[IP] AIDA has indexed the AOL 500k User Session Collection in our Internet Measurement Data Catalog (DatCat):

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Colleen Shannon <cshannon@caida.org>
Date: August 9, 2006 9:15:53 PM EDT
To: David Farber <dave@farber.net>
Cc: k claffy <kc@caida.org>, imdc-wg@caida.org
Subject: Re: [dave@farber.net: [IP] more on AOL Releases Search Logs  
from 500, 000 Users]


Because many folks are delving into the AOL query log data, including
people who intend to publish their results, CAIDA has indexed the AOL  
500k
User Session Collection in our Internet Measurement Data Catalog  
(DatCat):
http://imdc.datcat.org/collection/1-003M-5=AOL+500k+User+Session 
+Collection

DatCat does not store or distribute data, so we are not providing the  
AOL
collection.  Rather, we provide a permanent record of the existence  
of the
dataset, relevant metadata, and a permanent handle that can be used  
to cite
the dataset.  In the near future, anyone who has used the data will  
be able
to add annotations describing the features of the dataset (and any other
dataset in the catalog).

The goals of the DatCat project include:

	- to facilitate searching for and sharing of data among researchers
	- to enhance documentation of datasets via a public annotation system
	- to advance network science by promoting reproducible research

Anyone can browse the Catalog by visiting imdc.datcat.org.  We are just
beginning to test one of several contribution interfaces, and we  
encourage
anyone who would like to be notifed when datcat is available for public
contributions of data to email contribute@datcat.org with a  
description of
the data you would like to contribute.

Cheers,
The CAIDA DatCat Team
info@datcat.org


--On Monday, August 07, 2006 10:44:59 PM -0700 k claffy <kc@caida.org>
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>   Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 13:33:03 -0400
>   From: David Farber <dave@farber.net>
>   Subject: [IP] more on   AOL Releases Search Logs from 500,000 Users
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>   Date: August 7, 2006 1:12:38 PM EDT
>   To: David Farber <dave@farber.net>
>   Subject: Re: [IP] AOL Releases Search Logs from 500,000 Users
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>   == Please remove my name and e-mail if you forward this to IP. ==
>
>   A search for an SSN shaped regex on the full AOL search data returns
>   a 191 results including repeat searches.  Many of these have full
>   names, and at least a dozen include either an addresses, drivers
>   license number, date of birth or some combination of the three in  
> the
>   same query.  There's no telling how much more information an
>   aggregation of other queries by those same user ID would yield.
>
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