Video as data & documentation

The PLAY Project & Databrary.org

Rick Gilmore

Play & Learning Across a Year (PLAY)

  • What do mothers and their infants actually do when they are together at home?
  • 900+ dyads
  • 30+ sites
  • 12, 18-, & 24-month-olds

Full collection, coding, QA protocol openly shared

https://play-project.org

Figure 3 from Soska et al. (2021)

Figure 1 from Soska et al. (2021)

All data shared1 on Databrary.org

Images and video are essential to the study of behavior

  • Can’t really see thoughts or feelings
  • Just their manifestations in behavior or physiology

(Gilmore & Adolph, 2017)

References

Gilmore, R. O., & Adolph, K. E. (2017). Video can make behavioural science more reproducible. Nature Human Behaviour, 1, 0128. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-017-0128
Soska, K. C., Xu, M., Gonzalez, S. L., Herzberg, O., Tamis-LeMonda, C. S., Gilmore, R. O., & Adolph, K. E. (2021). (Hyper)active data curation: A video case study from behavioral science. Journal of Escience Librarianship, 10. https://doi.org/10.7191/jeslib.2021.1208