Tuesday, August 11, 2020 - 3:01am
- method / activities: participant observations
- data type: (pre-COVID) hand-written notes, (post-COVID) typed notes on my laptop
- preservation: stored on my laptop (handwritten notes will be scanned and uploaded), and backed up on Box
- access: (till data collection ends) private, but will be made public (via dissertation/other academic writing) with participant consent and once anonymized
- method / activities: one-on-one interviews
- data type: audio recordings (and video when interlocutor is comfortable + has the internet bandwidth), notes typed on laptop
- preservation: stored on my laptop, backed up on Box
- access: private, to be made public if used in writing + participant consents
- method / activities: observations of meetings, workshops, conferences etc.
- data type: handwritten and typed notes + recordings of YouTube and FB lives (or in rarer instances Zoom webinars)
- preservation: will first be catalogued, then stored on my laptop in order + backed up on Box
- access: events conducted by organizations are largely public, with some variations depending on audience (eg. accessible to particular listservs)
- method / activities: archival research
- data type: documents available in electronic archives + from library searches
- preservation: will be ordered, stored on Mendeley and backed up on Box
- access: documents are semi-public (often depending on institutional access), but my notes on them will be kept private
- method / activities: Twitter conversations
- data type: bookmarking relevant tweets + interactions on those tweets
- preservation: screenshots will be catalogued, stored on Mendeley and backed up on Box
- access: for the most part, tweets are public, but will keep my notes private
