And with that, she finishes the requirements for the MSIS degree (provided she doesn't end up failing Management for Information Professionals, which seems like a longshot).
Click here for the whole document (in PDF format). For those without the stomach, you can just read the abstract:
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Christy Adessa Wilkens. Inside the Black Box: Fitting Data Inputs to Communicative Outputs in Human Rights Information Management. A Master's paper for the M.S. in I.S. degree. November, 2003. 53 pages. Advisor: Paul Solomon.
After discussing the theoretical conflicts inherent in the measurement of human rights violations and in the formalization of data in computerized systems, this study examines a model of information flow within human rights non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in order to make recommendations about the design of appropriate data standards.
The fact-finding practices and 2001 annual reports of Amnesty International, Freedom House, and Human Rights Watch were examined using discourse analysis. These findings were used to make inferences about how these NGOs analyze, organize, and record data (after fact-finding and before reporting). One current data standard was examined to see how it might support or hinder these intermediate steps. The author proposes that a data standard using a minimal set of elements, rather than a greater set that allows for wide interpretive variation, might permit human rights NGOs to exchange data on individual violations without impeding their distinctive rhetorical goals.
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Posted on December 04, 2003 at 12:42 PM
yeah! unlike myself, you are really done and not just pretending. Awesome. Ph.D, here XY comes!
Says 16-inches
4 Dec 2003 at 02:59 PM
I second that sentiment. I wish I could finish mine.
Says Scott
15 Dec 2003 at 01:26 AM
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