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| ===Contact information=== | ===Contact information=== |
| Do not collect contact information if you do not plan to contact your participants after you have collected the data (e.g. in case of recruitment via social media, posters or third parties). The [[https://www.rug.nl/digital-competence-centre/it-solutions/collect-and-annotate/qualtrics-surveys?lang=en|UG approved survey tool Qualtrics]] provides the option to use an [[https://www.qualtrics.com/support/survey-platform/distributions-module/web-distribution/anonymous-link/|anonymous link]] to prevent the collection of name and e-mail address of your participants. | Do not collect contact information if you do not plan to contact your participants after you have collected the data (e.g. in case of recruitment via social media, posters or third parties). The [[https://www.rug.nl/digital-competence-centre/it-solutions/collect-and-annotate/qualtrics-surveys?lang=en|UG approved survey tool Qualtrics]] provides the option to use an [[https://www.qualtrics.com/support/survey-platform/distributions-module/web-distribution/anonymous-link/|anonymous link]] to prevent the collection of name and e-mail address of your participants. If you would like to contact participants to share results or for another purpose that doesn’t require linking identities to their responses, set up a separate survey to collect contact information. You can provide a link to this second survey at the end of the original one. This approach ensures that all research data anonymous from the start, while still allowing you to maintain a list of contact details. This only works if there is no need to connect contact information to individual responses. |
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| === Informed Consent === | === Informed Consent === |
| * **Social media data scraping** is the automated collection of user-generated content and metadata from platforms like X (Formerly Twitter) and YouTube for systematic analysis. Make sure you limit the variables you collect during scraping and define clear filters to your range (e.g. keywords and date range). Consider taking a sample and not scraping all the data that falls within this range. | * **Social media data scraping** is the automated collection of user-generated content and metadata from platforms like X (Formerly Twitter) and YouTube for systematic analysis. Make sure you limit the variables you collect during scraping and define clear filters to your range (e.g. keywords and date range). Consider taking a sample and not scraping all the data that falls within this range. |
| * **[[https://datadonation.eu/data-donation/|Data donation]]** allows a researcher to collect digital trace data, by asking their participants to request and share their Data Download Packages (DDPs), which they can request by exercising their [[https://www.rug.nl/digital-competence-centre/privacy-and-data-protection/gdpr-research/rights-of-human-data-subjects-in-scientific-research|privacy right to access and data portability]]. Although these packages can contain a lot of sensitive data, researchers at Scientific institutions in the Netherlands can use the software [[https://datadonation.eu/software/port/|Port]] which helps to set up a [[https://d3i-infra.github.io/data-donation-task/|data donation task]]. This limits the amount of data that will be donated to the data that is necessary for the research project, because participants do not donate the full DDP they received from the Social Media Platform. | * **[[https://datadonation.eu/data-donation/|Data donation]]** allows a researcher to collect digital trace data, by asking their participants to request and share their Data Download Packages (DDPs), which they can request by exercising their [[https://www.rug.nl/digital-competence-centre/privacy-and-data-protection/gdpr-research/rights-of-human-data-subjects-in-scientific-research|privacy right to access and data portability]]. Although these packages can contain a lot of sensitive data, researchers at Scientific institutions in the Netherlands can use the software [[https://datadonation.eu/software/port/|Port]] which helps to set up a [[https://d3i-infra.github.io/data-donation-task/|data donation task]]. This limits the amount of data that will be donated to the data that is necessary for the research project, because participants do not donate the full DDP they received from the Social Media Platform. |
| * **Manual data collection and observation** make it possible to carefully design your data collection and easily prevent the collection of identifiable data. You can determine what data you collect and are less dependent on API or Data Download Packages (DDPs). Examples of good practices: 1) Make sure not to collect any usernames, or store them seperately from the rest of your data ([[pseudonymization|pseudonymization]]). 2) [[de-identification|De-identify]] other personal identifiable information that is not necessary for your research purpose while you are collecting the data. | * **Manual data collection and observation** make it possible to carefully design your data collection and easily prevent the collection of identifiable data. You can determine what data you collect and are less dependent on API or Data Download Packages (DDPs). Examples of good practices: 1) Make sure not to collect any usernames, or store them seperately from the rest of your data ([[pseudonymization|pseudonymization]]). 2) [[de-identification|De-identify]] other personal identifiable information that is not necessary for your research purpose during data collection. |
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