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L’audit de contenu en architecture d’information: examen de la méthode à travers les écrits d’experts
No full textDepuis une vingtaine d’années, le Web s’est imposé comme média privilégié par une variété d’organisations (instances gouvernementales, entreprises, organismes, etc.) pour transmettre une quantité substantielle d’informations à leurs destinataires. La mise en place adéquate de ces imposantes structures informationnelles dépend, entre autres, de spécialistes de l’information et de la communication de divers champs d’expertise, dont l’architecture d’information (AI). Dans la mesure où l’accès à une information particulière constitue l’objectif principal d’une majorité d’activités de recherche sur le Web, ces spécialistes portent normalement une grande attention au contenu présenté. Pour ce faire, différentes méthodes visant à mieux appréhender le contenu ont vu le jour depuis quelques années. L’audit de contenu est l’une d’elles. Considérée par plusieurs spécialistes comme incontournable, cette méthode experte vise à identifier, à dénombrer, à décrire et à évaluer le contenu d’un site Web ou d’un écosystème informationnel plus vaste en le confrontant à une liste de critères d’analyse (ex. : genre, style, pertinence). La communauté d’AI se heurte actuellement à un déficit de recherche à propos de l’audit de contenu. En effet, rares, voire inexistants, sont les travaux de recherche qui en rendent compte de manière exhaustive. Fort d’une validation plutôt informelle effectuée en grande partie par des praticiens, l’audit de contenu se voit en revanche abondamment décrit et commenté dans une foule d’écrits professionnels. C’est ce qui nous a menée à examiner un corpus d’écrits d’experts abordant l’audit de contenu (ouvrages, publications Web, articles). Cette recherche procède à un examen approfondi de l’audit de contenu comme méthode d’évaluation de l’architecture d’information d’un écosystème informationnel numérique. Plus précisément, cette recherche dresse un portait des publications abordant l’audit de contenu et de leurs auteurs, définit l’audit de contenu, cerne ses principales caractéristiques, fait l’examen des activités et des protocoles d’audit de contenu et, enfin, analyse les critères d’audit de contenu. Les résultats mettent en lumière une importante disparité entre les propos des auteurs des publications du corpus. Que ce soit concernant la dénomination de la méthode, sa définition, ses caractéristiques, ses activités ou ses critères, le discours présenté dans chaque publication du corpus exprime de manière fragmentaire les savoirs disciplinaires à propos de l’audit de contenu. Nous observons aussi que les savoirs relatifs à la méthode ne cernent que partiellement la réalité informationnelle des organisations. En filigrane des écrits relatifs à l’audit de contenu, on constate que le discours actuel à propos de cette méthode est le reflet d’une approche plutôt traditionnelle de l’architecture d’information. Mots-clés : audit de contenu, inventaire du contenu, architecture d’information, évaluation experte.For twenty years, the Web has emerged as the favoured s of communication by a variety of organisations (governments, businesses, organisations, etc.) to deliver a substantial amount of information to their recipients. The proper implementation of these imposing informational structures depends, inter alia, on information and communication specialists in various fields of expertise, including information architecture (IA). Insofar as access to particular information is the main purpose of a majority of research activities on the Web, these specialists should pay special attention to content. To do so, different methods intended to provide a better understanding of content have emerged in recent years. Content audit is one of them. Considered by many specialists as indispensable, this expert method aims to identify, count, describe and evaluate the content of a website by confronting it to a list of analysis criteria (e.g.: genre, style, relevance). The IA community is currently facing a deficit of research about content audit. Indeed, research about this method is rare, if non-existent. Content audit is, however, extensively described and commented in a host of professional writing. This is what led us to examine a corpus of experts’ writing addressing content audit (book, Web documents, articles). Our research aims to carry out a thorough review of content audit as an information architecture evaluation method. Specifically, this research describes publication addressing content audit and their authors, defines content audit and identifies its main features, examines and content audit activities and protocols, and finally analyses content audit criteria. Our results highlight a significant disparity between the authors’ discourse. Whatsoever concerning the description of the method, its definition, its characteristics, its activities, or these criteria, the speech presented in each publication expresses fragmentally the disciplinary knowledge about content audit. We also observe that the current content audit-related knowledge covers only partially the organisations’ informational reality. Finally, we note that the current discourse about the method displays a reflection of a rather traditional information architecture approach. Keywords : content audit, content inventory, information architecture, expert evaluation
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
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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