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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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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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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(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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Our aim is to realise an equitable landscape for all research, whatever the discipline, where we move beyond the “other” of non-text outputs, recognising practice research and enabling it to be valued as equal to papers, publications and monographs, and ensuring that it is captured and preserved, is made discoverable and can be re-used. This …
Read more “Practice Research Voices (PR Voices): Scoping the Open Library of Practice Research”