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Archivi digitali di persona: PAD - Pavia Archivi Digitali e gli archivi degli scrittori
No full textIn 2009 the University of Pavia launched PAD – Pavia Archivi Digitali with the idea of creating an archive aimed at collecting digital born memories of writers, journalists and intellectuals. The archive was planned to include files and documents of a different nature, to ensure their long-term preservation and to make them accessible to scholars, in accordance with the author’s provisions. Following the setting up of a first prototype, the project evolved into a sustainable system, capable of handling large amounts of data and keeping them safe. Having established that the products on the market were not able to support the complexity of the project, the decision was made to develop the system locally, ensuring that it would be scalable, flexible, compliant to standards and interoperable with other platforms. Literary digital archives are mainly made of text documents (working papers, drafts at various stages of completeness, unpublished papers, pdf of gone to press volumes), and to a lesser extent of audio and video-recordings, photographs and images. PAD is currently extending the type of files to be treated, described and stored, searching solutions designed to support, host and make available to scholars digital material produced on the web (social networks, websites, blogs) and via mail. So far we have focused on files copied from physical media used by authors (their main computer hard disk, external hard drives, CDs, smartphones and mobiles) as well as from cloud storage systems (Dropbox, Google Drive and so on). Due to the large size of these archives, often including thousands of files, the development team is studying new techniques for data extraction and AI procedures of file recognition. Franco Buffoni's papers are used as a testbed for these developments
Archivi digitali di persona: PAD - Pavia Archivi Digitali e gli archivi degli scrittori
Get PDFIn 2009 the University of Pavia launched PAD – Pavia Archivi Digitali with the idea of creating an archive aimed at collecting digital born memories of writers, journalists and intellectuals. The archive was planned to include files and documents of a different nature, to ensure their long-term preservation and to make them accessible to scholars, in accordance with the author’s provisions. Following the setting up of a first prototype, the project evolved into a sustainable system, capable of handling large amounts of data and keeping them safe. Having established that the products on the market were not able to support the complexity of the project, the decision was made to develop the system locally, ensuring that it would be scalable, flexible, compliant to standards and interoperable with other platforms. Literary digital archives are mainly made of text documents (working papers, drafts at various stages of completeness, unpublished papers, pdf of gone to press volumes), and to a lesser extent of audio and video-recordings, photographs and images. PAD is currently extending the type of files to be treated, described and stored, searching solutions designed to support, host and make available to scholars digital material produced on the web (social networks, websites, blogs) and via mail. So far we have focused on files copied from physical media used by authors (their main computer hard disk, external hard drives, CDs, smartphones and mobiles) as well as from cloud storage systems (Dropbox, Google Drive and so on). Due to the large size of these archives, often including thousands of files, the development team is studying new techniques for data extraction and AI procedures of file recognition. Franco Buffoni's papers are used as a testbed for these developments
Archivi digitali di persona. PAD - Pavia Archivi Digitali e gli archivi degli scrittori
No full textLa diffusione di pratiche di scrittura elettroniche e la conseguente istituzione i archivi letterari nativamente digitali ha determinato nel 2009 l'avvio del progetto PAD – Pavia Archivi Digitali, finalizzato a realizzare uno strumento per archiviare e rendere consultabili documenti in formato elettronico di personalità rappresentative della cultura e della società odierna, riconducibili a diverse generazioni e formazioni. Di questo materiale PAD intende garantire la conservazione nel tempo e favorire lo studio, nel rispetto della privacy e del diritto d'autore. Preservare a lungo termine le memorie collettive e personali degli ultimi decenni è un’impresa resa particolarmente complessa dalla necessità di integrare competenze appartenenti ad ambiti molto diversi fra loro: discipline letterarie, tecniche e archivistiche, tecnologia dell’informazione, questioni giuridiche, aspetti amministrativi. Inoltre, la gestione dell’archivio digitale presuppone l’aggiornamento costante dei modelli di dati, degli standard e delle procedure per far fronte alla crescente varietà delle fonti documentarie. Fattori di particolare criticità sono, inoltre, la stratificazione delle versioni, la tutela dei dati sensibili, la gestione dei diritti, le licenze d’uso degli applicativi software (particolarmente nel caso di trasferimenti di pacchetti software dal soggetto utilizzatore a quello che si occupa della conservazione), l’organizzazione e le responsabilità della curatela digitale e, infine, il rapporto con l’utenza. Il successo di un progetto finalizzato alla conservazione a lungo termine di archivi privati digitali nativi dipende dalla capacità di individuare fin dall’inizio le soluzioni più adeguate (riguardo a linee guida, standard, buone pratiche e così via), con l’intesa che abbiano anche la caratteristica della sostenibilità. Prendendo come caso di studio le procedure di archiviazione del fondo del poeta e anglista Franco Buffoni, il cui completamento ha avuto luogo all'inizio dell'anno, l'articolo descrive le soluzioni informatiche ed archivistiche adottate nell'ambito di PAD, individuando al contempo le procedure da mettere a punto nelle ulteriori fasi di sviluppo del sistema
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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