Agenda - Parks and Recreation Commission - 01/09/2025

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pets numbers—such as dates, addresses, or legislative bills or public laws. (Rubin and Rubin 2005, p. 207) The next steps recommended in the data analysis is to examine each interview in order to clarify what is meant by specific concepts and themes and to synthesize different versions of the events to put together an understanding of the overall story. The process of clarifying and synthesizing ideas will generate new concepts and themes through a process Rubin and Rubin term elaboration. The final steps of the process involve coding, sorting, and a final synthesis of the various concepts that the researcher has developed. Coding involves the systematic labeling of concepts, themes, events, and topical markers so that the researcher can readily retrieve and examine all related data units across all interviews. Sorting involves the grouping of data units that have the same label in order to examine the concept presented, and to explore similarities and differences between groups of interview participants in regard to the same concept, theme, or event. The final synthesis involves combining concepts to describe the apparent operation of the culture (E.g., the role of the public administrator in cross sector public art collaborations). This last phase of analysis includes a description of events that occurred and allowed the researcher to suggest how and why projects may have succeeded or failed. 3.12 Limitations The scope of this study is limited to conclusions drawn from three contemporary(i.e., within the last 20 years) cases of public art collaboration by examining and describing the community experiences and the role of the public administrator in this process. To that extent, 81