The strength of the IRB problem depends, of course, on the IRB, given
the nearly-completely decentralized nature of the system. If you happen
to work somewhere with an, um, strict IRB (as at a place I used to work
at where there was worry about any human subjects research issues
threatening their planned medical school), it can create problems to the
point that you simply can't make any recordings to try to share
publicly. (In my case, it pushed me into working with pre-existing
archives rather than doing fieldwork during the time i was there.)
Basically, just because IRBs aren't always a problem (and probably
aren't as much of a problem as academic folklore would lead one to
believe), this doesn't mean that IRBs always aren't a problem.
--
David Bowie
On 13/Jun/11 3:10 PM, Claire Bowern wrote:
> Regarding IRBs, I recently did a survey of common problems and data
> management was not one that anyone mentioned (the article is available
> here: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/language/summary/v086/86.4.bowern.html).
> The IRB problem is less in actuality than people often think.
> Claire
>
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Kephart, Ronald<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Patty,
>>
>> I (and probably many others) share your worldview, but some of us are ruled by Institutional Review Boards that to a greater or lesser degree demand that we conform to standards that were originally developed to curb real abuses in "medical" and "psychological" research. The Linguistic Society of America and the American Anthropological Association have managed to attenuate this to some extent by providing materials for the education of IRB's, but it's still a problem. Especially when you put data out in the public domain that was collected without any expectation that this would be possible. For example, I have some really neat stuff in English Creole that I recorded over 30 years ago, but I don't think I can put it "out there" without running afoul of my uni's IRB. They would probably want me to get retroactive permission from people who have in many cases moved off the island or passed away.
>>
>> I haven't looked at the site in question, but I bet that they have a place where you have to affirm that the data you upload was acquired according to IRB standards or at least that you have permission from the people you recorded, or something like that.
>>
>> Ron
>>
>> Ronald Kephart
>> Associate Professor of Anthropology
>>
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