---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 7:06 AM Subject: [members] Fwd: [Website feedback] MOOR: massive online open research To: [email protected] Comments? Nigel Begin forwarded message: *From: *"[email protected]" <[email protected]> *Subject: **[Website feedback] MOOR: massive online open research* *Date: *28 March 2014 10:38:18 GMT *To: *"[email protected]" <[email protected]> Liza Rubinstein ([email protected]) sent a message using the contact form at http://www.p2pvalue.eu/contact. Dear P2P Value, We are emailing you to inform you of a project the University of Amsterdam is working on. Also, we would like to ask you if you know of similar projects or of parties that might be interested to learn more about our activities. MOOR (massive online open research) is a project which seeks to create software so that qualitative research can be performed open, online and collaboratively. Specifically, we are looking for ways to discuss and draw conclusions about data materials (such as text and imagery) collaboratively. The goals of the project are to work with large sets of data which are already available but cannot be processed with small research teams, to generate a broader perspective on this data by engaging a diverse set of people and to create a platform where people can learn about and contribute to this lesser known field of scientific research. As far as we know, there is no common based peer production software that allows to both discuss the content of primary documents ánd create overview/insight into the discussion. But we are curious to hear what you know of. As I think this description might be quite abstract let me give you an example of a project we would like to be able to perform: What does it mean when we talk about 'political trust'? This is a topic widely discussed in the Netherlands, but the way it is measured is quite poorly developed. The Netherlands Institute of Social Research has a dataset (text) available of people explaining what they mean by political trust. At the moment it is impossible to study all of this material: we do not have the human capacity and computer automated text analysis has not been developed sufficiently to do this task. What we envision is a common based peer production platform where everyone can stroll through the data and annotate or tag this data based on specific instructions. Simultaneously, people can choose to look through the tagged material and start to formulate conclusions of the different ways people think about political trust which will then be open for the other users to see and to discuss. Together, it might be possible to start understanding, collaboratively, what is meant by the term political trust. We hope to hear from you, kind regards, On behalf of the MOOR development team, Liza Rubinstein ________________________________________________________________ Professor Nigel Gilbert, ScD, FREng, AcSS, Professor of Sociology, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, UK. +44 (0)1483 689173 -- *Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no record of previous communication, proposals, etc ..* P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/