Metagov Seminar: Computer-Aided Ethnography using Telescope, Obsidian, and KOI

This seminar will be a demonstration by a group of Metagov resaerchers including Ellie Rennie, Brooke Ann Coco, Kelsie Nabben, and Luke Miller. ​The seminar will demo how they are augmenting ethnographic practices with computational tools, including: ​Metagov’s ‘Telescope’, a data consent tool that actively engages participants in the research towards more ethical, participatory ethnographic practice. ​A bespoke Obsidian vault, and associated plugins, for collecting, structuring and annotating sources and field notes ​BlockScience’s KOI to share research data for a multi-sided, large data volume ethnography. ​These innovations sit in the context of the ADM+S project on ‘Artificial Organisational Intelligence’, which is about making organisation-level knowledge machine-readable so that it may be accessible and legible to humans through AI.