TAPoR Research

The TAPoR Project and Portal

TAPoR is a research infrastructure project that supports digital humanities at six universities across Canada. The Portal is how we are making text analysis tools available broadly to researchers. Research conducted about use of the portal is to help improve it and to understand how people use text analysis in their research.

Data Gathering on the TAPoR Portal

The TAPoR project is gathering the following data as of April 20, 2007:

• Information about what tools are used
• Information about the size of texts passed to tools
• Information about where people are connecting from
• Information about errors
• Google Analytics about page usage

We are not gathering statistics on individual account usage.

How this will be used?

This information will be used primarly to improve performance of the portal. It will also be reported on in aggregate form in research contexts.

Privacy Statement

The following is our privacy statement as of April 20, 2007, version 1.0:

New Privacy Statement: The TAPoR project gathers statistics about errors, tool use and user sessions in order to improve performance of the portal and to conduct research on text analysis. This research has been approved by the McMaster Ethics board and data collection started April 20, 2007. We will not share this data except in aggregate summary form outside the development team - it will only be used to improve the reliability of the portal and for research purposes. If you have questions contact Geoffrey Rockwell georock (at) mcmaster (dot) ca. If you want details as to what we collect and what we are doing with it see http://tada.mcmaster.ca/Main/TAPoRPortalDataGathering. If you would like to fill out a survey after trying the portal, see http://taporware.mcmaster.ca/phpESP/public/survey.php?name=TAPoR_portal.

-- GeoffreyRockwell - 19 Apr 2007