Data Analysis

AO. importance of "multi-partner" and "knowing each other"

AO: Multi-partner rather than multi-stakeholder in order to highlight the sense of shared commitment necessary for the relationships described. “Multi-partner collaborations consist

NANO: What traits does the analyst believe make a good collaborator? Is the analyst interested in how the collaboration stabilizes or how it fails or shifts?

Cochrane, Logan, and Georgina Cundill. 2018. “Enabling Collaborative Synthesis in Multi-Partner Programmes.” Development in Practice 0 (0): 1–10.

Querying Analyses of Collaboration and Approaches to Data

Querying Collaboration in Data Analysis

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Collins, Harry, Robert Evans, and Mike Gorman. “Trading Zones and Interactional Expertise.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 38, no. 4 (December 2007): 657–66.

Abstract: The phrase ‘trading zone’ is often used to denote any kind of interdisciplinary partnership in which two or more perspectives are combined
and a new, shared language develops. In this paper we distinguish between different types of trading zone by asking whether the
collaboration...Read more

AO. Linking does not equal or mean collaboration.

AO: Early efforts by IDRC learned that linking and sharing information did not necessarily translate into collaboration and synthesis (3). Analyses found the “importance of

PRACTICES: What “best practices” does the analyst believe make for improved collaboration?

Cochrane, Logan, and Georgina Cundill. 2018. “Enabling Collaborative Synthesis in Multi-Partner Programmes.” Development in Practice 0 (0): 1–10.

Querying Analyses of Collaboration and Approaches to Data

Gorman, Michael E. “Levels of Expertise and Trading Zones: A Framework for Multidisciplinary Collaboration.” Social Studies of Science 32, no. 5–6 (December 2002): 933–38.

Michael Gorman discusses the utility of the concepts "boundary objects" and "trading zones" in the study of collaborations across differing levels of expertise.Read more

AO. Geographic distance.

AO: The analysts note the challenges of being in different geographic locations.

ECO: What material constraints are said to undergird this collaboration?

Cochrane, Logan, and Georgina Cundill. 2018. “Enabling Collaborative Synthesis in Multi-Partner Programmes.” Development in Practice 0 (0): 1–10.

Querying Analyses of Collaboration and Approaches to Data

AO. encouraging synthesis in a multi-partner consortia

AO: The analysts look at a multi-partner consortia example of “Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA)” that sought to support policy and practice

MICRO: What did the analyst choose to describe as collaboration?

Cochrane, Logan, and Georgina Cundill. 2018. “Enabling Collaborative Synthesis in Multi-Partner Programmes.” Development in Practice 0 (0): 1–10.

Querying Analyses of Collaboration and Approaches to Data

Howe, Cymene and Takaragawa, Stephanie. "Surprise." Theorizing the Contemporary, Cultural Anthropology website, July 27, 2017.

https://culanth.org/fieldsights/1173-surprise

AO. lack of discussion of data.

AO: The analysts do not discuss data sharing practices at all.

DATA: How does the analyst point to the data practices in the collaboration? Or to the data produced about the collaboration? Where does that data travel?

Cochrane, Logan, and Georgina Cundill. 2018. “Enabling Collaborative Synthesis in Multi-Partner Programmes.” Development in Practice 0 (0): 1–10.

Querying Analyses of Collaboration and Approaches to Data

Marcus, George E. "Introduction: Collaborative Analytics." Theorizing the Contemporary, Cultural Anthropology website, July 27, 2017.

https://culanth.org/fieldsights/1170-introduction-collaborative-analytics

Cantarella, Luke, McDonald, Fiona and Murphy, Keith M. "Evaluation." Theorizing the Contemporary, Cultural Anthropology website, July 27, 2017.

https://culanth.org/fieldsights/1179-evaluation

Star, Susan Leigh, and James R. Griesemer. “Institutional Ecology, `Translations’ and Boundary Objects: Amateurs and Professionals in Berkeley’s Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 1907-39.” Social Studies of Science 19, no. 3 (August 1989): 387–420.

Abstract: Scientific work is heterogeneous, requiring many different actors and viewpoints. It also requires cooperation. The two create tension between divergent viewpoints and the need for generalizable findings. We present a model of how one group of actors managed this tension. It draws on...Read more

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