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IntroductionInnovative data platforms (e.g. biobanks, repositories) continually emerge to facilitate data sharing. Extant and emerging data platforms must navigate myriad tensions for successful data sharing and re-use. Two Alberta data platforms navigated such processes and factors regarding administrative, research and nonprofit data: the Child & Youth Data Laboratory (CYDL) and Secondary Analysis to Generate Evidence (SAGE).
ObjectivesTo clarify the social and policy factors that influenced CYDL and SAGE establishment and implementation, and the relationships, if any, between these factors and data type.
MethodsThis paper involves a qualitative secondary analysis of two developmental evaluations on CYDL and SAGE establishment. Six-years post-implementation, the CYDL evaluation entailed document review; website user analysis; informant interviews (n=30); online stakeholder survey (n=260); and an environmental scan. One-year post implementation, the SAGE evaluation included 15 interviews and document review. We used thematic analysis and comparisons with the literature to identify key factors.
ResultsThree (not mutually exclusive) categories of social and policy factors influenced the navigation towards CYDL and SAGE realization: trusting relationships; sustainability amidst readiness; and privacy within social context. For these platforms to be able to manage, link or share data, trust had to be fostered and maintained across multiple, dynamic and intersecting relationships between primary data producers, data subjects, secondary users and institutions. Platform sustainability and readiness required capacity building and innovation. Privacy and information sharing evolved culturally and correspondingly for these data platforms, which required constant flexibility and awareness.
ConclusionsThis commentary calls for more empirical research on the value of data re-use or the detriment in not re-using data. While the culture of information sharing is progressing towards greater openness and capacity for data sharing and re-use, successful data platforms must advocate, facilitate and mobilize analysis and innovation using data re-use while being cognizant of social and policy influences.

Responding to the challenge for qualitative researchers to claim a central place in conversations about big data, analytics, datafication, data mining and the role of algorithms, this article describes a mixed-method research partnership focused on algorithmic ethnography. In the debates about the opacity of online algorithms, qualitative researchers typically advocate for access to code. This standard discourse centralises the technical aspects of big data and networked ethnographies. Instead, this article outlines a research methodology that analyses algorithmic discourses by working alongside the technical expertise of data scientists and utilizes the affordability of big data methods to do qualitative work. The potential for qualitative research skills to investigate the underlying technical processes that frame online social interactions is proposed as a way to place how people understand the world at the centre of big data research.

Introduction / Emma Jeanes and Tony Huzzard -- Part I Approaching the Field -- Problematization meets mystery creation: Generating new ideas and findings through assumption-challenging research / Mats Alvesson and Jörgen Sandberg -- Researcher collaboration: Learning from experience / Emma Jones, Bernadette Loacker and Martyna Śliwa -- Part II In the Field -- Critical ethnographic research: Negotiations, influences, and interests / Daniel Nyberg and Helen Delaney -- Critical action research / Tony Huzzard and Yvonne Johansson -- Doing research in your own organization: Being native, going stranger / Mathias Skrutkowski -- Critical and compassionate inteviewing: Asking until it makes sense / Susanne Ekman -- Critical netnography: Conducting critical research online / Jon Bertilsson -- Part III Out of the Field -- Motifs in the methods section: Representing the qualitative research process / Karen Lee Ashcraft and Catherine S. Ashcraft -- Thickening thick descriptions: Overinterpretation in critical organizational ethnography / Peter Svensson -- Conceptually grounded analysis: The elusive facticity and thical upshot of 'organization' / Hugh Willmott -- Part IV Reflections on the Field -- Writing: What can be said, by who, and where? / Martin Parker -- Conclusion: Reflexivity, ethics and the researcher / Emma Jones and Tony Huzzard -- Index