Do you currently contribute to Mozilla Common Voice (MCV)? Or have you ever used MCV datasets or codebase as a developer? Or are you a community member or a product team member associated with MCV? If so, we would love to hear from you!
We are a team of researchers at the School of Information, UT Austin, exploring the motivations and goals that guide community-driven data curation. We want to broadly understand how users create, curate, and reuse datasets on MCV and their needs and challenges. Our long-term goal is to develop tools to support community-driven data governance. Your insights and experiences are vital to our research and our efforts to support contributions to open datasets.
Please fill out this survey to schedule an interview/phone call. If you are selected to participate, we will arrange a video call and ask you some questions about your role and experiences with contributing to MCV and/or using the MCV dataset. The call should last around 60 minutes. The interviews will be audio recorded; however, if you prefer not to be audio recorded, please let the research team know before the interview starts. While the interviews will occur via web call, you will not be required to have your camera on during the interview. Your participation will be kept confidential, and all notes and recordings with identifiable information will only be accessible to our research team. You will receive a $30 Amazon gift card as compensation for your time. Learn more about the study here.
This study has been approved by the IRB office of UT Austin (#STUDY00007875). View our Research Approval Form. Feel free to email us at padl@utexas.edu for any questions or queries.