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Introduction
Data collection
In the section From source to data the process of creating digital data on the basis of original (analogue) sources is described.
In this section you can find information about the collection of data, both of existing digitized sources and of data sets that are acquired by a number of different research methods.
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Digital archives
It is advisable to make use of digital archives and other source collections for the acquisition of digitized sources. In this section various aspects of this approach are described.
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Corpus compilation
For empirical language research scholars often compile text corpora of various sorts.
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Survey
A survey is a type of data collection tool used to gather information from a sample of people, usually with the intention of generalizing the results to a larger population.
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Interview
An interview is a formal meeting in which the researcher questions one or more persons about a specific subject.
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Experiment
An experiment is a procedure carried out to support, refute, or validate a hypothesis. Experiments provide insight into cause-and-effect by demonstrating what outcome occurs when a particular factor is manipulated.
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Field work
Data acquisition in the field, both for archaelogy and for linguistics (to describe undocumented languages).
Collecting data and preparing it for analysis are part of what is often called the research data lifecycle. The encompassing set of activities is called data management or data curation. This concerns the overall organisation of the data, including aspects like storage, archiving and preservation.
