do we need an aoir data archive
I brought this up on twitter yesterday. Perhaps it is time for AoIR to start an archive of data for current and future use. My thought is that right now many researchers have access and rights to share significant bits of data, and many do not have access. As I've said elsewhere, i don't actually think you can do peer reviewable research without providing access to the data that generated that research, and given that I have reviewed several papers based on proprietary information they could not release..., I'm thinking that we need to find ways of getting our data out there in the spirit of community and to promote scholarly quality. I also think having a neutral nonprofit holding the information would make it far easier for people to get information shared from corporations. However, that i see the need and others have agreed here and there, I think it is time to have a discussion. Personally, I know that I could set the infrastructure up without issue. The website in theory has close to unlimited storage space, though downloads would need to be limited as we have limited processor speed. There are also legal issues, copyright issues, and codebook issues that would need to be sorted out. so do we need something like this? and if so or if not, why or why not? Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech Words are things; and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. --Byron
I mean to say... 'i do not think you can peer review data based research without access to the data' not 'As I've said elsewhere, i don't actually think you can do peer reviewable research without providing access to the data that generated that research' bleh, i really should stop multitasking when writing email.
I brought this up on twitter yesterday. Perhaps it is time for AoIR to start an archive of data for current and future use. My thought is that right now many researchers have access and rights to share significant bits of data, and many do not have access. As I've said elsewhere, i don't actually think you can do peer reviewable research without providing access to the data that generated that research, and given that I have reviewed several papers based on proprietary information they could not release..., I'm thinking that we need to find ways of getting our data out there in the spirit of community and to promote scholarly quality. I also think having a neutral nonprofit holding the information would make it far easier for people to get information shared from corporations.
However, that i see the need and others have agreed here and there, I think it is time to have a discussion. Personally, I know that I could set the infrastructure up without issue. The website in theory has close to unlimited storage space, though downloads would need to be limited as we have limited processor speed. There are also legal issues, copyright issues, and codebook issues that would need to be sorted out.
so do we need something like this? and if so or if not, why or why not?
Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech
Words are things; and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. --Byron
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While Jeremy is bringing this issue up, let me get in a bid to generate some discussion on the topic of building archives of web content. These may be slightly different than the structured data archives Jeremy is referring to, but potentially offer future researchers access to important content for Internet research. At OII, we have written a draft report that we will be delivering at the IIPC conference next week, and we are hoping that communities such as AoIR will scan the report and contribute your thoughts. This report has been commissioned by the IIPC, so your ideas have a pretty good chance of finding the right audience. Please let us know if there is data you think that archives should be collecting, storing, and making available for research, and research questions they should be considering as they build archives, or partner with organizations like AoIR to make archives. The draft report is available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1830025 Comments prior to 04 June 2011 will be taken into account when we write the final report. You can respond directly to me (so as not to bog down this interesting discussion), and we will post the final report back to the list at the end of June. Thanks, Eric Eric T. Meyer Research Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford eric.meyer@oii.ox.ac.uk http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/meyer -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of jeremy hunsinger Sent: 06 May 2011 04:53 To: jeremy hunsinger Cc: aoir list Subject: Re: [Air-L] do we need an aoir data archive I mean to say... 'i do not think you can peer review data based research without access to the data' not 'As I've said elsewhere, i don't actually think you can do peer reviewable research without providing access to the data that generated that research' bleh, i really should stop multitasking when writing email.
I brought this up on twitter yesterday. Perhaps it is time for AoIR to start an archive of data for current and future use. My thought is that right now many researchers have access and rights to share significant bits of data, and many do not have access. As I've said elsewhere, i don't actually think you can do peer reviewable research without providing access to the data that generated that research, and given that I have reviewed several papers based on proprietary information they could not release..., I'm thinking that we need to find ways of getting our data out there in the spirit of community and to promote scholarly quality. I also think having a neutral nonprofit holding the information would make it far easier for people to get information shared from corporations.
However, that i see the need and others have agreed here and there, I think it is time to have a discussion. Personally, I know that I could set the infrastructure up without issue. The website in theory has close to unlimited storage space, though downloads would need to be limited as we have limited processor speed. There are also legal issues, copyright issues, and codebook issues that would need to be sorted out.
so do we need something like this? and if so or if not, why or why not?
Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech
Words are things; and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. --Byron
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Hi Eric, Thank you to both you and Ralph Schroeder for this interesting report. My view on this (which I've expressed to both you and Ralph previously) is that the major obstacle to research using web archive data is the lack of APIs. The reason why the live web is more actively researched than the archived web is because tool developers can access live web data either by crawling websites directly or through APIs into Google/Yahoo, Twitter, Facebook etc. (although these APIs are not always what we would hope for - see the recent discussion on this list regarding the Twitter API). I've been wanting to connect the VOSON software to sources of historical hyperlink data (e.g. Internet Archive) since around 2005 but as far as I know, there is no publicly available API yet. Through your report I've learned about the EU's Longitudinal Analysis of Web Archive Data project (http://www.lawa-project.eu) and so I'm hoping they may be developing APIs into historical web collections that other tool developers can use for the construction of longitudinal hyperlink networks (and indeed, even hyperlink event stream datasets). Archives (of all types) are under pressure to add value to their data and there seems to be a perception that this is best done by in-house development of tools that sit on top of collections, with preferential access to the data. However I feel that in many situations, APIs that can be used by third-party developers are a much better way of stimulating innovative research. Rob ------------------------------------- Dr Robert Ackland Fellow and Masters Coordinator, Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute, The Australian National University homepage: http://adsri.anu.edu.au/people/robert.php project: http://voson.anu.edu.au Information about the Master of Social Research (Social Science of the Internet specialisation): http://adsri.anu.edu.au/study/msr.php ------------------------------------- Eric Meyer wrote:
While Jeremy is bringing this issue up, let me get in a bid to generate some discussion on the topic of building archives of web content. These may be slightly different than the structured data archives Jeremy is referring to, but potentially offer future researchers access to important content for Internet research.
At OII, we have written a draft report that we will be delivering at the IIPC conference next week, and we are hoping that communities such as AoIR will scan the report and contribute your thoughts. This report has been commissioned by the IIPC, so your ideas have a pretty good chance of finding the right audience. Please let us know if there is data you think that archives should be collecting, storing, and making available for research, and research questions they should be considering as they build archives, or partner with organizations like AoIR to make archives.
The draft report is available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1830025
Comments prior to 04 June 2011 will be taken into account when we write the final report. You can respond directly to me (so as not to bog down this interesting discussion), and we will post the final report back to the list at the end of June.
Thanks, Eric
Eric T. Meyer Research Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford eric.meyer@oii.ox.ac.uk http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/meyer
-----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of jeremy hunsinger Sent: 06 May 2011 04:53 To: jeremy hunsinger Cc: aoir list Subject: Re: [Air-L] do we need an aoir data archive
I mean to say... 'i do not think you can peer review data based research without access to the data' not 'As I've said elsewhere, i don't actually think you can do peer reviewable research without providing access to the data that generated that research' bleh, i really should stop multitasking when writing email.
I brought this up on twitter yesterday. Perhaps it is time for AoIR to start an archive of data for current and future use. My thought is that right now many researchers have access and rights to share significant bits of data, and many do not have access. As I've said elsewhere, i don't actually think you can do peer reviewable research without providing access to the data that generated that research, and given that I have reviewed several papers based on proprietary information they could not release..., I'm thinking that we need to find ways of getting our data out there in the spirit of community and to promote scholarly quality. I also think having a neutral nonprofit holding the information would make it far easier for people to get information shared from corporations.
However, that i see the need and others have agreed here and there, I think it is time to have a discussion. Personally, I know that I could set the infrastructure up without issue. The website in theory has close to unlimited storage space, though downloads would need to be limited as we have limited processor speed. There are also legal issues, copyright issues, and codebook issues that would need to be sorted out.
so do we need something like this? and if so or if not, why or why not?
Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech
Words are things; and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. --Byron
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You mean like Dataverse? http://thedata.org/home On May 6, 2011, at 10:50 AM, jeremy hunsinger wrote:
I brought this up on twitter yesterday. Perhaps it is time for AoIR to start an archive of data for current and future use. My thought is that right now many researchers have access and rights to share significant bits of data, and many do not have access. As I've said elsewhere, i don't actually think you can do peer reviewable research without providing access to the data that generated that research, and given that I have reviewed several papers based on proprietary information they could not release..., I'm thinking that we need to find ways of getting our data out there in the spirit of community and to promote scholarly quality. I also think having a neutral nonprofit holding the information would make it far easier for people to get information shared from corporations.
However, that i see the need and others have agreed here and there, I think it is time to have a discussion. Personally, I know that I could set the infrastructure up without issue. The website in theory has close to unlimited storage space, though downloads would need to be limited as we have limited processor speed. There are also legal issues, copyright issues, and codebook issues that would need to be sorted out.
so do we need something like this? and if so or if not, why or why not?
Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech
Words are things; and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. --Byron
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JITP (www.jitp.net) has its own Dataverse and we like it a lot: http://dvn.iq.harvard.edu/dvn/dv/jitp I only wish more authors would put their data up! Harvard has been excellent supporting this service. It was easy to set up and customize. On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Michael Zimmer <zimmerm@uwm.edu> wrote:
You mean like Dataverse? http://thedata.org/home
On May 6, 2011, at 10:50 AM, jeremy hunsinger wrote:
I brought this up on twitter yesterday. Perhaps it is time for AoIR to start an archive of data for current and future use. My thought is that right now many researchers have access and rights to share significant bits of data, and many do not have access. As I've said elsewhere, i don't actually think you can do peer reviewable research without providing access to the data that generated that research, and given that I have reviewed several papers based on proprietary information they could not release..., I'm thinking that we need to find ways of getting our data out there in the spirit of community and to promote scholarly quality. I also think having a neutral nonprofit holding the information would make it far easier for people to get information shared from corporations.
However, that i see the need and others have agreed here and there, I think it is time to have a discussion. Personally, I know that I could set the infrastructure up without issue. The website in theory has close to unlimited storage space, though downloads would need to be limited as we have limited processor speed. There are also legal issues, copyright issues, and codebook issues that would need to be sorted out.
so do we need something like this? and if so or if not, why or why not?
Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech
Words are things; and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. --Byron
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And we have a replication policy for qual & quant datasets: http://www.jitp.net/m_replicat.php On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Stuart Shulman <stuart.shulman@gmail.com>wrote:
JITP (www.jitp.net) has its own Dataverse and we like it a lot:
http://dvn.iq.harvard.edu/dvn/dv/jitp
I only wish more authors would put their data up! Harvard has been excellent supporting this service. It was easy to set up and customize.
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Michael Zimmer <zimmerm@uwm.edu> wrote:
You mean like Dataverse? http://thedata.org/home
On May 6, 2011, at 10:50 AM, jeremy hunsinger wrote:
I brought this up on twitter yesterday. Perhaps it is time for AoIR to start an archive of data for current and future use. My thought is that right now many researchers have access and rights to share significant bits of data, and many do not have access. As I've said elsewhere, i don't actually think you can do peer reviewable research without providing access to the data that generated that research, and given that I have reviewed several papers based on proprietary information they could not release..., I'm thinking that we need to find ways of getting our data out there in the spirit of community and to promote scholarly quality. I also think having a neutral nonprofit holding the information would make it far easier for people to get information shared from corporations.
However, that i see the need and others have agreed here and there, I think it is time to have a discussion. Personally, I know that I could set the infrastructure up without issue. The website in theory has close to unlimited storage space, though downloads would need to be limited as we have limited processor speed. There are also legal issues, copyright issues, and codebook issues that would need to be sorted out.
so do we need something like this? and if so or if not, why or why not?
Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech
Words are things; and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. --Byron
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Apropos of both this thread and yesterday's, I'm curious, Stu—what is JITP's policy on public archiving of data that is forbidden to be distributed by the hosting company's TOS (e.g. Twitter)? Do you make an exception for studies based on such data (a content analysis of tweets, for example), or would they be off-limits because the data can't be shared? Seems like this could be a potential issue for any journal that publishes such studies—a TOS as restrictive as Twitter's would seem to disallow even limited data sharing with editors and anonymous reviewers. ~DEEN On 5/6/11 1:13 PM, Stuart Shulman wrote:
And we have a replication policy for qual& quant datasets:
http://www.jitp.net/m_replicat.php
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Stuart Shulman<stuart.shulman@gmail.com>wrote:
JITP (www.jitp.net) has its own Dataverse and we like it a lot:
http://dvn.iq.harvard.edu/dvn/dv/jitp
I only wish more authors would put their data up! Harvard has been excellent supporting this service. It was easy to set up and customize.
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Michael Zimmer<zimmerm@uwm.edu> wrote:
You mean like Dataverse? http://thedata.org/home
On May 6, 2011, at 10:50 AM, jeremy hunsinger wrote:
I brought this up on twitter yesterday. Perhaps it is time for AoIR to start an archive of data for current and future use. My thought is that right now many researchers have access and rights to share significant bits of data, and many do not have access. As I've said elsewhere, i don't actually think you can do peer reviewable research without providing access to the data that generated that research, and given that I have reviewed several papers based on proprietary information they could not release..., I'm thinking that we need to find ways of getting our data out there in the spirit of community and to promote scholarly quality. I also think having a neutral nonprofit holding the information would make it far easier for people to get information shared from corporations. However, that i see the need and others have agreed here and there, I think it is time to have a discussion. Personally, I know that I could set the infrastructure up without issue. The website in theory has close to unlimited storage space, though downloads would need to be limited as we have limited processor speed. There are also legal issues, copyright issues, and codebook issues that would need to be sorted out. so do we need something like this? and if so or if not, why or why not?
Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech
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Statistics Canada's data is protected by law to conserve the survey subject's privacy. It is *all* about confidentiality. University researchers and high school students can access some data via the Data Liberation initiative. http://www.statcan.gc.ca/dli-ild/dli-idd-eng.htm Researchers can also buy limited access. Peter Timusk at571@ncf.ca ptimusk@sympatico.ca web: www.crystalcomputing.net blogs www.cyborgcitizen.org -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Stuart Shulman Sent: May-06-11 4:10 PM To: Michael Zimmer Cc: aoir list Subject: Re: [Air-L] do we need an aoir data archive JITP (www.jitp.net) has its own Dataverse and we like it a lot: http://dvn.iq.harvard.edu/dvn/dv/jitp I only wish more authors would put their data up! Harvard has been excellent supporting this service. It was easy to set up and customize. On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Michael Zimmer <zimmerm@uwm.edu> wrote:
You mean like Dataverse? http://thedata.org/home
On May 6, 2011, at 10:50 AM, jeremy hunsinger wrote:
I brought this up on twitter yesterday. Perhaps it is time for AoIR to start an archive of data for current and future use. My thought is that right now many researchers have access and rights to share significant bits of data, and many do not have access. As I've said elsewhere, i don't actually think you can do peer reviewable research without providing access to the data that generated that research, and given that I have reviewed several papers based on proprietary information they could not release..., I'm thinking that we need to find ways of getting our data out there in the spirit of community and to promote scholarly quality. I also think having a neutral nonprofit holding the information would make it far easier for people to get information shared from corporations.
However, that i see the need and others have agreed here and there, I think it is time to have a discussion. Personally, I know that I could set the infrastructure up without issue. The website in theory has close to unlimited storage space, though downloads would need to be limited as we have limited processor speed. There are also legal issues, copyright issues, and codebook issues that would need to be sorted out.
so do we need something like this? and if so or if not, why or why not?
Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech
Words are things; and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. --Byron
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In the context of data sharing, has anyone tried http://figshare.com/ ? Seems like a possible alternative to institutional repos. -Cornelius On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 9:31 PM, Michael Zimmer <zimmerm@uwm.edu> wrote:
You mean like Dataverse? http://thedata.org/home
On May 6, 2011, at 10:50 AM, jeremy hunsinger wrote:
I brought this up on twitter yesterday. Perhaps it is time for AoIR to start an archive of data for current and future use. My thought is that right now many researchers have access and rights to share significant bits of data, and many do not have access. As I've said elsewhere, i don't actually think you can do peer reviewable research without providing access to the data that generated that research, and given that I have reviewed several papers based on proprietary information they could not release..., I'm thinking that we need to find ways of getting our data out there in the spirit of community and to promote scholarly quality. I also think having a neutral nonprofit holding the information would make it far easier for people to get information shared from corporations.
However, that i see the need and others have agreed here and there, I think it is time to have a discussion. Personally, I know that I could set the infrastructure up without issue. The website in theory has close to unlimited storage space, though downloads would need to be limited as we have limited processor speed. There are also legal issues, copyright issues, and codebook issues that would need to be sorted out.
so do we need something like this? and if so or if not, why or why not?
Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech
Words are things; and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. --Byron
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