As promised, the August 15th blog post… My internship was officially over as of 2 p.m. yesterday, when my mentor and I submitted our scholarly publication to the 2014 iConference. Abstract is as follows: Citizen science and participatory sensing are two models of public participation in data collection initiatives where Continue reading Finishing up
Well. I’d like to say that this Internship is wrapping up, but it really isn’t for me. The reason for this is that, when forced to choose between doing something practical and of reasonable scope vs. doing something ambitious and possibly excruciatingly valuable, my mentor and I selected the later. Continue reading The beginning of the end
For the remainder of my Internship I’m going to focus on writing an academic paper about data policies in PPSR. I love writing papers (life as a PhD student would be pretty miserable if I didn’t), and I’m getting pretty good at turning out decent drafts in a decent timeframe. Continue reading The start of a paper, at last
My internship “to do” list has four main categories: practitioner guide, web content, academic paper, and other (it’s not a true exhaustive classification scheme). I’ve made substantial progress in three of these four categories over the last two weeks. In terms of the practitioner guide, perhaps the main deliverable of Continue reading Getting things done
I apologize for not blogging last week. I was at the SoCS PI conference in Seattle as the student representative of my research group’s grant, learning a lot about different areas of social computing and the larger paradigm of academia. I’ll use this blog post to briefly review what I Continue reading Reflections on SoCS
This week, I finalized the (tentative) top level categories for understanding/ explaining data policy: Legal policy- compliance with national and local law, compliance with other guidelines, liability User agreement- agreement type, accessibility Privacy policy- for website visitors, for registered users, for aggregate data Terms of use- copyright, attribution I also Continue reading Playing with metaphors
Hi Interns, As part of my project I’m working on an interactive data policy planning tool. I’d like to base it off the Creative Commons Choose a license tool. This tool is licensed under a 3.0 license, the most liberal– basically, anyone is free to reuse the tool and its Continue reading Need help from someone with amazing coding skills
I started week 3 in a state of muted panic, mostly related to the monster of a 10-page classification scheme I finalized a draft of last Friday. On Monday I realized that while this is a really good entry point to the data in its current state it’s completely unusable Continue reading It’s getting better all the time
I know this probably won’t fascinate anyone except me, but I spent most of week 2 developing a classification schema for understanding citizen science data policy. Developing a classification scheme was necessary because it’s important to have a *real* metric to use when evaluating different policies, instead of comparing one Continue reading Data policy classification
After reading over the blog entries, it seems like I’m one of the only interns lucky enough to be working in the same physical location as my primary mentor. As an added bonus, that location is the gorgeous Cornell Lab of Ornithology, which is located in amazing and amazingly weird Continue reading Anne’s Orientation