A Manifesto on Resource Re-Use in Interactive Information Retrieval

Abstract

This perspective paper on resource re-use intends to draw the attention of the interactive information retrieval (IIR) community to the challenges of research documentation and archiving for future use. Resources are understood as encompassing research designs, research data and research infrastructures. It proposes eight principles for improving the re-use of resources in the IIR community and presents concrete steps on how to achieve them. A five-level system for data archiving and documentation envisions increasingly open and stable documentation and access infrastructures.

Collaboration Patterns and Impact of Sharing at CHIIR

“…In this work, we follow the argumentation of Gäde et al [10] that II&R research in particular is supported and furthered by three main resource types: (1) research data, (2) research design, and (3) research infrastructure. Therefore the citation analysis presented here does not focus on research data alone but includes also sharing and re-use of resources in general.…”

“…Sharing & re-use. For sharing and re-use, we distinguished between the three types of research resources defined by [10]: data, design, and infrastructure. We defined re-use as any use after the initial publication and sharing as providing access to any resource type to allow future re-use.…”

DaLiF: a data lifecycle framework for data-driven governments

“…While in case of second concept feedback, data users exploit the open government data and provide their feedback [49,98,98]; such feedback is in the form of user reactions, comments, and suggestions that usually identify improvements and corrections in the published data or metadata [49,52,98]. Moreover, re(use) is a process, not a single action, and it includes different activities like acquiring datasets from various public or private data sources to compare to recently collected data, returning to one's own data for later comparisons, surveying available datasets as background research for a new project, or steering reanalysis of one or more datasets to address new research questions [171]. The examples of data consumers include citizens, individuals [67,118], businesses, researchers, and employees of other government agencies [168].…”

“…• The data provider may provide data to the data consumers to use, re(use), and offer feedback about data along with an appropriate mechanism that enables an individual to manage and control their digital record of information [67,142,171]. • Ask for permission to citizens, and businesses, i.e., owners of private data, to use and re(use) data of their property consistent with the objectives of information collection [66,118].…”

Third Workshop on Building towards Information Interaction and Retrieval Resources Re-use (BIIRRR 2022)

“…At the 2018 and 2019 BIIRRR workshops [3,4], we identified a number of focus areas essential to resource re-use in interactive information retrieval. We distilled these into a manifesto [8] published at CHIIR 2021, which highlighted the potential and challenges of research documentation and archiving for future use. We proposed eight principles for improving the re-use of resources that are applicable to the wider information interaction and retrieval (II&R) community and presented steps for moving towards increasing documentation and re-use.…”