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Towards a Service-Oriented e-Learning Framework Based on Semantics
No full texte-Learning has gained more and more interest to transform and support the learning process ubiquitously. The design of an e-learning system must consider many different perspectives, ranging from the specification of the adopted learning methodology to the organization of learning objects in Content Management Systems, to the integration of e-learning services in Learning Management Systems, to the customization of learning contents for the involved users. All these perspectives should be taken into account in a consistent manner. We propose an integrated e-learning framework that enables modeling of an e-learning system according to the Software as a Service paradigm. At the heart of the SaaS paradigm there is a catalog of reusable learning services that can be composed into the final system. These services are considered as units of work implementing learning activities and are modeled according to the considered perspectives. The vision of e-learning systems in such an integrated way is not new. Our aim is twofold: (i) to adopt semantics for service annotation to merge and relate in a consistent way different perspectives, in order to support both designers of new e-learning programs and learners for customizing learning contents to their needs and exploiting e-learning services in a more focused way; (ii) to exploit reusable e-learning services for their fast composition in new e-learning platforms
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
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