Bartliff, Z. , Kim, Y. and Hopfgartner, F. (2024) Towards privacy-aware exploration of archived personal emails. International Journal on Digital Libraries, (doi: 10.1007/s00799-024-00394-5)
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Abstract
This paper examines how privacy measures, such as anonymisation and aggregation processes for email collections, can affect the perceived usefulness of email visualisations for research, especially in the humanities and social sciences. The work is intended to inform archivists and data managers who are faced with the challenge of accessioning and reviewing increasingly sizeable and complex personal digital collections. The research in this paper provides a focused user study to investigate the usefulness of data visualisation as a mediator between privacy-aware management of data and maximisation of research value of data. The research is carried out with researchers and archivists with vested interest in using, making sense of, and/or archiving the data to derive meaningful results. Participants tend to perceive email visualisations as useful, with an average rating of 4.281 (out of 7) for all the visualisations in the study, with above average ratings for mountain graphs and word trees. The study shows that while participants voice a strong desire for information identifying individuals in email data, they perceive visualisations as almost equally useful for their research and/or work when aggregation is employed in addition to anonymisation.
| Item Type: | Articles |
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| Additional Information: | This work was supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AH/R007012/1). |
| Status: | Published |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Bartliff, Dr Zoe and Hopfgartner, Dr Frank and Kim, Dr Yunhyong |
| Authors: | Bartliff, Z., Kim, Y., and Hopfgartner, F. |
| College/School: | College of Arts & Humanities > School of Humanities > Information Studies |
| Journal Name: | International Journal on Digital Libraries |
| Publisher: | Springer |
| ISSN: | 1432-5012 |
| ISSN (Online): | 1432-1300 |
| Published Online: | 21 February 2024 |
| Copyright Holders: | Copyright © 2024 The Authors |
| First Published: | First published in International Journal on Digital Libraries 2024 |
| Publisher Policy: | Reproduced under a Creative Commons License |
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