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Replication Data for: "Trustworthy Digital Repository Certification: A Longitudinal Study"
No full textThis dataset is a database compiled from two sources. First, we acquired all Data Seal of Approval (DSA) and early Core Trust Seal (CTS) audit reports from a MySQL database archived and made publicly accessible in DANS EASY (doi:10.17026/dans-28z-njxq). Second, we acquired more recent publicly accessible CTS audit reports from the list of certified repositories on the CTS website (https://www.coretrustseal.org/why-certification/certified-repositories/). We migrated and extracted the audit reports and their metadata from both sources into a file-based SQLite database that we have made publicly available on Harvard Dataverse. Our database allows you to replicate the tables and figures presented in the article, "Trustworthy Digital Repository Certification: A Longitudinal Study" that is published in Springer's indexed LNCS series for iConference 2023 (Donaldson, D.R., Russell, S.V. (2023). Trustworthy Digital Repository Certification: A Longitudinal Study. In I. Sserwanga, et al. (Eds.), Information for a Better World: Normality, Virtuality, Physicality, Inclusivity. iConference 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13972. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28032-0_42).
Our database is the entire set of self-assessment audit documents from the DSA and CTS certification programs as of October 2020. All the documents in the database follow the same format of a numerical score and narrative description of a repository’s compliance with each of the 16 guidelines. Although both have 16 scored sections, the guidelines for the earlier DSA and more recent CTS certification programs differ in the thematic arrangement of subtopics per section. Our database includes the section-by-section text and numerical scores of each repository’s audit reports, along with information used to identify repositories
The TIA-TDAC Framework
Full text linkAlthough trust in records has been an area of concern in archival science research for quite some time (e.g., Duranti1 and MacNeil2), the digital environment raises new questions about trust in digital documents and records. In particular, research on users’ perceptions of trust for digital archival content has begun to emerge, raising new questions about what trust means and how users interpret the concept, as well as what influences users’ perceptions of trust in digital archival content, broadly defined. This article presents the Trust in Archives–Trust in Digital Archival Content (TIA–TDAC) Framework, a conceptual model for understanding how users’ trust in archives influences their trust in digital archival content. The framework is based on research on trust in digital archival content from the perspective of an archives’ user
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
The Perceived Value of Acquiring Data Seals of Approval Study Dataset and Associated Files
No full textThis package contains the data and associated analyses for a study which examined the benefits of acquiring Data Seals of Approval (DSAs) from the point of view of those who have them. This package includes data from a series of 15 semi-structured interviews with representatives from 16 different organizations in which participants described the benefits of having DSAs in their own words. The four files in this package include: 1) the coded interview transcripts and description of codes (i.e., codebook) in NVivo for Mac Version 11.3.2 (1888) file format (e.g., .nvpx), 2) the raw dataset that lists the frequency with which each benefit was mentioned by DSA board members and non-DSA board members in IBM SPSS Statistics 24 file format (e.g., .spv), and 3) the processed/analysed data from the Mann-Whitney U tests in two different file formats (e.g., .doc and .spv).This project was funded by a Research Data Alliance United States Data Share Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.This study investigates the value of acquiring DSAs from the perspectives of those who have them. To avoid data collector characteristics and bias that could potentially affect what data were collected and how they were analysed, only those without prior experience in the development of the DSA were selected to be a part of the research team that handled data collection and analysis. Specifically, this study included a data collector who is knowledgeable about repository standards but yet did not play an active role in the development of any of them. The data collector also does not serve as a formal third-party auditor, a contrast from existing research on this topic. Approval for conducting this research was received from the Indiana University Human Subjects Office.
Our findings are drawn from data collected during interviews conducted between August 2015 and February 2016. All participants were at organizations whose repositories successfully acquired DSAs. We selected these individuals because only digital repository staff members at institutions which successfully acquired DSAs would be able to speak from experience about the actual benefits of having them. The list of 64 acquired seals on the DSA website constituted the sampling frame. The first author recruited participants by emailing representatives from each of the repositories that acquired the DSA and inviting their participation. The first author sent follow-up emails on two separate occasions to try to increase participation. As a result of these efforts, we successfully recruited 15 representatives from these repositories to participate in this study, with a response rate of 23%.
The primary purpose of conducting the semi-structured, 30-minute interviews was to understand the value of the audit process and certification from the perspective of actual digital repository staff members. The first author asked respondents to discuss: how they learned about the DSA certification, how they decided to undergo audit, how they prepared for it, what the process was like, any lessons learned, the perceived value of the audit process, and the perceived value of certification since attaining it. No incentives for participation were provided.
All interviews took place by telephone or via Skype and were audio recorded. Afterwards, all interviews were transcribed. Transcripts were then coded using NVivo – a qualitative data analysis software tool. Prior to analyzing the transcripts, the first author developed a codebook based primarily on the list of benefits on the DSA website. The first author also remained open to identifying additional themes as a result of analyzing the transcripts. The first author and a hired graduate student coded the transcripts. We calculated inter-rater reliability using Cohen’s Kappa. We achieved a score of 0.87; thus, on average, we agreed on codes 87% of the time.
Some participants played an active role in the development of the DSA, either as past or present DSA board members. This was seen as a potential threat to the validity of the data. In particular, DSA board members could subconsciously or consciously over-report the benefits of acquiring DSAs based on their knowledge of and experience with the standard. For this reason, additional data analyses were performed. Specifically, a series of Mann-Whitney U tests were performed to detect whether any statistically significant differences existed between DSA board members and non-DSA board members regarding the frequency with which they reported benefits of acquiring DSAs. All statistical analyses were performed using IBM SPSS Statistics 24.To access the coded interview transcripts and description of codes (i.e., codebook), you need NVivo for Mac Version 11.3.2 (1888). To access the raw dataset that lists the frequency with which each benefit was mentioned by DSA board members and non-DSA board members, you need IBM SPSS Statistics 24. To access the processed/analysed data from the Mann-Whitney U tests, you need IBM SPSS Statistics 24 to access the .spv file and Microsoft Word to access the .doc file
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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