We published our Final Report while we were presenting at the Open Repositories conference back in June 2023 – and have just realised we didn’t blog about it! We want feedback from all of those communities with an interest in this work so if you would like to send us your thoughts – whether you …
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A rather belated post to update you on our final project community event that took place online on the 20th July 2022. We were very please to welcome members of the SPARKLE project, to talk about the work they have been doing on the other practice research related project funded by the Arts and Humanities …
Background The first and main point of data collection for the project was two surveys, carried out between 21 March and 25 April 2022. You can find out more information about the project and the surveys (including links to the questions) on this Practice Research Voices Survey blog post. We ran two concurrent surveys – …
The Metadata and Persistent Identifiers workstream has been built on work prior to the beginning of the project that highlighted the STEM focus of the discoverability and interoperability landscape. Our approach was very much that we wanted to work to change existing open standards rather than creating new and/or proprietary ones. At NISO Plus 2022 …
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One of the aims of the project is to review the work done by the e by the University of Westminster to develop the Haplo (Cayuse) open source repository to capture all research in one repository (WestminsterResearch). This work has included: the development of the portfolio (or collection) template and enhanced portfolio template to capture and display contextual …
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 …