Rethinking the Call for a US National Data Center in the 1960s: Privacy, Social Science Research and Data Fragmentation Viewed from the Perspective of Contemporary Archival Theory.

This article reconsiders from current archival perspectives the debate surrounding the failed proposal for a national data center in the 1960s. Whereas most accounts of the 1960s effort to construct a national data center in the United States focus on privacy issues, this account focuses more broadl...

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Published in:	Information & Culture Vol. 53; no. 2; pp. 203 - 243
Main Authors:	Loughnane, Christopher, Aspray, William
Format:	Article
Published:	University of Texas Press 2018
Subjects:	Data libraries Access to archives Government policy on privacy Social science research
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost