{"id":130,"date":"2026-03-12T17:40:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T17:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/enact\/?page_id=130"},"modified":"2026-04-10T15:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T14:42:09","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/enact\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"Our History"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"130\" class=\"elementor elementor-130\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-303296a elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"303296a\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5f36504\" data-id=\"5f36504\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-676c64b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"676c64b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<table style=\"width: 100%\"><tbody><tr><th style=\"text-align: center\">2022<\/th><th style=\"text-align: center\">2023<\/th><th style=\"text-align: center\">2024<\/th><th style=\"text-align: center\">2025<\/th><\/tr><tr><td style=\"text-align: center\">PR Voices and SPARKLE Projects take place with joint launch and end of project events.<\/td><td style=\"text-align: center\">PR Voices and SPARKLE Project Reports published.<\/td><td style=\"text-align: center\"><p>PR Voices and SPARKLE teams join together to form Enact. PR Voices schema documented<\/p><\/td><td style=\"text-align: center\"><p>Enact project starts. RDA Infra4NTROs and Processes Interest Group formally approved. Enact Technology Partner appointed.<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-cae17c0 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"cae17c0\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-950b208\" data-id=\"950b208\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-68fa02e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"68fa02e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Enact brings together the knowledge and expertise of two Practice Research (PR) project funded by UK Research and Innovation&#8217;s (UKRI) Arts and Humanities Research Council under it&#8217;s Scoping Future Data Services for the Arts and Humanities call, completed in 2022: Practice Research Voices and Sustaining Practice Assets for Research, Knowledge, Learning and Education (SPARKLE).<\/p><p>Since these projects concluded in July 2022, the two teams have merged together, reflecting on and refining our approach, with key principles agreed such as incremental development and working in co-design with all Enact communities who include academic \/ discipline practice researchers and related experts in fields such as repositories, research data, open standards and research management.<\/p><p>Ongoing investment (by AHRC and the University of Westminster) and the time of the Enact team has enabled:<\/p><ul><li>Documentation of the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/research-technologies\/prvoices_schema\">PR Voices metadata schema<\/a><\/li><li style=\"text-align: left\">Development of technical requirements to underpin a procurement process to appoint the Enact technology partner<\/li><li style=\"text-align: left\">Building our engagement with global communities including co-creating the Research Data Alliance <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rd-alliance.org\/groups\/infrastructure-for-non-traditional-research-outputs-and-processes-infra4ntros\/activity\/\">Infrastructure for Non-Traditional Research Outputs and Processes Interest Group<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul><h3>Practice Research Voices (PR Voices)<\/h3><p>PR Voices, led by library and research management domain experts, working in close collaboration with academic discipline experts, review existing open-source software and standards and began building the intersections PR coummunity. It built on Westminster&#8217;s pioneering PR repository development work and tested findings from the PRAG-UK reports.<\/p><h3>Sustaining Practice Assets for Research, Knowledge, Learning and Engagement (SPARKLE)<\/h3><p>SPARKLE worked to build on the PRAG-UK reports to scope what it means to provide a heterogeneous and extensible infrastructure for practice research that befits the multi-faceted, multi-disciplinary, multi-format nature of practice research, and reducing reliance on standardised asset-types.<\/p><p>SPARKLE collated data from workshops and interviews across nine stakeholder categories &#8211; including practice researchers and library\/repository experts &#8211; on the challenges and needs identified in creating an infrastructure for FAIR access to practice research.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-a2ec281 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"a2ec281\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-08f1524\" data-id=\"08f1524\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-34f2a91 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"34f2a91\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.34737\/w3803\">PR Voices Report<\/a><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-00deef4\" data-id=\"00deef4\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-32d3310 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"32d3310\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eprints.whiterose.ac.uk\/id\/eprint\/203045\/\">SPARKLE Report<\/a><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022 2023 2024 2025 PR Voices and SPARKLE Projects take place with joint launch and end of project events. PR Voices and SPARKLE Project Reports published. PR Voices and SPARKLE teams join together to form Enact. PR Voices schema documented Enact project starts. RDA Infra4NTROs and Processes Interest Group formally approved. Enact Technology Partner appointed. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/enact\/history\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Our History&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_inspiro_hide_title":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-130","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/enact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/enact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/enact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/enact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/enact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":44,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/enact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":696,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/enact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/130\/revisions\/696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/enact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}