SCRIPSIT : a model for establishing trustable privacies in online public spaces.

Abstract

This dissertation proposes a model supporting the creation of trustable privacies in public online spaces, with the model demonstrating the potential for supporting trustable data handling in the qualitative domain. Privacy and trust, from the pivotal

perspective of the individual were identified as crucial intangibles in the qualitative

research and personal trust domains. That both privacy and trust depend heavily upon

credible mechanisms for privacy became clear during the literature review and

interview processes.

Privacy, in its many forms, is a concept requiring greatly varying degrees of

anonymity, confidentiality and control (Rotenberg, 2001; Lessig, 1998) and this was

position was validated by literature and by qualitative comments by academic

interviewees.

Facilitation of secondary users including academics, public and private organisations,

communities, casual information browsers is a goal of this research. This goal of

facilitation is supported by the model proposed, and is discussed in Chapter 6, where

future work is discussed. The core requirement to address confidentiality, ethics,

privacy, ownership and control of data (Corti, 2000) is satisfied by the model as

proposed and discussed.

Expected outcomes of this research project are summarised as:

• Proposed model for the creation of trustable privacies in public spaces.

[Primary outcome]

• Promotion of collaboration amongst domains and disciplines through

improved universal access to archived data [Secondary outcome]

• Identification of application domains outside of the initially identified domain

set [Secondary outcome].

Self-Contained ReposItory ProcesSIng Template (SCRIPSIT) describes a model

supporting a decentralised, trustable set of structures and mechanisms. SCRIPSIT has

its eponymous origin in the Latin word scripsit, meaning "he or she wrote".