Digits: Two Reports on New Units of Scholarly Publication
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Appendix A: Interview Protocol
Opening statement to set the context
We are interested in the production, publication, and preservation of non-traditional scholarly output. By non-traditional scholarly output we mean, for example:
- ORBIS: http://orbis.stanford.edu/
- Ben Schmidt’s “A guided tour of teaching language”: http://benschmidt.org/profCloud/
- Twitter Bots
- Scholarly Blogs
- Online Databases like the Trans-Atlantic Slave Database: http://www.slavevoyages.org/
- Digital Hadrian’s Villa Project: http://vwhl.squarespace.com/digital-hadrians-villa-project/
Questions (Note: we did not necessarily ask these questions with this specific wording, and we occasionally modified questions when they seemed inappropriate for a particular interviewee.)
- What is your role in the production, publication, and/or preservation of non-traditional scholarly output?
- What is it that you do in your role? Give us some details? Tell us what you did on your last project?
- Who was the intended audience for the project?
- Who did you work with on your last project (if anyone)? What were your collaborator’s roles?
- Walk me through your last project from cradle to grave.
- What were the pain points with the work you did on that project?
- Where did the project get “published?”
- What affordances/expressive capabilities would you like in your non-traditional scholarly output (that you currently don’t have)?
- How do you see credit functioning for your work and for non-traditional scholarly objects more generally?
- What happened/happens when the project ends? What is the afterlife?
- Who is responsible for the project?
- How important is/was the preservation of the project?
- In relation to your work on non-traditional scholarly output, what are your goals for the future?
- Do you have any questions for us?