Kim Fortun “Data Governance By Design:Challenges in Building Research Infrastructure”

Data Governance By Design:
Challenges in Building Research Infrastructure
Kim Fortun,
RPI May 2017

PECE DESIGN GROUP
Lindsay Poirier, Platform Architect
Dominic DiFranzo, Semantics
Alli Morgan, Research Curator
Brian Callahan, Installation
Mike Fortun, Platform Lead
Kim Fortun. Project Lead
Brandon Costelloe-Kuehn, Metadata
Pedro de la Torre, Experiments
Dan Price, Philosopher
Luis Felipe Murillo, Data Management

Platforms, and
Research Projects

Theoretical
genealogy
Use cases
Small team, mixed
skills
Research ecology
mapping
analysis
Delineate design
logics
Expert reviews and
evaluation
Leverage
technology
infrastructure
Rapid prototype
Evolve, iterate,
redesign, redeploy
Evaluate
eHumanities framework

PECE IN LAYERS
STORAGE AND
SYSTEM ADMIN
Tetherless
Internet Archive
IDEA?
HASS?
Other?
PLATFORM AND
MODULE
DEVELOPMENT
PECE Rgroup
Taller/Agaric
STANDARDS
AND POLICIES
(for metadata,
data management,
attribution)
RDA/DPHE-IG
DATA SERVICES
(for data type
registries, PIDs,
etc.)
Folsom Library?
DARIAH-Like
organization?
ETHICAL
LEGAL &
GOVERNANCE
SUPPORT
(copyright/user
agreements.
collaboration
contracts)
Berkman Center
for Internet and
Law?
PECE may then support….
● (NSF) Data management compliance
● Varied (experimental) research groups
● Critical, interdisciplinary data education
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Six+ Cities
Air Pollution Project

What technical systems produce and help control air pollution in this city?

ARCHIVING ANALYZING PUBLISHING
PECE as TRIPTYCH

PECE provides “light structures”
to support collaboration between
researchers, and the nesting of many
different and distinctive projects
within the larger project structure.
PECE as NESTED GROUPINGS
THE
ASTHMA
FILES
DISASTER STS
NETWORK
BHOPAL
FUKUSHIMA
NUCLEARITY
SIX+
CITIES
DELH
I AIR
DATA
SAHEB
DISSERTATION
STHMA
WLEDGES
INTERVIEWS IN
ASTRONOMY
POIRIER PECE

toward collaborative hermeneutics and kaleidoscopic perspective

Platform for Experimental, Collaborative Ethnography
An open source research platform that can support a wide array of projects and groups
involved in collaborative ethnographic projects.
 Designed to support ethnographic projects focused on complex conditions involving multiple
sites, scales, and types of data.
 Designed to nest many projects within a larger project structure, preserving the individual project
specificity crucial in humanities research and graduate education.
 Has developed new genres for ethnographic argumentation and expression, and is experimenting
with new modes of peer review.
 Provides ways to involves diverse users/readers – students, affected communities, different
professional communities -- in the ethnographic process.
 Designed to embody critical theoretical perspective on language, knowledge and culture.

Devious design
Strategies of writing and of reading are forms of cultural resistance. Not only can they work to turn
dominant discourses inside out (and show that it can be done), to undercut their enunciation and
address, to unearth the archaeological stratifications on which they are built; but in affirming the
historical existence of irreducible contradictions for women in discourse, they also challenge theory
in its own terms, the terms of a semiotic space constructed in language, its power based on social
validation and well-established modes of enunciation and address; So well-established that,
paradoxically, the only way to position oneself outside of that discourse is to displace oneself within
it - to refuse the question as formulated, or to answer deviously (though in its words), even to
quote (but against the grain). The limit posed but not worked through in this book is thus the
contradiction of feminist theory itself, at once excluded from discourse and imprisoned within it.
The horizon of the present work is the question, scarcely broached as yet within feminist theory, of
the politics of representation (Lauretis 1984, 7).

Ab-usive systems
Hendler, J. & Hugill, A. 2013. "The syzygy surfer:(Ab) using the semantic web to inspire creativity." International Journal of Creative
Computing1.1: 20-34.
"But creative uses of the web are not the sole province of ‘artists’ as such, and may extend into self-expression as an aspect of personal or
cultural identity, in a more utilitarian context or indeed in gaming. Creative users of the web may find amusing ways to abuse (or, more politely,
creatively experiment with) the technology, as artists have always done, but in the vast majority of cases the limits of such fruitful play are set by
software engineering." (21)
Spivak, G. 2012. An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization. Harvard University Press.
"In 1992, asked to give the first T.B. Davie Memorial lecture at the University of Cape Town after the lifting of apartheid, I suggested that we
learn to use the European Enlightenment from below. I used the expression "ab-use" because the Latin prefix "ab" says much more than
"below." Indicating both "motion away" and "agency, point of origin," "supporting," as well as "the duties of slaves," it nicely captures the double
bind of the postcolonial and the metropolitan migrant regarding the Enlightenment. We want the public sphere gains and private sphere
constraints of the Enlightenment; yet we must also find something relating to "our own history" to counteract the fact that the Enlightenment
came, to colonizer and colonized alike, through colonialism, to support a destructive "free trade," and that top-down policy breaches of
Enlightenment principles are more rule than exception. This distinguishes our efforts from the best in the modern European attempts to use the
European Enlightenment critically, with which we are in sympathy, enough to subvert! But "ab-use" can be a misleading neographism, and
come to mean simply "abuse." That should be so far from our intentions that I thought to sacrifice precision and range and simply say "from
below." This too rankles, for it assumes that "we," whoever we are, are below the level of the Enlightenment. A double bind, again." (4-5)

!34!
II.Ethnographicworkflowandproposedproject
To-do in proposed project
continuing
continuing
add RDF micro-attribution and
workflow provenance to node
workflow provenance to entity
workflow provenance to web
form responses
build mash-up aggregator and
visualization tool, add RDF
micro-attribution and workflow
provenance to view
workflow provenance to view
establish citational best practices
based on micro-attributions and
provenance
PECE supporting
infrastructure (including type
of content)
Shared group bibliography in
Zotero
Artifact creation as node
Zotero and Biblio entry creation
as node
Annotation creation as entity
(questions become fields in web
form)
Annotation response creation as
field responses
To build with proposed funding
Timeline, photo essay, map
creation as view
Memo creation as node
Publication creation (many
forms)
Visibility in traditional
ethnographic workflow
invisible
invisible
visible
visible
invisible
visible
invisible
visible
invisible
visible
Stages in experimental
ethnography workflow
theoretical engagement
translation of theory into
elicitation structures (observation
guides, interview questions)
artifact collection (field notes,
photographs, recorded interviews,
video documentation)
artifact archiving
development of analytically
structured annotations
structured annotation enrichment
(with free text, hyperlinks)
annotation disaggregation and
mash-ups
play with alternative
visualizations (timelines, photo
essays, maps, etc.).
cultural analysis
(individual or collaborative)
translation of analysis into essays
and other literary texts

light structure as
structured annotations

Steps Toward Ecologies
of Experimental Systems

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