Practice Research Voices (PR Voices) is a scoping project that aims to engage with all communities involved in, working with and supporting practice research. Practice research is defined by the Practice Research Reports published in 2021 (Bully & Şahin) as: “An umbrella term that describes all manners of research where practice is the significant method …
We aim to bring together an intersectional community that spans all stakeholder groups – researchers, practitioners, librarians, developers, research data managers, repository managers, research managers, archivists, records managers and curators! Conversations we have had over the past three years have demonstrated that these communities need connecting up! This will inform development post project / platform …
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This workstream will harness existing conversations and mechanisms for feedback and the practical application via the repositories mentioned in the Repositories workstream to identify recommendations to move this landscape towards better reflecting both text and non-text research. This workstream is based on the work the University of Westminster, Jisc and Haplo (a division of Cayuse) …
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The repositories workstream is grounded in the research carried out at the University of Westminster in the Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM) and that in the Making and Practice Research Group (formerly the Experimental Practice Research Group) within the School of Architecture and Cities. The Scholarly Communications team led (in …
As this project brings together a range of different communities we will use this post as a place to articulate definitions. Please note it is a work in progress – do get in touch if you’d like to see terms added or to suggest an amendment to existing definitions! Metadata Data that contextualises other data …