SFB 1187 ›Medien der Kooperation‹ an der Universität Siegen

INF - Research infrastructures and their appropriation for qualitative-interpretive research practices

Research focus of the 2nd phase (2020 – 2023)

 

 

Principal Investigators:

Prof. Dr. Volkmar Pipek

Prof. Dr. Kai Daniel

Researchers:

Volker Hess, Wiss. Dok.

Gaia Mosconi, M.A.

Aynalem Misganaw, M.Sc.

Associated Researchers:

Friederike Breuer, M.A.

Dr. Helena Karasti

Annette Strauch, M.A.

Dr. Matthias Korn

Dr. Michael Dahnke

The manifold studies of cooperative media within the SFB 1187 lead to the collection of large and heterogeneous data sets on contextualized cooperative relations that must be managed. This presents challenges for sustainable research data management. Therefore, new research data infrastructures to support researchers in the SFB are devised to meet the various challenges. Appropriate base services for data storage are developed for a sustainable research data management, which enable the storage and management of research data on cooperation contexts and relations.

Read more in the section on Research Data Management

 

The socio-technical study and design of cooperative research practices within the SFB is another central aspect of the subproject. Interdisciplinary and cooperative research practices are documented in an actor- and activity-oriented manner and made transparent for cooperating researchers. Through the study and design of cooperative research media, the subproject deals with the possibilities and limitations of different forms of cooperation in the social sciences and humanities in the joint collection, analysis, and reuse of research data.

To support digital cooperative research practices within and between subprojects, INF develops and provides various exchange platforms as well as research tools and research infrastructures facilitating novel methods of data collection and analysis.

Read more in the sections on Research Tech Lab and Research Tools and Infrastructures

 

Contact: inf-kontakt@sfb1187.uni-siegen.de

Office Hours (during the semester): Wednesdays, 10-12 a.m., AH-A 222

Intranet of the SFB 1187: http://social.sfb1187.uni-siegen.de/ (under construction)

 

Research Data Management

In subproject INF and at the University of Siegen, ZIMT is working together with the Siegen University Library toward providing a sustainable research data infrastructure for researchers throughout the SFB 1187, as well as finding appropriate solutions for research data management.

The term research data management refers to all activities to be carried out in the context of research data, which result along the data life cycle:

(1) creation of data – (2) data processing – (3) data analysis – (4) data archiving – (5) data access – (6) data re-use

 

Image: https://www.forschungsdaten.info/themen/planen-und-strukturieren/datenlebenszyklus/

 

ZIMT is committed to providing sustainable and quality-assured research data, working on guidelines for research data management as well as the provision of services and advisory structures. ZIMT closely cooperates with partners that already offer infrastructures for user needs in the digital humanities and social sciences (e.g., DARIAH, RADAR, RDA, nestor).

 

Research Tech Lab / Gestaltungslabor

The Research Tech Lab, coordinated by INF and A05, is an open forum for exchange for all members of the SFB 1187. In the Research Tech Lab, we explore, discuss, and design digital research approaches, tools, and instruments. The basic assumption of the Research Tech Lab is that IT design takes place in everyday use and involves the continuous appropriation of (digital) methods, tools, instruments, and infrastructures. Design is an important part of daily research practices. The Research Tech Lab thus calls for participation of all subprojects. Based on a 'Living Lab' approach, the subprojects are given the opportunity to discuss, analyse, and reflect their experiences with research tools and infrastructures.

The Research Tech Lab usually takes place every two weeks during the semester. Additional room for further exchange and discussion is provided online on the SFB Intranet.

 

Research Tools and Infrastructures

INF pools expertise for the selection, evaluation, and use of specific digital research tools and infrastructures for all subprojects and coordinates, in cooperation with interested subprojects, the necessary technical and methodological developments.

In particular, INF offers a range of specific research tools and infrastructures for the SFB 1187, supporting the conduct of social science and humanities research.

Social Media Observatories

Social Media Observatories provide a platform for students and researchers from all disciplines interested in doing research with or on social media. Developed and maintained by INF, the Social Media Observatories support data collection and analysis of and within social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and Google+. Particular attention in the extension of the Social Media Observatories rests on supporting the collection not only of public data, but also of semi- and non-public social media data. As part of this effort, INF advices individual projects in assessing, selecting, applying, and extending existing tools and services for monitoring and analysing social media data.

Mobile Data Collection, Mobile Ethnography

To support studies of mobile usage behaviour in natural contexts, INF develops and offers various technical tools based on modern mobile devices (e.g., smart phones, tablets). Tools for mobile data collection enable the gathering of reliable data about contexts of use (e.g., through screenshots/screencasts, audio recordings, GPS information, touch events, motion and position sensors, information about used apps and duration of use). The further development of the tools is primarily aimed at being able to collect usage contexts across devices, which enables, e.g., to capture collocation relationships or to link mobile usage data with additional ethnographic material.

 

Publications

Featured

The book is an exploration of the theoretical, conceptual and methodological foundations of human-centred design. Specifically, it critically examines the notion of 'practice' and argues for an understanding of the concept which emanates from engagement with design problems rather than simply from social scientific theory. The contributors to the book in their various ways all subscribe to a systematic account of how practice- oriented studies can inform design. 

Wulf, V., Pipek, V., Randall, D., Rhode, M., Schmidt, K., & Stevens, G. (Eds.). (2018). Socio-Informatics: A Practice-based Perspective on the Design and Use of IT Artifacts. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.

 

2023

Mosconi, Gaia, A.F. Pinatti de Carvahlo, H.A. Syed, Dave Randall, H Karasti, and Volkmar Pipek. 2023. “Fostering Research Data Management in Collaborative Research Contexts: Lessons learnt from an ‚Embedded‘ Evaluation of ‚Data Story”. Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), no. May 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10606-023-09467-6.

2022

Mosconi, Gaia, Helena Karasti, Dave Randall, Saja Aljunedi, Tong Yu, Peter Tolmie, and Volkmar Pipek. 2022. “Designing a Data Story: A Storytelling Approach to Curation and Sharing in Support of Ethnographically-Driven Research”. American CSCW2, no. Article 289. https://doi.org/10.1145/3555180.
Mosconi, Gaia, Helena Karasti, Dave Randall, and Volkmar Pipek. 2022. “Designing a Data Story: An Innovative Approach for the Selective Care of Qualitative and Ethnographic Data”. In Interrogating Datafication: Towards a Praxeology of Data, edited by Marcus Burkhardt, Daniela van Geenen, Carolin Gerlitz, Sam Hind, Timo Kaerlein, Danny Lämmerhirt, and Axel Volmar, 207-30. Bielefeld: transcript.

2020

Misganaw Aynalem Tesfaye, and Roller Sabine. 2020. “PlattForm: Parallel Spoken Corpus of Middle West German Dialects with Web-Based Interface”. In Machine Learning, Optimization, and Data Science. LOD 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12566, edited by Giuseppe Nicosia, Varun Ojha, Emanuele La Malfa, Giorgio Jansen, Vincenzo Sciacca, Panos Pardalos, Giovanni Giuffrida, and Renato Umeton, 494-503. Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64580-9_41.

2019

Mosconi, G., Q. Li, D. Randall, H. Karasti, P. Tolmie, J. Barutzky, M. Korn, and V. Pipek. 2019. “Three Gaps in Opening Science”. Journal of Computer Supported Cooperative Work 28 (3-4): 749-89. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10606-019-09354-z.
Saeed, Saqib, Volkmar Pipek, Markus Rohde, Christian Reuter, Aparecido Fabiano Pinatti de Carvalho, and Volker Wulf. 2019. “Nomadic Knowledge Sharing Practices and Challenges: Findings From a Long-Term Case Study”. IEEE Access 7: 63564–63577. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2916903.
Strauch, Annette, and Michael Dahnke. 2019. “Forschungsdatenmanagement Und -Infrastruktur Im SFB 1187 Medien Der Kooperation”. Bausteine Forschungsdatenmanagement September (2): 54-60. https://doi.org/10.17192/bfdm.2019.2.8071.
Strauch, Annette, and Volker Hess. 2019. “Von der Produktion bis zur Langzeitarchivierung qualitativer Forschungsdaten im SFB 1187”. Bibliothek Forschung & Praxis 43 (1): 105-9. https://doi.org/10.1515/bfp-2019-2005.

2018

Curdt, Constanze, Marleen Grasse, Volker Hess, Nils Kasties, Ania López, Benedikt Magrean, Anja Perry, Andres Quast, Dominik Rudolph, Simone Stork, Johanna Vompras, and Nina Winter. 2018. “Zur Rolle Der Hochschulen - Positionspapier Der Landesinitiative Nfdi Und Expertengruppe Fdm Der Digitalen Hochschule Nrw Zum Aufbau Einer Nationalen Forschungsdateninfrastruktur”. Zenodo. https://zenodo.org/record/1217527.
Hess, Volker, Thomas von Rekowski, Sabine Roller, and Nicole Walger. 2018. “ Aufgaben und Potentiale des Projekts FoDaKo ”. In Bibliothek Forschung & Praxis, 42(3). https://doi.org/10.18452/19671.
Karasti, Helena, Volkmar Pipek, and Geoffrey Bowker. 2018. “An Afterword to ‘Infrastructuring and Collabo rative Design”. Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) 27 (2): 267-89. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10606-017-9305-x.
Pipek, Volkmar, Helena Karasti, and Geoffrey Bowker, eds. 2018. Special Issue: Infrastructuring and Collaborative Design, Part II. 2nd ed. Vol. 27. Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Heidelberg: Springer Netherlands. https://www.springerprofessional.de/computer-supported-cooperative-work-cscw-2-2018/15648860.
Randall, Dave, Juri Dachtera, Tobias Dyrks, Bernhard Nett, Volkmar Pipek, Leonardo Ramirez, Gunnar Stevens, Ina Wagner, and Volker Wulf. 2018. “Research into Design Research Practices: Supporting an Agenda towards Self - Reflectivity and Transferability”. In Socio - Informatics - A Practice - based Perspective on the Design and Use of IT Artefacts, by Volker Wulf, Volkmar Pipek, David Randall, Markus Rohde, Kjeld Schmidt, and Gunnar Stevens, 491-540. Oxford University Press. https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780198733249.001.0001/oso-9780198733249-chapter-17.
Stevens, Gunnar, and Volkmar Pipek. 2018. “Making Use: Understanding, Studying, and Supporting Appropriation”. In Socio-Informatics - A Practice-based Perspective on the Design and Use of IT Artefacts, edited by Volker Wulf, Volkmar Pipek, David Randall, Markus Rohde, Kjeld Schmidt, and Gunnar Stevens, 139-76. Oxford University Press. https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780198733249.001.0001/oso-9780198733249-chapter-5.
Strauch, Annette. 2018. “Research Data Management for the Collaborative Research Centre 1187, „Media of Cooperation“.” https://doi.org/10.18452/19670.
Strauch, Annette. 2018. “Varieties of Cooperation. Mutually Making the Conditions of Mutual Making”. In . https://www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/tagungsberichte-7531.
Strauch, Annette. 2018. “Medien der Kooperation SFB 1187”. DHd. https://dig-hum.de/forschung/projekt/medien-der-kooperation-sfb-1187.
Strauch, Annette. 2018. “Medien der Kooperation”. Forschungsdaten.org. http://www.forschungsdaten.org/index.php/Medien_der_Kooperation.

2017

Curdt, Constanze, Volker Hess, Ania López, Benedikt Magrean, Dominik Rudolph, and Johanna Vompras. 2017. “Herausforderung Forschungsdatenmanagement - Unterstützung der Hochschulen durch eine einrichtungsübergreifende Kooperation in NRW”. In E-Science-Tage 2017: Forschungsdaten managen, edited by Vincent Heuveline and Jonas Kratzke, 95–103. Heidelberg: heiBOOKS. ISBN: 978-3-946531-75-3. https://doi.org/10.11588/heibooks.285.377.
Korn, Matthias, Aparecido Fabiano Pinnati de Carvalho, Amanda Langer, Phillipe Zots, Volker Wulf, and Volkmar Pipek. 2017. “Nomadic Culture in Academic Settings: Pervasive Commuting and Institutional Support as Defining Elements”. International Reports on Socio - Informatics (IRSI) 14 (3): 21-27. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/48f8/8b5d3ebfa6e65b4a07c888e4a354f7008fcd.pdf.
Korn, Matthias, Marén Schorch, Volkmar Pipek, Matthew Bietz, Carsten Østerlund, Rob Procter, David Ribes, and Robin Williams. 2017. “E-Infrastructures for Research Collaboration: The Case of the Social Sciences and Humanities”. In Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing Companion (CSCW 2017 Companion), 415-20. https://doi.org/10.1145/3022198.3022655.
Kratzke, Jonas, and Vincent Heuveline. 2017. “E-Science-Tage 2017.” https://doi.org/10.11588/heibooks.285.377.
Mosconi, Gaia, Matthias Korn, Christian Reuter, Peter Tolmie, Maurizio Teli, and Volkmar Pipek. 2017. “From Facebook to the Neighbourhood: Infrastructuring of Hybrid Community Engagement”. Computer Supported Cooperative Work 26 (4-6): 959-1003. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10606-017-9291-z.
Pipek, Volkmar, Helena Karasti, and Geoffrey Bowker. 2017. “A Preface to ‘Infrastructuring and Collaborative Design”. Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSC W) 26 (1-2): 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10606-017-9271-3.
Pipek, Volkmar, Helena Karasti, and Geoffrey Bowker. 2017. Special Issue: Infrastructuring and Collaborative Design. 1-2. Vol. 26. Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Heidelberg: Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10606-017-9271-3.
Pipek, Volkmar, and Matthias Korn. 2017. “Appropriation Infrastructures for Research Communities of Practice”. Workshop on E - Infrastructures for Research Collaboration: The Case of the Social Sciences and Humanities at CSCW 2017.
Rekowski, Thomas von, and Volker Hess. 2017. “Fodako - Forschungsdaten Im Kooperationsverbund.” http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1230525.
Strauch, Annette. 2017. “Komplementarität von OER und Open Science : Schwerpunkt Forschungsdaten”. In . https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:467-10940.
Strauch, Annette. 2017. “Medien Der Kooperation”. DINI Jahrestagung.

2016

Curdt, Constanze, Florian Krämer, Volker Hess, Ania Lopez, Benedikt Magrean, Dominik Rudolph, and Johanna Vompras. 2016. “Einführung In Forschungsdatenmanagement.” http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.165126.
Ludwig, Thomas, Julian Dax, Volkmar Pipek, and David Randall. 2016. “Work or Leisure? Designing a UserCentered Approach for Researching Activity ‘in the Wild’”. Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (PUC) 20 (4): 487–515. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-016-0935-7.
Ludwig, Thomas, Christian Reuter, and Volkmar Pipek. 2016. “From Publics to Communities: Researching the Path of Shared Issues Through ICT”. Computer Supported Cooperative Work: The Journal of Collaborative Computing (JCSCW) 25 (2-3): 193-225. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10606-016-9252-y.
Reuter, Christian, Thomas Ludwig, Christoph Kotthaus, Marc-André Kaughold, Elmar von Radziewski, and Volkmar Pipek. 2016. “Big Data in a Crisis? Creating Social Media Datasets for Emergency Management Research”. i - com: Journal of Interactive Media 15 (3): 249-64. https://doi.org/10.1515/icom-2016-0036.