Computers in the humanities and the social sciences (eBook)

Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- THE ELECTRONIC LIBRARY AND THE SCHOLARSHIP OF THE FUTURE -- Archaeology -- DATA VISUALISATION IN ARCHAEOLOGY -- AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH SUPPORT SYSTEM WITH DATABASES OF JAPANESE ANCIENT TOMBS AND GEOGRAPHICS -- ON THE COMPUTER-AIDED CLASSIFICATION OF POTTERY SHAPES -- DOCUMENTATION, AUTOMATIC MEASURING, OBJECT RETRIEVAL AND RECONSTRUCTION FOR ECONOMIC AND FUNCTIONAL RESEARCH IN ANCIENT COMMERCIAL POTTERY BY STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF MATHEMATICAL OBJECT STRUCTURE (S ? ? ? S) -- THE A R B O R INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY OF ART (OR TREE STRUCTURES AS DOCUMENTS) -- A DATA BASE ON POMPEII PAINTINGS AND FLOORS -- History of Art – Museum Systems -- MUSEUM DATABASES CONSTRUCTED USING STIPPLE -- A COLOR IMAGE DATABASE FOR AN ETHNOLOGY MUSEUM -- FINDING THE SIGNS: PICTURES OF MEDIEVAL LIFE -- THE USE OF COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN IN ART AND ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY -- COMPUTER AND MUSICOLOGY AUTOMATIC TRANSCRIPTION OF 16TH CENTURY MUSIC: GERMAN LUTE TABLATURES -- History -- A DATABASE OF JUSTINIANEAN SOURCES -- THE MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN DATA BANK IN EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA -- HOMO EX MACHINA PROSOPOGRAPHY AND CHARTULARIES -- A DATA BASE FOR RESEARCH ON PERSONS AND GROUPS OF PERSONS IN THE MIDDLE AGES -- PATTERNS OF SCIENTIFIC EVOLUTION: SHORT TERM CYCLES AND SECULAR WAVES -- THE DATABASE SAINT-LEGER: COMPUTER AND HISTORY -- ESTABLISHING A RECONSTRUCTIVE METASOURCE ON CENSORSHIP OF NOVELS IN THE EARLY FRENCH ENLIGHTENMENT -- AN ANALYSIS OF THE COMPONENTS OF ELITE MIGRATION: VIANO DO CASTELO, MINHO, 1826–1931 -- THE FRENCH CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM BETWEEN 1831 AND 1981: A STATISTICAL DATA BASE -- DATABASE APPLICATIONS IN ECONOMIC HISTORY: GERMAN TRANSPORT STATISTICS, 1835–1985 -- SYMBOLIC DIMENSIONS OF SERIAL SOURCES HERMENEUTICAL PROBLEMS OF RECONSTRUCTING POLITICAL BIOGRAPHIES BASED ON COMPUTERIZED RECORD LINKAGE -- THE GERMAN PARLIAMENTARIAN DATA BASE: CATCHING THE COMPLEXITIES OF POLITICAL LIFE-HISTORIES -- THE MANY FACES OF A NATION IN ARMS: A DATA BASE ON BRITISH SOLDIERS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR -- Data Service -- THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A UK HISTORICAL DATA ARCHIVE: PROBLEMS AND POSSIBILITIES -- DATA BASES IN SOCIAL SCIENCES INTEGRATION, NEEDS OF TODAY AND RESULTING CONCEPTS FOR THE FUTURE -- WORLD CULTURES: AN ELECTRONIC JOURNAL AND COMPARATIVE DATABASE -- THE DATA BASE OF THE GERMAN “GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY” (ALLBUS) -- FRAVIS – A PC BASED SYSTEM FOR DOCUMENTATION AND RETRIEVAL OF SURVEY QUESTIONS -- EMPIRICAL RESEARCH ON THE PC: THE CASE OF OPEN ACCESS II -- Data Representation – Data Analysis -- PROFESSIONALIZATION IN A PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM LENGTH OF MEMBERSHIP IN THE GERMAN REICHSTAG -- APPLICATIONS OF CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS IN SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH -- COMPUTER-ASSISTED TELEPHONE INTERVIEWING (CATI) IN SOCIAL RESEARCH -- FULL-QUASI-LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION OF STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELS WITH INCOMPLETE DATA -- ANALYSIS OF NON-METRIC DEPENDENT VARIABLES -- P A R A T. A PROGRAM FOR THE ESTIMATION OF PARAMETRIC TRANSITION RATE MODELS -- REALIZATION OF MISSING DATA TECHNIQUES WITHIN STATISTICAL PROGRAM PACKAGES AND THEIR EMPIRICAL PERFORMANCE -- BASIC CONCEPTS AND NEW METHODS OF TI?? SERIES ANALYSIS IN HISTORICAL SOCIAL RESEARCH -- SCALE-ANALYSIS ACCORDING TO R. J. MOKKEN – A PROBABILISTIC EXTENSION OF GUTTMAN SCALING -- INTERACTING WITH DIAGRAMS: USING A GRAPH BROWSER WITH A RESEARCH DATABASE -- CARTO-NET: INTERNATIONAL ACCESS TO MAP AND ARCHIVE RECORDS -- Expert Systems – Information Systems -- CONSIDERATIONS ON THE USE OF AN EXPERT SYSTEM TO SUPPORT ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL PLANNING -- LEGAL DATA BASES AND EXPERT SYSTEMS IN THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY THE POSSIBLE INTEGRATION OF INFORMATION RETRIEVAL AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE -- A SHELL – BASED LEGAL EXPERT SYSTEM PROTOTYPE FOR LEGISLATIVE DRAFTING -- EXPERT SYSTEMS AS AN AID TO LEGISLATIVE DRAFTING -- NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN THE LEGAL BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DOCUMENTATION -- THE APPLICAT