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The analysis of contemporary socio-technical processes can benefit greatly, methodologically speaking, from considering past processes and solutions. Obviously, all technological projects have a prehistory upon which they depend to a certain extent. In some cases, the prehistory might even take on the shape of a translation terrain, which technical experts employ explicitly to sidestep inexperienced nonexperts. Also, mechanisms that can best be described as a pied piper detour, rather than as an obligatory passage point, are relied on by technical experts who want to exclude the views and participation of nonexperts for themselves to assume a dominating position in the Machiavellian tradition. The relevance and operation of these socio-technical mechanisms were amply illustrated in the Norwegian town of Fredrikstad, where plans for establishing an IT highway project—a digital city concept developed and supported by users (both bureaucrats and laypersons)—came to nothing after technical experts intervened in the shape of a mediating agency and introduced their own scenarios.

Dargestellt werden die Aufgaben und die Struktur der norwegischen kommunalen Database. Hier werden sowohl Langzeitdaten, wie auch spezifische Daten einzelner Jahre gesammelt und verarbeitet. Der Autor stellt die Software-Komponenten und die Techniken der Standardisierung der Daten und die Verwendungsmöglichkeiten der Daten vor. Das Database Projekt stellt seiner Ansicht nach ein Modell für ein generelles System zur Verarbeitung aggregierter Daten. (BG)

The Organization and Management of the Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD)