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{"title":"The social organization of computing: the university and the sociology department","authors":"J. Sonquist, Francis M. Sim","doi":"10.1145/1103290.1103291","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1103290.1103291","url":null,"abstract":"The following material is extracted from a paper presented at the meetings of the American Sociological Association, Montreal, August, 1974. We have concentrated on giving a survey of the positive proposals, and the discussion of problems involved in them, contained in the full paper. Parenthetic comments show where material has been deleted that is not a continuation of the preceding text. Copies of the full paper are available from the authors; it is a working draft, and they earnestly solicit reactions. The general purpose is to stimulate discussion of effective organization of computing for social and behavioral scientists in colleges and universities, and to provide some useful aids for presentation of the case for better computational support to administrative personnel. It may have some wider relevance, both for other settings and for substantive analysis.","PeriodicalId":129356,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigsoc Bulletin","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1975-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133277152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Managing information access through documentation of the data base: characterizing social science data base text documentation as a minimal information management system","authors":"A. Robbin","doi":"10.1145/1102974.1102980","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1102974.1102980","url":null,"abstract":"If data are to be accessed, text documentation must adequately describe the processes of data collection, development, testing and evaluation of the file in order that analysis of the data file can be adequately performed. Text documentation can be conceptualized as a minimal information system with the functions of providing a conceptual framework for the collection process, communication and coordination of processing staff, historical reference, general instruction for communication between specialist and non-specialist, and a report on successful output. Text documentation has three components: source, codebook and technical. This discussion focuses only on the components of source and codebook documentation.","PeriodicalId":129356,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigsoc Bulletin","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1974-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128450479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Information access at the data file level: documentation prerequisites on the file-level data base inquiry process","authors":"Per Nielsen","doi":"10.1145/1102974.1102978","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1102974.1102978","url":null,"abstract":"In the mid-sixties, political and social science was theory-rich and data-poor. [1] In the decade following this statement, the ever-increasing holdings of machine-readable datasets in a growing chain of data repositories throughout the world have made the social science community much more wealthy. But, the vast scientific potential buried in data repositories is being transformed only at a slow pace. In the mid-seventies, quantitative data generated by empirical political and social science research are still heavily underexploited.","PeriodicalId":129356,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigsoc Bulletin","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1974-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121253541","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A view of the data file access problem from the perspective of a research librarian","authors":"James Krikelas","doi":"10.1145/1102974.1102976","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1102974.1102976","url":null,"abstract":"In the 1960s, the emergence of a relatively large number of archives for machine-readable data (i.e., data libraries) gave rise to the notion that traditional university and research libraries would be forced to cope with the integration of such information into their collections. Historically, libraries have been dedicated to the gathering, processing, and storage of information and, in all but the weakest organizations, to providing active and skilled assistance in the interpretation and use of the collection. For a variety of reasons, libraries have occasionally failed to acquire new types of information, either because of inaccurate perception about the need of such material or because of some reluctance to deal with a new medium of distribution. Nonconventional information centers have developed as alternative sources of such materials. The scope and depth of the collection of such centers can be stated in relatively precise terms which describe the narrowly defined target user-group. Under these circumstances special libraries appear to respond much more rapidly to user needs, and users tend to view the center almost as an extension of one's own personal collection. As the special collection grows and the user group diversifies, the informal procedures developed for the acquisition, indexing and storage of materials begins to break down. If this evolution follows traditional patterns, personnel in data libraries will be confronted with increasing problems of storage and retrieval of information. It may be tempting to believe that these are unique difficulties requiring previously untried solutions. In actuality, there are many problems facing the data library manager that have their analogous situations and solutions in traditional libraries. It is the purpose of this paper to share a few observations about these similarities based on a preliminary investigation of the procedures and services offered at one particular data center.","PeriodicalId":129356,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigsoc Bulletin","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1974-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122019284","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Facilitating information access: interaction between system components (the data library and the traditional library)","authors":"J. Rowe","doi":"10.1145/1102974.1102977","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1102974.1102977","url":null,"abstract":"During the last twenty years, social scientists involved with the establishment and administration of data archives have been making overtures to traditional libraries. But until recently, there has been almost no response. In 1957, York Lucci and Stein Rokkan proposed a \"library center of survey research data.\" [1] In 1965, Ithiel de Sola-Pool argued cogently that \"the storing of basic data... [is] a library function.\" [2] In 1967, Ralph Bisco addressed the question, \"Why should university libraries undertake data services...?\" [3] That same year, a report prepared for the National Academy of Sciences examined some of the factors which seemed to vitiate against a merger of data archives and traditional libraries. [4] In 1969, at the last conference of the Council of Social Science Data Archives, David Elesh, then director of Wisconsin's Social Science Data and Program Library Service, and Erwin Welsch, Wisconsin's Social Studies Librarian, addressed an audience composed of data archivists and librarians on \"The Library of the Future.\" [5] In 1970, Jack Dennis, present director of the Data and Program Library Service, addressed a conference of librarians where he spoke of the need for \"closer integration of the local archive into existing local university information services--particularly those provided by the traditional university library.\" [6] By 1971, when David Nasitir summarized the history of the data archive movement's attempts to establish a rapprochement with the traditional library [7], there was little positive activity to report. However, in commenting on a paper delivered by Constance Citro in 1968, which was concerned with the desire on the part of the Bureau of the Census to allow libraries to manage the summary tapes of the 1970 census [8], his words proved prophetic. Nasitir said, \"This is the one area in which the data archive movement is converging with academic libraries....If the census tapes form the thin end of the wedge, a large number of sample survey data tapes now held in archives may follow.\" [9] The wedge is now in the door and the remainder of this discussion will look briefly at the evidence of its presence.","PeriodicalId":129356,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigsoc Bulletin","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1974-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116832801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Describing a social science data information system, networks and components","authors":"Paul Peters","doi":"10.1145/1102974.1102975","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1102974.1102975","url":null,"abstract":"The acquisition of data has taken its place with the acquisition of literature as a first-order information problem for social science practitioners, researchers, and students. The traditional mechanisms of information dissemination have been serial publications and professional meetings which provide linkages for social science practitioners and researchers, while monographs and textbooks serve the basic needs of students. Brittain (1), however, has suggested that social scientists are unique as scientists because they utilize large volumes of data often produced outside their immediate control. [1] The costs associated with social science data collection in the quantity required for reliable research have occasioned discussions related to the possibility of data resource dissemination. This dissemination leads to secondary or extended analysis', whereby one researcher applies data to problems not thematic to those researchers who collected the data and performed a 'primary analysis'.","PeriodicalId":129356,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigsoc Bulletin","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1974-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114467093","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Information access at the data item level: approaches to indicator retrieval from survey archive data bases","authors":"E. Mochmann","doi":"10.1145/1102974.1102979","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1102974.1102979","url":null,"abstract":"Data archives are being challenged to provide more transparent and directly accessible data. Given the scope of already available materials and the yearly increase of the data base, effective means of information retrieval had to be developed.","PeriodicalId":129356,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigsoc Bulletin","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1974-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128933469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Evaluation of statistical program packages","authors":"P. Velleman","doi":"10.1145/1103286.1103287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1103286.1103287","url":null,"abstract":"I enjoyed and agree with the article on peer review of computing materials by Roberta Ash, Francis Sim, and Ronald Anderson in the last issue of the SIGSOC Bulletin. I am writing to report that a project to sponsor, collect, and publish reviews of statistical Computing software has recently begun under the auspices of the Statistical Computing Section of the American Statistical Association. The committee doing this work is chaired by Ivor Francis (358 Ives Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850) and Richard Heiberger (Department of Statistics and Operations Research, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Penn. 19104). They have issued a preliminary proposal of specific criteria for use by reviewers which I have summarized below. I will be chairing a liaison committee to facilitate communication between this group and SIGSOC. Readers with ideas and suggestions are urged to send them to me or to either of the co-chairmen.","PeriodicalId":129356,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigsoc Bulletin","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1974-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117161335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Structured programming in Fortran","authors":"J. M. Sakoda","doi":"10.1145/1103286.1103288","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1103286.1103288","url":null,"abstract":"The basic spirit of structured programming is to write programs that are easy to read and debug. Students who are taught programming should be encouraged to use structured programming principles. Ingredients of structured programming include:","PeriodicalId":129356,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigsoc Bulletin","volume":"520 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1974-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123074793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The national science foundation and support for social science computing","authors":"Ronald E. Anderson","doi":"10.1145/1102964.1102967","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1102964.1102967","url":null,"abstract":"Nearly two years ago, I spent several months working as a Professional Assistant in the Office of Computing Activities at the National Science Foundation in Washington, D.C. Although my assignment was to develop a concept for a program on \"Computer Impact on Society\", I had opportunity to become familiar with some of the projects supported in the area of computer applications for the social sciences. Actually I was already familiar with most of the projects that had been supported. However, the work assignment enabled me to have an expanded and slightly different perspective on these projects.","PeriodicalId":129356,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigsoc Bulletin","volume":"211 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1974-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121196537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}