“Exploring Collaborative Interpretive Practice”
A workshop co-located with ASIS&T 2023, Saturday, 28 October, 2023, London, UK
Collaboration on the interpretation and analysis of texts, images, artifacts, qualitative data, and other recorded information is fundamental to knowledge production in many disciplines. However, collaborators may have different goals, work routines, research paradigms and methodologies, background knowledge, and more. In this workshop, we aim to engage in collective exploration of how collaborative interpretation happens and brainstorm together on ways to develop knowledge infrastructures to support it. Each of us brings our own perspective to interpretation, which shapes our work in various ways. How do we ensure that everyone has a voice and is able to take an active part in the research?
This workshop is an opportunity for researchers and practitioners in digital humanities, cultural heritage, and information science, including librarians, archivists, curators, and teachers, to share experiences and ideas about collaborative interpretation, engage in activities to stimulate our thinking, and emerge with takeaways we can incorporate into our own research. We may also form new collaborative relationships.
All submissions are closed, but you can still register for the workshop. We look forward to seeing you there!
Register for the workshop here: https://www.asist.org/am23/
In addition, consider doing any/all of the following:
1. Submit a challenge paper or poster here:
Please use the AM23 Proposal Template to format your submission, and anonymize it by taking care to avoid identifying information.
2. Participate in pre-workshop interpretive activities (Aug. 15 - Sept. 14, 2023):
Collaborate with others to explore the Svoboda diaries and engage in collaborative interpretation.
Following these activities, 4 scholarships for free registration to the workshop will be awarded.
Visit Pre-workshop Activities
Paper and Poster Deadlines
Submissions due: August 22, 2023
Notifications: September 18, 2023
Pre-workshop Collaborative Interpretation Activity
Participation period: August 15, 2023 - September 14, 2023
Best paper award: $200. Sponsored by SIG Information Needs, Seeking, and Use (SIG USE)
Best student paper award: $200. Sponsored by SIG Arts & Humanities (SIG AH)
For the student paper award, the first author should be a student.
Best poster award: free workshop registration.
Best poster runner-up award: free workshop registration.
Participation Scholarships: Free registration for 2 workshop attendees based on pre-workshop participation!
Co-organizers | Annie T. Chen | University of Washington | atchen@uw.edu |
Camille Lyans Cole | Illinois State University | clcole5@ilstu.edu | |
Alexandra Chassanoff | University of North Carolina Chapel Hill | achass@unc.edu | |
Rongqian Ma | Indiana University Bloomington | rm56@iu.edu | |
Isto Huvila | Uppsala University | isto.huvila@abm.uu.se | |
Zack Lischer-Katz | University of Arizona | zlkatz@arizona.edu | |
Maja Krtalić | Victoria University of Wellington | maja.krtalic@vuw.ac.nz | |
Moderator of Pre-workshop Activities | James Hodges | San Jose State University | james.hodges@sjsu.edu |
Workshop Facilitator | Rhiannon Bettivia | Simmons University | rhiannon.bettivia@simmons.edu |
Scholars have documented a range of challenges to successful collaboration, whether stemming from the mode of collaboration, differences in disciplinary perspectives and goals, or the need to establish common ground and find effective modes of communication. In this workshop, we will consider how collaborative interpretation unfolds in different settings and within the research process, and ask questions including:
We may also work with and interpret a range of artifacts. How can we interact with these artifacts, and how does their nature (material, symbolic, institutional) affect our interpretation? What can we learn about an artifact based on other resources?
Introduction and challenges: Workshop participants present 5 minute lightning talks introducing an important challenge problem they see in collaboration and their perspective on how to address it. All workshop participants engage in interactive breakout discussions.
Collaborative interpretation activity: Participants engage in a collaborative interpretation of text from a corpus of personal diaries from 19th century Ottoman Iraq. The diaries are available at https://www.svobodadiariesproject.org/, but we will provide additional guidance, materials, and a platform to engage in collective interpretation, with flexibility to shape the interpretive process based on workshop participants’ own research approaches. Participate prior to the workshop if you want, and perhaps receive a free scholarship to attend!
Poster session: Participants will present posters introducing collaborative interpretation projects that they would like to do or are currently engaged in.
Collaborative brainstorming to develop infrastructures for collaborative interpretation: Workshop attendees will form small groups and brainstorm how they might develop/build an infrastructure for collaborative interpretation. Though we expect that the discussions will naturally emanate from the prior activities, we will also provide suggested approaches to brainstorming.
We will provide guidelines for public archiving of papers and posters prior to the workshop, to facilitate accessibility beyond the lifetime of the workshop.
Desystematisation of Collaborative Qualitative Research: Reaching Clarity by Embracing the Messy
Hilda Ruokolainen, Karolina Andersdotter
Collaborative Interpreting Practice in Developing a Conceptual Boundary Object: the Case of Social Memory Infrastructures
Allan Martell, Fatima K. Espinoza Vasquez
Cross-Cultural Collaborative Interpretive Practices in Research: Offsiders, Insiders and Outsiders
Michael Olsson, Hilary Yerbury
Incorporating Stakeholder Perspectives When Designing a Participant Insight Dashboard for an Online Community-Based Health Intervention
Sharon Wong, Jasmine Kaneshiro, Annie T. Chen
Layers of Meaning: Co-Designing with Bilingual Youth Around their Reading Practices
Nadia Caidi
Linguistic and Cultural Dimensions of Community-Engaged and Collaborative Interpretive Research in Healthcare
Annie T. Chen, Fatima Ahmed, Shao-Yun Chien, Jessica Luu, Xinyang, Ren, Rashmi K. Sharma
Benefits and Challenges of Multidisciplinary and Multi-organizational Collaboration in Developing a mHealth Application for People with Dementia and Their Care Partners
Min Sook Park, Chorong Oh, Yura Lee, Ji Yae Bong, Hyun Seung Lee
Together We Depict People’s Reading and Browsing Behavior on Public Transit: A Pedagogical Approach Addressing Contextual Inquiry
Tien-I Tsai
Introduction, Challenge Papers + Lightning Talks, and Breakout Discussion | 8:00am - 8:05am Welcome and overview (5 mins.) 8:05am - 8:55am Challenge papers and poster lightning talks (50 mins.) 8:55am - 9:15am Breakout discussions (20 mins.) 9:15am - 9:20am Break |
Collaborative Interpretation Activity | 9:20am - 9:30am Introduction (10 mins.) 9:30am - 10:10am Collaborative activity (40 mins.) 10:10am - 10:30am Sharing collaborative activity (20 mins.) 10:30am - 11:00am Poster session + break (30 mins.) |
Collaborative Infrastructures Brainstorming Activity | 11:00am - 11:10am Introduction (10 mins.) 11:10am - 11:40am Activity (30 mins.) 11:40am - 12:00pm Sharing (20 mins.) |