http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/57738 http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/retrieve/209924 http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/57738 Search the Channel search http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/simple-search http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/60442 Title: Demography and Environment in Grassland Settlement: Using Linked Longitudinal and Cross-Sectional Data to Explore Household and Agricultural Systems <br/> <br/>Authors: Sylvester, Kenneth M.; Leonard, Susan Hautaniemi; Gutmann, Myron P.; Cunfer, Geoff <br/> <br/>Abstract: The Demography and Environment in Grassland Settlement project (DEGS) is a study of the relationship between population and environment in Kansas during its settlement and conversion from grassland to grain cultivation and rangeland. The research team involved in this project had as its goal to bring together data about farms and farm families in order to understand the core transformations in land use and family dynamics that took place during the process of settling and developing an agricultural landscape. For reasons we will explain later, the state of Kansas – located near the centre of the U.S. in a grassland ecosystem – is ideally suited for this study by virtue of its location, history and the documents that exist about it. In order to capture the environmental variability of Kansas, we are assembling a linked database of farm and family census records for twenty-five townships scattered across the state. This paper is about the process of choosing that sample, about the data we have accumulated and about the process we are undertaking to link records about families and farms through time and to attempt to find their locations in space. Sat, 29 Oct 2005 22:58:59 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/60441 Title: A Digital Decade: Where Have We Been and Where Are We Going in Digital Preservation? <br/> <br/>Authors: McGovern, Nancy <br/> <br/>Abstract: There has been measurable progress in the digital preservation community since the seminal work Preserving Digital Information: Final Report and Recommendations was published by the commission of the Commission on Preservation and Access and RLG more than a decade ago. Those concerned about digital preservation in 1996 did not have the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) standard to frame the development and discussion of digital preservation developments; or a set of attributes of trusted digital repository to delineate the organizational context for digital preservation; or a data dictionary for preservation metadata; or the concept of institutional repositories made real by a range of software options. All of these developments have emerged within the past decade. Today, we have conferences that are entirely devoted to digital preservation (e.g., the International Preservation (iPres)) conference and peer-reviewed journals for digital preservation, (e.g., The International Journal of Digital Curation). One can follow the maturation of the digital preservation community in a decade of RLG DigiNews articles. Sun, 29 Oct 2006 22:58:59 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/60440 Title: ICPSR Meets OAIS: Applying the OAIS Reference Model to the Social Science Archive Context <br/> <br/>Authors: Vardigan, Mary; Whiteman, Cole <br/> <br/>Abstract: This paper reviews the archival process at the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), a repository of digital social science data, and maps ICPSR’s Ingest and Access operations to the Open Archival Information System (OAIS)Reference Model. The paper also assesses ICPSR’s conformance with the archival responsibilities of ‘‘trusted’’ OAIS repositories, with the proviso that audit criteria for archival certification are still under development. The ICPSR to OAIS mapping exercise has benefits for the larger social science archiving community because it provides an interpretation of the reference model in the quantitative social science environment and points to preservation-related issues that may be salient for other social science archives. Building on the archives’ long tradition of shared norms and cooperation, we may ultimately be able to design a federated system of trusted social science repositories that provides access to the global heritage. Sun, 29 Oct 2006 22:58:59 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/60437 Title: Immigrant Parents, Ethnic Children, and Family Formation in the Early Prairie West <br/> <br/>Authors: Sylvester, Kenneth M. Tue, 29 Oct 2002 22:58:59 GMT