TrustEDD Corpus (Core)
The corpus already includes 30 texts for most of the digital practices covered in the TrustEDD Database. In this project, we have extended the range of digital practices (web-hosted and social media) under study, and we are currently completing this core corpus.
Several criteria were agreed for the compilation of the corpus. Drawing on the relevance of the Sustainable Development Goals, we have established a thematic criterion that focuses on four subject areas of societal importance: Health, Economy, Natural Sciences and Arts and Culture. The core corpus, therefore, systematically includes two sites (that is, two different sources of information) for each of the digital practices under scrutiny, and 10 texts per discipline (that is, 5 texts from each of the selected sources ). This balance gives us a solid basis for comparing our analyses, discussing our findings, potentially reaching out to experts and moving forward in multiple directions.
TrustEDD Corpus (Peripheral)
We are undertaking analyses that build on exploratory, preliminary and pilot studies of the core corpus and that expand the number of sources and texts for the digital practices included in the TrustEDD Database. This allows us to move in different directions and to achieve a holistic picture of the current ecosystem of digital expert knowledge dissemination in English. By focusing on specific practices, conducting disciplinary analyses across practices and comparing web-hosted and social media practices, among other approaches, we are uncovering trends and patterns of experts' digital practices and online scientific communication.
