"Whereas 'old school' network analysis focuses on finding positions of power and equivalence, the new science of networks emphasizes what goes on in the interactions, and how nodes make choices, including the choice of partners, as they influence one another in response to the influences they receive," Macy said.Ĭornell sociologist David Strang is studying how corporations are connected and how people carry innovations with them when they change jobs. "The relational format allows users to download small subsets of data based on their criteria," such as keywords or dates, he said. One possibility for this mine of information could be the ability to reconfigure the data into a relational database, Macy said.
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Researchers at Cornell hope to have a third of the archive transferred by the end of 2007. Data is now streaming from the archive's servers in San Francisco to a computer server in Cornell's Theory Center at a rate of 300-500 gigabytes per day. The nonprofit Internet Archive features snapshots of all data on the World Wide Web, collected every two months over 10 years from 1996 to 2005. Macy leads the interdisciplinary project's 10-member research team and is principal investigator on a related Cybertools project, which was funded last fall by a $2 million National Science Foundation research grant.
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Macy's talk was an update on "Getting Connected: Social Sciences in the Age of Networks," a three-year theme project sponsored by the Institute for the Social Sciences at Cornell. "Online interactions leave a digital trace, creating an unprecedented opportunity to study social life at the relational level." "We have enormous stores of data about individuals and groups but relatively little data on the structure of social ties and what goes on inside the links," Macy said.
The archive's more than 40 billion Web pages, along with blogs, e-mail messages and newsgroups, will give researchers insight into social networks and help them develop advanced tools for further social sciences research applications. Millions of bytes of data now streaming to Cornell from the massive Internet Archive will give social and information scientists an unprecedented playing field for research into social networks, sociology department chair Michael Macy told a packed room in the Industrial and Labor Relations Conference Center April 26.
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