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Geographic information and Web, new paradigm of knowledge for the local government
No full textTen years ago Al Gore envisioned a "Digital Earth" as a model of three-dimensional and multi-temporal representation of the planet, while three years ago Kofi Annan at the “World Summit on the Information Society" saw in the Internet connection to all the world’s cities a cornerstone in the development of digital democracy. These statements actually anticipated the importance and role of ICT and the Internet in the start of new governance practices for development and transformation of cities and regions. Current technological development makes it possible to imagine new models of geo-knowledge developed on the basis of interactions and contaminations between the amount of public geographic data and private information, combined with "Web 2.0" approaches and new data acquired by sensors and transmitted to the web "in real time". In this context the "wiki" approach unit with “global geo-exploration”- resulting from the new paradigm of geo-web representation - promotes the spread of the practices of “geotagging”, and the creation of new public and diffused geo-knowledge (see Wikimapia.org) and potentially integrated with expert geo-knowledge (see www.eyeonearth.eu). This scenario, based on new models of shared geo-knowledge about the territory, can therefore guide the actions of local government in responding consistently to questions posed by the community, assuming the approval of the dual track of public and expert geo-knowledge and local and shared geo-knowledge of the communities. Within IUAV-FPT, two simultaneously designed geographic based applications are interesting in particular for the various solutions adopted in relation to the geo-information request and its functionality. In the GIS project for the city of Mola di Bari "geotagging" tools are applied to participatory processes and allow the "sedimentation" of historical and cultural values into a geo-database; the geo-portal for GAL Venezia Orientale is a GEO-SDK platform and is part of a Content Management System with communication and document management functions
“Nuove strategie per l’identità territoriale: verso l’istituzione del Parco Fluviale urbano dell’Oreto a Palermo”
No full textNew Strategies for Local Identity: Towards the Oreto River Park in Palermo. With regards to the Oreto river park in Palermo, the Council of Palermo, the near Council of Altofonte and the Council of Monreale activated in 2004 a project for environmental regeneration. This project is focused on a Life Environment program named “Sun & Wind”. In this context, a research group of the University of Palermo, in collaboration with the three city councils, studied ecological, natural and cultural resources in order to improve the quality of life of inhabitants and tourists. According to the strategical planning framework, the masterplan of Palermo is integrated with the ones of Altofonte and Monreale. The common mission of the research group is the realization of the Oreto urban natural park by using an interpretation plan which gives voice to the territory. The output of the research was a map of local identity which: a) defines the general framework of the rules of protection of the Oreto environment; b) points out the strengths and the weaknesses which have to be included in the project
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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