Dataset Talk in Action Project

This dataset includes video and audio recordings of public meetings in the Netherlands between residents living in the vicinity of livestock farms, farmers, government officials and (scientific) experts. It relates to the topic of the health effects of livestock farming in the Netherlands.

The dataset has been archived in Darkstor, an offline archive for storing sensitive information/data (https://libguides.vu.nl/rdm/selecting-archive). The unique Darkstor code for this dataset is ds1218.

GENERAL INFORMATION

1. Title of Dataset: Dataset Talk in Action Project

2. Author Information
A. Principal Investigator Contact Information
Name: Lotte van Burgsteden
Institution: Vrije Universiteit
Address: De Boelelaan 1105 1081 HV Amsterdam
Email: l.m.van.burgsteden@vu.nl

B. Associate or Co-investigator Contact Information
Name: Hedwig te Molder
Institution: Vrije Universiteit
Address: De Boelelaan 1105 1081 HV Amsterdam
Email: h.f.m.te.molder@vu.nl

C. Alternate Contact Information
Name: Dimitri Unger
Institution: Vrije Universiteit
Address: De Boelelaan 1105 1081 HV Amsterdam
Email: d.a.unger@vu.nl

3. Date of data collection (single date, range, approximate date): period between 2016-2021

4. Geographic location of data collection: the Netherlands

5. Information about funding sources that supported the collection of the data: Funded by the Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development (ZonMw) under grant number 50-52200-98-325.


SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION

1. Licenses/restrictions placed on the data: Restricted access - the data cannot be shared with third parties. The data include sensitive information (i.e., information that can cause harm if revealed) and information that enables the identification of respondents.

2. Links to publications that cite or use the data:

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2021.11.002
https://doi.org/10.1075/ps.20032.bur

3. Was data derived from another source? Some.
Two recordings include broadcasted debates, retrieved from:

Omroep Brabant (2011, September 26). Tussen Boer en Buur: Het debat (Between Farmer and
Neighbor: The debate) [Video file]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hqO7Lt0yX8&t=295s&ab_channel=OmroepBrabant

Omroep Gelderland (2017, March 22). Boer zoekt toekomst (Farmer seeks future) [Video file]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5I2kB24gIM&t=247s&ab_channel=OmroepGelderland

4. Recommended citation for this dataset:
Van Burgsteden L., (2022). Dataset Talk in Action Project. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. DarkStor.


DATA & FILE OVERVIEW

1. File List:
Folder name: RECORDINGS

Files in folder:
1) INFORMATION MEETING 1 (MTS-file). This meeting was recorded in 2016 and concerned the results of research conducted by Dutch public health agencies and universities on the risks of living in the vicinity of intensive livestock farms. This meetings was attended by government officials, (scientific) experts, residents, and farmers.

2) INFORMATION MEETING 2 (MTS-file). This meeting was recorded in 2016 and concerned the results of research conducted by Dutch public health agencies and universities on the risks of living in the vicinity of intensive livestock farms. This meetings was attended by government officials, (scientific) experts, residents, and farmers.

3) INFORMATION MEETING 3 (MTS-file). This meeting was recorded in 2017 and concerned a goat farm’s potential expansion. Due to protests in the farm’s surroundings, the municipal institute organized a meeting in which experts provided information to residents and answered their questions. This meeting was attended by government officials, experts, residents, the goat farmer, and his agricultural advisor.

4) INFORMATION MEETING 4 (MTS-file). This meeting was recorded in 2017 and concerned the results of a “livability study.” Residents of a rural municipality filled out a questionnaire about how they experience their living environment, with a specific focus on livestock farming. The meeting was attended by government officials, (scientific) experts, residents, and farmers.

5) INFORMATION MEETING 5 (MTS-file). his meeting was recorded in 2017 and concerned the results of a “livability study.” Residents of a rural municipality filled out a questionnaire about how they experience their living environment, with a specific focus on livestock farming. The meeting was attended by government officials, (scientific) experts, residents, and farmers.

6) CITIZEN SCIENCE MEETING 1 (.mp3-file).
This meeting was recorded in 2019 and concerned a research project led by a public health institute in which farmers and neighboring residents collaboratively measured the air quality in their area. This meeting was the first meeting within the project, in which the participants were provided with more information on the project. The meeting was attended by government officials, experts, residents, and farmers.

7) CITIZEN SCIENCE MEETING 2 (.mp3-file).
This meeting was recorded in 2019 and concerned a research project led by a public health institute in which farmers and neighboring residents collaboratively measured the air quality in their area. This meeting was the second meeting within the project, in which the participants discussed how the start of the project had been. The meeting was attended by government officials, experts, residents, and farmers.

8) CITIZEN SCIENCE MEETING 3 (.mp3-file).
This meeting was recorded in 2021 and concerned a research project led by a public health institute in which farmers and neighboring residents collaboratively measured the air quality in their area. This meeting was one of the last meetings within the project, in which the participants discussed the final results of the project. The meeting was attended by government officials, experts, residents, and farmers.


9) CITIZEN SCIENCE MEETING 4 (.mp3-file).
This meeting was recorded in 2021 and concerned a research project led by a public health institute in which farmers and neighboring residents collaboratively measured the air quality in their area. This meeting was one of the last meetings within the project, in which the participants discussed the final results of the project. The meeting was attended by government officials, experts, residents, and farmers.


10) VISION MEETING (MTS-file)
This meeting was recorded in 2018 and was organized by a rural municipality. It was held to inform farmers of other career possibilities in case their farms needed to be shut down due to new regulations in the province of Noord-Brabant. The meeting was attended by farmers, agricultural advisors, and officials.

11) PUBLIC DEBATE 1 (.MP4-file).
This debate was recorded in 2011 and was broadcasted by a local broadcaster (Omroep Brabant, 2011). The debate was organized to address existing tensions in the rural areas of the Province of Noord-Brabant in the Netherlands. This meeting was attended by government officials, experts, neighboring residents, and farmers.



Folder name: TRANSCRIPTS
Files in folder (both PDF-files and Microsoft Word-files):
1) INFORMATION MEETING 1. Pseudonymized transcript of parts of INFORMATION MEETING 1.

2) INFORMATION MEETING 2. Pseudonymized transcript of parts of INFORMATION MEETING 2.

3) INFORMATION MEETING 3. Pseudonymized transcript of parts of INFORMATION MEETING 3.

4) INFORMATION MEETING 4. Pseudonymized transcript of parts of INFORMATION MEETING 4.

5) INFORMATION MEETING 5. Pseudonymized transcript of parts of INFORMATION MEETING 5.

6) CITIZEN SCIENCE MEETING 1. Pseudonymized transcript of parts of CITIZEN SCIENCE MEETING 1.

7) CITIZEN SCIENCE MEETING 2. Pseudonymized transcript of parts of CITIZEN SCIENCE MEETING 2.

8) CITIZEN SCIENCE MEETING 3. Pseudonymized transcript of parts of CITIZEN SCIENCE MEETING 3.

9) CITIZEN SCIENCE MEETING 4. Pseudonymized transcript of parts of CITIZEN SCIENCE MEETING 4.

10) VISION MEETING. Pseudonymized transcript of parts of VISION MEETING.

11) PUBLIC DEBATE 1. Pseudonymized transcript of parts of PUBLIC DEBATE 1. This broadcasted debate (Omroep Brabant, 2011) was organized to address tensions in the rural areas of Noord-Brabant. This meeting was attended by government officials, experts, neighboring residents, and farmers.

12) PUBLIC DEBATE 2. Pseudonymized transcript of parts of PUBLIC DEBATE 2. This broadcasted debate was organized by the Provincial Council of Gelderland (Omroep Gelderland, 2017). As was announced at the start of the meeting, issues raised during the debate would be considered in the Council’s decision-making process regarding subsidy regulations to keep the rural areas “vital.” The meeting was attended by government officials, residents, farmers, and farmers-in-training.



Folder name: DIALOGUE TRAINING
Files in folder:
1) PPT DIALOGUE TRAINING. This is the PowerPoint which we used for the online dialogue training we gave to professionals in April 2021 (April 9 and April 30).

2) FRAGMENT 1 DIALOGUE TRAINING (PPT. file). This is the first fragment (played by voice actors) which we used in our dialogue training.

3) FRAGMENT 2 DIALOGUE TRAINING (PPT. file). This is the second fragment (played by voice actors) which we used in our dialogue training.

4) SCRIPT DIALOGUE TRAINING (PDF-file). This is the script which we used for the online dialogue training we gave to professionals in April 2021.


Folder name: ETHICAL ISSUES
Files in folder:
1) SEC WUR (PDF-file). This is the document stating the ethical approval for our research from the Social Sciences Ethics Committee of Wageningen University and Research.

2) ETCO VU (PDF-file). This is the document stating the ethical approval for our research from the Ethical Committee from the Faculty of Humanities of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

3) Consent Omroep Brabant (PDF-file). This is the email from Omroep Brabant, in which they give their consent for using the public debate they broadcasted for our research.

4) Consent Omroep Gelderland (PDF-file). This is the email from Omroep Gelderland in which they give their consent for using the public debate they broadcasted for our research.

5) Consent Provincie Gelderland (PDF-file). This is the email from Provincie Gelderland, in which they give their consent for using the public debate which they helped organizing for our research.

6) Informed consent Talk in Action (PDF-file). This is the passive consent form we used for making the recordings.

7) INFORMATION LETTER (PDF-file and Microsoft Word file). This is the information letter used for our research.

8) CONSENT FORMS CIT. SCIENCE (PDF-file). Signed consent forms for the citizen science meetings.



METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION

1. Description of methods used for collection/generation of data:
Contact was sought with organizers from public meetings in the Netherlands (mostly in the southern part, such as in the province of Limburg and Noord-Brabant). We told them about our research, and asked them whether we could make recordings of the meeting. If the organizers gave their consent, we travelled to the place where the meeting was held. Prior to the meeting (on camera or on audio) we told everyone in the room who we were, what research we were conducting and the exact reasons for making the recordings. We thereby asked the attendants for their permission to make the recordings, and to use them for academic purposes (scientific articles and presentations) and for educational purposes in the form of a dialogue training for professionals. We thereby also mentioned that the attendants could decline participating in the research at any time, also after the meeting, without giving any reasons for why they do not want to participate in the study.


2. Methods for processing the data:
The video and audio recordings of public meetings constitute the raw data. We used conversation analysis (see Sidnell & Stivers, 2013) in analyzing these data. We made transcripts of (parts of) these meetings, using Jefferson's (2004) transcription system that includes all kinds of details of talk, such as laughter, overlap in talk, pauses, hesitations, or embodied features. In the transcripts, information that could lead to the identification of participants (e.g., location names, personal names), was removed and replaced by pseudonyms. We used the software Audacity for this transcription process. We searched the recordings and transcripts for interesting interactional phenomena, such as the ways questions are being asked and answered in these meetings. Such an approach sheds light on how people engage with each other through interaction, without being necessarily aware of this. Of these phenomena or patterns, collections were made. We adopted an iterative analytical procedure, which entailed multiple rounds of analysis where individual instances were examined, also in view of their common features.


For a detailed explanation of the used methods, see:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2021.11.002
https://research.vu.nl/ws/portalfiles/portal/144788034/Van_Burgsteden_Te_Molder_2021.pdf


3. Instrument- or software-specific information needed to interpret the data:
Software that can read PDF-files (such as Adobe Acrobat Reader DC), software that can read MTS files (such as VLC, Windows Media Player or Quicktime), and software that can read .mp3 files (such as VLC, Windows Media Player or Quicktime).

4. People involved with sample collection, processing, analysis and/or submission:
Prof. Hedwig te Molder, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Prof. Geoffrey Raymond, University of California at Santa Barbara