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Hewitt, Rachel; Natzler, Michael – Higher Education Policy Institute, 2019
Higher education institutions collect and hold huge amounts of data on students, whether for regulatory purposes or to gather information about students' experiences. In this report we explore students views on data security, learning analytics and the information universities hold and share on students' health and wellbeing. [This report was…
Descriptors: Information Security, Student Attitudes, Young Adults, Learning Analytics
Gross, Raymond – Online Submission, 2014
Since 2005, the AISD Central Office Work Environment Survey has been conducted to gather information about working conditions. The following report presents the survey results for Spring 2012 through Spring 2014 for AISD employees in Food Services, Service Center, Transportation and Warehouse. Separate reports also were published for other central…
Descriptors: Work Environment, Food Service, Education Service Centers, Transportation
Cooper, Brian; Garcia-Molina, Hector – 2001
Digital materials are vulnerable to a number of different kinds of failures, including decay of the digital media, loss due to hackers and viruses, accidental deletions, natural disasters, and bankruptcy of the institution holding the collection. Digital archives can best survive failures if they have made several copies of their collections at…
Descriptors: Archives, Electronic Libraries, Information Networks, Information Sources

Griffith, Belver C.; Servi, Patricia N. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1980
Illustrates a method to divide large citation database files into clusters of journals without requiring the use of arbitrary starting points. Results are discussed relative to biomedical literature. (Author/FM)
Descriptors: Citation Indexes, Citations (References), Cluster Grouping, Databases
McFarland, Valerie – 1975
Intended to be a central source of information on where to acquire statistics on the social and economic characteristics of various racial groups, this report includes references on printed reports, computer tapes, and special calculations. The racial categories of white, negro or black, Indian, Japanese, Chinese, Filipino, Hawaiian, Korean,…
Descriptors: American Indians, Asian Americans, Blacks, Census Figures

Tucker, Chris – 1975
A generalized file-conversion program suite for the EUDISED (European Documentation and Information System for Education) information network, suitable for running on a wide range of mainframe computers, is suggested and described. Time and expenditures required to implement the system are assessed. Two other possible methods of handling the data…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Catalogs, Computer Programs, Databases
Crespo, Arturo; Garcia-Molina, Hector – 2001
Digital information can be lost for a variety of reasons, including magnetic decay, format and device obsolescence, human or system error, among many others. A solution is to build an archival repository, a system capable of storing and preserving digital objects as technologies and organizations evolve. Designing an archival repository is a…
Descriptors: Archives, Computer Simulation, Computer System Design, Cost Effectiveness
Lawrence, Gary S.; Oja, Anne R. – 1979
A cost analysis of the problem of growing library collections shows that it is more desirable, economically and academically, to establish regional compact shelving facilities for infrequently used library materials than to discard the materials. This report develops and applies a cost model--based on the Palmour Cost Model--which examines the…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Costs, Data Collection, Library Administration
Gaydos, Irvin A. – 1973
This report contains data regarding the status of automatic data processing services in New Jersey's 581 operating public school districts during the spring of 1973. The survey was conducted through the use of a questionnaire that was developed in cooperation with the New Jersey Association for Educational Data Systems. It presents data in a…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Storage Devices, Computers, Data Processing
McClung, Patricia A. – 1996
This report is intended to inform and stimulate discussion on digital library programs as well as the potential usefulness, scope, and desired features of future inventories of online digital collections. It describes a joint project by the Commission on Preservation and Access and the Council on Library Resources to determine the extent to which…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Archives, Data Conversion, Databases
Burgdorf, Kenneth; Hausman, Howard J. – 1985
The analysis of data from the baseline cycle of the National Science Foundation instrumentation survey has two principal objectives, namely, to construct and examine a variety of quantitative statistical indicators describing major characteristics of the current national stock of academic research equipment and to document differences among…
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Costs, Engineering, Equipment Maintenance
Mason, Thomas R.; Newton, Evan – 1983
This paper describes the use of a microcomputer model program to predict library collection growth at Cornell University, particularly in Olin Library, which is Cornell's central research facility. The possible effects of increased online information retrieval and microform or videodisc usage on library storage needs are also briefly discussed. A…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Computer Programs, Facility Requirements, Higher Education
Orr, David B. – 1982
The Vocational Education Data System (VEDS) data base was created as a result of the Vocational Education Amendments of 1976. VEDS statistics were to be collected in the form of state-aggregate data (that is, state-level data is submitted by each state, based upon records and data collected by the state for this and other purposes); and VEDS data,…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Databases, Educational Research, Information Networks
National Assessment of Educational Progress, Princeton, NJ. – 1987
This document contains the codebooks and data record layouts for the 1985-86 Public-Use Data Tapes, Version 1.0. The Public-Use data tapes are created by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) to provide outside researchers access to NAEP data. This book provides coded data collected on and from third graders and 9-year-olds via…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Computer Software, Computer Storage Devices, Databases
Dumbrell, Tom – 1998
Australia's transport and storage industry is a large, diverse sector covering all forms of transport operation, including road, rail, air, and sea, and related services: stevedoring, port operations, customs agencies, and travel agencies. Employment in this industry has not grown as quickly over the last decade as employment in general. Under…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Education Work Relationship, Employment Patterns, Employment Projections