The Spandau Citadel: [Berlin/Spandau ; history, town history, chronology, visitor information]
In: Der historische Ort 148
In: Fortifications
In: Der historische Ort 148
In: Fortifications
This paper discusses applications of a revolutionary information technology, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), in the field of the history of cartography by examples, including assessing accuracy of early maps, establishing a database of places and historical administrative units in history, integrating early maps in GIS or digital images, and analyzing social, political, and economic information related to production of early maps. GIS provides a new mean to evaluate the accuracy of early maps. Four basic steps using GIS for this type of study are discussed. In addition, several historical geographical information systems are introduced. These include China Historical Geographic Information Systems (CHGIS), the United States National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS), and the Great Britain Historical Geographical Information System. GIS also provides digital means to display and analyze the spatial information on the early maps or to layer them with modern spatial data. How GIS relational data structure may be used to analyze social, political, and economic information related to production of early maps is also discussed in this paper. Through discussion on these examples, this paper reveals value of GIS applications in this field.
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In: Historical Social Research, Band 8, Heft 2, S. 83-85
The Information Systems discipline is 40 years old, in Australia, as in Scandinavia, the U.S.A., the U.K. and Germany. This paper presents what may be the first formally published attempt at a history of the discipline in this country. It identifies the precursors to the discipline, and its emergence in colleges and universities. It identifies institutions and individuals who were present at the birth, and traces key steps in organisational and political history. More controversially, it provides interpretations of the nature of the discipline and its key intellectual themes, and identifies threats to its survival.
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In: Sign, Storage, Transmission
For decades, lesbian feminists across the United States and Canada have created information to build movements and survive in a world that doesn't want them. InInformation Activism Cait McKinney traces how these women developed communication networks, databases, and digital archives that formed the foundation for their work. Often learning on-the-fly and using everything from index cards to computers, these activists brought people and their visions of justice together to organize, store, and provide access to information. Focusing on the transition from paper to digital-based archival techniques from the 1970s to the present, McKinney shows how media technologies animate the collective and unspectacular labor that sustains social movements, including their antiracist and trans-inclusive endeavors. By bringing sexuality studies to bear on media history, McKinney demonstrates how groups with precarious access to control over information create their own innovative and resourceful techniques for generating and sharing knowledge
In: Sign, Storage, Transmission Ser.
Cait McKinney traces how lesbian feminist activists in the United States and Canada between the 1970s and the present developed communication networks, databases, and digital archives to use as a foundation for their feminist, antiracist, and trans-inclusive work.
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Working paper
In: 42 Int'l J. Legal Info. 241 (2014)
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In: International journal of legal information: IJLI ; the official journal of the International Association of Law Libraries, Band 42, Heft 2, S. 241-292
ISSN: 2331-4117
In September 2008, the United States Trade Representative (USTR) announced the United States' intention to join Singapore, New Zealand, Brunei, and Chile in what was then called the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement, a preferential trade agreement. Since then, the agreement has grown in scope and ambition. The negotiations to create what is now known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) have expanded to include seven other nations. The USTR wants the TPP to be "an ambitious, next-generation, Asia-Pacific trade agreement that reflects U.S. economic priorities and values." According to the USTR's webpage dedicated to the agreement, the administration is "working in close partnership with Congress and with a wide range of stakeholders, in seeking to conclude a strong agreement that addresses the issues that U.S. businesses and workers are facing in the 21st century."
In: Public opinion quarterly: journal of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Band 21, Heft 4, S. 475-498
ISSN: 0033-362X
A series of advertisements (ads) dealing with the UN's declaration of human rights was placed in the newspapers of Salonica, Greece, in 1952 by the US Information Agency. The effects of this advertising campaign were measured by means of interviews before & after with a panel of R's representing a cross-section of the city's pop. In addition, interviews were conducted after the campaign with a parallel cross-section in the test city & similar interviews both before & after in a control city where the ads did not appear. The evidence supports the theory of self-selection in exposure to a communication: people whose views on the subject were already favorable were most apt to read the ads. However, regardless of prior opinion or awareness, exposure to the campaign resulted in a noticeable increase in information on the subject. The campaign seems to have confirmed already favorable opinion by providing supporting arguments for people whose att's were already formed. AA.
In: The public opinion quarterly: POQ, Band 21, Heft 4, S. 475
ISSN: 1537-5331
In: Reference sources in the social sciences
In: Theory and society: renewal and critique in social theory, Band 18, Heft 3, S. 323-351
ISSN: 0304-2421
In: Theory and society: renewal and critique in social theory, Band 18, Heft May 89
ISSN: 0304-2421