Travel Diaries

L'argomentazione verte sul concetto di Mediterraneo considerato come una lente convergente attraverso la quale viene osservato il contesto etnografico abbozzato dall'autore in occasione dei viaggi intrapresi nel ruolo di inviato speciale. Concepiti secondo i dettami del linguaggio giornalistico permeato tuttavia di senso letterario, i due volumi che ne rappresentano la risultanza, "Viaggio in Turchia" e "Itinerario italiano", sono resi stilisticamente compatibili dalla forma di prosa d'arte consona alle tendenze dell'epoca. Il punto di unione viene perciò identificato in una specifica prospettiva di ricerca che si riflette nella categoria dell'itinerario, diversamente dalle inchieste di tipo prevalentemente documentaristico svolte in Russia, Francia e Germania. Gli spunti interpretativi riguardano le connessioni intertestuali, nonché l'accostamento degli elementi aneddotici e allegorici nella narrazione della storia locale. Gli appunti relativi all'ambiente turco accompagnati dalle annotazioni sui paesi confinanti o vicini (Cipro, Grecia con l'isola di Rodi) non soltanto rivelano i segni della civiltà unificante, bensì permettono di riconoscere le particolarità del paesaggio e dell'ambito culturale. Nel diario di viaggio alvariano il territorio nazionale viene inquadrato in una dimensione sensibile ai valori etico-civili: dall’immagine di Roma, all’individuazione di implicazioni geografiche nelle opere di noti scrittori all’insegna del metodo di Dionisotti, fino al commento della regione nativa.

Among the three cardinal human relations in Confucian morality, filiality stands out as the only one with the potential of being universally applicable. While chastity fell upon women and loyalty was meaningful for elite men, all human beings were children of some parents. This paper will investigate filiality in early Chosŏn Korea through one relatively obscure figure, Kim Sawŏl. Severing her finger and feeding it to her ailing mother, Kim’s remarkable act of filial devotion earned the recognition of the Chosŏn court. Though not the only finger severer in Chosŏn, a fact of geography propelled her to renown among the generations of Ming envoys who passed by her hometown, many of whom left poems in her honor. Both the Ming envoys and the Chosŏn court, however, had to grapple with the potentially heterodox implications of her cannibalistic filial act. Not only did finger severing have resonances with Buddhist notions, local religious traditions, and fringe medical lore, but it directly contradicted classical Confucian injunctions against “self-harm.” The resolution of this problem, in both the envoy poetry and the Chosŏn social context, involved reinterpretations and rewritings that converted a problematic category of behavior into symbols of a Confucian civilizing project by emphasizing the affective power of sincere filial emotion. This mechanism of conversion and accommodation may partly explain how local differences and alternative cosmologies persisted in the context of Confucian hegemony in Chosŏn Korea.

The paper "First Polish tourist in Spain. About the relation of anonymous traveler from the year 1595" intents to describe the touristic experience of the author of travel diary "Anonima diariusz peregrynacji włoskiej, hiszpańskiej, portugalskiej" (ed. J. Czubek, 1925). It was presented on the conference about traveling "A większą mi rozkoszą podróż niż przybycie" (Łodź 2014).

The Diary of European Travels (1682-1688) by Jan Michał Kossowicz.
Jan Michał Kossowicz’s travel diary provides an exceptional account of a 17th Century journey, grand tour that took place in 1682–1688. On 12 September 1682 Jan Stanisław and Aleksander Jan Jabłonowski, the older sons of hetman Stanisław Jabłonowski of the Prus III coat of arms and Marianna Kazanowska, set off on an educational tour of Western Europe. During their grand tour, the brothers travelled across the German Reich, The Netherlands, France, Italy, Spain and England. Their tutors were the sword-bearer of Czernihów Jan Michał Kossowicz and Szymon Ignacy Gutowski. The tutor kept a hitherto unknown and extremely interesting diary which contains a description of their travels to countries throughout almost all of Europe, this account paints a colourful and fascinating picture of the everyday life of young Polish nobleman setting out on a grand tour. The diary helps considerably expand the existing canon of travel accounts from the final quarter of the 17th Century, and also provides a great deal of new information on the organisation and itinerary of the educational journeys, everyday lives and education of the young nobleman from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The Kossowicz’s diary contains interesting and vivid descriptions of many towns and cities in Europe as well as the monuments they visited, accounts describing magnificent royal and princely courts, descriptions of wonderful Baroque ceremonies as well as notes on colourful daily life in Prague, Paris and Rome. Jan Michał Kossowicz’s diary is a very valuable research source for the history of culture, education, daily life and mentality in the Baroque period.

Embora mais conhecida como atriz, Bruna Lombardi é também escritora. Já publicou, entre outros, No ritmo dessa festa (poesias, 1976) e Filmes proibidos (romance, 1990). Quando interpretou Reinaldo/Diadorim na minissérie Grande sertão veredas (1985) – adaptação do romance de Guimarães Rosa para a TV –, pôde viver uma experiência marcante: acompanhada de uma equipe de trezentos profissionais, comandados pelo diretor Walter Avancini, gravar no sertão norte-mineiro e deixar, por cerca de três meses, que sua “feminilidade” desse lugar à “rudeza” do jagunço. Durante as filmagens, Bruna se sente irreconhecível – “me sinto tão ambígua. Quando passo, ouço: ô moço, esse menino aí, ele” –, mas a escrita de um diário, posteriormente publicado (Diário do grande sertão, 1986), mostra, pelos olhos de uma mulher apaixonada pela vida urbana – “Vontade de beijar o asfalto” –, juntamente com o registro poético das filmagens, reflexões inquietantes sobre a vida no sertão.

This article builds upon emerging work on the geographies of sleep by turning to the sleep-hopeful body. More specifically, it attends to the methodological challenges posed by this work and the question of how spaces and states of sleep-hopefulness might be approached by geographers. Building on existing research on the geographies of biography, personal diaries are offered as a methodological avenue through which the sleep-hopeful body might be thought through. Two private diaries are used to discuss sleep as an affective process. The affective allows an opportunity for thinking sleepy bodies in relation to other non-human objects, things and forces. This opens up questions of how such processes can be known and recorded by the subject. These are held in relation to a wider discussion on the (un)knowing subject. The paper considers how diary entries might be used to get at the spaces and relations of sleep, between human and non-human bodies and the affective forces between them. The article concludes by considering what this approach and use of diaries brings to nascent geographies of sleep, and in turn, how attending to geographies of sleep might add to existing non-representational geographies.

The chapter is the third in a series of joint studies on colors in Japanese literature, focussing on the role that the fictionalization of his experience in London as a scholar played on Natsume Soseki (1867-1916) ' s overall allegoric view of the supernatural in his London diary, and the many fictional pieces based on his experience abroad. The methodology is essentially philological, analyzing terms, verbs, adverbs used in the description of scenes where the mingling between reality and the imaginary is the main narrative device. The paper also comprises a comparison with early Chinese material authored by Soseki, previously unedited in the English language.

Съдържание:
Предговор (П. Пейковска)  7
История
Геза Фехер (1890-1955)  27
Геза Фехер, Паметниците на прабългарската култура и връзката им с древната унгарска история (Прев. Н. Димова)  30
Дюла Моравчик (1892-1972)  57
Дюла Моравчик, Към историята на оногурите (Прев. Ю. Крумова)  59
Лайош Талоци (1856-1916)  103
Лайош Талоци,, Унгарско-български връзки (Прев. П. Пейковска)  106
Лайош Талоци, Грамоти за историята на унгарско-българските връзки 1360-1369 (Прев. С. Лекова, П. Пейковска)  121
Лайош Талоци, Лудовик Велики и българското банство (Прев. П. Пейковска, С. Лекова)  143
Езикознание
Золтан Гомбоц (1877-1935)    205
Золтан Гомбоц, Тюркските заемки преди заселването в днешната ни родина (Прев. И. Маркова)  207
Янош Мелих (1872-1963)  229
Янош Мелих, Славянските ни заемки (Прев. И. Маркова)  258
Оскар Ашбот (1852-1920)  274
Оскар Ашбот, Славянските ни заемки (Прев. И. Маркова)  276
Етнография
Геза Цирбус (1853-1920)  305
Геза Цирбус, Южноунгарските българи. Брой и начин на заселване. (Прев. П. Пейковска)  307
Ищван Ечеди (1885-1936)  321
Ищван Ечеди, Древното земеделие на българите (Прев. П. Пейковска)  323
Бела Барток (1881-1945)  335
Бела Барток, Така нареченият български ритъм (Прев. П. Пейковска)  358
Естествознание
Имре Фривалдски (1799-1870)  351
Имре Фривалдски, Природонаучна експедиция в района на Балкана. Второ съобщение (Прев. С. Хрусанова, З. Хубенов)  354
Имре Фривалдски, Кратък преглед на една природонаучна експедиция в Европейската част на Турската империя (Прев. С. Хрусанова, З. Хубенов)  365
Виктор Янка (1837-1890)  381
Виктор Янка, Ботанически екскурзии в Турция (Прев. М. Христов)  383
Янош Вагнер (1870-1955)  409
Янош Вагнер, Ботаническа експедиция (Прев. Л. Лесничкова)  411
Приложения
Списък на съкращенията  416
Българската тематика в трудовете на унгарски учени ХІХ в. - средата на ХХ в. Библиография. (Съст. П. Пейковска)  417 
Именен показалец  436
Географски показалец    446

Fehér Géza régész, Moravcsik Gyula bizantinológus, Thallóczy Lajos történész, Gombocz Zoltán nyelvész, Melich János nyelvész,  Asbóth Oszkár nyelvész, Munkácsi Bernát nyelvész, Czirbusz Géza földrajztudós, Ecsedi István etnográfus, Bartók Béla, Frivaldszky Imre természettudós, Janka Viktor botanikus, Wagner János botanikus

Although it is a field not yet investigated, it is now known that there is a controversialist tradition that was hostile toward the pilgrimage, ever since the early Middle Ages. Less well known is that this kind of criticism found justification in the judicial pilgrimage, a practice spreads in West since the late antiquity. None positive aura surrounded this vagatio imposed by ecclesiastic authorities (afterwards also by civil institutions) and, admitting to believe the good intentions of the penitents, does not change the fact that the pilgrims were not always good people. Who put himself in this kind of pilgrimage was guilty of murder or serious sexual offenses, so that Cyrille Vogel, that studied the phenomenon, did not hesitate to define it as ‟pilgrimage of criminal clerics”. Although studies on the subject are mostly related to the French practices there were also Italian destinations for penitential pilgrimage. This article presents a Flemish document of the late XVIth century containing a list of the places where the tribunals were usual to send the convicts to pilgrimage. Among others there are also some Italian places whom, among many shrines, were considered most important for effectiveness of the penitence.

Nella presente comunicazione, l’estetica di Bernard Berenson, storico dell’arte universalmente accreditato per l’influsso esercitato, viene focalizzata da un’angolatura metodologica finora inesplorata, che permette di gettare nuova luce sul suo ruolo di letterato e pensatore prolifico quanto acuto, il quale emerge da una fitta serie dei suoi testi, poliedrici dal punto di vista dei generi letterari. Il principale obiettivo è perciò quello di definire le categorie concettuali che si evincono dagli scritti di letteratura di Berenson, in particolare sul versante teorico allorquando essi sono incentrati sull’arte rinascimentale italiana. È inoltre instaurato un assiduo confronto di tipo filologico, ma al contempo multidisciplinare e intermediale, tra la sua produzione letteraria e quella critico-artistica, inclusi i corrispettivi fotografici dall’archivio berensoniano. Si esplorano così le peculiarità strutturali dell’ampio corpus letterario dell’autore, di grande suggestione e spiccata padronanza espressiva, che comprende varie raccolte diaristiche dal pronunciato autobiografismo, e talvolta contraddistinte dal tono memorialistico, oppure da una pregnante componente odeporica. Si analizza altresì la sua pubblicistica, contrassegnata da una vena documentaristica, oltreché poetologica. Un particolare accento viene posto sugli articoli berensoniani riguardanti gli intrecci tra l’espressione letteraria e le risonanze figurative (come nella riflessione sulle immagini visuali dantesche). Ci si occupa pure dei suoi carteggi nel quadro dell’opera restante (nel caso della corrispondenza intrattenuta con Longhi, Zeri, James, Praz, Piovene, I. Origo). Accanto all’elucidazione delle modalità secondo le quali sono costituiti questi volumi, si evidenziano le convergenze con i libri capitali di ricerca erudita di Berenson, vertenti sul Rinascimento artistico italiano, che rappresentano un nucleo irradiante nella costellazione dei suoi studi, descrivendone gli aspetti salienti e le pratiche scrittorie derivanti dall’ambito letterario. Nella prospettiva comparatistica si rintracciano anche i rimandi intertestuali presenti negli scritti dei letterati che si sono soffermati sulle carte berensoniane (Cecchi, Flaiano, Malraux). Una presentazione in forma di handout è prevista dalla comunicazione.

Lettere da Olevano Romano. La scoperta di un motivo ideale e la difficile manutenzione di un bene paesaggistico Angela Windholz III. ACCADEMIE E PRATICHE ARTISTICHE 188 Correspondance romaine d'une académie de province : l'Académie de peinture et de sculpture de Marseille (seconde moitié du XVIII e siècle) Émilie Roffidal 200 A partir de la Antigüedad: la arquitectura en la correspondencia artística entre los pensionados españoles

This
article focuses on the representation of the Muslim enemy in the epic literature of the Crusades and in the odeporic literature of pilgrimage. Pilgrimage diaries represent an important tradition where narrative and memory steadily entwine. Beginning with a survey of onomastic in epic literature, the study analyses the physical characterization of the Muslim enemy as a monstrous giant. Building on these assumptions, it goes on to investigate the formation of the idea of the enemy in the patristic literature, in relation to the transition from idea of Muhammad’s heresy to that
of Muslim paganism. Through this literary excursus the article shows the transformations in the physical representation of the body of the Muslim as enemy in the epic literature of the Crusades and in the odeporic literature of pilgrimage. Its novelty is a diachronic study of the physical representation of the Muslims in medieval literature that analyze in a deep way the approach of the pilgrimage’s diaries. In this context, referring to a corpus
of Florentine texts, it is possible to identify an original approach that that can be described as proto-ethnological.
This approach ignores the theological consideration of the enemy and describes otherness in a perspective that reflects the ethical environment of the bourgeois authors.

A embaixada de D. João de Almeida Portugal, 2.º conde de Assumar, na corte do arquiduque Carlos: notas diarísticas, percepções e identidade", en D. Martín Marcos, J. M. Iñurritegui & P. Cardim, Repensar a identidade. O mundo ibérico nas margens da crise da consciência europeia, Lisboa, CHAM, 2015, pp. 263-284

Resorting to colonial travel reports as a source for musicological studies can provide an edge in gathering useful knowledge, while being at the same time a challenging task from several points of views. A question which was often raised is how the specific social and cultural context to which such travel reports belong might imply misrepresentations because of their essentially biased perspective.
This article aims at highlighting other promising facets of these sources which come to the fore when texts are tackled from a different angle thanks to the concept of “sound event”. The travel reports we studied are mostly narrations addressed to a distant recipient to whom little to no previous information is actually available about the subject; besides, the perspective they convey is manifestly subjective. These features bring about the frequent presence of music-related episodes which rely heavily on their experience-based nature. An open approach towards these experiences in terms of “sound events” allowed a distinctive reading of these same texts whose results vary from what other interpretations hitherto put forth. A set of examples of these different musicological reading of the texts will be compared and contrasted

At the age of twenty-two, Charles Darwin embarked on the HMs Beagle
for a five-year voyage around the world. The trip, motivated by interests in botany and entomology already extensively developed by the young Darwin, would be fundamental for the subsequent development of the theory of evolution of species by natural selection. In particular, animal species are recognized, compared, and distinguished also through the sounds that they produce and emit.
This long voyage allowed Darwin to meet some indigenous peoples with different cultures and customs, such as Cape Verdeans, Fuegians, Tahitians, Australians, and Malays. Darwin noted the use of language in these encounters, described the funerary and propitiatory rites, and also reported on the music, songs, and dances.
KEYWORDs: Charles Darwin, The Beagle, Voyage in Austral Hemisphere,
Theory of Evolution, Ritual Music and songs.

Although it is a field not yet investigated, it is now known that there is a controversialist tradition that was hostile toward the pilgrimage, ever since the early Middle Ages. Less well known is that this kind of criticism found justification in the judicial pilgrimage, a practice spreads in West since the late antiquity. None positive aura surrounded this vagatio imposed by ecclesiastic authorities (afterwards also by civil institutions) and, admitting to believe the good intentions of the penitents, does not change the fact that the pilgrims were not always good people. Who put himself in this kind of pilgrimage was guilty of murder or serious sexual offenses, so that Cyrille Vogel, that studied the phenomenon, did not hesitate to define it as ‟pilgrimage of criminal clerics”. Although studies on the subject are mostly related to the French practices there were also Italian destinations for penitential pilgrimage. This article presents a Flemish document of the late XVIth centur...

In order to fully understand the evolution of relationships between man and wolf, historians must explain past phenomena, using their own tools and employing scientific methods.
Which sources should be used to carry out analyses? How far can they be trusted? How can their use be optimized? It is even more important to answer these questions given that with this subject, historians are venturing onto dangerous ground. For example, the very idea of a “man eating wolf,” aside from incidental cases of rabid animals, is subject to debate. A serious examination of the materials used is required. They are extremely diverse, and we can never be sure that we are taking everything into account, because references to the wolf presence are so scattered in documentation. Even looking specifically at man-eating wolves, we cannot claim to be exhaustive.

Au printemps 1860, âgé de 25 ans, le duc de Brabant, prince héritier du trône de Belgique, séjourne près d'un mois à Constantinople. L'Empire Ottoman est en voie de désintégration et le futur colonisateur du Congo belge rêve d'obtenir pour son pays la concession de terrains à Chypre et en Crète. Dans son journal, qui est en fait une longue lettre à son père, le roi Léopold Ier de Belgique (initialement choisi pour occuper le trône de Grèce), le duc décrit son quotidien à la cour du Sultan Abdul-Médjid avec une franchise et une liberté de plume souvent déconcertantes. Les acteurs du fabuleux décor décrit par Lamartine, Nerval et Gautier, trouvent ici un peintre aussi inattendu qu'exceptionnel.
L'édition de cet important manuscrit, retrouvé parmi les Archives Goffinet, est suivie de la publication de correspondances et de rapports diplomatiques inédits, et illustrée par de nombreux portraits tirés des albums personnels du prince ainsi que par les vues du photographe français Claude-Marie Ferrier, commandées par le duc de Brabant à son retour de Constantinople. Il s'agit de la première impression de ces plaques de verre stéréoscopiques réalisées en 1857, à une époque antérieure à l'installation des principaux ateliers de photographies : c'est le premier ensemble systématique de photographies consacrées à Istanbul, d'une considérable importance esthétique et documentaire.
Une vingtaine d'années après ce voyage, le roi Léopold II devenait l'initiateur de l'Orient Express, train financé par la banque belge Nagelmackers.

The article shows the Western perception of the Muslim world through the representation of the pilgrimage’s diaries. In this kind of sources is in fact evident the contrast between stimulus aroused from the comparison with otherness and the resistance that come from a generally hostile and conservative cultural background. The research cover the entire corpus of Florentine diaries and this choice is its peculiarity. Although there are many excellent studies about the pilgrimage, no one develop a systematic study on the representation of otherness, a subject full of consequences for the history of Western thought.

Background: Global positioning systems (GPS) are increasingly being used in health research to determine the location of study participants. Combining GPS data with data collected via travel/activity diaries allows researchers to assess where people travel in conjunction with data about trip purpose and accompaniment. However, linking GPS and diary data is problematic and to date the only method has been to match the two datasets manually, which is time consuming and unlikely to be practical for larger data sets. This paper assesses the feasibility of a new sequence alignment method of linking GPS and travel diary data in comparison with the manual matching method.

The travel diaries, from Christopher Columbus to Charles Darwin, can
contribute to the reconstruction of the musical identities of “note-less” peoples, not only as identities “other” than the narrating self of the accounts, but as parts of human history and of its symbolic thinking capable of abstraction - including musical abstraction - according to a transcultural process of continuous interference, contamination, and hybridisation. The traveler constitutes an inevitable filter in the narration of the other from the self, and therefore his/her narration could appear as an expression of repeated cultural colonialism exercised on indigenous peoples. However, given the absence of sources and direct indigenous documentation, the research has decolonial power because it can contribute to free these cultures from previous negative evaluations, false beliefs, and old prejudices.

This paper examines the textual and performative functions of early women's writings on the example of three accounts of the pilgrimage to Mecca written during the Qajar era by Mehrmāh Khānom ʿEsmat al-Saltaneh (1880-81), the anonymous Hājiyeh Khānom ʿAlaviyeh Kermāni (1892-94), and Sakineh Soltān Vaqār al-Dowleh Esfahāni Kuchak (1899-1901). It ponders on the relationships between the female writers and textuality, their readers and, finally, the diary personas they created. It claims that their writings emerged in the process of negotiating the then existing, masculine models of textuality and authorial authority. By rejecting the monologic authoritativeness of literature and textuality, the women diarists transformed their texts into a space for dialogue-including dialogue with themselves.

Travelling is a very interesting yet complex activity that happens on a daily basis. Travel behaviour has proven to be very challenging to model due to its complexity, diversity and size of the data. Understanding this kind of activity is important for applications such as measuring time expenditures, quality of life, tourist activity, strikes’ impact on transportation and other environmental impacts. In order to understand that kind of behaviour; research has focused on using machine learning methods to infer meaningful information about people’s trips. Among these types of information is the type of travel mode. This could include walking, cycling, cars, trains … etc. Studies attempt to do this inference from positional data obtained from sensor devices such as GPS. This inference could largely replace or complete a lot of the feedback required by users when labelling and tagging their travel diaries. This helps overcoming low response rates, which is one of the major problems of travel diaries, by taking the burden off the user to complete their recall surveys and other user-related privacy issues.

Previous literature attempting to identify transport modes for multi-modal trajectories holds numerous disadvantages. These include the negligence of the network matching process, ignoring intermediary modes such as the “stationary” mode, the lack of details of the accuracy measurement procedure, the lack of research on map matching for multi-modal trajectories, relying on likelihood and much more. Therefore, the challenge is to produce a model that overcomes all these disadvantages and that is capable of handling the diverse and complex multi-modal nature of GPS data.

In our previous work, we tested for the best configuration for GPS data collection to attain an appropriate quality level for inferring the travel mode and correct trip route purpose. We tested first for the best epoch rate collection appropriate for that purpose. We performed that by testing some user trips with respect to positional error, distance covered, speed and origin-destination accuracies. Results revealed that the best epoch rate to be used is around 60 seconds. We also tested for the appropriate ways of carrying around GPS devices for the same purpose. Results revealed that different devices perform differently. However, for the devices we used in our tests we did not note significant differences for the method of device handling. However also, it was recommended not to carry devices in lower pockets (like in jeans pockets) to insure good coverage.

In other previous work, we introduced Geotraveldiary.com as an online user-generated travel diary system that records users’ trails based on Web GIS technology. The online server-side application allows the users to visualize their trails and manually edit, move or remove points from their tracks on a map-based interface. This in turn helped increasing the size of our database with positional data labelled with travel information for a large city (such as London in this case). As a result, we obtained user-generated information from this system to learn and infer travel behaviour indicators such as travel mode and the purpose of the trip. And the more data was added and labelled, the more training data ready to be studied and used.

In this work we attempt to build up on our previous work by identifying travel modes solely from sparse GPS data. We perform this inference by creating a framework consisting of a combination of machine learning and GIS methods to identify different modes. These include Support Vector Classification (SVC), GIS analysis, transition probability and fuzzy logic. The framework consists of a sequence of steps, each containing one of these methods. Most steps act as a verification of results from previous ones. Some also work iteratively with others to enhance the accuracy of both the segmentation and classification. The application area is the city of London due to its complexity and the diversity of its transportation networks.

The framework introduced in this work classifies a “stationary” mode as an intermediary mode in the inference model. This is an important travel mode type since it occurs with high frequency in any GPS track. It also usually occurs as a transitional mode between two different modes such as waiting for a bus at a bus stop at the timeline between a “walk” and a “bus” mode. It also occurs as instances within some mode segments such as “walk”. Taking this transition probability into account increases the accuracy of labelling; and hence avoiding confusion within the inference model. This has been usually ignored in similar previous research, which our method attempts to overcome.

Another advantage of this method over previous studies is the usage of different transport networks to match GPS points to. Among these networks are the bus, tube, train, road, and pathway networks. The advantage of this is eliminating most of the GPS error, which increases the accuracy of speed data used for classification. Matching each segment of data to each network type also verifies the results of the classification obtained from other methods (if not does the job entirely) by assigning the appropriate modes according to the matched network.

We provided a novel approach to performing location-based activity recognition. In contrast to existing techniques, our approach uses one consistent framework for both inferring travel mode and network matching. An initial segmentation of the track first takes place to break the track into different potential segments each of a specific travel mode. The framework then identifies the “stationary” mode by applying a novel spatial clustering algorithm we developed for that purpose. The “tube” and “train” modes are made identifiable using a sequence of network matching and fuzzy logic algorithms. The “car”, “cycle” and “walk” modes are differentiated using an iterative approach of a group of methods namely; SVC, network matching and GIS analysis on a local feature database. A modal transition matrix is applied afterwards to verify the classification and to apply merges to any misclassified trip segments.

Results reveal that a good classification of most travel modes is attained with an overall accuracy above 85%. The tube and train modes were easily identifiable by our algorithm with an accuracy of around 91%. Also the “car”, “cycle” and “walk” results reveal an increase in classification accuracy compared to previous studies. That, as well as a significantly superb accuracy of above 95% for the “stationary” mode; which helped increase the accuracy of the segmentation process and hence the classification as a whole. As a result, the framework demonstrates a great ability to make use of geographical databases and GPS data to infer travel modes and hence attempting to overcome some of the major disadvantages of travel diaries.

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The main goal of Upgrading History is to preserve historical memory and to reactivate old personal stories. Europeana Collections include a good amount of soldiers’ writings (especially in Italian, French and English) and paintings, as well as a collection of letters from the trenches by Isaac Rosenberg. By now, Rosenberg’s letters and eight diaries in Italian and French were processed.
The materials are arranged on the StoryMap platform, highlighting the different itineraries travelled by a single soldier. Each journey track is enriched by the text itself and other media from the 1914-1918 Collection. Having the chance to follow the soldier’s itinerary is the best way to read a war diary.
For the skilled user who wants to deepen knowledge of the diaries and to read a technical analysis of the text, the project offers digital editions based on EVT, with full transcriptions, historical and linguistic comments.

The paper offers an analysis of the key passages in the diary written by zoologist Giosuè Sangiovanni about his voyage to Italy from February to
June 1818. Sangiovanni’s récit de voyage contains some interesting elements that distinguish early nineteenth century travel: the affirmation of romantic sensitive cultural issues, participation in the liberal political community, the demand for hospitality.

«The Minsk Governor Valery Charykov and His Entourage in the Light of the Documents of the Charykov Family Archive».
On the basis of the documents from the Charykov family archive, kept in the Central State Archives of the Samara Region, some aspects of Valery Charykov life and activity during his governorship in Minsk in 1876–1879, are revealed. The most interesting quotations from personal correspondence and diary entries of the Minsk governor are presented.

Um día Ken Jacobs topou no lixo uns descartes dum documentário televisivo sobre o assassinato de Malcolm X e decidiu apresentá-los, tal e como fôrom encontrados, sem maior manipulaçom, sem montage, baixo o significativo título de Perfect Film. Perfect Film é umha película de 1985 na que Jacobs reaprópria material alheo e anónimo filmado vinte anos antes. Mas é umha película de Ken Jacobs: o papel do artista nom consiste já na criaçom senom na sua mirada, no seu saber ver e saber mostrar. A morte do artista, no senso tradicional, conleva o nacimento do público espectador como artista: a arte está na mirada, no marco, portanto na audiência. Qualquer obra de arte perde a sua condiçom como tal quando nom existe um público (especializado ou nom) que saiba apreciá-la, que saiba ...vê-la..., Um dia Xurxo Chirro topou por casualidade umhas velhas cintas VHS que continham umha dúcia de horas de gravaçons de Luis Lomba. Topou-nas no momento ajeitado, quando a sua mirada estava preparada para entender, valorar e recuperar o que estava a ver; porque, como confessa o cineasta, de tê-las topado uns anos antes quiçá houbessem rematado no lixo." (Pagán, 2012).

Si tratta di una monografia accademica includente la procedura peer-review, che si basa su una versione parzialmente riscritta e modificata della dissertazione dottorale.  Questo libro scientifico si propone lo studio del diario personale come genere letterario nell'ambito sociale italiano a partire dal Romanticismo (Tommaseo, Leopardi, Dossi), con un accento ulteriore sul suo statuto nella contemporaneità, in cui si tende ad astrarre e interpretare i rilievi caratteristici dal punto di vista contenutistico e compositivo-strutturale. Si cerca così di rilevare le modalità secondo le quali i diari e i taccuini degli scrittori o artisti fungono da strumento di espressione creativa riflettendosi sul loro metodo di lavoro, per individuare i punti di connessione in cui si realizza la convergenza con la scrittura letteraria. Si tenta altresì di rinvenire le costanti tematiche che sono alla base della narrazione, nonché stabilire le corrispondenze intertestuali sul terreno letterario, sia all'interno di un opus scrittoriale, sia prendendo in considerazione i parallelismi con le opere diaristiche che sono pertinenti a una determinata categoria tipologica. In tal senso, all'articolazione dell'aspetto intellettuale e intimistico si aggiungono i connotati poetici del discorso pubblico, quali forme discorsive basilari del registro diaristico che sono sempre diversamente declinate nei casi concreti (sono focalizzati, tra gli altri, gli scritti di Alvaro, Vittorini, Flaiano, Bontempelli, Chiaromonte, Sciascia, A.M. Ortese). Inoltre, si presta particolare attenzione all'approccio diaristico che includa la componente saggistica e pubblicistica, vertente sull'analisi dei fenomeni culturali con un variegato raggio stilistico. Si vuole anche determinare in che contesto l'epiteto di diaristico si adegua a vari tipi di testi oppure si può applicare in senso interdisciplinare, cioè quali caratteristiche vi sono attinenti.

Indice

I. Introduzione   
I.1. Principi strutturali del libro di sé stessi   
I.2. Tra poetica, cronaca e autoanalisi   
II. "Zibaldone di pensieri" di Giacomo Leopardi come opera in fieri   
II.1. Diario intellettuale di un erudito   
II.2. Alla luce della lirica   
III. Testimonianza sull'epoca di Corrado Alvaro   
IV. "Mestiere di vivere" di Cesare Pavese tra creatività e angoscia   
V. Manoscritti dai cassetti e dagli archivi   
VI. Macroprospettiva del 'diario in pubblico': sulla scia di Vittorini   
VII. Satira nelle note di Ennio Flaiano   
VIII. Dall'appunto al repertorio delle idee   
IX. "Nero su nero" di Leonardo Sciascia: dalla realtà alla verità artistica   
X. Ai margini del genere diaristico   
X.1. Come un diario   
X.2. Annotazioni degli altri   
XI. Conclusione   
XII. Bibliografia

Testimonies of travelers are one of the most important groups of sources in the history of
Russia of all times. Traveling literature, being extremely informative, nevertheless didn’t get
much attention of scientists before the beginning of the XIX century.
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Kerch is one of the oldest cities of the world, and it couldn’t but draw attention of the
travelers, who are interested in new researches of antiquities. Poor attention of researchers to
the role of notes of travelers of the first half of the XIX century in reconstruction of the historical
past of Kerch caused lack of comprehensive works on this subject.
Article represents the analysis of texts of foreign travelers (in author’s translation) across
the Crimea in the first half of the XIX century, in particular, of participants in military and
reconnaissance expeditions, concerning the description of the city of Kerch  in cultural,
household, economical, geographical and historical aspects.

Ya se han estudiado con anterioridad las tácticas que el gobernador Miguel de La Torre había ejercido sobre los habitantes de Puerto Rico para suprimir las conspiraciones de sublevación. Estos mecanismos de poder han sido reproducidos a través de decenas de libros de historia pero su importancia se ha mantenido relevante mayormente al momento de explicar por qué Puerto Rico no siguió el ritmo de las guerras de independencia. Las tácticas que el general de La Torre confeccionaba para el control de la Isla no eran meros experimentos; estas estrategias perpetradas por el General estaban apoyadas por una vasta experiencia militar. Desde que comenzó su Gobierno, la situación colonial en Puerto Rico, desde luego, fue muy distinta al resto de las colonias de aquel decadente imperio español. En el año 1831 hasta 1834 1 dos jóvenes hermanos provenientes de Nueva Inglaterra visitan la Isla con el propósito de recuperarse de tuberculosis. Edward Emerson y Charles Emerson comparten sus perspectivas sobre sus experiencias en Puerto Rico por medio de correspondencia enviada a sus familiares en Nueva Inglaterra. Pero además de compartir las vivencias de lo que para ellos era un "Mundo Nuevo", sus comunicaciones escritas presentan varias de las crudas realidades que en Puerto Rico existían para comienzos de la década de 1830. Estas cartas son de gran interés para la historia de Puerto Rico, pues en su contenido encarnan ejemplos de las grandes discrepancias que encontraban los inmigrantes provenientes de los Estados Unidos al llegar a la Isla. Además de esto, las cartas de los hermanos Emerson reflejan de manera muy visible las diferencias culturales que fascinaban y disgustaban a estos jóvenes viajeros. En el caso del joven Edward, fue el que más tiempo vivió en la Isla y durante esta estadía, además de su correspondencia, produjo un diario de igual interés para los historiadores del siglo XIX. Es de esta 1 García, "Anticipating Colonialism," 65.