The Benefits and Challenges of HSS Data Sharing: Community, Data Sets, and Privacy

The Authority File

In the second episode of this four-part series, Dr. Rebecca Taylor-Grant, Head of Open Data Initiatives, and Dr. Emily Farrell, Global Commercial Director for Open Research, both at Taylor & Francis, dig into the benefits and challenges of data sharing in the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS). Rebecca starts by outlining the community aspect of data sharing and how that aligns with T&F’s own initiatives toward open research and responding to cultural changes in the scholarly communication landscape. Next, Emily walks through her 2024 coauthored book, Life in a New Language from Oxford University Press. The title evaluates six different ethnographic data sets on adult language learning, providing a helpful use case for sharing data between researchers. Last, our guests surface the unique concerns from humanists and social scientists over data-sharing policies and how these could potentially be addressed.

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