- Introducing Open and Reproducible Web Search for the Social Sciences
- Investigating Search: A Hands-on Workshop with the Investigating Search Toolkit
- How Search Engines Speak – a Foucauldian Framework for SERPs as Epistemological Actants
- Conducting Search Data Related Studies with the Result Assessment Tool (RAT)
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Track B
Afternoon · 13:45–17:00
Introducing Open and Reproducible Web Search for the Social Sciences
Overview
Despite interest in using web data for social science research, the proprietary nature of mainstream search engines prevents transparent reporting of the webpages collection process as well as the reproducibility of the search results. To fill this gap, we present the Open Web Search for the Social Sciences (OWS3), built on the foundations provided by the Open Web Search (OWS) project that aims at establishing a transparent Open Web Index. It aims to serve as one of the largest web archives for the social sciences, having transparent processes, reproducible query results, and enrichments contributing to studying social science use cases, e.g., named entities, political learning, and human values, etc.
Who should attend
Researchers collecting, analyzing, or developing tools/methods for web data.
What you'll learn
- Possible use cases for webpages and their enrichments in social science research.
- Approaches for transparency and reproducibility of OWS3 for scientific use, including a demonstration of the OWS3 prototype.
Schedule
13:45–14:00
Introduction to Open Web Search for the Social Sciences
14:00–15:00
World Café
15:00–15:15
Feedback and final thoughts
Presenters
Muhammad Taimoor Khan
GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Alisa Rieger
GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Johannes Kiesel
GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Dimitar Dimitrov
GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Stefan Dietze
GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences; Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf