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Comparison of some available packages for use in research data management
Data management features of SIR, SAS, and SPSS were applied to a sample hierarchical data base. For each package, the areas investigated included the logical definition of the data base, data entry, data retrieval, data integrity, security, reporting, ...
Organizing the annual housing surveys as a very large relationally oriented data base
Since 1973, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, through the Bureau of the Census, has conducted a yearly nationwide survey of housing. Data on a wide range of topics are collected during face to face interviews with over 190,000 ...
The 1940 and 1950 Public Use Sample Project: Data quality issues
The 1940 and 1950 Public Use Sample Project is the creation of 1/100 household samples from the 1940 and 1950 Censuses of Population. The data source for the samples is the microfilmed original Population Schedules which contain the census enumerator's ...
The automation of data processing, analysis, and reporting in a large survey time-series database.
The May 1981 Survey will mark the 152nd Survey of Consumer Attitudes. Initiated in 1946, the purpose of the surveys is to measure changes in consumer attitudes and expectations, to understand why these changes occur, and to evaluate how they relate to ...
A new process for documenting and checking archival data
The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is a data archive and repository for social science data. A major function of the ICPSR is to disseminate the data holdings in a reasonably standard format. For holdings that will ...
An automated system for responding to data service requests
During the 1970s, there was a steady decline in the cost and size of computing hardware with a corresponding phenomenal growth in computing capability. Computers now help store, manage, duplicate and interpret vast quantities of data with an ease and ...
Online searches of social science data sets: The RIQS system and ICPSR data
Every solution seems to generate a new problem. The problem of accurately assessing public opinion led to the invention of the sample survey. The subsequent problem of analyzing survey responses brought widespread use of machine-readable data. The ...
Developing an aggregated survey/macro-economic database for statistical and graphical social science applications
The Survey Research Center at The University of Michigan has routinely conducted surveys of consumer attitudes since 1946. The May 1981 survey is the 152nd in this series which provides regular assessments of consumer attitudes and expectations. The ...
On-line manipulation of small area demographic data: AmericanProfilesm
A new approach to the way in which users interact with the computer in an on-line environment is presented. The method is designed specifically to provide both a friendly and highly productive means of communicating user requirements. Unlike systems ...
A TEXT-RETRIEVAL SYSTEM USED IN HUMANISTIC ARCHIVE APPLICATIONS (abstract only)
NOVA*STATUS is a text-retrieval system which is available at all Norwegian universities and several government institutions, running on computers from different manufacturers.
NOVA*STATUS is a full-text retrieval system originally developed by AERE, Harwell,...
Bibliometric analysis of isi's Arts & Humanities Citation index
Bibliometrics, the quantitative study of literature, has made a considerable contribution to the management of scientific libraries and to the understanding of the sociology of science. It has joined operations research as effective management tools in ...
Bibliometric analysis of Amrican history data by FAMULUS (abstract only)
NOVA*STATUS is a text-retrieval system which is available at all Norwegian universities and several government institutions, running on computers from different manufacturers.NOVA*STATUS is a full-text retrieval system originally developed by AERE, ...
Bibliometric analysis of ISI's Arts & Humanities Citation Index (abstract only)
The most frequently cited journal articles in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) are analyzed in terms of their disciplinary classification. Four years (1976-79) of the A&HCI data base yielded 144 journal articles which were cited ...
A thesaurus for Canadian iconography (abstract only)
The Picture Division of The Public Archives of Canada has undertaken the construction of a thesaurus of iconographic terms as part of its preparations for a computerized inventory system. The thesaurus which complements an existing set of descriptive ...
The text's the thing: Concordances to literary texts (abstract only)
The history of computer-generated concordances is already one-third of a century long. Thousands of concordances have been generated; many have been published. Most of these are useful, but there are limitations to all of them. In this presentation I ...
Sift - searching in free text: A text retrieval system (abstract only)
The SIFT project is aimed at developing an advanced text retrieval system possessing the features of high modularity, high portability, possibilities for integration with word processing systems and a flexible user interface. Possible applications for ...
Thesaurus on American works of art (abstract only)
FOLK is an online analysis and retrieval system developed for the 1801 census of Norway, which is machine readable in a full-text and a coded version, each with approximately 1,000,000 records on individuals. The main advantage of the system is speed. ...
The role of the computer in ethnographic analysis (abstract only)
Art and architecture literature presents indexing difficulties due to the absence of a recognized controlled vocabulary. A recent investigation showed a number of independent partial efforts targeted to local needs. The Art and Architecture Thesaurus (...
Art and architecture thesaurus (abstract only)
Designing and providing subject access to works of art has traditionally been very subjective. This is due to the fact that there are no standardized word lists which can be expected to meet the scope of all art collections. Whereas tailoring subject ...
Folk (abstract only)
Ethnography is a methodology which emphasises a "soft" interpretative approach to social reality. It is often portrayed as being at the opposite pole to quantitative approaches as exemplified in the classic Merton-Lazarsfeld paradigm (Structural-...
Initial experiences with an on-line catalog (abstract only)
P-STAT began as a collection of integrated commands which read rectangular files sequentially. A simple modification language for recoding and case selection was added in the late 1960's. Commands were added throughout the 1970's. Recently, however, a ...
New file management in P-STAT (abstract only)
In January of 1981, the Center for the Study of Youth Development initiated an on-line catalog of the holdings of its specialized library consisting of 10,000 monographs, journals, vertical file materials, etc. The present paper discusses the reactions ...
Urben research in ethnic, demographic and household-economic structures with small area, micro-databases (abstract only)
Computerized U.S. Census data has been most widely used for (1) employment, fertility, demographic and stratification research involving Public Use Sample (PUS) microdata on the national level, and (2) applied research (for planning, administration, ...
Beyond cataloging functions for art museum data banks (abstract only)
A data management system for art museums is presented. In addition to providing conventional cataloging functions such as searching, sorting and indexing, the system is shown to be able to model complex relationships between entities relevant to the ...
Making computer capabilities accessible to musicians (abstract only)
During the past ten years at The Ohio State University we have developed a large library of music-related computer programs, encompassing many aspects of music scholarship. These programs include procedures for performing basic music analysis functions ...
Requirements for improving the use of computers to support the development of policy decisions (abstract only)
Computer based information systems have been developed and used successfully for production and engineering and for lower level management tasks but they have yet to be widely applied to aiding management decision making at the higher policy making ...
On the need for human rationing (abstract only)
The occasion for this discussion is our recent experience with a severe shortfall in computational capacity at The Pennsylvania State University. Although the details of this affliction may not be reproduced elsewhere, it is our opinion that the events ...
Relational data base management systems: A tale of two systems (abstract only)
This project management system is designed to provide research administrators and department executives the capability to handle the financial accounting needs for 30 or more separately budgeted projects/departments on a computer with 64K of RAM and two ...
A micro-based project management system (abstract only)
A comparison is made of systems the author has designed for a main frame and a microcomputer. The limitations and advantages of microcomputers for data base management are discussed. Example applications are presented. Advantages of the set theoretic ...
Combining database management and statistical subroutinesunto a user-oriented data analysis facility (abstract only)
Most database management systems (DBMS) offer convenient and flexible data structures and very good data maintenance facilities. At the same time their data manipulation languages are usually limited and most data analysis applications require extensive ...
Index Terms
- Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Easier and More Productive Use of Computer Systems. (Part - I): Information Processing in the Social Sciences and Humanities - Volume 1981
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Acceptance Rates
Year | Submitted | Accepted | Rate |
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CHI '19 | 2,958 | 703 | 24% |
CHI '18 | 2,590 | 666 | 26% |
CHI '17 | 2,400 | 600 | 25% |
CHI '16 | 2,435 | 565 | 23% |
CHI '15 | 2,120 | 486 | 23% |
CHI '14 | 2,043 | 465 | 23% |
CHI '13 | 1,963 | 392 | 20% |
CHI '11 | 1,532 | 410 | 27% |
CHI '09 | 1,130 | 277 | 25% |
CHI '08 | 714 | 157 | 22% |
CHI '07 | 840 | 182 | 22% |
CHI '05 | 372 | 93 | 25% |
CHI '03 | 468 | 75 | 16% |
CHI '02 | 414 | 61 | 15% |
CHI '01 | 352 | 69 | 20% |
CHI '00 | 336 | 72 | 21% |
CHI '99 | 312 | 78 | 25% |
CHI '98 | 351 | 81 | 23% |
CHI '97 | 234 | 55 | 24% |
CHI '96 | 256 | 55 | 21% |
CHI '94 | 263 | 70 | 27% |
CHI '93 | 330 | 62 | 19% |
CHI '92 | 216 | 67 | 31% |
CHI '91 | 240 | 56 | 23% |
CHI '90 | 260 | 47 | 18% |
CHI '89 | 199 | 54 | 27% |
CHI '88 | 187 | 39 | 21% |
CHI '87 | 166 | 46 | 28% |
CHI '86 | 122 | 47 | 39% |
CHI '85 | 170 | 35 | 21% |
CHI '83 | 176 | 59 | 34% |
CHI '82 | 165 | 75 | 45% |
Overall | 26,314 | 6,199 | 24% |