Abstract
Researchers in the digital humanities use visualization with ever increasing frequency to address their cultural data challenges. However, interdisciplinary and collaborative projects with visualization researchers are associated with various and common research challenges, such as cooperative communications and methodological differences. A number of strategies have been proposed to guide and steer general cooperative projects to realize the common team objectives. In this paper, we propose a methodological workflow for interdisciplinary digital humanities and visualization research based on our previous work and experience. Our methodological workflow consists of three spaces, three channels, and three criteria. The three spaces feature the main collaborative entities: problem, task, and solution spaces. The three channels illustrate the connections between spaces and include communication, previsualization, and evaluation channels. The three quality criteria include expressiveness, purposefulness, and trustfulness. These three criteria are included to ensure useful outcomes from each space. In each section of the workflow, we draw from our previous cooperations to demonstrate the effectiveness of the workflow.