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Collection and Analysis of Relational Data from Digital Archives

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API:

Application programming interfaces

Crawling:

Using automated software agents to gather internet data

Duality Analysis:

Analyzing two-mode relational analyses

New Archivalism:

Using quantitative methods to analyze meanings in archives

Definition

For studies of organizations and industries, there are multiple types of relational data that can usefully be collected, processed, and utilized from digital archives. By digital archives we include both information collected and stored as part of the internal file production process of modern organizations (such as company email archives, internal document flows, or annual reports) and the broader digital streams of information characterizing the environments that contemporary organizations (and humans) live in. This includes everything from the proliferation of digitized versions of all types of media feeds, professional literature sources, knowledge bases, and journal systems and the broader “webification” of modern social life...

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  1. Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

    John W. Mohr

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

    Petko Bogdanov

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  1. Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

    Reda Alhajj

  2. University of Calgary Computer Science, Calgary, Canada

    Jon Rokne

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  1. Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology / Department of Sociology, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

    Jacob Dijkstra

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Mohr, J.W., Bogdanov, P. (2016). Collection and Analysis of Relational Data from Digital Archives. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7163-9_272-1

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