How can I support you today?
Share your work, critique a draft, brainstorm together?
I'm here to help. In any way.
@Daojoan hi Joan, your offer does look very generous and I'd like to take advantage. Thank you for putting it out.
This paper has already been accepted, but it is an early presentation of an ongoing project. I wonder if it might interest you:
Title: "Towards a Phenomenographic Framework for Exploratory Visual Analysis of Bibliographic Data"
Abstract: "A recurring challenge when studying history of translation is interpreting catalogue metadata. On one
hand such interpretation is limited by the fact that data present in catalogue records is tabular and nominative, and not quantitative. On the other hand, such research is guided by tacit knowledge of scholars
in the humanities, and thus it could be challenging to reproduce its results. We take inspiration from phenomenography, a discipline within educational research that examines how students perceive the
phenomena being learned. We adopt the view that scienti昀椀c inquiry is a collective form of learning.
By doing this, we turn to the phenomenographic theory that variation is necessary to understand the
phenomena being studied, and is achieved through three distinct patterns of variance: contrast, generalisation and fusion. We propose an approach to visualise the combination of nominal data and tacit
knowledge by subjecting it to these three patterns. We illustrate our approach with two case studies
from literary translations between Italy and the UK in the post-war 20th century. Our claim is that on
one hand this guides scholars on how to analytically approach their research questions, on the other
it drives them to externalise and validate hidden assumptions. Our approach offers a way of doing
reproducible science not only when conducting literature research with bibliographic data. It is also
applicable in the wider cases within the humanities when tabular data are available."
@mapto Hey!
I'm so sorry it's taken me a long time to get back to you. This paper was super interesting, but it was a challenge for me to get back into this kind of reading. And in the end - I really enjoyed it. I think it's fascinating, and it's very well presented.
