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Automatic Acquisition and Sustainable Use of Political-Ecological Data

acquiring several types of such political-ecological data. On the political side, a method is developed for gathering news articles about human actions that affect the ecosystem along with a method for

The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research and the Data Seal of Approval: Accreditation Experiences, Challenges, and Opportunities

The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), a domain repository with a 50-year track record of archiving social and behavioural science data, applied for—and acquired ... Data Science Journal, Volume THE INTER-UNIVERSITY CONSORTIUM FOR POLITICAL AND SOCIAL RESEARCH AND THE DATA SEAL OF APPROVAL: ACCREDITATION EXPERIENCES, CHALLENGES, AND OPPORTUNITIES M Vardigan 0 J

A Conceptual Enterprise Framework for Managing Scientific Data Stewardship

and/or the uniqueness of geospatial data. This work proposes a data-centric conceptual enterprise framework for managing stewardship activities, based on the philosophy behind the Plan-Do-Check-Act ... enterprise framework is based on the philosophy behind the proven industrial concept of the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle. It provides a frame of reference and a high-level approach to effectively managing

Mapping the values of IoT

We investigate the emerging meanings of “value” associated with the Internet of Things. Given the current political economy, we argue that the multiple meanings of “value” cannot be reduced to a ... aggregates these findings into a value-driven logic of the emerging global political economy enabled by digital technology in general and IoT in particular. These conceptual contributions highlight the

Introduction: Open Data and Africa

they offer, what challenges they pose and what the implications follow from the increasing political and institutional support for this concept.

Landesinitiative NFDI – a Central Point of Contact for RDM for Higher Education Institutions in the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia

This paper gives an overview of activities regarding RDM in Germany including the national political context as well as initiatives on federal state level. The knowledge about Germany’s federal ... chances for digitalisation in the German Higher Education System. Based on this political impulse, the German Joint Science Conference (Gemeinsame Wissenschaftskonferenz, GWK) convened the Council for

Using Classified and Unclassified Land Cover Data to Estimate the Footprint of Human Settlement

. Population data are apportioned to this settlement likelihood surface by overlaying population counts in polygons representing census enumeration units or political units representing population surveys. This

Data Sharing at Scale: A Heuristic for Affirming Data Cultures

, geographers may refer to spatial scales that designate different geo-political boundaries; computer scientists may refer to nested IT infrastructures (i.e. data, computers, networks, the internet, etc ... existing global inequalities by heralding in new opportunities for extraction (Serwadda et al. 2018). Macro: Legal, Political-economic, and Financial Macro-level analysis attends to the financial and

“Openness” with and without Information Technology: a framework and a brief history

concept (e.g. the ‘‘philosophy of openness’’); the nature of resources (e.g. ‘‘open data’’); the nature of processes (e.g. ‘‘open innovation’’); or the effects on specific domains (e.g. ‘‘open education ... ) refer to aspects or principles of ‘‘openness’’ as a multidimensional, higher-order concept. This higher-order concept is sometimes referred to as a ‘‘philosophy’’ (Peters and Britez, 2008) , a ‘‘dogma

Interdisciplinary Comparison of Scientific Impact of Publications Using the Citation-Ratio

reference, was included for Philosophy (Table 1). Table 1 Total number of publications from the year 2000 with sampling step size for the 5% most-cited publications and the median number and range of ... Immunology 34,008 150 43.5 19–291 Music 2,572 10 50.5 13–269 Neurology 853 4 45.5 12–188 Meteorology 281 1 54.0 18–220 Nanotechnology 173 1 32.0 9–435 Philosophy 3,197 15 57.5 1–163 Psychology

Growth in ICT uptake in developing countries: new users, new uses, new challenges

mobilization towards desirable social and political change. A small number of high-profile innovation cases have attracted the attention of international development organizations and academic research alike as ... of the field of development studies. It rarely takes into account processes of the global political economy of development (Carmody, 2012), more often than not choosing to focus on localized power

Developing a Model Guidelines Addressing Legal Impediments to Open Access to Publicly Funded Research Data in Malaysia

information, genetic information, race, religion, culture, ethnicity, national origin, gender, age, marital status, socio economic status, political opinion, educational background, geographic location, sexual ... ; vii. information which could likely lead to outbreak of racial, sectarian or political disturbances in general or a specific part of the country; and viii. documents relating the affairs of states

Teaching Research Data Management for Students

management for students since 2013. Since then, the course has been visited by over 200 students, whose disciplines range from computer science, physics and biology to philosophy and history. The course ... physics to biology and sociology to philosophy. Figure 2a shows the number of participants from different fields of research. The large percentage of students from the Master degree programmes “Intelligent

Fostering Data Openness by Enabling Science: A Proposal for Micro-Funding

creation of peer reputations, group lending has been identified as a means of building networks of trust (Mayoux 1999) and even political empowerment (Barry 2012). For micro-funding then, in line with ... proposal has been a call for a shift in the underlying philosophy associated with Open Data. Instead of basing calls for greater data sharing for those in low-resourced environments on appeals to the

Global Data Quality Assessment and the Situated Nature of “Best” Research Practices in Biology

of Humanities, University of Adelaide, AU; and Exeter Centre for the Study of the Life Sciences and Department of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology, University of Exeter, GB Profiles: iD ... About Sabina Sabina Leonelli is Associate Professor in Philosophy and History of Science at the University of Exeter, UK. She serves as the Co-Director of the Exeter Centre for the Study of the Life

Indigenous Data Governance: Strategies from United States Native Nations

, Indigenous peoples and nations are political entities with rights and interests in data about their peoples, lands, and resources (Banerjee 2003, United Nations 2018, Rainie et al. 2019). The status as ... political entities is the fundamental difference in the relationship between Indigenous peoples and nations with Indigenous data, and other racial and ethnic groups’ relationships with data about their

Proceedings of the 20th International CODATA Conference Scientific Data and Knowledge within the Information Society CODATA 2006

, display, dissemination, and use by sharing across disciplines and across geographic boundaries. Equally important, CODATA addresses economic, political, social, and business issues, including intellectual

Enhancing the Research Data Management of Computer-Based Educational Assessments in Switzerland

educational science and computer-based assessment is discussed on the basis of a huge Swiss school assessment project. Chapter 2 describes the assessment project and gives information on its political and legal ... constitute a political body: The Swiss conference of cantonal ministers of education (in German: Schweizerische Konferenz der kantonalen Erziehungsdirektoren – EDK, http://www.edk.ch) which is not a national

Designing Transnational Hydroclimatological Observation Networks and Data Sharing Policies in West Africa

Network (RBSN) should be exchanged without charge and with no conditions on use” for research, education, and climate services. The complexity of the technical and political implementation of this WMO ... . Ebola disease in 2014), terrorism, dramatic changes of governments, political instability in the region, vandalism and armed robbery (e.g. damages dues to wildfire, theft of solar panel or batteries, etc

Financialization and information technology: themes, issues and critical debates – part I

social science disciplines (finance, information systems, political economy) on complex theoretical, empirical and practical issues and debates within financialization, in which multiple actors interact ... with two competing positions – that financialization causes inequality (Lazonick, 2010) or inequality causes financialization (Saith, 2011) . Similarly in classical Marxist political economy