Dear all,
The NEH-funded Legal Literacies for Text Data Mining, Cross-Border (LLTDM-X) https://update.lib.berkeley.edu/2022/08/16/uc-berkeley-library-and-internet-archive-co-directing-project-to-help-text-data-mining-researchers-navigate-cross-border-legal-and-ethical-issues/ team seeks to compensate *10 U.S.-based* (living or working in U.S.) humanities and social sciences researchers with up to $800 stipends for discussing the legal and ethical issues they face or will face when conducting their cross-border text and data mining research.
The project has previously created guidance around copyright, licensing, privacy, and ethical issues for the U.S. https://berkeley.pressbooks.pub/buildinglltdm/ TDM (used broadly here- inclusive of any and all corpus and NLP projects) get more complicated, especially surroudning legal and ethical issues including but not limited to:
+ the materials you want to mine are housed in a foreign jurisdiction / are subject to foreign licensing or law, + the human subjects you are studying or who created the content you are studying reside in another country, or + the colleagues with whom you’re collaborating are abroad, and you are not sure whose law applies or what’s allowed.
Their next steps are focused on corpora that are held or created beyond the U.S. border or that you access via foreign license agreements, as well as in collaboration with colleagues around the world on cross-border TDM projects. Participation in this roundtable will contribute to a Springtime NEH institute focused on cross-border text and data mining initiatives.
Please see full details of how to apply to participate here, including an assessment guideline: https://buildinglltdm.org/2022/09/26/seeking-text-data-mining-researchers-fo... .
best wishes, Heather Froehlich