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From Data to Design. AI, Blockchain, and New Frontiers in Digital Archives
Get PDFThe digital transformation is reshaping the role of corporate archives, expanding the possibilities for preserving, managing, and enhancing companies’ historical heritage. This study stems from the following research question: how are emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and blockchain altering the practices, meanings, and potential of corporate digital archives for design and communication?Through an interdisciplinary analysis and three significant case studies (Fondazione Fiera Milano, Museimpresa/Google Arts & Culture, and the Riva Historical Archive), the paper examines how AI and blockchain introduce new tools for automatic indexing, multimodal search, metadata generation, document certification, and authenticity safeguarding. The findings show that digitalization not only improves the effi-ciency of archival processes but also expands the ways mate-rials can be accessed and interpreted, transforming archives into true laboratories of innovation for design, brand storytell-ing, and heritage communication strategies. The contribution of this research lies in proposing a theoretical-applied frame-work that demonstrates how the integration of digital archives, AI, and blockchain opens new perspectives for the study of design culture, for the enhancement of Made in Italy excel-lence, and for the development of more transparent, accessi-ble, and future-oriented archival ecosystems
The role of corporate archives in the era of blockchain and AI
Get PDFIn the context of the digital transition, this contribution analyses the increasingly central role of corporate archives as custodians of collective memory. In this scenario, the application of AI proves to be a promising tool for facilitating the analysis and automatic indexing of documents, overcoming traditional physical barriers and making archival holdings easier to consult; at the same time, blockchain technology offers guarantees regarding source integrity and authenticity. Through the examination of three case studies, the collaboration between Museimpresa and Google Arts & Culture and the experiences of Italgas and Riva, the article aims to assess how these technologies are transforming the way corporate archives are accessed and used, opening new perspectives for education, research, and innovation, in line with Sustainable Development Goal no. 4 of the 2030 Agenda. The article also highlights the need for an ethical approach to using AI and the environmental impact generated by blockchain. The contribution is addressed to companies, researchers, and designers to promote a more conscious use of digital technologies applied to archival heritage
Archivi digitali, blockchain & IA. Nuovo paradigma per la storia del design
Get PDFL’articolo esplora l’evoluzione degli archivi d’impresa nell’era digitale concentrandosi sull’adozione e sull’impatto di tecnologie emergenti quali la blockchain e l’intelligenza artificiale (IA). Attraverso una revisione della letteratura multidisciplinare, si analizzano le trasformazioni degli archivi a partire da metà degli anni novanta del secolo scorso quando viene pubblicato il primo report per la gestione informatica dei documenti evidenziando come la digitalizzazione abbia modificato i processi di conservazione, accesso e valorizzazione del patrimonio legato al design, ma non soltanto. L’analisi storica trova un momento di sintesi nella restituzione di due casi studio italiani, uno rappresentativo del settore energia, l’altro del mondo della nautica: Italgas, tramite l’utilizzo di fonti secondarie come interviste e documentazione operativa, e Riva, attraverso l’esame di fonti primarie. I risultati pongono in luce il potenziale di IA e blockchain per riscrivere le narrazioni del design, aprendo nuove prospettive per la ricerca, la didattica e la fruizione della storia Made in Italy in chiave digitale
Colors of the sea and design: the upholstery of Riva motorboats between visual identity and luxury
Get PDFThis paper examines the chromatic and material evolution of the interiors of the Aquarama motorboat, an iconic model produced by the Italian shipyard Riva between 1962 and 1996. Positioned at the intersection of visual culture, design, and brand identity, the study investigates the strategic role of colour in shaping an aesthetic and symbolic imaginary aligned with both Mediterranean and international notions of luxury. Grounded in a theoretical reflection on colour as a cultural code and communicative device, the research explores the main formal and chromatic transformations of the upholstery, steering wheels, and waterline of the Aquarama and its variants (Super, Special).
Through a comparative analysis of archival sources, technical documentation, and firsthand accounts from restoration professionals, the study highlights how Riva’s chromatic choices — including distinctive aquamarine, lobster, and cream hues — emerged from a careful synthesis of international influences (notably American automotive and aeronautical design of the 1950s and 1960s) and a refined design vision shaped by Carlo Riva and architect Giorgio Barilani. Materials such as Naugahyde and Italvipla vinyl coverings further contributed to defining the product’s identity, not only in aesthetic terms but also in its sensory and symbolic dimensions.
The closing section of the paper focuses on the perceptual and communicative impact of the Riva colour palette, demonstrating how colour operates as a distinctive sign capable of activating mechanisms of brand recognition, desirability, and affiliation. The Aquarama thus emerges as an exemplary case of iconic construction through design—an object in which every element, from upholstery configurations to colour choices, contributes to the articulation of a coherent, refined, and recognizable visual language. In this sense, colour is affirmed not merely as a decorative attribute, but as a privileged key to understanding Riva’s identity
The role of design in education. Blockchain, digital business archives, and artificial intelligence for an accessible approach
Get PDFQuesta ricerca, attraverso la metodologia del design sistemico, analizza il ruolo crescente della blockchain e dell’intelligenza artificiale (IA) nei processi archivistici digitali. Queste tecnologie non solo migliorano la sicurezza e l’affidabilità delle informazioni, ma hanno lo scopo di rendere gli archivi più accessibili, superando barriere geografiche, economiche e sociali. In questo modo, contribuiscono a democratizzare l’accesso alla conoscenza, in linea con l’obiettivo SDG 4 dell’agenda 2030, che promuove un’istruzione universale e inclusiva.
Il design, inteso come attività progettuale concreta, ha un ruolo cruciale nel trasformare l’educazione in un’esperienza partecipativa, grazie alla creazione di strumenti visivi e interattivi. La blockchain, attraverso la notarizzazione, certifica l’autenticità dei documenti archivistici, preservando l’integrità del patrimonio
culturale e storico. Un esempio concreto è rappresentato dall’azienda Riva Yacht, che ha utilizzato la blockchain per autenticare i documenti relativi alla propria storia industriale.
Mentre, l’IA, i ottimizza la gestione e la fruizione dei dati, automatizzando l’indicizzazione e la classificazione dei documenti d’archivio. Gli algoritmi di machine learning possono rivelare connessioni inedite tra i dati, offrendo nuove visioni e possibili interpretazioni dei records del passato. L’azienda energetica Italgas, ad esempio, dopo aver digitalizzato i documenti del proprio archivio storico, sta testando l’applicazione dell’intelligenza artificiale su una parte di essi al fine di migliorare l’accessibilità delle informazioni. L’adozione di blockchain e IA risponde alla crescente domanda di accesso e condivisione delle risorse storiche, sviluppando ulteriormente la valorizzazione del patrimonio culturale. Si evidenzia quindi che l’integrazione di queste tecnologie negli archivi di impresa contribuisce a un’educazione globale di qualità, rendendo il patrimonio culturale non solo protetto, ma anche accessibile, promuovendo un’istruzione inclusiva, sostenibile e innovativa
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
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