LEGAL LITERACIES FOR TEXT DATA MINING - CROSS BORDER ("LLTDM-X")

FAIN: HAA-287948-22

Internet Archive (San Francisco, CA 94129-1711)
Thomas Padilla (Project Director: January 2022 to February 2025)
Rachael Samberg (Co Project Director: January 2022 to February 2025)

A series of roundtables and the development of case studies on ethical and legal issues for US-based humanities researchers around data mining of large-scale textual collections held outside of the United States.

Legal Literacies for Text Data Mining - Cross-Border (“LLTDM-X”) is a Level 1 Advancement Grant project addressing law and policy issues faced by U.S. digital humanities (DH) practitioners whose text data mining (TDM) research and practice intersects with foreign-held or -licensed content, or involves international collaborations. Through a series of virtual roundtables and accompanying legal research and analysis, LLTDM-X will surface these issues and distill preliminary guidance for navigating them—making possible future instruction modules to facilitate critical DH research. These outcomes achieve NEH Advancement Grant funding priorities of pursuing evaluations “that investigate the practices and the impact of digital scholarship on research, pedagogy, scholarly communication, and public engagement.”

Associated Products

Legal Literacies for Text Data Mining – Cross-Border (“LLTDM-X”): White Paper (Report)
Title: Legal Literacies for Text Data Mining – Cross-Border (“LLTDM-X”): White Paper
Author: Rachael Samberg
Author: Thomas Padilla
Author: Timothy Vollmer
Abstract: Legal Literacies for Text Data Mining - Cross-Border (“LLTDM-X”) is a Level 1 Advancement Grant project addressing legal and ethical issues faced by U.S. digital humanities (DH) practitioners whose text data mining (TDM) research and practice intersects with foreign-held or - licensed content, or involves international cooperations. LLTDM-X is a collaboration between the University of California Berkeley Library and Internet Archive, and builds upon the previous NEH-sponsored institute, Building Legal Literacies for Text Data Mining (Building LLTDM). That institute provided guidance and strategies to DH TDM researchers on navigating legal literacies for text data mining (including copyright, contracts, privacy, and ethics) within a U.S. context.
Date: 10/2/2023
Primary URL: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5k91r1s1
Access Model: Open Access

Legal Literacies for Text Data Mining – Cross-Border (“LLTDM-X”): Case Study (Report)
Title: Legal Literacies for Text Data Mining – Cross-Border (“LLTDM-X”): Case Study
Author: Rachael Samberg
Author: Thomas Padilla
Author: Timothy Vollmer
Abstract: Legal Literacies for Text Data Mining - Cross-Border (“LLTDM-X”) is a National Endowment for the Humanities Level 1 Advancement Grant project addressing legal and ethical issues faced by U.S. digital humanities (DH) practitioners whose text data mining (TDM) research and practice intersects with foreign-held or - licensed content, or involves international cooperations. LLTDM-X is a collaboration between the University of California Berkeley Library and Internet Archive, and builds upon the previous NEH-sponsored institute, Building Legal Literacies for Text Data Mining (Building LLTDM). That institute provided guidance and strategies to DH TDM researchers on navigating legal literacies for text data mining (including copyright, contracts, privacy, and ethics) within a U.S. context. A common challenge highlighted during Building LLTDM was the fact that TDM practitioners encounter numerous and complex legal problems in cross-border TDM research. These occur when: (i) the materials practitioners want to mine are housed in a foreign jurisdiction, or are otherwise subject to foreign database licensing or laws; (ii) the human subjects they are studying or who created the underlying content reside in another country; or, (iii) the colleagues with whom they are collaborating reside abroad, yielding uncertainty about which country’s laws, agreements, and policies apply. We designed LLTDM-X to identify and better understand the cross-border issues that DH TDM practitioners face, with the aim of using these issues to inform prospective research and education. We also hoped that LLTDM-X would yield preliminary guidance to benefit researchers in the meantime, as instructional materials are being developed. In early 2023, we hosted a series of three online round tables with U.S.-based cross-border TDM practitioners (“Practitioners”), and law and ethics experts (“Experts”) practicing in six countries. The round table conversations were structured to illustrate the empirical is
Date: 10/2/2023
Primary URL: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1w03f9r2#main
Access Model: Open Access

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