Method evidence record

Online Document Collection

Online document collection is the systematic process of identifying, retrieving, and compiling digital documents — including web pages, institutional publications, social media posts, policy documents, and digital archives — as primary or supplementary research data. It extends classical document analysis into internet-mediated environments, enabling researchers to access large, geographically dispersed corpora without fieldwork travel or physical archive access.

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Online Document Collection Method

Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / survey-methodology

Bowen, G. A. (2009). Document analysis as a qualitative research method. Qualitative Research Journal, 9(2), 27–40. · DOI 10.3316/QRJ0902027
Prior, L. (2003). Using Documents in Social Research. Sage Publications. · ISBN 978-0761965497

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Related methods

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Taxonomic bucketAPI-based Data Collectionmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyContent Analysismachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketDocument Collectionmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketOnline Non-participant Observationmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketWeb Scrapingmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.