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 – …
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 …
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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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 …
(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 …
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