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The Internet in institutions for the elderly

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Internet use is ubiquitous, yet it has been little researched in residential aged care. This article discusses the results of two survey studies…
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Fertility Discrimination In Hiring: A Field Experiment

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Part-time jobs are thought to reconcile work and family obligations. However, women with a higher probability of becoming pregnant soon have…
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Turning Big useless Data into useful Big Data

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The S3Model approach can help organizations transform large amounts of disparate, unconnected data into meaningful data. This will save time…
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Why interdisciplinarity is the basis for Computional Thinking

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The only living creature that can think is man. But soon computers will do the thinking for us - or will they? Alexander Repenning, professor…
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The central role of base registers and standards data in breaking data silos

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Base registers or standards data are central components of a Linked Data ecosystem. Together with jointly used data models or ontologies, they…
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How art institutions can manage their metadata

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Virtual assistants need descriptive metadata to work correctly. But many art organizations are poorly positioned with it. To close this gap,…
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Switzerland needs a constructive data policy

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The vision has been clear for some time: we want a cooperative, participatory and open use of the data that is accumulating in ever greater quantities…
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June-July: Special Issue focused on Missing Links

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Today, Open Data is an imperative. Government data, research data, and data from various other fields must be freely accessible and reusable…
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How companies handle electronic business processes securely

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The expansion of the Swissdec information platform places new security requirements on the identification and authentication of participating…
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