Academic research: How organisations keep records about their algorithmic systems

Hi there,

First off, apologies if this kind of post isn't allowed. Feel free to delete if it's not.

I'm a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge's Computer Lab, doing research on a wide range of data-driven and algorithmic systems. We're particularly interested in how those that work with algorithmic systems (e.g. ML/AI) keep records about their systems. This might be various kinds of technical logs, or about the development, deployment, and use of these systems.

We're currently aiming to document some of the approaches, attitudes, and challenges associated with record-keeping for these types of systems, to better understand how professionals that work with these systems can be better supported about the types of records that they may or may not want to be keeping.

To explore this further, we're currently running a survey. If you happen to be a professional working with algorithmic/ML systems, with a spare ~20 minutes, it would be really helpful if you'd consider answering some questions. The link to our questionnaire is here: https://cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3n6RuowNogZKG34

Thanks very much! I'm more than happy to come back and share the results of our research here if that's of interest to anyone!