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A Citizen's Perspective on Public Sector Information
Get PDFWithin ten years of the World Wide Web, the Internet has become the most obvious symbol of the information and communication society. Although information management does not solely depend on computers (as several millennia of humankind prove), an ever-increasing amount of information of every kind is stored and processed these days and has become increasingly accessible following the rise of the Internet. Information products constitute an important market, and demand is rising continuously. People want to be able to access information quickly, easily and without having to argue why and for which purpose they need it. On the other hand, they want their personal data to be well protected.
VIBE!AT (the Austrian Association for Internet Users, a non-governmental organization) has been looking into civil informational rights from a citizen's perspective over the years and derived three main features which we regard as necessary for public sector information (PSI) systems: openness, accessibility, and privacy/data protection.
Openness means that all PSI is publicly available unless explicitly classified non-public, not vice versa. Further, it means that the data can be accessed without hindrance and fear. Accessibility means that the information can be easily found, retrieved and used, and that it is affordable. Privacy and data protection, finally, guarantee that no private details become public and that you "know who knows something about you". This also includes the right of informational self-determination, that is, the right to control who stores and/or passes on your personal details. We will initially describe these three main features and subsequently illustrate them using the Austrian legal information system "RIS" (RechtsInformationsSystem) as an example
Options for Improving e-Participation at the EU Level
Get PDFIn this chapter, Nielsen et al. propose options for improvinge-participation at the EU level without changing underlying legal frameworks. Inresponse to the challenges to e-participation, which arise out of current institutionaldesigns, the authors make creative use of the research results presented earlier in thebook to suggest‘low-hanging fruits’for practical reform. The challenges addressedinclude the relative weakness of individual citizens’participation compared to that ofCSO’s, the weakness of the Parliament in the legislative process and the continuedde-coupling of the EU policy process from the will of the European citizens. Whilethe chapter proposes no easyfixes, it points to some obvious practical steps forward.To improve existing participation mechanisms, the authors recommend providingimproved support to citizens using the ECI, investing in the back-office supportneeded for the EP Petitions Portal to realize its potential and improving the scalabil-ity of Your Voice in Europe through advanced data analysis. They also make fournovel proposals,first among which is to experiment with participatory budgeting inrelation to the Regional and Social Funds. The chapter ends with a plea for a long-term vision of a unified European participation structure to gather and harness thepotentials of individual mechanisms
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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