CIRCA:Interview Protocol
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==Early Involvement in Digital Projects== | ==Early Involvement in Digital Projects== | ||
*''Can you describe the first time you used a computer for an academic project?'' | *''Can you describe the first time you used a computer for an academic project?'' | ||
- | *'' | + | *''Where there other people using computing in the humanities at your university? Was there a community of computing humanists?'' |
- | *''Can you recall | + | *''Can you recall any resistance to the use of the computer?'' |
- | + | *''Was there any support for humanities computing? Was there a centre of some sort?'' | |
- | *'' | + | |
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==First Major Research Project== | ==First Major Research Project== | ||
*''Describe your first major research project using the computer'' | *''Describe your first major research project using the computer'' | ||
- | *''What role did you play in this project?'' | + | *''What role did you play in this project? Who else was on that project and what were their roles?'' |
==Technical Background== | ==Technical Background== | ||
- | *'' | + | *''What technologies did you learn over your career? What would you consider yourself an expert at?'' |
- | *'' | + | *''Have you worked with or hired other people for their technology skills?'' |
- | *''Can you recall what programming languages you or your projects | + | *''Can you recall what programming languages you or your projects used?'' |
==Educating the Greater Community== | ==Educating the Greater Community== | ||
- | *''Were you responsible for the creation of any courses | + | *''Were you responsible for the creation of any humanities computing courses? Workshops?'' |
- | *''Did you design | + | *''Did you design, develop, or play a part in any undergraduate or graduate programmes?'' |
- | *''Did you train | + | *''Did you train any graduate students?'' |
==Support Structure== | ==Support Structure== | ||
*''Did you work within a particular centre or office that supported your research? At what point in your career?'' | *''Did you work within a particular centre or office that supported your research? At what point in your career?'' | ||
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*''What would you consider your greatest challenge for funding support?'' | *''What would you consider your greatest challenge for funding support?'' | ||
*''From where did you receive your greatest funding support?'' | *''From where did you receive your greatest funding support?'' | ||
+ | ==The Future of Digital Humanities== | ||
+ | *''What do you think are the major challenges and opportunities facing the digital humanities?'' | ||
+ | *''How should the digital humanities be integrated into the university?'' | ||
+ | *''What do you think is in the future?'' | ||
=UCL Questions= | =UCL Questions= |
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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 your University education. What was your major? What did you study in graduate 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 an academic project?
- Where there other people using computing in the humanities at your university? Was there a community of computing humanists?
- Can you recall any resistance to the use of the computer?
- Was there any support for humanities computing? Was there a centre of some sort?
First Major Research Project
- Describe your first major research project using the computer
- What role did you play in this project? Who else was on that project and what were their roles?
Technical Background
- What technologies did you learn over your career? What would you consider yourself an expert at?
- Have you worked with or hired other people for their technology skills?
- Can you recall what programming languages you or your projects used?
Educating the Greater Community
- Were you responsible for the creation of any humanities computing courses? Workshops?
- Did you design, develop, or play a part in any undergraduate or graduate programmes?
- Did you train any 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?
The Future of Digital Humanities
- What do you think are the major challenges and opportunities facing the digital humanities?
- How should the digital humanities be integrated into the university?
- What do you think is in the future?
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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