Showing papers in "JLIS.it in 2021"
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a literature review in order to identify the main aspects influencing language selection and the use of multilingualism within scholarly communication, allowing for putting forward recommendations for future initiatives aiming at enhancing multilingualness, particularly in connection with the opportunities deriving from Open Science.
Abstract: It is undeniable that scholarly publication is boosted nowadays by the use of the English language, but this does not (and cannot) mean that the other languages have to be obliterated as scientific and cultural agents, equally valid and indispensable. Therefore, multilingualism is an expression of bibliodiversity that has to be protected and cherished, particularly in the area of Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH), a field in which culturally and societally relevant studies are made in local languages, when approaching areas such as cultural heritage, education, migration, public administration. The main goal of this paper is to present a literature review in order to identify the main aspects influencing language selection and the use of multilingualism within scholarly communication, allowing for putting forward recommendations for future initiatives aiming at enhancing multilingualism, particularly in connection with the opportunities deriving from Open Science.
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TL;DR: In this article, the ICA standardization renewal process started in 2012 has produced two versions, both in draft, of the Reference Model of the brand new standard RiC-Records in Contexts, on which the very recent RiCOntology has been based.
Abstract: Description is one of the key activities of archival profession, a guarantee for correct management, access and conservation of archives. The cornerstones of the tradition, formalized in the last decade of the twentieth century in the standards of the International Council on Archives, are the respect of fonds and their contexts. The ICA standardization renewal process started in 2012 has produced two versions, both in draft, of the Reference Model of the brand new standard RiC-Records in Contexts, on which the very recent RiC-Ontology has been based. The descriptive hierarchy and the concept of the finding aid – even electronic – as a document isolated from the Linked Open Data available in the infosphere are overcome. This contribution aims to present RiC-CM and RiC-O, their criticalities and perspectives, contextualizing them within the debate and practices of archival description.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the Covid-19 pandemic has produced numerous deaths throughout the planet, although in general it has been deadlier in older people, in people with previous conditions and in males.
Abstract: The Covid-19 pandemic has produced numerous deaths throughout the planet, although in general it has been deadlier in older people, in people with previous conditions and in males. The biomedical literature explains the difference in terms of mortality between men and women pointing to genetics and social and cultural reasons. The aim of this work is to explore information behavior, among the other sociocultural variables possibly influencing health outcomes in men and women. For this, we analyze the results of a survey with 95 people administered in Madrid the last week of strict lockdown for Covid-19 (April 2020). Questions were asked about the reasons for using traditional mass media and social media, the use of official and institutional information, the characteristics of the information that was considered useful, and different dimensions of information behavior during lockdown. Results show that the differences between men and women affect certain dimensions of information behavior and especially the information characteristics that are considered useful. Slight differences were also perceived between the two sexes regarding social media, that men appeared to use more for entertainment than communication.
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TL;DR: The paper examines the adoption of the Semantic Web technologies and Linked Data principles to manage a knowledge base about opera as Corago as it observed that formal semantics allow, not only to adequately represent the opera domain, but also enable to define the way information is being presented to users.
Abstract: The paper examines the adoption of the Semantic Web (SW) technologies and Linked Data (LD) principles to manage a knowledge base about opera. The Corago repository collects historical data and documentation about opera works, performances and librettos from the 16th to the 20th century. We experimented the use of semantic technologies to manage the repository’s knowledge catalogued following the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) relational model. Cultural Heritage Knowledge Bases (CHKB) as Corago could leverage SW and LD to overcome proprietary models and to introduce new information to better satisfy user’s requirements. Two well-established reference ontologies as CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model (CIDOC CRM) and FRBR Object Oriented (FRBRoo) are adopted to transpose contents form the legacy conceptual model to RDF. Through the process, we observed that formal semantics allow, not only to adequately represent the opera domain, but also enable to define the way information is being presented to users. This led to the definition of “reception pathways” which become themselves part of the knowledge about opera within the KB. This novel semantic approach is introduced with the Corago Semantic Model (Corago SM), a domain ontology dedicated to functional representation of opera’s historical data. Advancements have been tested with an experimental system and assessed through a questionnaire submitted to a panel of users.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the conflicting relationship regarding the transfer of the library collection that belonged to the banker and bibliophile Horace de Landau between the bibliographer and bookseller Tammaro de Marinis and the Director of the Library Anita Mondolfo.
Abstract: The contribution examines, on the basis of the epistolary documentation kept in the manuscripts archive of the National Library of Florence, the conflicting relationship regarding the transfer of the library collection that belonged to the banker and bibliophile Horace de Landau between the bibliographer and bookseller Tammaro de Marinis and the Director of the Library Anita Mondolfo. The documentation allows us to reconstruct the background of the complicated negotiation between the Landau heirs and the Italian State. The contrasts between De Marinis and Mondolfo concerned above all the transfer to the National Library of Florence of the entire collection of manuscripts and precious editions owned by Landau which were not present in the Florentine libraries. Mondolfo lobbied to get them all, while the heirs were willing to sell only a part. Another reason for contrast was the failure to sell a precious Dante manuscript.
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TL;DR: Martini was at his time, together with Bonghi, the politician most involved in the reassessment of library policies in Italy after the national unification as discussed by the authors, and his contribution to the Regulation on governmental libraries in Italy (october 28th, 1885, no. 346) reveals also his commitment to promoting the knowledge of the national bibliographic heritage, especially through the project Indici e cataloghi for the description of the main Italian collections of manuscripts and books.
Abstract: The text clarifies the biography and works of Ferdinando Martini (1841-1929), researcher and bibliophile, owner of a big library, which was later given to the Biblioteca Forteguerriana in Pistoia. Martini was at his time, together with Bonghi, the politician most involved in the reassessment of library policies in Italy after the national unification. He was Deputate at the Italian Parliement between 1876 and 1919, General Secretary of the Ministry of Education and collaborator of the Minister, Michele Coppino, in the first Giolitti government (1892-1893). He attended the 1879 inquiry on the Alessandrina Library in Rome, which is here re-examined, and partecipated in the political debate on State libraries in Italy, especially on the two National libraries founded in Rome and Florence. Martini’s contribute to the Regulation on governmental libraries in Italy (october 28th, 1885, no. 346) reveals also his commitment to promoting the knowledge of the national bibliographic heritage, especially through the project Indici e cataloghi for the description of the main Italian collections of manuscripts and books.
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TL;DR: The biblioteca del Servizio per i beni librari e archivistici della Regione Toscana (SBL) dal 1972 al 1984, anno di fondazione e anno d'uscita dai ruoli di Luigi Crocetti as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Il saggio presenta la biblioteca del Servizio per i beni librari e archivistici della Regione Toscana (SBL) dal 1972 al 1984, anno di fondazione e anno d’uscita dai ruoli di Luigi Crocetti. La ricerca, purtroppo, non ha potuto utilizzare tutte le fonti a causa dell’indisponibilita dell’Archivio della Regione Toscana. Il contributo si muove sul doppio binario della ricerca storica e della memoria personale di alcuni protagonisti. La biblioteca si caratterizza per essere un caso unico in Italia: punto di riferimento per i bibliotecari toscani e italiani per la loro formazione; costituzione di un catalogo informatizzato, unico esempio di progetto informatico nato all’interno dell’amministrazione: partecipato dai bibliotecari, realizzato in tempi brevi e a basso costo.
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TL;DR: The scandaglio della documentazione archivistica rappresenta l’elemento fondante della ricerca, in un’ottica di interdisciplinarieta, vuole contribuire ad individuare le tecniche e le tempistiche di lavorazione e fertilizzazione del suolo, le colture adottate e le rotazioni applicate al fine di rapportare le informazio recuperate dai documenti ai risult
Abstract: L’articolo mira a presentare gli elementi costitutivi di un progetto in fieri che si propone di indagare le fonti archivistiche disponibili a partire dalla meta del Settecento sino al pieno Novecento, per ripercorrere lo sviluppo dell’agricoltura e individuare e analizzare le tecniche di coltivazione adottate in passato, prima dello sviluppo della cerealicoltura intensiva. Lo scandaglio della documentazione archivistica rappresenta l’elemento fondante della ricerca che, in un’ottica di interdisciplinarieta, vuole contribuire ad individuare le tecniche e le tempistiche di lavorazione e fertilizzazione del suolo, le colture adottate e le rotazioni applicate al fine di rapportare le informazioni recuperate dai documenti ai risultati produttivi agronomici e ai rapporti pedoclimatici.
TL;DR: This chronological framework is used to discuss how different models of encyclopedias and encyclopingism have been intertwined with technological developments on the one side, and with the cultural debate on the new digital ecosystem (and on its role for the publishing industry) on the other.
Abstract: The paper traces the development of digital encyclopedias through four main stages: 1. The age of the first text-based online services; 2. the age of multimedia CD-ROMs, mainly based on the idea of an offline multimedia encyclopedia; 3. the first generation of web encyclopedias, when the web version initially supplemented and then thoroughly replaced CD-ROMs; 4. the age of data oriented, semantic-aware encyclopedias. This chronological framework is used to discuss how different models of encyclopedias and encyclopedism – including the Wikipedia model – have been intertwined with technological developments on the one side, and with the cultural debate on the new digital ecosystem (and on its role for the publishing industry) on the other.
TL;DR: The authors collected thirty interviews with leaders of libraries belonging to institutions of high prestige in the international field, and important informative and narrative elements emerge from the conversations, especially the profiles of respondents, the challenges faced, the changes taking place (change management, digital innovation, new services, new ways of relating to researchers and students).
Abstract: This synthetic overview starts with a recent book: Conversations with Leading Academic and Research Library Directors: International Perspectives on Library Management, eds. Patrick Lo et al. (Cambridge, MA; Kidlington, UK: Chandos Publishing, 2019). The book collects thirty interviews with leaders of libraries belonging to institutions of high prestige in the international field. Important informative and narrative elements emerge from the conversations. Specifically, they concern the profiles of respondents, the challenges faced, the changes taking place (change management, digital innovation, new services, new ways of relating to researchers and students). In its second part, the article compares the results of this research project to other similar studies of the same period. The final part presents a few words about the future perspectives of academic libraries in the world.