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Archival Provenance and Hidden Histories: The Case of the Peru and Green Vale Papers
Get PDFThis chapter examines the concept of ‘archival silences’ and how archive catalogues can help or hinder researchers in locating relevant material. It goes on to examine the principle of provenance and how its application to the archives of landed families and estates may obscure the lives and voices of many of the people represented within these collections. It proposes that the concept of provenance can be enlarged to include multiple creatorships by taking into account not just the people who created (or caused to be created) the records, but also the people whose actions and existence were necessary for their creation. A case study of the Peru and Green Vale estate papers held at Hull University Archives, which relate to the ownership of two plantations in Jamaica at the turn of the nineteenth century, then demonstrates the possibilities opened up by rethinking provenance. Redefining ideas of provenance to take into account not just the plantation owners but the people whose labour was required for these records to exist - namely, enslaved people - helps to envisage new ways of presenting the collection
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
Tourism, Protest, and Vandalism at the Memorial to Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts Fifty-Fourth Regiment
No full textOver the past decade, heated public debates and waves of protest have resulted in the defacement, destruction, and removal of numerous monuments to the Confederate States of America. However, the northern memory of the American Civil War is equally contested, as continuing disagreements over the meaning of memorials to the victorious Union dead reveal. Augustus Saint-Gaudens’s memorial to Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts (1897), located on Boston Common, elicits contradictory readings and responses. It positions the war as a war to end slavery, and highlights the role of Black soldiers in making freedom real and permanent; yet, in centring the regiment’s martyred white officer, it reinforces paternalistic racial hierarchies and betrays the conflicted political priorities of the statue’s champions, funders, and designers. Despite its frequent celebration in popular culture, successive generations of Bostonians have responded to the statue with anger, confusion, and indifference. This chapter explores how, by reinterpreting, repurposing, or even rejecting the Shaw memorial, citizens of Boston—a northern city with a long and interwoven history of fraught race relations and powerful civil rights activism—have attempted to wrest control of Civil War memory in public spaces from authorised channels
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
Inclusive Heritage: Hidden Pasts, Reconciling Presents, Diversifying Futures
No full textThis book focuses on the global goal of inclusivity and sustainability in heritage as defined by the United Nations and UNESCO. A detailed Introduction forms a commentary on the state of the field of heritage studies. The book is written by a cross-disciplinary team working in the GLAMA sector. It features contributions on decolonisation in museums and archives, co-production between heritage professionals and communities, the meaning of cultural memory and commemoration in anniversaries and monuments, and innovative uses of digital methods in heritage research. The chapters analyse the practices of the past that have led to power inequities in heritage representation and they stress the importance of multiculturalism for the future through practices such as preservation of Indigenous languages and material culture. Wide-ranging case studies and discussions come from the United Kingdom, Europe, the United States, Canada, Southeast Asia, Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand
Ethical Editing of Oral Histories: The Experience of the Birmingham Children's Homes Project Archivist
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