WSSSPE 5.1: Thematic Analysis of Software Sustainability Speed Blogs

Data and coding for a thematic analysis of speed blogs produced at the WSSSPE 5.1 conference. The dataset includes the original blog text and the results of a thematic analysis. It was created by Caroline Jay from the University of Manchester.

Use Cases

• Conducting qualitative research on themes in scientific blogging based on the provided thematic analysis results.
• Training or benchmarking text classification models for software sustainability topics using the annotated blog posts.
• Studying the discourse and communication patterns within the software engineering research community.
• Replicating or extending the original thematic/framework analysis described for the WSSSPE 5.1 speed blogs.

Strengths

• Includes original source text (blogs) alongside human-coded thematic analysis results.
• Data is explicitly credited to the Software Sustainability Institute and individual blog authors.
• Associated with a specific academic conference (WSSSPE 5.1), providing clear context.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Software Sustainability Institute website and analysis by Caroline Jay, University of Manchester.

Collection Method

Original blog text was obtained from a website, followed by manual thematic/framework analysis.