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The Need for Standards: Data Modelling and Exchange [1991]
Über die Notwendigkeit von Standards: Datenmodellierung und Datenaustausch
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Abstract When discussing standardization and secondary analysis in computer driven historical research, we should clearly distinguish between different approaches towards the usage of computers. The properties of four of them – statistical analysis, structured data bases, full text systems and annotation sys... view more
When discussing standardization and secondary analysis in computer driven historical research, we should clearly distinguish between different approaches towards the usage of computers. The properties of four of them – statistical analysis, structured data bases, full text systems and annotation systems – are discussed and compared in some detail. Standards which want to convince users, that they should follow just one of these approaches will not succeed. What we need is a discussion of the communalities between the underlying information models and the identification of properties, for which clear conceptual models can be devised. Such clear conceptual models are a prerequisite for technical solutions, which ultimately can enable the exchange of data across the different approaches. Such conceptual models, therefore, are what we need as standards.... view less
Keywords
statistical analysis; standardization (techn.); data bank; computer; information retrieval; historical social research; data exchange; science of history; information system; standardization (meth.); data processing
Classification
Natural Science and Engineering, Applied Sciences
Free Keywords
digital humanities; standardization; information modelling; data bases; Datenmodellierung
Document language
English
Publication Year
2017
Page/Pages
p. 203-220
Journal
Historical Social Research, Supplement (2017) 29
Issue topic
From History to Applied Science in the Humanities
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.suppl.29.2017.203-220
ISSN
0936-6784
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed