Information Practices of Interdisciplinary Research Teams (Digging Into Data Challenge Round 3, humanities + computational science) Inter-institutional environment: Project outcomes GOAL: Open access data Intern'l project environment Academic and non-academic professionals GOAL: Project success Institutional environment pedagogical objectives: Faculty skills Student skills GOAL: Ongoing research Institutional environment research mission: Formal curricula Informal curricula GOAL: Project data for library / repository Project environment: Domestic-level Institutional research mission Domestic-level Research area training Project environment: International-level problem solving International-level training Abstract: Purpose The behaviors and practices of collaborative interdisciplinary researchers, especially in distributed environments, remain understudied. This article employs eleven Digging into Data 3 (DID3) (2014-2016) projects to examine the working practices of digital humanities scholars engaged in collaborative interdisciplinary research (IDR). It addresses the following research questions: first, what factors encouraged the coalescence of these path-breaking IDR projects? Second, what benefits did participants reap and what challenges did they surmount in initiating, developing, and executing these IDR projects? Third, what recommendations did participants offer to promote successful IDR collaborations? 1: meeting places, liaison, visualizations of data, host data on library website 2. Benefits: Avoid redundancy, Explode disciplinary silos, Outputs that satisfy each research team’s goals Challenges: Flexibility and failure, Translation, Intermediaries, Division of labor, Conflict resolution, Technology, Outputs, Timeframe, sustainability, and infrastructure 3.

Activities and goals 2018-2019 Collaborating with colleagues on CHOP project Building skills on a research team Research on health literacy and medical archives Literature review for candidacy