Notes regarding research at / involving P2PU. (Scroll back in the timeline for earlier notes)


Reactions / Questions / Comments:

• In the past, we got caught up over data privacy issues - what about privacy?
  • can we do things in a more lightweight way? (Jessy quoting bekka) ha!
  • One suggestion is that we do a database dump, and we make it available to them (Bekka)
  • The university has to stick to it's own ethics/data management restrictions, which are very strict
  • 2 options: 
    • We anonymise the data before we give it to them
    • They could clean it for us, develop scripts for us to do this in general
    • Things to consider:
      • email addresses
      • passwords
      • private messages within the system
      • visit tracking (what is this?)
  • it would be great if part of the partnership could be cleaning and releasing the data openly
• would be great to get P2PU's name on some academic papers :)
  • what would qualify P2PU as a co-author? if individuals from P2PU participate they would be co-authors
  • we could try to open the process for participation by P2PU users
• Jessy -> We might want to have a 2 step approach -1. anonymise, and 2. check to make sure it's been done appropriately. 
• we should have a p2pu course - er - project - challenge, whatever, on studying the data. open to all!
• Participation in the research: 
  • Can we ask people to join the community call as a condition of research?
    • maybe not as a *condition*, but seems nice if/that they would, and don't see why they would object
    • And with any luck, they might even end up creating challenges/courses or using the site for teaching in the future. Sucked in by the community!
  • And even go so far as to suggest that P2PU users/members become part of the research as co-authors
    • IMHO i do think p2pu getting some credit at an appaopriate level is valuable to us for future fundraising, reputation, collaborations, etc. 
      • could be anything from the credit for the data to co-authorship if we actually do co-author
      • one question is how to facilitate collaboration at the authorship level. just organically?
• publication and access
  • we should think about how to license our data more explicitly?
  • (jessy): propose we: 
    • indicate strong preference for OA publication
    • require self-archiving/public accessible (?)
  • Ali -> if a group of researchers are required to keep their research publications closed, can they not work around it by publishing draft versions?
    • yes drafts can often be self-archived, but sometimes there is quite a big difference between the draft and final version

Questions:

• Relationship data / content license
• Get input from OKFN