1,721,568 research outputs found
Ohel Daṿid (Ohel Dawid) : descriptive catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan manuscripts in the Sassoon Library, London
No full textcompiled by David Solomon Sassoo
The right to information: reviewing Queensland?s Freedom of Information Act
No full textChaired by barrister, author and former journalist, David Solomon, the panel makes 141 recommendations that are "not merely an upgrade of the legislation, but a new model... a radically different but more effective legislative architecture for FOI". Government information should be released ?routinely and proactively? without the need for individual requests. A Right to Information Act should replace the existing legislation. Cabinet material should be accessible unless it compromises collective ministerial responsibility, and released completely after ten years instead of thirty. The Queensland review could be a model for changes in other states and the Commonwealth
The right to information: reviewing Queensland’s Freedom of Information Act
No full textChaired by barrister, author and former journalist, David Solomon, the panel makes 141 recommendations that are "not merely an upgrade of the legislation, but a new model... a radically different but more effective legislative architecture for FOI". Government information should be released “routinely and proactively” without the need for individual requests. A Right to Information Act should replace the existing legislation. Cabinet material should be accessible unless it compromises collective ministerial responsibility, and released completely after ten years instead of thirty. The Queensland review could be a model for changes in other states and the Commonwealth
David Solomon, interviewed by Tom Spurling and Terry Healy, 12 January 2017 and 2 February 2017
No full textDr David Solomon talks about his childhood growing up during the Depression in Adelaide,
Broken Hill and Sydney. He talks briefly about the death of his father when he was 16 and
the fights between Australian and American troops on the streets of Sydney.
David then discusses his education at Ultimo Tech and the Sydney Technical High School and
his decision to work at BALM Paints (which became Dulux) after finishing his secondary
education. This enabled him, while working, to do his Associate Diploma at the Sydney
Technical College and eventually degrees up to a PhD degrees up to a PhD at the University of New South Wales. David moved his young family to Melbourne in the early 1960s to work in the Dulux Research laboratories at Clayton. This long industrial career stood him in good stead for his later career in CSIRO.
David joined the CSIRO Division of Applied Mineralogy at Fishermens Bend in 1963 after being rejected for a position in the Division of Organic Chemistry. He talks in detail about his research activities in that Division, and how he built networks and connections both within CSIRO and with the broader technical community.
A turning point in David's career was in 1968 when the CSIRO Chairman, Dr Jerry Price came to his office to ask 'how do you make a more secure banknote?' The interview canvasses many issues to do with the 'bank project'.
In the next part of the interview, Dr Solomon discusses his appointment as Chief of the Division of Applied Organic Chemistry and his vision for developing research programs closely connected to the needs of the Australian chemical industry
Dr Solomon was very much involved with the Royal Australian Chemical Institute and talks about the importance of professional societies in connecting public sector researchers to their industry counterparts.
In the final stages of the interview Dr Solomon reflects on his post CSIRO work and on the future role of public sector research in the national innovation system
Whistleblowers, and governments, need more protection
No full textQueensland was the first Australian jurisdiction to introduce legislation to protect whistleblowers. David Solomon reviews the operation of the law and argues that more protection is needed
Proceeds of crime: how polymer banknotes were invented
No full textSwinburne professor of innovation Tom Spurling and University of Melbourne professor of engineering David Solomon write: ‘The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and CSIRO's 20-year “bank project” resulted in the introduction of the polymer banknote - the first ever of its kind, and the most secure form of currency in the world.
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
- …
