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A Digital Decade: Where Have We Been and Where Are We Going in Digital Preservation?
(2007)
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 ...
Disclosure Risk Components of Contextualized Microdata: Identifying Unique Geographic Units and the Implications for Pinpointing Survey Respondents
(2008-06)
To safely respond to increased demand for microdata that contain contextual information, producers ought to consider how
this data may be used to identify the location of survey respondents. This study informs the design ...
The Influence of Community Violence on the Functioning of Women Experiencing Domestic Violence
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Springer Science + Business Media, Inc., 2005-09)
The relationships among women’s experiences of domestic violence, community violence, and their mental health functioning were explored ( N = 94). Social contagion theory was used to argue for the link between community ...
Ecological Frontiers on the Grasslands of Kansas: Changes in Farm Scale and Crop Diversity
(Journal of Economic History, 2009-08-05)
Farms stood at an ecological frontier in the 1930s. With new and better agricultural machinery, more farms than ever before made the leap to thousand acre enterprises. But did they abandon mixed husbandry in the process? ...
Demography and Environment in Grassland Settlement: Using Linked Longitudinal and Cross-Sectional Data to Explore Household and Agricultural Systems
(Edinburgh University Press for the Association for History and Computing, 2006)
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 ...
ICPSR Meets OAIS: Applying the OAIS Reference Model to the Social Science Archive Context
(2007)
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 ...
Disclosure Risk of Geography Attributes: The Role of Spatial Scale, Identified Geography, and Measurement Detail in Public-Use Files
(2008-06)
Spatial information is essential for modern forms of analysis; and as a result,
researchers have increasingly called for geographically-specific microdata.
Contextual data is one way to safely release this information ...
Preventing Repeat Incidents of Family Violence: Analysis of Data from Three Field Experiments
(Springer, 2006)
Preventing repeat victimization is an area of criminology that has shown particular promise in recent years. Based on the premise that persons once victimized are at higher risk than others for future victimization, British ...