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Royal Villa and Park of Monza: a knowledge based strategy for a preventive conservation approach and for a systemic vision of the site management
No full textA two-year research initiative was carried out in the framework of a wider project relating to the Monza and Brianza cultural district. This pilot project was chosen for its complexity, as it is composed of buildings, an historic park and royal villa, and for its relevance to the Italian cultural heritage. The complex is a landmark and consists of a diverse typology of objects: historic buildings with rich interior decorations and furniture; vernacular buildings; artifacts and garden follies. A first priority is to strengthen relationships with the region as it is the fulcrum of a broader territorial system and is intended to be the engine for culturally driven local development. Within the park there are about 30 buildings, each presenting different problems and states of conservation. The Consortium of the Royal Villa and Park of Monza, the public body in charge of managing the site, asked for support and scientific research regarding long-term conservation: planning of monitoring, prevention, maintenance and major intervention. One of the management issues in addition to this operational approach was the need to develop a model that integrates conservation with use. The first phase of work was completed in April 2016; it represents the basis for future implementation and upgrading, and is a tool for those in charge of the buildings’ conservation and financial administration. The principal aim was to define an effective model to manage the conservation and valorisation of the Royal Park of Monza. The twofold objective was dissemination and application of the Preventive and Planned Conservation strategy, and development of a preliminary study for drawing up a masterplan. The methodology acknowledges that a deep and detailed knowledge of cultural heritage is an essential precondition for both conservation and valorisation. Thus the first step has been to define the output and then design different file cards according to the type of data to be recorded. Next it was possible to insert the information into a synoptic table and reprocess it via drawings, graphs and pie charts in order to produce a list of priorities and typology of conservation activities, a general picture of functions, condition assessment, uses and the basis for a general conservation plan. As the cultural capital consists of both the villa and the park, therefore both built cultural heritage and landscape, this was considered an opportunity to involve all the stakeholders, public and private. In order to make best use of an effective, innovative site management model, it is important to define roles and participatory processes when integrating conservation and valorisation activities
Il Master in Conservazione Preventiva e Programmata per la Valorizzazione del Patrimonio Culturale: struttura e contenuti della didattica
No full textIl contributo descrive il progetto formativo del Master di secondo livello in conservazione preventiva e programmata per la valorizzazione dei beni culturali del Distretto Le Regge dei Gonzaga
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
Attività propedeutiche alla redazione del Piano di Conservazione della Villa Reale di Monza
No full textLe superfici esterne di Casa Bagatti Valsecchi a Milano: tra prova del tempo e problemi progettuali
No full textAppropriate 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
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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