Dear all
Do you know / use any publicly available method or technique to assess reliability of usage and crowd-sourced data when the way in which data have been collected is not disclosed or stay behind some opacity? I mean studies and research outcomes where the traditional methodological introductory notes are missing.
This morning I was considering some evolutionary cases useful for persuading business owners and board types to fund my work / give me some assignment (in what I called data project management).
For some reason it would be too long to explain here I have thought something in the history of FID (international federation of documentation) might be useful in illustrating a concept.
I did not remember when exactly the FID was dissolved so I used my IPhone to search this information while I was having breakfast. FID was dissolved in 2002.
Then I checked @daveyp's Twitter feed (he is one of the key twitter accounts to follow to see what's going on in librarians and universities services communities) and found that just 10 minutes after my search via Google he had tweeted about Paul Otlet, founder of the FID.
I put this quick note in a tweet I did not send and saved it within Twitter for IPhone application. And then again @daveyp tweeted about the word "arsethics" he would like to be considered the inventor of (as I have claimed the invention of the word "unfindable" that is perfectly fine for me!)
So are these evidences of analogic coincidences? Magic viral serendipity? or abusive hacking in usage data research? Or abusive surveillance?
And if the coincidences are result of phone and computer hacking for research purposes how do we think these abuses can be reliable and in any way representative of online consumptions of people usually targeted by (but also protected from) cybercriminals?
I think there are reasons to call for more openess and understanding of data research methods. Thanks for answering either in public or in possibly private.
Brunella Longo
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The Unfindable Explained: Data Project Management
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