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Isto Huvila

Introduction: Information Matters Special Issue on Collaborative Interpretation

Collaboration on the interpretation and analysis of texts, images, artifacts, qualitative data, and other recorded information is fundamental to knowledge production in many disciplines. However, collaborators may have different goals, work routines, research paradigms and methodologies, background knowledge, and more. Scholars have documented a range of challenges for successful collaborations, whether stemming from the mode of collaboration, differences in disciplinary perspectives and goals, or the need to establish common ground and find effective modes of communication. This special issue explores some of those challenges and through 10 articles showcases how collaborative interpretation happens, how existing knowledge infrastructures can and should support it, and how diverse individual perspectives come together during collaborative interpretation. 

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Quinn Remington

Resource “Accessibility” Is More Than Just “Posting It Online”

Not everyone has the time and money to book a flight across the world to look at an artifact in person, so how do researchers with limited funding access one-of-a-kind resources? The Internet is a godsend for collaboration, letting us share photos of ancient pottery fragments, 3D scans of mummified tissue, and create virtual tours of ancient Egyptian tombs. However, sharing becomes a little more complicated when that artifact contains thousands of individual pages in 61 diaries, handwritten by a steamship clerk living in nineteenth-century Iraq. The Svoboda Diaries Project (SDP) focuses on exactly that. For nearly two decades, this project has used new and exciting digital preservation methods and extensive collaboration to make these diaries accessible to everyone.

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Yhna Therese Santos

Harmonizing Strong Voices: A Case for Collaborative Interpretation

The beauty of qualitative research is that it allows flexibility and embraces nuance in interpretation. Of course, this comes with the recognition that reflexivity is essential to interpretation. However, interpretation becomes challenging when it involves varying perspectives. We (Irish, Gerard, and Yhna) provide an account of our collaborative interpretation experience in, analyzing the Out of the Box Media Literacy Initiative’s Media and Information Literacy for Democracy Handbook.

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Theresa Kneppers

Collaborative Audio Responses to an Online Collection/Archive  

I am the curator of A David Bomberg Legacy – The Sarah Rose Collection, a group of Modern British artworks by selected members of the David Bomberg and the Borough Group. In my role as the curator of the collection, I have expanded the site of curatorial production to include the Internet, and the archive of digitised material associated with the collection. One of the methods I have experimented to engage users in interpreting the digital collection is to create polyvocal audio recordings.  

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Jo McKenna-Aspell

Facilitating Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Collaborative Research: How Elicitation Storyboards Help

How can we foster equitable discussions between different groups of people with very different backgrounds and experiences? In our study on embedding equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in usability testing we used storyboards to facilitate collaboration between people who are underrepresented in usability testing with usability researchers. We discuss how storyboards were used to ensure everyone has a voice and can take an active part in discussions.

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Yazdan Mansourian

Collaborative Interpretation in Serious Leisure: From Knowledge Sharing to Community Learning

In almost all hobbies that I have studied so far, people with similar interests are actively engaged in creating a Community of Interest (COI) whether in real world, like local clubs, or online platforms, such as digital forums on Facebook. Forming a COI is the first step to develop it into a Community of Learning (COL) and even establishing a Community of Practice (COP) down the road.

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Peng Xianzhe

The drivers, features, and influence of first scientific collaboration among core scholars from Chinese library and information field

The progress and development of science and technology have made communication and information tools increasingly convenient, leading to a growing freedom in the collaboration and exchange of scientific research, regardless of spatial constraints. Consequently, the current challenging issue is no longer the geographical barriers preventing two people who intend to collaborate on research from communicating, but rather how to help two individuals, who may not be acquainted but have the potential to collaborate, to overcome their respective knowledge limitations and facilitate possible collaboration with people outside their own cognitive scope.

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Chern Li Liew

Digital Platforms, Cultural Heritage Participation and Social Cohesion

Explore the impactful research by Victoria Passau and Chern Li Liew on how Auckland War Memorial Museum’s Online Cenotaph fosters community participation, collective memorialisation, and social cohesion. Their study delves into user interactions with this digital platform and its role in enhancing connections within New Zealand’s diverse history, highlighting the evolution of Online Cenotaph from a simple Roll of Honour to a dynamic biographical database with significant public contributions. Discover the potential of digital cultural heritage platforms to extend social inclusion and empathy in the digital age.

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Alison Hicks

Collaborative Interpretation as Craft: Slow Theory Development in Library and Information Science

Within Library and Information Science (LIS), theory development has typically prioritised the use of theory rather than its construction as well as the work of individual theorists instead of group perspectives. However, we argue that understanding collaborative theorising as a craft forms an opportunity to think creatively about how we “construct understanding from information and ideas,” including the everyday tools and strategies that bring theoretical work into being.

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Hana Kim

Cross-Border Collaboration: A Decade of Advancing Tibetan Studies

In 2023, a significant milestone was celebrated as the University of Toronto Libraries and Columbia University Libraries marked a decade of partnership in Tibetan Studies collection development and services. This collaboration stemmed from a shared recognition of Tibetan Studies’ historical marginalization in North America, attributed to factors such as geopolitical complexities and the dominance of mainstream disciplines. Together, the two institutions embarked on a mission to address this disparity, striving to increase access to Tibetan resources and foster interdisciplinary dialogue among scholars on both sides of the border.

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