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QUANGO Watch - Survey of non-elected public bodies in Scotland, 1995
No full textNearly 500 non-departmental public bodies in Scotland were surveyed in late 1995, having been identified from publications such as HMSO's 'Public Bodies' and 'Scottish Regions'. One organisation questionnaire was sent initially, then, if the organisation fitted the 'quango' profile, a further organisation questionnaire was sent together with board member questionnaires. A QUANGO is a Quasi-Autonomous Non-Governmental Organisation. The replies were entered into two databases; one for organisations and one for board members. The databases contain details of over 250 organisations and approximately 600 individual members. The criteria for inclusion in the database are that the organisation receives public funds which it also disburses and that it's board members are not elected.Raw ASCII members and quangos data files, equivalent data files in MS-Word (.doc). 2 x Perl script set-up files and ASCII README file (containing information about resurrecting the content in a web environment
Carstairs deprivation scores by CATT2, 1981, 1991, 2001
No full textCarstairs deprivation scores were used to measure relative deprivation differences between small areas and over time, as the scores are widely used and recognised (Carstairs and Morris 1989; Carstairs and Morris 1991). The Consistent Areas Through Time (CATTs, Exeter, Boyle et al. 2005) were used to provide a consistent geography between the 1981, 1991 and 2001 censuses, for ease of comparison. Specifically the CATT2 small area geography was use, giving 10,058 individual areas with an average population in 2001 of approximately 500 persons.
Carstairs deprivation scores were unavailable for the CATT2 geography, therefore were calculated from raw census data. This also enabled a second set of scores to be calculated without the car ownership component (called Adjusted Carstairs hereafter), as car ownership is more of a necessity in rural areas compared with urban areas and can bias deprivation scores (Christie and Fonea 2003). Although unadjusted Carstairs scores have been used for national studies this was considered a useful opportunity to investigate how the car ownership component affected scores in rural areas.
The Carstairs score is constructed from four components that have been shown to measure deprivation well (Carstairs and Morris 1989):
1. Overcrowding: the percentage of all persons living in private households with a density of more than one person per room.
2. Male Unemployment: the percentage of economically active males seeking or waiting to start work
3. Low Social Class: the percentage of all persons in private households with an economically active head with head of household in social class IV or V.
4. No Car: the percentage of all persons in private households which do not own a car.Richardson_07_Carstairs_score_construction.pdf - methodology description. Richardson_CarstairsByCATT2_1981_1991_2001v2.xls - data file. GROS_2001_data.xls - data file. Variable_headingsv2.txt - variable names
Survey of dedications to Saints in Medieval Scotland
No full textThe Survey of Dedications to Saints in Medieval Scotland is the result of a three-year project funded by a Major Research Grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). The project is based in the Scottish History subject area of the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. The project began in October 2004 and the final update of data from the AHRC-funded phase of the project was completed in December 2007. However, the contents of the database will continue to be updated annually (in December) to include material from sources outwith the scope of the original survey.*.csv are the 47 Unicode (Comma separated values) database tables. sql_access.doc outlines the procedure for converting an MS Access database for long-term preservation using SQL Server. schema.sql is the SQL schema for the Saints database. Saints dataElia.mdb is the MS Access Saints database. SaintDedicns_download.pdf is the field description file
IRI-Scotland senior management survey
No full textIRIS senior management survey: Survey Overview
Number of respondents: 25
Expected number of respondents: 35
Response rate: 71.4%
Launch date: 15 Mar 2006
Close date: 25 Apr 2006The IRI-Scotland project (http://www.iriscotland.lib.ed.ac.uk/) carried out a series of online questionnaires in 2006 to assess the attitudes towards open access and institutional repositories within the higher education community in Scotland. In total, three questionnaires were targeted at different stakeholder groups within the community – academic authors, technical staff responsible for repository development, and senior management from academic libraries.
The third IRI-Scotland survey was targeted at senior management with the intent to identify the level of repository adoption in the community, assess policies relating to open access, and to identify suitable institutional contacts for the project.
We present here anonymous data from the senior management survey in comma separated value format.JISC Digital Repositories Programme 2005-200
Refractive indices (500-3500 cm-) and emissivity (600-3350 cm-1) of pure water and seawater
No full textTables of infrared refractive indices have been compiled and calculations made of emissivity for pure water and seawater (35 PSU), suitable for radiative transfer simulation of observations of thermal imagers, such as the series of Along Track Scanning Radiometers. The refractive indices are tabulated as a function of wave number (500–3500 cm-1) and temperature (274, 287, and 300 K). The emissivities are tabulated as a function of wave number (600–3350 cm-1), view angle (0–85°), temperature (270–310 K), and wind speed (0–25 m s-1 at 12.5 m).Dataset is documented in the file 'readme'. Files in dataset are: ARCForwardEmissivityPureWater.nc, ARCForwardEmissivitySeawater.nc, ARCNadirEmissivityPureWater.nc, ARCNadirEmissivitySeawater.nc, ARCWideangleEmissivityPureWater.nc, ARCWideangleEmissivitySeaWater.nc, nk274_287_300_purewater.txt, nk274_287_300_seawater.txt, nk3Sigma.txt, readm
IRI-Scotland Technical Staff survey
No full textIRIS Technical Staff survey:Survey Overview.
Number of respondents: 12
Expected number of respondents: 20
Response rate: 60.0%
Launch date: 26 Apr 2006
Close date: 28 May 2006The IRI-Scotland project (http://www.iriscotland.lib.ed.ac.uk/) carried out a series of online questionnaires in 2006 to assess the attitudes towards open access and institutional repositories within the higher education community in Scotland. In total, three questionnaires were targeted at different stakeholder groups within the community - academic authors, technical staff responsible for repository development, and senior management from academic libraries.
The second IRI-Scotland survey was targeted at technical staff, usually based in academic libraries or aligned information services support groups, who would be responsible for developing a digital repository in their institution. The questions were aimed to help determine the functional requirements needed to build a national hosted repository service that would be suitable for the current and future repository infrastructure in Scotland.
We present here anonymous data from the technical staff survey in comma separated value format.JISC Digital Repositories Programme 2005-200
IRI-Scotland academic author survey
No full textIRIS academic author survey pt1: Survey Overview.
Number of respondents: 488
Expected number of respondents: 500
Response rate: 97.6%
Launch date: 15 Mar 2006
Close date: 25 Apr 2006
IRIS academic author survey pt2: Survey Overview.
Number of respondents: 53
Expected number of respondents: 50
Response rate: 106.0%
Launch date: 19 May 2006
Close date: 28 May 2006The IRI-Scotland project (http://www.iriscotland.lib.ed.ac.uk/) carried out a series of online questionnaires in 2006 to assess the attitudes towards open access and institutional repositories within the higher education community in Scotland. In total, three questionnaires were targeted at different stakeholder groups within the community - academic authors, technical staff responsible for repository development, and senior management from academic libraries.
For logistical reasons the first survey was undertaken during two different time periods and was aimed at academic authors from the following higher education institutions in Scotland; Abertay University, Dundee University , Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh University, Glasgow University, Glasgow Caledonian, Heriot Watt University, Robert Gordon University, St Andrews University, Stirling University, Strathclyde University, University of Aberdeen, University of Dundee, and University of Paisley. Library or Information services staff arranged for an email to be sent to as many research staff as possible from the target community.
We present here anonymous data from the two parts of the academic author survey in comma separated value format.JISC Digital Repositories Programme 2005 - 200
StORe online questionnaire
No full textProject wiki:
http://jiscstore.jot.com/WikiHomeThis is an anonymised file containing the responses to the StORe online questionnaireJISC Digital Repositories Programm