The CLS INFRA research team at Trinity College Dublin, Jennifer Edmond, Associate Professor at Trinity College Dublin and the director of the Trinity Centre for Digital Humanities, and Vera Yakupova, Research Assistant at the Trinity Centre for Digital Humanities, conducted in the framework of the project a series of 15 focussed interviews with professionals beyond academia to understand user needs for computational literary studies beyond academia, and to develop user scenarios in this respect.

This task’s team works closely with Work Packages 2 and 3 to profile potential users of infrastructure for literary analysis from beyond the academic sphere, as maximising use and impact is a key driver for sustainability. CLS INFRA has great potential to contribute to the work of many professions, and take advantage of the opportunity to maximise the use and impact of the infrastructure would function as a key driver for sustainability. The gap to be bridged, however, is in the understanding of what these non-professional researchers would need in terms of support and contextualisation of materials in order to be able to use them. Based on research into applied uses of literature (fiction), narratives, and storytelling, we profiled potential users of infrastructure for literary analysis from beyond the academic sphere. The research findings are detailed in our Report "D3.5 User needs beyond academic research for Computational Literary Analysis". 

This dataset includes transcripts of the 15 interviews with and without mark ups. For context and as supporting information for this research, the dataset also includes a documentation on the interviews ("Documentation: 'Users Beyond Academia' Interview Dataset"), a summary of the interview report ("3.5 Interview Report Summary"), and the presentation on this research at the DH2023 conference, July 10-14, in Graz, Austria.