In this program slot, the organizers propose a roundtable with members of the Swissuniversities-funded project "Data-sharing skills in corpus-based research on talk-in-interaction" (https://www.chord-talk-in-interaction.usi.ch/) about the management and reusability of primary and secondary spoken language data, a topic that promises to be relevant for many KNOWINT 2023 authors working on talk-in-interaction.

Here is the abstract of the project:

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Audio-video recorded and transcribed corpora of spoken language in interaction are collected by a diversity of disciplines in the social sciences and the humanities. They are particularly complex and offer several challenges when it comes to practices that generate open research data (ORD). The project aims at identifying the conditions that must be fulfilled in order to prepare and treat audio-video corpora of spoken language in interaction as ORD in a meaningful way. The applicants describe, analyse and assess existing ORD practices related to audio-video interactional data, on the basis of experiences and expertise in the fields of interactional linguistics, conversation analysis and dialogue-oriented argumentation studies. They explore possibilities of improvement, with a particular focus on researchers’ data-sharing skills related to corpora of spoken language in interaction and on the Swiss situation. The applicants engage in a theoretical reflection on the challenges that these data raise in terms of ORD and on what this example reveals more generally about ORD practices as socio-technological practices in the scientific domain. They engage with the concerned disciplines and communities and evaluate procedures to disseminate relevant knowledge in these communities.

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The roundtable will be an occasion to present the aims and (past and further) activities of the project and to discuss the different topics addressed by the project with the participants to KNOWINT 2023, such as to encourage the sharing of best practices as well as reflexive thinking about the various challenges raised by ORD constraints and opportunities in the study of talk-in-interaction.

The workshops organized by the CHORD-Talk-in-interaction project address the following topics:

• Workshop 1 (28 April 2023, Lugano): presentation and discussion of the KIParla corpus of spoken Italian, with special attention to the management of personal data when studying talk-in-interaction, in a context where there is a tension between the promotion of ORD and the evolution of regulations about data protection.
• Workshop 2 (7-8 December 2023, Basel): aggregation of interactional corpora in larger data banks which can be (re)used for research in Conversation Analysis (CA) and Interactional Linguistics (IL).
• Workshop 3 (15–16 January 2024, Neuchâtel): design of annotation schemes (more or less standardized and adaptable to users’ needs) for long-term research in CA and IL.