Reanimating data: experiments with people, places and archives

在当代，只需点击一下鼠标即可建立档案。个人和社区档案事业异乎寻常地蓬勃发展，使用商业和开放获取的数字资源作为展示和告知我们是谁的一种方式。新兴的新贡献者--受众正在为公众和大众社会科学提供转变的可能性。资助机构也在学术实践中发起了类似的转变，要求对数据集进行存档。这一有先见之明的举措预见到了数字革命，这场革命将改变我们共享和重复使用数据的能力，确保英国社会科学家在围绕开放档案以及数据链接和二次分析机会的辩论中发挥主导作用。在1996年之前，社会定性研究产生的文件被销毁、丢失--尽管有些文件仍然储存在阁楼和车库里。我们的示范项目将保护和共享面临风险的学术档案，并将其与相关社区档案进行动态对话。我们将利用当前的非凡时刻，在这个时刻，非专业人士和专业人士处于动态平衡-学术界有能力理解长期保存的协议，社区档案带来新的能量和想象力，关于数据的价值以及它可能为我们做什么以及它可能会为我们做什么。与此同时，对可见性/匿名性/隐私、信任的道德以及共享所有权的实用性的担忧，有可能阻碍实现这些潜力的能力。通过将社区档案馆与机构档案馆联系起来，促进价值观、协议和资源的交换，我们的目标是发展信任、想象力和发明伦理，以实现创造性创新。我们实验的实质焦点是30年来青少年性行为的问题，这是一个公共利益和学术争论的问题。我们将与两个独特的项目合作。这项学术研究是由ESRC资助的颇具影响力的女性风险和艾滋病项目(WRAP)，该项目在1988-90年间进行，对曼彻斯特和伦敦的年轻女性(16-21岁)进行了150次深入的生活史采访。社区档案馆是设在曼彻斯特的女权主义者网，这是一个工作空间，为从事青年和青年妇女社区工作的实践者、志愿者和年轻女性提供档案和资源。我们将与包括档案员和博物馆、伦理学家、青年工作者、年轻人、数据再使用者、信息科学家和数据工程师在内的主要利益攸关方合作，以便第一次做一些事情：将学术数据归还给曾经提取它的社区；在未经事先同意的情况下在共享文件方面冒着谨慎的风险；利用协议将机构和社区档案联系起来，实现分散所有权；重新启动研究接触。我们将与新一代年轻女性、从业者和研究人员一起使用戏剧方法，开发公众参与、协作分析的方法，以制定和重新表演档案，根据我们的数据创造新的故事，并对青少年性行为在复杂的30年期间的经历和描绘的变化有新的理解。我们将创建一个开放获取的在线档案，包括关于实用和道德准则平台的建议，用于数据可视化和分析的开放获取工具，可以被其他人改编和采用，以帮助我们学习重复使用、存档和重现；包括针对学校和见习社会科学家的开放教育资源材料。我们的目标是激励当前和未来的研究人员，无论是学术的还是社区的，对他们自己的数据进行存档和共享，创造与社区档案和学术数据集以及流行研究实践相联系的机会，这将使我们能够更好地了解最近的社会变化。

In contemporary times archives are just a click away. There has been an extraordinary flourishing in personal and community archiving, using commercial and open access digital resources as a way of showing and telling about who we are. Emerging new contributor-audiences are offering transformed possibilities of a public and popular social science. Analogous shifts in academic practice have been initiated by funding bodies requiring that datasets are archived. This prescient move anticipated the digital revolution that would transform our ability to share and re-use data, assuring UK social scientists a leading role in debates around open archives and opportunities for data linkage and secondary analysis. Before 1996 the norm was that the documentation arising from qualitative social research was destroyed, lost - although some remained stored in attics and garages. Our demonstrator project will secure and share an at-risk academic archive and bring it into dynamic conversation with a related community archive. We will harness the current extraordinary moment where lay and professional expertise are in dynamic equilibrium - with academia equipped to understand the protocols of long term preservation and community archives bringing new energy and imagination as to the value of data and what it might 'do' for and with us. At the same time, concerns about the ethics of visibility/ anonymity/ privacy, trust and the practicalities of sharing ownership, risk hindering the ability to realise these potentials. Through linking community archives with institutional repositories to facilitate an exchange of values, protocols and resources, we aim to develop the kinds of trust, imagination and inventive ethics for creative innovation to take place.The substantive focus for our experiment is the question of teenage sexuality over a 30-year period, a question of public interest as well as academic contestation. We will work with two unique projects. The academic study is the influential ESRC-funded Women Risk and AIDS project (WRAP) conducted between 1988-90, involving 150 in-depth life history interviews with young women (16-21) in Manchester and London. The community archive is Manchester-based Feminist Webs a 'work space that acts as an archive and a resource for practitioners, volunteers and young women involved in youth and community work with young women'. We will work with key stakeholders including archivists and museums, ethicists, youth workers, young people, data re-users, information scientists and data engineers, in order to do a number of things for the first time: return academic data to the community from which it was once extracted; to take careful risks in sharing documents without prior consent; enable distributed ownership using protocols to link institutional and community archives; re-enact research encounters. Using drama methods with new generations of young women, practitioners and researchers, we will develop methods for public participation, collaborative analysis, to enact and re-perform the archive, creating new stories from our data, and new understandings of changes in the experience and portrayal of teenage sexualities over a complex thirty year period. We will create an open access online archive, including advice on practical and ethical guidelines platform, open access tools for data visualisation and analysis, that can be adapted and adopted by others, with the benefit of our learning on re-use, archiving and reanimating; including open educational resources materials targeted at schools as well as and trainee social scientists. Our aim is to inspire current and future researchers, academic and community-based, to archive and share their own data, to create linkage opportunities with community archives and academic datasets and popular research practices, which will allow us to better understand recent social change.