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Im not a scientist, I dont have any research data: Managing arts
and humanities data
Nicola Siminson and Julie Ramage, GSAJeremy Barraud, UAL
Wednesday 30th November 2016
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Ramage, Julie and Hards, Lorna (2016) Becoming Awesomestow -
profiling investments in cultural assets and creative quarters in
British towns and their impact on regeneration. Nesta, London.
http://radar.gsa.ac.uk/4289/
Ramage, Julie and Hards, Lorna (2015) Becoming Awesomestow -
profiling investments in cultural assets and creative quarters in
British towns and their impact on regeneration. The Glasgow School
of Art - Reid Building, 11-26 April 2015 [Show/Exhibition]
http://radar.gsa.ac.uk/3698/
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So what are the challenges? I am not sure what constitutes
research data What is data? I mean, I talk to you about my data as
a researcher, but for the institution, what does it consider data?
Would it be conference proceedings, would a performance be data
even if it was not recorded, sometimes I dont record my
performances
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One definition"Anything which is used or created to generate new
knowledge and interpretations. Anything may be objective or
subjective; physical or emotional; persistent or ephemeral;
personal or public; explicit or tacit; and is consciously or
unconsciously referenced by the researcher at some point during the
course of their research. Research data may or may not lead to a
research output, which regardless of method of presentation, is a
planned public statement of new knowledge or interpretation."
Garrett, 2012:
https://kaptur.wordpress.com/2013/01/23/what-is-visual-arts-research-data-revisited/
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Data management challengeResearch data in the arts is not so
easily defined as in STEM subjects
Researchers need to learn to identify and define what is data in
their processes
Researchers are not used to packaging and sharing data
Management of highly diverse content and formats
New and developing field no real best practice in place
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Policy aimsTo ensure that staff involved in the research process
are aware of their data-related responsibilities
To ensure that the University meets its obligations with regard
to research data management, as defined by research funders
To make explicit the Universitys institutional commitment to
good research data management practice
The policy is supported by a set of procedures and institutional
awareness raising and training activities
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What were doing at UALUAL Data repository
Training
Data management planning
Community of Practice
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UAL Data RepositoryHolds UAL research data for all research
projects where there is a need to store and share the supporting
research
Research Council-funded projects with a Data Management Plan
Tested with existing, tricky data
http://researchdata.arts.ac.uk/
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ROCOCO projectFile formats - as open source as much as possible
for wider access and preservation issues
File sizes maintaining quality of digital files against file
sizes
Organisation - needs to be logical and cohesive, contextual
Labelling of individual files
Legal considerations: IP, copyright, Data Protection, release
forms
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Data management planningEstablished workflow as part of Data
Management Policy
Workflow covers, pre-award, post-award and post-project
stages
Bespoke support for each application
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Community of PracticeIntroduction to data management
Case studies
Visiting institution: Glasgow School of Art
Metadata discovery
File formats
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Future developmentsFurther repository enhancements to fit the
needs of the researchers
New methods of marking and visualising the data
Developing best practice in the curation of data
Educating practice-based researchers on the need to organise and
share their data
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What we are (and have been) doing at the GSAGSA RDM Policy and
roadmap documentTraining and comm.ssessions for staff and research
studentsone-to-one conversationsblog postsRDM pages on GSAs VLEGSA
RDM Stakeholder Groupparticipation in projects (KAPTUR; VADS4R)
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How do you get Art & Design researchers to engage with RDM,
if there are few external drivers / sticks (e.g. very little RCUK
funding)?
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Sharing experiences and ideas for engaging with arts and
humanities researchers?
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Useful informationGSA RDM Policy:
http://www.gsa.ac.uk/about-gsa/key-information/institutional-policies/
KAPTUR: http://www.vads.ac.uk/kaptur and
https://kaptur.wordpress.com/about/ VADS4R:
http://www.vads4r.vads.ac.uk/ RADAR: http://radar.gsa.ac.uk/ RADAR
blog: https://gsaradar.wordpress.com/ Contact details:
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
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