On April 23, the DATAFIED project team met with Jo Bates and Itzelle Medina Perea from the University of Sheffield to discuss Data Journeys together. During the workshop, we exchanged ideas on how Data Journeys can be used as a concept and tool in research on datafication. Possibilities for the creation, as well as the presentation of Data Journeys were discussed. However, the use for further analysis was also thematically addressed. Based on the presentation of the previous work of Jo Bates and Itzelle Perea in the areas of climate and health as well as the first interim results of the DATAFIED project in the area of education, it was discussed, for example, how a good starting point for a data journey can be found. We are happy about the lively exchange and plan to use Data Journeys both for the analysis of the data flows investigated in DATAFIED and for the visualization of results.

Literature:

Bates, J., Goodale, P., Lin, Y., & Andrews, P. (2019). Assembling an infrastructure for historic climate data recovery: Data friction in practice. Journal of Documentation, 75(4), 791–806. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-08-2018-0130

Bates, J., Lin, Y.-W., & Goodale, P. (2016). Data journeys: Capturing the socio-material constitution of data objects and flows. Big Data & Society, 3(2), 2053951716654502. https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951716654502

Medina Perea, I. A., Bates, J., & Cox, A. (2019). Using data journeys to inform research design: Socio-cultural dynamics of patient data flows in the UK healthcare sector. IConference 2019 Proceedings. iConference 2019. https://doi.org/10.21900/iconf.2019.103339