This is the metadata file for network data collected as part of the Southeastern New England Program (SNEP) Stewardship Mapping (StewMAP) project.

The data includes information about three types of network relationships: 
1)from whom stewardship groups seek information or knowledge (file = netKnw_agg_pubDB_EDGES.csv).
2)where stewardship groups get funding (file = netFun_agg_pubDB_EDGES.csv).
3)whom stewardship groups consider to be key collaborators, in addition to their knowledge sources and funders (file = netOth_agg_pubDB_EDGES.csv).

Data from survey responses are only included for groups that opted to be in the public dataset. Some stewardship organizations chose to participate in the StewMAP as regional chapters or sub-programs (e.g., individual programs of the Audubon Society within MA and RI State level chapters). Participants also named many network relationships by sub-programs, departments, or chapters. Representing this information as a network requires common naming conventions and we aggregated sub-programs to larger parent organizations. Therefore, there will be some differences between the names in the network data sets and those in the GIS data files. Note: there are some self-loops in the data from merging survey responses. We kept the self-loops as this is likely useful information. You may wish to remove or keep them depending on your objectives. 

*** Note: If you are interested in working with the disaggregated data please contact us.***

Data are stored in edgelist format with survey respondents in the "from" column and the organizations that they named in the "to" column. 

Don't get confused by direction. The format of "from" and "to" is NOT showing the flow of information of funding. It is showing where stewardship groups go for information, or funding, or who they consider to be key collaborators. 

There are a total of three csv data files associated with this network dataset, one for each network type. File names are listed above. 

Data was collected between November 2020-June 2021.
 
This file was last updated on 24 June 2022.

Contact for custodians of the data:
Bryce DuBois: bdubois@risd.edu 
Jesse S. Sayles: jessesayles@gmail.com