1986/01/01 by Manfred Thaller, Thaller, Manfred
Computer Science · Social Sciences · #Data Processing #Digital Rights Management and Security #Electronic Data Processing #Government, Law, and Information Management #Historical Social Research #Historische Sozialforschung #Library Science and Information Systems #Software #Source Analysis #Statistical Analysis #Statistische Analyse
paper · pdf · doi:10.12759/hsr.11.1986.4.3-46
openalex publication_date 1986/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Machine readable sources we call all representations of a source on an electronic computer which are used by source-oriented data processing. So we include data, which contain significant portions of text along with coded information - as available in the data bank of demographic research (in its broadest meaning); we include at the same time material which consists almost completely of text, but of very small units of it, being heavily structured - material, that is, as it exists in the data bases of microanalytical research; and we also include, finally, more or less uncoded representations of continuous machine-readable texts as usually resulting from computer aided editing techniques.