dealing with the data is inseparable from the data itself

but the methods to access and/or download them should also be well described and preferably fully automated and using well established protocols.

To be Findable any Data Object should be uniquely and persistently identifiable

They are tools. As in the case of all tools, their value resides not in themselves but in their capacity to work shown in the consequences of their use.

Alan Galey and Ruecker went on to claim, in a subsequent article, that “the creation of an experimental digital prototype [should] be understood as conveying an argument about designing interfaces” (405).

People who publish in online journals undoubtedly experience more substantial resistance, but the belief that online articles don’t really count seems more and more like the quaint prejudice of age than a substantive critique.

Fig. 2. City of Los Angeles areas.

cities in the United States, only Miami had a higher proportion of Latinos and a lower propor-tion of whites (Table 1).The City of Los Angeles is the core of the Los Angeles metropolitan area, one of the world’smajor immigrant gateways. The City rests within the County of Los Angeles. The City repre-sents only 39% of the population of Los Angeles County, and 23% of the population of the five-county metropolitan area. Its ethnic composition is now very similar to that of the rest of LosAngeles County. Even the peripheral counties of Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Ven-tura are experiencing a growing Latino population. The higher concentration of Latinos in theurban core gives them greater potential political power in the City of Los Angeles, compared tothe periphery. While, the City of Los Angeles was 47% Latino and 30% non-Hispanic White in2000, the peripheral counties were 34% Latino and 44% White. On the other hand, possibleLegendForeign Born Population50.0 percent or more37.5 - 49.9 percent25.0 - 37.4 percent12.5 - 24.9 percent2.0 - 12.4 percentCity of Los AngelesFig. 1. Percent foreign borndCity of Los Angeles, 2000

Even as minority groups gain great numbers, they usually require thesupport of other groups to obtain the political resources needed to win a share of urban power.

lynching was a ritual that made power visible, yet its power depended in part on its lack of visibility in the official records

by making the records of lynching known.

Just as a data visualization reveals the pattern of the points plotted more readily than it reveals the people behind those data points,

how computational methods can be used to identify and geolocate place-based d

When, and to what extent, do actors who belong to one category make connections to each other, versus to actors in another?

The data for this study have been drawn from the collections of the British Museum in London (hereafter BM) and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam (hereafter RKM)

To what extent, however, can this handful of individuals be taken to stand for the overall balance of international vs. domestically-focused Dutch print production partnerships at different points in time?

Computational network analysis offers an alternative framework for examining networks, affording insight into the multiple scales and velocities of organizational changes among print designers, plate cutters, and publishers, both within and between regional communities.

what is illuminated and what remains concealed.

This is what sociologists call a social network, a concept that predates our current understanding of social networking websites, like Facebook, but in fact works in a similar way.

They suggest that we must learn to see shadows in the archive, shadows such as Hemings, as “presences, not absences, and let ghosts be ghosts, instead of saying what they are ghosts of.”

How does one identify and extract meaning from the unique set of documents that do remain—letters, inventories, ledger books, and personal narratives—documents that, in the words of Susan Scott Parrish, we must struggle to make “mean something more?” And how does one do so without reinforcing the damaging notion that African American voices from before emancipation—not just in the archival record, but the voices themselves, are silent, and irretrievably lost?

It also provides suggested terms to explore.

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However, negation words must be handled with care because not all occurrences of such words mean negation.

First, natural language processing is a difficult task.

Detecting such spam is very important for applications

But the surviving workhouse registers do not record causes ofdeath comprehensively, making this measuring rod useful only for theunion-to-union comparisons we have employed elsewhere.

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but it includes no information on prisoners released since then.

I develop a signaling model of wagedetermination to show how concealing and revealing sexual orientation can affectwage differentials for gay men.

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Desmond’s data shows only a very small part of the story

Companies such as this profit from selling its eviction database to assist landlords in not renting to “high-risk” tenants, who are often low-income people of color.

Rather than working with community groups to address our concerns so they could use the statewide data we had already collected, the Eviction Lab team stopped talking to us and chose to purchase California eviction data covering the same areas for $100,000 from American Information Research Services, a group that lists on its website “tenant screening” as a service they offer.

theworld appears to us as an endless and unstructured collection ofimages, texts, and other data records, it is only appropriate that we willbe moved to model it as a database. But it is also appropriate that wewould want to develop a poetics, aesthetics, and ethics of thisdatabase.Let us begin by documenting the dominance of this database form in

The data stored in a database is organised for fast search andretrieval by a computer and therefore it is anything but a simplecollection of items.

Many new media objects do not tellstories; they don’t have a beginning or an end; in fact, they don’t haveany development, thematically, formally or otherwise, which wouldorganise their elements into a sequence. instead, they are collections ofindividual items, where every item has the same significance as any

n atmosphere of disorder in a neighbor-hood. This scared law-abiding citizens away. The dark and empty streets they left behind were breeding grounds for serious crime. The antidote was for society to resist the spread of disorder. This included fixing broken windows, cleaning up graffiti-covere

Most of them come from impoverished neighbor-hoods, and most are black or Hispanic. So even if a model is color blind, the result of it is anything but. In our largely segregated cities, geography is a highly effective

Rather than simply critique the pervasive use of identification technologies and their effect on how we understand our sense of identity and self, this essay looks to engage with the historical and technical specificity of these captive apparatuses in order to identify explicitly queer modes of being within computational systems.

They had simply broken up the ways in which they sought to enact that identification in order to make more users legible to targeted advertising based on a set of metrics that include gender and sexuality.

violence is transferred from the enslaved bodies to the doc-uments that count, condemn, assess, and evoke them, and we receive them in this condition.

I examine archival fragments

ves and meet the disciplinary demands of history that re-quires us to construct unbiased accounts from these very documents? How do we construct a coherent historical accounting out of that which defies co-herence and representability? How do we critically confront or reproduce these accounts to open up possibilities for historicizing, mourning, remem-bering, and listening to the condition of enslaved women? This study probes the constructions of race, gender

average citizen should have the following awareness