ProjectHopping_LP

Project Hopping ||
 * figuring out methods
 * Topical Area? || Data Sets || Social Theoretical Questions || Why Now? || How Prepared? || Bias? || Fields of Work? || Funders? ||
 * History and ethnography of the Semantic Web || Email archives for the development of OWL – the Web Ontology Language

The data formats/structures themselves

Interviews with AI researchers in knowledge representation

Interviews with those involved in the Semantic Web activities in the W3C (those setting the standards)

Participant observation at W3C || How do competing epistemologies/worldviews become embedded in information infrastructures?

How does the design of information infrastructure shape what is permitted to become knowledge?

How does it shape a politics of knowledge representation? || Information infrastructures (with increasing degrees of structure) are increasingly shaping how we see and experience information. || I have a degree in Web Science and have worked closely with the Tetherless World Constellation, which is at the center of the development of the Semantic Web. || I have a degree in Web Science and have friendships with many of the people I would interview. || History of computing and AI Cultural Anthropology (digital/CASTAC) Critical Code Studies Software Studies Web Science Information Studies Internet Studies || Mellon SHOT ||
 * Ethnography of data structures in collaborative research communities (specifically experimental ethnography) || Experience working on PECE

“Readings” of content management systems and database structures (relational vs. object-oriented, for example)

Interviews with research groups that have leveraged digital systems to support their work || How do competing epistemologies/worldviews become embedded in information infrastructures?

How do the shapes and affordances of data structures impact the way researchers collaborate, share data, and analyze data?

In other words....

How do data structures “structure” the way that diverse research communities work, store data, share data, make sense of data, and publish on their data?

How can experimental systems be designed against data structures that structure in ways that are out of sync with a research community’s logics. || The digital humanities are confronting information infrastructures that are often out of sync with the logics. The “informating of the social sciences” thus needs to be particularly reflective about the infrastructures they will adopt. || I have been working with several different content management systems to build out PECE for the past 3 years.

I have access to many different data communities leveraging digital infrastructure through the Research Data Alliance. || I have been working closely with data structures that I have come to hate, and others that I have come to hate less. || Cultural Anthropology (digital/CASTAC, as well as experimental ethnography) Critical code studies Software studies Information studies Digital Humanities || Mellon ||
 * Ethnography of the emerging interdisciplinary community of Web Science and goals to shape the “Web We Want” (which looks a lot like cybernetics) || Interviews with Web Scientists

Participant observation at the Web Science conferences and WWW

Follow the email archives of the W3C Web Sci mailing lists || How do attempts to understand the dynamics of information spaces shape the way those spaces are governed? How does this produce marginalities?

How do emergent interdisciplinary communities carve space for disciplines that have traditionally been marginalized (social sciences, etc.)?

What are the gender dynamics in emergent interdisciplinary communities? || The desire to understand the dynamics of information spaces in order to control them is not new, but the emergence of the Web – an information infrastructure that unevenly connects people globally like never before – provides a “telescope” for the social sciences to study these dynamics (Web Science words). || I have a degree in Web Science and have worked closely with the Tetherless World Constellation, which serves as the hub for Web Science. I have developed working relationships with many individuals in the Web Science leadership. || I am female, and I have called myself a Web scientist with many of the informants that I would interview. || Cultural anthropology (of science) || Wenner Gren Mellon ||