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Research data management at UALJeremy Barraud, Deputy Director, Research Management and Administration
Jess Crilly, Associate Director & Head of Resources, Library Services
• Largest arts and design university in Europe
• Consists of six Colleges: Central Saint Martins; London College of Communication; London College of Fashion; Camberwell, Chelsea, and Wimbledon Colleges of Arts
• Top 30 UK research institution for the quality of research submitted in the REF 2014
About UAL
Image copyright Ivan Jones
• Theory and practice based research
• Research outputs
• The Kultur project
• Research data
• The Kaptur project
• DCC institutional engagement
• Scholarly communications infrastructure
…in the arts?
Image copyright Ivan Jones
Policy aims
• To 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 University’s institutional commitment to good research data management practice
• The policy is supported by a set of procedures and institutional awareness raising and training activities
• “Examples of visual arts research data may include sketchbooks, logbooks, sets of images, video recordings, trials, prototypes, ceramic glazes, found objects and correspondence”
• “..tangible and intangible, digital and physical, heterogeneous and infinite, complex and complicated”
(Kaptur project)
definitions
Image copyright Lucy Rie Archive, Crafts Study Centre, UCA via VADS
Data management challenge
• Researchers need to identify and define data in their processes
• Researchers are not used to packaging and sharing data
• Management of highly diverse content and formats
Image copyright: Enrico Sacchetti
Data management challenge
• New and developing field – no real best practice in place
• Visualising research data
Image copyright Lucy Rie Archive, Crafts Study Centre, UCA via VADS
What we’re doing
• UAL Data repository
• Training
• Data management planning
• Community of Practice
UAL Data Repository
• Holds 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/
ROCOCO project
• ROCOCO (Remote Cooperation and COmmunication) project is the identification of the communication requirements of remotely sited designers working on a shared problem
• Funded by EPSRC
• Data collection took place 1989 to 1992
ROCOCO project
• File 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
Training
Data management planning
• Established workflow as part of Data Management Policy
• Workflow covers, pre-award, post-award and post-project stages
• Bespoke support for each application
Community of Practice
Communities of practice are groups whose members share a passion for something they know how to do and who interact regularly to learn how to do it better.
- Etienne Wenger
• Share and disseminate expertise and skills between colleagues across a whole range of subject and professional disciplines
Community of Practice
• Introduction to data management
• Case studies
• Visiting institution: Glasgow School of Art
• Metadata discovery
• File formats
Future developments
• Further 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
• JISC Research Data Spring: RDIVA, Sound Matters
Thank you
Research Data Management UAL Data Repository
http://www.arts.ac.uk/Search: ‘research data’
http://researchdata.arts.ac.uk/