CIRCA:Viral Analytics Consent Form
From CIRCA
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Purpose
A quick look at online analytic tools available to digital humanities scholars indicates that almost all efforts are limited to a Web 1.0 paradigm of providing resources: users are expected go to individual sites and use the resources in situ. For instance, MONK (monkproject.org) is a powerful data mining application for literary analysis, but all operations on done on the site itself. HyperPo (hyperpo.org) allows users to specify texts that exist elsewhere on the web, but the environment is still site-centric. Taporware (taporware.mcmaster.ca) offers some web services in addition to its web interface, but the web services can be difficult to use and lacks robustness. The TAPoR Portal is a unique aggregation of online tools located elsewhere on the web, but again it relies on users accessing the tools through a single point of access. A further issue for existing web-based text analysis environments is that functionality is most often presented in ways that are fundamentally unfamiliar for many humanities scholars (Warwick 2009): tabular frequency data and even keyword-in-context grids require a leap of faith for scholars who are used to reading texts. In short, we need to understand how best to integrate analytic modules into content provided by digital humanities projects. This will require us to study what web frameworks are being used by projects as well as how tools might be best customized for different types of users (beginner, intermediate, advanced) and different content (journals, text collections, library databases, blogs, etc.). By conducting this interview we hope to determine which tools publishers like you would like to see embedded into journals or blogs.
Your Participation
Your Participation involves a short 30 minute interview in which we hope to determine what kinds of analytical tools you would see beneficial to be embedded into your journal or blog. At the end of the interview I will type up my notes and send them to you for editing.
Your Rights
Your decision to participate in this study is entirely voluntary and you may decide at any time to withdraw from the study. During the interview you may skip over any question that you do not want to answer. The results of this study may be presented at scholarly conferences or published in professional journals.
Benefits and Risks
This research will help provide digital humanities scholars with better embedded analytic tools at different levels of complexity. Since we are interviewing journals with few editors there is a chance that your comments will be indirectly associated with you despite our attempts to keep everyone anonymous. If you feel that your comments may pose a risk to you, you are free to withhold all or some of the data from the interview.
Contact information
If you have any questions of concerns on the study, or if you wish a clarification of rights as a research participant, you can contact Geoffrey Rockwell or the Ethics Committee at the phone number or address below.
Geoffrey Rockwell, Ph D
geoffrey.rockwell@ualberta.ca
Office of interdisciplinary Studies
University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB T6G 2E9
780- 248-1209
or
Jennifer Thorn
jennifer.thorn@ualberta.ca
Arts, Science, and Law Research Ethics Board
University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB T6G 2E9
780- 492-2614
Consent Form
1. The nature and purpose of this research have been explained to me. I have been informed of the subject matter to be covered in the interview.
2. My participation in this research is completely voluntary.
3. I understand that I may refuse to answer any questions and I may terminate my participation in the interview at any time without any consequence to me. I may also withdraw my consent to participate in the research by making a written request to the researcher whose contact information is provided at the end of this form, within 60 days after the date of this interview. If I withdraw my consent to participate, any records relating to my participation in the research will be destroyed as soon as reasonably possible.
4. I understand that information relating to this interview shall be kept confidential, except for the purposes of conducting the research project, reporting on the research project, and as otherwise specified in this form. If I agree that the researcher may deposit records relating to my participation in this research in an archival repository, disclosure of the records shall be governed by the deposit agreement.
5. I agree that information that I provide may be attributed to me, and that individually identifying information about me may be disclosed in a report on the research, including a report published in any medium. I will be given an opportunity to withdraw or vary the consent given here at the conclusion of this interview. I will be provided with a copy of the notes of my interview. I may withdraw or vary the terms of my consent to the disclosure of my personal information up to 60 days after receiving the notes of this interview.
6. I understand that the researcher may communicate the research information and findings to others and that the research may be published, in accordance with the terms of the consent given by research participants and research subjects. The researcher shall have the right to edit the research material, and to combine information from this interview with other contributions, submissions, photographs, etc.
7. I understand that the researcher shall make reasonable security arrangements to protect records relating to my participation in this research against unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. I understand that records may be retained by the researcher until any report on the research has been published and for up to seven years afterwards. The records will then be securely destroyed.
8. I will receive a copy of this consent form.
9. If I have any questions or concerns respecting the research, I can contact:
Geoffrey Rockwell, Ph D
geoffrey.rockwell@ualberta.ca
Office of interdisciplinary Studies
University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB T6G 2E9
780- 248-1209
or
Jennifer Thorn
jennifer.thorn@ualberta.ca
Arts, Science, and Law Research Ethics Board
University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB T6G 2E9
780- 492-2614
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Signature of Interviewee
