LIS 530C: Fall 2006
Session 12:
Digital Applications: Social sciences
Session Description | Session Requirements | Session Presentation
Approaches to East European social science research: GIS (Geographic Information Systems), qualitative data analysis (unstructured texts).
Required Reading | Additional Readings | Other Assignments
| Author | Date | Title |
| Jessop, Martyn | 2005 | "The Application of a Geographical Information System to the
Creation of a Cultural Heritage Digital Resource." Literary
and Linguistic Computing 20, no. 1 ( 2005): 71-90. Project to evaluate
GIS and web technology for integrating quantitative and qualitative data
about forced migration in Macedonia, 1880 to the present. (available online)
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| Author | Date | Title |
| Adam, Frane and Darka Podmenik | 2005 | "Qualitative Research in a Changing Epistemic Context. The Case of a Small Social Science Community [in Slovenia]," Forum: Qualitative Social Research 6, no. 3, art. 40 (Sept 2005). (available online). |
| Llona, Eileen | 2005 | "Introduction to Geographic Information Systems for Slavic Humanists and Social Scientists," 2005 UIUC Slavic Digital Text Workshop (available online). |
| Llona, Eileen | 2005 | "Introduction to GIS For Slavic Humanists, Social Scientists and Librarians" 2005 Slavic Digital Text Workshop (available online). |
| Stanford Unversity Libaries and Academic Information Resources | 2005 | "Qualitative Software: SPSS Text Analysis for Surveys," (available online). "Compared to other qualitative data analysis software such as NVivo, SPSS Text Analysis for Surveys is designed for analyzing verbatim responses to survey questions rather than large blocks of text from open-ended interviews. Researchers then export the newly categorized information into SPSS or other quantitative software for further analysis." |
| Welsh, Elaine | 2002 | "Dealing with Data: Using NVivo in the Qualitative Data Analysis Process," Forum: Qualitative Social Research 3, no. 2 (May 2002). (available online). This paper compares manual techniques in the qualitative data analysis of interview transcripts with the use of NVivo |
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