Opening Doors to Sharing Social Media Data

January/February 2012

Research data sharing becomes increasingly difficult in the context of social media. Increasing restrictions from social media sites are creating an environment where data cannot be freely shared and as a result scientific claims cannot be verified. In this work, the authors present a novel approach to data sharing that does not require explicitly publishing a dataset. While this approach is by no means a silver bullet, the authors seek to start a conversation for researchers to implement approaches to data sharing that can be embraced by the research community. Read full article »