*Call for Participation* *“Exploring Collaborative Interpretive Practice”* A workshop co-located with ASIS&T 2023, Saturday, 28 October (8:00 AM - 12:00 PM BST), 2023, London, UK Collaboration on the interpretation and analysis of texts, images, artifacts, qualitative data, and other recorded information is fundamental to knowledge production in many disciplines. However, collaborators may have different goals, work routines, research paradigms and methodologies, background knowledge, and more. In this workshop, we aim to engage in collective exploration of how collaborative interpretation happens and brainstorm together on ways to develop knowledge infrastructures to support it. Each of us brings our own perspective to interpretation, which shapes our work in various ways. How do we ensure that everyone has a voice and is able to take an active part in the research? In this workshop, we will consider how collaborative interpretation unfolds in different settings and within the research process, and ask questions including: - Who is performing interpretation? - What is being interpreted? - What are the goals of interpretation? - How is the interpretation being performed? - What are the analytical lenses? - Can different actors incorporate the fruits of collaboration into their own research to forward different goals? We may also work with and interpret a range of artifacts. How can we interact with these artifacts, and how does their nature (material, symbolic, institutional) affect our interpretation? What can we learn about an artifact based on other resources? This workshop is an opportunity for researchers and practitioners in digital humanities, cultural heritage, and information science, including librarians, archivists, curators, and teachers, to share experiences and ideas about collaborative interpretation, engage in activities to stimulate our thinking, and emerge with takeaways we can incorporate into our own research. We may also form new collaborative relationships. *WAYS TO PARTICIPATE:* *Register for the workshop here: **https://www.asist.org/am23/* <https://www.asist.org/am23/> *Submit a challenge paper or poster **here* <https://www.conftool.org/asist2023/> (please use the AM23 Proposal Template <https://growthzonesitesprod.azureedge.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/946/Template-Instructions-2023-final.docx> ): - *Challenge papers (4 pages max. not including references): *Introduce an important challenge in collaborative interpretation. Present examples from your own or others’ work, points to consider, potential solutions, etc. - *Posters (2 pages max. not including references): *Introduce research you are doing or would like to do involving collaborative interpretation. Preliminary results are not required; raise ideas you would like to receive feedback on! *Participate in pre-workshop interpretive activities (Aug. 15 - Sept. 14, 2023):* Collaborate with others to explore the Svoboda diaries and engage in collaborative interpretation. Following these activities, workshop scholarships will be awarded. Access here: *https://github.com/svobodadiaries/collab-interpret/discussions/1 <https://github.com/svobodadiaries/collab-interpret/discussions/1>* *IMPORTANT DATES* *Paper and Poster Deadlines* Submissions due: August 15, 2023 Notifications: September 15, 2023 *Pre-workshop Collaborative Interpretation Activity* Participation period: August 15, 2023 - September 14, 2023 Workshop scholarships announced: October 1, 2023 *AWARDS* *Best paper award:* $200. Sponsored by SIG Information Needs, Seeking, and Use (SIG USE) *Best poster award:* $200. Sponsored by SIG Arts & Humanities (SIG AH) *Participation Scholarships:* Free registration for 4 workshop attendees based on pre-workshop participation! For questions, please contact the workshop co-organizers: Annie T. Chen University of Washington | atchen@uw.edu Camille Lyans Cole Illinois State University | clcole5@ilstu.edu Alexandra Chassanoff University of North Carolina Chapel Hill | achass@unc.edu Rongqian Ma Indiana University Bloomington | rm56@iu.edu Isto Huvila Uppsala University | isto.huvila@abm.uu.se Zack Lischer-Katz University of Arizona | zlkatz@arizona.edu Maja Krtalić Victoria University of Wellington | maja.krtalic@vuw.ac.nz -- *JAMES A. HODGES, PH.D. *(he/him/his) Assistant Professor San José State University School of Information http://www.jameshodges.net Senior Book Reviews Editor Information & Culture <https://infoculturejournal.org/> Member, Committee on Publication Ethics <https://publicationethics.org/> (COPE) Junior Fellow, Rare Book School Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography <https://rarebookschool.org/admissions-awards/fellowships/sofcb/>