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What is your lab / What are the goals of your lab / center?

Why was it established / Who established and when?

What is the institutional position of your lab / How does it affect your work?

What is the funding base of the establishment / How does it affect your work?

Are there any affiliated organizations or close collaboration with some institutions?

What do you consider your main outputs/publications/contributions so far / What kinds of results are you aiming at in the future?

Number of people involved? Who are involved?

What are the disciplinary backgrounds of your academic staff / How are they involved?

Do you have permanent administration/supporting staff?

Do you have measures for creating accepting atmosphere?

What kinds of research projects do you have / Who are the people involved in the projects, and what are their backgrounds? What are the expected results of the projects?

What is your role in this lab?

What are the daily, weekly, and annual practices of your lab?

How do you communicate / Is there a regular time and place for meetings?

What kinds of regular events do you have / Do you have regular seminars, do you invite speakers?

How knowledge is produced in your lab?

What do you share / Does everybody know about everything or is there a structure behind?

Have you (or other people involved) encountered gaps in communication?

If you don't know how a practical question related to research (for example the best way to store data) can be solved how do you find solution to that? Have you found good ways for sharing the best practices and silent knowledge of digital research?

How do you see virtual and physical presence / Are they equally important, or is one or another more important / How do you pursue your virtual and physical presence?

Do you have measures for facilitating interdisciplinary collaboration and understanding? have you found good ways doing this (also digitally)?

What kind of education/courses/knowledge sharing do you organize / How often do you have courses / Who are the teachers / Do you teach humanists programming / Do you teach tech people humanist approaches?

In what ways do you publish your research results / Is there a need for widening the idea of meriting into meriting by review, sharing data, or a code / If yes, how are you facilitating that?

Do you support open publishing / Do you share your data/sources / Have you encountered any problems in sharing data or open publishing?

What kind of infrastructure do you offer for the members of the community?

What are the minimum infrastructure prerequisites for successful projects?

Do you have your own premises, a physical environment of your own for the digital activities?

Where should you go to meet with the people?

How is the space arranged / How much "private" and how much "public" space/ Are there rooms for groups / Is it easy for the outsiders to come?

How does the material space of the lab effect the work of the lab?