What the Transdisciplinary Diary (TDD) is - and what it is not

What it is (meant to be) What it is not (meant to be)
A diary A database
Work in progress A publishable database
A collection of rough qualitative observations A publishable database of refined qualitative data
An experimental platform for communicating and sharing ideas A publishable database
A tool to foster transdisciplinary conversations A tool to make transdisciplinary conversations obsolete
A helpful tool for you to gain insight into the work of other researchers An exploitation tool for others to steal your ideas
A helpful tool for you to gain insight into other disciplines" ways of observing and their focal points A collection tool to provide qualitative disciplines with data
An additional diary for observations you cannot fit into your research diary/datasheets/database A copy of your research diary/datasheets/database
A notebook for observations you made and found to be interesting/inspiring A "dustbin" for shallow or meaningless observations
A "goldmine" to discover new connections and research questions within CRC A "dustbin" for observations without any connection to CRC or related research
A tool for communicating internally about our research A tool to create presentable output
A collection of questions that were raised by your observations but lie beyond your respective expertise/scope of research/disciplinary field Collections of questions which have no relevance to anyone but yourself
A structured approach to teach you how to put your observations into perspective and rethink your observations in context A tool to plague you with a high amount of required input to provide or a tool to force a qualitative observation into a quantitative frame
A structure to help you think A competition to compare everybody"s input rates
A suggestion/impulse/stimulus Imperative
A structured approach to secure observations and accompanying metadata which might otherwise be lost An online blog where you enter anything you like and everything is a mess of information that nobody would want to investigate
A structure to help you browse and find observations which might be interesting to you
A structure to test the medium of a TDD
A foundation to further development of a network ideas and observations
An inspiration for future transdisciplinary research/work/publications
Space to deal with core concepts of the CRC when these cannot always be made viable for publication
A connection between the three corridors in the project via linking observations