I think our list archives ought to be public, and ought ideally to be
available to anyone without even having to make an out of band request
to ELM. Are they not, can't you just download them from the web without
even having to ask? Either way, yes, anyone should be able to get the
archives to use them for whatever research they want.
On 6/4/2012 4:54 PM, Edward M. Corrado wrote:
I personally don't have any objections to this, and in fact, would be
interested to find out what you discover. Make sure you check with your IRB
to see if they require anything (sometimes even an anonymous survey can
require IRB approval) if you are considering publishing your results.
Also, if you are concerned or interested about any potential ethical
issues, you may want to check out the Assocation of Internet Researchers:
http://aoir.org/
Edward
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Paul Orkiszewski
<orkiszews...@appstate.edu>wrote:
Hi all,
I'm interested in analyzing the list archives with a goal of studying how
concepts move through the list over time, the relationship (or
non-relationship) between discussions in the list and eventual
implementations and practices in the broader library community, the
zeitgeist over time of an active development community, etc. I'm not sure
about the tools and products at the moment, but the outcomes would be
anonymous and there would be no e-mail harvest of any kind, especially and
specifically any commercial harvesting. An initial idea as an example of
what I'm thinking about is to generate word clouds that could give a
snapshot of what's going on over some defined period of time, or concepts
most closely associated with a particular term, or an overlap analysis
against one of the library science databases. Stuff like that.
Eric Lease Morgan, the list admin, can provide an archive of the list, but
I wanted to check with all of you before I asked for it.
Cheers,
Paul
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