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The Inverse Transparency Toolchain: A Fully Integrated and Quickly Deployable Data Usage Logging Infrastructure

Software Engineering 2023-08-09 v1

Abstract

Inverse transparency is created by making all usages of employee data visible to them. This requires tools that handle the logging and storage of usage information, and making logged data visible to data owners. For research and teaching contexts that integrate inverse transparency, creating this required infrastructure can be challenging. The Inverse Transparency Toolchain presents a flexible solution for such scenarios. It can be easily deployed and is tightly integrated. With it, we successfully handled use cases covering empirical studies with users, prototyping in university courses, and experimentation with our industry partner.

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@article{arxiv.2308.04366,
  title  = {The Inverse Transparency Toolchain: A Fully Integrated and Quickly Deployable Data Usage Logging Infrastructure},
  author = {Valentin Zieglmeier},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.04366},
  year   = {2023}
}

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Peer-reviewed version published in Software Impacts

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