Notes on Online Research.pptVIP

Oct. 2005 INF5220 Notes on Internet Research Gisle HannemyrOctober 2005 Overview of lecture (Legal requirements in Norway) What is Internet research? Online resources and bibliographies Internet field work Ethical issues Legal requirements in Norway The legal requirements for doing research that where personal data about individuals are collected and processed are specified in Personopplysningsloven (POL): Main requirement: All such research need to be reported on a special form to Personvernombudet for forskning (Privacy ombudsman for research). Report form guidelines (in Norwegian): http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~gisle/ifi/pol.html POL: Report form compulsory if: Recording or processing of information about individuals by electronic means. NB: “electronic” ? “digital”. Analogue recording is not consider “electronic” for legal purposes. A manual archive containing sensitive personal data will be created. POL: Permit compulsory if: Sensitive personal data is recorded. Sensitive personal data is data that reveals: Racial or ethnic background Political, philosophical or religious opinion Criminal record Health related information Sexual relations Membership to trade unions POL: But permit not compulsory if: First time contact to selection of respondents is based upon, either: publicly available data; a responsible person at the insitution where the respondent is registered; initiative from the respondent. The responent has given informed consent to all parts of the research. The project is terminated at the time agreed upon. All material collected is destroyed or anonymized when the project is terminated. The project is not joining data from more than one register or data base. Internet Research:An overloaded term The term “Internet Research” or “Online Research” appear in the relevant literature to denote in a number of different con-texts and research approaches, such as: Resource discovery Form-based data collection Research about Internet (usage) “Field” work (The fiel