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How can we save social media data?
(2019-05-06)
The availability and scale of social media data offer researchers new opportunities to leverage those data for their work in broad areas such as public opinion, digital culture, labor trends, public health, and social ...
Saving Social Media Data: Understanding Data Management Practices Among Social Media Researchers and their Implications for Archives
(2020)
Social media data offer researchers new opportunities to leverage those data for their work in broad areas such as public opinion, digital culture, labor trends, and public health. Success of efforts to save social media ...
The Stewardship Gap: A Challenge in Long-Term Access to Data
(2018-12-27)
Despite broad consensus among many in the scientific research, data, and policy communities about the importance of preserving and sharing research data, there are significant concerns about the adequacy of measures being ...
What difference does curation make? Introducing MICA: Measuring the Impacts of Curatorial Actions
(2019-12-06)
MICA, or “Measuring and Improving the Efficacy of
Curation Activities in Data Archives” is a three-year
National Digital Infrastructures and Initiatives project
led by investigators at the University of Michigan
School ...
How do properties of data, their curation, and their funding relate to reuse?
(2021-06-17)
Despite large public investments in facilitating the secondary use of data, there is little information about the specific factors that predict data’s reuse. Using data download logs from the Inter-university Consortium ...
Developing a Social Media Archive at ICPSR
(2018-04-25)
Social media are implicated in many of contemporary society's most pressing issues, from influencing public opinion, to organizing social movements, and identifying economic trends. Increasing the capacity of researchers ...
More than Weight, Less than Driver's License Number: Comparative Sensitivity of Social Media Data and Their Acceptable Use in Research
(2022-06-02)
Social media data offer a rich resource for researchers interested in public health, labor economics, politics, social behaviors, and other topics. However, scale and anonymity mean that researchers often cannot directly ...
Comparing Costs for Cloud-based Data Archives
(2023)
Research data management is an expensive enterprise. Computing infrastructure for storing, retrieving, and preserving data is one
area of expenses, and computing infrastructure costs grow as the size and number of datasets ...