For the past several years, in collaboration with Kim Fortun, Mike Fortun, Brian Callahan, Renato Gomes, Aalok Khandekar, Ali Kenner, Brandon Costelloe-Kuehn, Alli Morgan, Angela Okune, James Adams, and Tim Schütz, I have played a lead role in designing digital humanities software that now supports several hundred international STS scholars and anthropologists in producing collaborative ethnographic scholarship. The Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography (PECE) is an open source software distribution designed to support multi-sited ethnographers in the archiving of ethnographic artifacts, collaborative hermeneutic data analysis, and experimental publishing. As the Lead Platform Architect for PECE, I have been responsible for designing the platform’s data models, workflows, and interfaces to embody feminist and post-structural theories of language and to align with research and best practice characterized in the digital humanities, information sciences, and software studies.
Link to PECE Distribution
Link to PECE Documentation
Example instances of PECE include Center for Ethnography, Disaster-STS-Network, STS Infrastructures, and The Asthma Files