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The Anonymisation Decision Making Framework:European Practitioners' Guide (2nd edition)
No full textThe need for well-thought-out anonymisation has never been more acute. The drive to share data has led to some ill-conceived, poorly-anonymised data publications including the Netflix, AOL, and New York taxi cases, underlining how important it is to carry out anonymisation properly and what can happen if you do not.UKAN publishes the Anonymisation Decision Making Framework (ADF) to address a need for a practical guide to GDPR-compliant anonymisation that gives more operational advice than other publications such as the UK Information Commissioner’s Office’s (ICO) valuable Anonymisation Code of Practice. At the same time, we are concerned to be less technical and forbidding than the existing statistics and computer science literature.The Guide is primarily intended for those who have microdata that they need to anonymise with confidence, typically in order to share it for some purpose in some form compliant with GDPR and the UK Data Protection Act (2018). Our aim is to furnish practical understanding of anonymisation so you can utilise it to advance your business or organisational goals. The Guide comes with some specific tools and templates to capture and evaluate your data situation and these we hope should help render most problems more tractable. The ADF is designed to control the risk of unintended re-identification and disclosure, and therefore its principles are universally applicable
Investigative Methods, An Editorial Introduction
Full text linkIn our role as editors, in this introduction we draw on and extend the work of the historian Carlo Ginzburg (esp. 1980, 1989, 2013) to set out what we see as some of the main characteristics of investigative methods as a distinctive if heterogeneous field of research practices in their own right and explore their relevance in, to and for the social sciences. With reference to the ten contributions that make up the collection, we identify five such characteristics. As we perceive them, investigative methods have:
particularity, specificity or concreteness of focus;
the objects of investigation which provide that focus are typically unavailable to direct observation meaning investigations must take at least part of their lead from ‘trace’ data as a critical source of evidence that can be repurposed to access and reconstruct them indirectly;
that trace data acquires significance not on its own but by being linked to other data in bespoke evidentiary chains, catenaries or assemblages worked up as part of the investigation in question;
where the investigative targets are particularly complex, the process of data gathering, assessment and analysis is typically distributed and collaborative, something which demands its own methods; and
the ultimate aim is not just to know or understand the objects of investigation better, important as that is, but to intervene, whether by challenging an existing account or by opening up space for action on the issues the investigation has identified (something which itself can take many forms in relation to the contemporary politics of evidence).
Based on this ideal-typical rendering of these practices, we argue the kinds of investigative methods detailed in our ten contributions can offer powerful contributions to contemporary research repertoires in the social sciences by offering a distinctive approach to knowledge making, increasingly through creative work with digital data and technologies that puts them to previously unanticipated ends
The Anonymisation Decision-Making Framework
Full text linkThis book has been developed to address a need for a practical guide to anonymisation that gives more operational advice than the ICO’sAnonymisation Code of Practice, whilst being less technical and forbidding than the statistics and computer science literature. The book may be of interest to an anonymisation specialist who would appreciate a fresh, integrated perspective on the topic. However, it is primarily intended for those who have data that they need to anonymise with confidence, usually in order to share it. Our aim is that you should finish the book with a practical understanding of anonymisation and an idea about how to utilise it to advance your business or organisational goals
Investigative Methods:An Editorial Introduction
No full textIn our role as editors, in this introduction we draw on and extend the work of the historian Carlo Ginzburg (esp. 1980, 1989, 2013) to set out what we see as some of the main characteristics of investigative methods as a distinctive if heterogeneous field of research practices in their own right and explore their relevance in, to and for the social sciences. With reference to the ten contributions that make up the collection, we identify five such characteristics. As we perceive them, investigative methods have:1. particularity, specificity or concreteness of focus;2. the objects of investigation which provide that focus are typically unavailable to direct observation meaning investigations must take at least part of their lead from ‘trace’ data as a critical source of evidence that can be repurposed to access and reconstruct them indirectly;3. that trace data acquires significance not on its own but by being linked to other data in bespoke evidentiary chains, catenaries or assemblages worked up as part of the investigation in question;4. where the investigative targets are particularly complex, the process of data gathering, assessment and analysis is typically distributed and collaborative, something which demands its own methods; and5. the ultimate aim is not just to know or understand the objects of investigation better, important as that is, but to intervene, whether by challenging an existing account or by opening up space for action on the issues the investigation has identified (something which itself can take many forms in relation to the contemporary politics of evidence).Based on this ideal-typical rendering of these practices, we argue the kinds of investigative methods detailed in our ten contributions can offer powerful contributions to contemporary research repertoires in the social sciences by offering a distinctive approach to knowledge making, increasingly through creative work with digital data and technologies that puts them to previously unanticipated ends
Investigative Methods:An Editorial Introduction
No full textIn our role as editors, in this introduction we draw on and extend the work of the historian Carlo Ginzburg (esp. 1980, 1989, 2013) to set out what we see as some of the main characteristics of investigative methods as a distinctive if heterogeneous field of research practices in their own right and explore their relevance in, to and for the social sciences. With reference to the ten contributions that make up the collection, we identify five such characteristics. As we perceive them, investigative methods have:1. particularity, specificity or concreteness of focus;2. the objects of investigation which provide that focus are typically unavailable to direct observation meaning investigations must take at least part of their lead from ‘trace’ data as a critical source of evidence that can be repurposed to access and reconstruct them indirectly;3. that trace data acquires significance not on its own but by being linked to other data in bespoke evidentiary chains, catenaries or assemblages worked up as part of the investigation in question;4. where the investigative targets are particularly complex, the process of data gathering, assessment and analysis is typically distributed and collaborative, something which demands its own methods; and5. the ultimate aim is not just to know or understand the objects of investigation better, important as that is, but to intervene, whether by challenging an existing account or by opening up space for action on the issues the investigation has identified (something which itself can take many forms in relation to the contemporary politics of evidence).Based on this ideal-typical rendering of these practices, we argue the kinds of investigative methods detailed in our ten contributions can offer powerful contributions to contemporary research repertoires in the social sciences by offering a distinctive approach to knowledge making, increasingly through creative work with digital data and technologies that puts them to previously unanticipated ends
Modelling Data Environments WithinPROV to Assist AnonymisationDecision-making
No full textThe Anonymisation Decision-making Framework (ADF) operationalizes the risk management of data exchange between organizations, referred to as "data environments". The second edition of ADF has increased its emphasis on modeling data flows, highlighting a potential new use of provenance information to support anonymisation decision-making. In this paper, we provide a use case that showcases this functionality. Based on this use case, we identify how provenance information could be utilized within the ADF, and identify a currently un-met requirement which is the modeling of data environments. We show how data environments can be implemented within the W3C PROV in four different ways. We analyze the costs and benefits of each approach, and consider another use case as a partial check for completeness. We then summarize our findings and suggest ways forward
Theology of the consecrated life in the apostolic exhortation Redemptionis Donum of Pope John Paul II, with particular reference to the theological anthropology, soteriology and Sanjuanist spirituality of the author
Full text linkThis thesis researches the Apostolic Exhortation Redemptionis Donum of Pope John Paul II in order to see if it offers an original theology of Consecrated Life. The thesis is in two main sections. After providing a Sitz im Leben on the present author in her contact with Redemptionis Donum the first section prepares for the analysis of the Exhortation through presentation of the biography of Pope John Paul II and introductions to the influence on him of St John of the Cross, his theological anthropology and his soteriology, each of which are contributory perspectives informing Redemptionis Donum. Each of these elements is analysed and presented in such a way as to show its connection with the themes and insights which emerge in the Exhortation. The second section introduces the theological context of Redemptionis Donum through a presentation of the theology of Consecrated Life in the documents of the Second Ecumenical Vatican Council and some post-conciliar material, with particular reference to the connections which will be made with the later text. This text is then introduced through the rhetorical category of epideictic with which it is identified. The Exhortation is then examined in detail, using the insights gained through the presentation of the previous chapters. Conclusions about its theological originality are drawn up and its relevance glimpsed through references to the reception of this theology when it has been presented to practitioners of the Consecrated Life by the present author
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
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