Open Interview* is India’s first crowdsourced blog featuring exclusive interviews conducted with the unique personalities in academics, art, culture and social arena.
We aim to identify such personalities who are something different and special from the rest. For us, their innovative ideas, work-culture, experience, expertise, contributions and opinions are of immense value.
The interviews are conducted by the Open Interview team as well as the approved users/ followers of this blog. Our efforts will be fruitful if the interview literature we post on to this blog inspires our readers, educates them, makes them think and act and also holds significant value in anyone’s research studies.
Being a non-profit initiative, all interview literature posted on to this blog is accessible free of charge and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. It, therefore, uses CC-BY, one of the complete liberal licenses of Creative Commons.
Open Interview aims to conduct the following six categories of interviews:
(a) personality interview– interview of an individual;
(b) institutional interview: where the proprietor/ caretaker shares the success story and contributions of the institution;
(c) mirror interview: where two/three experts are interviewed with the same set of questions and their individual answers are documented;
(d) informational/ instructional interview: where an expert guides by answering questions concerned with ‘how’ to operate/ apply/ use/ or solve a practical or technical issue;
(e) third-party interview: publishers/ institutions/ authors/ individuals who have conducted/ published any interviews of the personalities (belonging to academics, art, socio-cultural domains);
(f) panel interview- interview conducted by two or more interviewers. <FAQs>
FYI: Two of our interviews are cross-posted on ‘Elephant in the Lab’ and ‘Digital Access Scholarship at Harvard’ (DASH), Harvard University
*A personal initiative by Santosh C Hulagabali, PhD. He is the Editor of Open Interview and heads Central Library of Central University of Haryana, India. He can be addressed by his name since he has an unpronounceable surname!! (santoshlib24[@]gmail.com)
page updated on 23rd Jan. 2022
