José Albiñana and the Royal Palace

La “ciencia” de la fotohistoria de España ha atraído a muchos investigadores en la dirección de lugares específicos o de los estudios monográficos; a veces incluso en la dirección de los estudios de casos en particular. Los archivos del Palacio Real de Madrid, parte de los cuales se abordan en esta disertación, son solamente uno de ellos. La tentativa de interpretar aquéllos como fuentes de información solapadas podría resultar ser un verdadero reto, debido en gran parte a su naturaleza repetitiva y a su tendencia de ser a veces contradictorias. Los archivos de Palacio mencionan repetidas veces a José Albiñana (1819‐1879). Albiñana merece una atención detallada. El caso Albiñana/Palacio Real es un trocito de fotohistoria que ilumina una situación más general; una “micro‐historia” que puede ser metáfora por algo más grande.The "science" of the Spanish photo history has attracted many researchers in a specific direction and monographic studies; sometimes even they get interested in particular case studies. The archives of the Royal Palace in Madrid, part of which are addressed in this dissertation, are just an example. The attempt to understand those as overlapping sources of information could be a real challenge due to their repetitive nature and its tendency to turn out being contradictory at times. Jose Albiñana (1819‐1879) has been recurrently mentioned by the archives of the Palace and his personality deserves a detailed attention. The Albiñana / Palacio Real case is a piece of photo history that speaks about a general situation; a small part that can be used as a metaphor for something bigger

Open Source Software Production, Spontaneous Input, and Organizational Learning

This work shows that the modular organization of voluntary Open Source Software (OSS) production, whereby programmers supply effort of their accord, capitalizes more on division than on specialization of labor. This is so because voluntary OSS production is characterized by an organizational learning process that dominates the individual one. Organizational learning reveals production choices that would otherwise remain unknown, thereby increasing productivity and indirectly reinforcing incentives to undertake collective problem solving.Division of Labor; Mistake-ridden Learning; Modularity; Open Source Software; Self-selection; Voluntary Production

Il sito web Impero romano e intellettuali greci

The website Impero Romano e Intellettuali Greci presents a selection of texts by Greek authors from the first imperial age on the topic of the Roman Empire. Each of these texts is tagged to identify the most important issues concerning the empire of Rome. These tags provide electronic access to the most significant passages in which some of the most important Greek intellectuals living between the first and second centuries B.C. published and circulated their ideas about the Roman Empire. All of the passages are presented in the original Greek and are accompanied by an abstract in Italian in which the context and content of the passage are summarized. With the presentation of each passage the larger work from which it is cited is indicated, in addition to essential information regarding the dating of and the circumstances under which each work was composed

Vidas de hombre(s)

Guasch, O. (comp.) (2012). Vidas de hombre(s). Barcelona, Bellaterr