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On keeping things as books
No full textMusic, literature, history. These things are not quite alike. But in Europe, before the advent of recording machines thatmade it possible for sounds to be recorded and played back, the three activities relied on the same technology ofpreservation. They were kept in/as books. Bookishness, in European and colonial imaginaries, was an often idealized,powerful means of keeping things from slipping away. An understanding of bookish things as a repository can beevinced in laws that required preserving a copy of newly published literary works and music for the benefit ofposterity; or in popular novels where a book featured as the chronicler (both recorder and narrator) of its ownadventures, beyond the lifespans of individual users. Scholars have paid specialist attention to the ontologicaldifferences among music, literature, and history when they are kept as books. Discipline-specific trainings andconversations tend to emphasize how different these objects and practices are. Yet focusing on their shared mode ofbookish preservation offers other rewards. Our multi-authored article is a creative experiment in bringing togethermusicologists, literary scholars, and historians to test the potential, for our own fields and with implications for otherhumanities disciplines, of foregrounding this technological convergence. We propose the more capacious categories ofbookkeepers (people who keep things as books) and cultures of note-taking (whether glossing a textbook or notatingmusic) as fruitful avenues to avoid writing the artificially separate histories of creation versus consumption, publicversus personal, authoritative versus amateurish, or artistic versus documentary practices. Music, broadly conceived,and the nineteenth-century album (a book of blank pages to keep verses, music, memories, and many more things)serve as the starting point for our reflections. Both exhibit a tangential connection to the normative codes of whatRoger Chartier called“the order of books.” In considering actors/artefacts/acts at the very margins of textuality, orexisting in a perverse relationship with bookishness, our aim is to redraw the knowledge-making structures we use toinvestigate our objects of study, calling attention to the intermedial and social practices, and cultures of remembrance,in which they are historically imbricated
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
The Allure of the Occult: The Bonapartes and the Sibyl of Saint-Germain
No full textThe collection of Napoleonic paintings at the Bowes Museum includes a portrait of Marie-Anne Lenormand, a mystic and cartomancer famous for reading the palms of Joséphine and Napoleon Bonaparte. Using this famous connection to her own advantage, after Napoleon's exile in 1815 Lenormand produced a series of memoirs reflecting on her experiences of the Bonapartes and their contemporaries. This paper explores Lenormand's life and legacy, reflecting on the allure of occultism in a century of revolution and upheaval, and considers also the question of celebrity in nineteenth-century France
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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