This report examines the history of Data Management Plan requirements by federal funders, challenges to implementation, and potential revisions to more thoroughly incorporate data ethics into research.
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Example “Big Data” Research Controversies
This document is meant to provide some example controversies to spark a conversation about how to learn from existing controversies and the battles that rage around them.
Ethics Codes: History, Context, and Challenges
This document provides background on the history and development of ethics codes, focused on three fields connected to the ethical issues in big data: computing ethics, biomedical ethics and journalism ethics.
Taxonomy of NSF’s “Big Data” Research Projects
This project categorizes and analyzes projects about “big data” supported by the US National Science Foundation between 2012 and 2014.