Hello, I am developing an 'available research data' section of the member website. The basic goals of this are to provide members with easy access to existing data sources that they can incorporate into their own analyses, to provide members with easy access to tools that will help them conduct research, and to foster collaborative analyses by providing a mechanism for people with shared interests to network around specific materials. I need your help to identify and generate resources to include, and welcome any help in building or maintaining this communal resource. I envision the following sorts of materials [these will be either links or, with permission, archived copies on aoir's server]: (1) data sets that are already available online (e.g. HomeNet data, Pew Internet data...). If you have any suggestions of such data sets that we should include, please email me a brief description and a url for the materials. (2) data collecting tools that are available online such as the recently mentioned NetMiner. If you know of any such tools for analysing the internet, please email me a brief description and a url. (3) online archives such as webarchive.org, and the recent election and 9-11 archives built by aoir members. If you know of good archives, email me the urls and a blurb. (4) data sets contributed by our members either because you are done with them and want to share, or because you are looking for collaborators to help you analyze the materials (it seems a characteristic of a lot of net research that we end up with a lot more data than we can analyze). If you might be interested in sharing your data, please email me a description of what you have (don't send me data sets yet, I'm not that far along). Depending on how free you want your materials to be, you could choose between giving aoir a copy of the data to archive (with info about it) or you could give us a description of the data, the sort of work you're looking for others to do with it, and contact information for those who want to follow up with you (i.e. you hang on to the data files). Our intention is that access to such private resources contributed by aoir members would be limited to aoir members. (5) what would be useful to include that I am leaving out? If you have any other suggestions regarding the shape of this venture or the specifics of what it will include or how it will be done, please email them to me or, better yet, raise them for discussion on air-l. This is in planning stages, and is open to good ideas about how to make it better. This will only be worthwhile if it's something we use, and we'll only use it if it's got things worth using there, so please let me know what you're aware of or what you would be willing to contribute. There will be plenty of work to go around in building and maintaining this resource, so I welcome anyone's participation. Thank you in advance for your input, Nancy _________________________________________________________ Nancy Baym nbaym@ku.edu http://www.ku.edu/home/nbaym Communication Studies, University of Kansas 102 Bailey, 1440 Jayhawk Blvd., Lawrence, KS 66045, USA VP, Association of Internet Researchers: http://aoir.org