From Eye-to-Eye to Hand-in-Hand: Collaborative Solution Building in Interdisciplinary Manuscript Research

Abstract

Among the various interdisciplinary domains, Digital Humanities is one of the most interesting as it attempts to bring two competing cultures together. But this interestingness eventually comes with its own problems when trying to produce practical solutions. How does one ideally approach to build an Informatics-based solution for a research question in the Humanities? We particularly focus on the field of Interdisciplinary Manuscript Research and propose a methodology inspired by design thinking to collaboratively build solutions through interactive exploration. To this end, we present our laboratory, where this methodology is to be actively put into practice.