Indexing and the ‘organized’ researcher

2003 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 129-133
Author(s):  
Hope A. Olson ◽  
Lisa M. Given
Keyword(s):  
Research Data ◽  
Knowledge Organization ◽  
Organization Model ◽  
Research Problems ◽  
Shed Light

This article proposes that indexing concepts relating to relevance, precision, recall, coextensiveness, exhaustivity, specificity and consistency offer a ready-made model that can be applied to the organization of research data. This knowledge organization model contributes significantly to the ability of researchers to collect and organize data in a manner most likely to shed light on the research problems they address.

scholarly journals Russian Regional Politicians’ Income and Property Declarations: a Pilot Study and Quality Assessment of Administrative Data

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 8-34
Author(s):  
Tatyana Cherkashina
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Data Quality ◽  
Quality Assessment ◽  
Administrative Data ◽  
Measurement Errors ◽  
Private Property ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Quality Of Data ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Research Problems

The article presents the experience of converting non-targeted administrative data into research data, using as an example data on the income and property of deputies from local legislative bodies of the Russian Federation for 2019, collected as part of anticorruption operations. This particular empirical fragment was selected for the pilot study of administrative data, which includes assessing the possibility of integrating scattered fragments of information into a single database, assessing quality of data and their relevance for solving research problems, particularly analysis of high-income strata and the apparent trends towards individualization of private property. The system of indicators for assessing data quality includes their timeliness, availability, interpretability, reliability, comparability, coherence, errors of representation and measurement, and relevance. In the case of the data set in question, measurement errors are more common than representation errors. Overall the article emphasizes the notion that introducing new non-target data into circulation requires their preliminary testing, while data quality assessment becomes distributed both in time and between different subjects. The transition from created data to «obtained» data shifts the functions of evaluating its quality from the researcher-creator to the researcheruser. And though in this case data quality is in part ensured by the legal support for their production, the transformation of administrative data into research data involves assessing a variety of quality measurements — from availability to uniformity and accuracy.

scholarly journals A Sustainable and Open Access Knowledge Organization Model to Preserve Cultural Heritage and Language Diversity

Information ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 303 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amel Fraisse ◽  
Zheng Zhang ◽  
Alex Zhai ◽  
Ronald Jenn ◽  
Shelley Fisher Fishkin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Knowledge Organization ◽  
Knowledge Map ◽  
Language Diversity ◽  
Global Knowledge ◽  
American Novel ◽  
Organization Model ◽  
Parallel Corpora ◽  
Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn ◽  
Knowledge Organization Systems

This paper proposes a new collaborative and inclusive model for Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS) for sustaining cultural heritage and language diversity. It is based on contributions of end-users as well as scientific and scholarly communities from across borders, languages, nations, continents, and disciplines. It consists in collecting knowledge about all worldwide translations of one original work and sharing that data through a digital and interactive global knowledge map. Collected translations are processed in order to build multilingual parallel corpora for a large number of under-resourced languages as well as to highlight the transnational circulation of knowledge. Building such corpora is vital in preserving and expanding linguistic and traditional diversity. Our first experiment was conducted on the world-famous and well-traveled American novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by the American author Mark Twain. This paper reports on 10 parallel corpora that are now sentence-aligned pairs of English with Basque (an European under-resourced language), Bulgarian, Dutch, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, and Ukrainian, processed out of 30 collected translations.

Organizing Knowledge = Organizing Data: Applying Principles of Information Organization to the Research Process

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa M. Given ◽  
Hope A. Olson
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Knowledge Organization ◽  
Information Organization ◽  
Textual Research ◽  
Effective Analysis

Organizing research data for effective analysis has been insufficiently addressed in the methodological literature. This paper proposes that principles of knowledge organization relating to relevance, precision, recall, exhaustivity and specificity offer a ready-made model that can be applied to research data. The primary example is drawn from qualitative research to demonstrate how the model can be reinterpreted for that context. Reference is also made to the model's transferability to quantitative and textual research.

Relations Among MOCAP and Textual Data of Motion Verbs

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-62
Author(s):  
Marietta Sionti ◽  
Panagiotis Kouris ◽  
Chrysovalantis Korfitis ◽  
Vasiliki Moutzouri ◽  
Stella Markantonatou
Keyword(s):  
Research Data ◽  
Lower Limbs ◽  
Joint Angles ◽  
Strong Connection ◽  
Lexical Aspect ◽  
Motion Data ◽  
Textual Data ◽  
Language Data ◽  
Linguistic Phenomenon ◽  
Shed Light

This is a study on language and action that tries to shed light on their conceptual correspondence in terms of embodiment. The linguistic phenomenon of lexical aspect/Aktionsart is studied in connection to joint angles and time. For the purposes of this research, data concerning the usage of a set of Modern Greek verbs were collected and annotated; in addition, motion data were captured for the same verbs. First, the distance between actions and verbs was calculated revealing a strong connection between certain types of language data, lower limb motion, and time: an extended use of the lower limbs is related to longer or repetitive actions while time expresses duration.

scholarly journals Comparing the Business Performance of the State-Owned Enterprises and Others

2013 ◽  
Vol 216 ◽  
pp. 25-40
Author(s):  
CÀNH NGUYỄN THỊ
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Statistical Methods ◽  
Business Performance ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Gdp Growth ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
Financial Efficiency ◽  
Gdp Growth Rate ◽  
Performance Analyses ◽  
Shed Light

The paper examines the socioeconomic and financial efficiency to evaluate the business performance of state-owned enterprises in comparison with that of others (private enterprises and FDI ones). Accordingly, it aims to determine the role and position of economic sectors and business types, especially state-owned ones, based on their contribution to the GDP growth rate and the business performance. Analyses shed light on strengths and weaknesses of each sector and enable to extend some solutions to the restructuring of state-owned enterprises and improvement in their business performance. The research data is secondary, which is collated from Vietnam?s Statistical Yearbooks from 2000 to 2012 and the annual corporate surveys of GSO in the period 2006 ? 2009. The descriptive and comparative statistical methods are employed to describe and compare figures of socioeconomic and financial efficiency.

scholarly journals Program Kemitraan Masyarakat (PKM) Guru SMA di Kota dan Kabupaten Bandung dalam Kegiatan Pengolahan Data Berbasis E-Learning

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-212
Author(s):  
Jusep Saputra ◽  
Thesa Kandaga ◽  
Anggoro Ari Nurcahyo
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Teachers ◽  
Video Conferencing ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Community Partnership ◽  
Research Problems ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Support Teacher ◽  
Testing Instruments ◽  
Partnership Program

COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM (CPP/PKM) HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS IN CITY AND BANDUNG REGENCY IN E-LEARNING DATA PROCESSING ACTIVITIES. The purpose of the Subject Teachers Consultation (STC) is that they are able to support teacher competencies. The STC included in the Community Partnership Program (CPP) is the Bandung and City Mathematics STC. Problems with both partners are: (1) Understanding of some teachers in collecting data according to the formulation of research problems is still lacking, (2) Teachers do not know e-learning applications that use video conferencing. (3) Some teachers in processing research data with SPSS are still lacking, (4) some teachers have not been skilled in making scientific articles. The two partners' solution-resolution procedures will be carried out by the team are training, guidance, and accompaniment. CPP was attended by 14 Mathematics Teachers from the City of Bandung, and 17 Mathematics Teachers The first meeting resulted in the following conclusions: (1) The quality of CPP in formulating problems, testing instruments, using SPSS features, and video conferencing was conducted very good, (2) The abilities of teachers to understand, master, and train in making either test or non-test research instruments are in a pretty good category, (3) t The teacher's ability to input data according to data or the scale of the data is in a good category, (4) The teacher's ability to use video conferencing and guidance in doing the work is in good category, 5) The ability to teach research data with SPSS; analyze, and interpret research data in the good category, (6) The scientific ability is in a good enough category.

Stillbirth Integration: Dramatherapy Applied to Unresolved Grief

Dramatherapy ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-15
Author(s):  
Rachel Bar-Yitzchak
Keyword(s):  
Body Language ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Term Therapy ◽  
Prolonged Grief ◽  
Unresolved Grief ◽  
Audio Recordings ◽  
Participant Observer ◽  
Career Woman ◽  
Shed Light

This research is a case study of the effect of Dramatherapy with a client who was suffering from prolonged grief following stillbirth. The assumption was that an analysis of the Dramatherapy sessions could shed light on processes that may assist the client in relief of her unresolved grief and integration of her stillbirth, which were necessary in order to get on with her life. The Dramatherapy was based on Jennings’ (1992, 1993, 1998) EPR model. The analysis focused on the dramatherapeutic processes, specifically, dramatic reworking, retelling and projection, that accompanied the client's experience of relief and integration of her loss. The client, ‘Iris’ (a fictional name), is a career woman, who sought dramatherapeutic treatment in the hope that it might help her overcome her overwhelming feelings of distress and sorrow, which made it difficult for her to function, both physically and emotionally. The research examined the first six sessions of a longer-term therapy, during which the client's prolonged grief emerged as a major issue for her. The records kept by a participant observer (the researcher), the products of the client's art work, and audio recordings of the sessions served as the research data. The presentation of the data focused on changes in the client's appearance, body language, vocal presence, emotionality, and issues raised in the sessions.

Supervising for Robust Hermeneutic Phenomenology: Reflexive Engagement Within Horizons of Understanding

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 836-842 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Gail Spence
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Hermeneutic Phenomenology ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Philosophical Hermeneutics ◽  
Careful Selection ◽  
Research Strategies ◽  
Positive View ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Selection Of

Undertaking philosophically hermeneutic research requires embodying the fundamental hermeneutic notions espoused by Heidegger, Gadamer, and other related philosophers. For both supervisors and students, there is “a way” of working that infuses a hermeneutic project with a particular kind of contemplative openness. In this article, I will draw from my own experience of coming to appreciate the nature of this approach. Reading Gadamer challenged me to see that, before interpreting the meanings inherent in research data, I first needed to grapple with the fact that I brought ready-made prejudices to the interpretation. Further, and perhaps more importantly, was the recognition that while prejudices may have a negative influence, they could also bring a positive view. Just as I needed to understand key Gadamerian notions to shed light on the interpretive nature of philosophical hermeneutics, I will unpack these to underpin the ongoing discussion of hermeneutic research strategies. In articulating “how” to be hermeneutic, I explain how I guide students embarking on hermeneutic research. Discussion centres on surfacing and engaging with preunderstandings through ‘presuppositions interviewing‘, journalling and the careful selection of words that refine and crystallise meanings in ways that reflectively and reflexively engage and expand horizons of understanding. In this article, I use examples from my own experience as a doctoral student and supervisor of doctoral students to assist other supervisors and students understand both the importance of “being hermeneutic” and ways of achieving robust and philosophically congruent hermeneutic research.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document