Dominic+Abstract

This project will explore how digital tools can help in research that uses mixed methodology. Specifically this project will examine how the semantic web can be used with qualitative datasets and methods, and how it can be used to help link these dataset to quantitative data. This project will study how ethnographers use digital tools, how these tools could be improved, what their workflow and knowledge generation come about, and show the effect semantic web technologies can have. The end result will be the building of a ethnographic experimental framework to manage ethno-projects, their data and objects, and possible connect to other data sources ( quantitative data) Linked Open Data and Semantic infrastructures for this. This will also allow for us to codify the best practices and theory into this framework.