Documenting Web Data for Social Research (#DocuWeb22): A participatory workshop for developing structured and reusable practices

Indira Sen, Leon Fröhling, Katrin Weller

Abstract: With this half-day, in-person workshop, we attempt to collaboratively discover best practices as well as frequent pitfalls encountered when working with Web data. Participants will first be presented with different perspectives on the significance of data quality in this specific context and familiarized with existing, structured approaches for the critical reflection on and documentation of data collection processes, before being invited to share their own experiences with the collection, use and documentation of Web data. We hope to thereby inspire participants to further integrate data documentation practices into their research processes, and for us to learn from the participants’ experiences in order to improve upon existing documentation frameworks for Web data. More details of the workshop, including the planned activities can be found at https://frohleon.github.io/DocuWeb22/.