DataForager is a set of proposed browser plugins for collaborative data collection from the web.

1. Data Forager
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2. Question-centric Research
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3. Question-centric Research
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5. ctrl+c ctrl+v
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6. Question-centric Research
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7. machine from XKCD 987 “potential”
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8. Who should I follow on Twitter?
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9. “TCR Siege: Man Arrested After Tottenham Court Road Standoff.” Huffington Post. Accessed 1 May 2012
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10. webpage
“TCR Siege: Man Arrested After Tottenham Court Road Standoff.” Huffington Post. Accessed 1 May 2012
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11. twitter list
“TCR Siege: Man Arrested After Tottenham Court Road Standoff.” Huffington Post. Accessed 1 May 2012
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12. tweets
“TCR Siege: Man Arrested After Tottenham Court Road Standoff.” Huffington Post. Accessed 1 May 2012
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13. Data-centric Research
web pages published data
Database or Spreadsheet
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14. Document-centric Research
FOI request leaked documents
Embedded Documents
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15. Question-centric Research
Data Forager
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16. Search Open Tabs Skim Copy/Paste Organise
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17. Search Open Tabs Skim Copy/Paste Organise
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18. Search Open Tabs Skim Copy/Paste Organise
Share
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19. Search Open Tabs Skim Copy/Paste Organise
Share
Metadata
uri: where did it come from?
researcher: who collected it?
context: the whole tweet, the surrounding paragraph etc
tags: identifiers created by the reader
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search terms: what search query led to this?
link path: what link path led to this?
classifiers: how is the page machine classified?
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20. Search Open Tabs Skim Copy/Paste Organise
Share
Code
scrapers: the code which identifies what to extract
context: the code which collects the context
tagging interfaces: the form which asks readers to tag
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automated taggers: what search query led to this?
Metadata
uri: where did it come from?
researcher: who collected it?
context: the whole tweet, the surrounding paragraph etc
tags: identifiers created by the reader
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search terms: what search query led to this?
link path: what link path led to this?
classifiers: how is the page machine classified?
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21. Search Open Tabs Skim Copy/Paste Organise
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Questions & Topics
research project: collaborate to aggregate data
topics: add data from the web or from the datastore
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aggregation + WikiData: calculate on top of this
Code
Metadata
uri: where did it come from? scrapers: the code which identifies what to extract
researcher: who collected it? context: the code which collects the context
context: the whole tweet, the surrounding paragraph etc tagging interfaces: the form which asks readers to tag
tags: identifiers created by the reader -----------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------- automated taggers: what search query led to this?
search terms: what search query led to this?
link path: what link path led to this?
classifiers: how is the page machine classified?
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22. photo by schmaeche
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23. Data Forager photo by mecredis
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25. Data Forager
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