Participant consent and metadata, analyses

[Dr Christina Eira - VACL]

Yes. And also, in response to an earlier contribution by i think Steven bird, the question needs to sit there about who gets to decide what can be public and what can't. as the researcher I can't take full responsibility for that decision - how would i know?
christina
Dr Christina Eira
Community Linguist
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
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-----Original Message-----
From: Claire Bowern [mailto:clairebowern at gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, 28 September 2010 5:34 AM
To: Steven Bird
Cc: John Olstad; r-n-l-d at unimelb.edu.au
Subject: Re: Participant consent and metadata, analyses

James, my point was just that metadata, as a type of data, requires
the same sorts of discussions and thoughts as field data. Some of it
will be non-controversial, others will be tricky. I disagree with you
that "metadata release requires permission" is too broad -- it's the
start of the question about what the metadata contains and how it,
along with other data, should be handled. Thinking about it explicitly
is important. For example, there is a fieldworker who regularly blogs
rather personal information about her consultants, and while she is
careful to anonymize data in her thesis, she doesn't do the same for
her 'personal' web site. That seems to me to show that while she's
thought through the question of data/metadata protection in some way,
she hasn't thought it through fully.
Claire
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