Design/methodology/approach: We conducted two focus group sessions and one individual interview with eight employees at the world’s largest social science data repository, the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). By examining their current actions (activities regarding their work responsibilities) and IT practices, we studied the barriers and challenges of archi...

The author presents on-going dissertation research on an “Agent-based Dynamic Spatial Simulation” (ADSS), used in this paper to project short-term forest-regrowth scenarios in the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico. A conceptual framework based on land manager decision making in relation to socioeconomic institutions and the environment is mapped onto a model composed of an agent-based model and general...

Performing empirical research requiring numerous interactions with web servers and transfers of very large archival data files without affecting operational information system infrastructure is highly desirable by separating unsteady test-bed environments from steady administrative networks. The key theme of this paper is the building of a virtual network of heterogeneous computing systems usin...

Performing empirical research requiring numerous interactions with web servers and transfers of very large archival data files without affecting operational information system infrastructure is highly desirable by separating unsteady test-bed environments from steady administrative networks. The key theme of this paper is the building of a virtual network of heterogeneous computing systems usin...

This paper will review the findings from a research project concluded in 2004, which had the primary goal of learning more about the natural behaviors of people choosing materials for inclusion in a digital archive. Project participants, retiring faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill had a number of tasks to perform. They had to 1) survey and choose the materials to include...

In archival theory and practice various on-line archival information systems are developed with different types of contemporary archival descriptions. Despite the fact that there are internationally accepted professional standards for archival description, in practice there are major discrepancies between realizations of descriptions and their standardized forms. The paper presents the results ...

Archival tagging studies of southern bluefin tuna (SBT , Thunnus maccoyii) have revealed that juveniles residing in the Great Australian Bight (GAB) over the austral summer undertake seasonal cyclic migrations to the southeast Indian Ocean and the Tasman Sea during winter. However, there remains disagreement about the extent of mixing between juvenile SBT regularly caught by longline fleets sou...