Interview Protocol
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Interview Protocol
The outline of the interview will follow a thematic rubric including the following sections:
Education and Discipline
- I would like to hear about the early years of yourUniversity education. What was your major? What did you study ingraduate school
- *When and how did you start learning about computing? What drew you into humanities computing?
- *Did you study computing? Can you recall any interesting courses?
Early Involvement in Digital Projects
- Can you describe the first time you used a computer for anacademic project?
- Did the computer seem a logical addition to the project or was it championed by a specific person?
- Can you recall anyone resistant to the use of the computer?
Interest in Computing
- Do you recall your first experience with a computer?
- How did you feel about computers, for example were you comfortable with them?
First Major Research Project
- Describe your first major research project using the computer
- What role did you play in this project?
Technical Background
- Throughout your career was there technology that you needed to learn?
- Did you need to hire an expert at any point?
- Can you recall what programming languages you or your projects were associated with?
Educating the Greater Community
- Were you responsible for the creation of any courses related to your work? Workshops?
- Did you design or develop any programmes to assist colleagues in their research?
- Did you train ant graduate students?
Support Structure
- Did you work within a particular centre or office that supported your research? At what point in your career?
- Did this structure have a specific mission or vision for its existence?
- Can you sketch the administrative structure or floorplan of this place?
- Where did funding come from?
- What would you consider your greatest challenge for funding support?
- From where did you receive your greatest funding support?
UCL Questions
- How you first got involved in what we know this is called digital humanities? who are the people and what are the things that you feel really influenced you?
- How do you think like thinking outside of academia how did other people view computers and how they were being used?
- What was your first engagement with the conference community as we would see it now and how did that come about?
- So in terms of meeting other people, you remember your first encounters of that kind?
- Did you see the Digital Humanities as a new field? How were the impressions of Digital Humanities by scholars?
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