Kim Fortun: experience with digital tools and designing digital architecture

For about a decade, I'll been very involved in the development of the Platform for Experimental, Collaborative Ethnography (PECE), open source  software supporting virtual research environments. PECE  is now freely available as a Drupal distro on GitHub. PECE is especially designed for qualitative researchers but has potential for application across fields, providing a way to preserve and curate the qualitative commentary that is part of all collaborative research workflows. The PECE Design Group now runs multiple instances of PECE (DisasterSTS Network, STS Infrastructures and for the Center for Ethnography, among others), using side-by-side development to orient further technical development.