From the middle of nineteenth-century, representatives radical and labour agitations in Britain sough to embed themselves an older democratic precedent. Referring back these established narratives, Communist authors Popular Front period laid foundations for revival English tradition that proved formative a generation historians who saw as custodians past. Outlining approach British historical p...

Researchers are now accessing millions of Online Social Network (OSN) interactions. These are available at no or low cost through Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) or data custodians including DataSift and GNIP. Records held in Extensible Markup Language (XML) or JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) are well structured but often inconveniently formatted for use in popular Relational Databa...

This paper builds on a Strategic Activity Framework (Jarzabkowski 2005) and activity based theories of development (Vygotsky 1978) to model how Enterprise Systems are used to support emerging strategy. It makes three contributions. Firstly, it links fluidity and extensiveness of system use to patterns of strategising. Fluidity ‐ the ability to change system use as needs change ‐ is supported by...

Hospitals strive to improve the quality of the healthcare they provide. To achieve this, they require access to health data. These data are sensitive since they contain personal information. Governments have legislation to ensure that privacy is respected and hospitals must comply with it. Unfortunately, most of the procedures meant to control access to health information remain paper-based, ma...

Spatial data usually managed by many different custodians and need to be accessed by others. The trait of highly heterogeneous of data management nodes could be well utilized to meet the above application requirement. We use a hybrid peer-to-peer overlay of double layer to present a spatial data management method in distributed wide area network environments. The method fits well with the curre...

The challenge of balancing the competing objectives of allowing statistical analysis of confidential data and maintaining confidentiality is of great interest to national statistical agencies and other data custodians seeking to make their data available for research. This balance is often characterised as a trade-off between disclosure risk and data utility, where disclosure risk attempts to c...