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The use of ASBOs against young people in England and Wales: lessons from Scotland
No full textThe Anti-Social Behaviour Order (ASBO) is one of the best known measures used to tackle anti-social behaviour. In keeping with the popular conception, the order is frequently used against young people. Of all ASBOs issued in England and Wales up to the end of 2005, roughly 40% were imposed on under-18s. This paper begins with a brief outline of the three principles at the heart of the celebrated Scottish children’s hearings system. With reference to these principles, and to the provisions which govern the use of the order against 12–15 year olds north of the border, the paper then discusses five areas of concern about the use of ASBOs against young people in England and Wales: the readiness to resort to ASBOs; the forum for ASBO applications; the terms of ASBOs; publicising the details of ASBOs; and custodial net-widening. The paper ends by suggesting reforms to the ASBO regime in England and Wales insofar as it is used against young people.<br/
Analysing criminal justice policy : the anti-social behaviour order and the pervasive effect of Packer's two models of the criminal justice process
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DSpace for Data Revisited
Full text linkPresentation at Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-13, 2014DSpace Interest Group PresentationsThe University of Edinburgh, like many other universities, is currently undertaking extensive work to build infrastructure that supports and enables good practice in the area of Research Data Management (RDM). This infrastructure ranges from large-scale research storage facilities to data management planning tools.
One aspect of Research Data Management highlighted in the University’s RDM Roadmap is ‘Data stewardship: tools and services to aid in the description, deposit, and continuity of access to completed research data outputs.’
Such an example is Edinburgh DataShare, an open research data repository running on DSpace and hosted at the Data Library, University of Edinburgh. It holds and curates data (and associated metadata) for public consumption on behalf of Edinburgh University data creators and is integral to the successful implementation of the RDM Roadmap.
This paper will discuss recent usability and technical developments including:
- improvements to the deposit workflow (as identified by pilot users) such as collapsible non-required fields and clearer license information
- load balancing between sites
- development server enhancements to make it easier for depositors to test repository functionality
- SWORD batch ingesting (for large or many files from remote computers)Macdonald, Stuart (EDINA & Data Library, University of Edinburgh)Rice, Robin (EDINA & Data Library, University of Edinburgh
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
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe 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
GIS in Digital Repositories
No full textWorkshop at Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-13, 2014Workshops and TutorialsGeographic Information Systems (GIS) produce a plethora of spatially referenced data that are in high demand by the research community. Libraries’ ability to identify, deliver, and preserve such scientific data, however, has fallen behind their ability to manage other forms of complex digital objects (e.g., audio/video). Rather than create “GIS content” silos, many libraries want to manage researcher-generated geospatial datasets as durable digital objects in keeping with core digital library practice. Moreover, they also want to manage assets with some geographic association (e.g., a place name or postcode) and to integrate gazetteer services, controlled vocabularies, or other GIS tools.
This workshop will discuss solutions, strategies, and best practices that should be applicable to anyone with GIS or georeferenced assets to manage in a repository. We will draw from expertise in managing spatial data assets within a repository environment with a view to informing and refining current practice.Hardy, Darren (Stanford University, United States of America)Howard, John (University College Dublin, Ireland)Macdonald, Stuart (The University of Edinburgh, UK
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