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Substantial savings in time and money are made possible through the use of more effective data gathering and recording systems developed over the last eight years in the Research Division of the University of Minnesota School of Journalism. Dr. Jones is director of the division and Dr. Beldo is assistant director.

The need to develop a system of collecting & circulating data concerning state politics is articulated. Although data regarding state politics have become more available during the late 20th century, it is argued that methods for collocating & disseminating such data remain inadequate. Three problems that have arisen from this failure to properly categorize state politics data are identified, eg, using informal networks for gathering information may reduce the empirical quality of state politics data. Consequently, it is announced that the journal State Politics & Policy Quarterly has initiated measures to periodically inform scholars about existing state politics data, especially from sources available via the Internet. Short synopses of the content of several Web sites that have state politics data readily available are also provided. 3 References. J. W. Parker

In this paper we describe the data gathering work done within a large research project, CompMusic, which emphasizes a culture specific approach in the automatic description of several world music repertoires. Currently we are focusing on the Hindustani (North India), Carnatic (South India) and Turkish-makam (Turkey) music traditions. The selection and organization of the data to be processed for the characterization of each of these traditions is of the utmost importance. ; The CompMusic project has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Program (FP7/2007-2013) / ERC grant agreement 267583.

AbstractNot only did the Project Evaluation Team present itself without subterfuge, it was also perceived by the residents as highly useful for the assistance that it provided.

The authors gratefully acknowledge funding from European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska Curie grant agreement No. 813278 (A- WEAR, http://www.a-wear.eu/).

This Deliverable aims to briefly describe the data collection processes, the datasets gathered and the preliminary data analysis on users' behavioural changes that were carried out by the WP1 working group. The inDICEs data collection processed and/or stored within the first 12 months of the project consists of: a) data analyzed as part of the inDICEs participatory platform, where results are made available through the Open Observatory b) data of relevance provided by third-parties such as Enumerate Nemo Eurostat State of the commons United Nations Conference on Trade and Developmen Digital Economy and Society Index EU open data portal c) online content gathered continuously, made accessible by means of the Visual Analytics Dashboard that covers: Online news and web sources Twitter posts Youtube videos Facebook pages d) FBK collected on-line datasets on cultural production, from the following sources: Wikipedia Tiktok Deviantart AllTheater IMDB and was gathered with the purpose to: a) monitor and analyze the state of cultural digitization via WLT analytical tools and through the Visual Analytical Dashboard, configured for culture-based web sources (news, websites, social networks, blogs, forums) and with domain-relevant keywords according to a series of pre-sets and new indicators [as described in Deliverable D1.1]. b) stimulate behavioural changes in the users of participatory platforms in order to favour production and access. To understand how this process of collective cultural production works, inDICEs chose Wikipedia as its first case study, in order to extract new useful indicators to fill the open Repository available for single researchers and institutes. ; This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 870792.

Modern usage of social media affords the military intelligence and analytic communities novel approaches to gather information. However, the tools and resources to develop these methodologies are still maturing. Furthermore, current data acquisition tools are not available to the DoD for all social media platforms. This thesis addresses a small subset of this problem by developing an open source methodological approach to collect and manage data from a popular social media site that has previously been inaccessible to defense intelligence organizations. This approach was operationalized via the R package called instaExtract, and an exemplar analysis was performed to demonstrate its application and efficiency for intelligence gathering.

In one of her last interviews as children's commissioner for England, Anne Longfield reflects on key decisions during her tenure, how power to obtain data has been a defining feature and highlights future challenges

The foreign area specialist who goes into the field frequently finds it very difficult to acquire all the documentary materials he needs in the time available. Rare books, documents, and newspapers may be in libraries or in archival collections, but unless the writing is to be done in the field, it is difficult to use these sources. Furthermore, collections of papers, letters, clippings, pamphlets, and manuscripts are frequently available from private sources, political parities, and organizations, if one attempts to locate such collections, but they can rarely be borrowed, and certainly not for the length of time needed for thorough research. Similar difficulties may face the scholar engaged in domestic research. My answer to this problem has been to develop techniques for microfilming documents on location under adverse conditions using a minimum of equipment, which can be carried easily in a brief case. With a camera and a few other small items, it is quite easy and economical to microfilm materials and, if necessary, to process the films either at home or under very primitive field conditions.

The nature and depth of internet surveillance has been revealed to be very different from what had previously been publically acknowledged or politically debated. There are critical ways in which the current debate is miscast, misleading and confused. Privacy is portrayed as an individual right, in opposition to a collective need for security. Data gathering and surveillance are portrayed as having an impact only on this individual right to privacy, rather than on a broad spectrum of rights, including freedom of expression, of assembly and association, the prohibition of discrimination and more. The gathering and surveillance of 'content' is intrinsically more intrusive than that of 'communications' data or 'metadata'. The impact of data gathering and surveillance is often portrayed as happening only at when data are examined by humans rather than when gathered, or when examined algorithmically. Commercial and governmental data gathering and surveillance are treated as separate and different, rather than intrinsically and inextricably linked. This miscasting has critical implications. When the debate is recast taking into account these misunderstandings, the bar for the justification of surveillance is raised and a new balance needs to be found, in political debate, in law, and in decision-making on the ground.

Scholarship on teaching undergraduates increasingly emphasizes the benefits of providing students with an active role in their education whereby instructors are more aptly described as facilitators of knowledge rather than merely providers of it. Additionally, recommendations from the American Sociological Association aimed specifically at the undergraduate sociology curriculum argue that students must engage as practitioners of sociology at each level of their program development. In short, undergraduates should do sociology—not just read or write sociology. Applying this recommendation to teaching statistics, I suggest organizing a course around a student-led research project in which students generate the topics, questions, and data that are then used to complete a substantive research paper. Students are given the opportunity to be actively engaged in all stages of the research and data-gathering process. Students also present their work in student roundtables, further legitimating their important contributions as researchers.