This article advances a principled proportionate governance model (PPGM) that overcomes key impediments to using health records for research. Despite increasing initiatives for maximising benefits of data linkage, significant challenges remain, including a culture of caution around data sharing and linkage, failure to make use of flexibilities within the law and failure to incorporate intellige...

Content dissemination networks are pervasive in todays’ Internet. Examples of content dissemination networks include peer-to-peer networks (P2P), content distribution networks (CDN) and information centric networks (ICN). In this paper, we propose a new system design for information centric networks which leverages opportunistic searching, routing and caching. Our system design is based on an h...

We present NADEEF, an extensible, generic and easy-todeploy data cleaning system. NADEEF distinguishes between a programming interface and a core to achieve generality and extensibility. The programming interface allows users to specify data quality rules by writing code that implements predefined classes. These classes uniformly define what is wrong with the data and (possibly) how to fix it. ...

This article describes how adult attitudes toward play on the Hawaiian island of Lāna’i reflect the connection between play and culture. It is based on a study of ninety-two caregivers (parents, grandparents, and other adult custodians), primarily representing individuals of Filipino, part Hawaiian, and Japanese heritages. These respondents completed a survey about the value of play for their c...

Preservation becomes an important infrastructural service for information systems. Many research works have done in past decades. The most popular preservation approach is migration, which transfers and/or transforms digital objects between two computers or two generations of computer technology. However, it is difficult for custodians to decide which migration solution should be chosen. This i...

Greek comedy is full of quotable maxims. According to a literal reading, the comedians might be seen as custodians traditional gnomic wisdom, along with their tragic counterparts. Nevertheless, it argued here that maxims in are different from other contexts. Comic typically appear ‘within inverted commas’, not just sense (because inherent ‘quotationality’) but figurative pervasive irony and sel...

Abstract We present a scalable architecture for electronic retail payments via central bank digital currency and offer solution to the perceived conflict between robust regulatory oversight consumer affordances such as privacy control. Our combines existing work in payment systems with new approach asset design managing unforgeable, stateful, oblivious assets without relying on either authority...

Abstract This article reports on teachers’ experience of working during the Covid-19 pandemic. The analysis is based a thematic group interviews with 76 teachers throughout Swedish school system, i.e., preschools, primary, secondary school, and municipal adult education. were conducted autumn 2021. Conceptualizing teaching pandemic as breakdown infrastructures, focuses how talk about changes in...

Investigates whether a cultural burning program embedded within government bureaucracy can meaningfully support Indigenous peoples’ landscape fires. In particular, it presents evidence on how and non-Indigenous individuals encountered, interpreted, prioritized the influence of wildfire science, ecological expert knowledge communities. All interviewees considered authority people, specifically T...