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Building a Digital Granary: Approaches to Digitizing and Modeling Climate Records in a Repository
No full textA workshop presentation for "Climate is History" examining approaches to digitizing and modeling historical climate records
Digital Preservation Tools, Practices, and Policies in Islandora
Full text linkPresentation at Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-13, 2014Fedora Interest Group Presentations24x7 PresentationsThere exists many standards and best practices in the digital preservation community, but not many of these practices are implemented as easy to use tools in our digital repository platforms. This presentation will focus on the policy driven and community focused development of digital preservation tools and best practices in Islandora community, and on the tools created for transforming Submission Information Packages for Islandora to Archival Information Packages. Specifically, automated digital object file identification, automated checksum creation and verification, automated generation of PREMIS metadata, and the integration of BagIt allowing for the network transfer of objects in a given Islandora repository.Ruest, Nick (York University, Canada)Jordan, Mark (Simon Fraser University, Canada)Moses, Donald (University of Prince Edward Island, Canada
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
A Distributed Microservices Framework Integrating Taverna
No full textMicroservices can be described as “a granular set of small, independent, but highly interoperable services” [1] that are an essential part of a sustainable repository ecosystem. The University of Prince Edward Island has adopted a variety of approaches to microservices including scripted batch ingests, custom workflows embedded in content models, and PHP-based microservices [2]. In the last year, UPEI has built on their existing microservices framework by integrating Taverna, “an open source and domain-independent Workflow Management System” [3] and utilizing Taverna Workbench [4], Taverna’s desktop tool, to create workflows. Within the repository context, there are several other projects that are using Fedora in combination with Taverna including the SCAPE (SCAlable Preservation Environments) Project whose work focuses on large scale ingestion, migration, and quality assurance to facilitate digital preservation [5]. This presentation will provide an overview of UPEI’s microservices framework, their integration with Fedora, and the creation of repository services and workflows to address a variety of use cases.
UC Curation Center, California Digital Library. (2013, September 18). Curation Wiki. Retrieved January 11, 2014 from https://confluence.ucop.edu/display/Curation/Home
PHP Listeners Code - https://github.com/roblib/php_listeners and documentation https://github.com/roblib/php_listeners/wiki
Taverna - http://www.taverna.org.uk/
Taverna Workbench - http://www.taverna.org.uk/download/workbench/
SCAPE / SCAPE and Taverna in use: http://www.taverna.org.uk/introduction/related-projects/scape/
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“Bears, blue potatoes, and strong drink”: Bringing the 1876 Prince Edward Island Historical Survey into the Spotlight
No full textThis presentation discusses how a digitization project undertaken at the request of, and in consultation with, a specialized and expert user community, and focussing on a specific document collection, is providing valuable lessons for our digitization program as a whole. Since we are, in effect, “embedded” with the users who requested the digitization, and have also asked other users to help develop the project, we have been challenged to go beyond a “digitization on demand” transaction, and think creatively about all aspects of our digital collection development, especially enriched and specialized metadata solutions
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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