, meemoo (formerly VIAA), University Library Ghent, Liberaal Archief, Amsab-ISG, ADVN, Letterenhuis, KADOC, Vlaams Architectuurarchief Vlaanderen, Archief Gent and Université Catholique de Louvain. These institutions were asked to participate in the BESOCIAL survey to update the information related to web archiving and provide information about social media archiving at their institution. This report provides more information about the institutions who responded to the survey. In addition, other Belgian organisations were added to the overview to report on their approach to social media archiving. The following initiatives answered the survey: Archives of the University of Antwerp, Ghent University Library, LIBERAS, AMSAB - Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis, ADVN | archief voor nationale bewegingen, Letterenhuis, KADOC - Documentation and research center on religion, culture and society. Given the discovery of other social media archives after the closing of the survey, further information was obtained through semi-structured interviews (Archives of the City of Mons) or was obtained by email (Archives of the City of Brussels, CAVA, AMVB | archief en museum voor het Vlaamse leven in Brussel, Archives et Musée de la Littérature, LIBIS, and Instituut voor Media Studies (KU Leuven). Additionally, information about the research projects ‘Catching the Digital Heritage’, ‘Best Practices voor sociale media archivering in Vlaanderen en Brussel’, and ‘Archives de Quarantaine Archief’ has also been included as a large number of Flemish, Brussels and Walloon institutions are involved in these projects. In this report, the first section will focus on the methodological approach. In the second section, the three research projects will be briefly discussed. Then, in the third section, the institutions that provided information about their social media activities will be discussed from different perspectives: technical, selection, access, preservation, and legal. The final part of the report is the conclusion
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
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
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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