{"id":109,"date":"2022-03-20T15:29:17","date_gmt":"2022-03-20T15:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/prvoices\/?p=109"},"modified":"2022-03-20T20:42:37","modified_gmt":"2022-03-20T20:42:37","slug":"practice-research-definitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/prvoices\/practice-research-definitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Practice research definitions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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 &#8211; do get in touch if you&#8217;d like to see terms added or to suggest an amendment to existing definitions!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Metadata<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Data that contextualises other data &#8211; not the data itself. There can be different types of metadata. In the context of this project this can include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>administrative metadata &#8211; provide information about a resource &#8211; an example could be preservation metadata such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/standards\/premis\/\">PREMIS<\/a><\/li><li>descriptive metadata &#8211; describes a resource e.g. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dublincore.org\/specifications\/dublin-core\/dces\/\">Dublin Core<\/a><\/li><li>structural metadata &#8211; describes relationships between different elements of a resource <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Non-tangible research outputs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When we say non-tangible research outputs we mean practice activity that is time-based and\/or ephemeral (e.g. improvisation, live performance).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Persistent Identifier (PID)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A persistent identifier is a long lasting reference to a digital resource. Examples include ORCiD iDs, Digital Object Identifiers (DOI), RAiD<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Practice research<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAn umbrella term that describes all manners of research where practice is the significant method of research conveyed in a research output. This includes numerous discipline-specific formulations of practice research, which have distinct and unique balances of practice, research narrative and complementary methods within their projects.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Research narrative<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn a practice research output, a research narrative may be conjoined with, or embodied in, practice. A research narrative articulates the research enquiry that emerges in practice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bulley, James and\u00a0\u015eahin,\u00a0\u00d6zden.\u00a0<em>Practice Research &#8211; Report 1: What is practice research?<\/em>\u00a0P1. London: PRAG-UK, 2021. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.23636\/1347.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Research Excellence Framework (REF) <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The system for assessing the quality of research in UK higher education institutions. The most recent submission was REF2021. REF recognises practice-based outputs and as such multi-component outputs in the sub-panels comprising Panel C and Panel D.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tangible research outputs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those that are physically present and persist over time within the same medium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Taxonomy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A taxonomy is a scheme of classification e.g. the <a href=\"https:\/\/credit.niso.org\/\">Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8211; do get in touch if you&#8217;d like to see terms added or to suggest an amendment to existing definitions! Metadata Data that contextualises other data &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/prvoices\/practice-research-definitions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Practice research definitions&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-definitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/prvoices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/prvoices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/prvoices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/prvoices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/prvoices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/prvoices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/prvoices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/prvoices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/prvoices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/prvoices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}