TY - JOUR A1 - Junginger, Pauline A1 - Dörk, Marian T1 - Categorizing queer identities : an analysis of archival practices using the concept of boundary objects JF - Journal of Feminist Scholarship N2 - In this paper, we present a field study that examines the development, application and maintenance of classification systems and controlled vocabularies in three archives documenting lesbian, trans* and queer-feminist histories. Queer archives face the challenge of documenting identities that are inherently characterized by embracing fluidity and ambiguity. Thus, queer identities are diametrically opposed to archival procedures of unambiguous classification. At the same time, queer activism relies partly on coherent identity categories in order to be able to act politically. We examine the pragmatic solutions that queer archives establish when dealing with tensions between those requirements. Our goal is to contribute to the ongoing discussions about the ethical dimensions of classification practices. Following the work of Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star (1999) we use the concept of boundary objects as a central theoretical foundation of our research. This concept allows for tracing the negotiations and decision-making processes that influenced the creation of a specific classification system. Through conducting semi-structured interviews with staff members of queer archives in Germany we collected data about their efforts to archive the history of queer communities. Although there are initiatives developing metadata standards for queer identities, these standards are only used to a limited extent by the queer archives we examined. Rather, those archives established individual strategies for categorizing objects that are rooted in their specific history. We argue that classification systems and controlled vocabularies themselves can be understood as artifacts documenting the history of queer movements. KW - LGBT KW - Archiv KW - Grenzobjekt KW - Systematik KW - Klassifikation KW - Metadaten KW - Identität Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.23860/jfs.2021.19.05 SN - 2158-6179 VL - 19 IS - 19 SP - 66 EP - 79 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Scholz, Andrea A1 - da Costa Oliveira, Thiago A1 - Dörk, Marian T1 - Infrastructure as digital tools and knowledge practices BT - Connecting the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin with amazonian indigenous communities T2 - Digitalisierung ethnologischer Sammlungen : Perspektiven aus Theorie und Praxis N2 - Scholz, da Costa Oliveira und Dörk widmen sich in ihrem Beitrag Erfahrungen mit digitalen Werkzeugen im Kontext ethnologischer Sammlungen sowie den Herausforderungen, die sich bei der Berücksichtigung unterschiedlicher Wissenspraktiken in der Zusammenarbeit mit Heritage Communities stellen. Ausgehend von dem Projekt Sharing Knowledge (2014-2020), das im Ethnologischen Museum (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin/ Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz) stattfand, wird argumentiert, dass die Trägheit von Infrastrukturen und die Erforschung ihrer Funktionsweise - d.h. die Entschlüsselung der Meistererzählungen und Ausschlussmechanismen hinter musealen Wissenspraktiken - entscheidende Schlüssel darstellen zur Entwicklung von Werkzeugen und Taktiken, um eben diese Trägheit zu umgehen und zu untergraben. Während der erste Teil des Papiers dem Beispielprojekt kritische Aufmerksamkeit schenkt, schlägt der zweite Teil neue Methoden vor, um Infrastrukturen zu entwickeln, die Relationalität und Pluralität zulassen. KW - Kooperation KW - Indigenes Volk KW - Amazonastiefland KW - Ethnologisches Museum (Körperschaft) KW - Entkolonialisierung KW - Datenbank KW - Digitalisierung Y1 - 2021 SN - 978-3-8376-5790-6 U6 - https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839457900-017 SN - 2702-9026 SP - 299 EP - 315 PB - Transcript CY - Bielefeld ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Dörk, Marian A1 - Pietsch, Christopher A1 - Credico, Gabriel T1 - One view is not enough High-level visualizations of a large cultural collection JF - Information Design Journal N2 - As cultural institutions are digitizing their artifacts and interlinking their collections, new opportunities emerge to engage with cultural heritage. However, it is the often comprehensive and complex nature of collections that can make it difficult to grasp their distribution and extent across a variety of dimensions. After a brief introduction to the research area of collection visualizations, this paper presents a design study visualizing an aggregated collection from diverse cultural institutions in Germany. We detail our iterative design process leading to prototypical implementations of four stylistically and functionally coordinated visualizations, each one focusing on different facets of the collection. KW - Visualisierung KW - Sammlung KW - Kulturgut KW - Digital Humanities KW - Visual Analytics Y1 - 2017 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:525-26609 SN - 1569-979X VL - 23 IS - 1 SP - 39 EP - 47 PB - John Benjamins Publishing CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Gortana, Flavio A1 - von Tenspolde, Franziska A1 - Guhlmann, Daniela A1 - Dörk, Marian T1 - Off the Grid BT - Visualizing a Numismatic Collection as Dynamic Piles and Streams JF - Open Library of Humanities N2 - This research explores the merit of alternative arrangements of cultural artifacts to expose the aesthetic abundance of a cultural collection. The conventional display of museum objects in online interfaces tends to neglect the physical gestalt of the collection. For example, coins typically end up in tabular grids of thumbnail pages in online collections mimicking their rigid placement in storage drawers of a depot and glass cabinets in exhibitions. The overall aim behind this research was to devise visualizations that do justice to the material and semantic richness of an entire collection, while providing a casual mode of access that is inviting to people with no background in numismatics. To do this, we undertook an iterative design process, which involved a close collaboration with numismaticians and playful ideation with actual coins. Carefully negotiating expert knowledge and lay curiosity, the resulting visualization represents the collection’s dimensions using thousands of thumbnails as visual data points. The coins can be arranged into various layouts such as piles representing, for example, metal types, or streams visualizing the ebb and flow of coins over the centuries. In the interface, one can play with the coins in a manner that would be unthinkable in a physical exhibition and that has not been tried in a digital display. The article reports on the overall research and design process of this project, the resulting interface concept and prototype, and the feedback received during two evaluations. KW - Visualisierung KW - Kulturerbe KW - Exponat KW - Numismatik KW - Graphische Benutzeroberfläche Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:525-26527 SN - 2056-6700 VL - 4 IS - 2 SP - 1 EP - 25 PB - Open Library of Humanities CY - Cambridge ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Neumann, Stephanie A1 - Banks, Richard A1 - Dörk, Marian T1 - Memory Dialogue BT - Exploring Artefact-Based Memory Sharing T2 - CHI EA '17: Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems N2 - With the proliferation of personal and social computing there is an increased interest in the field of human-computer interaction to support people's memory practises. Yet, there is only a limited understanding of the role of artefacts in the social dynamics in memory. With memory dialogue, we introduce a methodology for exploring artefact-based memory sharing. Participants created physical or digital memory artefacts, exchanged them, and reflected on the process. Our qualitative findings show how this method can help uncover the complexity of shared memory. Participants largely chose bonding experiences and created artefacts as conversation starters about differences in their memories. KW - Gedächtnisleistung KW - Gedächtniskonsolidierung KW - Gedächtnistest KW - Semantisches Gedächtnis Y1 - 2017 SN - 978-1-4503-4656-6 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1145/3027063.3052756 SP - 884 EP - 895 PB - Association for Computing Machinery CY - New York ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Otten, Heike A1 - Hildebrand, Lennart A1 - Nagel, Till A1 - Dörk, Marian A1 - Müller, Boris T1 - Shifted Maps BT - Revealing spatio-temporal topologies in movement data T2 - 2018 IEEE VIS Arts Program N2 - We present a hybrid visualization technique that integrates maps into network visualizations to reveal and analyze diverse topologies in geospatial movement data. With the rise of GPS tracking in various contexts such as smartphones and vehicles there has been a drastic increase in geospatial data being collect for personal reflection and organizational optimization. The generated movement datasets contain both geographical and temporal information, from which rich relational information can be derived. Common map visualizations perform especially well in revealing basic spatial patterns, but pay less attention to more nuanced relational properties. In contrast, network visualizations represent the specific topological structure of a dataset through the visual connections of nodes and their positioning. So far there has been relatively little research on combining these two approaches. Shifted Maps aims to bring maps and network visualizations together as equals. The visualization of places shown as circular map extracts and movements between places shown as edges, can be analyzed in different network arrangements, which reveal spatial and temporal topologies of movement data. We implemented a web-based prototype and report on challenges and opportunities about a novel network layout of places gathered during a qualitative evaluation. KW - Karte KW - GPS KW - Visualisierung KW - Bewegung KW - Daten Y1 - 2018 SN - 978-1-7281-2805-4 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1109/VISAP45312.2018.9046054 SP - 1 EP - 10 PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) CY - Berlin ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Ackermann, Judith A1 - Dörk, Marian A1 - Seitz, Hanne T1 - PKKB : Postdigitale Kunstpraktiken T2 - Forschung zur Digitalisierung in der Kulturellen Bildung N2 - Das interdisziplinäre Forschungsvorhaben widmet sich postdigitalen Kulturszenen, die an der Schnittstelle von Kunst, Bildung und Technologie innovative Formate ästhetischer Aneignung, Produktion und Vermittlung hervorbringen. Gemeint sind künstlerische Praktiken, die die Computertechnik zum Ausgangspunkt nehmen, um durch sie bedingte und über sie hinausgehende Fragestellungen ästhetisch neu zu verhandeln. Ausgangspunkt ist die postdigitale Beobachtung, dass Algorithmen und Daten die Gesellschaft längst durchziehen, unsere Verhältnisse zur sozialen und materiellen Welt zunehmend über digitale Repräsentationen vermitteln und die Komplexität ihrer technologischen Konstituierung unsichtbar wird (Bolter/Gruisin 1999; Cramer 2015; Berry/Dieter 2015; Contreras-Koterbay/Mirocha 2016). Vor diesem Hintergrund erlauben Kunstpraktiken, die mit digitalen Methoden generiert, aber nicht notwendigerweise digital vermittelt werden, in besonderem Maße Prozesse der Digitalisierung kritisch zu reflektieren und so die Beziehungen zwischen digitalen und physischen Räumen nicht aus dem Blick zu verlieren, sondern aktiv mitzugestalten. Dennoch finden sie in der Kulturellen Bildung (KuBi), deren Zielgruppen kaum Bewusstsein für das künstlerische und kritische Potenzial digitaler Formate haben, bislang wenig Berücksichtigung. Es scheint, als ob postdigitaler Kunst über die Altersgruppen hinweg ein hohes Maß an Affirmation von Digitalisierungsprozessen zugesprochen wird. Im Kontrast hierzu veranschaulichen prominente Vertreterinnen und Vertreter, wie digitale Methoden produktiv eingesetzt werden, um kritische Fragen zur Digitalisierung zu artikulieren (Bridle 2013). Hervorzuheben ist die Reflexionsfähigkeit medienimmanenter Ausdrucksformen postdigitaler Kunst, die eine rezeptive und kreative Auseinandersetzung mit ihrer soziotechnischen Spezifik ermöglicht, wenngleich sie im Kunstverständnis der jüngeren Generation kaum eine Rolle spielen (Meyer 2010, Seitz 2013a; Rat für Kulturelle Bildung 2015a). Es fehlt die notwendige Grundlagenforschung, um eine angemessene Anwendung postdigitalen Kunstschaffens für verschiedene Zielgruppen der KuBi zu ermöglichen. In dem folgenden Beitrag umreißen wir kurz den Status Quo der KuBi, reflektieren wesentliche Entwicklungslinien postdigitaler Kunst und formulieren Ansprüche für transdisziplinäre Forschung an deren Schnittmenge. KW - Kulturpädagogik KW - Digitalisierung KW - Ästhetik KW - Transdisziplinarität KW - Postdigital Y1 - 2019 SN - 978-3-86736-522-2 SP - 173 EP - 184 PB - kopaed CY - München ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bludau, Mark-Jan A1 - Dörk, Marian A1 - Heidmann, Frank T1 - Relational perspectives as situated visualizations of art collections JF - Digital Scholarship in the Humanities N2 - With relational perspectives, we examine the potential of traversing cultural collections along the richness of individual facets and relations through the process of developing an exploration-centered visualization. Cultural collections can contain thousands of artifacts, of which each typically possesses a diverse set of properties and individual facets constituting a unique relationship to the rest of the collection. Therefore, to create an appropriate representation of the complex data of each underlying artifact, oftentimes, it is not only interesting to get an overview of the entire collection from one perspective, but to explore the specific context of an artifact and the various relations it may have to other items. To investigate the potential of relational perspectives, we selected an art collection as a particularly promising case study. By following and reporting from a collaborative and iterative design process with an art museum, we developed a web interface that contrasts a collection overview with three situated visualizations each exposing a different kind of relational perspective on the art collection from an artifact. KW - Kulturelle Einrichtung KW - Digitalisierung KW - Visualisierung KW - Graphische Benutzeroberfläche KW - Digital Humanities Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqab003 SN - 1477-4615 VL - 36 IS - Supplement 2 SP - ii17 EP - ii29 PB - Oxford University Press CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Dörk, Marian A1 - Müller, Boris A1 - Stange, Jan-Erik A1 - Herseni, Johannes A1 - Dittrich, Katja T1 - Co-Designing Visualizations for Information Seeking and Knowledge Management JF - Open Information Science N2 - Creativity is a crucial factor in finding novel and useful visualization and interaction techniques, but its emergence is contingent on the right conditions. The focus of visualization research has traditionally been on techniques, and to a lesser degree on the process of creating them with domain experts and end users. This paper focuses on the collaborative design of visualizations for information seeking and knowledge management. The difficult, yet common challenge in any visualization project is to find meaningful visual representations and useful interaction techniques to carry out complex analysis tasks. The unique difficulty for preparing co-design activities for visualization lies in the gap between the abstract nature of data and the concrete form of visual representations. To bridge this gap, our co-design framework for visualization places particular emphasis on actors, activities, and artifacts as categories that expand the focus of visualization design beyond the traditional triad of users, tasks, and data. Drawing from general co-design principles, the framework is developed and validated during the course of two case studies in the context of information management systems and library collection databases. Based on observed patterns during the case studies, practical tactics provide advice on carrying out co-design in information visualization. KW - Information Visualization KW - Co-design KW - Methodologie KW - Wissensmanagement KW - Informationsverhalten KW - Mensch-Maschine-Kommunikation Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:525-26188 SN - 2451-1781 VL - 4 IS - 1 SP - 217 EP - 235 PB - De Gruyter Saur CY - Berlin ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kauer, Tobias A1 - Ridley, Arran A1 - Dörk, Marian A1 - Bach, Benjamin T1 - The Public Life of Data BT - Investigating Reactions to Visualizations on Reddit T2 - CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’21) N2 - This research investigates how people engage with data visualizations when commenting on the social platform Reddit. There has been considerable research on collaborative sensemaking with visualizations and the personal relation of people with data. Yet, little is known about how public audiences without specific expertise and shared incentives openly express their thoughts, feelings, and insights in response to data visualizations. Motivated by the extensive social exchange around visualizations in online communities, this research examines characteristics and motivations of people’s reactions to posts featuring visualizations. Following a Grounded Theory approach, we study 475 reactions from the /r/dataisbeautiful community, identify ten distinguishable reaction types, and consider their contribution to the discourse. A follow-up survey with 168 Reddit users clarified their intentions to react. Our results help understand the role of personal perspectives on data and inform future interfaces that integrate audience reactions into visualizations to foster a public discourse about data. KW - data visualization KW - reddit KW - personal data KW - Visualisierung KW - Personenbezogenen Daten Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445720 VL - 2021 SP - 1 EP - 12 PB - Association for Computing Machinery CY - New York ER -