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The Spirit of Volunteerism: Re-building Civil Society and Delivering Jobs through Youth Networks in Turkey
(Technology & Social Change Group, University of Washington Information School, 2008)This paper is part of a project at the Center for Information and Society to broaden and deepen our understanding of the impact of Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD). Our intention is to ... -
Structure and flexibility in global research design: Methodological choices in landscape study of public access in 25 countries
(Technology & Social Change Group (TASCHA), 2009-10)This paper presents the research methodology for the Landscape of Public Access Technology in Developing Countries study, conducted between 2007 and 2010 by the Technology & Social Change Group at the University of Washington ... -
Subject Ontogeny: Subject Access through Time and the Dimensionality of Classification
Classification schemes undergo revision. However, in a networked environment revisions can be used to add dimensionality to classification. This dimensionality can be used to help explain conceptual warrant, explain the ... -
Survey Instruments: Immigrant women, e-skills, and employability in Europe
(Technology & Social Change Group, 2009-11)These surveys were created in seven languages to inform the TASCHA research surrounding Immigrant Women, e-Skills, and Employability in Europe. Included in the zip file are surveys developed for immigrant and "native born" ... -
Survey on eInclusion Actors in the EU27
(European Commission Joint Research Centre Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, 2013-11-14)This report presents the results of an online survey of almost 3,000 organizations working on eInclusion in 27 European countries. The findings of the analysis provide policy relevant insights and help shed light on the ... -
Sweden English
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Sweden Swedish
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Tearing down the wall to Myanmar’s information ecosystem: The case of one local organization in producing and providing credible information
(TASCHA, 2017-07-17)This report highlights the experiences of one of Myanmar’s leading research organizations in compiling, analyzing, and publishing political data for local audiences on an online information platform (called MyPILAR). The ... -
Technology access & education for refugee women in Seattle & King County
(Technology & Social Change Group, 2020-08)This report is based on research we conducted in 2019 to understand the role of technology access and education for women who have arrived in Washington State as refugees. Our focus on women and technology stems from an ... -
Technology Access & Education for Refugee Women Research Notes
(Technology & Social Change Group, 2020-05-22)The main objective of the research is to understand the role of technology access and education for women who have arrived in Washington State as refugees. As part of this research, we conducted interviews with twenty-one ... -
Technology for employability in Latin America: Research with at-risk youth and people with disabilities
(Technology & Social Change Group (TASCHA), 2009)Since the early 1990s, there has been an increasing interest and investment in information and communication technology (ICT) training centers designed to expand employability options for socially excluded groups in Latin ... -
Technology for employability in Washington State: The role of ICT training on the employment, compensation and aspirations of low-skilled, older, and unemployed workers
(Technology & Social Change Group (TASCHA), 2009-10)Do information and communication technology skills training programs improve employment opportunities for low-income, older, and unemployed workers? Do they improve wage levels? Aspirations? To answer these questions, ... -
Term Morphologies as Meaningful Typology Characteristics for Indexing Languages
Every indexing language is made up of terms. Those terms have morphological characteristics. These include terms made up of single words, two words, or more. We can also take into account the total number of terms.We can ... -
Terminology Cross-Domain Final Report
The InterPARES 2 Terminology Cross-Domain has created three terminological instruments in service to the project, and by extension, Archival Science. Over the course of the five-year project this Cross-Domain has collected ... -
The Economic and Aesthetic Axis of Information Organization Frameworks
This paper argues that in order to systematically comprehend the diversity of information organization frameworks, we must look at how aesthetic concerns and economic concerns manifest in decisions made about designing and ... -
The Notion of the “Concept Instance”: Problems in Modeling Concept Change in SKOS
The U.S. National Science Foundation metadata registry under development for the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) is a repertory intended to manage both metadata schemes and schemas. The focus of this draft discussion ... -
The Strange Case of Eugenics: A Subject’s Ontogeny in a Long-Lived Classification Scheme and the Question of Collocative Integrity
Classification schemes are built at a particular point in time; at inception, they reflect a worldview indicative of that time. This is their strength, but results in potential weak- nesses as worldviews change. For example, ... -
The Weight of Language and Action: Epistemic Stance, Methodological Action,and Theoretical Perspective in Knowledge Organization
Knowledge organization (KO) research is a field of scholarship concerned with the design, study and critique of the processes of organizing and representing documents that societies see as worthy of preserving (Tennis, ...