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Report on the existing legal framework for Libraries and Archives (LA) industries in EU
Full text linkUnder the auspices of the reCreating Europe project, the work presented in this report responds to the growing need for a sector-specific analysis of European digital copyright law vis-à-vis cultural heritage institutions (CHIs). The research carried out within Task 5.1 - European legal framework for GLAM industries: from closure to Openness of the reCreating Europe’s Work Package (WP) 5 dedicated to Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums (GLAM) aims to deliver a comprehensive legal mapping of EU and national copyright provisions impacting the sector. This report is the first result of such endeavor. It outlines the research outcomes stemming from the specific focus on the European copyright regulation affecting Libraries and Archives (LA). A complementary analysis on Galleries and Museums (GM) will be delivered in Month 18.
Consistently with the specific aim of the Task, the embraced methodology is a two-tiered systematic legal analysis. The first tier is represented by the collection and systematization of, respectively, EU and national legal sources. The second tier foresees a cross-jurisdictional analysis, which displays the degree of harmonization of copyright rules, main points of convergence and divergence among the selected copyright systems, thus setting the floor for further qualitative, quantitative, and comparative research.
The conducted research on LA-relevant copyright provisions offers three main preliminary results. First, the systematized EU copyright legal framework shows a growing sensitivity and focus on LA, as well as CHIs in general, and a considerable body of sector-specific mandatory copyright exceptions and limitations. Second, the relevant national copyright regulations turn out to be significantly harmonized, despite the presence of optional provisions at EU level. Third, the patterns of convergence and divergence between the legislative approach of the Member States with regards to specific provisions (e.g. public lending, uses by LA and/or at their premises for purposes of preservation, private study or research) corroborate the need for a sound process of copyright modernization, capable of effectively tackling legal uncertainties in the digital environment
RRT∗ and Goal-Driven Variable Admittance Control for Obstacle Avoidance in Manual Guidance Applications
No full textIn manual guidance robotic applications, like the handling of large and heavy objects in a cluttered environment, it is important to guarantee that the operator accurately reaches the goal position without collisions with working isles or other obstacles in the surrounding environment. When the transported object is bulky, the operator's view is obstructed and the situation becomes more critical. In this work, a novel variable admittance control provides the operator with a directional haptic feedback about the best motion direction towards the goal. This feedback allows the user to accurately reach the target position in a cluttered environment, also in case his/her view is partially or totally obstructed. To select the best motion direction in a cluttered workspace, a tree-based structure rooted in the goal is optimally built offline to fully explore the environment free-space based on the workspace layout and regardless of the initial position. Then, at each time instant, the optimal motion direction is determined based on the current position with respect to the exploring structure and on the user motion intention. In this work, to build the tree structure, we adapt RRT∗ algorithm to the manual guidance context and we define a tailored cost function. The performance is evaluated in many scenarios with a variable number of obstacles of different shapes involving several subjects and a Comau Smart Six robot
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
Report on the existing legal framework for Libraries and Archives (LA) industries in EU
No full textThe present report is one of two deliverables drafted for the purposes of Task 5.1 - European legal framework for GLAM industries: from closure to Openness of the reCreating Europe’s Work Package (WP) 5, which aims at providing a map of EU and national copyright provisions that have an impact on digitisation practices by Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums (GLAMs). This report focuses on Galleries and Museums (GM) and builds on the first deliverable (D5.2 Report on the existing legal framework for Libraries and Archives (LA) industries in EU) – dedicated to Libraries and Archives (LA) and delivered in Month 12.
The analysis specifically purports to complete the picture of copyright regulation from the perspective of the GLAM sector, as well as to further deepen the analysis adding EU and national insights to the recollection of relevant legal sources. For this reason, the report fundamentally embraces the same methodology followed by the preceding deliverable, namely a systematic legal analysis of EU and national legal sources. However, instead of looking at all EU Member States (MSs), it strategically focuses more in details on seven selected countries (Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands) and one former MS (the United Kingdom) that was not considered in the former report. The targets were chosen as representative of the transposition of the CDSM and because of the interest raised by their comparison and resources for the analysis.
The present report confirms one of the findings of the former report, that is the growing relevance of sector-specific copyright exceptions and limitations at EU level, while it also emphasises the structural differences that still feature in the national implementations of EU laws and exacerbate the risk of creating legal uncertainty and impairing cross-border transactions. Overall, the analysis confirms the need for a continuing regulatory effort towards effective copyright reform tackling the needs of the GLAM sector, especially considering the opportunities related to the digital environment.
The deliverable is under acceptance by the European Commission
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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