Curating the CIA World Factbook

Buneman, Peter; Müller, Henrik Høeg; Rusbridge, Chris

doi:10.2218/ijdc.v4i3.126

Cited by 18 publications

(6 citation statements)

References 9 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…The United States is widely known around the globe as a gluttonous country, and without a doubt obesity is a problem in the United States, the country is ranked 12 th in the world for percent of obese population [1][2][3].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Obesity in the US and UK

Donahue¹

2018

J Nutr Food Sci

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The United Kingdom and the United States of America are similar countries but have very distinct differences. Both countries are a group of states that share one government, but their government systems differ, the UK is a constitutional monarchy-parliament system, whereas the United States is a federal constitutional republic. In addition, both countries have unique cultures that greatly influence diet. Between 1960 and 2014, there was a continuous increase in overweight individuals, obese people, and extremely obese people in the United States. According to data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, more than one in three adults in the United States were considered obese in 2014. Another poll done by the United States Centers for Disease Control and prevention that questioned over 200,000 adults about their self-reported BMI or body mass index, found that 21% of Americans fall into class 2 or 3 obesity.

show abstract

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Obesity in the US and UK

Donahue¹

2018

J Nutr Food Sci

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Additionally, these best practices don't necessarily account for the on-going work of database curation over time. Maintaining a database for continual use as a research tool requires many hours of digitization, annotation, and updating, as well as provenance management (Buneman et al, 2006(Buneman et al, , 2008Buneman, Müller, & Rusbridge, 2009). Many database systems are simply not designed to support these complex tasks, let alone over the course of multiple migrations.…”

Section: Motivation: Collections Databases Data Collections and Datmentioning

confidence: 99%

Supporting the long‐term curation and migration of natural history museum collections databases

Thomer

Weber

Twidale

2018

Proc. Assoc. Info. Sci. Tech.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Migration of data collections from one platform to another is an important component of data curation – yet, there is surprisingly little guidance for information professionals faced with this task. Data migration may be particularly challenging when these data collections are housed in relational databases, due to the complex ways that data, data schemas, and relational database management software become intertwined over time. Here we present results from a study of the maintenance, evolution and migration of research databases housed in Natural History Museums. We find that database migration is an on‐going – rather than occasional – process for many Collection managers, and that they creatively appropriate and innovate on many existing technologies in their migration work. This paper contributes descriptions of a preliminary set of common adaptations and “migration patterns” in the practices of database curators. It also outlines the strategies they use when facing collection‐level data migration and describes the limitations of existing tools in supporting LAM and “small science” research database migration. We conclude by outlining future research directions for the maintenance and migration of collections and complex digital objects.

show abstract

“…Because the interdependence of annotations is not understood, it is unsurprising that it is difficult to find good examples. As a crude experiment we took the information from a suitably transformed version of the history of the World Factbook [9,8] which provides sets of export partners and the set of versions which gives that set, roughly as described in Ex. 7.…”

Section: Practicalitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Combining dependent annotations for relational algebra

Kostylev

Buneman

2012

Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Database Theory

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Annotation is some form of data that is added to an existing database. It could be additional data that for whatever reason cannot be stored in the original database, or it could be some form of metadata such as comments, probabilities, timestamps that are not normally regarded part of the basic database design. It has recently been observed that, in order to determine how annotations should be propagated through database queries, we need to have some structure on them. Although various forms of annotation have been considered in some detail, each form has been considered in isolation.In this paper we consider what happens when different forms of annotation are combined. We show that there are many cases in which annotations, for quite natural reasons, depend on one another. What is the appropriate structure to place on such annotations? We provide a method for combining different forms and provide a normal form which is useful in deciding whether two or more combined annotations are equivalent.

show abstract

Curating the CIA World Factbook

Cited by 18 publications

References 9 publications

Obesity in the US and UK

Obesity in the US and UK

Supporting the long‐term curation and migration of natural history museum collections databases

Combining dependent annotations for relational algebra

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About