1. 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) ( ) 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.

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