The platform includes peer-reviewed articles, interview transcripts, image artifacts with results from our survey, videos, images, event flyers, reports and also fieldnotes. We include peer-reviewed articles for teaching and for research team discussion and analysis; we include survey data for other people to use, and also for us to use in presentations; we include interview transcripts so that we can collaboratively analyze them; we include interview excerpts to make specific points about an issue (the NEC model, the federal poverty guidelines, conservation education, water bills, and workforce development are some things that we’ve used quotes to highlight). I actually don’t think we’ve uploaded any videos yet, but we have about fifteen of these that could be uploaded. We have a collection of flyers and ppts posted right now, as a lead up to the water rate case hearings March 16th and 18th; this is information sharing rather than data, but it will become data at a later point.
The data is almost always presented as artifacts. Usually we embed artifacts into PECE essays. I think one of the things we’re trying to think through right now is, how to present data. I would not say that users are encouraged to “interact” with the data in any way… Though I think this is something interesting to think about. Particularly with our survey and interview data, which we hope people will draw on.