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 …
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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Project member Holly Ranger presented some preliminary findings from the PR Voices Survey at the 17th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC), 13-16 June. The IDCC is an annual event for the digital curation community to network, share the outcomes of research and practice projects, and to showcase works in progress that offers insights or practical …
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The University of Westminster is a member of the Digital Preservation Coalition, an organisation dedicated to sharing and recognising good practice for the long-term preservation of and access to digital assets. PR Voices was recently featured in a guest post on the DPC blog. You can read the original post here. Practice Research Voices (PR …
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(This was originally posted by JISC’s Caroline Ingram – you can see the original post here) *** At (JISC’s) latest Digital Research Community monthly discussion meeting we heard from two recently funded AHRC projects aiming to improve access to and preservation of practice research outputs. Shared goals Across the two projects the shared goal is …
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